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[myTouch 4G Android Development] ckisgen:
of course ... i keep up with all of the CM commits and builds (not EVERY single nightly, but the ones that had major changes...but all the valuable parts of those were all in the commits, github, etc) .. this ROM is baselined off of it so any time there's valuable changes on the CM side - i test them and incorporate them into the next build of RG.

CM is a great ROM and the entire goal of RG has always been to take the very best of what the amazing CM team has put together with all of their hard work and balance it out with a little more of an AOSP feel along with many tweaks and optimizations that we've picked up along the way that ideally make RG faster, more stable overall, and have better battery performance.

if you look thru most of the comments in the 1100-1200+ posts on this thread - i think you'll see most people have seen that for themselves.

we are committed to continuing to improve this ROM in every way that we can period
[myTouch 4G Android Development] ckisgen:
doat, please read the OP .. under 'Themes' - it says in flashing lights and big bold letters that you MUST reboot each and every time you apply a different theme and describes what will happen if you don't (it sounds a whole helluva lot like what you just said happened to you)
[myTouch 4G Android Development] doat:
DOH, excuse my ignorance i was focusing on the flashing part because i was worried i would mess up.
[myTouch 4G Android Development] verysick:
flashed dumfuq kernel, fixed my upside down screen every few hours...
[myTouch 4G Android Development] coltfoet5:
This rom is blazing fast and reliable but I have had a few screen freezes. Id say four of them since the morning the rom was released. I don't have a logcat but it seems to happen when I press the power button to put it to sleep then push it again real fast on accident and turns the screen back on.
[myTouch 4G Android Development] nick_karstedt:
Flashed from CM7RC4 w/ faux123 gingerbread kernel and was left with a brick. (hboot, but PU-Fails)
[myTouch 4G Android Development] daprince047:
I love the Droid notifications on Royal Roms above all
[myTouch 4G Android Development] Mathato:
Great ****ing Rom. The wait was wellll worth it.

The boot up is so fast and smooth. Just a little buggy at the end.

After it starts there's about a 1minute period that I have no icons or apps.

Nothing I can't deal with though.
[myTouch 4G Android Development] lanternslight456:
Were you able to recover from this? If so I would try re-downloading and re-flashing using the instructions in the OP. You are the only case of this happening. Weird. I hope all is well.
[myTouch 4G Android Development] marcos.lennis:
Has anyone had any issues with auto-rotation?

I have mine turned on in the Call setting and also t5he 180 degrees in RG Setting.

Landscape is not working for me unless I am missing something.
[myTouch 4G Android Development] Unythios:
Yup 72% batt here and been on for 13hr 28min. Only 42 min of screen on time.... What was yours?
[myTouch 4G Android Development] lion766:
Okay, using ROM since release, I have charged 2x? maybe 2.5 times. Incredible battery life. I lowered set cpu to 900Hz, still runs so smooth, even with the lowered top end. I have also noticed, that once it reaches 30%, it doesn't drain like any other ROM i have used. It actually stayed about another 2 hours of use, i was trying to kill the battery, high brightness, wifi, music playing.

Good Freakin Work Team Royal
[myTouch 4G Android Development] lion766:
Anyone know if the cm7 themes from this post will work with RG1.5?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=935495

I tried on 1.41 and I know they didn't. Just curious as you used cm7 for build.
[myTouch 4G Android Development] ckisgen:
1.41 was based on RC2 .. 1.5 is based on NB#31 ..

any themes compatible with NB#31 should work with no problems for RG1.5

i haven't had much of any issues with themes for RC3 or RC4 for that matter with v1.5 either ... i haven't tried any of those in that post lately but i remember some of them being hit or miss when i tried a while back even though they said they were compatible with whatever i was using at the time
[myTouch 4G Android Development] ckisgen:
I dunno ... works for me. I just turned call settings and addt'l 180 degrees in RG settings and no problems..

a wild guess here .. do you have the actual SYSTEM auto-rotate screen on??

settings > display > 'auto-rotate screen'

without this on , nothing is going to rotate no matter what.

also, fyi - i don't believe the 180 degree rotation in rgsettings really does much .. if i have global/system auto rotate on (system > display) then every app that's supposed to rotate will rotate both ways for me as far as I can tell .. whether I have the additional 180 degree deal checked or not
[myTouch 4G Android Development] nick_karstedt:
Nope. I've tried everything. Nothing flashes.. can't even use ADB, the system can't mount anything.
[myTouch 4G Android Development] lion766:
Thank you,

