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[ROM][GPL] 2010-08-13 FroydVillain 1.2.0 "The Ultimate Parting Gift" CAMERA BROKEN

[ROM][GPL] 2010-08-13 FroydVillain 1.2.0 "The Ultimate Parting Gift" CAMERA BROKEN
CAMERA IS BROKEN. WE KNOW. I'M WORKING ON IT.
FroydVillain 1.2.0 "The Ultimate Parting Gift" INFO & Release Notes:
Well there I was, about 28 hours ago fooling around with my local Android source tree, taking a break from kernel development. Then a few interesting things, 16 builds and 14 hours later it turns out something that would make for a great...no...superbly fantastic FroydVillain 1.2 appeared.
So here we are. Which is better to be honest, TeamVillain now aren't stuck in the middle of a release and the wonderful Villain community aren't wondering when the hell the next version will come along.
Well folks, even if you're still wondering what's to come after 1.2, you'll have plenty of time to wonder about it because this baby, is going to take some beating.
First, the usual nonsense, please read it etc etc to make sure your phone doesn't blow up, kick the wife or run away with the dog:
IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
Since this is likely to be my last post for a while save for just hanging out in the community, can I just stomp on this nonsense here. You don't need multiple reboots. Once you've installed everything you need, give the phone a kick to clear out garbage and set dalvik straight and you're done.
However for the nostalgic, do it anyway:
REMEMBER
Spoiler
the ROM will only be at peak performance after it's been rebooted a couple of times, and when you've opened your apps once prior.
adb install won't work on this ROM, until you tick "Unknown Sources" in the Menu > Settings > Applications menu.
This appears to be a new security feature. Similarly, apps pushed to /data/app won't work either. You might not notice the issue, but the app does not get any of its permissions it should have, meaning that it is probably useless, and might FC constantly or whatever. So remember to tick the Unknown Sources box
VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
When you install this ROM, DO NOT USE GOOGLE BACKUP OR RESTORE. It really slows the ROM down, like all Froyo ROMs, and it uses loads of battery even when you think you're not doing anything. So it's not cool. So turn it off in the setup wizard
Seriously. I cannot state this enough. Google Backup service right now is like sticking diesel fuel into a Ferrari. It's slow, eats CPU, eats memory, eats battery and uses your data connection whenever it damn well pleases. Poor show by Google, let them know they can and should do better by disabling this immediately. Or who knows what might happen to your pets and loved ones.
This ROM does NOT come with the optimal kernel installed. It comes with a safe one. You NEED to read the section "kernels" below for more information about these, and which to choose Then, once installed, open the app "CPUSpeed" and set up your CPU speeds. This ROM uses the interactive governor, which gives much better battery than other governors... So, set interactive as the main governor, then set your minimum and maximum. Then repeat this for sleep mode. If you have a 352MHz base kernel, set both the max and min sleep speeds to be 352 MHz
Yes, you have a plethora of kernels to choose from. Choose one that best matches the setcpu settings you used with those old dreary kernels. If you couldn't clock under 352MHz before because you possess a HTC Friday evening at the factory job, pick a kernel with a 352MHz base. Use your common sense for CPUSpeed/SetCPU sleep settings, clamp the top sleep speed under the top kernel speed.
So... What's changed since 1.1.9?
Well working camera is old news now so yeah, camera worked then, still works now, woohoo! (Thanks Cyanogen and co) EDIT: WOOPS! Famous last words!
ROM is significantly faster to boot than before (usable before radio signal is even established)
Oh yes. Oh yes oh yes. This is just the tip of the iceberg for the speed improvements in this ROM. All those other release notes you read about optimised this and experimental that, forget it. I guarantee you there is not a single other 2.2 based ROM for the Hero built the way this one was built. Sound big headed? Yep. But it is totally warranted. Use it and see for yourself. Even on the default 614MHz kernel, check out how quickly the setup wizard becomes responsive once it appears, unlike times of yore when it was time to go and have a wank and make a coffee when setup wizard appeared, for fear of a swamp of FC/Wait messages.
Updated google apps
Apparently Google tried to rain on my parade by releasing a new apps package today. So I included it. Thanks Google! (Also thanks to Perfinion for letting me be lazy and grab them from his server).
Trackbell LED better
I haven't got around to chatting with Lox about this yet, but I don't like how the proprietary liblights works with 2.2. It only lights up the battery light, it stays on and flickers when notifying instead of straight blinking and it does a weird thing when you boot up where if you disconnect USB after boot, it stays red until you reconnect again.
So I built some drivers that use the Jogball for notifications and the LED sticks to what the LED does best: *****ing when your battery is low.
We of course had various fixes along the way to 1.1.9 that are rolled into this. No weird ass menus that I forgot to trash because I was likely high on caffeine at some ungodly hour and not paying attention. The time machine bug in the kernel was fixed, video playback was fixed too.
Oh, someone please see if WMA/WMV works. The libraries are there, but I don't have any of those crappy files. While you're at it, see if Meridian picks up the xvid decoder I built. It probably won't, but it's worth a try.
Gallery3D is in a state of flux and will continue to be so/change frequently whenever the mood takes me to bash it in the face with some good old "WHY WON'T YOU WORK YOU STUPID SOFTWARE" treatment. I believe the included version rotates okish, but occasionally loses thumbnails. If you lose thumbnails then open a picture, hit the zoom control to fix the whacked out diagonal zoom effect it ends up with. Oh, I left some debug code in that effectively hits "Back" whenever you rotate. Too bad, deal with it until I get around to releasing another, it's no worse than the original crappy 2.2 Gallery anyway
Oh, Alankila gave CPUSpeed a good kick in the nuts and the included version works much much better than the one we inflicted upon you in 1.1.9. We're sorry about that, the beatings were administered soundly and Alankila offers up this latest version as an apology. It was that or his thumbs. We felt CPUSpeed.apk was more useful. I mean who needs more than two thumbs? A hitchhiking octopus I suppose, but I digress...
What else? Oh yeah. It's fast. Seriously fast. Give it some work to do and behold as it eats it up as if it thinks it's a Nexus or something. Don't believe me? I wouldn't either (all tests run on Interactive CPUFreq Governor). Did I mention it's fast? It's slick and responsive too. I am DARING every guy who can't resist flashing, benching and posting about ROMs to try this baby for a spin. Spin it with the default kernel too, before you pick your flavour.
The following screenshots were taken at either 729MHz or 691MHz:
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B-b-but, 28.8fps in Neocore? That's terrible! Well, not with sound on at 691MHz it isn't. We did get a 29.2fps out of it, but then a guy appeared from the future and demanded I not post it as I was making the Nexus Two look bad. Good news though eh?
729MHz with sound off. I'm sure some kernel improvements can push that further, but still, not bad considering we weren't on the performance governor.
From 1.1.9
Blah blah you know what changed in 1.1.9, go read the 1.1.9 changelog if you're that interested.
So... How do I get it?
A full wipe is MANDATORY for this ROM, regardless of what you're upgrading from
First, install this file : http://www.villainrom.co.uk/releases/FroydVillain1.2.0/download.php
(75202005 bytes)
Then... pick a kernel, based on the speeds you want. Your hero must be capable of the speeds you select. A safe kernel is included, which isn't the fastest in the world, but should work for everyone.
Kernels:
19-614 MHz
19-652 MHz
19-691 MHz
19-729 MHz
19-748 MHz
19-768 MHz
352-614 MHz
352-652 MHz
352-691 MHz
352-729 MHz
352-748 MHz
352-768 MHz
MD5 Sums:
Code:
97c953410f547229751d30c199ac0588 nindroid-v1.2-19-614-test-signed.zip
421e82333a4eec63e9097c5baecef8c7 nindroid-v1.2-19-652-test-signed.zip
89828f333b9857b4522a88dd3a2137b4 nindroid-v1.2-19-691-test-signed.zip
1b8ac98fb48dadb89e41b4d921ada402 nindroid-v1.2-19-729-test-signed.zip
0003fd30eb6ca960c9877632eb4b0e6d nindroid-v1.2-19-748-test-signed.zip
954a19202806e08f951b69bdd472b009 nindroid-v1.2-19-768-test-signed.zip
2579db932324c3e0d381d1c51b7f0fc4 nindroid-v1.2-352-652-test-signed.zip
8560f34c321a75456e1def3c14fa61db nindroid-v1.2-352-691-test-signed.zip
6608b4a8fc0b04100039d637cfda7332 nindroid-v1.2-352-729-test-signed.zip
5a812107fcccd1d93de2f8ef966cf299 nindroid-v1.2-352-748-test-signed.zip
46f30ca9cfc57136321137ff3ace7e53 nindroid-v1.2-352-768-test-signed.zip
dca2be74cb09a636845c804011322026 nindroid-v1.2-default-test-signed.zip
Due to popular demand and because I'm such a nice, sweet and sugary guy, I caved and made you a 652MHz version. For the people wanting 710MHz, use the ROM first, then decide. I think you'll find you'd rather keep the battery power.
Naturally the sources for these kernels are available as per the GPL requirement either at my github repository (search for Ninpo) or in Lox's kernel-hero repo for Cyanogenmod (open source collaboration is a wonderful thing).
Credits:
Cyanogen for base (really does allow me to be lazy with device trees) and their Spareparts. Alankila for his work on CPUSpeed and DSPManager.
Me, of course, for being awesome and as a final ROM release for some time to leave my warm yet loving bosom, I have to say the combination of the kernel and this build is quite possibly my best work yet. Never let it be said I bow out on a low note and don't give the community who have fed my ego and spurred me on since May what they need, deserve and hunger: ME on their phones.
As usual, disclaimers, don't come crying to me if your phone blows up. There is a chance that the erm...persuasive nature in which I made this build may cause you a hiccup or two. Don't whine. Let the Villain team know and they can work on it. I'll be on hand to assist them with getting bug fixes out and making sure they're in good stead to keep releasing good ROMs for the future, or at least good enough that you don't miss me -too- much.
I am of course kidding with the self big upping here (the ROM is damn cool though kids, check it out), Villain is a great team, they did just fine before I came along and they'll continue to serve their community well with me on the sidelines while I hack away at bits of kernel code like a hermit.
So, enjoy. I hope this gives you guys as much fun and pleasure using as it did for me when I saw it come alive. Just don't be scared if it starts calling you Dave.
Ninpo/Hacre out, I leave you with breaking news from some guy called Lenny:
Lenny said:
But I just want to play with him and pet him George..
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Oops, wrong Lenny:
Lenny said:
Users of WaveSecure may need to ensure they backup data from old rom and restore on new rom,
otherwise WaveSecure asks you to register again. Titanium Backup does this job perfectly.
Lenny
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I'd listen to him guys, Lenny is deadly serious.
Ciao!
EDIT: AAHAHAHAHAH apparently I broke the camera. Looking into it now!
EDIT2: 652MHz kernel removed due to some build issues.

