10/Mar 3.2 - MoDaCo Custom ROM for GSM Hero (now with online kitchen)

[Guest teknologist]

yeah i guess i need to come down... i still don't get why paul doesn't say in the first post to wipe if anyone has problems... in fact he even encourages people not to wipe... :D

Well I guess most of the people don't screw that bad their Hero...I have been developing the teknologist kernel, installing like 10 updates a day to test it , revering etc..., upgraded all Paul's ROM for 2.5 to 2.9...and...

I never had to do a wipe ! And I would recommend it as a last resort....

Edited November 5, 2009 by teknologist

[Guest teknologist]

Okay,

After reading all the issues for the new 2.9 version, I must say nearly none of them sound familiar.

Eversince version 2.6 i have installed every new version without wiping the device. All just on top of eachother, and without problems.

With the new 2.9 version I do have the issue that the memory indication drops to about 44MEG, and even deleting the cache dir did not solve it.

I have my apps on the SD card so I don't see much of a problem there.

I don't have any market issues, up until now, and installed just yesterday (with the 2.9 version) a new version of the ASTRO filemanager.

I have set up a synchronisation between the phone and the work calendar via the Activesync/Exchange sync. This works well, even with the new version.

So, in short, I am very happy and pleased with the new roms.. Keep them coming...!!

Thanks Paul and Teknologist!!!!

Glad you are happy !

I wouldn't pay too much attention to memory levels (you are using compcache so you don't really know how much is left.. ;-)

From my point of view, I start looking at memory,errors etc...if I see lag/slowness etc. Otherwise if my Hero feels fast, snappy, responsive I don't bother looking at memory levels.

I tend to think that Android's memory management does a good job when you give it a decent amount of available memory (and not the ridiculous 196MB of hardware RAM it has)...

I barely use Taskiller anymore and don't leave it running, as I found it uses a constant 2-3% CPU.

And I am saying all this after 24h+ of using the Hero without reboot...

Edited November 5, 2009 by teknologist

[Guest badass1]

is it me or the camera improved tremendously? turns on faster,pictures are less blurry and snaps faster.

I think you're right, it does seem a lot faster. The shots taken are a lot less blurry even if i move the camera while pressing the trackball.

Hopefully the image can be made brighter for darker situations, say by increasing the sensitivity of the light sensors, or if not then software enhancement of the image for dark situations.

[Guest badass1]

is it me or the camera improved tremendously? turns on faster,pictures are less blurry and snaps faster.

I think you're right, it does seem a lot faster. The shots taken are a lot less blurry even if i move the camera while pressing the trackball.

Hopefully the image can be made brighter for darker situations, say by increasing the sensitivity of the light sensors, or if not then software enhancement of the image for dark situations.

[Guest stripealipe]

Seems to snap faster indeed...but pictures are still very dark in interior shots ! I mean compare it with an iPhone 3GS (if you have one) in your living room..low light...the difference is abysmal...

The AutoISO setting doesn't work so great for low low light/indoors. If you want better pics in low light, change the ISO manually to 800.

It will add more noise to the image, but the pics will be a bit better.

[Guest badass1]

is it me or the camera improved tremendously? turns on faster,pictures are less blurry and snaps faster.

I think you're right, it does seem a lot faster. The shots taken are a lot less blurry even if i move the camera while pressing the trackball.

FOR DARK - LOW LIGHT LEVELS

If you press menu in the camera and 'brightness' and put it on full, compare the image before and after changing the brightness, it's a lot better -Also change 'Metering mode' to average. Even at ISO400 (which looks better than ISO800 with full brightness - just tried it)

If this isn't enough then hopefully they can enhance it more though software etc. but at the moment it is waaaay better.

Thanks Paul

Edited November 5, 2009 by badass1

[Guest kendon]

Well I guess most of the people don't screw that bad their Hero...I have been developing the teknologist kernel, installing like 10 updates a day to test it , revering etc..., upgraded all Paul's ROM for 2.5 to 2.9...and...

I never had to do a wipe ! And I would recommend it as a last resort....

actually i had no problems without wiping either most of the time (had to do it maybe twice, probably because i screwed sthing up :D ), but in most cases it is the quickest solution. plus if it works we know it is not a problem with the phone itself. having the comfort of the nandroid one could make a backup, wipe, see if it works, if it doesn't go back and look into it. if it does work then restore, get your stuff backed up in peace, wipe again, restore your stuff and you're good to go. imho it is all a matter of comparing the effort to the result. but i will step back and let people ask, i don't to cause trouble here, like this forum actually very much. :P

[Guest NiTroZiK]

i have done now but my phone is constantly rebooting..why?

helppp pls

[Guest Splather]

i have done now but my phone is constantly rebooting..why?

helppp pls

Read through the last couple of pages...