I love the themes you incorporated already, but need a really dark theme, like Onyx for my night time affairs, lol
[myTouch 4G Android Development] beelbeel:
That sounds solid. I charged up and unplugged last night, and when I woke up this morning, I had 91% left after ~8.5 hours of on time and 27 minutes of screen use. That battery life is definitely nothing to scoff at, but i wish there was a way for this phone to not feast on power while it is doing virtually nothing. Of course, I could turn off all of the data functions, but that kind of defeats the purpose. I guess that's just the way that phones are now. I'm pretty cool with it, and this rom is definitely the best at handling it that I have used.
[myTouch 4G Android Development] Unythios:
I do have one question. On every ROM I use now when I click share in the you tube app and pick facebook it brings up the touch site. But most of the time the key board wont stay up. I touch in the text block and the kb pops up and right back down. Anyone else get this.... Is it the app or the ROMs?
[myTouch 4G Android Development] ckisgen:
i really like darkginger .. the only issue it currently has with this ROM is the left page scroll dots are a bit off but that's about it. even with that small, hopefully temporary hangup, it's still the best dark theme out there in my book
[myTouch 4G Android Development] Dodolom:
Hi guys,

Can someone share their MMS settings? After I installed the ROM without changing anything, I tried to send a 37kb video to someone and it just keeps on saying SENDING. I've followed the MMS settings from this post and still nothing.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10979848&postcount=1

I really would like to know if I am doing something wrong or if I need to change some other settings.

Thanks
[myTouch 4G Android Development] lion766:
I've noticed none of my mms will send if I am on WiFi. I usually have to hit Edit, and resend.
[myTouch 4G Android Development] lanternslight456:
Woah, that is beyond my abilities. ckisgen, any advise or help?
[myTouch 4G Android Development] DADDYDC650:
I'm sorry about your situation and I hope you find a good resolution to it but please, try posting in Q&A or PM the chef. I don't see how it was the ROM's fault (Maybe a bad DL I'm guessing?) and I'm sure Royal chef ckisgen does not want to flood this thread by going back and fourth.
[myTouch 4G Android Development] g33kChic:
I'm sorry if this has been asked already...

Has anyone experienced powering the device off and it goes into recovery without you selecting recovery??:confused:
[myTouch 4G Android Development] DADDYDC650:
I have not experienced this myself with 1.5. Have you updated Clockwork recovery?
[myTouch 4G Android Development] ckisgen:
yes. if you have it plugged in, it's going to reboot into recovery every time... unless on the newest cwm 3.0.2.4 recovery

this behavior was/is a clockworkmod behavior (again only on the older versions now luckily)

if it's not plugged in to usb or the wall, i couldn't tell you .. it shouldn't be doing that
[myTouch 4G Android Development] lanternslight456:
@nick_karstedt

A few questions come to mind.

Do you have Eng bootloader?

If yes, Do fastboot commands work?

Could you be doing something wrong in adb causing it not to work ie typos and such

What recovery were you using?

What procedure exactly did you use to flash?

When you plug in the phone do you get charging led?

Have you pulled the battery for atleast 1min?

@daddy

What is the thread for if not assisting with problems? Thanks and props are great but help has always been high priority.
[myTouch 4G Android Development] ckisgen:
lantern - per XDA, this whole section of the forum "Android Development" and subsequent threads are really designed to be used strictly for development related posts .. this can include actual bugs with the app/ROM/whatever so that the developer can use this information to clean his program up if he chooses to (i would hope so).

but really this was never intended to be a 'troubleshooting' forum (development) though i can certainly understand why people believe that it is and i know that i have helped perpetuate that along with many others ... it's not necessarily a 'bad' thing, as long as the moderators don't mind, but it does make these ROM threads INCREDIBLY long and sometimes difficult to find the actual 'development' related information that this thread is supposed to be for

... with all of that said - you are right in that helping people has always been teamroyal and my (and most of the xda members) priority. and i'm not going to likely give anyone a hard time anytime soon for helping anyone in any capacity.

however, daddydc was pretty much right in that this particular issue (help - my phone is a 'brick' <<no its not, i know what he meant but a brick doesn't boot, etc>>) was not 'caused' by a proper flash of this ROM. 2,000 other people have downloaded this version of the ROM without this happening.

