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[G1 Android Development] sb56637:
My quick review of COS-DS 12-Apr-2011

Hi everyone,

I've been running COS-DS since the 12-Apr-2011 version, and I'm really liking it. Thanks to everyone involved!

What I really like:

Combines the technical excellence and simplicity of ezGingerbread / ADS_Magpie with the convenience of the best Cyanogenmod features without unnecessary clutter

Stock theme! Thanks very much for keeping the default Gingerbread theme and fonts. And I really like the simple "Android" boot screen, I'm not a fan of flying spinning robots jumping all over my screen while it boots.

Fast boot up, slightly under 1 minute from power on to swipe screen

Cyanogenmod performance settings, especially the built-in CPU control. Other 3rd party CPU controls seem to make the system lag when they ask for su permissions after bootup, but the Cyanogenmod controls feel native.

Included kernel has many governor choices. I use "Conservative", most Gingerbread ROMS don't have this.

Dropdown power widget is unbelievably convenient, by far the best part of Cyanogenmod

Battery percentage is very useful

Apps to EXT by default option is available through the native Android system application settings, and the Cyanogenmod application install location is removed, so there's no conflict. Apps to EXT provides so much more stability

A few problems / suggestions:

Androot file manager doesn't show any files at all for me. I prefer Ghost Commander. It would be nice to have that instead out of the box

I would like to see the default Android wallpapers available

I don't really like the circular lock screen, default would be nicer.

Could you possibly make it possible to set higher Compcache values through CMparts? I would like to set mine to around 50%, the current max is 26%.

Thanks again to everybody who brought us this nice ROM!
[G1 Android Development] ximmox:
Sad to say it seems to be a rom or even more an app "issue" (none that's really important, too),but I really tried everything with the 0413 build, no swap, even other sd card without any partitions, but I couldn't install LauncherPro or GhostlySMS,

always "insufficient space". Like they were confused by the sd-ext possibilities or something...

Nevermind, flashed 0407, the one before Magpie/xVold, and it installs without problems ... but as always, I'd like to have the latest and greatest, so I'll go on testing...or simply install LP und Ghostly and flash the newest without wipe over it (Ghetto fix... :rolleyes: )
[G1 Android Development] crypticc:
Xvold mount of SD ext = fail or too late to pickup 20userinit
[G1 Android Development] roalex:
pick up what ? i will proabablly remove the init.d all together, its almost un needed at this point.
[G1 Android Development] HostFat:
I have the same problem with LauncherPro or GhostlySMS with the one before the latest.

The last build boot just one time, it doesn't work at the second boot.
[G1 Android Development] jj71787:
I downloaded the stock version because full was giving me problems. The only problem I have with stock is when I click cyanogen mod settings it keeps giving me a forceclose message
[G1 Android Development] Pfeffernuss:
I had this too. It works in the light version though :)
[G1 Android Development] Paul Shirley:
Just tested LauncherPro on 0413 and had no problems installing it. Are you sure you have enough spare space on your data partition? I used to get regularly Market failure because it ran out of space in the data directory.

I have /data/local/download & tmp symlinked to /sd-ext/data/local and have had no install problems since doing it.
[G1 Android Development] roalex:
There are none thats why^^
[G1 Android Development] TriforceKommando:
Sorry for OT:

LOL
[G1 Android Development] dw9906:
I'll check the green tint issue to see if it's fixed. Saw you ask on twitter. I'll report back soon.
[G1 Android Development] Sheist!:
What is your "notification bar issue"? Something I have found when I use ThemeChooser and switch to Cyanbread, the power widgets disappear. I just disable/re-enable and reboot to get them to show up again, and for the Cyanbread to fully change icon colors on the Zeam scrolling bar.
[G1 Android Development] ximmox:
Thanks for your answer, data ist filled 42% right now, so that shouldn't be the problem.

But I suppose you HAVEto have a sd-ext partition for it to work, I had none and I also don't want/need one... but I'll try later or tomorrow if it's necessary in order to install some apps (that should be on internal anyway...)
[G1 Android Development] dw9906:
Green tint was fixed. I didnt have to flash alternate kernel. Woohoo. Thanks ezterry!
[G1 Android Development] roalex:
Nice nice :D
[G1 Android Development] Chocolate Columbo:
[*]Androot file manager doesn't show any files at all for me. I prefer Ghost Commander. It would be nice to have that instead out of the box

--I have the same issue with AndRoot and just assumed I can't use it properly. Nothing shows anywhere. All I see is a forward slash but pressing it does nothing. Anyone know anything about this? I just use ES File Explorer and gave up.