[Guest squirreleater]

By the way, just to repeat myself, I did an upgrade yesterday from MCR2.8+1.8 of my kernel to MCR 2.9 and I did experience a few automatic reboot loops after the upgrade and let the phone alone do its reboots...after a few minutes (and a few automatic reboots) it started normally, and works perfectly. No missing apps, no force closes and works great everytime I turn it of/on....

Works fast, smooth, responsive and stable ! Great work Paul !

Paul, maybe it's normal that the phone reboots a couple of times to perform software upgrades/refresh after MCR 2.9 install....

In my case I though it was because of all the apps I have in A2SD partition....

Just my experiences installing MCR 2.9,

Hope it helps,

Cheers!

Indeed, I upgraded to 2.9 as well as the radio, the phone went into a reboot cycle once too many times then was fine.

Runs very nicely indeed, thanks to you and Paul for your work.

[Guest theFRAGGLE]

After the problems with v2.9 (missing paid apps) I did a wipe and restored a nandroid backup of v2.8 and teknologist kernel 1.8

Everything is running fine again - but after reading the last posts I think I will give the updated v2.9 another try.

If anything goes wrong I still have my working backup... :-)

[Guest teknologist]

actually i had no problems without wiping either most of the time (had to do it maybe twice, probably because i screwed sthing up :D ), but in most cases it is the quickest solution. plus if it works we know it is not a problem with the phone itself. having the comfort of the nandroid one could make a backup, wipe, see if it works, if it doesn't go back and look into it. if it does work then restore, get your stuff backed up in peace, wipe again, restore your stuff and you're good to go. imho it is all a matter of comparing the effort to the result. but i will step back and let people ask, i don't to cause trouble here, like this forum actually very much. :P

Don't worry at the end I do agree with you. Also how many times questions are posted even though the answer is already in the forums ? ...I'd say most of the time.. ;-)

Didn't meant to offend you. Was just trying to make a point explaining that the opposite, which is "I got a problem, lets wipe", is sometimes an easy solution, but understanding why it doesn't work is alos important because lets devs fix things also...

But for people who don't know how to use adb, shell, you are completely right, wipe ! :-)

I personally like having you around here as you've been of great help during the teknologist kernel releases...I wasn't able to answer everything quickly and was glad you and others have been there!

so, Please don't step back! ;-)

[Guest teknologist]

After the problems with v2.9 (missing paid apps) I did a wipe and restored a nandroid backup of v2.8 and teknologist kernel 1.8

Everything is running fine again - but after reading the last posts I think I will give the updated v2.9 another try.

If anything goes wrong I still have my working backup... :-)

Well said ! :D

[Guest theFRAGGLE]

Updated to v2.9 and it is GREAT! Still have -30 MB space, but we learned that this is not a problem. Paid apps are still there. And boy, is my phone FAST!

Thank you so much Paul and Teknologist! :-)

[Guest donyork]

Just update to 2.9, no wipe needed (coming from 2.8).. the first boot took like 4-5 minutes.. after second boot phone work nice and fast :P

Thanks for the grate job Paul :D

I check the sync issue with exchange and dont find any problem!!! that good over here!!

I still have a problem with the Auto Dimmer Backlight of the Phone.. I will realy like to hear if someone else note it... or even if its work fine for you.. just to know if its a software issue or its unique to my hero... reply's will be nice

Edited November 5, 2009 by donyork

[Guest mbba]

I think 2.9 needs a bit of work i found it fast cool and fantastic yesterday today i decided to go back to 2.8 radio FU reason the 3g internet keeps locking up or dropping connection i think theres an issue with the packet data on 2.9 or the radio. since av downgraded to 2.8 exerything working smoth even the wifi tethering problem is fixed and working fine no more apps problems.

[Guest uk786]

Just update to 2.9, no wipe needed (coming from 2.8).. the first boot took like 4-5 minutes.. after second boot phone work nice and fast :P

Thanks for the grate job Paul :D

I check the sync issue with exchange and dont find any problem!!! that good over here!!

