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[Desire Android Development] erklat:
Anyone noticing how power button needs to be pressed somewhat longer than usual to wake the phone up?
[Desire Android Development] mattman83:
Yeah I get this on oxygen, sometimes it works like it should sometimes you have to hit it a few times or press + hold.

Nah the bootloop thing literally comes out of nowhere, can happen any time (heavy use or just sitting in your pocket). Seems to happen more often after 24hr+ runtime.

It just gets stuck on boot screen... kills the battery pretty fast when it does too.

Can break the loop by pulling the battery, or I prefer power + vol down + trackpad.

Both of these AFAIK are AOSP bugs and hopefully should get sorted when the N1 OTA goes out, whenever that actually happens.
[Desire Android Development] erklat:
Also, how do you turn slight vibration during the call when the person you called answers? I just noticed this issue missing too, and I find it most useful.
[Desire Android Development] etique57:
@mattman83 et. al.

Yup I confirm those two issues as well.

Cheers
[Desire Android Development] erklat:
Apparently this was HTC's thing. Is there a possibility the op would implement this in one of the future releases? This was one of my favorite features in Sense roms.
[Desire Android Development] Yekxmerr:
My rom runs perfect, i've no issues on that. Nandroid backup and flash it again. Wipe Cache + Data + Dalvik , it worths a shot :)
[Desire Android Development] suiller:
if you are underclocking to 128mhz could happen... I noticed in every ginger rom :cool:
[Desire Android Development] suiller:
there is an app in the market, but I don't remember the name... sorry :(
[Desire Android Development] erklat:
I do that whenever I flash different rom.

Not just Ginger. It takes too much time for the governor to ramp up CPU frequency if minimum is set that low on every rom, Ginger or not. 245MHz is my minimum.

Shame, that should be an option in the call settings. Some people like it, others do not, I find it most useful.

This screen on lag, WiFi dropouts that occurred every few hours, phone constantly seemed too quiet when ringing, no vibrate feat, no those little things I liked from Sense ROMs made me do my nandroid restore of my super stable AuraxTSense.

But kudos to this ROMs battery efficiency! 24hrs with 4:30 screen on time is amazing!

I'm tempted to flash coutt's sense kernel to try if I can get that again.
[Desire Android Development] coutts99:
Sense kernel has been neglected, sucks that sense is stuck on 2.6.32
[Desire Android Development] Harrysoon:
WiFi works fine when in use, though if I leave my phone and let it idle the WiFi eventually drops out until I start using the phone again.
[Desire Android Development] Harrysoon:
Forget this, I was being an idiot. Forgot all about changing the WiFI sleep policy :o
[Desire Android Development] ben ifin:
Hows good / great / bad ( ? ) is the battery life with the RC 8 build ?

Ben
[Desire Android Development] erklat:
There you go, probably the best battery life I've seen.
[Desire Android Development] erklat:
Full wipe is usually not necessary when upgrading the same rom, but definitely do a nandroid backup in case something goes bad.
[Desire Android Development] Yekxmerr:
I've updated my RC7 but it is showing 2.6.37 kernel. Shouldn't be 2.6.38 ?
[Desire Android Development] Xinot:
Changelog

RC8 [very little update]

- 2.6.37 kernel (not 2.6.38 for now)
[Desire Android Development] adamp:
Apps2SD

I installed RC8 the other day (my first Gingerbread ROM) but Apps2SD does not seem to be working.

It there a good thread on testing / configuring Apps2SD? It seemed to just work out of the box on older ROMS
[Desire Android Development] woqii:
Issues I have found along the way since I tried the last test release and now RC8:

Installing from the market sometimes does not work. Just downloads and never installs apps in some cases.

Launcher seems to force close randomly after performance starts lagging in the UI

reboots and logo goes on a loop after having the phone running for more than 24hours

These are the issues I have found so far. Anyone had this on the latest releases of this rom?
[Desire Android Development] Yekxmerr:
Never had those issues :S
[Desire Android Development] Yekxmerr:
But my battery drains fast. My phone lasts a day and i dont use my phone too much :S
[Desire Android Development] coutts99:
Try a havs kernel
[Desire Android Development] Advancer:
I've been running RC8 with coutt99s .38 kernel since release, and I have to say it is a very stable RC. Batterylife is great and the overall feel and response is awesome!
[Desire Android Development] Yekxmerr:
"couttstech-2.6.37_OC1190_HAVS_Ginger_CFS_VR_SLQB.zip" ?
[Desire Android Development] Yekxmerr:
Going to try the .38 to help it out on testing
[Desire Android Development] erklat:
Screenshot of battery usage please?
[Desire Android Development] Harrysoon:
In just over roughly 24 hours the battery usage of the .38 kernel has used just under 50%. That's with just general every day usage.
[Desire Android Development] erklat:
That is insane battery performance!