[*]I would like to see the default Android wallpapers available

--I would take that, but can't help you. Personally not looked for them. If it's any use, the CM7 walls are available on that thread somewhere. I always extract those to my SD somewhere.

[*]I don't really like the circular lock screen, default would be nicer.

--I'm sure this can be changed in the Lockscreen settings? I just don't like the thick blocky black bar over it. I prefer Lense anyhow.

[*]Could you possibly make it possible to set higher Compcache values through CMparts? I would like to set mine to around 50%, the current max is 26%.

--Personally not sure if this is possible. People have asked for this elsewhere but once it is changed/flashed from a hack, the only way I see mentioned of getting it back is a re-flash.
[G1 Android Development] candymanmike:
so very happy to have the green tint gone! also seem to have much better battery life on this new kernel than i have been on previous ones (mostly the test kernel)
[G1 Android Development] cityeyes:
Just wanted to stop in and say that this update (04/13/2011) is running faster than any build I've used so far and it fixed ALL of the problems that I was having with 4/11/11 and 04/12/11.

I was actually so frustrated with some of the slowdown and other problems with the 04/11 and 04/12 builds I was thinking of reverting. Glad I stuck with it because this is great.

My performance settings:

Overclocking off.

CC at max.

Jit off

Dithering off

Purge assets on

Lock home and messaging into memory.

Only "problem" I've found, if you can call it that, is that the Light version has a bunch of stuff included with it that I think used to be removed for space. The two themes are reinstalling every time I install a new light version and there are a ton of notifications and ringtones included. Again, not really a problem, but if people are sticklers about system space they might be bothered.
[G1 Android Development] dw9906:
On androot file manager you have to hit menu and options and change to show hidden files and then you'll be good to go. Great file manager. Its my favorite.
[G1 Android Development] dw9906:
Its not the settings on the notification bar. Thats normal. You have to reboot after theme change. Its the notification bar sticking thats the problem. Plus swipe down gesture on adw won't work after flashing the HCUL theme. No biggie, a long as the rom works.
[G1 Android Development] roalex:
-download the CMWallpapers

-AndRoot you have to enable show hidden folders in the settings

-the compcache settings are those which make sense, 50% wouldn't even 26% its to much

-you can choose between 3 different lock screens, if you don't like any of them, i suppose you either live with it or try another rom :)
[G1 Android Development] Chocolate Columbo:
The issue remained with AndRootFile, even after checking the box. Already tried yesterday. I was retrying and rebooting. I'm not sure why, but after removing it with Titanium and installing it again, then ticking the box, it all shown up.

On a side note, I'd like to see the Honeycomb unlock? Is this possible to import? I think Lense looks good with a few of Cyanogen walls. I'm using it with the blue planet one. :)
[G1 Android Development] dw9906:
Download ThdDudes theme for honeycomb unlock screen. You can't expect roalex to just change the rom to suit you. If you don't like it. There is plenty other roms out there. He does his best to suit as many people as he can. Not everyone is going to like everything. Its just that simple.
[G1 Android Development] Chocolate Columbo:
No offense, but I don't like the way you're coming across there. It seems quite rude. I'm not asking him to change the ROM to suit me. That's not what I meant by 'import' at all. What I meant was by way similar to your suggestion. i.e. install it separately. Sorry if I used the wrong terminology.

Anyway, thanks for the idea of downloading the theme. I thought about it, but I'm thinking it means skin the entire phone for the sake of the lock screen. I was thinking, but generally there's no harm in testing it.
[G1 Android Development] dw9906:
Sorry, I didnt mean to be rude. The theme only themes the icons in the settings and the lockscreen and the icons in the notification bar like the battery, signal, etc. Its a very simple theme just to give some color. I t doesn't go crazy theming the entire phone. Also to be sure it works when you flash it, make sure you make room for it by like deleting the cyanbread theme. You can redownload it thru the market, which is better i must say.
[G1 Android Development] hrk:
I meant it in a positive way. :)

Heh... in CM7 they are native. The CPU Settings screen (which I helped make... albeit most of the work is by NLJ) is recognized like a "system" app so it doesn't need to use su/SuperUser. Using su permissions is "heavy".

