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Question and Request, Blur?

I want to thank everyone in the community. Awesome work everyone. I am a long time Android fan. I started with a G1, MT3G, Cliq, moment, and now my hero. I thing that I am among the only one when I had and rooted the cliq but I liked the interface. I guess my question is one, would anyone else want a cliq rom? Two, is it possible to take Motoblur from a GSM rom and port it to CDMA? Third, Would there be any volunteers to try if the other two questions are yes?
I do not have linux and it has been a while since I have used it. I am more then willing to help in anyway I can if this starts to become a reality.
Thanks again to all the DEV's you guys are what makes Android, Android.

I'd love to try it out if anyone could manage this. Sounds like it would be quite an undertaking.

I'm working on this now. It boots, but blur and pretty much everything else force closes. Once I get a stable booting ROM without force closes I'll post it up. I'm real busy right now, but I will be able to work on it in the next few days, so hopefully I can get something goin. This doesn't mean no one else should try, by all means do, incase something happens with mine

Leukay said:
I'm working on this now. It boots, but blur and pretty much everything else force closes. Once I get a stable booting ROM without force closes I'll post it up. I'm real busy right now, but I will be able to work on it in the next few days, so hopefully I can get something goin. This doesn't mean no one else should try, by all means do, incase something happens with mine
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You sir are awesome. Thanks

Leukay said:
I'm working on this now. It boots, but blur and pretty much everything else force closes. Once I get a stable booting ROM without force closes I'll post it up. I'm real busy right now, but I will be able to work on it in the next few days, so hopefully I can get something goin. This doesn't mean no one else should try, by all means do, incase something happens with mine
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Run the logcat for us, or PM me a download link. I'd like to help debug in any way I can.

Leukay said:
I'm working on this now. It boots, but blur and pretty much everything else force closes. Once I get a stable booting ROM without force closes I'll post it up. I'm real busy right now, but I will be able to work on it in the next few days, so hopefully I can get something goin. This doesn't mean no one else should try, by all means do, incase something happens with mine
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Leukay, send me what you have. I have some time this weekend free. I want to take a look at what you have...of course that is if you don't mind.
Kcarpenter 5407 AT gmail

Thanks for the offers guys, I appreciate it. I'm very much a noob at this whole cookin' thing, but I'm working hard. I'll post up a logcat and give you guys a download link that wanna help out. It won't be for a couple of more days though (dealing with some problems with my hard drive ) but I will get them to you guys as soon as possible. Thanks again!

Leukay said:
Thanks for the offers guys, I appreciate it. I'm very much a noob at this whole cookin' thing, but I'm working hard. I'll post up a logcat and give you guys a download link that wanna help out. It won't be for a couple of more days though (dealing with some problems with my hard drive ) but I will get them to you guys as soon as possible. Thanks again!
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Anything new with this?

Just an FYI I've got a system bump of the backFlip - yeah I know stupid base. But it was easier to find than the Cliq dump. I am purely interested to see if I can even do it. Once I get something bootable I will post it....assuming I actually get something bootable.
The server that I am downloading from IS SOOOOO SLOW - 22 k on a 66 mb file....CRAP!!!!!! My battery may go dead before its done!

i'd love to try a blur rom... willing to donate to the cause... I'd also like to learn how to do some of this stuff... how would i get started?

^^^^^ same here. Im gonna search the thread and google but thought that I would ask here as well, but how can a noob with zero experience with this stuff learn to do this stuff. I want to make apps for android and other platforms.

looneylu said:
i'd love to try a blur rom... willing to donate to the cause... I'd also like to learn how to do some of this stuff... how would i get started?
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Don't use that donate word out loud people will **** their pants around here if they find out I took money to dev a rom NTM I am just doing this for fun, I hope I don't end up with a brick by the end of the night.
mergethereat said:
^^^^^ same here. Im gonna search the thread and google but thought that I would ask here as well, but how can a noob with zero experience with this stuff learn to do this stuff. I want to make apps for android and other platforms.
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Read, Read, Read...if you want to develop, its not difficult if you have programming background. If not, ehhh good luck writing a program. Given Java is pretty easy to learn, just not a language I would want to start with. If you are absolutely new to programming go get a c++ book, then work out to other languages.
If any one cares I get to a boot screen - But I am missing copybit.heroc.so and am getting a JavaSetAlarmRequest error in logcat any Ideas? I can probably fix the copybit thing with putting the file in place, the java alarm baffles me.