dowloaded going to put it on my phoone got a feeling this is going to be a keepper

Thanks Ninpo. This will keep me occupied until your cm6 kernel is released
Sent from my Hero using XDA App

read your 'story' with a smile on my face, was like watching eastenders

hacre, dude, that was the frickin funniest rom launch description text I've ever read!
aside from the fact that I've tried probably 4 or 5 roms over the last half year that had no issue with latency or FCs etc when the setup screen launched (many Do though, you're right), it really was an entertaining read
great work, downloading and flashing this asap.
I still am blown away with how fast 1.1.9 is on my phone, 1.2.0 should be even nicer from what I'm reading
cheers and congrats!
dkelley

First of all amazing !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Fast omg this is a keeper and i think u just beat cronas 0.2 froyo

dkelley said:
hacre, dude, that was the frickin funniest rom launch description text I've ever read!
aside from the fact that I've tried probably 4 or 5 roms over the last half year that had no issue with latency or FCs etc when the setup screen launched (many Do though, you're right), it really was an entertaining read
great work, downloading and flashing this asap.
I still am blown away with how fast 1.1.9 is on my phone, 1.2.0 should be even nicer from what I'm reading
cheers and congrats!
dkelley
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It makes 1.1.9 look like a HTC Sense 2.1 beta leak.

OK, you've convinced me.
My Hero goes Froyo, now!
Edit: i hope there will be just update for camera via updater

This rom feels really quick =]
I only had one issue with setup, but that's because I didn't have a sim card in, so my own fault really
in fact... I'm gonna say... holy crap it's fast..
It's just as responsive as my N1
Thanks Ninpo, great rom =]

Anyone else having camera issues on this rom?
I get a message, "Cannot connect to camera".

pharrisee said:
Anyone else having camera issues on this rom?
I get a message, "Cannot connect to camera".
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Yeah see the OP, working on it. Sack my testers, apparently not one of them checked the camera.

Yep, I have the same camera issue I'm afraid.
Sent from my HTC Hero using XDA App

First off, let me just say I LOL'd at your post
With that said, I'm holding out for a fixed camera, but very impatiently...
*tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap*

Actually, let me say, as lighthearted as I tried to make this thread, I'm pretty embarrassed that we missed that one.
Sorry folks. Please enjoy the rest of the ROM, I am working on a fix right this second.
GAH!

That release description made me laugh quite a bit. Downloading this now. I can't believe I'm still awake even though its 2:40 am over here
Sent from my HTC Hero using Tapatalk

the camera issue reminds me of the cronos beta build he was working on but didn't release last night - he built some kind of really fast version also but it borked the camera and had a stability issue, although it never made it to the public.
I'm still setting this new froyd up to actually get it to a point where I can really use it and find out how well it runs. hopefully by the time I get it where I want it (which does take a long time, hours it seems always for me with froyd, just something different about how it configures things on my phone for reasons I can get into sometime if anyone cares, but there's logic behind it...).... anyway hopefully by then a camera fix patch will exist
will be interesting to see!

Right, it's past 3am and this is all blurring into itself. Gonna grab some Zs and get it fixed later.
Apologies again...hope it doesn't take too much joy out of the performance. I'll track it down, promise.
EDIT: Fix identified, it needs a rebuild, BUT, all the performance enhancements look as though they will survive the fix, so, yay!
I'll get some sleep now and get this out asap in the morning. Please feel free to leave feedback on current build.

Ninpo, thanks for the 352-652 kernel
Tested it and is broken.
din show up the freq in cpuspeed and user apps went missing.
going back to the default one for now.

windz said:
Ninpo, thanks for the 352-652 kernel
Tested it and is broken.
din show up the freq in cpuspeed and user apps went missing.
going back to the default one for now.
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I'll check that too.
Night folks.

USB tether doesn't seem to be working correctly.
when i tick the checkbox it connects correctly. when i untick it, it will show as "network cable unplugged" on PC side but the network interface will stay. phone will stuck on tether mode and won't return to ADB mode. it stays that way even after unplug/replug USB until reboot.

[GPL]FroydVillain 1.2.2 "GPS really needs a kick in the nuts"

