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[EVO 4G Android Development] kidjolly:
You my boy Mik!

This is for all the pundits and the non-believers. I tried Mynwarm, I tried CM 6 (Stable 2), CM7 (RC1, Nightly 40, 1-4, and 6-8) and Salvage-mod (along with a few others not worth mentioning). I understand that a lot of these rom preferences are just that, a preference. However, I think it goes beyond that.

This little rant is aimed at the people that are on the fence, and need some advice. You need to consider whether you need 4g, hdmi, wifi and gps. I personally have not used HDMI once to this day, and I have had my phone since mid-December. I use 4g seldom, although I am in an area that supports it. I use wifi daily, and gps just about the same.

Most builds that are not sense based, although amazing, do not suport 4g or hdmi, or not reliably at least. CM 7 was amazing, very customizable within the OS, and I liked how the lock screens and such. However even the wifi was spotty, at best. The signal was always weak and it would often die out.

Mikfroyo, is a beat cheesy in terms of the UI, but with some flashing and such that is fixed. But I must say, MIKfroyo is my go to OS. It was one of my first flashes, and I have come back. My phone runs the most stable, and everything that is supposed to work, works. I miss the cool lock screens and I miss some of the UI options. But I do not miss my sms not working, my gps being choppy and my phone not being fully functional. MIK YOU ARE MY BOY!!!
[EVO 4G Android Development] aaronw143:
Your preaching to the choir here man... Were sold like mad ;-) Most of us wouldnt leave for a thing...

This is my EVO, there are many like it, but this one is mine...
[EVO 4G Android Development] selders59:
I have run a ton of roms and the best out here are Mikfroyo and Chogardjr roms. I am running chogardjr 2.0 and love it.

Chogardjr are there any major changes between 2.0 & 2.5?	If not just going to stick with 2.0.
[EVO 4G Android Development] 1BadHEMI:
So Sprint has a BIG announcement coming March 22 from CTIA!

This better NOT be some bogus useless phone announcement like the past 2 have been! Hopefully we'll see some of that link I posted a few pages back!

Of course it could be there LTE plans?

Sent from my Evo 4G rockin' MikFroYo 4.5!
[EVO 4G Android Development] aamikam:
its my birthday.... they gonna wish me a happy birthday.
[EVO 4G Android Development] jklong03:
If they don't I will !! Happy Birthday (in advance).

My B'day was Tuesday, got my extended battery and back cover ordered, should be here tomorrow! Now all I need is MikZPort to see if I can run that battery down:D
[EVO 4G Android Development] xxRAMOTHxx:
That's it!

And as for present they are going to hire you to help HTC develop amazing roms for their phones!

And your starting salary will be 10,000,000.00!

Oh well a, guy can wish...

Happy early Birthday bro!
[EVO 4G Android Development] 1BadHEMI:
And we missed singing you happy birthday... okay, I'll start, Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you....
[EVO 4G Android Development] 1BadHEMI:
We were suppose to keep this a screcret. Sprint is announcing that they are hiring you so at least someone can code Sense to run extremely fast and efficient, MikFroYo style! :D

In case I forget, Happy early Birthday!
[EVO 4G Android Development] nick1313:
Yes that is what I did when I installed 4.5, however the link in post 4 for it doesn't work, I uploaded to mediafire, see my sig, for it.

I haven't completely caught with all the posts so if this was already answered, I apologize, you night owls are crazy! :D;)
[EVO 4G Android Development] nick1313:
Also the cell standby? I've noticed mine to be real high on this for some reason, in the 40% range. When I was just on mikfroyo I never noticed it above 30%. Not sure if your version would have anything to do with that or not. If not it must be on my end.

I haven't noticed the android system load percentages being high for me.

One thing I noticed today is that every time I come out of the lock screen it takes about 5 seconds for the phone to get "stable", meaning that I can't click on anything for a little bit. I noticed that I was syncing for about 5 minutes, so I canceled the sync and turned off auto-sync and tried again and it's still kind of laggy when i come out of the lock screen. Has anyone else noticed that? Maybe your new optimizations will fix that.

Adding the lock screen to ROM will be nice touch. Then I won't have to flash anything else, other than kernel. :cool:

EDIT: I wonder if updating my profile and prl is making my phone laggy? That's the only thing I can think of that I have changed and it's pretty laggy today. Is there a way to un-update them? Man it's real bad, can't even scroll facebook very well. Going to reboot. So on that note cho, I will reflash your new ROM when you get it done. Or maybe I'll give 4.6 a try.

