ARCHIVED: [ROM][ALPHA] quattrimus ICS

[BGOszman]

Re: [ROM][ALPHA] quattrimus CM9 (ICS)

No, Bluetooth was not involved, only use that for online gaming. Funny though calls were perfectly fine the day before. Had called the same person repeatedly the day before successfully. I'll flash back and report of the issue arises again. Also calls were made in a three to four bar area.

 

[enigmasmobile]

Re: [ROM][ALPHA] quattrimus CM9 (ICS)

Ok, here's the post I mentioned in my bleary-eyed state this morning before I retired for some well deserved shuteye...

iOS has had accessibility baked in since version 3.0 or so, which is simply activated by triple-clicking the home button, and after announcing "Voice Over On", it begins speaking. It also changes the gestures used on the screen, allowing a user to flick in various directions to read the screen, plus a few multi-touch gestures for such things as scrolling and switching home screens. In my experience, I find it fairly easy to use.

Android, on the other hand is a bit different. With Gingerbread and below, a sighted person would have to drill down through various settings menus (Accessibility and Voice Input and Output specifically) to enable accessibility. Usually it's 4 checkboxes in the accessibility settings (depends on what services you have installed, like Talkback, Soundback and Kickback, plus that all important Accessibility checkbox), then you have to pop in the Voice Input and Output settings and go into the Text-to-Speech settings and make sure the voice data for Pico is installed (usually is on new devices, with the exception of the T-Mobile G1 and most custom ROMs). It's an involved process, but once done, there's a fair bit of accessibility, but not the gestures like iOS.

Now for ICS... To activate the accessibility features on a new device (or custom ROM with all accessibility features baked in), you'd simply draw a rectangle starting from the upper left corner of the screen, clockwise around the edge of the screen, and back to your starting point. If done right, you hear a ding, and the TTS starts speaking, placing you in a tutorial to learn the gestures to control the touchscreen. Far simpler, don't you think? Since Quattrimus lacks all the accessibility features at the moment, I can't tell you how the experience is, but if you do a search via Google for Android 4.0 Accessibility, there's some YouTube videos that do show you a bit about how it works.

Ok, there's my kernel of knowledge regarding accessibility on Android and iOS... Feel free to fire your comments and questions my way, and I hope to work with y'all to make Quattrimus )and possibly other custom ROMs) more accessible out of the box.

 

[magiccheeto]

Re: [ROM][ALPHA] quattrimus CM9 (ICS)

After trying the latest build, I'm very pleased with how it is coming.

Calls work, 3g works (sporadically), the UI is the smoothest I have ever seen on this phone, the font rendering is fantastic! Camera doesn't work and neither does the new gallery but that is fixable via Quickpic. The only thing keeping me from using this rom is the poor battery life from the EvDo A acting up and the camera.

Keep up the good work, guys, you're all amazing!

 

[LeoLawliet]

Ok, here's the post I mentioned in my bleary-eyed state this morning before I retired for some well deserved shuteye...

iOS has had accessibility baked in since version 3.0 or so, which is simply activated by triple-clicking the home button, and after announcing "Voice Over On", it begins speaking. It also changes the gestures used on the screen, allowing a user to flick in various directions to read the screen, plus a few multi-touch gestures for such things as scrolling and switching home screens. In my experience, I find it fairly easy to use.

Android, on the other hand is a bit different. With Gingerbread and below, a sighted person would have to drill down through various settings menus (Accessibility and Voice Input and Output specifically) to enable accessibility. Usually it's 4 checkboxes in the accessibility settings (depends on what services you have installed, like Talkback, Soundback and Kickback, plus that all important Accessibility checkbox), then you have to pop in the Voice Input and Output settings and go into the Text-to-Speech settings and make sure the voice data for Pico is installed (usually is on new devices, with the exception of the T-Mobile G1 and most custom ROMs). It's an involved process, but once done, there's a fair bit of accessibility, but not the gestures like iOS.

