yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] 1ceb0x:
1. If you want improved speed for you SD CARD, yes, you will need to flash again the tweak if you use another rom mainly because you will format/erase all of your data stocked on that SD CARD.

2. You need an ext partition IF you want to use partition to install APPS (apps2sd). If you have a HERO i suggest you go and partition your SD CARD, BEFORE you FORMAT IT using your computer, mount the new sd card using your phone and then on my computer format your SD CARD.

3. I suggest go with EXT 2, its good enough and it's even better for SD CARDS. Size, you can go either 512 for ext, or 1 gb. If you listen music using your phone, or watch videos and you have more than 100+ files of those, i suggest, stick with 512 for ext and 7gb for your personal use. IF you want more room for installing tons of apps, go with 1gb for ext. Its up to you.

4. Swap file - NO!

5. You will copy only the old files that you see on the old card because the EXT part on the old card is not visible under windows. IF you want to just move the rom that is installed on your old card to your new card, i suggest to make a NANDROID BACKUP + DATA from recovery, and then, after it's finished, copy it from your SD CARD on your computer, put the new sd card on your phone, format it under windows, then in recovery mode, partition it with - swap file 0, ext - 512 (or more, see number 3.). After it's finished, mount the card while under recovery and copy the NANDROID BACKUP on the card, then go to Backup/Restore tab and select restore nand+data.

Done, you will have your old rom on your new sd card.

I hope i didn't missed something.

Note:

NAND BACKUP + DATA = you will make a backup image of your rom using its settings and apps + their data.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] johnny crap:
Hey Elelinux,

thanks very much for working on this dying device.

You will receive a little donation soon.

With every work you spend here in this community i have a bad conscience because actually one could say: It is becoming more and more senseless

But with having still this slow Hero besides my father's Galaxy S2 in my hands, there are a few questions left:

- Does it need to flash the sd card tweak every time again after upgrading your rom with the next version? (Why do you not just include the sd card tweak?^^

- I do not really like your bootscreen animation, would it be possible to take another? (like the cyanogen one,...)

- I searched this forum for Hero bootanimations(poor result :-/ ) and flashed some over clockwordmod.

But yours still resist?!

@all: Are there any pretty and cool bootanimations out there?

greez from germany,

crapman
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ChosSimbaOne:
Is there any performance gain by havning a swap partition?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] marcero:
Yes, the galaxy s2 is getting in my focus, too.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Habarug:
No! You will probably slow your device instead :-)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] 1ceb0x:
Who told you that?

A swap partition is for making apps2sd working on your rom. So if you don't want to install apps 2 sd, fine. Go ahead and don't make a partition but after that, don't come around here and cry like a baby that "my hero doesn't have enough room to install apps".

The hero is limited in space, so you probably will need apps2sd - partition on your sd card to install more than 40+ apps.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Habarug:
A swap partition is a partition on the SD card to increase the RAM, it is totally different than an app2sd partition. An app2sd partition is of course working and recommended :-)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] marleyfan61:
I used this method and it worked just fine thanks.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] elelinux:
I will add CyanogenMod bootscreen as option :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] KSTu:
thks m8,but i solved the problem,i edited my post that i solved the problem. :)

nice to ''hear'' you! :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] orrebo:
I only have the standard android bootscreen. Is that right?

I used a rom from you earlier where it was a blueish bootscreen with the text elelinux.

It would be nice if you could include that one to.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] shanking12:
Love using your Romz Man.. im using v2.6 and satsfied .. downloading v2.7 now.. :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] KSTu:
i also want cyanogenmod bootscreen!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] elmo13th:
thanks, helped me a bunch!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] chachi:
Upgraded to Elelinux-7.1.0-Hero-v2.7 with HeroKernel from VR13 ...

using this as a daily rom for a few days, good battery life, no gps problem, no wifi problems, no camera problems, quick and responsive

hands down best 'bleeding edge' rom I have ever used on any handset in my flashing life ...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] f_padia:
haha the fact that you are wrong makes you sound so foolish. 'dont come around cry like a baby'! how old are you seriously??

anyway as habarug said, swap is for increasing RAM and as far as I know is not recommended because it can wear your SD card out more quickly. ext partition is for apps2sd. simples...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dmestriner:
A guide for the people that want to customize their bootscreen: http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/how-to-change-customize-create-android-boot-animation-guide/

Furthermore, I'm loving 2.7 so far, slightly less laggy than previous versions, keep up the good work!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Habarug:
The reason swap is not recommended, is that the SD card is too slow. Even if you have a class 10 card, the internal ram is way faster, and you better just stick to that :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] meisze:
If swap is in internal storage , is it better than in Sd card ?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Habarug:
Hmmm... swap on the internal memory is an interesting idea, is this possible?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] docertabum:
I'd say there is lack of space for such luxury thing in internal memory :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Habarug:
Not if you store your apps on the SD card :-P
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] meisze:
The swap is in cache of internal memory because it has about 100m empty

I set up 60m swap.img in cache and it has about 38m rest
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] maexono:
Tried to copy 2.7 to my SD-Card several times, but the Installer always tells me some file is corrupted, verification failed.