EDIT2: Now I'm getting some network not able to be reached errors while posting on FB. Going to clear cache and see if that helps.

EDIT3: Clearing Cache seemed to help, for now.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Sweetlittlehugs:
I'm ready for exciting news. The last 2 announcements were not exciting.
[EVO 4G Android Development] nick1313:
Couple of articles here about it. They don't really say much but they all give some speculation to Android 2.3 gingerbread smartphone.
[EVO 4G Android Development] selders59:
Yeah they are being baught out by Apple! Good bye Evo! Apples move for world domination! LOL!!

Just kidding folks!! Couldn't help it!
[EVO 4G Android Development] selders59:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Aamikam!!!!
[EVO 4G Android Development] mijjah74:
Happy Birthday Mik:D

sent from my MikFroGard'd htc evo
[EVO 4G Android Development] Dubez:
Need HELP!!!!

Im going to try and keep this as brief as possible.

Ok, now, I've been running MikFroyo the last couple of releases. Doing full wipes 2-3 times in between, and restoring apps and data thru titanium backup. Never really played with kernels too much, but still I never got satisfactory battery. So this morning I figured I would re-flash, and restore all my apps manually because maybe restoring thru titanium is adding something that keeps draining the battery. I did the full wipe 3 times, and re-flashed. As soon as I got to the home screen I got forces closes for Handcent, Lookout, Vlingo, and Tango. This seemed odd to me being that it was a fresh flash. I went to my apps draw and saw these apps were present, and I dont think that they come stock with this rom (I may be wrong). So I uninstalled them and went to the market to reinstall my apps and they wont download/install. Also I started with a full battery and am now at 83% battery.

Now, what do I need to do to get a fresh FULL wipe, is what i just described common, I usually run launcher pro could that be what was draining my battery? Im basically trying to start from scratch with this phone except for the contacts which I have all backed up on google.

Any and all help is appreciated. Thanks in advance
[EVO 4G Android Development] myMUSICveins:
I looked and have not seen anything about changing the taskbar icons. Anyone done smooth icons on 4.5? Also, I find the notification transparancy a bit too high, anyone know how to modify either of these two?

Id be willing to buy someone a few beers
[EVO 4G Android Development] kast107:
Sprint just saved a ton of money on their car insurance!

Sent from the phone iPhone users can only dream about.
[EVO 4G Android Development] nick1313:
What recovery are you using to wipe? CW or AmonRA? And by wipe what exactly are you wiping? Check my sig for Mitchell's guide to flash MikFroyo. If you do that step by step you shouldn't have any problems.
[EVO 4G Android Development] aamikam:
guys... there is still like 3 weeks to my bday...

anyways... im uploading mikz beta now... like i said before... there was a lot of fixeups i did to myn's rom that i used as my base... a lot of theming also.

now...

i will probably leave this project alone for now... so have fun with it now... but keep in mind that im really not focusing any attention on it cuz i have other things to take care of now.

if u guys liked warm z im sure u would like what i did here cuz more things work as they should and the skin is all blue.

i did a new inverted trans keyboard for this rom... some of u guys might like it and some wont... i also made sure all the software is up to date... and i took out any custom skins that htc includes by def... i did that cuz u guys can simply d/l them if u want and there is no need to keep in on the phone at initial boot.

also... dalvik-to-cache so u will have more room to play with skins and wallpapers etc.... and ofcourse the sd speed tweak and zipalign on boot.

im not gonna say more about it then what i just did cuz im really not going to invest in this rom anymore (the z port i mean) cuz im gonna work on Desire hd port instead... and i still wanna make sure u guys will get all the themes and mods for v4.6 odex.

feel free to check out themikmik.com in about an hour max for the z beta.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Dubez:
Im using AmonRA, and I wipe data/factory reset, cache, and Dalvik-cache 3 times back to back. I will try your tutorial, hope it helps.
[EVO 4G Android Development] jstn76rs:
hey mik,

