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[EVO 4G Accessories] Childofthehorn:
Hey guys,

Thought I might post about my HTC EVO Back-lit speaker mod and other things done to my phone physically.

My Blog does show it best:

http://doesitpew.blogspot.com/2011/03/htc-evo-4g-mods-beyond-stock-and-one-of.html

However, here are the Pics of the Speaker Mod!

You can see that now my phone has a Back-lit Speaker port! This is made using a PCB using a simple Resistor/LED serial connection. For those without aa thicker cover, this is still possible because the LED circuit is the same size as the speaker port (though it will muffle with a normal back) or you can put it in the back area of the headphone port.

My reason for this is I am a girl, so I put my phone in my purse when moving about. DO YOU KNOW HOW IMPOSSIBLE IT IS TO FIND YOUR PHONE IN A DARK PURSE? This solves that without being too bright. Also, do not worry as it uses almost no battery and will continue to shine, even if the phone does not have enough voltage to run as this needs only 2.0v to have full illumination! Also, doe not violate the warranty as you do not have to crack open the phone to install, just wrap the wire around the spring loaded battery connections! To connect, just use the FAR RIGHT AND FAR LEFT of the 4 pins, otherwise your phone will get very angry with you and will not charge. Tape is used to diffuse the light.

The red is the base plastic of the phone (used to be covered with black rubberized paint). This has been initially removed by using the back of a razor blade and then finished with plastic polish using a dremel.

Finally finished off with a $7 shipped eBay extended battery with cover.
[EVO 4G Accessories] snowboarda42:
Nice work!

Sent from my hand with XDA Premium installed
[EVO 4G Accessories] OneStepAhead:
ok, but why in the hell would you need a backlit speaker? edit: i see now that i read your whole post.
[EVO 4G Accessories] Childofthehorn:
Its cosmetic and slightly functional. great for those of us with shallow pockets and dark couches!
[EVO 4G Accessories] mizzos4:
Kinda cool. Checked out your blog. Some nice engineering and creativity on there. Love the Link and Kirby post-it art.
[EVO 4G Accessories] breexy:
Niiiiiiiiice !!!!!
[EVO 4G Accessories] alexnaoumi:
i notice u have one of those ebay batteries. how is it working for u?
[EVO 4G Accessories] Childofthehorn:
Cheap Battery that does a good extra two and a half above stock out of the box. great deal
[EVO 4G Accessories] locoboi187:
you're my kinda girl ;]
[EVO 4G Accessories] Necrosan:
Cool mod.

Use your handy dandy DMM to check polarity & voltages?
[EVO 4G Accessories] Childofthehorn:
On the battery or the LED?

Basically, the battery will keep the phone on from a peak of 4.2V and low of about 3.3-3.4 depending on what your setup is. Now, where the led is hooked up is after the battery charging circuit that brings down the voltage to 4.0-4.2V from 5V (again depending on if you have 002 hardware or later versions). That means that this battery will essentially show the same brightness from 3-4Volts and my choice of resistor for this was 103ohm as it was not too bright, but bright enough. The light will show down to 2V with decent brightness, at the limits of the discharge circuitry in your battery (stock cuts itself, the chinese ones do not and do allow overcharging).

You do not need a DMM or Scope for this (even though I love my DSO Nano V2, always in my purse for when I need it!)
[EVO 4G Accessories] Childofthehorn:
BTW: Here is the cheapest on eBay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...921654&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT#ht_2524wt_998

Shipping was MUCH faster than listed, arrived in less than a week!
[EVO 4G Accessories] cabrone1:
You said you are getting 2 hours above stock... how many hours are we talking because usage varies from user to user. Just curious.
[EVO 4G Accessories] Childofthehorn:
Mostly data usage. I am a data user more than talk. This means web-surfing and internet connected games/apps.
[EVO 4G Accessories] cabrone1:
right, but what i mean is what did you get stock (now is stock +2hrs). So, I understand you are getting increased battery life but I am still wondering what you are getting, on avg.

Thnx!
[EVO 4G Accessories] KB112:
Nicely done.
[EVO 4G Accessories] rugedraw:
I likey! I have some extra SMD's laying around from when I changed the lights on the dash of my car to all be one color. I have to take my phone apart anyway to change my cracked digitizer and replace the exterior housing, so I may just do this in the process.

