[HERO ROM] Gumbo ROM project - in Beta

[egnin1]

Those of us who know about Linux say app killers are just a waste of time and will probably slow things down.

Phil.

I have to agree with you also!!!!

 

[Jerry Hildenbrand]

Task killers create more problems than they are worth.

Having said that, I use one. Not for automatic killing of apps, but because its much easier that banging out the command to kill a runaway process or stop something you don't want running. I use Advanced Task Manager because it lets me set it so that nothing is autokilled, but I can open it and 2 clicks kills an app vs open the terminal, run top, finding the process uid and killing it from the command line.

If i weren't always trying to do something the phone wasn't designed to do, I'd probably never open it.

 

[egnin1]

I figured you feel like that. People think they are a great app that saves memory and battery . it might save some battery through the day but the trade off is a great always alert phone.

 

[LasVegas]

I installed your ROM in my Hero… Love it!

I only have one problem. Terminal is installed as a System file, doesn't identify itself in the Apps properly (called "com.android.term.Term") and is pretty much useless on the Hero without a keyboard. Unfortunately, it can't be removed and BetterTerminal Free is no longer available in the Market App.

 

[Jerry Hildenbrand]

I installed your ROM in my Hero? Love it!

I only have one problem. Terminal is installed as a System file, doesn't identify itself in the Apps properly (called "com.android.term.Term") and is pretty much useless on the Hero without a keyboard. Unfortunately, it can't be removed and BetterTerminal Free is no longer available in the Market App.

I'm glad you like it.

I put it in as a system file so it didn't take application space. If you press and hold menu the on screen keyboard comes up, a short press will open settings where you can enlarge the font.

The name goof I can't do anything about unfortunately. I used it because it was the best free alternative. You can remove it from the adb shell, it's at system/app/com.android.term.apk

adb remount
adb shell
cd system/app
rm com.android.term.apk
exit
adb reboot

Or I could write a small blank update.zip that deletes it if you're not comfortable manually deleting it. Let me know, and I'll be happy to do it.

 

[LasVegas]

If you press and hold menu the on screen keyboard comes up, a short press will open settings where you can enlarge the font.

Oh, wow! I didn't know I could bring the keyboard up like that! That makes it worthwhile to keep. No way to fix the name though?

BTW: Thanks for the how-to for removing a System app. I'm sure I'll use it in the future.

 

[Jerry Hildenbrand]

Oh, wow! I didn't know I could bring the keyboard up like that! That makes it worthwhile to keep. No way to fix the name though?

Unfortunately I can't just fix the name. The app itself shouldn't be there, so the name doesn't get cached correctly. There are two work arounds:

1 - A TEMPORARY fix. The name will change back whenever the cache is recreated, but this can be done as many times as you like. Open the terminal app and enter the following commands

su
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
rm -r data/boot-cache
reboot

The phone will restart, and take an extra minute or two to start up. The name will be corrected, but as i said whenever the cache is re-written it will revert. This happens when you install, upgrade or remove an app then reboot.

2. This is a permanent solution, but the app is back where it belongs and is using application storage space. It's not a big app, but I didn't want to take the liberty of using anyone's app storage space when I had the option not to. This is how I run mine. Plug the phone in and open the command prompt. Navigate to the sdk/tools directory and enter the following:

adb remount
adb shell
cp system/app/com.android.term.apk /data/app/com.android.term.apk
rm system/app/com.android.term.apk
rm -r data/boot-cache
exit
adb reboot

The phone will reset, again take an extra minute to start back up (it's rebuilding the cache) and when it loads the terminal will be installed like any other application.

Anywhere theres a place to enter text, a long press on the menu key SHOULD bring up the on screen keyboard. HTC did a pretty job in that department IMO.

BTW: Thanks for the how-to for removing a System app. I'm sure I'll use it in the future.

No problem. In most cases it can be done from the terminal app on the phone as well. Just remember that
adb remount (command when on the PC) = mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system (when on the phone itself). Some of the paid terminal apps allow you to set a shortcut. This long ugly command is a great candidate for one

And finally....I love you signature

 

[spj]

I was wondering Modaco has updated his rom to the 2.0 beta http://android.modaco.com/content/h...01-2-0-beta-1-modaco-custom-rom-limited-beta/ and since this rom is based on that modaco rom can you update it here i like that theme setup you have for the gumbo rom.


thanks

 

[Jerry Hildenbrand]

I already have the next update in the works.

I certainly will see what modaco has done and what I can and can't incorporate. The fella does some amazing work in the optimization dept. Because of my schedule, and the need for bluetooth all damn day I am using this ROM full time so all my Android playing around will be on this one.

 

[spj]

I already have the next update in the works.

