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[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] david.f.girault:
Ask all 2.3 ROM devs to publish there work on Github. As soon there changes are public, someone can push them for review in CM7.

But it seems that most current ROM devs don't contribute (or stop) to CM, even if the code base come from CM for at least 90%, and prefers spend time in flame war and troll !!! It seem they don't understand the better approach of pushing SIGNED & DATED patch to Github to be seen by all as the real dev of one function/patch. Well, I don't want to put oil on the fire. But if ROM devs want to be recognized at their fair value, they simply open their sources! I am disappointed in their behavior.

I hope this will change in future, I think the Hero is not dead.

David

Contributor to CyanogemMod!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] keyra74:
wrong : LoxDev ⓁⓄⓧ

Sorry guys I am damn busy atm. Will give hero some love in a couple of weeks or so #CM7 Many good things to kang from hero CDM device tree..

15 hours ago
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mainstreamer:
Last couple nigthly's broke my camera somehow? Anyone else experiencing this and knows a fix? Thanks
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] squeeish:
Camera working good on build 30.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Ciprilik:
anyone got a zip with A2SD-EXT that I can flash and it won't bootloop please?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Nebvin:
I have been using DarkTremor's last stable version (2.7.5.2) and it has been working great with CM nightly and Elelinux's latest. The link on his post doesn't seem to work anymore, but it should be available on his ftp site (ftp.darktremor.info) or search google for "dtapps2sd-2.7.5.2-signed.zip" you should be able to find a copy.

I have tried all his posted betas and they all bootloop for me, as well as anybody elses I tried.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
Accidentally enough, I am working on this right now for myself. App2sd works fine for me using this initial version:

EDIT: FlyKernel-12a-CM7-App2SD-Compcache.zip

This version is much cleaner than the Darktremor mess and to a reasonable extent I am also willing to give support for it.

Compcache still does not work, I will try to look into this. EDIT: Compache now works :)

Please, if you try this, let me know how it goes.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] swatsbiz:
I assume that will need to be flashed every-time we update the nightly?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
Notice update which fixes compache as well :)

Yes, there is no way around this, as the nightly includes the original version of the files I need to fix.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] timbohobbs:
Welcome back : ) Hope whatever time you are able to work on the hero is a good experience for you : )
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
FYI:

http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/14455-cm7-discussion-of-nightlies/page__st__400#entry163502
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] BillDoor:
installing 31 now...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] sperug:
It works fine, thank's. Only a strange problem: it seems to loose contact with the time server, automatic time regulation doesn't work since I installed it...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] keyra74:
weird, mine changed to summer hour without any problem, i set compcache to 18% too

glad to you back here erasmux
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
This is very weird, I trying to offset my time a bit and enable automatic time update and it does not work here either. I wondered if this ever worked for me (obviously I usually have the time set correctly).

I also checked it without my patch and this is unrelated to my app2sd (the only "easy" way to check this I know off, is if you have a nandroid backup of your state before the update - go back to it).

I assume this is either a matter of time until it does update, or this is a problem with my network provider (possibly yours as well).
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] davrave:
Thanks to Erasmux for the tip about flykernel 12a Apps2SD-Compache.zip. Works a treat for me on build#31. Freed up from 63MB to 127MB.

Rom is running smoothly with no problems so far.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Krizp0:
Woah! Is that available memory or what?

Is there any news in the latest CM7 builds? What's changed?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] squeeish:
Doesn't work, still get disappearing menus. Build 31 without full wipe. :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Krizp0:
I think that has to do with the graphics memory leak... Isn't it fixed in CM7?? :eek: I know Elelinux and Feeyo had a fix, both identical :rolleyes:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tl883:
Hi,

I installed it last night. I'm still experiencing those invisible menu's, less then before tho.

The other thing I'm having is, that its almost constantly rebuilding the homescreen after when I close an app like whatsapp or gmail etc.. It's doing it a bit more often then before. When I go into the logs, it's saying out of memory or low memory.

