07/Mar Fr11 - WITH SENSE: MoDaCo Custom ROM for HTC Desire with Online Kitchen (2.2 / Froyo)

[Guest dodolom]

There have been a few ways of getting the latest app, almost all mentioned earlier in this thread.

Since the app is part and parcel of the ROM image and in /system/app Paul kindly provided the APK earlier in this thread (last night I believe) for you to download and ADB PUSH to that location.

Others have either had success with the update without doing anything or have also suggested removing gmail.apk from /system/app via ADB and then installing from the market which I believe results in it installing to /data/app but don't quote me on that.

Remember when doing anything via ADB and accessing the /system folder, DO THIS FROM RECOVERY or you wont have RW access.

Regards

David P

Can I just go into the sys folder with the Root Explorer App I have and manually delete the gmail app or would that cause problems?

[Guest David_P]

Can I just go into the sys folder with the Root Explorer App I have and manually delete the gmail app or would that cause problems?

This ROM does not support RW of system while in the ROM itself. You can copy things from System with your root explorer but I think you'll find it wont delete in actuality if you do that.

I would still recommend ADB from Recovery. When in recovery, mount the system partition (should be in the mounts menu) and then from PC do the following:

1. In a command prompt window type adb devices, this should give you the list of devices, hopefully this is just your phone!

2. adb remount, this sets the mounted system partition as RW

3. adb shell rm /system/app/gmail.apk, this should remove the gmail.apk from your phone

4. reboot the phone from recovery menu and you should then be able to install from the market.

David P

[Guest dodolom]

This ROM does not support RW of system while in the ROM itself. You can copy things from System with your root explorer but I think you'll find it wont delete in actuality if you do that.

I would still recommend ADB from Recovery. When in recovery, mount the system partition (should be in the mounts menu) and then from PC do the following:

1. In a command prompt window type adb devices, this should give you the list of devices, hopefully this is just your phone!

2. adb remount, this sets the mounted system partition as RW

3. adb shell rm /system/app/gmail.apk, this should remove the gmail.apk from your phone

4. reboot the phone from recovery menu and you should then be able to install from the market.

David P

thanks David, I will give it a go.

[Guest Paul..]

Well, it actually is not giving me the option of UPDATE. It just says INSTALL on the market and when I try to do so, it downloads fine but does NOT install it.

sorry, should have clarified. Mine said 'install' and not update. Looks like there's an ADB option too though. Good luck!

[Guest EddyOS]

Easiest way of doing it is either use the ZIP on XDA or bake a ROM, remove the old Gmail.apk and replace it with the new one and then flash the ROM

[Guest niksu]

@Paul

Error in russian keyboard stiill present in your last build, but in official OTA 2.10 - it corected (by pressing space - "!" appear)

[Guest Cuba_Libre]

Hello Guys !

I've just entered in the marvellous world of Custom ROMs. :lol:

The reason why I did that is to use my phone in all of its possibilities while keeping the Sense interface.

So far (I'm trying this rom for just one day !) everything seems very pleasant.

Thanks to Paul ! (I've just signed up in the members area, this work definively worth it !)

But (there's sometimes a "but"), I've a problem like another users : the buggy spp Bluetooth.

I need that functionnality to use a GNS TMC receiver with Sygic.

It's not a matter of life or death (Google Nav doing a nice job), but what can I say, I like to push the limits !

I've read in another Topic that the MRC 1 was using the Bluetooth "drivers" of the Nexus one.

Could it be possible to see, one day, the same implementation with this release or, maybe, in addition in the cooking part ?

Cheers !

PS : Don't punch me too hard if my english is bad, I'm just a french fan !

[Guest jokey2k]

Not sure why it's rebuilding all those permissions... :lol:

P

Okay, it seems that EspressoMOD 2.1 and MCR r9 are incompatible now that you started backporting 2.10 changes. Due to timestamp differences dalvik drops some bits from its auth file and then everything goes boom. So it should be noted with a big fat warning, that espressobar should be upgraded to 2.2 beforehand as then r8->r9 update works smoothly...

[Guest towo]

Strange issue with bluetooth.

[...]

All communcation from me and the other person was comming from the phone and not via bluetooth.

FWIW, I have similar problems with the Bluetooth stack being screwy. What you will notice: in the Bluetooth settings menu, it will only say "connected to media audio", not "connected to phone audio". The latter bit says it's actually forwarding voice data etc to your headset.

Similarly, if you use the headset to play media files, you will probably be able to make the audio come out of your phone too if you fiddle around a bit or just wait, while the phone itself still thinks it's dutifully forwarding to your headset.

If so: welcome to my world. :lol: I'm not really sure if this is a bluez userland issue or has something to do with the kernel modules, but ludicrous replacement of bluez userland files with stock 2.2 versions hasn't helped me thus far.

[Guest fnqtony]

Hi Paul,

Just updated to the latest 20/sep r9 build and continue to get the OTA update notice, even though I have set my phone not to check for updates. When I do try to update via OTA I get an invalid signature error message. Is there a way to hide this OTA notification message?

Thanks,

[Guest eugene.an]

niksu,

Wait for some time :lol:

[Guest BashyUK]

Appreciate your efforts Paul. Guess we need to pester HTC for a fix then.

Last time I contacted them it took 69 days to reply, hopefully this time it will be quicker!

