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[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] spovat:
clearly your initial irritation and comment regarding gps being fixed implied that those claiming a working gps were under the impression that this was due to the new nightly. when in fact a string of such claims were referencing the new radio as the solution. all I'm saying is that your post was unnecessary..going back to the section where you left that comment, I don't see anyone crediting the flashing of a new nightly as the sole solution.

it's obvious the gps issue has become much more rare (again, due to the new radio)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] gee one:
Another GPS post

Sorry for the GPS topic, but... I was running GPS status and I noticed that the number of fixes/satellites kept fluctuating. It would have a fix with 8/8, then jump to 12/12, then bounce around 10/10, 8/8, etc... everything was always green and I had a constant fix, but the number of satellites was jumping around. I ran GPS status side by side with my G1 and the number of satellites was much more stable on the G1. I'm not sure if this means anything, but I wanted to throw it out there. My pet theory is that the GPS needs more juice to run correctly.

Background info: I've been flashing nightly's since RC0, although lately, I've been skipping a few. I sometimes had a slow GPS lock, but it was never completely broken for me. I did upgrade to the 20.06.02.27 radio recently, but I was running the stock or OTA radio.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] aegentirony:
13 should be niccee
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Vlad83:
In browser version, mobile browser version, or app? What are the steps? I'll check.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] trock62:
actually 26.04.02.17_M2 semi bricked my phone and I am back to 26.03.02.26_M radio working and backedup CM7.

Thanks to XDA forum for the fixes and knowledge. Jusy have to search and read.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] jamesfrom818:
Well ****. I don't read every single page. Its not like it was put in the OP.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] petard:
I just submit my first code change to CyanogenMod. :D It should restore the phone number after toggling airplane mode using the system in place for restoring it at boot time.

Took me forever to figure out the upload system.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] cjward23:
Am I right in thinking the latest build should of had swype included? I all ready had the offical swype beta installed when I flashed to latest nightly, when I opened a text box the swype keyboard was displayed but didn't work. I tried deactivating and reactivating it settings, didn't work. So I uninstalled the beta version of swype and reflashed the ROM and now I have no swype at all.

Its not a huge issue because I can just re-install the beta, but just wanted to point out this bug.

Edit: Solved. I restored the backup I did before in flashed the latest nightly, then uninstalled the swype beta then re-flashed the the ROM and hey presto swype works.

Sent from my CM7 powered Desire Z
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] wrsg:
i have the same radio, mines worked fine, no problems with cm7 at all. been on cm7 since the thatguy/gridlock builds
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] olearyp:
Yeah, Swype got effed up for me too, though differently. I need to take a look at the install system to see if we can do an equivalent to the "back up and restore these arbitrary files" but instead skipping files on flash, so those of us on beta can continue using that instead without having to modify the zip files. In the meantime, I'll be modifying the zip files.

UNTESTED: $ zip -d update.zip system/app/Swype.apk system/lib/libSwypeCore.so

This probably won't work on the phone because zip in busybox isn't very awesome. Replace update.zip with the name of the actual update file you downloaded. Note that this will break the signature on the build so you'll have to resign or disable sig checks.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] cjward23:
I'm quite happy to use the Swype included. I have been trying to theme it using http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=758816 and it is much easier to do when the swype.apk is in the system/app file.

Sent from my CM7 powered Desire Z
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Ganii:
Yes,think has to do with overclocking too!

Have the same problems if overclocked to 1.4 Ghz max. and 368 Mhz min.!

But no problems if overclocked to 1.2 Ghz max. and 368 min.!

Scaling is "ondemand".
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] sheek360:
Same here. The latest radio plays nice with cm7
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Deathcactus:
Just so y'all know I'm having three same issue with the radio and build 5 is it possible that its not recognizing edge network. Where I live we won't even be getting 3g untill next december.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Fallen Spartan:
Just to settle my curiosity :p. Didn't see it mentioned anywhere (though I'll go looking again in more detail), but is there a reason why we are skipping builds. What happened to builds 2 & 4 etc?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] joemm:
I tried the switching from setcpu to cputuner and I havn't had any issues with it OC to 1.2 yet, but prior to this I was having some issues using setcpu, too bad I really like using setcpu.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] salamanderdroid:
Just to clarify, Cm7 will not work with the 26.04.x.x radio?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] trock62:
I agree, it worked great at first for me until I tried backup. Then it just looped. Maybe not at first but am not willing to have that again. Just had to flash the radio again
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] heybobitsme:
No it works. I believe the problem the trock62 was having was the radio was preventing him from flashing the recovery. I remember reading something in the radio thread (I think) about issues with flashing in fastboot even though you have S-OFF. You can flash the ROM just fine.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] dimqa:
To solve issues with screen animation (screen not turning on): just turn off auto brightness and put it on 50% or more... Cause with less your screen will not turn on sometimes ;)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] trock62:
Actually turns out the recovery had zero problems it was the radio. Flash the old radio back and all worked fine. Flashed Hboot, recovery, ruu rom still did not work until I flashed the radio. The problem was the radio. Thanks to a thread in Q&A help and I found the radio fix flashing it back.. What I did was try and backup the CM7 with rom manager and when it booted down to recovery it just started looping.