I was just wondering if 4.6 has the tethering hack in it or if I'm just going to have to wait till you put out the mods?
[EVO 4G Android Development] gooseleg:
Happy Birthday Dude!
[EVO 4G Android Development] nick1313:
Well not my tutorial, I just link to it. What you are describing is not normal. Those apps are not standard with the ROM.
[EVO 4G Android Development] aamikam:
for the hotspot... it will have to be a mod... i cant really make it happen on odex without deodexing the framework.jar file.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Sweetlittlehugs:
I'm pretty sure its the rom. The last few days I've been running 4.5 with horrid battery life. 1.5 hrs off the charger and I'd be down 40%. Last night I flashed 4.6, restored all the same apps via TB and now 1.5 hrs off the charger my battery is only down 12%.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Rkclark:
I ran into this on the first couple of flashes I did and it was from the ext3 partition still having apps on it. I did the apps2sd repair and they returned successfully, stopping the FC's, No idea if this is a recommended process or not, but it did work
[EVO 4G Android Development] Dubez:
Can you link me on how to do this, because Im trying to follow the mitchellvii tutorial and im still having the same problems with the force closes on a fresh flash.
[EVO 4G Android Development] nick1313:
It is NOT the ROM. I have been off the charger this morning for 3 hours and I am down to 69%, I am only down that low because I have been on facebook this morning a lot, internet a lot, angry birds, xda app, adjusting settings and what not. It's definitely NOT the ROM.

Everyone's battery life is going to be relative to how much you use it and what all your settings are, ie kernel, syncing, screen, etc, etc.

I use my phone, basically, as a second computer so I know, going in, that my battery life isn't going to be great. Which is why I carry an extra battery and my USB charger with me. I have, however with my current setup (check sig), had much improved battery life. Yesterday I didn't plug my phone in to charge all day and I ran it down until it, literally died at 9 pm. That's off the charger for approximately 15 hours with moderate to heavy use.
[EVO 4G Android Development] nick1313:
Good call that was my next suggestion. I think the code is, in terminal emulator

su

a2sd reinstall

Are you running the ext3 partition with darktremors a2sd? Check the OP, it has a link in there, I think around post 2-3, about Mitchell's guide to using a2sd

EDIT: Here is link
[EVO 4G Android Development] Dubez:
I dont think my sd card is partitioned, I never did one. I am using the oem card, and I have been using apps2sd from the market. I just reflashed with the tutorial from your sig and im still getting fc's on the home screen, and now termial em wont open, keeps fc'ing saying (process jackpal.androidterm) has stopped unexpectedly....

Damn I need help... :(
[EVO 4G Android Development] Sweetlittlehugs:
All I know is the change in rom is the only variable for me. I'm running the same kernal, all the same apps and I'm using it as much as I always do. I think for my phone in particular 4.5 was draining the battery. I'm sure its not the same for every evo.
[EVO 4G Android Development] aamikam:
guys... a quick change in planes... im gonna add like a zillion diff skins for htc with the z rom.... again... its all beta an i didnt check which ones work or not... but u can always remove the ones u dont want from HtcHub anyways.

anyways... its like over 100mb of themes... so im sure u guys will find some good use in it.

uploading now... sorry for the extra tiny delay.

edit:

31 diff skins... im sure a lot of u guys will love that... keep in mind u will want to lose the ones u dont use cuz it does take up a lot of space.
[EVO 4G Android Development] jstn76rs:
thanks, I'll keep waiting for the mods to show up. By the way 4.6 has been running great with no hick-ups at all. I kind of enjoy the stock feel with the extra speed.
[EVO 4G Android Development] nick1313:
My suggestion then would be to format your sd card. Follow the instructions in this post.

Are you restoring a backup, by chance? Or are you reflashing the base 4.5 mikfroyo? Found here
[EVO 4G Android Development] nick1313:
No apologies needed man! Thanks for all the hard work.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Dubez:
@ this point im trying to start from scratch, backing up my sd card now. and yes im re-flashing 4.5.
[EVO 4G Android Development] nick1313:
I edited my last post with the link to 4.5, not sure if you downloaded it again or just went with the one you used originally. Don't know if that would matter but it might not hurt to just download it again, if you didn't already do that.

And it sounds like a good idea for you to start from scratch, since you have some craziness going on. :eek: What version of AmonRa are you using? Latest?
[EVO 4G Android Development] Dubez:
Thanks for all the help, yes im using a fresh 4.5 i downloaded today. I dont think i have the latest AmonRa
[EVO 4G Android Development] selders59:
Changed kernals on chogard 2.0 rom to nets 4.3.2-cfs-sbc-havs-more and the android system usage on my phone has dropped considerably.

