[G1 Android Development] arohacs:
Awesome ROM - a couple of questions/issues

Hi there.

First, I'd like to thanks everyone at xda-developers for all of the ROMs and help over the last few years. You have made the experience on both of my smartphones much richer and more enjoyable.

I've been using ROMs posted to xda-developers since my HTC Excalibur that I bought used in 2008. I haven't cooked a ROM yet, but haven't bricked a phone either and I always follow instructions.

I have had an HTC Dream for almost a year now. I bought it rooted and used with CM4 flashed by the previous owner. One day later, I flashed CM5. A few months later, CM6. Now that support seems to be questionable over there for CM7/Dream, I found this thread and love this ROM so far. :)

Looks to be fixed. Where's my strikethru :(

To the issues: only 1 on the interface -- the dial pad is missing #1, 2, and 3. The squares are there, but the numbers are gone. While in call after receiving a call on the 3/7 update, the call screen was squashed but the numbers were all there. Also, while dialing my passcode for voicemail, the number 6 kept getting popped in along with the number 3. Maybe I was shaking the phone a bit or holding it wrong? I'm right handed but hold the phone with my left hand.

Any ideas on any of that?

Also looks to be fixed:

Here is another issue that may be related to haptic feedback or something else: while using the music player last night the song playing kept either pausing or going forward when I moved the phone while it was asleep. I can't find settings to disable rotation/shake/feedback/etc. in the music player settings. Where could I find these settings? Maybe this is fixed in the 3/8 update - will have to experiment with it.

On the 3/4 version I had boot and splash loop issues, and was flashing the gapps-mini after the lite ROM (which might have caused this, but I heard others had loop issues as well). Also, there was no place to change install location on the 3/4 update (that I could find). The 3/7 update fixed this issue. Just putting that out there in case someone is still trying the old versions and sees this.

Thanks for removing the setup screen from the post 3/4 updates. I was getting splash loops and unable to get past "touching the android" :)

Will fix_permissions remedy this issue? Is there something else I can try after wiping to get ext recognized?

Finally, and this is the one that has been bugging me: when flashing the ROM after wiping, the system cannot find my ext4 and won't recognize previously installed apps that I have there. To verify this, I reflashed a nandroid backup of CM6 and all the apps were back.

I tried repair/wipe of ext4 in recovery and also dumped the files from a backup with cp -vrp * while rooted (which should preserve dates and copy recursively) and also tried with cp -vr. CM6 recognizes the ext4 partition and sees my apps, but this ROM does not. Is the ROM wiping the ext4 partition when it runs the legacy a2sdext script? I wiped/restored/flashed many times this past weekend with the same results - no recognition of ext with apps by this ROM.

I just flashed the 3/8 version with no wipe and my apps and settings stuck around, but what about people going up to this ROM from another one? Will their ext partition be wiped? I guess I could test that as well, but I'm taking some time from that so I can actually use my phone for a while :)

I am almost finished with a python script that will mass install .apk files with adb under the tools dir (assuming all *.apk are there) so that at the least I can reinstall the apps without it being so tedious next time. I will share the script when it is finished and might make a phone app that does the same thing if it can be done.

Again, congrats on the ROM and thank you for all of your work!