Kcarpenter said:
Read, Read, Read...if you want to develop, its not difficult if you have programming background. If not, ehhh good luck writing a program. Given Java is pretty easy to learn, just not a language I would want to start with. If you are absolutely new to programming go get a c++ book, then work out to other languages.
If any one cares I get to a boot screen - But I am missing copybit.heroc.so and am getting a JavaSetAlarmRequest error in logcat any Ideas? I can probably fix the copybit thing with putting the file in place, the java alarm baffles me.
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Thanks for the info. I am 100% new to programing so we'll see what happens lol.

I would love to help in any way I can. I am not a dev by no means but I can try to help any way you need me to.

Hey guys, to those who are currently working on this. I am going to pass along some advice that Toast gave to me when I started working on this. Take the rom you want to port, open up the boot.img, and drop our kernel into the boot.img. Rebuild the boot.img, and resign the rom, and it might be bootable (hopefully anyways). That would give you a start, then you can go through and work out the bugs

Leukay said:
Hey guys, to those who are currently working on this. I am going to pass along some advice that Toast gave to me when I started working on this. Take the rom you want to port, open up the boot.img, and drop our kernel into the boot.img. Rebuild the boot.img, and resign the rom, and it might be bootable (hopefully anyways). That would give you a start, then you can go through and work out the bugs
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Man, I would LOVE for it to be this simple! Lol but I can't find a boot.img for cliq or backflop any where! I am working with a bare Rom and trying to throw in bits and pieces of moto frameworks and jars and apks. Made progress to a homescreen but its unusable with fcs.

wouldn't you be running into a problem with the any system apks from blur that have optimized dex? The classes.dex is removed from the apk so how can you generate a dex to run on the hero?

Kcarpenter said:
Man, I would LOVE for it to be this simple! Lol but I can't find a boot.img for cliq or backflop any where! I am working with a bare Rom and trying to throw in bits and pieces of moto frameworks and jars and apks. Made progress to a homescreen but its unusable with fcs.
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Yeah lol, I agree, that's where I was getting, home screen, everything FC's. Ugh. I've had to abandon working on it due to school and other useless stuff like that....lol. But good luck man. There is a G1 Blur port rom called S_Blur. Download that, and try to work with that. It comes with a boot.img, so rip it (and ours) open, drop the kernel in, and see what happens

just thought of something... would we be able to sign in to the motoblue account? you have to have motoblur and gmail for this....

Ok so. I have been trying forever to get our kernel into the Blur boot.img.
I can unpack it, but I can't repack it. It keeps telling me that my ramdisk file doesn't exist! I CAN SEE IT ITS RIGHT THERE! I am running from a liveCD so that may be the issue.
Could someone please take the boot.img-kernel from the files attached and drop it into the BlurBoot.img for me?
I have posted our boot.img and the Blur boot.img in the attached ZIP.
On a side note, there is a pretty easy to follow tutorial on doing this
Here for those of you who don't have any clue what is being talked about and want to learn.
Anytime I try to do anything CPIO from this live CD (Ubuntu 9.1) it freaks out on me. Soooo maybe time to do an actual install and get this stuff setup like it needs to be.

I did it

Thank You All
I took the plunge this morning and decided to jump in with both feet,and am now running the custom rom Cyanogen 6.0 RC-1 recommended here. This is a blast,and nowhere as difficult as what I thought it would be (believe me though..I was sweating bullets when I hit enter )
Without all the good information here I don't think I would have ever been able to do this myself.
I don't know what to do next,but it seems like everything,including my [email protected]& red haze on my camera is gone too...I am real happy camper now
OK guys..what to do next now. What should I download and install on here since it's a clean slate.
Mac

Mac11700 said:
I don't know what to do next,but it seems like everything,including my [email protected]& red haze on my camera is gone too...I am real happy camper now
OK guys..what to do next now. What should I download and install on here since it's a clean slate.
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Glad we could help -- that's why we're here
Well, don't feel like you NEED to do anything next. But I'll offer a couple general suggestions.
1) Browse around the Themes and Apps section. There are lots of cool themes, apps, mods, etc. that you could add that provide even further customization and additional functionality. Also consider browsing around the Development forum to see if you might like to try any of the other ROMs out for a bit.
2) Think of what else do YOU want your phone to be able to do? Think of some things you'd like to see out of your phone. Then start searching around here, or in the Market, and see if such an app/mod already exists or if someone here is working on it.
Basically, you don't NEED to do anything next, but just know that you can do plenty of exploring here for all kinds of stuff, and you now have the ability to customize further.