Thanks for the info!
[EVO 4G Accessories] Necrosan:
The Nanos are very cool :)
[EVO 4G Accessories] cabrone1:
Ordered my e bay battery a few days ago. Once it arrives I will be doing this.
[EVO 4G Accessories] chrischoi:
Do you notice a difference in battery life?
[EVO 4G Accessories] Childofthehorn:
There is no real battery drain by the LED. White LEDs are what use battery the most because of the million filters on them make them more dim requiring more power for the same level of brightness. This is not that bright of a light and actually has no real bearing on your battery life.
[EVO 4G Accessories] Pflaumen:
That's awesome. I know how hard it can be to find your phone in a dark ANYWHERE, so this is a great idea.
[EVO 4G Accessories] peperonikiller:
Just finished this mod myself with a small board mount white LED, I have already had this extended battery for about 4 or more months and I notice I can get about an extra 6-8hours with an SBC kernel
[EVO 4G Accessories] vlug:
This... is... AMAZING!!!!
[EVO 4G Accessories] cabrone1:
i ordered that e bay battery and was getting great life out of it then yesterday it some how died in about 11 hours with less than normal use, as the day before it lasted 16... hmmm.
[EVO 4G Accessories] millsb:
I did the same mod using a light from an old battery charger. It was quite simple due to a good write up,thanks to Childofthehorn! I don't really need it for any reason.... just wanted to see if it was hard and if I could do it.
[EVO 4G Accessories] evoplug:
i like that
[HTC Aria General] brswattt:
Okay, so being a proud Aria owner I like to modify it make it looks as sexy as I can ;D

I've been watching the Inspire 4G forums lately and have been seeing a slew of ROMS pop up. Now, not saying I want a huge amount but maybe an awesome custom one.

That's where my idea comes in. I want to make a Custom ROM based off of SENSE DDX FR008.

Now, I know some of what to do....so I need help.

This will probably be an idea for a long time unless I get some help.

NOW THIS IS AN IDEA. DON'T COME STOMPING ALL ON MY STUFF.

I reside in the freenode IRC chat a lot.

Check my signature for a link.

I'm brswattt. Nice to meet you. Just PM me or talk to me in chat.

Added as of 3/17 :

-GO DEV Launcher, SMS, Contacts, and Weather

-Bootanimation

-removed the Rosie.apk and HTC Sense Widgets

In progress

-Adding Reboot, Recovery, and bootloader power menu.
[HTC Aria General] drowningchild:
i would also like this :)
[HTC Aria General] brswattt:
I need Ideas! Ideas!
[HTC Aria General] drowningchild:
first off might be theming it :P

i dont know how to do that :(

maybe create a theme.apk(multiple?) for the theme manager
[HTC Aria General] brswattt:
Look into it for sure.
[HTC Aria General] tilt4life2:
Any way to get this ported or something like this?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=963755

That is a beauty!
[HTC Aria General] martiantakeover:
If you can put the cm6 features into it that would be sick. I like cm6 's customization ie. Status bar color options. And also love the transparent pull down from that gingerbread add on. What would you take from the sense rom?

Banging cm7-night's 14
[HTC Aria General] zedbra:
@brswattt, definately worth a custom ROM/Theme. i have been thinking the same thing, maybe some sort of Hybrid based on another phone such as Droid.

tilt4life2 point out a kick-a$$ ROM. love the lockscreen:D

im slowly learning app creation, and as time allows im looking into system changes. for me i would like a custom ROM which allows the user to re-assign any key function for custom actions(keymapping)... there's probably a program somewhere that does this already;)

Like THIS one:D

good luck bro, if i stumble accross any cool things we can add to a custom build i'll keep you in mind.
[HTC Aria General] brswattt:
Thanks for the support guys! I'll look into it when I get home.
[HTC Aria General] R2D2_SW:
There is a test rom for the Wildfire S, which has similar specs as the Aria. This rom has Gingerbread and Sense 3.0. Would be nice to start off with it if possible. Here the link for the dump of this rom:

http://xdaforums.com/show...61&postcount=5

Edit: Try this link if the first does not work and look for the Marvel_Dump.zip: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=973346
[HTC Aria General] Gene Poole:
Has anyone actually gotten a dump of this that isn't corrupt?
[HTC Aria General] brswattt:
I'll look into all of this into more depth when I get back this weekend from a fishing trip.

Spring break starts Monday so yeah.