For myself I don't mind it, a little bit annoying. But hey I got 2.3 running on my Hero ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
Hmm, that was fast. Do you have any "tips" on how I could recreate this problem on my end. I have been running CM7 for over a week (with resets unfortunately every 1 or 2 days) and have yet to see this problem with my own eyes even once. It is very hard to debug I problem I have no way of recreating....

The app2sd patch is just to make more "internal memory" available - it has nothing to do with the memory leak problem (invisible menu's etc.).

I have posted a possible attempt at a fix here: http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/14455-cm7-discussion-of-nightlies/page__view__findpost__p__163502

According to squeeish, this fix does not work. I can ask you (or anyone else reading this), the same thing I asked squeeish - see above - is there any fast and relatively consistent way to recreate the problem on my side?

Assuming they really did fix it, neither of them shared their fix publicly (and specifically did not submit the fix upstream to the CM code).
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] rdejager:
Well Feeyo is not really in good sides on CM, so I don't blame him for pushing it upstream to them since what they pulled on is ass. well the way they did it.

Elelinux said a long time ago he coudnt upstream it to CM because he coudnt set it up or something.

All weird stuff if you ask me. :P
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tl883:
ah right, sorry a bit misunderstanding ;) I will try the patch tho.

I've no idea how you could recreate or emulate the problem. I could send you a logfile, if that would help.

I had the same problem with Elelinux
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] puppyko:
I used stock browser to surf web.

Usually I opened up a few windows for different websites (example x1 window for XDA, another for cyanogenmod and so on.) When I clicked on a particular thread, I would again open via a new window. So I guessed I would use up 'some' memory with the few windows stayed open in the background.

When I'm done with surfing, I would press HOME button.

Sometimes when doing this, I would get black screen or problem with launcher (Launcher Pro Plus) not responding (force close or wait), missing icons or screen not responding anymore.

Not sure if the above would help you to recreate the 'problem'.

Btw, nice to see you posting again. Welcome back :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] puppyko:
It didn't fix the 'memory problem' for me 100% though.

I'm using Cronos latest GB 1.9.5 version. Sometimes would encounter Launcher not responding.

I had to additionally tick 'keep in memory' for LauncherPro setting and 'lock home in memory' under CM performance settings.

With these 2 ticked, I don't have any issue so far.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] khunjj:
+1. A lot of FC with LPP. "Go Launcher" seems to work fine with CM7.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] squeeish:
Hi erasmux, no :o I don't have a consistent way of re-creating the problem. Sometimes the phone runs for a day without any problem, but sometimes it appears a few hours into usage after a fresh reboot. But I just thought I'd tell you. Maybe someone with more technical knowledge can help out here.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] perdita2000:
To recreate the problem, open about 10 applications and then you will get a black screen...

I will like to tell you something a bout ELELINUX and Cronos fix.... They have both compile a backsource from 2.3.1 so they broke youtube HQ fix.....

Perdita2000

DON'T BELIEVE ME, TEST IT YOURSELF
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] treesurf:
Same situation here. Cronos 1.9.5 ran perfectly once I locked LP in memory. Now trying out the CM7 nightlies just for fun and am once again having issues with LP, worse than what I ever had with Cronos. Specifically, when rewaking the phone the homescreen will be frozen for several seconds before responding to any input, and it has crashed completely at least once when exiting a memory heavy application (can't remember which one). This is with the launcher locked in memory.

I haven't had any problems with disappearing menus yet.

If the launcher crashes again I will try to get a logcat.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] rdejager:
I tried to run the nightlies again, and well it was unstable for me so same, went back to Cronos GB, and what is funny that you all need to lock LP in memory and I got no problems at all without doing so.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] masterxiter:
The problem is that the rom may have animations to the max activated, that makes the force close on LP. In order to run it faster and withought Force closes please change to "Some animations". This is in Settings > Display Settings > Animation.