It's a different file every time I copied it over again. Please help!

Edit: Oh my, I just recognized it won't verify anything. No earlier version, no nandroid backup. What's that?

Edit2: Phew, tried another SD-card and it works...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ChosSimbaOne:
in your oppinion does it makes your hero faster?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] elelinux:
Have added CM7 bootanimation as a option on the first post :rolleyes:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] radix1980:
Hi Ele,

The bad: Today I had a reboot while I was using google navigation.

The good: Anyway, this rom is a fantastic rom, it runs smooth, fast, perfect....

Thanks for your effort
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] marchard:
Hello there!

Sorry for posting this again, but nobody replied and problem still persists:

I'm referring to this post, where i described that my hero loses wifi connection every time i try to download large files (e.g. a long podcast with "Google Listen"). I tried that with different wifi routers, but this seems to be a problem with the Hero.

Does nobody have problems like this? Can perhaps somebody test the same scenario (download big podcast with google listen) and report here... That would be great!

Or do i miss something obvious? A know bug or problem i can't find with forum search. Perhaps it is just Google Listen related? I'm confused...

Please help! I'm listening to podcasts everyday and this download problem really sucks.

Thanks in advance!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dare2k:
Hi there,

are there some applications that do not work with this rom?

for example i get force close (right after start) with navigon.

Had no problem running it with other roms.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mrxd:
I have had the same problems as you but with all wifi in general. The wifi connection/lag is terrible. I initially blamed the router but my new Samsung Galaxy SII works perfectly. I used wifi analyzer, changed wifi channels but nothing seemed to help.

I have since given the Hero to my wife and have it running ele 2.1 reloaded but the problem persists (as it did on villainrom/ele 6.2/7.1/2.1). All I can think to do now is flash each radio starting at latest - 1 until I see a positive difference.

If you or anyone else can think of anything else to try i'd love to hear it as well.

Thanks + cheers to ele for 6.x / 7.x / 2.x for giving me something to do with my Hero for the past year :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Manneman32:
I have had this ROM installed for a few days now and I must say that I´m really amazed!

I have tried a whole bunch of different ROM´s the last months but NONE of them comes close to the performance of this one. I´m stunned about the batterylife... I didn´t think it was possible for the Hero to last more than the original ROM. I´m 30 hours after my latest charge (yes, I callibrated my battery) and it still at 70 % left... and I have used it normally, with some surf... sms... calls.

It´s with great sadness I read the posts from those who can´t get this ROM to work properly. All I can say is that I made a clean flash with a full wipe of everything AND I re-formatted my SD-card... everything works flawlessly.

Thank you very much for this ROM, Elelinux. I can now hand over my old companion "The Hero" to my son... but with this ROM I do it with a tear in my eye.

// Manneman, Sweden
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dmestriner:
Man, how do you get such enormous battery life? I can go one day on one battery, max. What is/how do you calibrate your battery? Any settings in Cyanogen I should try? I have everything checked in Cyanogen->Performance and tried ondemand and smartass, CPU is unchanged.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] docertabum:
sorry to say but I just gave up... I can listen to shoutcast radio for example, but general browsing is impossible... I've started to think it's maybe some hw problem with my Hero... I even cant configure it to send/receive mms (and believe me I tried everything)...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] marchard:
What RADIO are you using?

I use 63.18.55.06PU_6.35.15.14 (btw: is that newest version?).

I really hope we can figure that out together.

Edit: i just played around with Goodnews and i have same connection loss with big downloads, so it seems not to be Google Listen related.

Edit2: Since this seems not to be especially ele-rom related i started a new thread here. Please participate!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Manneman32:
I still can´t believe it myself.

I use an app from market to calibrate my battery. It´s recommended to do so after every ROM-change. https://market.android.com/details?id=com.nema.batterycalibration&feature=search_result

In my recoverymeny there is also an option that does the same thing, but I find the App easier. Before this ROM I had to charge my Hero once a day, I just put it on charge on bedtime.

The only thing I have done is to turn of all animations... I have WIFI turned off and automatic backlight turned off. Other than that I have made no changes in Cyanogen. Also I live in a area that has good reception from my operator, with does a lot for me I guess.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] petemt:
Nice update, thanks :). Installing went smooth as always :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dmestriner:
Ah, maybe the wifi off helps ;) I have both wifi and mobile internet on, so that I almost always have internet connection. Going to try that battery app and tinkering with animations, thanks for your help!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] holydire:
"coudlnt connect to camera" - latest version and default kernel (herokernel12a)

also default cpu settings (256-572)

is there anything i can do?

thanks!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Pitel:
Launcher question

So far so good... my first 2.3 ROM, used Villain before.