i REALLY appreciate that you wanna help the guy out - but if you wouldn't mind, please do so by PM or by the original poster taking his issue over to Q&A or General ... i'm not trying to be 'cold' and i'm not trying to act as if his problem isn't legit or that i don't care or whatever. but truly, i don't know what the heck happened to his phone (maybe a bad download? but i've never heard of a bad download making someones phone 'unflashable' either) but this really isn't the right place to iron it out.

help is available, he just needs to follow the proper channels to do so. no one's flaming him or you or anyone else.

lantern - if you need my assistance on this feel free to PM me and i'll do what i can to help you and/or him. but i'm no real expert on this .. my phone has never gone down like that. but there are several other threads out there that discuss things similar to this.

let's all work together. let's just do it the proper way out of respect for everyone.

thanks all

.. working on updates as i type this
[myTouch 4G Android Development] g33kChic:
Oh thank you so much! I thought something was wrong with my phone :o

Awesome ROM!

THANKS ckisgen!
[myTouch 4G Android Development] Dodolom:
That didn't solve my problem either...hmmmmmmm
[myTouch 4G Android Development] oak25:
yea.. I am coming back to this, Beautiful widgets does not work on the new CM7... even though i purchased it.. a bit frustrating... It could be the rom or just the way the damn way im holding my phone but I did get better "data" reception with this.. so my question is...

Do I Redownload this ROM today or do i wait?
[myTouch 4G Android Development] phaino00:
Update for BW in market fixes issues with cm7.

Sent from my HTC Glacier
[myTouch 4G Android Development] doat:
I searched Music and could not find an answer to my problem.

Last night I tried to listen to music and i just heard a slight static when i tried playing a song, I thought it was just the stock music player so i downloaded PowerAMP and it still does not play the music I just get static. The radio works fine.
[myTouch 4G Android Development] Unythios:
Ok at 45% battery now and I'm at 19h 52m 28s on battery with 1h 24m 22s screen on-time. Auto brightness on and governor untouched. All I did was install my apps and change the dock bar on LP and changed skins on my BW. all is VERY good right now on this ROM.
[myTouch 4G Android Development] doat:
I am at 15hrs 28m on battery, governor untouched on smartass, screen time of 56m, and i recently was installing some apps and testing out the new gingerbread keyboard i downloaded. Battery is at 70%, if i were still on the stock ROM my phone would be dead by now lol.
[myTouch 4G Android Development] marcos.lennis:
Yes I have the SYSTEM Auto_rotation on. That is weird... I dont know what else to do.
[myTouch 4G Android Development] beelbeel:
I'm at 16.5 hours up time, 55 minutes of screen time (mostly word feud, maybe 4 minutes of web browsing) one phone call lasting about a minute, and I have 56% of my battery left.

I am using desktop visualizer and minimalistic text as my entire home screen, and I also use widgetlocker. I wonder if they make a noticeable impact. It is probably somewhat minor.

Unythios, do you use custom auto-brightness settings?
[myTouch 4G Android Development] Mathato:
Not sure what's going on. Or what I do to trigger this but.

Ive had RG1.5 running since release and about 3 or 4 times now my ringtone (phone/SMS) just goes blank. My phone will still vibrate but tthe ringtone is deselected.
[myTouch 4G Android Development] Dodolom:
Can someone please share their WORKING MMS APN Settings? It would be found under

Settings/Wireless & Networks/Mobile Networks/Access Point Names/T-Mobile US.

Thanks
[myTouch 4G Android Development] doat:
for me in MMSC it says http://mms.msg.eng.t-mobile.com/mms/wapenc, no proxy or port set, under APN type it says default, supl,mms.

I am still getting 3G and could not find how to fix this issue in this thread, unless it was the part about flashing to a new kernel. Found the page finally lol, looking into it.
[myTouch 4G Android Development] Unythios:
No I don't. I left everything as it was when installed minus the wallpaper and the launcher.

Right now I'm ~~ 1d 0h 46m 49s on battery. Screen on-time is 1h 43m 24s. Still have 28% remaining. We'll see how long she goes. I have received several calls today, posted several things on the forums with the XDA App. 110 text messages. roughly 20 emails. Been on 4G most of the time. Browsed Reddit for 20 mins while cooking my lunch at work. Even browsed youtube for a bit. So far this ROM has the best battery life I've seen on any ROM from the G1, MT3G and MT4G.