chromiumleaf said:
Glad we could help -- that's why we're here
Well, don't feel like you NEED to do anything next. But I'll offer a couple general suggestions.
1) Browse around the Themes and Apps section. There are lots of cool themes, apps, mods, etc. that you could add that provide even further customization and additional functionality. Also consider browsing around the Development forum to see if you might like to try any of the other ROMs out for a bit.
2) Think of what else do YOU want your phone to be able to do? Think of some things you'd like to see out of your phone. Then start searching around here, or in the Market, and see if such an app/mod already exists or if someone here is working on it.
Basically, you don't NEED to do anything next, but just know that you can do plenty of exploring here for all kinds of stuff, and you now have the ability to customize further.
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Thanks..appreciate the advise.
I did manage to download the gapps and flashed that (starting to feel pretty good ) and will check out what you suggested as well. I can't get over how much faster this phone is now and love the os typewriter over the stock one. I only made 20 mistakes with it first time typing on it instead of 200 I usually do with the stock one
I can't wait to show this puppy off tonight at work to the Evo boys...I'm going to have a nice laugh back at them when they see it now,since a bunch of them were putting my "putzy" little Hero down last night. That really was one hell of a motivating factor for me to do this BTW I would love to get that matrix type start up screen on this today...if I can keep me eyes open long enough..(graveyard shift) especially if it will work right,that aught to blow their little minds ehh..
Mac

Mac11700 said:
Thanks..appreciate the advise.
I did manage to download the gapps and flashed that (starting to feel pretty good ) and will check out what you suggested as well. I can't get over how much faster this phone is now and love the os typewriter over the stock one. I only made 20 mistakes with it first time typing on it instead of 200 I usually do with the stock one
I can't wait to show this puppy off tonight at work to the Evo boys...I'm going to have a nice laugh back at them when they see it now,since a bunch of them were putting my "putzy" little Hero down last night. That really was one hell of a motivating factor for me to do this BTW I would love to get that matrix type start up screen on this today...if I can keep me eyes open long enough..(graveyard shift) especially if it will work right,that aught to blow their little minds ehh..
Mac
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Couple easy things would be to download a new ADW Launcher theme (just type that into the market search box) and then you can look at other themes. BlackMod and Dark envy are my favorites.

smolck said:
Couple easy things would be to download a new ADW Launcher theme (just type that into the market search box) and then you can look at other themes. BlackMod and Dark envy are my favorites.
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Thanks...I'll check them out
Mac

Welcome to the Dark Side.....bwahahah.
Sent from my HERO200 using XDA App

pinoy724 said:
Welcome to the Dark Side.....bwahahah.
Sent from my HERO200 using XDA App
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Looks like I'll be doing 3 more hero's for my wife and 2 son's.They all want theirs done now OMG what have I done.....
Mac

which are you using?

tailsthecat3 said:
which are you using?
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Cyanogen 6.0 RC-1
Mac

How long did it take? Have you tried it with Bluetooth?

sbbamafan said:
How long did it take? Have you tried it with Bluetooth?
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Well..since it was my very first time doing any of this,about 1-1/2 -2 hours actually doing it...but about a week of reading and trying to understand it
I still don't have it down pat and am not 100% comfortable doing any of it,but if your wanting to try it sooner or later your going to have to jump in and get your feet wet too..
Yes..the Blue tooth works with my older Platronic's headset very well. That's as much as I have done with it. I don't have any of the external speakers or use it through any radio in the car..sorry.
Mac

There's nothing to really do next because everything is all user preference. I would suggest you download Titanium Backup from the market and backup all your apps+data so you don't lose anything if something goes wrong. Also, do nandroid backups prior to make modifications to your phone. What I did when I first started was just read, read, and read. There's so much to do and the members of XDA are very supportive. Welcome to our world. LOL

Step by step?
So for a newbie, can you post the step-by-step things you did to root and update your phone?
Like people say do nandroid, and I have not a clue where to get that.
Thanks,
Jim

