yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Hero CDMA Android Development] il Duce:
Huh, that was actually in some previous builds stock. aosp is sneaky. I just put it back in as well.

sent from my hero, which no longer sucks ass
[Hero CDMA Android Development] BJex:
I am not using firerats or doing any custom partitioning or apps2SD. The only way I have gotten Sprint VVM to work is to do the following:

1. Do Nandroid Backup of current Rom

2. Flash a Froyo Rom. I used one of the CM6 roms

3. Install VVM and verrify it is working (send yourselft a voice message)

4. Install Titanium Backup and perform a backup of the Sprint voice mail program

5. Restore Nandroid backup performed in step 1

6. Install Titanium Backup and restore both application and data

Once you have created this backup in a froyo rom, keep it handy and just restore the app and data when you flash a new rom. This has worked for me flawlessly. The only annoyonce that I get is when you lanuch VVM and it says it is "verifying account settins" simply hit the back button on your phone and it goes away.

Feel free to reach out to me if you have questions.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] stayclean:
I use Firerat's, and non-Froyo method of installing VVM works fine.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] tuffdadsf:
I am now using CyanogenMod-6.1.0-Heroc. So far so good - fast clean. On the way home tonight I'll try the GPS. Thanks to you all for helping!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] revcp:
Don't go looking for the honeycream theme on google when the kids are around.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] cmccracken:
That's simple enough to try. I'll give it a whirl, reboot, and check out the GPS on my drive home tonight.

For those that want to try it, here's the commands (run from adb shell):

It probably needs a reboot after that to pick up the changes.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Rob_ec:
pretty shady considering my phone always ends up not charging with this rom! =/
[Hero CDMA Android Development] :
Added it, rebooted, still lost signal...
[Hero CDMA Android Development] mtran2988:
you have to turn off screen on and screen off animations in the Cyanogen settings. I believe it's under display? i'm not sure, you'll have to do the looking.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] dlgltal:
Well I went for a 1 hour drive and it didn't loose lock once.

This solved my GPS problems.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] cmccracken:
Yep, still hangs for me too. Adding QOS_ACCURACY=16 to gps.conf does not fix the GPS problem.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] mtran2988:
im taking this on a test run on 2/16
[Hero CDMA Android Development] cmccracken:
Awesome, thanks for sharing. I'm rebooting with those changes now. Don't forget to chmod 644 the new (old) libgps.so in case the perms got screwy from the copy process.

Added... First impressions: Wow, I got REALLY fast first fix (10/11 sats, 9' error) after making this change. Also, much less libgps stuff going into logcat (actually, nothing at all once its running).

**ADDED** This ended up not fixing the problem for me. YMMV
[Hero CDMA Android Development] 24601:
PRI Update

OK, I tried the ##786# fix for GPS and promptly downgraded my PRI from 2.20.003 to 1.70.003. Flashed RUU .7 so I could OTA upgrade back. Updated all firmware and system software while I was back on stock device (OMG, I forgot how freakin' slow this unit is. For anyone complaining about this rom, I dare you to run RUU for a while). Now running 2.32.651.2; PRI - 2.65.003; PRL - 60675. Z4 Root worked fine. I am S-Off so I'll flash a new recovery and get back to aosp reality shortly. I'll test gps with this PRI and report back.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] scout7:
VVM

do you have to do this with each update, or just the first time ?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] adjr:
I am having the same problem. Tried everything as far as wiping and formatting etc. Also, mine does not flash the new recovery.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] ozzie1p:
Tried this and the gps won't even come up. Could you please give me the full chmod command? That might be my problem.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] cmccracken:
chmod 644 /system/lib/libgps.so

Here's what things should look like if you run 'ls -l /system/lib/libgps.so':

The timestamps might vary, but the filesizes (88440 & 84262) should be like this.