I certainly will see what modaco has done and what I can and can't incorporate. The fella does some amazing work in the optimization dept. Because of my schedule, and the need for bluetooth all damn day I am using this ROM full time so all my Android playing around will be on this one.

ok cool, thanks

 

[egnin1]

How much longer on the next update rom? cant wait cause your roms rock and everyone you update keeps getting better .

 

[pbrennan42]

I do not yet have a schedule for the next release. Once the others have got back to me on where they are and if they are ready for another release, then I will be able to post something up.

At the moment the team appear to be concentrating on SMS functionality.

Phil.

 

[Ali Fazel]

Here's some things I've come across:

1. Screen doesn't turn off when I'm on a call - I tweeted you about this. This is on 1.2, I'm downloading 1.3 now.

2. FluxIt doesn't work for me. I use TorrentFlux on my Ubuntu box at home, and when I was using the phone stock from Best Buy it worked. What it does is let you log into the TorrentFlux server, and any time you click a torrent file it uploads it to the TorrentFlux server and starts the download. Very useful.

 

[Jerry Hildenbrand]

How much longer on the next update rom? cant wait cause your roms rock and everyone you update keeps getting better .

Soon. I'm running the latest test build now.

Here's some things I've come across:

1. Screen doesn't turn off when I'm on a call - I tweeted you about this. This is on 1.2, I'm downloading 1.3 now.

2. FluxIt doesn't work for me. I use TorrentFlux on my Ubuntu box at home, and when I was using the phone stock from Best Buy it worked. What it does is let you log into the TorrentFlux server, and any time you click a torrent file it uploads it to the TorrentFlux server and starts the download. Very useful.

OK. see what happens after you upgrade to 1.3

Fluxit - Please run a logcat while you're using the app. I can look and see if there are any network errors on the phones end. The only changes made to any of the data transfer were made by Sprint and copied over.

 

[Ali Fazel]

Still doesn't turn off in a call.

How do I do a catlog of FluxIt? It runs in the background and is (should be) the app handler for .torrent files.


***edit***

Just to clarify, the phone will time out and go off in a call, but the screen doesn't turn off using the proximity sensor. I've hung up with my cheek!

 

[Jerry Hildenbrand]

Use the terminal from your SDX/tools folder, and run

adb logcat -d > fluxit.txt

then try running your Fluxit app. After ~60 seconds, exit the terminal This will save a file in your SDK/tools folder called fluxit.txt. Zip up and post that file.

The Hero doesn't have a proximity sensor, the screen only blanks based on your screen timeout settings. I'm not sure exactly what you're seeing here. If the screen times out after X seconds (as is set for your screen timeout) it's working correctly. There is an app in the market called proximity sensor for the hero that uses the light sensor to turn the phone off as it approaches your ear.

 

[Ali Fazel]

Ah, ok. I thought it did have a proximity sensor. Ok, carry on, nothing to see here

I know how to run the logcat, I'm just wondering how well that will work. I can launch the app just fine, but when I click a .torrent file it doesn't run the app as it should. Since it isn't being run, I'm wondering what information will go into the logcat. I'll run it now and we'll see what we get.

***edit***
It's now attached. I opened FluxIt, entered my server information, went to Demonoid, downloaded a .torrent, clicked OK on the notification that there is no handler, tried to open the file, and then went back to my home screen.

 

[Jerry Hildenbrand]

Ah, ok. I thought it did have a proximity sensor. Ok, carry on, nothing to see here

I know how to run the logcat, I'm just wondering how well that will work. I can launch the app just fine, but when I click a .torrent file it doesn't run the app as it should. Since it isn't being run, I'm wondering what information will go into the logcat. I'll run it now and we'll see what we get.

***edit***
It's now attached. I opened FluxIt, entered my server information, went to Demonoid, downloaded a .torrent, clicked OK on the notification that there is no handler, tried to open the file, and then went back to my home screen.

Thanks.

I see the torrent was found on your sdcard, you selected it, it asked you to select a handler, and the default action (VIEW) was sent to the app you selected.

I'm going to set up a fluxit server here and try the app out myself. Odd that the app isn't throwing any error, and the system isn't killing it, yet nothing is happening. Maybe I can get something that makes more sense by watching both ends at once.

Sounds like a useful app anyway

I'll figure something out.

 

[Ali Fazel]

If you like I can set an account up for you on my torrentflux server. Easier than you setting up a LAMP server just to test an app. I don't think there's any actual communication to the server at this point, so nothing that you'd see in server logs.

 

[Jerry Hildenbrand]

No problem man. I'm building a Gentoo LAMP box for it overnight. The idea sounds like it might be pretty handy any way so I'm all in. Portage does all the work lol.

Thanks for the offer though.

Edit - the only e-build I could find is for version 1.5 of Torrentflux. Any issues you can think of that I should know about? Or would I be better off building the latest from source?