jarome1 said:
So for a newbie, can you post the step-by-step things you did to root and update your phone?
Like people say do nandroid, and I have not a clue where to get that.
Thanks,
Jim
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The search feature and Google are really a good tools to use here and on the web.You will be pleasantly surprised at all of the information you can come up with.
Now..a step by step guide to rooting my phone..No..like I said..I am still not 100% comfortable doing this yet,and I just don't feel I am qualified enough to explain the process to you..sorry
I will give you some good advise though..RESEARCH RESEARCH..and then RESEARCH what you are wanting to do to your phone..before you do anything at all. I spent a whole bunch of hours reading everything from here and elsewhere just trying to get a good idea of what to do before doing anything..and you should too.
1) Figure out what exactly you want from your phone and decide then before you do anything.
2) Take a look at all of the different Rom's that are available and what each offer you, and while your looking at them and reading about them you should be looking at all of the issues each have and decide if you can live with them before you do anything.
3) Use the search feature here and Google. You'll have hundreds of hours of reading at your finger tips to digest. Sure..you'll have more questions then answers right off the bat,but keeping researching and you will most likely find enough stuff to help you understand the process enough to jump in eventually.
It really isn't difficult to root you phone anymore nor is it difficult to do a nandroid back up but you need to put forth some effort to have a basic understanding of what you are wanting to do and what all the terminology means.. Sorry if this sounds condescending to you, I'm not trying to be in any way, but this is just some friendly advise from one newbie to another.
4) Once you got a good idea of what you would like to try,and a basic idea of what the terminology means, then get comfortable hooking your phone up to the computer and see what happens on it.Look up here or elsewhere what it means to do a nandroid back up..and also backing up a sd card to your computer..Look at what it means to wipe the data and making a partition on your sd card. Once your familiar with all of this...then go look at the universal 1 click method to root your phone and then also look at the guide to rooting your phone via the a terminal that is posted on this forum and what has been said about both of them. See what your comfortable with. Now once you done all of this.. go look the instructions each of the chef's give with their Roms, and see if it starts making sense to you or not. You will need to follow these instructions word for word to make it work right the first time you try this....same for using the long way to root via a terminal too..
If you do your homework and still can't figure out what it all means..then in all reality you really shouldn't try it..at least not till you at least understand it..This is how I did it..and my suggestion to you is to do the same. I know the terminology is strange and it may seem overwhelming at first..but if you spend enough time researching it,it will help you in the long run.
Mac

Well said, Mac.

Mac11700 said:
Cyanogen 6.0 RC-1
Mac
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You are now on the slippery slope of obsessive tweaking!
I was just like you...sweating over taking the plunge. But once I put my toes in the water, it was all in all the way!
I started with CM6 RC1...after a couple weeks, I flashed CM nightly 9/7 and saw improvement. Just yesterday I flashed Darc's #14 kernel. AWESOME... more speed....more zippiness. I LOVE my Hero
Don't load up a bunch of crap. You don't need task killers and such. I did pop #2 for SetCPU and run my Hero very nicely at 729mhz. Can you say "zing"?
Enjoy your phone, and say "Take that, Sprint!"

jarome1 said:
So for a newbie, can you post the step-by-step things you did to root and update your phone?
Like people say do nandroid, and I have not a clue where to get that.
Thanks,
Jim
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This is what I used to get started...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=694572

ROM rubiX Focused 0.3

This is brought to you by Drod2169: here is some info, please follow the link to download and for support. http://www.droidxforums.com/forum/droid-x-roms/8428-rom-rubix-focused-0-3-a.html Post #68 at Droid X forums has the brightness and calender fixes.
"You may know me from my Rubik releases for the droid 1.. Well recently I purchased a Droid X. I couldn't stand the phone stock, so of course I got busy. I've been working on this for quite a while, gone through quite a bit of bricks, sbf flashes, and passing it to my testers cause I couldn't afford to brick at the time.
I bring you the first release of the rubiX series for the Droid X. rubiX Focused, It is a blurless rom
Tranquility 2.3.5 base (2.2.3.15 base) thanks to p3droid, motorola (hah) and google
Build.Prop tweaks (thanks to Beesley)
Market fix
All apps optimized/zipaligned (Credit to me)
ADW Launcher as stock launcher (No more laggy blur home!)
Bloatware removed (Credit to me)
135.42 MB free in System! Speedy (Credit to me)
Google market apps removed (download from market)
Auto Brightness Hack (credit to Pete)
Speed and battery tweaks (Credit to me. Thanks Nenolod and Pete for inspiration on sysctl tweaks)
Few more things that I'd like to keep secret for the time being "

Are all of the Motorola account management crap gone?

Gimpeh said:
Are all of the Motorola account management crap gone?
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Yes. Accounts managed through settings. The brightness patch for stock brightness and the calendar fix are also in the 1st post now so you don't have to search through the thread
Thanks for posting this, FSR. Can't post links yet

Installed for 12 hours and still running great.
I appreciate your work.
Sent from my DROIDX using XDA App

Hmmm, well if I am gonna have to wipe for this I may as well SBF back and get the official OTA.