**ADDED** This ended up not fixing the problem for me. YMMV
[Hero CDMA Android Development] revcp:
GPS

For those of you who are on sprint and who have used sprint nav, there is a telenav app you can install that locks instantly (telenav makes the sprint app, that is "rebranded" by sprint. The "generic" telenav app is much better). I sit and wait and wait for google maps, but when I open telenav I am instantly located. I need to drive with it some, but at least the quick initial lock shows promise. post #26 here http://androidforums.com/sprint-hero-all-things-root/47516-sprint-nav-2-8-premium-apk.html. Mod, please remove post if it is not OK to post this.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] cmccracken:
Well, this lasted a little while longer for me, but ultimately the GPS hung again as well. It lasted about 15 minutes or so, but now its over 10 minutes since the last position update (they were coming in every second).
[Hero CDMA Android Development] igtheactt1:
Time to get back to aosp froyo, This rom has always been laggy/sluggish no matter the launcher...
[Hero CDMA Android Development] cmccracken:
So I got tired of waiting for GPS Status to show anything different since the Gps Provider clearly crapped out. I attempted to open CoPilot Live to see if it could pick up any GPS goodness, and it hung the OS for about a minute and then rebooted. Just before the reboot, I caught a quick glimpse in the logcat of a GPS Provider stack trace from the dalvikvm provider. Unfortunately, I was grepping for "gps", so I didn't get many of the lines from the trace.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] xDragod:
Liquid, did you see my post with my settings?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] jasonmaloney:
Edit: oops
[Hero CDMA Android Development] jasonmaloney:
Look, LiquidSolstice has a point. I'll try to explain.

When I run CM7, everything seems "faster" compared to some other ROMs. But it doesn't feel as "smooth" and I think I know why.

Even though the graphics and animations seem to draw faster, it looks like they're dropping frames to do so. The more frames drawn per second, the smoother the graphics. Anyone with an interpolating 240Hz HDTV can see this first hand. And anyone who has ever run a video game emulator on older hardware has seen how it will drop frames to maintain speed, ultimately sacrificing smoothness to avoid slowdown.

I always push the Nexus boot animation to my phone, and it never runs totally smoothly. Last night I had to RUU my phone to help someone in IRC, and I went ahead and ran all of the OTA updates and got the latest PRI and PRL. Lo and behold, the settings menu would scroll across the screen incredibly smoothly. So on a hunch, I pushed the boot animation, and it ran twice as fast as it ever did on any aosp build.

Just to confirm this wasn't a fluke, I went ahead and used fastboot[1] to flash Clockwork Recovery, and from there I wiped everything and installed nothing but CM7, Gapps, and the boot animation. I rebooted several times to be certain -- the boot animation and settings menu was fast but choppy compared to Sense.

Now I won't pretend to entirely understand how SurfaceFlinger or other Android components work, but it is painfully obvious to the naked eye that something is going on here. My roommate has an Aria, and even with its improved GPU it displayed similar symptoms with a CM7 nightly.

So maybe it's just the three of us, but I find it puzzling that a Sense build running at 528 MHz can out-perform an overclocked CM7 graphically. I'm doing some experiments to try to figure out if there is any way to fix this, but in the meantime it would be nice if people could chill out on the flaming and acknowledge the fact that different people are having different issues with this Work-In-Progress ROM. I'm not having the same YouTube issues that others are having (heck, maybe they're even related somehow), but I won't deny they are happening.

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[1] (which incidentally I found a way to do without an ENG build, but that's for another post to explain)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] jasonmaloney:
I'm not being derogatory to people who are saying they have no issue. I'm saying they don't need to be derogatory to people with issues just because they aren't having them. Just like how my YouTube works fine, but I don't go bashing people for repeatedly posting that theirs doesn't.

Again, this build is still a work-in-progress. Different people are going to experience different issues. There isn't any reason why we shouldn't be able to voice our concerns respectfully. The fact is that without lots of noobs going around breaking things, lots of outstanding issues probably would never be discovered.

We're all greatful to those who continue to put time and effort into building software for our antiquated devices, but the fact is that even though aosp is the one making the builds, we are all contributing to the success of this project with our input. And if aosp didn't want input, he wouldn't continue to post updated builds to an open thread.