It could have been fixed by just flashing the same new radio also. I don't know. Just must say XDA forum ppl are great help always. THANKS XDA:D:D:D
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] dhkr123:
Whatever radio you choose to use, BE SURE that you have a compatible libril.so installed. CM6 had the libril for TMOBILE VISION SHIP, which was only compatible with the radio from the same. If you want to use a newer radio, replace the libril.so from the TMOBILE VISION OTA.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] witm01:
I'm experiencing intermittent problems with WIFI/3G handovers. Sometimes when I leave my home it won't switch to mobile data. I then have to use airplane mode to powercycle the radio to get it to establish a 3G connection.

I don't have anything set in terms of profiles that might disable mobile data when WIFI is active. The network configuration is basically stock. The problem first occurred with the later gridlock builds and has persisted the occasional full wipes between those and CM build #5 now.

Is anybody else experiencing something along the same lines?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] sheek360:
I have the same problem.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] smjfosho:
My market updates to 2.2.11 then force closes like insane, anyone else?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Vlad83:
Have you tried clearing market data through titanium?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] smjfosho:
Titanium, not yet. I will try that now, thank you.

Edit: still force closes
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] EdKeys:
Use the default browser to view an article that has the facebook share icon..any news article. Then, click on the facebook share icon and when the pop up appears try to capitalize your comment in the comments box.

Edit to add: with the slide out keyboard.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] RiTZiE_CDN:
I'm assuming I'm the only one experiencing this as I have not seen any posts about it, but I thought I would throw it out there and see...

I was running 11 and flashed 12 and now apparently I don't have root access for setcpu, rom manager, etc. I restored my backup from 11 and root works again. Once I flash 12 back on, root is gone. :confused:

I tried fixing permissions (before and after flashing 12), wiping cache, dalvik, etc and no idea what is going on as this is the first time this has happened and I have been updating nightlies since the start.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] trsanning:
Can u go into terminal and type su and get super user permissions? If not I would download superuser from Rom manager and flash it. This may fix it. Sounds like a superuser issue not root.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] jomaxwel:
NON-GPS

Problems I have with CM7.

Themes don't seam to work 100% with stock launcher. Dots for what screen your on are distorted on left side and google widgets are weird in landscape.

When I swipe screens on home with LWP I will see a reaction in the wallpaper but home will not move. If I swype again it works fine.

Last but not least the sync issue. Maybe I always lost sync with google before but some times I loose sync and it takes me switching airplane mode on and off. I may just notice it more due to status bar who knows.

I wish the stock launcher was included in the builds as well. ADW is a good launcher but I like googles better.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] RiTZiE_CDN:
Typing SU in terminal fails and I updated Superuser in market. When I launch Superuser, it has a pop up asking if I want to update the binary. I press OK to download/install and it fails. Anything else I should try?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] WarBird87:
Happened to me today aswell but on 11... I reinstalled busy box and it worked again..
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] RiTZiE_CDN:
I can't do that either... Just says I need root access. I guess I'll restore back to 11 and flash 13 when it comes and see what happens. Thanks!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] OriginalGabriel:
Had the same thing happen about a week or so ago (before the #s reset), nothing I tried to fix it worked; figured I had a few too many waiting for the download and did something wrong so I restored my backup. Haven't tried flashing a new nightly since then but will probably flash tonights and report back.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] onelikeseabass:
So GPS stayed broken after flashing CM7B11. By "broken" I mean that the status icon never appears and GPS Status finds exactly nothing. Patching B8 gps.vision.so from B4 worked wonders and so it did again today. By the way, I did use CWM3 to flash. Boot, system, and data were formatted. Dalvik and "regular" cache were wiped too. Flashed GApps after CM7, did a perm fix to round it all off and here we are.

Before posting here I dug around the CM code review site for a few hours. As far as I can tell, nothing has been changed to the Vision GB project with regards to GPS since the 21st of February. (B4 released early on the 22nd).

So how is it that there is a ~20KB size difference between B4 gps.vision.so and B11? What changed?

Oh I found a bunch of defconfig changes to the cm-kernel projects relating to generating Qualcomm machines/boards. Maybe somebody grabbed the wrong thing along the way? *shrug*

Not a dev, not even close. Gotta start somewhere though. Thanks in advance....
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] EdKeys:
Out of curiosity, what is the first gps app that you opened after this fresh install?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ptesmoke:
only thing I see not working on 12 is the screen on and off animation, may be just me but thought id mention it.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] gravis86:
Did you try flashing the new radio? That fixed it for me.