Seems pretty decent so far. My linpak and quadrant scores are even with what I was getting with the OTA after getting rid of some bloat. Calendar fix hasn't fixed my sync issue yet. Any idea why when I post my scores to linpak my notes show build 2.2.20? I'm not familiar with that particular version. Phone info shows 2.3.15 as it should but this is obviously not built off the official 2.2 as I've notice certain things change back to leak versions.
I'll give this rom a few days but I'm probably heading back to the OTA.
Can someone share the stock backup assistant apk with me? I'm lazy enough that I was just using that instead of a3rd party app so now I'm missing a HUGE chunk of my contacts. If it can't be used on this rom I'm doingan sbf right away when I get home.

Gimpeh said:
Hmmm, well if I am gonna have to wipe for this I may as well SBF back and get the official OTA.
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I was thinking the same thing.
Let me know how it goes for you
Although, I'm a little concerned about losing the ability to SBF back to 2.1 ... really on the fence about this.

Gimpeh said:
Hmmm, well if I am gonna have to wipe for this I may as well SBF back and get the official OTA.
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Why would you want the OTA? There is nothing magical about it, except Moto decided to lock the system down some more with new Bootloader keys.
Check out the threads around the forums, everyone is enjoying RubiX.

FSRBIKER said:
Why would you want the OTA? There is nothing magical about it, except Moto decided to lock the system down some more with new Bootloader keys.
Check out the threads around the forums, everyone is enjoying RubiX.
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There is in fact a difference. Newer Baseband and New Kernel which results in better performance. These two objects were left out of the leak for fear of it leading back to the leaker.

drod2169 said:
Yes. Accounts managed through settings. The brightness patch for stock brightness and the calendar fix are also in the 1st post now so you don't have to search through the thread
Thanks for posting this, FSR. Can't post links yet
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Im curious ....aren't you Jake Day? The downloads are from his site.....

acidbath5546 said:
Im curious ....aren't you Jake Day? The downloads are from his site.....
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Ouch, if true I may be rethinking installation of this.

Gimpeh said:
Ouch, if true I may be rethinking installation of this.
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Lol...not trying to be rude or start drama...im just curious before download something ...I always wanna know.the source.
and when I click on the download link, I noticed the download is coming from ninebysix.com, which is jake days website.

Flashed it. It's pretty damn fast. Perhaps this is Jake's reconciliation.

Fast is true and easy to install when following directions. The one thing that is strange and wondering if anyone else is experiencing.
I keep getting FC when trying to access my calendar. Yes I am trying to access my google calendars with default calendar program and even Jorte.
Anyone else?
Perhaps ideas for me?

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Fast is true and easy to install when following directions. The one thing that is strange and wondering if anyone else is experiencing.
I keep getting FC when trying to access my calendar. Yes I am trying to access my google calendars with default calendar program and even Jorte.
Anyone else?
Perhaps ideas for me?
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Happened to me...flash the rom zip following the instructions. Reboot the phone. Then bootstrap and reboot back into recovery and flash the calendarfix zip from page 7 of this thread: http://www.droidxforums.com/forum/droid-x-roms/8428-rom-rubix-focused-0-3-a-7.html

I had this instaled but could'nt get google maps to work so I went back to flyx rom. The market is stuck downloading google maps I hit cancel and it has force closed
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I also had some FC problems. It FC's everytime you try to stop a download in the market. It FC's every time you click on the battery manager to see what's sucking juice and it FC'd when messing around with the Calendar.
Because of those reasons, plus not being any faster than I had gotten my OTA after bloatware removal and some build.prop tweaks, not being able to use Backup Assistant (losing 80% of my contacts) and the fact that I actually like the native 2.2 txt app led me back to my OTA 2.2 through the nandroid backup I made before installing rubiX.
This is one I will definitely keep an eye on and will be testing in further revisions, but it's not where I want a rom to be right now.
I appreciate all the hard work that went into it but it's just not for me right now.

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Happened to me...flash the rom zip following the instructions. Reboot the phone. Then bootstrap and reboot back into recovery and flash the calendarfix zip from page 7 of this thread:
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Winner, winner chicken dinner. That is exactly what I needed. Thank you very much.
Other than that one thing I am pleased so far with the build.

Sorry guys, I've been at work and haven't had much time to check threads except for the ones that push to my email, and for some reason xda didn't..
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Im curious ....aren't you Jake Day? The downloads are from his site.....
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no
I'm Derek Rodriguez (thats my full name), and have honestly barely conversed with jake. He was nice enough to let me host my files through his ftp alongside with Boostdscoob (dominator/eliminator roms for d1) when we were collaborating for roms, and still lets me. Jake is a great guy from what I know of him, and makes pretty bad ass kernels.
It's hosted there, as well as alldroid, and androiddoes.net.
arlan_jacob, a reboot might of fixed it. I chose not to include market apps with how fast updates have been coming out lately, didn't wanna leave any behind and people not able to update correctly. Sorry about the issue, I'll make an update.zip with the market apps included if it'd help out.