There's no reason we can't all be respectful, internet or not.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] mtran2988:
because hardware.upgrade.enable = 1 always works in build.prop

also im sure something was said 2.6.35 kernel, which i could be wrong (but i have confidence in my opinion) should be helpful. of course i could be making it all up, but my opinion is my opinion, since everyone else has their own and are just vomitting them out
[Hero CDMA Android Development] JWnSC:
Liquid try png optimizing the rom before flashing. That's what I do before flashing seems to take care of the lag, also use spare parts set window animations off transition animations to fast. Hope it works for you. :)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] LiquidSolstice:
Oh wow. I never actually thought of that! I'll give it a run then, thanks for the tip. That actually slipped my mind.

I'll give it a shot and post the results here. :)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] jneg123:
Hey Jason,

Thanks very much again for all your help. I was able to root and get Clockwork running so I restored my Nandroid and all is well. Very impressive work.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] t12icky0:
edit..wrong post..sorry
[Hero CDMA Android Development] mtran2988:
did you try downloading the A-GPS or resetting the GPS. So far it seems to be running much nicer with dlgltal's little idea. I'm going to wipe and test it again to see. will post back
[Hero CDMA Android Development] LiquidSolstice:
Alright, just wanted to let you know I'm running the ROM through the scripts right now, I figure I might as well zipalign while I'm at it.

It takes a while, so I'll let you know when it's done :)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] ohbuckeyeman:
Liquid, are you going to make a new LiquidSense version of the new 2.2 Sense ROM when it comes out?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] LiquidSolstice:
With all due respect to you, and out of respect to aosp, this isn't where you should be asking me that. PM me, please :)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] ohbuckeyeman:
You are absolutely right. Sorry for any offense Aosp!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] jamesthomas128:
If you don't like what somebody posts then ignore it. Don't populate a dev thread with immature bickering. Mod please get rid of this crap.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] cmccracken:
Can someone please post something constructive and relevant to the development of this ROM? I'm about to give up on the GPS fix and switch back to Fresh just so I don't have to dig through all the whining in the hopes that there might be a dev-related post in here. :mad:
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Decad3nce:
People are free to report bugs as they wish. If there's an issue with HOW they are reported, then it could be considered an "issue."

If I have to come clean this thread for "flaming" again, expect numerous infractions and bans.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] dhero1:
My gps has never stopped working. But unlike most others I use only the ROM and kernel provided by aosp, and no other mods. Other than that, Fresh 2.4.0 or NFX stock are good bets.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] mtran2988:
MOD EDIT: DROP IT

Anyways, I flashed 02/16 and was having the little GPS shotty issue, but I took a look into what dlgltal posted and after following it, my GPS seems to be spot on, following me. I tested it from a clean wipe without it, then with a Gps download assistance, then rebooted and got the same result... 1-2 minutes of GPS then dropped off. After, i did his little libgps.so move, everything seems to be working better..

One of the posts with directions are in #6835

I also changed the permissions on the libgps.so to 644.

can anyone else try this and see if it improves?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Kevets:
I replaced the libgps.so and didn't check connection longevity because the accuracy was way off. It had a specific fix near me but the 'stock' libgps.so was dead on.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] revcp:
I've tried this straight up and with firerats, same result: squirrelly gps. It's a fabulous rom and I will keep using it, but gps is undependable.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] dburg84:
same here. no issues for me?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] zwizzle:
I think my post got erased somehow. Anyways... I just wanted to say that I've been experiencing the same issue as LiquidSolstice described. The window animations seem a little "choppy" compared to aosp's 2.2 rom, something I've noticed since I started using 2.3. For example, if I hold down the power button to restart the phone, I can see the individual frames as the power pop up appears.

Obviously I don't see this as a major issue, so I think this single post will suffice. And I have to say I'm very impressed with the quick development of this rom. Great work aosp.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] cybertimber2007:
Same, except I've never used Firerats.

Has anyone noticed that GPS drops in *specific* apps? Like... GPS Status never stops working, even though Google Nav reports GPS Signal Loss. I usually can't pull a log cat while driving... but I might be able to do it while bike riding! Going to be nice this weekend so I'll give it a go.