"Born from man-Embraced by God"
[EVO 4G Android Development] nick1313:
You can flash the latest through ROM Manager if you have that. I would start there as well. There are some other ways to get the updated AmonRa you could find if you wanted, but flashing through ROM Manager is easiest, IMO.
[EVO 4G Android Development] nick1313:
I've actually noticed this morning my android system usage is up quite a bit, in the 60% ranges. I have the same version of your kernel, except it's less.
[EVO 4G Android Development] mrwilly:
downloading MikZ now
[EVO 4G Android Development] nick1313:
BTW, I like the reorganization of the links on your site.
[EVO 4G Android Development] aamikam:
it will get even better... cuz its not really a site yet... its a temp page.
[EVO 4G Android Development] nick1313:
Yeah I figured as much, just not a fan of doing a lot of scrolling to get to the info on pages. I've designed some websites so I do my best to design them so that there isn't much scrolling involved. ;)

Not that you really had a lot of scrolling, so it wasn't a big deal, just nice now that there isn't any scrolling. :D
[EVO 4G Android Development] aamikam:
i agree... and i have dcshores to thank for that quick layout.

btw... in case people dint notice... the z beta is up.
[EVO 4G Android Development] rao740:
Just opened my messages to send a text message and they have all disappeared... WTF anyone else having this issue, I tried to batch back in from Titanium but still showing nothing?
[EVO 4G Android Development] nick1313:
Nope, haven't seen that, but I don't really save a bunch of text messages, can't stand the clutter and don't really have a need to save them all.

I guess, so I understand, what disappeared? Your messages or your contacts?
[EVO 4G Android Development] aaronw143:
Go into titanium and its sms/pref/ something else... and restore that with data... And then hot restart

This is my EVO, there are many like it, but this one is mine...
[EVO 4G Android Development] selders59:
Mine dropped from 40% yesterday (see first image) to 14% today (see second image)

"Born from man-Embraced by God"
[EVO 4G Android Development] rao740:
I have tried this already and still nothing, it is not the end of the world they are only text messages but I just do not understand why they would just disappear.
[EVO 4G Android Development] mrwright83:
How does those the z beta run and does it have a lot of bugs?
[EVO 4G Android Development] nick1313:
Weird, why can't I see images anymore? I can see your link when I quote your message and reply to it but can't see the image otherwise. I also can't post images to the forum via the app, like I used to be able to do.

Ahh nevermind. I think my firewall at my work is blocking it. Big Brother!:mad:

But that doesn't explain why I can't post from xda app anymore.
[EVO 4G Android Development] jkinnison90:
Is there a stock theme with the Z Rom?
[EVO 4G Android Development] aamikam:
guys... the z is a beta... and like i said... im not going to work too hard on it anymore cuz i have something better...

there might be someone that will take over that project... so we'll see what up later on as far as what u guys want to see more on that rom.

as far as bugs...none that are not exiting in any other z ports out there (4g/hdmi/front cam/etc.).

again... i dont think it will become an official release very soon cuz there are more things for me to do right now.
[EVO 4G Android Development] aaronw143:
Normally that one takes me a couple times... Try a full reboot.. Restore that data... It's green and the sms one (just so were clear not treating you like your stupid just making sure I'm clear) then full reboot again

This is my EVO, there are many like it, but this one is mine...
[EVO 4G Android Development] aaronw143:
Cell standby is what killing me

This is my EVO, there are many like it, but this one is mine...
[EVO 4G Android Development] jadeboy7:
Have you looked at the mods in post #4?
[EVO 4G Android Development] gsk3rd:
I for the life of me can not find nets 4.3.2-cfs-sbc-havs-more kernel. I flashed the HDMI apk and flashed the kernel and it is killing my battery. I would even take back the stock kernel. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Also I was thinking of updating to 4.5 but how far out is 4.6?
[EVO 4G Android Development] aaronw143:
http://www.qap.la/~netarchy/ theres all of them

This is my EVO, there are many like it, but this one is mine...
[EVO 4G Android Development] nick1313:
Yowsa! 286mb :eek: Might have to wait until I get off work to download that bad boy. Don't want to get my user account flagged at work ;)
[EVO 4G Android Development] aaronw143:
I just wanna say everything I've ever done to my phone EVER (shy of rooting) I have done from my phone... Every Rom download, every flash, every issue I've had to nand and figure it out from here... AND I don't have WiFi or 4g in my house... I'm always the last one to get the newest Rom when it comes out cause I'm always the last to have it downloaded :-(

This is my EVO, there are many like it, but this one is mine...
[EVO 4G Android Development] xxRAMOTHxx:
Took a minute too! Miks server was getting crushed by the MikCrew downloading that beeeoottccchhh... lol.
[EVO 4G Android Development] nick1313:
Yeah I've done a few ROM downloads from my phone, but it was via ROM manager and on wifi..never tried it otherwise. I guess there's a first for everything. Getting it going now.