Just keep the ideas flowing, and i'll start Day 1 Sometime Monday or Tuesday.
[HTC Aria General] R2D2_SW:
I did get a copy. How do I verify whether it's corrupted or not?
[HTC Aria General] tpbklake:
Did you try the link in this post:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=11763561&postcount=5

http://www.morninglion.com/tp2martin/Marvel_Dump.zip
[HTC Aria General] Gene Poole:
I believe I did (it's in my D/L history). It has a system.img that won't dump.

Edit: I read the whole thread. Seems that there is a "proper" dump. I'll check it out.
[HTC Aria General] Gene Poole:
The system.img (at least) won't dump with unyaffs. This is usually caused by incorrectly copying it from the partition with dd.
[HTC Aria General] tpbklake:
The marvel_dump.zip has the /system image already expanded. The system.img in the original file has a blocksize of 2048, so you have to use a parameter to get unyaffs to extract it.
[HTC Aria General] Noz85:
Interesting project only wish I knew enough to contribute.

sent from my HTC Inspired Desire HD 4G
[HTC Aria General] drowningchild:
shouldnt take much knowledge to just use kitchen to cook up a rom ;)
[HTC Aria General] Javi97100:
I definitely agree with martiontakeover.. wit the cm6 setting. It would be awesome if its possible
[HTC Aria General] drowningchild:
that could be done with the new theme manager...that essentially replaced it as it can theme most of the system
[HTC Aria General] Javi97100:
Awesome
[HTC Aria General] brswattt:
I'm going to put up a poll asking if you want this to be CM7 based, CM6 based, or Sense Based. Thanks for the feedback guys!
[HTC Aria General] nuttkrakk:
I tried cm6, cm7, always fell back to sense. HTC did perfectjob in their UI. The apps, dialer, widgets, calendar, etc is so coherent and intuitive.

What I would like to see happen is a mod similar to "matted blues" mod for Evo.
[HTC Aria General] brswattt:
Thanks for your opinion dude!
[HTC Aria General] nuttkrakk:
This would be something on the long run. Maybe it's faster, more stable and easier is to start off from what we already have. Like the hoxnet Rom you published and port some hdpi mods to mdpi. Just modify resources and maybe some xml, smali hacks later. Once some willing developer takes on the task of publishing a wildfire originated port to aria, we can tweak it as a separate process. I do not see anyone willing to wait as of now
[HTC Aria General] Javi97100:
I prefer cm7 .. I just like being more free to how I want things
[HTC Aria General] zamula:
Although CM7 is awesome, I always go back to FR008. I don't like the the CM7 dialer, but my main issue is I haven't found an e-mail program that does pinch-to-zoom. If I could find that, I would probably make the switch, because I do love all of the control CM7 gives.
[HTC Aria General] attn1:
I've got a clean one but it's unlikely it will run properly on the Aria, despite the similar specs. I don't think the Aria has sufficient space on system/data for Sense II to run reliably, even if at all.

Sense II ROMs are huge.
[HTC Aria General] tribestros:
Don't base this off of FR008...that ROM is a battery hog that isn't perfected. CM7 is seamless with amazing battery life.
[HTC Aria General] ValkyrieLiberty:
I know I want on! (Ill even test). I vote for sense with cm7 bits...
[HTC Aria General] Moh_Jay:
It would be impossible to merge cm7 and fr008 so why not strive for something original like the miui team did.

Signatures are fancy.
[HTC Aria General] brswattt:
I agree. I don't know about making a whole new UI though.
[HTC Aria General] Moh_Jay:
Yea nothings impossible but guessing HTC senses source data from scratch is near impossible :P

Signatures are fancy.
[HTC Aria General] jasonyump:
Pure AOSP 2.3 for the win. heh
[HTC Aria General] CallMeAria:
I gave to agree that sense is probably the best 'stock' ui. I like it far more that what Samsung and Motorola offer. HTC did a great job.

But I still prefer asop over even sense. An alternative can be found for pretty much every aspect of sense. A lot of people complain about the asop dialer but I actually didn't care for the sense dialer. Dialer One is by far, IMO the best dialer. And launcherpro plus with its extra Widgets make up for the missing sense Widgets.