Ok because people don't like reading threads before posting their questions...
KNOWN ISSUES - FroydVillain 1.2.x - KNOWN ISSUES
We know GPS is borked. It's not a fault with the kernel it's a bug that was in the framework. -ANY- AOSP build built with this version of the Android source has the problem. This is fixed in 1.3.
Latest Google Apps will be in 1.3. Stop asking.
A rebranded version of CMParts/CMSettings will be in 1.3. Stop asking.
New Google voice search has issues especially if your language isn't set to English USA. Stop asking if it's a ROM problem. It isn't. We don't make the GApps, Google do, surprisingly enough.
I cannot think of any other ways in which I can try and make the battery drain harder than it should. The battery life with the ROM and the kernels is fine. Perfectly fine. If I used any less juice to the OS I'd get a nobel prize for energy conservation. Stop using crappy apps. I do not own a Hero with a hydrogen cell or nuclear reactor attached. It's a stock battery.
OTA Update: FroydVillain 1.2.2 "GPS really needs a kick in the nuts"
VillainROM Updater app finally makes a return to the FroydVillain platform.
New in this update:
Framework fixes for the GPSLocatorService that fix an issue causing a hang/crash when GPS was obtaining initial fix and location update.
CPUSpeed no longer supports a screen off profile. See below for details.
Updated lib_htcril.so to improve GSM switching, -should- also fix the people experiencing GPS+GSM not working.
Kernel updated to fix some regression bugs in the USB stack, ARM code issues and to prevent the camera app clogging the IO bus.
All the different OC kernels are now in the OTA app, just enable experimental updates to see them.
This OTA update clears the dalvik cache, as there are updates to the framework, so naturally your phone will take longer to boot.
We no longer support the use of a screen off profile with the interactive governor. It's really not needed. While it may make some difference to battery longevity, the benefits far outweigh the downsides. We're talking -maximum- a loss of an hour, over using a screen off profile. However you get the added benefits of:
Being able to use anything with the screen off without losing performance. For example phone calls, listening to music, etc.
Time for a brave new world of thinking, folks. Get used to the idea that it's better for the governor to accomplish a task as quickly as possible, then clock back down.
The other switch in thinking, is this. It's time we stop trying to work around whatever bull**** problem that apps on the market introduce by being buggy, crap or poorly designed. If we find there's an app or a widget that runs your phone at top clock all night, well, start giving the developer ****. We're no longer going to try and work around issues introduced into the OS by bad applications. Developers need to start taking more responsibility or face people not using their apps anymore.
Screen off profiles are a nasty workaround for this problem and it's going to go away, at least in FroydVillain. Your phone's performance should not be at the mercy of whether the screen is on or not. Having many frequencies in the table is a false economy because, and especially with the <518MHz frequencies, you're not just flipping CPU multipliers you're changing the speed of the system bus as well, which causes ultimately more draw on power.
All you need to do now in CPUSpeed is decide what minimum frequency your phone is happy working at. If you have a 352MHz minimum phone, don't start hand wringing with worry because you have fewer available frequencies than others. It doesn't matter. Your battery life was always going to be worse than those of us that can use <352000KHz frequencies anyway, only now your battery won't suffer as much because you're not stepping through a stupid number of frequencies and bus hops to get to a frequency required to get the job done.
Oh, one more thing. Before anyone asks, since I mentioned USB fixes, no the issue with the phone being recognised isn't wholly fixed yet and no Wired Tethering isn't fixed yet. However that is coming soon. I tried to get it into this fix today but it got delayed. No sense delaying the other fixes due to that, though.
EDIT: One more thing. The random instability when using GPS is still present, somewhat. It's affecting all MSM7200A based phones since the update to Google Nav. It's being worked on.
EDIT2: Holy crap guys, when you've updated, start the camera app and check out the performance of the overlay.
FroydVillain 1.2.1 "Return of the Photon Receptive Imaging Device now with more...er...stuff!"
Ah. AH HA. See, the easter egg experiment in 1.2.0 went well, quite a few people spotted that I was being a lying bastard when I said the camera still works. Well done, prizes are on their way.
Ok ok ok I know, I cocked it up. But even Gods **** up sometimes. Have you seen Sarah Jessica Parker? Jesus.
So with 1.2.0 I went nuts to the wall with changes (which all developers know, always causes problems) and changed all the compile options, the toolchain being used because lets face it, when your build is trawling nearly 3GBs of code, you want all the speed you can get.
So colour me surprised when not only did it build, but it booted too. Stuff worked! Oh god it didn't crash at all. Was I about to take my place among the greatest developers ever to grace the land? Had I managed to shut my eyes, bang on some changes like a two year old on a piano and produce something that worked????
Well, alas, no. After everyone had stayed with 2.1 because for some ungodly reason they actually liked the camera on the Hero, even though it has cateracts and has the visual acuity of a blind mole that has just drunk a pint of Ouzo, I went ahead and broke the bastard in the very next release. What a spectacular break it was too. Don't worry folks, I was just reminding Android who is boss and I can take as easily as I can giveth.
It is customary to make up for rather catastrophic f**k ups with some brilliance and gestures of goodwill, extra niceties to appease the masses for them losing the convenience of a camera that would lose an eyesight competition with Stevie Wonder.
SO WHAT DO WE HAVE FOR YOU TODAY?
Well, if I am honest, we have what 1.2.0 should have been.
New since 1.2.0:
Camera fixed.
...
Profit?
Ok ok. I can't justify a new thread with just a single fix. I mean that's barely OTA patch worthy.
SO.
Camera Fixed (again. It has 50% extra fixedness this time. Promise.)
Dalvik management adjusted just for people like dkelley who like to carry around a mirror of the Android Market on their phone.
*picks up Hero* what the hell else did I...OH YEAH
Missing libraries added so the new Voice Search app that's as xenophobic as a old white devout catholic 89 year old American from the deep south can at least attempt to understand "strange" accents from far away lands like....England when we say "navigate to Tesco I'm f**king hungry" and give results of "Navigate to Timbuktoo or Hungary". Awesome.
LauncherPro, Facebook and Google Maps updated to latest versions. I know how you guys hate having Market say HEY YOUR S**T IS OLD the second you flash a new ROM. See how nice I am?
Chrome to Phone added.
Titanium Backup added with the blessing of the author. I promise I'll return his children tomorrow.
Gallery 3D now doesn't go back a step every time you rotate. It now does nice psychadelic diagonal zooming on all your pictures when you open them. I hate this app, so so much.
As much as it makes my teeth itch, WMA and WMV audio/video works, up to WMV/A version 8. I still want everyone who actually uses this stuff to be attacked by a plague of angry left handed wasps who have just bought iphone 4s though. Just sayin.
Ok I've stretched the changelog as much as I can from "fixed what I made a total arse of before".
Hey I did manage to keep all the other performance improvements though. Think of 1.2.0 as a performance preview release and remember to blame everyone but me for the camera not working, since I definitely asked some people to test 1.2.0 before I pushed it out. Man I should work for Apple I can shift blame so well. That's right your camera didn't work because you held it wrong.
Ok, the usual guff that 98% of you have skipped to already:
DON'T reboot twenty times. Do the first boot, install your crap, reboot once. Job done.
adb install won't work on this ROM, until you tick "Unknown Sources" in the Menu > Settings > Applications menu.
This appears to be a new security feature. Similarly, apps pushed to /data/app won't work either. You might not notice the issue, but the app does not get any of its permissions it should have, meaning that it is probably useless, and might FC constantly or whatever. So remember to tick the Unknown Sources box
VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
When you install this ROM, DO NOT USE GOOGLE BACKUP OR RESTORE. It really slows the ROM down, like all Froyo ROMs, and it uses loads of battery even when you think you're not doing anything. So it's not cool. So turn it off in the setup wizard.
Yeah. Google aren't as good as me at fixing catastrophic game breaking failures, so Google Backup still sucks harder than a hungry whore with a vacuum cleaner on two for one night.
This ROM does NOT come with the optimal kernel installed. It comes with a safe one. You NEED to read the section "kernels" below for more information about these, and which to choose Then, once installed, open the app "CPUSpeed" and set up your CPU speeds. This ROM uses the interactive governor, which gives much better battery than other governors... So, set interactive as the main governor, then set your minimum and maximum. Then repeat this for sleep mode. If you have a 352MHz base kernel, set both the max and min sleep speeds to be 352 MHz.
I'm lazy and can't be bothered with a ton of formatting bbcode tags. Imagine the above text that no one ever reads anyway, in 8 inch tall letters and really really red.
You still have a plethora of kernels to choose from. You still need to apply as much thinking to which one to choose as you do in your average food shop. Think about that when you're posting to ask which kernel you should flash. You may as well ask us which flavour of noodles to buy.
Oh in case I didn't mention, it's still fast, now with added fastness for people who like to store Earth on their phones.
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(Thanks to soulasassin for benchmarking) and yes that's Neocore with sound -on-.
Kernels:
Kernels removed as they're now in the OTA app.
MD5 sums:
Code:
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97c953410f547229751d30c199ac0588 nindroid-v1.2-19-614-test-signed.zip
89828f333b9857b4522a88dd3a2137b4 nindroid-v1.2-19-691-test-signed.zip
1b8ac98fb48dadb89e41b4d921ada402 nindroid-v1.2-19-729-test-signed.zip
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8560f34c321a75456e1def3c14fa61db nindroid-v1.2-352-691-test-signed.zip
6608b4a8fc0b04100039d637cfda7332 nindroid-v1.2-352-729-test-signed.zip
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0e1d92f777a688b47cf79dad6f5c0468 nindroid-v1.2-352-787-test-signed.zip
dca2be74cb09a636845c804011322026 nindroid-v1.2-default-test-signed.zip
Oh, I forgot Clicker.apk for the HTC IME mod keyboard, so instead of wasting time adding, re-signing and re-uploading, it's here, push it to /system/app/ with adb.
I'll be rebuilding you some 1.3 kernels today/tomorrow. I didn't do it today, on account of 1.2.0 making me so paranoid about releasing I actually read every line of the Android source code. Twice. You all owe me an eye transplant when I'm 40. Did you know Dalvik is named after something Icelandic? Now you do. I hope Dalvik's memory economy isn't like Iceland's monetary economy or we're all in trouble. The 652 kernel is still left out because something updated upstream is breaking apps2sd. Once I've strangled the guy responsible and demanded to know what he did that broke it, we'll resume normal service.
WaveSecure still needs a full backup apparently, due to sudden paranoia over at WaveSecure. If I've warned devs about weed once I've warned them a thousand times but do they listen? Nooooo.
Anything else? Probably. Gah now I have to pee....
...back. Good job this isn't live you would have been waiting a while, probably rather pissed off by now since I haven't posted the download URL yet.
BIG THANKS TO
Cyanogenmod team for their repo that makes the Android AOSP source tree look like it was made by monkeys
Alankila for finally providing a free alternative to SetCPU. OCWidget sucks.
Alankila again for his ridiculously awesome DSP Manager. Finally my phone sounds like a 21st century device.
Remember kids, you need a full wipe before flashing this. I know I know it's annoying, boo hoo. Just remember, it's also important to do a full wipe before pulling your pants back up or you end up in an embarrassing mess and no one wants that, do we? It's even more important to do a full wipe with FroydVillain because you can't throw your phone at your woman and demand that she deals with the problem like you can your skiddy underpants.
Oh, I almost forgot. Bad news guys. Really bad news. After reconciling some issues with the XDA staff (big props to Egzthunder1) and after the tear jerkingly overwhelming support I've received over Twitter and especially from the Villain community, I'm staying on as a Villain developer and will continue to come up with releases. Hopefully my job will be made easier if I keep churning out release notes like this, as in a couple more versions no one will want to read it all just to find the download link.
That's right. I hid the download link somewhere in the post. Aren't I awesome? First person to find me on IRC to tell me where the link is, gets the extra special prize of me saying on Twitter to all my faithful followers that "XXX outsmarted me and found my hidden link!! Clearly XXX > Ninpo!"
Download link for 1.2.1 is here.
So yeah, thanks to everyone for your support. I'll still be a little more distant from the front line simply because I react to noobs, morons and idiots much like a rabid Pit Bull reacts to a small child with a pork chop around his neck and because I'm still working on the 2.6.34 port with the awesome Elemag and the guys over at Cyanogen.
But you'll still feel me on your phone, in your pocket, with new ROM releases. Ooo baby.
Ninpo out.
EDIT: BAH Issues with some download mirrors it seems, so click here then click either of the 652 MHz kernel links.
EDIT2: KNOWN ISSUE WITH CPUSPEED. It's not always changing profile when the phone wakes up so use SetCPU in the meantime.