And I have a question about launcher... how can I customize shortcuts at the bottom, and how can i changee number of "virtual desktops"?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Habarug:
You can't, you have to install a custom launcher like adw launcher, launcherpro or go launcher. I personally prefer go launcher :-)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] rdejager:
Everything is working great on this rom. But when i start navigation with the latest google maps it just FC's When I select the navigation and it wants to load the map it just FC's it does this with all the GB roms. Cronos CM7 #101 and this one.

Anyone else who got this? Or a fix of some kind??
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] frige:
same for me. Tested 2.7 (did same on 2.4,2.5 ) and got just this one issue on using GPS (working fine in on mode for me with Copilot - but FC after few seconds in th moment i use screen off with Copilot or LOCUS. Same with latest CRONOS version. Everything else very fine - specificly the great battery life with 2.3. In my typical use case i get 30% mor out of the 2.3 ROMs compated to 2.2 (use Elelinux speedhero V4 as all day when i need stable GPS)

Seems 2.3 has problems in HERO GPS (Drivers ?)

Did not try GPS in 2.3 Sense as after first trial Copilot was not running at all (assume memory problems)

frige
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Manneman32:
Latest Maps with navigation works better then ever for me... I use the latest Radio (it has the GPS-drivers as I understand)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] luki59:
and what is the latest Radio, wich number and where you find it?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] rdejager:
Well with GPS Status it works fine, but with maps to look around works to. But when I switch it to navigation it is crap. It crashes when it tries to load the route. I will try to get a new logcat to see whats the problem is, I see a lot of EGL errors. And some errors in navigation.

I rebooted and started navigation again, and this is the logcat.

Pastebin, logcat I think around line 500. I think. cant read those things..
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Manneman32:
The latest radio I know of is 63.18.55.06SU_6.35.17.03

Found it here: http://www.villainrom.co.uk/forum/showthread.php/307-Gsm-Hero-Radio-Roms-Download-Links

I use Google Maps 5.5 (in sweden Google Maps with Navigation is a big No No... so I use a...hrmm... other one)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] luki59:
thanx, then I have the latest one....
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] CraKenDK:
Navigation not working correctly

Hi there.

I also have problems with the Navigation. But I get to drive a little and then the Navigation App just Force Closes. It did that too with the version Elelinux 2.6 and the battery is getting VERY HOT! and sometimes the phone will restart.

Can it be a kernel problem?

Btw: My Baseband version is also the latest: 63.18.55.06SU_6.35.17.03

Best regards

Kenneth

If I can do something to help with the process of fixing this Elelinux, you just say it ;-)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] iop tha man:
mine just hangs on ''waiting for location'' when i start up navigation (googles)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] rdejager:
easy fix start maps once and let if find you and then start nav.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Pitel:
Buttons light

I guess I found another bug... I just noticed the button's backlight is still on, even when the phone is sleeping. I don't know what I did, beacuse it was okay yesterday. When I find something, I'll let you know.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] petemt:
How come I can't upload pictures to Facebook, Twitter or Picasa?

Everytime I try this it just gets stuck on 0% ...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] n00bDroid:
Looks like alot of people have GPS issues. Just wanted to let you guys know that I'm using NDrive and so far haven't had any problems with it. Had a force reboot after installing it earlier today (also used NDrive on all my other ROM's), but after that and testing on a 10 minute drive, nothing happened. Have the v2.7 btw..

And a thank you to Ele for giving us the best ROM so far, just had to overclock it a little and it's aboslutely perfect.

Edit:

Just remembered this post and thought i should add something. I'm also experiencing reboot when in offscreen mode. But when i'm navigating, i never turn off the screen, so this is not an issue for me.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] lustig9:
Thanks for ROM. What about market and gtalk. Market say "start downloading" and nothing. GTalk say "entering..." and nothing.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] inorde:
@lustig9: Market is working fine for me.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] TsunKit:
yeah I don't know how it worked aha, at first it didn't work but after a reboot it worked. I can upload a video of it if anyone wants to see it, but it's laggy :p

EDIT: talking about animation btw
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] inorde:
Lost my internet connection and it won't come back, not even after setting everything manually.

Now it's bootlooping again. Disabled SetCPU when it finally didn't bootloop, but just a few seconds after that it booted again. Went from ADW to the default launcher but it still reboot's within seconds or minutes. You never know what crap I have on there that caused this, but I'll wait some more before trying again.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Guill06:
Gallery 2D

Hi,

Thanks very much elelinux for this impressive ROM ...

About to flash 0.3 but is it possible to keep Gallery 2D which is usually a lot faster than the 3D? Or maybe a way to re-install it (APK? Update?).

