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[idrisov]

Hi Mike, I think the problem is that the screen goes white in the ics-dev kernel . When I was building a ICS with gingerbread kernel he don't boot at all ,but he doesn't go to white screen.

[mikeioannina]

Some download statistics from my website:

27 Dec 2012 - 15 Jan 2013

170 downloads/RacerMod-1.4-Racer.zip
93 downloads/gapps-gb-20110828-minimal.zip
69 downloads/CWM-5.0.2.8-1.3.zip
53 downloads/RacerMod-1.4-Carl.zip
16 downloads/RacerMod-1.3-Racer.zip
9 downloads/RacerMod-1.3-Carl.zip

I'm impressed by how many people download my rom but only very few participate in this thread.

[SoftStoner]

mikeioannina, on 15 January 2013 - 05:31 PM, said:

I'm impressed by how many people download my rom but only very few participate in this thread.

I actually installed your 1.4 version yesterday on my Gen1 Racer but hadn't got the time to test it very thoroughly. Some thoughts, though...

- The dock bar often disappears, for whatever reason.
- Using Google Maps for a few seconds didn't reboot the phone (used to happen A LOT on every 3D application, either it's fixed or maybe I just didn't stress it enough).
- Compcache still doesn't work (used swap stays at 0 after enabling and rebooting).
- I have to test if the selected wifi sleep policy is honoured (it wasn't on RacerBoy's versions, it always dropped the connection when the screen turned off even if "never" was selected).
- The touch screen precision is God-awful, but I think it uses closed libraries, so there's nothing that can be done about it (hopefully I'm wrong ).
- Haptic feedback can be completely disabled with this kernel, yay!
- The answer button doesn't work in CWM 5.0.2.8, must enable the back button and use the power button to select menu entries.

That's mostly what I gathered after playing with it for five minutes. I didn't test GSM/UMTS connectivity, phone calls or SMS. Anyway, I must say this is looking really great. Thanks a lot for your work on a newer kernel for the ZTE Racer, it was sorely, sorely needed.

[mikeioannina]

SoftStoner, on 16 January 2013 - 03:01 PM, said:

- The dock bar often disappears, for whatever reason.
- Using Google Maps for a few seconds didn't reboot the phone (used to happen A LOT on every 3D application, either it's fixed or maybe I just didn't stress it enough).
- Compcache still doesn't work (used swap stays at 0 after enabling and rebooting).
- I have to test if the selected wifi sleep policy is honoured (it wasn't on RacerBoy's versions, it always dropped the connection when the screen turned off even if "never" was selected).
- The touch screen precision is God-awful, but I think it uses closed libraries, so there's nothing that can be done about it (hopefully I'm wrong ).
- The answer button doesn't work in CWM 5.0.2.8, must enable the back button and use the power button to select menu entries.

Thanks for the feedback.

-You mean the launcher dock bar? It disappears for some unknown reason (maybe the bad touchscreen driver is related to this) Current solution is to install another launcher like LauncherPro
-We still don't have full 3D acceleration... In fact this is the part I spend most of my time to find out what's wrong and fix it but haven't found anything yet
-I haven't tried compcache because I spent all my time in fixing the bigger problems first
-I can't test anything about wifi because I don't own a Racer, I own a variant of Racer (ZTE Carl) that uses different wifi (which doesn't work with the newer kernel, no sources released from zte or any other manufacturer that work)
-The touchscreen calibration is bad. There is no good method to calibrate these older touchscreens in gingerbread. I've done my best to have a usable driver but it doens't work the same for all the people. In the next release I'll probably include a second touchscreen driver with disabled dual touch hacks and hope that it's working better.
-In CWM 5.0.2.8 I changed the buttons from answer/decline to home/back. These are the buttons that all other phones use in recovery.

[a3171248]

mikeioannina, on 16 January 2013 - 03:45 PM, said:

Thanks for the feedback.

-You mean the launcher dock bar? It disappears for some unknown reason (maybe the bad touchscreen driver is related to this) Current solution is to install another launcher like LauncherPro
-We still don't have full 3D acceleration... In fact this is the part I spend most of my time to find out what's wrong and fix it but haven't found anything yet
-I haven't tried compcache because I spent all my time in fixing the bigger problems first
-I can't test anything about wifi because I don't own a Racer, I own a variant of Racer (ZTE Carl) that uses different wifi (which doesn't work with the newer kernel, no sources released from zte or any other manufacturer that work)
-The touchscreen calibration is bad. There is no good method to calibrate these older touchscreens in gingerbread. I've done my best to have a usable driver but it doens't work the same for all the people. In the next release I'll probably include a second touchscreen driver with disabled dual touch hacks and hope that it's working better.
-In CWM 5.0.2.8 I changed the buttons from answer/decline to home/back. These are the buttons that all other phones use in recovery.

- this is the dock thing you talking about?  http://forum.cyanoge...cons-disappear/
this is how I solved it: http://forum.cyanoge...ar/#entry111133

Quote

menu -> settings -> adw settings (or just straight to adw settings) -> UI settings and the second section down will be called "hidden dockbar", and right under that header the button next to "Dockbar" will be checked by default.  Uncheck it.