I still have a problem with the Auto Dimmer Backlight of the Phone.. I will realy like to hear if someone else note it... or even if its work fine for you.. just to know if its a software issue or its unique to my hero... reply's will be nice

It could be a application you have installed..

[Guest uk786]

Updated to 2.9 from 2.8 without wipe and phone is slightly faster slight bit more RAM better camera and about 30mb less internal memory (not an issue) all those small improvements add up to make an massive difference great work PAUL and TEC.. can'twait for v3.0

[Guest uk786]

wow just noticed that data transfer speed has also increased by a respectable 2mb/s approx.. almost hitting 10mb/s

[Guest darkskiez]

For the abysmal low light performance, i just learned about setting your contrast to -2 in the settings, in addition to the iso 800, Makes a significant difference!

[Guest JadeMonkee]

I upgraded to the 1.8 kernel and the new IU radios while running MCR2.8

I have now updated to 2.9 (did it the same night I upgraded to MCK1.8 and the radio). The loooooong initial boot was quite scary, but I didn't touch it, and it eventually came up with no problems.

I've not experienced any of the issues anyone else has mentioned. However, it seems that my WiFi is having a bit of trouble.

When I wake up in the morning (for the last two mornings since updating), it is no longer connected, but rather, is running on 3G. The WiFi sleep policy is set to "never".

Also, this morning, after I left the house, I went to turn WiFi off (I was already out of range of my network), but it couldn't. It kept trying for about a minute (the widget was greyed out, but it never clicked over to "off") before I gave up and rebooted the phone.

Also, I had a bit of trouble getting data to work over 3G yesterday (a reboot fixed it). Does anyone else have any problems with the latest radios?

EDIT: I'm on Network 3, Australia.

EDIT2: Yep. I'm having trouble getting (3G) data to work with the new radios (or is it the new ROM?). I often can't establish a connection, and I try to fix it by moving to Aeroplane mode, waiting a minute, then reconnecting. This doesn't help. A full reboot is required to get data to work again.

Is anyone else having problems with the new radios?

EDIT3: Ok. A reboot didn't help either... will check if there is a network fault. Is it possible to downgrade the radios just by flashing the previous version? Or is it more complicated than this?

EDIT4: Ok... it was a network problem. Carry on! Nothing to see here!

In other news, has anyone experienced WiFi problems with the new radios?

Edited November 6, 2009 by JadeMonkee

[Guest JadeMonkee]

using this method; Clear your dalvik-cache (reboot to recovery, then do 'adb shell rm -rf /data/dalvik-cache'), reboot and wait (it'll take a little while to boot) and then tell me if it's better!

i was able to regain 15mb of the missing 30mb

I did this... no difference; I still only have 19MB left.

Time to start using apps2sd.

Are there any downsides? What happens when I mount my SDcard with the phone still running? Do any apps (specifically, those running in the background, eg, Locale) complain or screw up in any way? Or does mounting it not affect the ext partition?

Does it mean that I now have to shut down the phone if I want to remove (or access over USB) the memory card?

Cheers. I did a search for info on this, but there wasn't much available on the apps2sd page.

Thanks again.

[Guest donyork]

It could be a application you have installed..

you have any idea what aplication can do that?

[Guest kwiksand]

That's gratitude for you. Paul spends a lot of his spare time developing these ROMs for FREE. If you don't like it, feel free to do a factory reset and push off.

Amen to that! I'm disgusted by the quality of people in the Android scene (nothing new on the internet mind you). I've been away from computer/linux/tech forums for a while with other interests in photography and a few other things and getting back in with the Android/Modding love recently (mostly thanks to Paul) I've instantly been reminded of the kind of unthankful, selfish and downright shitty people who use the net as their trolling ground as they're too scared to speak up in real life.

In my world, a little bit of decency goes a long way, if you've got a problem, speak it loudly, but a quick please and thankyou and not going off like an antsy moron is probably a good step.

I said this over on XDA recently, but 2.9 is far an above the best release I've seen to date, and its a great addition getting Tekno's kernel in the mix as well!

[Guest prom@Cambo]

Thank you for all the hard works.

Need advice;

- updated to latest radio 63.18.55.06IU_6.35.08.22

- updated to this custom ROM 2.9

- resulted in constantly reboot

- now - back to ROM 2.8, working OK

How to prevent the constantly reboot? Is there any bug or something?

Thank you & regards,

HTC Hero

Firmware: 1.5

Radio: 63.18.55.06IU_6.35.08.22

Build: Modaco 2.8 core