I had the same issue with TastyGinger 2.0, changed that option and vuaallaa no more force closes on LP. Consider doing that as the device runs faster.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] perdita2000:
I answer my self because on ELELINUX thread, rdejager gives me the answer .. I new gapps from this thread.

Many Thanks rdejager,

Perdita2000
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] scrollo:
Got the transparent menus almost all the time when using the long press configure options in live wallpapers. Since build 30 though I haven't had it at all...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
Ok thanks for the feedbacks, will post a new fix hopefully later tonight (worst case tomorrow).
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] walkinhotdog:
erasmux is back?! or am i getting excited a bit too early
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
Well am trying to get CM7 stable enough for myself and we'll see where it goes from there....
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
As promised a new potential fix (two if you want to be fussy :P). This is based on the hopefully correct info found here - would be interesting to see if Mathias would finally move his ass and fix this properly in the google android code :D.

If you are running the first "try1" fix I posted on the CM forums please first revert it using this update: CM7-memory-leak-fix-untry1.zip

try2:

CM7-memory-leak-fix-try2.zip

try3: (if try2 does not work)

CM7-memory-leak-fix-try3.zip

You can switch between try2 and try3 directly, still if you want to undo either of them, use this: CM7-memory-leak-fix-untry23.zip

Let me know how it goes.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] theodore80:
Does the Google backup work properly?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] rdejager:
OK I ran fix 2 for the whole afternoon now, And I did a lot of crap and well it still ran fine for me :P so I am happy with this nightly now. I got no deep idea if the fix helped it though.

Just though Im gonna give my input
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] treesurf:
I've been running nightly 31 for a couple days now and I'm still waiting for the mysterious menu bug to pop up so that I can try one of the fixes. Nothing happening yet.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jamesking420:
Mysterious menu bug - do you mean the thing where you can't actually see the menus? (they are there but they are invisible?)

That is a nightmare with Cronos Project! If this fix by Erasmux solves this issue then I'll be switching to CM7 tonight!

Thanks everyone, especially Erasmux! !!

Great stuff!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] anaschillin:
ele did manage to completely fix it in his last 1.6 release of the gingerbread rom and I have not experienced the invisble menu problem
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] jamesking420:
Cool, thanks. An upgrade due then I think :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tl883:
It's working for me tho :) Didn't had a invisible all day ^^

Great job :cool:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
try2 ?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tl883:
Eh yes try2 :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] treesurf:
I never had that problem on the Cronos GB ROM. Then again I still haven't had it on this ROM either!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] WamPIRe:
Thnx for the tip...

I done so and now i don't have 3/4 apps..

even Market is gone

!?

Would be better to backup all apps with Titanium Backup, make clean install and restore apps&data from TB and then set all the settings once again, which is really annoying :confused:?

EDIT:

OK I think I had success ;)

1: wipe cache and dalvik

2. flashed the latest nightly ROM

3. flashed a2sd-2.7-update3r1-signed.zip

4. flashed google apps

5. reboot
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] david.f.girault:
Hi all,

I have just uploaded to CM a new fix based of the last EGL patch in AOSP.

All info here (for devs):

http://review.cyanogenmod.com/#change,4315

I am testing it actually, but it seem to be ok.

David

PS: Don't expect binary patch from me, I made CM7 build for myself only. Nighty will have my change if it is accepted.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] david.f.girault:
Well, this patch is already merged, one hour ago! Lol

So juste wait for the next nighty!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Krizp0:
Nice! This could be the groundbraking fix for graphics memory loss in CM7! :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] bluepinkpanther:
david.f.girault - can you try to make animations more smooth? Windows animations on all 2.3.x roms on hera are very laggy.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Krizp0:
Nevermind... :P
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] DjoeN:
It's a pitty there's no RC3/RC4 love for the Hero :/
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Krizp0:
Well I saw this in the changelog:

http://review.cyanogenmod.com/#change,4316
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Ciprilik:
changelogs are posted on the following link for each build and future builds: http://cm-nightlies.appspot.com/?device=hero

Link posted by kawaboy on Cyanogen forum
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] perdita2000:
Cool!!!! we will have RC4!!!