Everyone should log a case with them regarding this so they treat it with urgency otherwise they will do a 69 on it (oo errr missus) :lol:

What exactly should be logged though as I have already logged it previously as an issue with flash and BBC website which they just batted back saying it's a site issue because other sites work...?

[Guest woti17]

The short version of the 'browser cache' problem... it needs a patch to libwebcore.so, which is a version customised for HTC and we don't have the source, so I don't think I can fix this atm. :lol:

P

paul, just an observation:

/app-cache is created in bootcomplete.bravo.rc with 01777 permission, right?

and that is after init.d scripts have done their jobs?

if i manualy chmod 01777 the cache directory /app-cache/com.android.browser/cache after everthing has booted (in a terminal) and start the browser

than

browser cache works as expected and webviewCache is created within with user/group 10003.10003 (and would possible if browser is run with an other uid been created with this uid)

is it possible for me to run a script automatically after bootcomplete.bravo.rc has run or is it possible to alter bootcomplete.ravo.rc to cache creation root.root 01777 to make it permanent?

or is this a possible security danger because of the "t" bit on the cache directory?

Edited September 22, 2010 by woti17

[Guest fakefur]

so if i don't want the gmail app i can just remove it ok? i have removed it and i guess i'm wondering if that will cause any problems?

[Guest Sub501]

A must have app: TransProxy 3.x http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=766569 , yes finally proxy is coming to Android with an easy to use GUI.

@Paul: can you please add TransProxy to R9 kitchen?

[Guest bushbrother]

Anyone know where I can get EspressoBar (just the bar at bottom) and a transparent drop down notification that works with r9?

[Guest The Virus 2013]

To use Gmail 2.3 on this ROM, you can push this file to /system/app (from recovery)...

http://content.modaco.net/dropzone/Gmail.apk

I'll drop this in the kitchen tomorrow.

P

I just made this :

adb push Gmail.apk /system/app/Gmail.apk

and got this :

1962 KB/s (1621428 bytes...

So I suppose everything is fine, but in the about box, I still see 2.2.1... what had I done wrong ?

EDIT : The Gmail app I see in Astro in /system/app/Gmail is only about 890.72k... I don't understand...

Edited September 22, 2010 by The Virus 2013

[Guest marcuso]

The short version of the 'browser cache' problem... it needs a patch to libwebcore.so, which is a version customised for HTC and we don't have the source, so I don't think I can fix this atm. :lol:

P

As i am just thinking about updating to MCR r9..

Can someone explain me what this problem is all about. I tried to read the last couple of pages and got that browser crashes due to some problem with cache-dir-permissions.

And the cause is some interference between a script (bootcomplete.bravo.rc) and that library, which somehow sets other/wrong permissions, so that cache cant be handled properly any more by the browser.

right so far ? ;-)

What i want to know is:

1. If this is HTC-issue ... are other ROMS (even stock) affected as well ?

2. Is this R9+ issue ? (so should r8 be fine ?)

3. As far as i understood this just crashes the browser with certain sites ? (how this if it is a problem with the cache-dir itself ?)

As the discussion about this problem is obviously a long story it might make sense to make a sticky about it and explain the effects, cause and options for this ?!

Marcus

[Guest Specialist79]

I hope this has not yet been reported, but when I select the N1 boot animation, the symlink to /data/local/bootanimation.zip is placed in /system/customize/resource whereas my Desire (HTC_001) is looking for it in /system/media/.

[Guest vfrvulcan]

As i am just thinking about updating to MCR r9..

Can someone explain me what this problem is all about. I tried to read the last couple of pages and got that browser crashes due to some problem with cache-dir-permissions.

And the cause is some interference between a script (bootcomplete.bravo.rc) and that library, which somehow sets other/wrong permissions, so that cache cant be handled properly any more by the browser.

right so far ? ;-)

What i want to know is:

1. If this is HTC-issue ... are other ROMS (even stock) affected as well ?

2. Is this R9+ issue ? (so should r8 be fine ?)

3. As far as i understood this just crashes the browser with certain sites ? (how this if it is a problem with the cache-dir itself ?)

As the discussion about this problem is obviously a long story it might make sense to make a sticky about it and explain the effects, cause and options for this ?!

Marcus

1. Yes, possibly Google's as well - there is an unreleased patch for Google browser but HTC is modified Google I understand

2. No, see 1

3. Yes. Seems to affect some pages (not entire sites) using Flash. Menu/more/settings/enable plugins set to on-demand will force Flash module loading separately which seems to overcome the problem.

I'm sure someone else will be along shortly with a better explanation. My experiences are noted in post #857 in this thread.

Aaron

[Guest Av.]

Format a Goldcard make it back a simple sd card ?!

[Guest pauli900]

Do the Custom governor settings need to be activated through the settings or do they run as part of the ROM?

[Guest aidfarh]

Request: Hi Paul, would it be possible to include LauncherPro as an option so that we can exclude both HTC Sense and Google's Launcher2 when baking?

[Guest Vulpix]

Request: Hi Paul, would it be possible to include LauncherPro as an option so that we can exclude both HTC Sense and Google's Launcher2 when baking?

Why do you need launcherpro baked in when it's something you can easily install?

[Guest Iceberger]

A must have app: TransProxy 3.x http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=766569 , yes finally proxy is coming to Android with an easy to use GUI.

@Paul: can you please add TransProxy to R9 kitchen?

Thanks, Just what i was looking for.