And the link is ???

Interesting concept for the download link... Also I believe he said a wipe was mandatory.

Dude, how is the .34 coming along??

gaabrysz said:
Coming from 1.2.0... need to wipe ??
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gaabrysz said:
And the link is ???
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Your ninja edit was not ninja enough. You're 2 for 2 in the "I don't read release posts" league table.
ggrammer said:
Dude, how is the .34 coming along??
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It's coming.

Oh i know where the link is and yes i need to read all posts

I tried to cheat...I got it...still don't know where the link is though
badgers,badgers,badgers....MUSHROOM!

ROFL
Screw yours ROMs, it's your release notes I'm enjoying now
I nearly spat out my imaginary coffee when reading the bit about dkelly.

haha well yes you need to read carefully to find it

MD5 sums:<br />
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<pre class="alt2" dir="ltr" style="
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height: 210px;
text-align: left;
overflow: auto">276501f2709e595a3fc4fa7c656817df FroydVillain-1.2.1-release-signed.zip
How to access it

ziggy1001 said:
MD5 sums:<br />
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<div style="margin:20px; margin-top:5px">
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What on earth is that?

My idiotic first attempt to find it but got it now

F***
I GOT IT!!
damn I love puzzles, thanks for that Hacre
UPDATE2: your link is fine if one uses one's head
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original post:
ok, I'm a frickin web developer, I looked at your source code on that page. there is no link there that I can see.
Hacre, great release notes, I actually found a couple more things to install while I was reading the notes (seriously!) LoL
so I'm calling bulls***
but it still was worth the read
I must be blind. but then I'm 41 and actually had the cataract eye replacements (seriously) heh heh, so no doubt that's my problem.
cheers!
dkelley

dkelley said:
ok, I'm a frickin web developer, I looked at your source code on that page. there is no link there that I can see.
Hacre, great release notes, I actually found a couple more things to install while I was reading the notes (seriously!) LoL
so I'm calling bulls***
but it still was worth the read
I must be blind. but then I'm 41 and actually had the cataract eye replacements (seriously) heh heh, so no doubt that's my problem.
cheers!
dkelley
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View source... nada. Great post anyways.
Sorry, maybe this would help http://www.villainrom.co.uk/releases/FroydVillain1.2.1/download.php

macx98 said:
View source... nada. Great post anyways.
Sorry, maybe this would help http://www.villainrom.co.uk/releases/FroydVillain1.2.1/download.php
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that's cheating
view source wasn't the problem in this case, I know. I initially thought he meant it literally (black colored underline-removed css around an href).
then I treated it as a puzzle, did my best sherlock holmes impersonation, and figured it out. link was broken, then I used my brain to do some common sense.
got it now, flashing

dkelley said:
that's cheating
view source wasn't the problem in this case, I know. I initially thought he meant it literally (black colored underline-removed css around an href).
then I treated it as a puzzle, did my best sherlock holmes impersonation, and figured it out. link was broken, then I used my brain to do some common sense.
got it now, flashing
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I went to the Froydvillain 1.2.0 thread, copy-pasta'd the download link and changed the 1.2.0 bit to 1.2.1

Okay, I have been running 1.1.1 for a week now (or close) . I decide late this morning to try the 1.2.0, spend a few hours getting it the way I like it before going to work tomorrow.
Now, here it is 11:28 pm and I'm flashing this one. What a sucker for punishment.
Thanks
Jim

Loving this ROM. And I'm not flashing anymore I hereby decree a minimum one week commitment to this ROM.
Btw, you said in the release notes that Chrome to Phone is included, but unless I'm utterly blind, I can't seem to find it. Not that I care, I just installed it from the Market. Just sayin' is all!

link
read the post and enjoy the creation but if you find difficulty then go to this link to download it
http://www.villainrom.co.uk/releases/FroydVillain1.2.1/FroydVillain-1.2.1-release-signed.zip
i did not cheat it was just a guess work
went to nindroid kernel links and corrected url ..first hit and it was succsess..
f*** u nin

im not even installing this, but i read your post from start to end.
best rom release notes ever

[GPL][ROM] 2010-08-20 FroydVillain 1.3.0 "villainrom.co.uk, I knew thee well..."