I have done a lot of downloading of ROMs at work and have never had anything said to me but...;)

EDIT: Well it's rolling, lets see how fast my 3g is. :D

Ummm..yeah forget that. By the time it would have been done I wouldn't have been able to flash it. :(
[EVO 4G Android Development] aaronw143:
Like i said thats all I've ever done and I know it sucks and takes forever but if your doin it for the first time get ready to hate life!

This is my EVO, there are many like it, but this one is mine...
[EVO 4G Android Development] selders59:
Yeah been d/ling mikZ and it is only at 45% using the phone can be slow BUT at least the Evo can d/l large files.

"Born from man-Embraced by God"
[EVO 4G Android Development] nick1313:
That's all fine and dandy, but uninstalling/freezing all that stuff may as well just get a regular "dumb" phone. Do you use FB?

Check my post here that I posted today, mainly look at the last couple of lines, discussing my use yesterday.

I am a firm believer, for the most part, that battery life is all relative to the user.
[EVO 4G Android Development] nick1313:
Yeah i stopped it, because by my calculation it was going to take me about 3 hours to download it. At that rate I wouldn't have even been able to flash it until tonight, so I'll just wait until I'm at home on my cable.;)
[EVO 4G Android Development] aaronw143:
Agreed 100%! I have a post up of me at over 6 and a half hours and still at 88%... But I hadn't touched my phone but for 10 min...

This is my EVO, there are many like it, but this one is mine...
[EVO 4G Android Development] selders59:
Thanks for the info but what still works on your phone? Looks like almost everything is either "turned off-frozen-or deleted".
[EVO 4G Android Development] Sweetlittlehugs:
If you turn off the mobile data always on does it affect your ability to receive emails and FBI texts when your phone is dark?
[EVO 4G Android Development] stricklerjosh:
Would there be any advantage to getting rid of sense all together? I have used launcher pro for a while and love it. Thanks!

mikfroyo evo, with a side of aloysius 5 !
[EVO 4G Android Development] retnuh730:
That's what i'm wondering. Especially on a ROM where all the optimizations were made to improve Sense. I imagine no matter how much reskinning you do you'll still have some traces of sense running on this rom. The only way to get rid of sense is to install an AOSP rom that isn't based on HTC's code. All the alternative launcher screenshots in this thread are just running on top of sense, not replacing it, so I can't imagine any actual performance increases from the hardware by adding on one more piece of code running on the system.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Deetz307:
sorry if this is a little off topic. I have been running v4 for a while now, and just came back to see the 4.2 update, and wanted to know if I can straight flash and update from 4 to 4.2 or if I need to do a clean wipe before hand.

Keep up the good work, your rom rocks for responsiveness and battery life!
[EVO 4G Android Development] retnuh730:
I've always wiped out of habit, but you can just nandroid your 4.0 setup and install 4.2 after the backup to see how it works, that way if you have problems you can go back to 4.0 with all your data untouched.
[EVO 4G Android Development] aamikam:
probably... but it kinda depends... if u goind for the apps2sd... im pretty sure u would wanna fully wipe.

if not... u might be able to get away with it.

keep in mind that u atleast need to wipe dalvik and cahce... and if u have any issues... fully wipe and reflash.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Neo3D:
What brand is your card? I have no problems with my 32gb Sandisk. Tried many ROMs.
[EVO 4G Android Development] Neo3D:
But, seriously, Sense has some really good widgets. If there was a way to ditch the launcher and just use the widgets, that'd be awesome! I hate Sense's folders, they are so ugly and the transparent background makes the folder's content hard to read.

There are no widgets in the market that are as useful functioning and as clean looking as these Sense widgets:

People - it looks clean, it scrolls, it can pull your contacts from your Gmail groups

Agenda (Calendar) - looks great, scrolls

Calendar - it just looks great!

Bookmarks - It looks great and scrolls, has screenshot mode or icon + list mode (which is the mode I use)

Would love to see some alternatives but, so far, nothing compares.