Perdita2000

Changed from ELE to RC4...
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] david.f.girault:
Well, even with the EGL patch included, I still have out of graphic memory this morning! So the issue is not completly closed.

And I don't have time to investigate better actually :confused:

David
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] squeeish:
Try 2 works for me. Haven't had a disappearing menu for a couple of days now :D Nice job dude.

BTW, do I have to reflash the fix if I flash this now? FlyKernel-12a-CM7-App2SD-Compcache.zip
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
I will prepare a new "try2" fix compatible with the latest nighties, hopefully this evening tommorow.

The "FlyKernel-12a-CM7-App2SD-Compcache.zip" has nothing to do with the memory leak bug or its solutions. If you didn't reflash the ROM you should not need to reflash the app2sd update.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
On the latest nighties (from March 29th or 30), there are further fixes to the related code.

Therefore, on these latest build please use this updated fix instead:

CM7-memory-leak-fix-try2-new.zip

(use this if you want to undo the patch)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] treesurf:
Would this apply to the one compiled by SteelBytes?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] erasmux:
If he compiled it from sources after March 30th then yes!
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] squeeish:
Can anyone tell me why build 33 is named tdud_hero_full-33.zip?

-.- this better not be an April Fool.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] treesurf:
Appears to be a little bit of an April 1st nightly. It is a real nightly, but it's got a different boot animation and a different name (not CyanogenMod). :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] squeeish:
Yea... well I flashed it and I had to reflash gapps.

But then... animations are really smooth on this one! :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] treesurf:
Same experience here. Had to reboot and reflash gapps, which is no big deal. And like you said, animations seem smoother now.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Ciprilik:
it's not an april fools joke it's really the latest nightly... it just TehDuckUberDistro :D... The spinning duck makes me laugh for real :D. About the name ... I think it's just an April Fools joke.http://www.cyanogenmod.com

changelog here: http://cm-nightlies.appspot.com/?device=hero
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] squeeish:
Thanks Ciprilik.

erasmux, CM7-memory-leak-fix-try2-new.zip doesn't work for Build 33. I get disappearing keyboards. Once again, I can't give you a reproduceable sequence of events. I rebooted and now some of my apps are forcing close on startup.

EDIT: I applied the untry and nothing's changed. Anyone having similar issues?
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Ciprilik:
I've had no problem... I've wiped everything, flashed tdud_hero_full-33.zip, reboot, wiped dalvik-cache, flashed CM7-memory-leak-fix-try2-new.zip, reboot, and as for last as my option I wiped dalvik-cache and flashed for A2SD-ext : FlyKernel-12a-CM7-App2SD-Compcache.zip
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] squeeish:
I guess it's time for a fresh wipe then... Havent done it since build 9. :p
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] mk262:
Are these fixes now integrated into the newer builds, like say 4/2? I didn't see this explicitly stated, if I missed it, I apologize.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] rdejager:
I think Erasmux his fix is not intergrated.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] callummr:
Okay, this is weird; as a few other people reported, animations on build 33, the "tdud" build, were a lot smoother. I flashed build 34 to find that they'd gotten obviously slow and laggy again. I can't see anything in the change log that would cause it, so it's almost as if part of the April Fools rebranding actually increased performance :/
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Tatsu99:
I second that... 33 is very fast overall... staying on this and testing :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] squeeish:
Agreed. Wonder what's the prob.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Krizp0:
I just wiped all data/cache etc and #34 is working good, animations are smooth, haven't noticed black screens after Erasmux' "new" try2.