[GPL][ROM] 2010-08-20 FroydVillain 1.3.0 "villainrom.co.uk, I knew thee well..."
Quick Update for FV 1.3.1
Ok guys I can confirm the Tethering FC issue is fixed and working.
GPS is ok so far, fresh boot, launched GPS Status and it was almost instantly aware of 10 sats. Bear in mind this is indoors. Took a minute or two to get a lock where it locked 8 sats out of 11, with a 16 metre margin for error.
I'm going to keep testing this and leave the phone running stuff overnight with logcat running in case there's any weird issues.
FroydVillain 1.3.2 will hit some time tomorrow.
Thanks for your patience, sorry about the lame duck release. I'm off to flog myself silly with spaghetti. If you don't think that's harsh, you've never eaten my grandmother's spaghetti.
KNOWN ISSUES - FroydVillain 1.3.1 - KNOWN ISSUES
Selecting Tethering from Wireless menu causes an FC. - FIXED in 1.3.2
GPS -still- having some issues. - HOPEFULLY FIXED in 1.3.2, still testing.
FroydVillain 1.3.2 will hit either later today or tomorrow folks. It will be another full ROM, I couldn't avoid it sadly. Someone upstream of me decided it'd be a good idea to stop librpc being built against libgps which is the root of a lot of the GPS problems (not all the problems, there were others that have been fixed as well).
So keep those backups current. I'll be adhering to the poll and putting my preferred liblights back in place as well folks. Thanks for voting.
FroydVillain 1.3.0 "villainrom.co.uk, I knew thee well..."
Code:
*fzzzt* Hello??
...
Code:
Where is everybody? Where is everything?
...
Code:
Why is no one downloading me?
Code:
Here I am, all dressed up, nowhere to be posted...
Ah the life of the poor ROM. It can be as awesome as the very latest batch of AwesomeSauce (tm) but without a home it may as well just be a kanged knock off that nobody wants.
*Dusts off hands* Well I guess we should explain the delay in release and what the hell happened to villainrom.co.uk.
Aliens. That's right, aliens. Since I cannot fathom any other reason that a whole site hosting cluster would fall over in a giant crumpled heap and take every single backup with it that isn't older than dirt, my only explanation is, aliens.
It would appear they blitzed through the datacentre with an EMP larger than the battery on Jeremy Goh's phone* and took out everything. Now our server is back however it's suffering a rather serious bout of amnesia. It knows not of England's dismal display at the world cup**, it doesn't even know I've joined the Villain team yet. It appears to be only dimly aware of FroydVillain in that it feels it might be "coming soon".
* Jeremy Goh and his (semi) portable power station powered Hero:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
** Ah if only an EMP worked on me. Sigh.
Right before we go into what's included and what's new, let's get the thanks out of the way.
Thanks to:
CyanogenMod team for keeping a step ahead of the original AOSP tree.
Alankila for his usual contributions (DSPManager/CPUSpeed).
Mikebeecham for the awesome artwork and wallpapers.
mpgrimes for his awesome wallpaper contributions.
markitoxs for helping me flesh out the wallpaper collection with some nice photos/abstract art.
Everyone who saw fit to donate recently, your generosity is greatly recognised, appreciated but never required.
Everyone who whined about issues in the last releases. I only fix stuff to make you shut the hell up yanno.
All the folks on IRC who downloaded the pre release and helped to test.
Alex24 for all his work with theming, thanks to him we'll be able to have themes good to go with each release really soon.
NikuelTrasgu for the original bootanimation and Alex24 for adding in the loading part.
My family, my friends, who all contributed to me receiving this prestig.....oh oops wrong speech.
SO what's new in 1.3.0? How can I possibly top 1.2.1? How can I justify making you all wipe your phones again?
Well it turns out 1.2.1 can easily be topped just by making GPS work properly. OH oh...there we go, 1.2.1 topped, GPS works properly.
GPS working correctly in this release without random reboots.
This had better be well received because I ran 15 individual tests of a fresh boot, get a lock on and then rebooting to test first boot lock ons. 15 out of 15 locked on with the usual varying lock on times with no random "GAARRGH" from the phone as it committed suicide.
That's right, we've eliminated the Emo factor of FroydVillain 1.2.x. Emos just don't have what it takes to help you navigate yourself around accurately. Too much effort you see. So we've given it a haircut, spruced up the clothes, washed all the make up off and given it a good stern kick in the arse with a smidgen of framework fixes to turn it into a fully functional member of the navigation society. Hurrah.
Wired Tethering works AT LAST.
Leave it to HTC to make a kernel that's about as future proof as a car made entirely out of tissue paper. From now on HTC kernel "devs" will be permanently thought of by me as evil and mad Jaffar types (Google Disney's Aladdin) with a child's chemistry set bubbling and frothing around them as they set about scuppering any possibly future useful feature just to make us buy newer phones because we can't get Froyo to work properly. Well screw you HTC! Muhahahaha.
Erm, where was I? Oh yeah. Wired tethering works from the Wireless & networks menu. You'll still need an app for the wireless tethering though since the wifi drivers don't support the Froyo method. Yet.
New wallpaper collection.
You can tell I've had extra time on my hands when I start putting things in that people have complained about since FroydVillain 1.0.0 that I consider incredibly low priority. We've brought back the original wallpapers that Nathan put in place and then some. If anyone dares complain about not liking one or all of them I will find out where you live and pay a visit with a TENS machine with the name of your testicles on it.
CMParts makes a return with a different face.
As the changelog for my fork of CMParts states, I've carried out a "Shameful SHAMEFUL rebranding for the Villain project". In the menu it's there as Villain Settings. This satisfies my want for aesthetics and your want of having features from other ROMs all in one ROM. Well maybe not the last part but you've at least got a tool that lets you play around with things you don't understand. Incidentally compcache isn't included in any Froyd release and never will be, so that option will continue to have no effect. It's also worth noting the Battery Percentage setting works with themes too. Hooray.
Japanese keyboard support.
Enough said really. OpenWNN keyboard is included. Pinyin would have been too, however it sucks goats and insists on being the default keyboard and promptly crashing. This is being worked on but for now anyone wanting this keyboard will have to grab it from the market.
More kernels.
The USB tethering fix was a kernel patch so with that and another few minor bug fixes a new batch of Nindroid 2.2 kernels are available. The included in ROM kernel is already up to date. You're welcome.
Better sleep states.
This kernel allows for a deeper sleep when idle not just when the phone is suspended. It should provide a bit of a boost to battery life.
ADW Launcher included alongside LauncherPro.
Since there are weirdos out there who don't consider LauncherPro to be the best launcher since before LauncherPro was invented, you can use ADW. No I will not include more launchers in the future. Two and that's your lot. If you want more ask Santa Claus. Or go to the Market. You might get more luck with the latter. Usually.
Vlingo included.
I don't want to hear whines about including apps people are just going to remove. If you decide to remove Vlingo you might as well remove yourself from the genepool too. Vlingo is awesome. It is awesomely awesome. Vlingo is so awesome I have to brace myself just prior to launching the app. It makes Google's voice recognition look like a partially deaf guy with a hearing aid being affected by radiation from Jeremy Goh's battery semi portable power station.
Themed HTC IME mod.
If you don't like it delete HTC_IME_themed.apk from /system and push the original HTC IME mod. Or theme your own. I don't care. Called it developer's privelage, I included a keyboard that I think looks sweet. It's worth noting that voice input works on this version.
WaveSecure included.
Anyone who doesn't use/like it feel free to delete it but for people with a WaveSecure account it's much better to have it loaded in /system/app. So it is. Yay.
Notification lights improved.
They're still not perfect but the battery LED flashes now for notifications. I personally preferred the 1.2.1 method of jogball for everything and LED for battery. Apparently you lot didn't.
The only bugs I've really noticed with it, is it'll often flash both the LED and the trackball as if it's just detected a nuclear attack. The other bug is if you boot with USB connected and then disconnect USB the LED turns red. This goes away at some point, but I can't remember if it's replugging the USB that makes it go away or a notification turns up while off power. But yeah, thems the breaks.
"OK NINPO ENOUGH YAPPING WHERE THE HELL IS MY DOWNLOAD LINK??"
Ok, ok. Here they are:
FroydVillain 1.3.0
Kernels:
19-614 MHz (default)
19-652 MHz
19-691 MHz
19-729 MHz
19-748 MHz
19-768 MHz
Remember kids, you'll need a full wipe for this one.
Anyone caught flashing an overclock kernel then coming to IRC bleating their phone doesn't start, will be extremely ridiculed.

ignore my stupidity in reading simple english....Thanks for this!!

w00t! I just saw this! Downloading now!

Full wipe? Really?!
Sent from my HTC Hero using XDA App

Yeah, full wipe as it's a new base, and new frameworks.

Oh my God.you really made my day..thanks villain team.
Sent from my HTC Hero using Tapatalk

orangeclanz said:
Oh my God.you really made my day..thanks villain team.
Sent from my HTC Hero using Tapatalk
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LOL. I am sure Ninpo is glad to make your day for you
And ninpo, nice work on the release notes mate

Woot, finally!

VillainRom LIVES!!!
Whoop! DLing NOW!

Wired Tethering works AT LAST.
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it worked for me on 1.2.1, just had to use the hndis driver

pulser_g2 said:
Yeah, full wipe as it's a new base, and new frameworks.
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Oh,so I have to port my themes from 1.2.2 to 1.3.0 again!
But big Thanks for this great ROM.
Downloading now,too

Is USB-tether the same RNDIS solution as in sense roms? (I.e it doesnt work with OS X?)