So maybe a poll on which free apps are the best alternative apps would be good to include in a possible gingerbread based rom? I think that would turn more people on to aosp BASED roms and make them more attractive out of the box for people that dont want stock but want superior usability with out having do to a ton of customizing. From what I've read on these forums a lot of people don't want sense but at the same time want more than basic aosp. The only reason I even bring it up is because we don't need more of the same. I'm happy with cm7, but its not for everybody. So maybe make a numbered list of app types and have people post what they like, Then tally em all up?
[HTC Aria General] ValkyrieLiberty:
I have been persuaded. That makes tons of sense (no pun)...it's true.
[HTC Aria General] cHarley04:
+2 - CM7 wrapped with a great apps & theme package sounds good to me.

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[HTC Aria General] woodbane:
The one thing that keeps me on Sense currently is the email app. I find it FAR superior to the stock Android one particularly the look, feel, in line HTML and the fact you can schedule peak and off-peak schedules for every account you set up. If it supported multiple exchange acounts it would be PERFECT.

If there was a way to get an email app that had the look and feel of the Sense based email along with multiple exchange accounts on a CM7 based platform I'd be all over it like white on rice! :D

I have to say I do like the way Sense looks over AOSP, it has a polished feel to it. I find the stock Android iterations in CM6.1 & 7 just a bit.....plain. It's frustrating as I do prefer the increased usability of the 6.1 & 7 ROMS, I just wish they were a bit prettier (what's with everything being black or dark grey?) and see above re email.

Maybe I just haven't figured out how to prettify CM ROMS yet, if I'm missing something obvious, could some let me know please?
[HTC Aria General] brswattt:
Alright guys I'm trying to build CM7 from source right now, so looks like that's the base of this ROM IDEA.

Now theming, give me your ideas!
[HTC Aria General] drowningchild:
do you have 64bit system?
[HTC Aria General] brswattt:
My desktop is. My laptop is not. I'm using my laptop.
[HTC Aria General] drowningchild:
to build gingerbread its requied to have 64bit
[HTC Aria General] brswattt:
EDIT : Thanks for that.
[HTC Aria General] :
Dude...if you are theming cm7 just use the included T-Mobile theme engine. That's the point of it. Also a lot less future maintenance headache on your part...

HTC Inspire Clockwork Recovery * CM7(kang) * Eng S-Off
[HTC Aria General] stone_ship:
What about a complete Theme Engine treatment of the GO Dev series of apps?

There is already GO Launcher, GO SMS, GO Weather, and GO Contacts/Dialer. Theming some of the Android interface to match and some of the major apps such as Music would be pretty sweet.
[HTC Aria General] drowningchild:
any ideas for actual theming?
[HTC Aria General] drowningchild:
and i would also suggest GOdev apps as they are free and have features like most of the paid apps they are like do
[HTC Aria General] brswattt:
Adding the godev apps to the ROM sounds like a good idea.
[HTC Aria General] brswattt:
Ok, so just to lay this out as I was pointed out to in IRC chat just a moment ago : this ROM is no longer going to be CM7 based.

It is either going to be FR008 based or AOSP based.

Wouldn't want to redistribute CM7 to the public like that.
[HTC Aria General] nuttkrakk:
I read this somewhere else too. But maybe update sense gfx on FR008 with Sense II ones and implement new hacks like notification menu power toggle widgets, change unread counters to RED. And if "it is somewhat possible" update some sense apks with new ones.
[HTC Aria General] jdwhite87:
FR008 with a notification power widget would be awesome! And I personally would love the red counters but not everyone would. Maybe put in a way to change UI colors system wide? Like change all the stock green stuff to red, blue, orange or whatever

Edit: and add some fancy animations too :)
[HTC Aria General] zervic:
Isn't the point of AOSP (Android Open Source Project) that the source be available to all? I'm pretty sure that you can use anything as the base for whatever you want as long as you give credits where due, it's ethics 101 lol. Now if you were to use CM7 as the base and call it your own, that'd be ****ed up. But, personally, i see no ethical reasons as to why you wouldn't be "allowed" to do that...
[HTC Aria General] :
Back in my aria days before I was hooked on aosp, I always wanted a cool sense rom like the desire folks etc have. I think the aria is really lacking a themed up sense rom. Attn1 put out that ddx fr008 base rom and no one has taken advantage of it to theme it.
[HTC Aria General] woodbane:
I think a beefed up version of FR008 is a great idea. Sense 2 based stuff would be cool as would the ability to theme.

I've been playing with ROMS a LOT since I got this phone and while I love the CM based ROMS and the customization, I always find myself coming back to the FR008 build as I feel it's just nicer to look at and a more polished experience.