Also, in the newest version of LauncherPro widgets and stuff are looking nice (not 16 bitish) without having to activate surface dithering, and this seems to actually free more memory :cool:

Edit: Gave Cyanbread theme a try and I really like it. The only thing was pixeled checkboxes, so I manually reduced the size of hdpi and now they look gorgeous! Download it below and push it via adb. Reboot necessary after applying the theme.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] rdejager:
You should upload that Cyanbread on the CM site also, maybe they will put it in as a standard :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] DjoeN:
Installed #35

So far everything seems to run fine and smooth.

Haven't tested most usual stuff i use yet.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] rdejager:
Yea the Hero display is a powehog... If i set the brigtness lower myself in CM settings it helps a lot. But that thing is just insane.... in usage that is. My kid has the Nexus S and she can do almost a week with that darn thing... I hate her :P
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] squeeish:
I'm on 35. Had to flash gapps as well for this build. Animations are good like build 33.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Diechel:
Flashed #35 working good so far

also flashed flykernel 12a with apps2sd and gappslite
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] ermacwins:
flashed the 35 nightly and I cant install any apps from the market. it always says unsuccessful

Also how does angry birds rio run for everyone? all the gfx is perfect but there is lag
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] squeeish:
Don't know about your apps problem, but Angry Birds Rio is playable. There's lag, but if you put up with it you can complete the whole game.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] rdejager:
This looks like a bad flash to me. I would say Download it again and then try again, and do a full wipe.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tl883:
mmh since build 35 I'm having problems to unlock my phone, when it's in standby. It stays black and the hard keys aren't working. The only solution is to get the battery out for a full reboot.

I've installed CM7 build 36, flykernel12a-App2SD-compache, the lastest GAPPS and CM7-memory-leak.fix-try2-new.

does anyone else got this prob?

Cheers

Tim
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] rdejager:
I got this if I set up any of the unlock security stuff
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Diechel:
Have #35 now running 1d and 2h and this is my best battery life for now.

Still have 55% of battery, never had that. (auto sync, twitter, sms, web etc)

Display on 1u 12m

Running @710-19 with flykernel apps2sd etx4 compcache off

No fc just stable
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] tl883:
mmh I will give it a try :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] drivexcore:
33 is smoothest rom I have used yet

Get black screen on messages sometimes but if I press home and reopen it's fine :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] rdejager:
Of all roms or of GB??
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] cartman333:
Im on Build #36 and its EXTREMLY smooth, like the 2.2 roms :D
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] treesurf:
Just flashed build 37. Scrolling through long menus still isn't that smooth, but other window animations do seem improved.

Going to back this up and jump over to the new Cronos Ginger ROM, though.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] Kirsebaer:
I've tried a few of the latest nightly builds, because I got the impression that it was almost done by the posts here. Don't buy into it..I've experienced A LOT of crashes, delays and program freezes. Enabling certain features will prompt an invisible toolbox sometimes. Other times when a program asks for permission nothing happens, but turns out the popup is stuck in the back and sometimes you are lucky enough to be able to select it from the menu.

A lot of the basic settings doesn't work. I changed theme at one point and that completely crippled the phone. Nothing worked, couldn't open a program or anything. Needless to say I've had to do countless of reboots to get it working again. A have had phone calls where nothing showed up which is the worst problem. Not knowing if it's girlfriend or some idiot I don't want to talk to is frustrating. Battery life is worse than any stable mod I've tried so far and the speed isn't good either. Just me two cents.
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] triksgold:
the final edition had been released
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] rdejager:
Ok I am wrong about that, but man, it is not even 100% stable XD
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] cartman333:
i only tried build #36, but it was very unstable.... it runs smooth and the animations were fast, but when i tried to open apps like doodle jump or poweramp i just get a blackscreen and i have to wait a half min until the app started....and there are other things like: i opened the web borwser and started typing a homepage and the rom forgot to display the caracters what i type?!

and many other little things like that :confused:
[Hero, G2 Touch Android Development] squeeish:
Meh that's fast. So the surfaceflinger thing is fixed?