drod2169 said:
Sorry guys, I've been at work and haven't had much time to check threads except for the ones that push to my email, and for some reason xda didn't..
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I'm Derek Rodriguez (thats my full name), and have honestly barely conversed with jake. He was nice enough to let me host my files through his ftp alongside with Boostdscoob (udominator/eliminator roms for d1) when we were collaborating for roms, and still lets me. Jake is a great guy from what I know of him, and makes pretty bad ass kernels.
It's hosted there, as well as alldroid, and androiddoes.net.
arlan_jacob, a reboot might of fixed it. I chose not to include market apps with how fast updates have been coming out lately, didn't wanna leave any behind and people not able to update correctly. Sorry about the issue, I'll make an update.zip with the market apps included if it'd help out.
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Kk...thanks for clearing that up.
Lol...and my name is Blair, nice to meet ya and kudos for the ROM ...any future plans?
Cheers!

Htc hero Tazz_

I'm currently running tazz, This ROM is amazing! the only problem I'm having is that i keep missing messages! is anyone else having this issue?

alonsoarellano said:
I'm currently running tazz, This ROM is amazing! the only problem I'm having is that i keep missing messages! is anyone else having this issue?
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You should be posting this in the ROM thread, not here. I had the issue consistently since the first port, no idea why. Some people report not having the issue, but I think enough people have the problem for it to be condsidered a "known bug"...

I was running Tazz4/4.1 for over a week with acceptable issues. I used Google Voice for messaging so I did not really miss anything. I decided to switch back to AOSP 5/23 today because I needed Bluetooth working. It ran great especially with the .35 kernel though.
I will switch back as soon as Bluetooth is functional (hopefully soon).

Tazz 4.1 6/11/2011 No keyboard
I also like this rom, but am having a problem after installation. I was wondering if I may be doing something wrong or if others have had the problem of no keyboard after installation of Tazz 4.1 6/11/2011. I have followed the instructions for install, wiped everything (even reformatted) several times with the same result.

Yeah some have had the issue, I think it just takes a minute in settings to fix it. I installed it, no kb... Went into settings/keyboard/ and selected the htc_ime (I may have deselected it first) and then in a text field, long-press and select htc_ime and it should work fine.

il Duce said:
Yeah some have had the issue, I think it just takes a minute in settings to fix it. I installed it, no kb... Went into settings/keyboard/ and selected the htc_ime (I may have deselected it first) and then in a text field, long-press and select htc_ime and it should work fine.
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Thanks for the quick response. When I go to settings/Language & Keyboard there is nothing to select it is blank. When I long press on a text field nothing happens. I will once again try reformatting, wiping everything and re-installing

like il duce said if u have trouble with something post it in the roms thread seriously come on ppl!

Bierce22 said:
like il duce said if u have trouble with something post it in the roms thread seriously come on ppl!
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Would have done this if it was possible. I initially tried but because I have not posted enough I cannot post anything there and was directed to post here. Sorry for the bother.

mgsnell said:
Would have done this if it was possible. I initially tried but because I have not posted enough I cannot post anything there and was directed to post here. Sorry for the bother.
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No you're fine, I think bierce was talking to the OP like I was. You can't post in there until you get 10 posts, so feel free to post in here until then. Of course AFTER that you should post in the thread.

il Duce said:
No you're fine, I think bierce was talking to the OP like I was. You can't post in there until you get 10 posts, so feel free to post in here until then. Of course AFTER that you should post in the thread.
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If you want to get to 10 posts fast, just keep posting Il Duce Baby name suggestions. My current suggestion for a girl: SOPhiA.
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mgsnell said:
Would have done this if it was possible. I initially tried but because I have not posted enough I cannot post anything there and was directed to post here. Sorry for the bother.
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yea my bad man i get a little carried away with this stuff i do think they should change that to were u can post in development threads

noob here this rom is great wondering if the temp of my phone is normal its getting to 111.2f with normal usage no wifi thether and can we use vvm?

src182 said:
noob here this rom is great wondering if the temp of my phone is normal its getting to 111.2f with normal usage no wifi thether and can we use vvm?
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That's pretty hot, but sense ROMs seem to do that, I noticed it too. I guess the answer to VVM is try it and see.

mgsnell said:
I also like this rom, but am having a problem after installation. I was wondering if I may be doing something wrong or if others have had the problem of no keyboard after installation of Tazz 4.1 6/11/2011. I have followed the instructions for install, wiped everything (even reformatted) several times with the same result.
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did u do a triple wipe?