I've actually modded the FR008 ROM further for my own use, adding the working Bluetooth Voice Dialer, adding Car Home from gapps (I think its better that the HTC one) and generally adding bits I want and removing bits I don't. All of this directly in the ROM zip file so it all gets applied during the flash.

The one thing I'm craving is the HTC Mail app with the ability to sync multiple exchange accounts. I know the built in Android app does this but frankly it sucks in comparison to the Sense based Mail app.

Combined with DT's a2sd I'm currently running with 130MB internal memory free and that's not even moving the Dalvik onto the SD.

I'm really looking forward to seeing where this goes!:D
[HTC Aria General] lilhaiti:
Please forgive me if you are already looking into this, but there seems to be some life in other similar phones that you guys could use as resources. I know the Legend has pretty much the same hardware as the Aria, and the Eris and Wildfire are somewhat similar. There are some pretty good ideas and resources in each of their sections, may as well not try and re-invent the wheel. The Legend for example has an Expresso Port and a Wildfire S port already in the works, those two projects could provide massive resources for a ROM (or two) for the Aria.
[HTC Aria General] tpbklake:
So you actually replaced the Voice Dialer.apk with the one from CM 6 or CM 7? Did you also have to replace the Bluetooth.apk? with the CM version, too?
[HTC Aria General] attn1:
cyanogenmod is not AOSP. It's built on and is a superset of AOSP. Yes, source is available - so that others can contribute back to the project by submitting their code changes. Taking that work and redistributing it with another label on it - even giving credit is bad form, and is going to create a lot of logistical issues regarding support, distribution and revision currency.

Rather than redistributing a skinned up cyanogenmod ROM, the best thing to do would be to create a theme using the new theme engine and possibly include a bolt on package that modifies CM.

No one can stop (or should even try to stop) anyone from using cyanogenmod as a base for another ROM, in fact, it's done often on other devices. It's just a screwed up thing to do, IMO, and the end result has never been as good as the real deal.
[HTC Aria General] SectorNine50:
WOW. That is a SWEET ROM...

What phone is it running on? I see some of it is a bit laggy, would our overclocked Aria's be able to do it a little better?
[HTC Aria General] the_hatter:
I'm not a dev, so I may be a little off base, but here goes. First, it's running on a G2/Desire Z. That phone uses an 800 MHz processor, so faster than the Aria's (default) 600 MHz, and it also has more RAM. With that said, the screen on that phone has a higher res than the aria, so that will be sucking away some (most?) of the extra cpu power. So I imagine it would run fairly comparably on a non-overclocked Aria, or maybe a little better on an overclocked one.

However, that ROM looks pretty resource-heavy to me, what with the flipping page screen etc. and I imagine there is a lot of stuff running in the background. So I doubt we'd ever get very good performance with that kind of ROM on the Aria. This is just a guess though.
[HTC Aria General] brswattt:
Downloading the deodexed FR008 ROM now.
[HTC Aria General] stone_ship:
Since it's been decided that this will be Sense based, I guess it would be good to break down the things that people don't like about stock Sense that we could feasibly change for this ROM.

IMO it's good to start out with a few things to concentrate on and expand rather than have some huge wishlist that is overwhelming.

Just a couple of my thoughts:

reboot on the power menu

less glossy overall look
[HTC Aria General] stone_ship:
Here is a modded power menu from the Desire section. The 2nd post kind of details how he did it--way above what I'm capable of now, but maybe easy for someone else?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=776495
[HTC Aria General] brswattt:
Thanks for your opinion dude! I'll look into this after a birthday party today....and a few cups of coffee. Lol.

And that link, i'll check also.

Thanks stone!
[HTC Aria General] nuttkrakk:
Can we ask permission to use gfx of another mdpi HTC rom from the developer and clone it for aria? This would be fastest.
[HTC Aria General] zedbra:
definately good to prioritize features when building a custom ROM. Start with the major stuff such as WiFi, BT, maybe OC kernal, and nice power prompt menu.

i am very pleased with CM7, but personally i have always found "Liberated FR008" from attn1 to work most natural for the Aria. never any WiFi issues or Data pushing. Sometimes CM7 wont recieve email or messages quickly. Also battery life has been best with FR008.

IMO, FR008 would be a better choice for the base ROM, but include some features from CM7. (ie: better lockscreen, and Blacklist) you can add Trackball functions with a .zip created by someone here... cant remember who or for which device but it works for Aria too;)

edit: here it is. Trackball Answer for Nexus One