Removing ADW launcher
Hi
First of all, thanks for the great VillainROM releases, especially FroydVillain.
Just installed 1.3.0, and just to be sure:
To remove ADW Launcher, I just do an adb shell, go to /system/app and remove ADWLauncher.apk?
Edit:
And same approach with the WaveSecure?

Json_81 said:
Is USB-tether the same RNDIS solution as in sense roms? (I.e it doesnt work with OS X?)
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Well it works with Linux so I can't imagine it not working with OS X unless it really is that big a pile of...oh wait, it's Apple.
rd-Target said:
Hi
First of all, thanks for the great VillainROM releases, especially FroydVillain.
Just installed 1.3.0, and just to be sure:
To remove ADW Launcher, I just do an adb shell, go to /system/app and remove ADWLauncher.apk?
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Aye.

It's 2.00am and I was about to sleep. But once I found out there's update, now am sitting in front of the computer , backup everything , downloading the rom , thou tomorrow morning have to go church .
Thanks for the new rom !!!

Ganii said:
Oh,so I have to port my themes from 1.2.2 to 1.3.0 again!
But big Thanks for this great ROM.
Downloading now,too
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I hope you port your themes. They complete my villainrom!

Yeah guys!!! You are more awesomely than awesome!! LOL!!! Nimpo you are still my favourite comedian...
THANKS A LOT!!!!

Villain team smashing it up once again. Thank you, will definitely be giving this a try later. Is this likely to cure my OCfD?
Sent from my HTC Hero using XDA App

Hey Ninpo I really really wish to do two things right now.
Firstly to Kick your ass for the funniest release notes and secondly to Kiss your damn ass for the nice work on the most stable and smooth Froyo Roms for Hero. Definitely worth praise, great work and great effort.

rd-Target said:
Hi
First of all, thanks for the great VillainROM releases, especially FroydVillain.
Just installed 1.3.0, and just to be sure:
To remove ADW Launcher, I just do an adb shell, go to /system/app and remove ADWLauncher.apk?
Edit:
And same approach with the WaveSecure?
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Root explorer can remove the ADW.
Sent from my HTC Hero using Tapatalk

[GPL][ROM] 2010-09-04 FroydVillain 1.5.0 "So fast it waits for YOU to boot."

[GPL][ROM] 2010-09-04 FroydVillain 1.5.0 "So fast it waits for YOU to boot."
FroydVillain 1.5.0
The Hero is Alive and Kicking.
Now that HTC let it die and laid it to rest, it's gonna to go to the place that's best, now they've laid it down to die, it's moving on up to Team Villain, make it fly. (Ugh that was terrible. Leaving it in anyway.)
So here we are. The end. Almost. The -real- end is yet to come in the shape of FroydVillain 2.0. However given the release cycles you've become accustomed to, this may as well be the end.
FroydVillain 1.5. What a journey it's been. We've been through some hell haven't we? GPS not working, random reboots, etc. Epic battles with dalvik and battery life. We've had everything.
Or have we?
Well 1.5 says no.
In 1.4.x dalvik had ~30 arm optimisations. 1.5 has over 200. BOY can you tell.
Yep. While dalvik was still on the ropes wondering wtf just happened I slammed it with several body blows before delivering the final uppercut of YOU WILL PLAY NICE ON THE HERO. For an encore I moved on to the OpenGL libraries that were on the sidelines pointing and laughing at dalvik and gave them a good one-two of optimisation for good measure. They suddenly didn't see the funny side of dalvik getting its ass kicked.
Man these are weak release notes. This is what happens when you lot demand great posts every release and I'm releasing roughly once a week. Those guys that do it week in week out for TV must be on some sort of drug. I want some of it.
Oh that reminds me. I've themed FroydVillain 1.5. If you're the type that has a hard on for that ****ing ghastly vanilla AOSP interface then you're in for a disappointment. I might consider pushing the ugly into the OTA app as a theme at some point but that's not going to be tonight. Something was really bugging me about the finished FroydVillain article and it struck me; it's ****ing ugly.
Here is the link to the Vanilla theme
I consider the AOSP interface to be so ugly it looks like it was set on fire and put out with a baseball bat covered in pig ****. It's terrible. Using it, my good eye often threatens to go the way of my left eye and just **** off on a long vacation. God I hope Google sort this **** out for Android 3.0 I really do. As it stands right now, the vanilla interface is about as attractive as the fat spotty ***** with a purse full of alcohol money at the school disco, ready to get anything with a penis drunk as hell just to get lucky.
Android, there isn't enough money in the world, believe me.
Changes? YOU WANT CHANGES? Well here's the changes.
GPS. DOES. WORK. THIS. TIME.
It was supposed to work last time, and the time before that. Probably the time before that too. Thankfully Cyanogen himself realised the missing piece to the puzzle and fixed the entire APNs list. Hats off to him, I had a feeling the problem was there and I certainly couldn't be arsed with it. Do you lot have -any- idea how many telco APNs there are? A LOT that's how many. There's more APNs in Android than George Dubya Bush has stupid. That's a -lot-.
So yeah. Just in case you were somehow missed, if you have GPS trouble, edit your APN and set APN type to default,supl. That'll give GPS the kick in the nuts it needs. Or stop living in whatever backward ass country you're living in and go somewhere that has real mobile/data.
Speaking of retards (I know we weren't) it's been really bugging me lately how easy it is for ROM "developers" to pull wool over people's eyes. You lot are a trusting bunch, which is endearing but unfortunately that seems to be abused.
FOR EXAMPLE. A "developer" who shall remain unamed (mostly due to forum rules) recently said they don't like my implementation of the interactive governor due to the number of kernels. THEY THEN went on to say that such "strange code" can fry your hardware which is why he won't entertain it.
Ok apart from the mindnumbing dumb that statement contains, that's not particularly funny, right? Well it gets funnier when this same "I won't put out any code that could break your hardware" champion goes ahead and releases a kernel for the Hero that can clock up to 922MHz. Bahahaha. No, I'm serious.
Phones are the same as anything else folks. Always take anything you read with a pinch of salt, even from me. Just because some ROM "developers" have an IQ smaller than the number of hydrogen atoms in a water molecule doesn't mean you have to.
Woops, I'm rambling, on to the next change.
Wifi no longer gets its **** pushed in trying to do complicated things like "browse the internet".
Well we've fixed that too. FroydVillain 1.5 has support for a proxy over wifi only this time it doesn't get all confused over the difficulty of telling the difference between a 3g proxy and a wifi proxy. Happy days.
Support for Conservative governor when screen off.
CPUSpeed now lets you set a different governor when the screen is off. I highly recommend using interactive (or on demand if on the 576MHz kernel) with screen on, and Conservative with screen off. Great for battery life.
Carrier name now shows on the lockscreen and notification bar.
A small fix but as always it seems to be the small things that generate the most noise. That's when you can tell you have a good ROM, people complain about the most inane s**t on the planet, like complaining they can't see their carrier name on almost every screen they need to navigate. You know, in case they forget who it is they pay their money to.
Dalvik.
I know I covered it earlier but this is so awesome it deserves covering again. Dalvik and JIT now function with -full- cpu assembler optimisations. While this doesn't translate hugely over into benchmarks, it does make a massive difference to the overall user experience. Things load faster, there's a more "snappy" feel, dalvik takes up less memory, etc etc. It's both fantastic and disgusting. Fantastic that we can enjoy it, disgusting that both Google and HTC left us with some half arsed build of Android and left it at that. Bastards. Ninpo 2, Dalvik 0.
The kernel.
While technically separate, I need to cover changes in the kernel. Battery life -will- be ever so slightly worse than in 1.4, however more stability comes as a result. I also remembered that HTC half arsed bringing 2.6.29 to its most up to date version, so that's taken care of. I've also merged some 2.6.3x scheduling fixes in as well because I was bored between awesome moments, so I added a whole other awesome moment just for good measure.
Lights
At long last. They work properly. Well done Revoked.
Alright, I've flogged this long enough. Here's your download links.
FroydVillain 1.5.0
Kernels:
576MHz with boot animation.
576MHz without boot animation.
614MHz with boot animation.
614MHz without boot animation.
652MHz with boot animation.
652MHz without boot animation.
691MHz with boot animation.
691MHz without boot animation.
729MHz with boot animation.
729MHz without boot animation.
748MHz with boot animation.
748MHz without boot animation.
768MHz with boot animation.
768MHz without boot animation.
WITHOUT BOOT ANIMATION MEANS YOU WILL GET NO BOOT ANIMATION. Stating the obvious right? You'd think so, but no, a fair few people who would enter a battle of wits totally unarmed didn't realise they wouldn't get a boot animation with a no boot animation kernel. The s**t I put up with for you lot, seriously.
Failing any major catastrophes requiring some OTA action, this is your lot for a while. It's been great working on FroydVillain and having you all report back on the various and drastic changes I've made. However I need a break from this more than Tom Cruise needs stilts. Besides this ROM should be stable for you all leaving me time to work on other projects, including FroydVillain 2.0, the 2.6.34 kernel and of course developing for the Nexus.
THIS SHOULD WORK WITHOUT A WIPE. However, everyone's phone/setup is different, so if you run into problems, WIPE FIRST and if overclocking TRY A SLOWER KERNEL.
Thank you all for keeping me interested and re-igniting my development hunger. Rest assured I am not done, not by a long shot, but you need a stable ROM to play with so I can work on even better **** for you in the background.
Thanks to:
Everyone remotely involved.
Special thanks to:
My IRC minions for testing the various pre releases and telling me about my f**k ups despite fear of death and banning.
CyanogenMod project. They still taken the sting out of managing an AOSP tree.
Kernelzilla. You're just far too clever dude, thanks for everything.
Revoked for being my C/java *****.
All the people I gave special thanks to before.
Ninpo, giving you a last f*** you all for a while. F*** you all. <3
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Downoading. Will have a try. Thanks.