Doesn't matter. If the icon isn't appearing, it will have nothing to do with the app. It's a framework-level bug.

Make sure you have the window animations or transition animations in spare parts set to normal.

Changing window animations will disable screen-off animations

Changing transition animations will disable screen-on animations.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] EdKeys:
Just thought maybe we could get some correlation on what gps applications the people were using that are having problems. You say flashing a new radio fixed yours. Does that alter the framework?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] brfield:
No, it doesn't alter the famework. But I have seen flashing the new radio fix it for me. Also, if I already have the radio but I update to a new nightly, the .so file works also.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ptesmoke:
wow awesome catch on the spare parts options, I didn't change them but somehow after flashing they were on fast. right on bro thanx for that!

oon a side note, you guys know when u flash a new nightly and it restores your apps? is there anyway in resyncing what apps get restored? because for me almost all my apps that get restored are ancient and 99% of them I don't use. not a big deal but I'm prolly missing something simple I bet..

again thnx for the animation help, I'm havin one of those days I guess lol.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] gravis86:
It won't alter the framework. But it could alter the way the framework communicates with the hardware.

I'm not 100% sure this is the way it work on phones (as I've never coded them before) but it is this way on other devices I have coded for:

Basically, the framework of the OS has a certain way it interacts with the hardware (like a driver) but the hardware also has its own firmware. So if something in the firmware of the hardware changes, it can adversely affect the way the driver communicates with it. This can make or break the coding.

The "no GPS icon" issue first came about when they added a new library for the OS to communicate with the GPS. If this library was expecting to use a series of commands that the firmware on the GPS didn't support, then it would make sense that flashing a new radio (which may update the firmware on the GPS to one that would support the commands) could fix things.

This is just a theory, but it makes sense to me :)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] gravis86:
Un-check "Backup my data" and "Automatic restore" in the privacy settings. This will wipe your data off the Google servers. Then uninstall any of the apps you don't want, and re-check the two options. This will refresh your info on the Google servers and hopefully the next time you restore it'll get things right :)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] EdKeys:
Thanks gravis! Do you think an app could do that too? I see a lot of users with gps problems mentioning the app gps status.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] gravis86:
That's a different issue all-together.

There are two types of issues with the GPS that I have noticed in this thread: The one where the GPS icon doesn't even show up, and one where the GPS seems to be working (the icon flashes) but you don't get a lock.

If it's the latter, it could be an app issue, but it could also be a library issue as well. So for people getting the icon but not getting a lock, some of the features of GPS Status can be helpful.

Where the confusion comes in is when people simply state that the GPS doesn't work, but fail to mention how it doesn't work. There are two distinctly separate issues here.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Rantanplan1980:
I flashed latest radio a couple of days ago. Updated from #40 to #12 yesterday, wiped dalvic only.

GPS didn't work in RC1, but works now (yay), well actually everything works :D

Except Gun Bros. For some reason the game doesn't load anymore. Didn't work in #40 either, this is why I flashed #12...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] onelikeseabass:
GPS Status.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] astragreen:
Yesterday I flashed a new radio and #12 but GPS doesn't work for me :-(
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] gravis86:
Which radio, and are you on a G2 or a Desire Z?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] onelikeseabass:
Nope, not going to either. If it works with gps.vision.so from B4 (which came after the library addition you mentioned) then that tells me it's something else.

Build #4 also included a bunch of GPS related commits. One of which was for the Vision package. (Enable QCOM GPS)

I still would like to know why the gps.vision.so lib jumped ~20k in size after build #4. There haven't been any Vision package changes related to GPS since.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] EdKeys:
I had a feeling that was it.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] onelikeseabass:
Forgot to quote EdKeys....
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] gravis86:
Haha yeah I was a bit confused.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Vlad83:
Sorry took a while, gf started *****ing cause we were late to a movie...

I couldn't find a news article with a share (facebook) button for the life of me. I do know what you are talking about but all the ones I came across had the recommend button and those just automatically posted them on my wall. I tried manually adding a link into the share field... the article loaded, I tried typing and everything came out fine. If you want link me to an article with a share button and I'll try it...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] gravis86:
It works with the build 4's gps.vision.so because they reverted the change after hearing it broke a lot of devices' GPS and replaced it with a different change that you mentioned.