Ghostly can only be installed on the internal phone (and I won't change it for obvious reasons). Considering it's just 90kb, I guess you've seriously run out of space on the internal memory/flash. :)
[G1 Android Development] roalex:
well set the default to internal, install the Ghost, launcher w/e you want, then set it to sd-ext or w/e, it should work.
[G1 Android Development] creezalird:
just to say, I checked mine, and it seems GhostlySMS is installed in sd-ext partition. And so far it is working, or is there any disadvantageous?
[G1 Android Development] nookxplode:
Quoted from the very first post:

DO NOT USE A2SDext scripts with this ROM , before playing around with your applications, enable move apps from COS settings, and choose SD-ext as defult in Settings/Applications. You can and should move apks from sd-ext to phone as you like (seams apps set on sd-ext also will set the dex there!)

I am new to A2SDext and I have a few questions:

1. What does "set the dex there!" mean?

2. Does the order of the partitions matter or the way I partition my sd card matter? I am using Amon RA recovery 1.7 and I have my sd partitioned the way that recovery does it by default. I choose partition sd card and accept all of the default values. I think I may have also used the recovery to convert my ext to ext3 and then to ext4.

Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated thanks for all the hard work that was put into this rom.
[G1 Android Development] gamer765:
Can someone make a system.img out of this? The SDcard slot on my G1 broke and wont read my SD anymore so I can only install from fastboot. Thanks
[G1 Android Development] cj chitwood:
I know what compcache is, but I've never read it explained anywhere what the value means. I assume, perhaps incorrectly, that "26%" means contents are compressed approximately 26% before being put in RAM. Is this incorrect?

Similarly with VM Heap size. What do the numbers mean?

I assume there are several people around who don't fully understand these two terms. Knowing what they are would better enable us to make the right decision about what values to use (obviously it can be different values for different people or else there would not be the option to edit them, yes?)...

Can't help with [1] like an expert could. I believe a dex is like an index. When an app is installed and run for the first time, the system does some optimizations of the app (it's basically a Java [Dalvik] application that is compiled at runtime if I'm not horrifically mistaken, and I could be) and these optimizations are stored in the dex files. They help the phone be faster. I think.

However, number [2] is easy. It's not really an FAQ, but I've still seen it answered a lot.

The order does matter.

The first partition should be your FAT (fat32) partition.

Second is the EXT partition. I generally see EXT4 recommended most, though really I think any of EXT2, 3, or 4 will work (avoid 2 if possible, as it's as bad as FAT32 with regard to dirty dismounts because it's not journalled like 3 and 4 are).

I have a swap partition on my SD card, and when I go into terminal emulator and type "free", I see swap being used. However, I don't see any partitions mounted as type:swap when I type "mount". So IDK, but I think my third partition is the swap partition. Still, I believe Roalex advises strongly against swap. I only still use it because I don't want to repartition the SD just to get rid of swap and I haven't figured out how to disable it yet >shrug<
[G1 Android Development] cj chitwood:
COS-DS-04132011-Full

Fastest ROM I've had yet. At least, of the COS group and recent CM builds.

Quadrant score 324. Highest score I've gotten with JIT disabled (The one time I used JIT the phone actually felt slower, whether or not it really was).

Also, running swap, but I'm not sure of settings nor how to disable without repartitioning my SD which I'd love to avoid. Even though it's the last partition and all I have to do is delete it, and it would be easily restored, "simple" things like that have a habit of 'sploding in mah face.

Compcache set for 26%. VM Heap set for largest (believe to be 24M, IIRC). JIT disabled, asset purging disabled... etc. etc. etc., my standard "everything off" setup.

Battery life is one of the best I've seen yet, with unused drain down to about 1.25% or thereabouts per hour. 100/1.25=80 hours, which equates roughly to 3 days and 8 hours of standby time with no use.

I do however have a new problem. The apps drawer now seems to need to reload all the apps every so often. Pretty much every third or fourth usage (mind you, hours separate these usages so maybe once per day) sees the apps loading into the drawer. They do it quickly, but typically it shouldn't be seen at all.