downloading now, BIG THANKS for everything!

Downloading.... now.....
Tks a lot Hacre =)

God, I love your release notes

Will download this soon, thanks for the good work you do!

thanks villainrom teams! Great works.

Boy, was I waiting for this moment !
Thanks for Your hard work !
Regards
Sent from my HTC Hero using XDA App

Wow, you work fast. Thanks a lot, looking forward to flashing.
Q: How do you remove system apps?
On 4.x I was trying to update my Launcher pro to LP Plus and I couldn't do it??
Thanks again

Marcehh said:
Wow, you work fast. Thanks a lot, looking forward to flashing.
Q: How do you remove system apps?
On 4.x I was trying to update my Launcher pro to LP Plus and I couldn't do it??
Thanks again
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For LauncherPro just input your key. The option to do so should be in menu -> preferences, or you should find it when you try to add a widget.
However to remove apps in /system, do:
adb remount
adb shell rm -f /system/app/APKNAME.apk
Remember to replace APKNAME with the actual file name. File names are case sensitive.
adb is part of the Android SDK pack.

downloading now!
hell what else can you do at 4.30 in the morning!!!!
cheers Hacre

Thanks for the great work, it also looks awesome!!! :-D

The deal breaker for me with 1.4.x was GPS. Flashed 1.5, first thing to do was firing up GPS status... and wohooo... locked within seconds.
Kudos VillainTeam!

enyeng said:
The deal breaker for me with 1.4.x was GPS. Flashed 1.5, first thing to do was firing up GPS status... and wohooo... locked within seconds.
Kudos VillainTeam!
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Yeah there were some APNs not configured correctly in the old apns-conf.xml which screwed those affected when it came to GPS. Cyanogen has provided a better/cleaner obviously 110% more fixed than it's ever been before APN list which is included in FV1.5.

just about time. finally. thanks hacre

downloading now.
I love reading your release notes
HUGE thanks for everything TeamVillain, you guys ROCK!
BTW, the galaxy theme is the default theme in the ROM? love it.

zeldabb said:
downloading now.
I love reading your release notes
HUGE thanks for everything TeamVillain, you guys ROCK!
BTW, the galaxy theme is the default theme in the ROM? love it.
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Slightly modded Galaxy. I'll get the original ugly in the OTA app as a theme tomorrow or Sunday.

Thanks a lot ! Just the first time, all widget don't work, so easy, just remove them from the screen, and put them back and everything work.
Thanks a lot for this new update.

regisprigent said:
Thanks a lot ! Just the first time, all widget don't work, so easy, just remove them from the screen, and put them back and everything work.
Thanks a lot for this new update.
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it's works for me here

Hacre said:
Yeah there were some APNs not configured correctly in the old apns-conf.xml which screwed those affected when it came to GPS. Cyanogen has provided a better/cleaner obviously 110% more fixed than it's ever been before APN list which is included in FV1.5.
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Thanks for the info.
It makes me wondering, if GPS fix depends on the APN configuration, would APN toggle widgets which work by modifying the APN name entry will have decremental effect in achieving GPS fix?
* also in the (very unlikely ) event that I ended up in someplace remote without cell signal, how is my chance to get a GPS fix? *

alpha T-mob Vib WIFICALL JARMEZ RC4.2 base batmods, deodex, sync, FM rad, TWcal+more!

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​PLEASE DO A NANDROID BACKUP BEFORE FLASHING THIS ROM
​-Special thanks-​
* Thanks XDA for getting me here. I have learnt so much from this place!
* pawtipwithout you SGS would be left in the dust....but now you give us an awesome lease of life again, far better than what samsung could have done! Awesome work man
* MyUI ICS for a base to work with that allows use of Samsung Apps
* OneCosmic for the smooth as gloss RC3 **Now 3.1** and thanks for the frustrations of migrating from RC2.11 LOl
* Perka and Zatta Perka for his graphical battery animation thread linked here -> Perka[MOD]ICS based on teamhacksung's ICS Port [20-01-2012] Updated! Zatta for his scripting techniques
* Special thanks especially to asianbobo15 - who ever you are? and you patch fix for wifi calling on earlier gingerbread ROMs on DarkyROM forum - I owe you a beer!
* denverg and his themeing techniques using apk tool
* dsixda for his totally awesome ROM kitchen!! Thanks man I owe you haps!
* cyanogenMOD team for being able to decompile and look through the remnants of CM7 that I used as a hop-skip-and jump to ICS and being a saviour and fallback when ICS chucks a sh!t and does backflips on me LOL
* credits to my grass roots in the DarkyROM forum and the inspiration for me to launch into the ICS ROM building in the firstplace...onwards and upwards you guys are progressing to bigger pastures with samsung firmwares and I am trying to build some of that awesome Darky style and bring the samsung feel (and less ASOP - sorry nothing against it) back into to ICS - It's what I and alot of others LOVE! otherwise I would have gone and got a Galnex
* vibranturk for for provision of some build_prop details that have strengthened my ROM, one of his GPS files as well as some themed user apps....also for pulling me out of the sh!t last week when I crashed my phone and providing a stable ROM for me to boot to till I ironed out my bugs - Thanks man ;-)
* RaymondPJR & adm1jtg - for all your dedicated hard work with positive feedback, your provision of information from around the forum and helping me the most out of anyone else every step of the way...your a champion dude!
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​-Whats included -
*Wifi and 3G/4G Calling (Embedded application for T-mobile Wifi) standard JVU modem but I recommend flashing something more suited to USA & T -mobile like KB5
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Jarmez enhanced SGSICS RC 4.2 deodexed ROM, upgraded build.prop, coloured battery % mod, extensive framework modifications. Took me ages hopefully it works prey to god. Sync of facebook! What we have all been waiting for SGS1...fingers crossed on this one.
FM radio.....yes thats right the standard bloomin Samsung one. I may need additional drivers yet so don't jump for joy just yet. Give me feedback i.e. not random **** like "DUDE ITS BROKEN" cause that doesn't help me and i will ignore you
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/43088692/T-mobWifiCall-GTi9000-RC4.1deodexed+batmod+more.zip
Also some of the build.prop info is spoofed to enable you guys downloads to better games from T-mob website and because as far as I know only the infuse has 4g? correct? either way leave the build.prop as is.
NOTE. the framework WILL NOT work in any other ROM other than RC4.2 deodexed.....which is this ROM, sorry. I always want to remain open and help people from all ROMs cause I don't take sides, but unfortunately with the build prop work and the framework work(work work work all this darn work ) is enduring. Please if you want wifi on your ROM please contact your dev and have them chat to me and I'm more than open willing to share if they want to embed my work into their ROM.
NOTE: All non-wifi users and non T-mob wifi users, wifi scanning rate is high you may experience higher than usual battery usage with wifi on. You've been warned.
NOTE: THIS IS SUPER ALPHA NEVER BEEN FLASHED OR TESTED - FLASH AT YOUR OWN RISK AND DO NOT ***** ABOUT YOUR PHONE SCREWING UP!
please do a backup before flashing.
alpha T-mob Vib WIFICALL JARMEZ RC4.2 base batmods, deodex, sync, FM rad, TWcal+more!
Its after 1am here in Australia and its past my bed time, and I suffer with narcolepsy soooooo your lucky I am even awake.
This is FYI those coming from other ROMs just so you can't say I didn't say so...please read
[KERNEL]03.01.2011 test-kernels [CM7/MIUI/CM9 preview] platypus;SECURITY,VOODOO,OC/UV
zacharias.maladroit said:
First step before install & kernel switch:
Always have this cleaning script on your internal SD card ready
If you're
- switching kernels,
- have issues with auto-rotation,
- the cam,
- bootloops
- want to remove init script
- recover from a failed overclock attempt
please give either:
- lippol94's updated cleaning script (apply via CWM recovery): http://www.multiupload.com/XFH1GCK4MB
or
- WiwiPouPou's SYSTEM CLEANER SCRIPT (also apply via CWM recovery): (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14805606&postcount=21739)
a try
the kernel already applies some cleaning steps during install but sometimes that's not enough ...
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reserving this post.