Are you connected to the Internet or do you connect when needed?
[Desire Android Development] Yekxmerr:
I'm with .38 aswell and i find it quite good :)
[Desire Android Development] Harrysoon:
I'm always connected to either the mobile network or WiFi. If I'm out and know I'm not gonna be on WiFi for a while then I'll turn WiFi off.

I might have exaggerated a bit as yesterday I was plugging it in to my PC to add/remove stuff from the SD card, so it would have got a bit of a charge every so often, but only for max 15 min at a time, but still after 24 hours it was around 50% and left it off charge through the night to test it.

If I was still on a stock ROM/kernel, it would have definitely run out of battery through the night.

Only thing I'm not too sure about with this ROM is the App2SD stuff. Does it need an ext partition to work properly? Like I see I can already move all my apps to SD, but still some of the app stays on the phone storage. Is this how it's suppost to work and the ROM just handles it itself?
[Desire Android Development] Yekxmerr:
Master coutts99 is doing a great job on this :) im very happy with this 2.3 rom. The only thing i miss is the music widgets from sense :(

( winamp ones doesnt work on 2.3 )
[Desire Android Development] erklat:
This rom doesn't support a2sd script afaik, so the ext partition is not needed.
[Desire Android Development] Harrysoon:
Alright thanks. That clears that up. Happy with the a2sd it does have as I can still have a ton of apps on.
[Desire Android Development] erklat:
You don't have a2sd with this rom. You have a native Android app2sd implementation which merely moves the optimized apps to fat32 partition, which gets mounted after the apps get started and sometimes your apps will fail to start on boot.

A2sd is a script which makes Android think about ext partition as it's internal memory, it moves your app data to ext partition, or app data and davlik cache if you have a2sd+.
[Desire Android Development] erklat:
I got this on couple of other roms, so it's probably Google to blame. When this happens, go to My apps in the market, press on the icon with the progress bar and hold, cancel download. Now scroll to the bottom of the list, long press, select install.

This is a workaround I managed to install every app with.
[Desire Android Development] python08:
App2SD is included in the ROM.. just create an ext4 partition.
[Desire Android Development] erklat:
Darktremor's script? So ext4 is a must? That explains why it didn't work for me as I was using ext3 left from Leedroid.
[Desire Android Development] craig1965:
Could somebody confirm for me if Bluetooth is working on RC8 I had issues with RC7 couldn't get a connection
[Desire Android Development] coutts99:
Been working fine here, gets used every day in the car.
[Desire Android Development] Fancois:
Nothing to f*cking said Python & coutts ! Marvellous ! Bravo (with english accent) !

I'm come back from Cyano 7 with draining battery as Hell !

And here, nothing ! Got a terrible battery life, and also wifi on ! (this night drop from 37% to 36%) Amazing ! Love that way !

So keep going dudes !
[Desire Android Development] darkyannick:
Python !!!!!!

Where's the RC8 link in post one loool !
[Desire Android Development] python08:
Updated 1st post. ;)
[Desire Android Development] darkyannick:
Python, i've a problem : My sim card is not detected........When i want to write an sms, none of my contacts sim is displayed !

I've tis message "Aucun contact n'a été trouvé sur votre carte sim"

Have you any soluce ?

EDIT : I've done all wipes before flashing cause i come from Leedroid 2.3d
[Desire Android Development] donatinho:
Can you import contact from the SIM into the phonebook?
[Desire Android Development] python08:
I think Cyanogen's A2SD script should work but I'm not sure about it.

I'll try to make a build with A2SD included in the next few days ;)

But you can try to take mountsd and a2sd script's from CyanogenMod (/system/etc/init.d) and put it in /system/etc/init.d/
[Desire Android Development] makedoc:
THX I will be waiting for build with A2SD.:p

I also notice that Navigon 3.5.3 does not work, maybee the program needs to be updated for Gingerbread I do not know. Anyone experiencing the same issues.
[Desire Android Development] tasty_boy:
downloaded RC2, and waiting for the missing features!