EDIT:: Here's a screen shot.
[myTouch 4G Android Development] doat:
how are you getting 4g? I only get 4g randomly for a few seconds.
[myTouch 4G Android Development] Unythios:
all of the CM based ROMs I have used 4G only seemed to come on when it was needed.....it wasn't all the time. Dunno if thats to save battery or what. But I start DLing anything from apps to videos and it starts off on 3G for a half a second then kicks to 4G and off it goes. I meant 4G all day when I used the phone. It stays on 3G 90% of the time. Sorry for the confusion.
[myTouch 4G Android Development] nighthawk626:
gps doesnt work and screen wont turn on every once in awhile
[myTouch 4G Android Development] camalus:
Logcat? Any other info than that?
[myTouch 4G Android Development] ditchmagnet:
Does video chat with yahoo messenger work right for anyone with this ROM? It didn't work for me on CM7 RC4 or this, so I know its not the ROM, just wondering if anyone using RoyalGinger has got the FFC working in yahoo messenger. I really want a working android to PC app.
[myTouch 4G Android Development] lanternslight456:
At first GPS didn't work for me but I used the "GPS Status" app from the market and used the Tools function, Manage A-GPS state, and reset the device, Reboot the device IMMEDIATELY and it's good to go.
[myTouch 4G Android Development] altroy2:
I had to go back to the previous version 1.4.X cause of the problem i was having with radio being unstable. Id get no signal every couple of hours. I like the version I am running right now and batt life is super solid. I'd also like to apologize to one of the devs who askd for some logs from me a few days ago for the radio issue. I have interviews for surgery lined up in dif. States every week now. So, my free time is nonexistent.

Thx for the best rom imo. Oh, i also used up my thx clicks a few days worth on devs here. You r awesome!
[myTouch 4G Android Development] doat:
Actually i did notice that when i was downloading some apps, it switched to H while i was downloading. Thanks.

Can anyone get music to play with this ROM? I can't seem to get it to work i tried another app and i still get static. I searched this thread for the issue but did not find anything about my problem.
[myTouch 4G Android Development] Unythios:
Final Battery Life post

Alright so here is the final battery life number I have before laying it on charge.

1d 12h 14m 44s

Screen on-time is 1h 54m 27s

I'm currently sitting at 9%

Keep in mind that his is me totally trying to make it last as long as possible. This is in no way how I would normally use my phone. From 8pm EST last night til now I only sent 2 texts and checked facebook once. Other than waking it up to check battery percentage it was left untouched.

But for people that only use their phones every once in a while this info should give them an idea of what to expect. This length of time is absolutely phenomenal. CM TeamRoyal and Faux really knocked this one out of the park.

I figure on my normal usage I could get at least 15h out of the battery under my normal use. I use it for meetings, phone calls at work, and keeping up with several job tasks and a few employees. so 15h battery life with a screen on-time of 3-4 H I would be happy as hell with.

Here's a screen grab for you guys just before I threw it on charge. I figure with 9% remaining I could probably squeak out another hr or hr and a half. but I need my phone to be ready so can't go til she dies. LOL

Here's the screen shot.
[myTouch 4G Android Development] Unythios:
Very nice! My GPS worked fine before just took roughly 15-25 seconds to lock on. After resetting it I get a lock on within 5 seconds. Thanks!

No issues here. I downloaded a song off my drop box app and playing it with the stock android music player. Let it Be by The Beatles is jamming out flawlessly....ahhh how I love this song.
[myTouch 4G Android Development] Jacezo:
Idk if this is just a bug or if it has been addressed, but there is some report of having improper image sizes when I flash roms. Also is 8 themes the maximum you can put in the theme chooser?
[myTouch 4G Android Development] ckisgen:
your comment that 'there is some report of having improper image sizes when I flash roms' is really vague and also doesn't make a lot of sense to me. what report? you heard other people reporting something happening on your phone? huh?? ... no way to really respond to that .. everything is fine on this ROM with image size.

there is no maximum that i'm aware of for the theme chooser. the themes can get pretty large in file size (5MB ~ 10MB) and I already felt Ginger had been hitting the Taco Bell drive thru a little hard when she started weighing in at 120MB+ (this ROM is less than 90MB without the themes bundled) so I had to draw the line somewhere