Oh, and I did do a full wipe on it this morning. But still, seems very daily driver to me.
[G1 Android Development] AndroidKills:
thanks for the latest release, its super fast, stable.

got usb tether to work(im not using the test kernel though and it runs fine)

love it. keep it up :D
[G1 Android Development] AndDiSa:
Why don't you unzip and install the system.img which is included?
[G1 Android Development] sb56637:
I know, I already have the lock screen the way I like it. I was just saying that of the 3 or 4 options there, the circular style is the only one I DON'T like. :) I just got the impression that you were sort of going for a near-stock style, in which case the horizontal slider is stock. I personally prefer the lense.

Same goes for CMwallpapers. I did see that download, but I was talking about the default Android wallpapers, which are much nicer. Again, thinking that you were sort of going for a stock look, I suggested that.

Thanks again for the nice ROM. I hope roalex you read my original post, I listed many positive points about this ROM.
[G1 Android Development] roalex:
Those you want are part of Launcher2 the stock launcher.
[G1 Android Development] gamer765:
I would if there was a system.img bundled. The zip includes an unpacked system folder. I need a packed system.img.
[G1 Android Development] cityeyes:
I don't mean any disrespect to you at all with this question, but what is stopping you from doing this yourself?
[G1 Android Development] hrk:
Compcache %: the percentage of RAM to be used as compressed RAM, eg: 100MB, 25% compcache means you get 75MB available as RAM and 25MB used as compressed RAM.

So you lose some fast RAM to get some more (depending on what is being compressed) slightly slower RAM (due to cpu used to compress and decompress and copied back to real RAM). Still faster than swap on sdcard.

VM heap size: how much memory will be given to apps when they start.
[G1 Android Development] AndDiSa:
... or if it is too difficult:

boot into recovery,

adb mount /system

adb remount

adb push <localdir> /system

Where <localdir> contains the unzipped /system

Edit: /system should be clean!
[G1 Android Development] ximmox:
Exactly what I did, because I don't even have a sd-ext partition, only data and swap, partitioned by AmonRa ages ago.

Nevermind, there definitly IS free space, i can install everything else I want to internal and i WANT everything on internal, but it seems apps that rely on being installed on internal are getting "confused", whether by the rom or my particular setup, most likely it's the combination.

I'll backup my SD-card and repartition with sd-ext, although I don't want to use it, perhaps it just needs to be there for certain things to work. :confused:
[G1 Android Development] kashifsiddique:
ClockworkMod Recovery v3.0.2.4 doesn't seem to wipe battery status.

Just return back to the previous screen without any activity in the log or any delay.
[G1 Android Development] belrin:
Hello Roalex

Please add option linux-Swap,swappines in You ROM.Maybe look this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1036283
[G1 Android Development] JuliusCes:
Thanks Hrk for this answer. There should be a sticky for this (all the definitions related to android and ROM, in plain English.

I have another additional question. You say that a part of your ram is compressed, but by how much is it compressed. Or when you have 100 MB or RAM, and you use 26% CC how much do you end up having in reality? It should be more than 100 MB.
[G1 Android Development] cj chitwood:
Yes, HRK -- Thanks!

I'm thinking the answer to the above would not be possible to define, as different things will compress differently. It would be like part of the memory is a zip folder, and whatever goes into that portion would be ZIPped first. So if your app was storing JPEG data (assume you're browsing Gallery), which is already compressed, there wouldn't be much "extra" storage but if were storing text (such as HTML code found in web pages) there would be a lot of "extra" storage. Is this correct?
[G1 Android Development] cj chitwood:
PHENOMENAL!

After an hour and 18 minutes, my battery was STILL showing 100%! This is GREAT!

Thanks again Roalex!
[G1 Android Development] newellj79:
Props for roalex. This is the first gingerbread rom I've ever tried on g1. I was always hesitant because I figured no way would it run at a decent speed. I've been proven wrong. Untill lately I thought f4t was hands down the fastest best battery saving rom available other than a cupcake or maybe donut build. This rom runs even better than that. Alas I am saddened. As a flashaholic I'm always hoping for something better, unfortunately I don't think g1 will ever see ice cream sandwhich, certainly not honeycomb. I believe its reached its max potential and it breaks my heart. :) cheers!
[G1 Android Development] ghostnik:
Does this rom require me to have an ext 4 partition on sd card?
[G1 Android Development] TriforceKommando:
Everything good with new release - but still telephone info crashes when i want to see it.. :D
[G1 Android Development] TriforceKommando:
Phone info FC and GPS not working

Okay besides the settings FC when going to phone info:

GPS not working..