º Menu Unlock

º Ability to set brightness levels

Thanks!!!
[Desire Android Development] python08:
Already added menu wake-up and unlock and entry in settings to set apps install location :) Will add custom power widget then release RC3 tomorrow I think ! :D
[Desire Android Development] tasty_boy:
Added??, in RC2??, or RC3??

can't see any option related in the rom...
[Desire Android Development] revthanki:
Running RC2 and it runs like butter. Incredibly smooth. I've now mothballed Oxygen and am hoping to run this full time! Thanks a million. :D

A couple of suggestions/questions:

*Please don't add things like long press skip track by unchangeable default (they really don't work with my pocket volume fiddling way of playing music!)

*Will people running the Oxygen customised HBoot with System = 90M, Cache = 10M, Data = 337M be OK with all the future updates that you plan?

*Which Kernel are you using?

Thanks again!
[Desire Android Development] python08:
When I say "added", I mean in RC3 which is not released yet ;) maybe tonight.

And yes, I try to make the ROM very light and clean so it should fit to oxygen hboot :)

I use "stock" vorkKernel (from github master branch), with no additions. I'm not really experienced in kernels and I thank beenee for his marvellous work on this fantastic kernel.
[Desire Android Development] jellyb:
Switched from oxygen to give this a try and its so smooth. Great job on this rom :D

If you do add menu wake, may I know if the following script will disable it?

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10065327&postcount=8413

With menu wake the phone keeps waking up in my pocket so I'll wait for trackpad wake
[Desire Android Development] python08:
Yes, I watched this zip and it should work :) no problem ;)

Will upload RC3 tonight or tomorrow. I still have to add custom settings widget.
[Desire Android Development] JHalliday0:
How is battery life on this ROM? Does it have the same drain as oxygen?

Looks nice.
[Desire Android Development] patachon33:
Just to be sure, Python08, did you receive my private message?

Thank you !!! And congratulations for this rom ! :)
[Desire Android Development] revthanki:
Python08, while you're doing the power widget, could I make a quick request? Could you add a toggle in it for USB tethering? At the moment it's a pain of a setting to get to.

Ta, and good luck with the baking this afternoon.
[Desire Android Development] Salival:
So far so good :) only missing a2sd :(
[Desire Android Development] python08:
I'll work to include the features u need :) RC3 tonight if I have enough time !

I just have to reduce size and add custom power widget then it will be ready :)
[Desire Android Development] python08:
And for those who sent me PMs, Don't worry, I'm gonna answer but I actually do not have any time left with school and Amethyst.. And for the frenchies who send me a PM, you can speak french because I'm french :p
[Desire Android Development] patachon33:
AH AH AH !! Excellent !!! On va bien s'entendre :D !!
[Desire Android Development] belylal:
...maybe not such a good idea, since the rest of us don't speak french...and somebody might say something important...:-)

Would you please include A2SD in RC3?
[Desire Android Development] python08:
Don't worry ! I just said that if a french send to me a PM, he doesn't have to speak English :)

I'll try to see if A2SD is working properly, then I'll create a version with it ;)
[Desire Android Development] belylal:
Cool...now you may speak French, even in the thread...:-)

Good job on this ROM, thanks...
[Desire Android Development] python08:
Updated to RC3 tonight ! Hope you'll like it ;)

I'm really sorry because the power widget in notfication bar is not configurable yet... but I just do not have time! It will be added in the next release :)
[Desire Android Development] darkyannick:
No, i can't:mad:
[Desire Android Development] simon1283:
Hey guys!

Just have a quick question about app2sd and ext4:

Do I just have to create an ext4 partition on my SD card and all apps will be moved to this partition? Do I need the partition before flashing the rom? Or is it working even if I create this partition after having flashed the rom?

Thanks a lot in advance!

(Another solution of the problem of running out of storage would be using the oxygen hboot tables, right?)
[Desire Android Development] Harrysoon:
I tried setting up an ext4 partition without reflashing the ROM, and I had some problems with the phone rebooting every time I tried reinstalling an app, so I reflashed the ROM today and app2sd works fine. I reinstalled all my apps etc and some went on to the ext4 partition.
[Desire Android Development] bedeabc:
Simple clean install of rc7 with everything wiped and SD formatted, but i'm getting bootloops once daily (approximately). Otherwise a good ROM
[Desire Android Development] Patonator:
OTA update for Nexus One just started ! Can't wait to see RC9 ! ;D
[Desire Android Development] tasty_boy:
lol, it will be Amethyst 1.0
[Desire Android Development] dd1989:
Please have this added to the ROM Manager app.
[Desire Android Development] simon1283:
Yes! Finally!!
[Desire Android Development] Caspian3011:
Can someone please explain something to me? I've already mentioned this once here but I didn't get any response. It is clearly said by python that the smooth battery icons from Gas are used since RC5, but all I see on my Desire with Amethyst are the stock battery icons. I searched everywhere for an option to change them to the smooth ones, but didn't find such option. Will someone please answer me am I blind, crazy or the smooth battery icons really aren't a part of this rom?
[Desire Android Development] python08:
Smooth battery icons are missing since Amethyst is open-sourced. I'll add them back, don't worry.
[Desire Android Development] Caspian3011:
Ok, so I'm not blind or crazy. Now that's a relief ;) Thanks python!
[Desire Android Development] dandwhelan:
App2sd isn't working. Seemed to be ok with every other rom