- as I said, the calibration worked fine in other build. can you just take the settings from there? also, I noticed something: it works OK when pressing the screen quickly, but it doesn't when pressing "normally" (i.e., slowly). can it be too "reactive"? is there a setting to configure the speed to which the screen should react?
- also, the home, menu and back buttons seem to be badly configured. I'd say they are too below in the screen. when you press the top of them, you may end pressing objects in the screen.
I'd just ask the other devs here in this subforum or try copying their settings and see if they work.

Sorry if I wasn't too clear, english is not my first language and I don't know much about android dev.
I hope this helps.

[mikeioannina]

SoftStoner, on 16 January 2013 - 03:01 PM, said:

I actually installed your 1.4 version yesterday on my Gen1 Racer but hadn't got the time to test it very thoroughly. Some thoughts, though...

- The dock bar often disappears, for whatever reason.
- Using Google Maps for a few seconds didn't reboot the phone (used to happen A LOT on every 3D application, either it's fixed or maybe I just didn't stress it enough).
- Compcache still doesn't work (used swap stays at 0 after enabling and rebooting).
- I have to test if the selected wifi sleep policy is honoured (it wasn't on RacerBoy's versions, it always dropped the connection when the screen turned off even if "never" was selected).
- The touch screen precision is God-awful, but I think it uses closed libraries, so there's nothing that can be done about it (hopefully I'm wrong ).
- Haptic feedback can be completely disabled with this kernel, yay!
- The answer button doesn't work in CWM 5.0.2.8, must enable the back button and use the power button to select menu entries.

That's mostly what I gathered after playing with it for five minutes. I didn't test GSM/UMTS connectivity, phone calls or SMS. Anyway, I must say this is looking really great. Thanks a lot for your work on a newer kernel for the ZTE Racer, it was sorely, sorely needed.

About compcache: you need to insmod the zram.ko, lzo_compress.ko and lzo_decompress.ko modules. Try that and report if it works

[Kyrii]

I'll test your rom and send my feedback

[mikeioannina]

I'm working on the kernel now. I downloaded the CAF msm kernel & comparing trees. Found the initial 2.6.32 kernel tree that ZTE started making changes from. Now I'm trying to find the 2.6.35 kernel initial branch, I'm close.

Hope that all this work will help me source the gralloc problem.

For anyone interested, here are the sources: https://github.com/m...zte_msm7x27-caf

Edited by mikeioannina, 21 January 2013 - 01:58 PM.

[mikeioannina]

Hello guys, I have a little surprise for you.

Gralloc problem is probably fixed!!!!!!! That means we have fully working CRT-on & CRT-off animations, working rotation animation & probably full hardware 3D acceleration.

I spent 6 days looking into the kernel source and I found a line that ZTE had commented out. I removed the comment and everything works now!

A new release is coming when I test everything, I've included a new touchscreen driver too, hope that it's better.

[satp0lpp]

mikeioannina, on 23 January 2013 - 07:50 AM, said:

Hello guys, I have a little surprise for you.

Gralloc problem is probably fixed!!!!!!! That means we have fully working CRT-on & CRT-off animations, working rotation animation & probably full hardware 3D acceleration.

I spent 6 days looking into the kernel source and I found a line that ZTE had commented out. I removed the comment and everything works now!

A new release is coming when I test everything, I've included a new touchscreen driver too, hope that it's better.

    ..........
congrats mike

[-=PAC-MAN=-]

Thanks, Mike
Your ROM is the best of the ones I've tried

[Raphael Machado]

OMG!! Wow!!
That's awesome mike!!
We appreciate your effort and your dedication!

[mikeioannina]

Well, there are still some issues, the screen is distorted for a little after the boot logo and before the bootanimation, but it works fine after the bootanimation.

[redhawkuk]

Does the digital compass work for Racer gen1?? this has always been a sticking point for me not to move away to CM7 based ROMs.

Richard S.

[jogjadroid]

it's amazing....
good work mike...thanks for the best rom
my phone like having a new life now

[mikeioannina]

redhawkuk, on 23 January 2013 - 09:45 PM, said:

Does the digital compass work for Racer gen1?? this has always been a sticking point for me not to move away to CM7 based ROMs.

Richard S.

I don't see a reasor for it not to work... on my phone it always worked.

Edited by mikeioannina, 24 January 2013 - 03:00 PM.

[equiliym]

totally offtopic, i noticed you wrote you made your site mobile friendly.. may i asked if you used media query for that? or some other css style thing?

[Raphael Machado]

@equiliym
I guess he used this template from MobiFreaks: http://mobifreaks.co...bsite-template/

[equiliym]

Raphael Machado, on 24 January 2013 - 07:17 PM, said:

@equiliym
I guess he used this template from MobiFreaks: http://mobifreaks.co...bsite-template/

thanks! will download and take a look at it

[mikeioannina]

Raphael Machado, on 24 January 2013 - 07:17 PM, said:

@equiliym
I guess he used this template from MobiFreaks: http://mobifreaks.co...bsite-template/

Right