"VZW" 2.3.6 ROM - UPDATED 2/23/12 Themed

INSERT USUAL DISCLAIMER HERE. I THINK (HOPE) YOU ALL KNOW THE RISKS BY NOW. Blah blah brick, blah blah not my fault, you know.
Well, using Willis111's Canadian Bell 2.3.6 build from here, somemadcaaant, ZOMBI3, and I have been slowly patching this up to work on the XT862.
I've made up a stock (tweaked for VZW) 2.3.6 ROM and a lightly debloated one as well. Both have the same build.prop tweaks for battery life, the usual wifi scan, as well as the camera video modes tweak, plus some other stuff tacked onto the end of the build.prop.
What we changed was the build.prop (IIRC, I used a Liberty3 one that I touched up to my liking), eri.xml inside framework_res.apk, and libmoto_ril.so to get this up and running on the XT862. Since, I have added in 5.7.905 system apps to get some things running (MMS messaging mainly).
I have flashed these without a wipe (over SD 4.5 I think) and it seems to be fine, although I've only had it running maybe an hour now, so I can't attest to battery life. It may be fine without a wipe, it may be better with it. IDK.
One note for HandCent users, go into HC, menu> settings> application settings> default messaging application> all(sms & mms). This should fix double texts.
NOT WORKING:
It seems the first boot bootloops. Just battery pull and restart. It should boot. I'm running this debloated build exactly.
My stock camera FCs when entering panoramic mode. 3rd party apps such as ProCapture still work. This will be addressed after I get 1% battery and power menu buttons added (Thanks to BuckMarble!)
Here's the links to my DropBox.
Bloated 02/23/12 20:04
Debloated 02/23/12 18:83
1% Mod Still getting reboots, experimental only
Dark Theme (incomplete theming, WIP)
Hopeful goals...
Working 1% Mod
Dark (WIP) & light theme
Power button reboot options
Pulldown power widgets
Pulldown music controls??
...and, I know how to do none of those. Anyone wanna do it or teach/guide me though it?

Oh boy! I can teach the reboot and 1% stuff(gotta dig up the code for this one, been a while) I've recently become quite the android.policy master. Lol. As for the messaging stuff, im not sure where to go with that one.
EDIT: noticed quite a few com files missing from the framework folder that our xt862 uses. Compare an xt862 vzw rom to this one and try patching in the missing ones and see if that helps with the messaging. In system/framework.
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Touched up the /system/framework folder with the missing files. If it isn't apparent already, I'm pretty new to this and really don't have too much of an idea of what I'm doing. Oh well, gotta learn somehow!
EDIT: Well, this didn't fix MMS, but it couldn't have hurt. Also, I've been getting some FCs from conversations.apk when receiving a text. I'll look into it tomorrow and keep working at this.

redsox985 said:
Touched up the /system/framework folder with the missing files. If it isn't apparent already, I'm pretty new to this and really don't have too much of an idea of what I'm doing. Oh well, gotta learn somehow!
EDIT: Well, this didn't fix MMS, but it couldn't have hurt. Also, I've been getting some FCs from conversations.apk when receiving a text. I'll look into it tomorrow and keep working at this.
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I cant wait to get back to my house, and have wifi again, and my pc! =D tomorrow morning for sure i will
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Why is the Debloated version removed?
Is there any problem with it? Because I am about to flash it now....

redsox985 said:
Touched up the /system/framework folder with the missing files. If it isn't apparent already, I'm pretty new to this and really don't have too much of an idea of what I'm doing. Oh well, gotta learn somehow!
EDIT: Well, this didn't fix MMS, but it couldn't have hurt. Also, I've been getting some FCs from conversations.apk when receiving a text. I'll look into it tomorrow and keep working at this.
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The next thing I would do is go through all the rest of the folders and compare file for file and see if anything else is missing.
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Nice work,
@jchenny i'd prefer a bloated version to go nuts on anyways.
Definately deserves it's own thread to be sure, you will have reboot/screenshot power menu functions plus power widgets and whatever else is needed on the weekend unless some1 else wants to get it done? Looking at you buckmarble and ZOMBI3, i'm using my phone for oncall work this week.
Again awesome release, can't wait to try it.
Edit: Grab my giant APN list apns-conf.zip from my sig link below and see if that fixes mms, most providers have been added manually... could simply be the conversations app not working correctly with the cdma buildprop commands changed and/or rot.mot.phonemode.vzwglobalphone=1, swap out with the vzw versions of conversations.apk, mms.apk, messaging.apk, might also have to swap out the bluremail.apk, bluremailengine.apk and blursnmessagingengine.apok or perhaps use the aosp versions?
Could it be a google restoring settings thing, always gives me grief when i forget this after flashing lol.
-smc