.. feel free to download as many other themes as you would like. i'm guessing at SOME point you may have 'too many' and it may give you some issues but i would fathom that it would be a lot more than you could probably even find that are compatible at this time with CM7 .. remember RG1.5 is baseline CM7 NB#31 (nightly build 31) so look for themes that specifically say they are compatible with this build of CM ... (however i've installed themes in the past that claimed they were 'only' compatible with RC3, RC4, etc. and they worked..i've also downloaded themes that said they worked with RC2 back when RG had an RC2 base and it didn't work so ... sometimes it's hit or miss .. especially since the T Mobile Theme Chooser is still so relatively new)
[myTouch 4G Android Development] ckisgen:
** important updates, please read **

Ya, battery life is insane on this ROM .. here's some screenshots I posted a couple of weeks ago showing what I got on v1.4 .. (and v1.5 should certainly be at least this good, likely better .. especially after you've given it a few days of good proper charging .. possibly a calibrate if needed)

Obviously, this was under fairly light usage but I was specifically trying to 'not use' my phone at the time .. I was just busy with other things .. maybe a phone call or two at 5 mins or less ... I think screen on time was around 90 mins ... handfuls of texts and emails

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*I've also posted my late night play time with Linpack results from the other evening .. this was on v1.5 with faux's 2.4.7 CFS LV kernel (NOT the super duper enthusiast version) maxed out to 1.84GHz

Go Ginger :D

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** i've got v1.6 alpha running as i type this on my glacier ... been running it since late last night and my HSDPA is back to at least where it was with v1.4 .. if not a hair better (but again, network signal dBs, asu's, and ESP 'speed tests' on cellular data is INCREDIBLY subjective or subject to so many outside/uncontrollable/mostly unverifiable influences that change second to second even in the same location .. but anyway, enough quantum physics .. all i know is i DID notice somewhat of a degrade in 4G signal on CM7 NB#31 / RGv1.5 but it's returned to at least v1.4 levels .. for me at least .. hope to have a test build for the testers ___insert unspecified ETA here____ aka real soon. i've got a couple of other fixes in there as well ..

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*** POLL JUST ADDED TO THE TOP OF THE THREAD

I'm leaning towards taking the bundled themes out of v1.6 and getting the overall ROM file size back down to a nice slim size ... (faster to download, quicker/easier to move to and from SD card, less bloat if you don't happen to use all of the themes that are included, etc)

THE THEME MANAGER would STILL BE THERE! I would provide a 'theme menu' on the OP with links to all of the themes that are bundled now in v1.5 + the ones from v1.4 and any others I've dug up along the way that would get updated .. so after you initially flashed the ROM, you'd just go to the OP and pick the ones you wanted, download the apk, and install (no flashing required, just download, press install, open theme chooser, apply the new theme, reboot, done)

OR

would you rather it stay how it is now with the 7 bundled themes (system/default would remain, which is the 8th theme on v1.5)?

.. in case you can't tell, I'm leaning towards the first one :D

(ps - i value everyones input and will likely go with what the popular vote turns out to be .. however i may have to pull rank and go one way or the other in the end depending on how i feel it impacts the overall build)

.... vote soon (it will only count your vote once, i already know what you're thinking) because i will likely be making the decision on this pretty soon
[myTouch 4G Android Development] Unythios:
nice results man.....

I dunno IMO I would cut the fat. Thinner is always better. To be quite honest I use Launcher Pro Plus and Beautiful Widgets. I set up my usual skins for the clock and a custom dock bar with my own wallpaper.

Also I have ran this for 4 days now and didn't even know there were pre-added themes in it LOLOL

My vote is cut the fat!
[myTouch 4G Android Development] kaiso:
Is there a way to reduce the screens from 5 to 1? if so, how?
[myTouch 4G Android Development] phaino00:
Remove preloaded themes. IMHO, they are accessible via download.

Sent from my HTC Glacier
[myTouch 4G Android Development] Unythios:
Not sure what you mean? You mean you don't want multiple home screens? You just want one like back in the early 2000's?

I don't know how to do it with ADW but with Launcher Pro its in the Menu>Preferences>Homescreen Settings>Number of Screens

you can set it from 1-7 though I don't know why you'd want only one.