ok, i will trying, and have problem with scan of wifi, and i dont from T-Mobile, so it's can do video call 3g if i'm from israel??

FM rad?
do you mean the FM works in your ROM? (or should be.)
thanks dude.

sent you pm
with updated findings

"awesome Darky style and bring the samsung feel (and less ASOP - sorry nothing against it)"
afaik, darky has "AOSP" style status bar and... almost everything is AOSP style`d.

first signs are good....no bootlooping. Thats a start at least lol.
Anyone heard of data restore causing bootlooping? Thats what I have got. So right now I have an awesome blank phone. raw. nothing on it.....that works. And everytime I restore data, I get corrupt android phone process bla bla bla and /or bootloops from hell. Reflash and I am good I feel sad. All data is goneskis

TheGunner22 said:
ok, i will trying, and have problem with scan of wifi, and i dont from T-Mobile, so it's can do video call 3g if i'm from israel??
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T-Mobile wifi-calling only works for T-Mobile USA customers. It can't be used by anyone else. I have read once that there is T-Mobile for France and someplace else that could possibly use it, but I can't confirm that. It can't be kanged to work for any other carriers. It can be ported to phones that T-Mobile does not sell, however, if you take, say your ATT phone to T-Mobile and you find someone to port the app for you, adding it directly to your stock ROM, or a custom ROM.

Its back online again now fellas.
I will have a small incremental update that's come about from adjustments on my own phone, but this still doesn't quite fix facebook sync as such. I have full account sync, profiles, contact details, joining profiles all thats missing is how to open the final field in sqlite for the picture/image to display and then we are rockin-n-rollin
As for the wifi, I will be doing slow updates on the framework until this is sorted. I pretty much NEED logcat outputs from any users otherwise I am totally screwed.....I am not a Tmo user so that will be a necessity as I apply updates and getting feedback.

Wifi-calling
Jarmezrocks said:
Its back online again now fellas.
I will have a small incremental update that's come about from adjustments on my own phone, but this still doesn't quite fix facebook sync as such. I have full account sync, profiles, contact details, joining profiles all thats missing is how to open the final field in sqlite for the picture/image to display and then we are rockin-n-rollin
As for the wifi, I will be doing slow updates on the framework until this is sorted. I pretty much NEED logcat outputs from any users otherwise I am totally screwed.....I am not a Tmo user so that will be a necessity as I apply updates and getting feedback.
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I don't know how I missed this post yesterday, but I guess it's a good thing as i had a very busy and frustrating day. Jeez, there are so many emotionally ill people in the world. Anyway, I'm in no mood to flash anything so I'll have to do this tomorrow. I would rather have given it a quick test in Doc Masters, but I understand that the amount of work that went into doing this was great and the framework files are no longer compatible. Life took a lot out of me today, so again, I'll do this tomorrow. Thanks!
NOTE: All non-wifi users and non T-mob wifi users, wifi scanning rate is high you may experience higher than usual battery usage with wifi on. You've been warned.
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What we've always done is freeze the app with Titanium Backup, then unfreeze it when it was necessary to use it. I'd like to add to the warning above for clarification; the wifi-calling app uses battery even when someone is not using it. Freeze it, freeze it, freeze it, to save your battery when not using it. Did I mention to freeze it, lol?

Cheers for adding that Raymond. Such a help with information.
I have brewing a very smooth, very nice and sharp ROM for release shortly. Non-wifi, but I have mastered the battery consumption v performance balance (I think) and coupled with stability. A week past, multiple flashes, coming from multiple ROMs pure stability every time.

Alpha T-Mob
It's 8:26 Pacific time and I'm doing my backups right now. Will have something to report soon.
EDIT: Wiped data/factory reset, wiped cache partition, wiped dalvik cache, formatted /system, flashed twice, rebooted, forgot to flash KB5 modem (damn, what's wrong with me), letting it sit.
EDIT: Wow, Jarmez, this seems really fast and snappy so far.
EDIT: OK, when I first started setting it up I got the message about wifi-calling and connected to my network. It seemed stuck on 'reading sim card' but I rebooted to flash the KB5 modem and didn't wait. I thought not having the right modem would make it fail anyway. Update: No signal after flashing update, and settings fc's, the same as your second Vibrant ROM did. I will try restoring APN manager to see if I can get it up and running that way. Not worried yet.
EDIT: Rats, I looked in 'About phone', and under Baseband version it says 'unknown'. That means the modem did not flash correctly, which means also there was nothing wrong with your second ROM, (remember, I couldn't get the modem to flash) So, why would that cwm from Scrizz not flash on your ROMs? I'm in a pickle 'cause I never took care of the Nexus drivers, so I can't use Odin.
EDIT: OK, I take back the previous statement. For some reason modems won't flash on this ROM, the cwm is fine. We need to find out why, right away. I tried another one and it wouldn't work either. No way to test wifi-calling unless the sim can be read and with no modem, it can't be. Help!
EDIT: Got smart, I think, switch the modem.bin out of an earlier version of Onecosmic's for the one in this ROM and am trying a non-wipe install.
EDIT: Baseband still unknown. Jarmez, we have a problem. No modem=wifi-calling can't be tested. ROM is fine otherwise though.
EDIT: I looked in /radio and modem.bin was there. I pushed the KB5 version manually then rebooted, no dice. 'No Service' notification,'Baseband unknown' in 'About Phone' and Settings>More>Mobile networks>force close.

Alpha T-Mob
We need a Vibrant version of this. This has that i9000 speaker mismatch (to hear sounds out of the speaker, you must have earbuds in the 3.5 mm jack. Also I've noticed 4 copies of each song in the Music player. The volume buttons may be reversed, but that doesn't really matter. All the soft key buttons behave as they should for a Vibrant.
The wifi connects extra fast, and the signal is excellent, however, with no sim recognized, I can make no calls. If there is no system settings/modem fix by tomorrow morning, I'll have to restore so I don't miss calls.
Looks like straight AOSP (ughh!) would like your Touchwiz touches, not much but something.

Alpha T-Mob
Oh, well, I guess it's back to Doc Masters. I was just informed of yet another ICS build that's strickly AOSP. I don't get it, it's like a hatred of anything Touchwiz even though some things Twiz are miles ahead of anything AOSP. Plus, I've waited too long with the hope of wifi-caling to not be able to flash a modem.
Don't get me wrong, this is an incredble ROM, just like your first one. But I can't test the one thing it was made for.

Jarmezrocks said:
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Hey Jarmezrocks,
I've been trying to download this for a couple of days now and every time I check the link its says your links are generating too much traffic and have been temporarily disabled!
Is there any chance you can put up another link please?
Cheers​

Your an aussie? T-mob wifi calling bro.....not Australian lol. Wait and look in my other thread this arvo maybe.

Dropbox is delete...please other link...thank
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Yeah I'm an Aussie, I'm living in France though.
I'm actually more interested to try it out to see how many Samsung TW apks you have working. I'm on teamhacksung's ICS atm, it's great but I miss a lot of things from the Samsung roms...
I guess I'll just wait patiently for your 2.6 update