I guess I could extract it somehow from the 0.2 and then install it after 0.3 upgrade ... Any advice?

Guillaume
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Fra31:
Hi everyone this is a fantastic rom xD great work! Is possible to have this rom with data2sd or data2ext? sorry for my english!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] f_padia:
im sure it is possible, ele will be able to answer for sure. but in my experience (with feeyos implementation of data2sd) there wasnt any noticeable improvement in performance for day-to-day running with data2sd.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] codnik:
Had this issue as well on v0.2
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] dkelley:
+1 please...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] hikui:
about music app

Bugs?

I tried this rom (version 0.3), and I meet these problems:

No music can be scanned in the music application.

System can't find Ringtones which are in the /sd/alarm directory.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] djdavis:
I had this problem as well, it would reboot seconds or minutes after booting, even after only installing a few apps
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tcnineteen:
Reboot loop +1, even reboot manually after first boot without installing any apps. (Tried both upgrading from 0.2 and a clean installation.) Su library can't update as well. Didn't test other functions and was back to v0.2...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] factualpuddle:
everything works greatttt for me, quick snappy, but does the signal color go from green to white for anyone else? and this may be a dumb question, but my girlfriend loves my hero, she has an Incredible, but it's not rooted or anything and through Verizon and is scared of voiding the warranty. but anyways, she was playing, and now when i'm on my text message screen, when i touch the area where the sent/recieved are, there is like a yellow line, almost like a highlighter? she doesn't know what she did, and it's never happened to me, lol, how do you turn this off..? and excellent work ele ^_^
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Imperticus:
You can turn it off by going Messaging>Settings>Untick Gestures (which is right at the bottom) :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] rustynuts34:
The turning green is when your connected to Google i believe
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] elelinux:
Subject apps2sd, consulted me in the Swedish forum where I usually am, no one has had problems with the app2sd which are in the rom.

I've tried it myself x number of times with clean install wipe of all, I have also tried several times to install v0.3 over v0.2 with only wipe of Dalvik cache, I have not had a single boot loop

Understand that it is frustrating for you as it does not work for, but understand me while I debugging but everything works as it should,to find the error, it is not easy, cyanogenmod has officially said that they do not provide support for app2sd in GB.What I understanding is that no one else succeed any further either, I still believe Feeyo use the version that I put together for his GB.

DarkTremor also have troubles with his version

Of course I will try to find a solution that works for everyone, there may be a real deep dive into the scripts. :D

For thoose guy's with problems,can you try one last thing.

1: wipe of all

2: run command in adb

mount /system && rm -rf /system/* && umount /system

this to be sure everthing is really clean,probably you got a error message can not clean lost and found but nothing to care about

flash rom and reboot

3:make your settings and install setcpu adjust the frequencies as you want them

4:reboot install some more apps and reboot again

Please come back with feedback how it went if anyone manage to test this

Edit Have added an option on the first post, Apps2sd who was in v0.2 do not forget to wipe the Dalvik cache before you flash the zip file, hope it works for you
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ayk33:
I did wipe dalvik cache before flashing (from v2 to v3) and everything works as it should be at least what i always use...no music,no internet,no wifi,etc problem for me...thanks for your work...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] R16:
guys whats the best metod to perfomance/battery?

Ondemand or Smartass?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] elelinux:
Well do not think it works, the next compilation I put in 2D gallery also.

Edit It was ok found a solution: D is an option on the first post now for Galley2D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] yasin12:
i had the same problem of boot loops. after restoring everything from titanium backup it would work fine until i rebooted my hero. then the boot loops start.

what i found out was that apps that request superuser permission on bootup cause the boot loop. it seems that if the app hasnt been run before it tries to get the permissions at startup but instead of the superuser box showing up, which allows you to give the permission or deny them, it reboots. it starts up again, the app requests root access but the dialog doesnt show.

i got this problem so what i did was do a full wipe, install apps and without rebooting open up the apps that need root access at boot up (setcpu and rVoix in my case) give them the permissions. this solved the boot loops.

so give this a try.

wipe everything, flash rom, flash gapps, restore or install your apps, open up apps that need superuser and give them the permission.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] CraKenDK:
It's a workaround, but not like it should be.

My Hero still gets pretty hot after driving a half hour...and still FC. Then I have to start it again an I can then drive a little longer etc...

The GPS was better in Android 2.1. I don't know if it's a kernel issue or just android 2.3.4 on the Heroes. But I hope it's on the test bench :-)

Other than the GPS, this version is the best Android 2.3.4 on the Hero!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] elelinux:
Seems that some have some problems with GPS in screenoff mode,will try to find a solution.I've tried it myself and do not have the problems described here and I have also tried with screen-off mode with Maverick and of course Copilot to everything works just fine for me.