I don't see how this proves my theory wrong.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] EdKeys:
Thanks! Try this one...and before you post to your wall, try to add capitalization with the hard keyboard in the comment text box. http://content.usatoday.com/communi.../spider-infestation-recall-web-mazda6-mazda/1
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] gravis86:
Doesn't work for me, either. Pressing the Shift makes it think I'm trying to select stuff.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Vlad83:
Same here. Def a bug.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] astragreen:
I flashed the radio 26.06.02.27M My device is a desire z
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] onelikeseabass:
You're right, it doesn't. My bad for speaking too quickly. I meant to say it doesn't explain why Vision GPS is broken again after build #4.

My stock radio works with gps.vision.so from build 4. If there haven't been any documented changes to the Vision GPS package, then why does it break from build 5 on? Why also does the size of gps.vision.so increase nearly 20KB after build 4?

HTC Vision (G2) - CM7 RC1 B11 (B4 GPS)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] EdKeys:
I can't remember the last time I tried that so I don't know when it started or if it's doing that in other places too. Thanks for testing......
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] kalipedia:
So, I was curious about why the next nightly didn't come out last night and went to check on the buildbot waterfall (http://buildbot.teamdouche.net/) - but got denied! Granted, the message is funny as hell ("HELLO THERE! Buildbot is hiding from you. On purpose."), but I still wish I could know what's going on. :) I was excited to check out the new Profile features in particular...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Mnementh666:
cyanogen said on twitter that "its just that way for now because the new build servers aren't completely set up".
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] crashVoodoo:
I'm currently on #12 and sat listening to music at work and the volume buttons don't work to skip the tracks when held anymore. They change the volume but that's it. I've tried turning the feature off, rebooting and turning it back on but nope. Anyone else got this problem?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] maxvi8:
Yes I have this problem too, but I read that it has been fixed and in next build it should be ok.

It seems it was a problem related to the version 2.3.3 of gingerbread.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Vlad83:
It seems no one got a nightly last night...
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] psb07158:
Tried nightly #12 after I flashed RC-1 and it kept lagging on screen wake which just irritated me.

Had to go back to Virtuous because each time I installed GAPPS, skipped through the setup and then tried to turn on WiFi without syncing anything or setting Google Acc up, the phone just went into a boot loop. Reproduced this error 4 times so must be a bug. Fully wiped then flashed ROM and even formatted sdcard again to rule out those things. Got the latest radio as well. [HTC Desire Z].

No big deal, might try again in a few days time or simply wait for RC2.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Jimmah555:
Hey

Hey everyone. I'm mainly a lurker, but I did install nightly 12 yesterday. It was an initial root and install (it was stock previously). I had the same boot loop thing going on for a minute, but it wasn't a full boot. It was like the boot animation would come on for about 8 seconds and then go away and I would be at the home screen. It did this 3 times and since then I have had zero problems with anything. GPS works wonderfully too. I flashed radio 12.28h.60.140f_26.06.02.27 along with everything else. Just thought I'd throw in my two cents. Thanks to all the devs. You guys rock.

-J
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] kalipedia:
Ah, I didn't see that. Thanks for the info. Hopefully tonight we'll get new goodies.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] psb07158:
Ahh, I pulled the battery after it did it twice. Maybe I just wasn't giving it long enough !

Will try again later.

Thanks.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] tbalden:
Instead of battery pull, recently learnt: reset with pressing pad + vol down and power at same time. :)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] gravis86:
Did you try any other radios? 26.04.02.17 might work. It's the top one in this thread.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] Twizter\:
GPS fix that worked for me

I use the program locale and used gps addon and it works perfectly in doors and out...just a suggestion!!
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] J-Hop2o6:
I should've been suscribed to the Nightly CM7 thread since I left RC1 awhile ago.. but yea #12 works fine for me with no problems, other than the screen backlight not turning on when trying to wake, so i would have to sleep, then wake it once again for it to turn on.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] primatage:
Hey Gravis, is that the radio you switched to recently?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] primatage:
I think that feature was temporarily pulled in #12 and is slated to be re-added again in the next nightly.
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ImSoHungry:
Lost my GPS on #12, was on #33 before
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] gravis86:
No, I'm on 26.06.02.27. I was just throwing that out there because I thought that I had read somewhere that 26.06.02.27 was only for the G2, and he is on a DZ.

Wasn't pulled, 2.3.3 broke it.

Yeah this is a known issue. What kind of "broke" are you talking about? Does the GPS icon even show up in the status bar?
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] primatage:
Ah, ok. Thought you might have switched to that one, was hoping maybe it could explain why you got your GPS back without using the gps.vision.so file swap. I know you and I both got our G2's around the same time in the Seattle area, so I'm just trying to find out why mine still needs the file swap with the newer nightlies to have a locking GPS. It's vexing :)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] gravis86:
I got mine from Corporate :D
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] ddgarcia05:
Must be nice. Hope we see an update to the RC or nightly thread. :)
[G2 and Desire Z Android Development] primatage:
Haha, lucky guy ;)