Plus, my new 8GB uSD card needs something on it :p
[Hero CDMA Android Development] mozman:
I noticed that sometimes when I play music on the stock music player, the phone would slow considerably. Music is playing fine, but doing other things on the phone become slow. Whether it's playing a non processor intensive game, surfing, etc. Are there any settings that can help fix this?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Kevets:
Settings - CyanogenMod settings - Performance - CPU Settings

Up your min CPU frequency a notch.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] LiquidSolstice:
Yeah, definitely. I made the mistake of not changing the governor after flashing Deca, and it only gave me the values of 768 and 19, and every time my screen shut off, the processor dropped to 19MHz. Yes, you read that right, it was insane.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] mozman:
Thanks. Performance setting, I never bothered to play with before.

I set it up from 176 to 264 (a notch ;) ). I'll see how it goes and notch it up again, if needed. Is there a recommended or preferred setting?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Kevets:
I get minimal sluggishness at 264 but I prefer battery life over performance. I'll deal with a little skip occasionally.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] aiwetir:
If this is when the phone is idle or the screen is off then setting the min cpu higher will help. If it happens 'whenever' that may or may not help. If it happens 'whenever' you may look into the memory management with something like autokiller - https://market.android.com/details?id=com.rs.autokiller.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] stayclean:
I always get at least 20 hours with a min of 264, not really going to drain your battery too much more.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] jasonmaloney:
You can get zero sluggishness with the 19.2 min if you're using the ondemand governor. Crank the max as high as you want.

A higher min will improve performance with input-based governors like smartass and interactive, but it lessens battery life over time. A higher max will improve performance with ondemand but will lessen battery life if your min isn't as low as it can go.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] mozman:
This occurs when I simultaneously play music and do something else. It doesn't happen all the time. And there's no pattern to when this happens.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] jrbe:
Yeah, my phone has 3.0.0.5 CWM and AOSP's 2/16 build and Zeam only. Never did firerats, the 2ext stuff, or any other tweaks. My nav holds GPS for about an hour then it loses GPS. Restarting nav doesnt pull gps back up. I have to reboot the phone to get nav working again. It will always run for an hour +.

Accu weather quick (free) app pulls gps info for my location fine and never seems to have an issue.

The Accuweather.com (free) app either blinks the gps icon dot like crazy or on occasion it lights solid but either way it doesnt pull my location. Very rarely it gets a lock on where i am and when it does weather pops up but quickly dissapears, it drops out within a second.

Im not saying the accuweather apps might not have issues, Im just stating what these 2 apps from possibly the same dev has one that works and one that definitely doesn't work.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] ch1naski:
Haha, that happened to me, was at work and goofing around with it for the first time, and by accident set MAX to 19. so, min 19, max 19.....it didn't end well. :)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] JWnSC:
Liquid did you get it running? I'm also using launcher pro with kifno's build prop, jit on, vm heap 32, opening and scrolling speed all the way up in lp. It's not quite as fast as aosp froyo but pretty damn close. Applications seem to run smoother in gingerbread though. I'm sure it'll get better with time.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] LiquidSolstice:
Trying it now.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] laie1472:
For those having gps issues.

Here's something new to try

Turn off mock locations

Use sprint nav.

I loaded up this rom last night and finally took it for a test drive. I noticed that while using google maps didn't work at all no matter what I did. I switched to sprint nav and turned off mock locations and it worked fine for my 45min drive to work. Stayed locked the whole time. Don't know if it will work for everyone but its something new to try. Running 2/16/2011 gb-

Overall performance is real smooth no lag with animations off you tube Hq works fine as well. I flashed the one Kfunk posted on his Darkhorse theme for gb.