Also how can I get adfree to work?
[Desire Android Development] etique57:
Yes, it seems App2sd is not working on mine as well (but cache2sd is).
[Desire Android Development] Harrysoon:
App2sd seems to be working for me. I just put an ext4 partition in with Gparted and then flashed ROM. Used Titanium to restore apps and Titanium showed the ext4 partition being used.
[Desire Android Development] woqii:
I have been getting this as well. Is there any way how we can troubleshoot this?
[Desire Android Development] renegade027:
I've been getting all sorts of random reboots and bootloops too - for a while. Here's what I did:

1. stock CPU frequency 245(?) - 998 Mhz (i.e no overclocking whatsoever)

2. Stock voltages - the undervolt business never showed any significant battery life improvement anyway - did a few tests with CurrentWidget and...it just wasn't there for me at least.

3. eViollet's kernels - a GB AXI SVS one - for some reason any HAVS kernel I ever put on my phone - and that's ANY AOSP build - always produced a bunch of reboots

So to sum this up - no UV no OC + eViollet's AXI SVS kernel.

The result is most of the random reboots are gone. I can still crash my phone by doing hectic browsing in the Dolphin Mini browser - i.e go through like 25 pages in a minute - I guess some buffer is being overrun causing an out-of-bounds exception -> crash. Just a theory.

Yet, none of these browser-related crashes causes a bootloop and is avoidable by keeping open browser windows to a min. and waiting for pages to load completely before clicking any links.

Hm, now as I think about this - I can also crash Amethyst by quickly changing music tracks in the stock music app and browsing the music library quickly too. I'd guess this is the same type of issue as the one with the browser.

Hope this is useful.
[Desire Android Development] woqii:
Thanks for the tips. I will give these a shot when I am done from work. :)
[Desire Android Development] renegade027:
@python08: So, how are things going with the GRI40 build :-)
[Desire Android Development] alex_mobile:
Take a look at Twitter:

"Unfortunately, #Amethyst 1.0 won't be available before 2 weeks. It's holiday in France."
[Desire Android Development] simon1283:
What about French holidays? Yet over?

Looking forward to Amethyst 1.0!!
[Desire Android Development] keke13:
Nope, still one week ;)

I'm impatient too !
[Desire Android Development] Yekxmerr:
If you have the apps on SD Card the widgets wont be available to show on homescreen.

( im an idiot ) lol
[Desire Android Development] keke13:
It's not a bug. If you want to be able to use widgets on your homescreen, you have to install the application on the internal memory and not on the SD Card
[Desire Android Development] andrepp:
im going to try this rom... thx...
[Desire Android Development] adamneilwilson:
Just been trying the new oxygen roms and they still aren't as good as amethyst. Really looking forward to the final release now!
[Desire Android Development] python08:
Hey guys !

I think a test build will be available tonight :)
[Desire Android Development] williamj1:
Can anyone tell me what the advantages of this over GingerVillain?

They are both based on stock android, and both use all the CM7 stuff? So how do I choose between them?
[Desire Android Development] adamneilwilson:
Can't wait!
[Desire Android Development] Mike_52:
You're wrong (i'm a user of GV) but Amethyst doesn't use CM7 stuff, Amethyst is PURE Aosp. Don't forget it, personnaly i never test this rom but perhaps one day ... ;)
[Desire Android Development] donatinho:
I tested all amethyst RC and never had issues. Also,i personally like python kindness. It may be useless developing wise,but I'm not yet so far from social behaviour to forget to appreciate good manners.
[Desire Android Development] balthor80:
Amethyst is a french rom, it's better :D

Amethyst is more "light" than Villain (54Mo vs 88Mo)

Kernel is developped by coutts99 in Amethyst.