I can get the power menu/widgets/etc stuff in. Would rather teach red how to do it though. Expand the knowledge base of the new developers. I like to give back what I've learned so that at some point we can all help each other. Hopefully your apn stuff fixes the mms problem he's got.
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Debloated is back up. I think all I changed was removing Blur Car Dock and adding in my preferred Google Car Dock. I believe I left the Blur Multimedia Dock intact.
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I can get the power menu/widgets/etc stuff in. Would rather teach red how to do it though. Expand the knowledge base of the new developers. I like to give back what I've learned so that at some point we can all help each other. Hopefully your apn stuff fixes the mms problem he's got.
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I would like to learn this rather than just having it done as well. I'd like to further my knowledge on this kind of modding (do I dare call it dev, I feel like I haven't done much really) stuff.
@SMC, where is that APN list in your sig?
As I play with this, I'm going to try tossing together a build for myself (and others?) to test with 5.7.905 deodexed system apps from ZOMBI3's .zip. Also, Hash has a deodexed 5.6.890 build on his blog right? I'm blocked here on the school network.

Red, shoot me a pm with your email for gtalk.
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True true, pardon my eagerness guys.
You will find the apn list on the top link in my signature, will be at the bottom of the page with the files.
I suspect you will have all the kinks out by the weekend, just in time for me to flash lol.
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somemadcaaant said:
True true, pardon my eagerness guys.
You will find the apn list on the top link in my signature, will be at the bottom of the page with the files.
I suspect you will have all the kinks out by the weekend, just in time for me to flash lol.
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Well, I patched up the APN file and that didn't fix it, but it did add "Verizon Wireless" to the status bar...time to revert or fix that. Hmm. Adding back the old APN file didn't fix it up.
FIXED: Hex edited some null entries into eri.xml.
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Red, shoot me a pm with your email for gtalk.
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Sent.
EDIT: 4:15 PM. I received a picture! It seems kind of weird how it came through, but it coming through is what matters. Hitting download doesn't do anything but just fail to DL, but again, I got a photo so...IDC!
This project, and subsequent thread, has become my baby. I keep wanting to work on it.

I can't seem to download the debloated version. Dropbox gives me a 404.

raiden said:
I can't seem to download the debloated version. Dropbox gives me a 404.
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Refreshed them...it should work now.

redsox985 said:
Refreshed them...it should work now.
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Well well, nice good job redsox, im dl the debloated, have you been able to send anything yet?, im leaving again tonight, so I haven't had time really to do any work today (long day) =/ but as soon as im free again ill take it on and try and beat it to you adding all the features that is, buck and somemad, thank you for all the help into this you guys are awesome
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ZOMBI3 said:
Well well, nice good job redsox, im dl the debloated, have you been able to send anything yet?, im leaving again tonight, so I haven't had time really to do any work today (long day) =/ but as soon as im free again ill take it on and try and beat it to you adding all the features that is, buck and somemad, thank you for all the help into this you guys are awesome
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I believe I have the freshest build on my DropBox. IIRC, I removed messaging.apk and dropped in mms.apk and that enabled MMS messaging. For my purposes, it's a fully working build. I haven't had any errors. Keep me updated if you hit any.
I think I'm going to start adding a time stamp to my .zips, I can't keep them straight. (Now I've added date and time stamps to preserve my sanity, or what remains.)

Oh yea! This is getting themed! I taught myself UOT Kitchen (it's so easy) and applied a META-INF workaround listed on their site to fix a flashing error and it's looking great. And is it just me, or does this boot quickly? Maybe I don't pay attention...
New links in OP.

Nice very good job theme, and one percent awesome already, haven't tried it though, I got stuck on after the safe boot menu something went wrong no big deal tho ill check it out keep it up though I wanna see that reboot and screenshot from you soon way to go ! Congrats
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Nice work, its all done lol.
I remember having media player control status widgets, or what ever its called, on my old LG optimus 2x and I liked it, very convenient - maybe we can port that over or use code, like adding the controls to the far right as you scroll thru.
If that's makes sense.
Definitely lots of performance tweaks in there for boot, memory and gui speed.
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I definitely want to implement more tweaks for battery life, speed, etc. Also, the 1% mod wasn't playing nicely with services.jar and causing reboots, so I marked that as experimental. I'm talking to BuckMarble on GTalk and he's helping me do this since my current knowledge is minimal in comparison.
EDIT: I'll be trying this later...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1437712 No dice. I need a tester device haha. This is so much flashing!