Dream with new radio combo.
[G1 Android Development] dw9906:
Looking forward to next build to see what roalex has in store for us now. This ROM continues to blow my mind. Love it!
[G1 Android Development] MattDrumz:
Just flashed back to this ROM. It's running MUCH faster and smoother than it ever did before. I think the last version I tried was the 3-28 version. I think it is running way better because I turned off JIT. If anyone has problems with this ROM being slow and choppy, turn off JIT. It made a huge difference for me.
[G1 Android Development] dw9906:
I'm bored, I need a new build to give me something to do. Lol
[G1 Android Development] enelyam:
Im actually running tha 04072011 update, so i would like to know from someone whos been installing the later updates how different they think it behaves if compared. I mean someone who have use the 04072011 update, how faster do you guys think it runs with the later updates? Thanks!
[G1 Android Development] inportb:
Let's just say that I don't feel the urge to add my swap partition anymore.
[G1 Android Development] dw9906:
Each update gets better. You should really try the latest version!
[G1 Android Development] MattDrumz:
The only problem I have with this ROM is that no matter what I do, I cannot get LauncherPro to stay in memory. I've tried the lock in memory option in COS Settings, I've tried disabling that and using the setting within LauncherPro, and I've tried some commands that were posted earlier that you do through adb shell. Nothing seems to keep it in memory. I asked this awhile ago in this thread when I first used this ROM, but nothing seemed to work.

Is it maybe just a problem with LauncherPro? Or is there something I can do to fix this?

Also, this isn't really a big deal, but whenever I turn the screen on, the lockscreen takes a second or two to show up. Does this happen to anybody else? I can live with it happening. It doesn't matter to me a whole lot.

Thanks!
[G1 Android Development] dw9906:
Try ADW EX. It's way faster with this ROM!
[G1 Android Development] cj chitwood:
@MattDrumz

Lock screen delay doesn't happen to me, but I did wipe before using 04142011-full. I have had that problem on earlier CM versions before, so I doubt it's the ROM. Then again, I also use the ADW it comes with.
[G1 Android Development] inportb:
I just use Go Launcher because it's a bit lighter. Zeam is the lightest of all, but it's also less configurable.
[G1 Android Development] map_841:
adding Swap / sms losing bug

First of all, thank you for your work.

The latest COS-DS (with latest Biffmod kernel) runs very stable, fast and without too much hunger for battery on my G1.

I had this "sms losing bug", see: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1038381, in combination with too less free memory.

If I activate swap, instead of compcache, would it help to solve this bug?

Do you plan to give an option in the CyanogenMod section, to specify the swap (as seen in Biffmod 2.2.1)?
[G1 Android Development] ra100x:
digitizer problem

I've got only one problem with this rom, I'm not sure since which version, but,

sometimes or nearly always, my digitizer(touchscreen) doesn't work correctly, it behaves asi when I charge my G1 by non-original charger (when I touch screen, it is like I touched it on completely another position, sorry, it is difficult to describe). Then I have to lock screen and unlock and everything works fine, until it again starts to behave crazy. I haven't found any steps that cause that.

Any idea what could cause that?

PS: I've changed digitizer, but it worked fine for nearly year. Well I don't think that problem is in digitizer :)
[G1 Android Development] smashman42:
I'm still on 7th April release cause of the PITA of having to wipe & losing all my saved WiFi passwords - is the wipe mostly for the new Apps2SDext stuff to work? Cause having a 32B Magic I don't even use that stuff.
[G1 Android Development] newellj79:
Hmmm. Been on this rom for a couple weeks now. Running stock kernel and loving it. Could u please post a link to the biffmod kernel u r using? I would like to sedition it is a improvement. Thank you.
[G1 Android Development] crypticc:
I tweaked compcache script in bin with to turn compcache in cos settings to actually turn on compcache with backing swap on your swap partition. Only works with replacement kernels that have ramzswap rather than zram in this default but call out if you need it.