+ Pure AOSP not CM7

;)
[Desire Android Development] mbroeders:
Well, CM is also AOSP, only with some extra mods which add extra functionality. Second, it clearly states in the first post: "some of Amethyst's code comes from other ROMs like Oxygen or CyanogenMod". Thus, either CM7 is also 'pure AOSP' or Amethyst is, just like CM7 'not pure AOSP'.

But what difference does it make? Basically it is more compact, so less stuff than gingervillain or Oxygen. And it uses a different kernel. I'll maybe test this rom one day, but I read it's getting great reviews (i believe AdamG is a great fan of Amethyst's work, that must say something ;) ).
[Desire Android Development] python08:
First GRI40 test build : http://megaupload.com/?d=YO1U5V88 :)

Updated to Android 2.3.3.

Some features could be missing.

It's vorkKernel for this test build (not amethyst's kernel) because of the camera.
[Desire Android Development] madman_cro:
Gona try and will try with coutts99 kernel too.
[Desire Android Development] Advancer:
Just installed the GRI40 test build, did full wipes and restoring apps with titanium backup went smoothly. First impressions are total awesomeness!

:D Thanks alot for your work! It was worth the wait!
[Desire Android Development] adamneilwilson:
Unavailable... :-( hope link is working soon
[Desire Android Development] python08:
I'm sorry for the link but I don't have access to any ftp, so I had to upload the file on megaupload.. :(
[Desire Android Development] adamneilwilson:
You shouldn't be sorry! It's working now. Really appreciate your work on this rom btw, in my opinion it is the best!
[Desire Android Development] Advancer:
I uploaded the test zip on my ftp, just incase the mega upload didnt work: http://goo.gl/R4hjv
[Desire Android Development] Harrysoon:
What's the kernel like in this build compared to coutts?
[Desire Android Development] Yekxmerr:
Going to test it and report the bug's. Amethyst is by far the best rom available ( im still with RC8 with the .38 kernel ! Works Great ! )
[Desire Android Development] Advancer:
Is App2SD one of the missing features? I cant see it is working in latest test build (checked "busybox df -h" in terminal and no /system/sd is shown - if thats the proper way to check).
[Desire Android Development] python08:
Yes, there's no A2SD in this build.
[Desire Android Development] Advancer:
Thanks for the quick reply :) Then I can stop worrying I messed up somewhere.
[Desire Android Development] Yekxmerr:
I don't know if this is a bug but when i have the keyboard open and i press the homescreen, the keyboard won't close and remain open in the homescreen. I need to search something or open a app to close it.
[Desire Android Development] donatinho:
I just tried from sms and from email,both works normally.home button closes keyboard and brings the main screen
[Desire Android Development] Yekxmerr:
Do this:

- Open Messages

- Press "Menu" button until the keyboard pop-up

- Press home button
[Desire Android Development] Advancer:
I've tried what you said, but the keyboard closes as it should.

Sent from my Desire running latest Amethyst test build!
[Desire Android Development] donatinho:
Regarding the keyboard,i always use the option to suggest words whilst typeing, not working properly with this build,at least for me. It only suggests personal dictionary,nothing from italian or english dictionary that should be built in. Maybe LatinIme issue?
[Desire Android Development] Advancer:
Anyone seen increased battery usage with latest test build? I've just ran it with default kernel, could it be worth update it with coutts99 kernel? The phone has been pretty much on standby, with just some random SMS writing and 1 short phone call. Just out of interest, what are the blue dots below the decline indicator referring to?
[Desire Android Development] goRt:
Click on that bar and you'll see the detail of what was on when :cool:
[Desire Android Development] Advancer:
Thanks, it was wifi, awake and screen on.

Sent from my Desire running latest Amethyst build!
[Desire Android Development] donatinho:
update: i got latinime.apk from another gb rom, flashed in it and now it works. the latinime.apk from amethyst is MUCH smaller, i suppose it hasn't the dictionaries built in by purpose, am i right Phyton? :)
[Desire Android Development] Salival:
Can you share it? :)
[Desire Android Development] blokj11:
I constantly get the message: proces com.android.settings terminated unexpectedly. Does anyone have an idea how I can solve this?

Already tried reboot, and wipe.

I've searched the xda but all i can find are post telling me to delete apps which i don't use on my desire.

Now my ringtone isn't working.

Kernel-version

2.6.38 -rc6-couttstech.com stevec@europa #217

mod version

Amethyst -RC8
[Desire Android Development] Harrysoon:
With coutt's latest kernal on RC8, I get around 2 days of usage of a full charge.