Hope this helps

Something.About.Me.You.Dont.LikeItsCool.I.Understand

.AWAH.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] BJex:
Just the first time. You can use the same backup to restore when you change Tom's.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] pfer10:
Circle Battery Mod 2/16

Some still like the "off" color instead of the turd green. Enjoy and thank aosp for the ROM.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] cmccracken:
I've always had Mock Locations turned off, and have tried every single GPS suggestion in this thread with no luck. I have CoPilot Live which works fairly well, but isn't nearly as well integrated into Android as the Google Maps/Nav. Sprint Nav is even more detached from the OS. Its not just about navigation, though. The GPS issue affects >50% of the apps I use. Facebook, Camera (geotagging), Twitter, Places, Google Search, My Tracks ALL require a working GPS system in addition to the various on- and off-road navigation apps I have. GPS location-based-services are an integral part all mobile OS'es.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Decad3nce:
I'm not going to babysit. Bans for anyone flaming other users.

You are more than capable of ignoring "bug" reports made by users. So do it.

Lets keep it clean; development posts only.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] oostah:
why give one jack @### the satisfaction of hurting us all. :mad:

please dont pull this rom.:(
[Hero CDMA Android Development] laie1472:
Have you tried using dec's kernels?? I've always had good results with his.

Something.About.Me.You.Dont.LikeItsCool.I.Understand

.AWAH.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] dhero1:
Liquid Sense FTW! :)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] :
AccuBatt for 20110216

Post removed...new build out.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] cmccracken:
I have not tried any alternate kernels yet. I've been trying to keep it as vanilla as possible to make it easier to troubleshoot the problem. The only non-standard thing I have set up is the FireRat MTD resize. Since its just partition sizing, I can't imagine that would have any negative effect as long as there is sufficient space on all the partitions (which there is).

The really odd thing is that there is a noticeable difference in the behavior of the aospCMod libgps.so and the Sprint libgps.so, even while they're both working. The Sprint libgps works as expected, with regular GPS position updates ever second. The aospCMod libgps does not update regularly. It will do a few updates in a row, and then hang for a few seconds to a few minutes, then more updates, then hang again, and so on. The two versions of the same library behave very differently.

It very well could be a kernel issue, but it seems like there's more going on than that.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] stayclean:
Is that only flashable with CW 2.0.x, or can it be flashed with 3.0.x?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] cmccracken:
Something that was mentioned in the flame fest was a statement that aosp is no longer maintaining this ROM and has moved away from the Hero platform. Is this accurate? If so, who IS maintaining this ROM now (if anyone), and what is the "official" way to report bugs? If development and bugfixes on this ROM have been abandoned, I think it would likely shift a lot of mindsets about the expectations for issue resolution.

*EDIT* I think I found the answer here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=959080

*EDIT2* Looks like the sky is not falling, it was just a rumor.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] vinnypel2ella:
Yea aosp moved to LG. And there shouldn't of been those expectations in the first place. This is a free rom noone pays for it, aosp spent ALOT of time working on this n just to see ppl act the way they are...sickening.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] :
I noticed something similar. I got my GPS "working". I use the quotes because it now holds a signal in the house. I haven't had to leave today :D

I used the Sprint libgps, changed permissions, and it works just fine...BUT...The difference is that now (in the "working" state), when I turn the phone in Google Nav, the map/direction doesn't rotate (i.e. if I am actually facing 1st Street and turn to face 2nd street, nothing happens). In Maps though it does:confused:

Before, in the non-working, lose lock every two minutes state, map/direction rotation worked fine when just turning the phone. Only thing that changed was swapping the libgps.

I am running a 100% unaltered (except for the libgps edit), stock 02/16 GB build on a fresh FULL wipe and install. No Firerats, Data2ext, etc...:confused:

Gonna test it on a drive tomorrow.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Chainfire:
The forum-specific moderator has just deleted no less than 37 posts from the last few pages that were either inflammatory or downright flaming.

This is not acceptable. While I am not personally familiar with the ROM in question and can make no testament to how good it is, from now on, please keep your comments to civil discussion, bug reports and/or constructive criticism.

Those who have been flaming have just been infracted. This is the last and final warning to those intending to "flame" or "troll". A zero-tolerance policy is now in effect for this thread. Any trolling or flaming seen from this point onwards will be resulting in a ban.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] :
Assuming you mean the AccuBatt, yeah, it should flash with CW 3 also. Haven't tried though, as I run 2.5. But It should be edified.:)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] stayclean:
Thanks, good to know!