Now for ICS... To activate the accessibility features on a new device (or custom ROM with all accessibility features baked in), you'd simply draw a rectangle starting from the upper left corner of the screen, clockwise around the edge of the screen, and back to your starting point. If done right, you hear a ding, and the TTS starts speaking, placing you in a tutorial to learn the gestures to control the touchscreen. Far simpler, don't you think? Since Quattrimus lacks all the accessibility features at the moment, I can't tell you how the experience is, but if you do a search via Google for Android 4.0 Accessibility, there's some YouTube videos that do show you a bit about how it works.

Ok, there's my kernel of knowledge regarding accessibility on Android and iOS... Feel free to fire your comments and questions my way, and I hope to work with y'all to make Quattrimus )and possibly other custom ROMs) more accessible out of the box.

Personally I only like iOS now for gaming and music and video playback, anything that involves using the web kills the battery in no time (but then again so does gaming).

Android simply does everything I need it to do, and the entire UI can be customized in just about any way possible.

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[enigmasmobile]

Re: [ROM][ALPHA] quattrimus CM9 (ICS)

I'm gonna stick with Backside a bit longer and let Quattrimus mature a bit. One of my roommates took a look at it and said it looked good, but at the moment, without accessibility and fully working EVDO Rev A, I'd rather suffer slightly with Gingerbread's somewhat less accessible experience just to have virtually everything work for me. TDM, I definitely want to help make Quattrimus great, but at the moment, all I can do is offer advice on accessibility... but otherwise, I'm really looking forward to switching full time to Quattrimus in the near future.

 

[grosskum]

Re: [ROM][ALPHA] quattrimus CM9 (ICS)

was runnung great until i charged last night it didn't charge. now when i plug it in it is stuck in boot animation, then LG and back again. It does not hold a charge so I can't unplug it to try to boot into recovery

 

[BGOszman]

Re: [ROM][ALPHA] quattrimus CM9 (ICS)

Try unplug, pull battery, hold recovery buttons, plug in, but battery back in.

 

[enigmasmobile]

Re: [ROM][ALPHA] quattrimus CM9 (ICS)

I think I'm gonna grab the latest Android SDK and do an install just to have an emulator around... ttry and see if I could yank the accessibility related APKs for ICS. If I do grab them, should I post them here in the Quattrimus thread, or create a whole new thread? Wonder if the APKs would have to be modified to work with the processor in the V or if they'd work as is.

 

[tvall]

I think I'm gonna grab the latest Android SDK and do an install just to have an emulator around... ttry and see if I could yank the accessibility related APKs for ICS. If I do grab them, should I post them here in the Quattrimus thread, or create a whole new thread? Wonder if the APKs would have to be modified to work with the processor in the V or if they'd work as is.

The gapps zip I saw earlier had a GoogleTTS.apk in it. Maybe thats it?

 

[LeoLawliet]

The gapps zip I saw earlier had a GoogleTTS.apk in it. Maybe thats it?

Has anyone confirmed that it works?

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[rukin5197]

Re: [ROM][ALPHA] quattrimus CM9 (ICS)

I "believe" I have removed GoogleTTS.apk from my version of GApps. So if you're using mine, that's most likely the problem.

 

[jayleekay]

Re: [ROM][ALPHA] quattrimus CM9 (ICS)

for people who can't get their phones to boot out of the LG logo, eject your sd card and then pull the battery. You can insert the sd card once the boot animation starts or just wait until the phone is booted. It may be a sign that your sd card needs a reformat.

And for the people that have issues downloading market apps due to space, try an app on the market called Marketfix

 

[anthonycr]

Been running quattrimus today.... again (I had to get my fix).... and by reducing my minimum clock speed from 480 to 320 and battery life increased significantly and the phones internal temperature has gone way down.

Sent via the Postal Service

 

[brotherswing]

I'm sorry but without 3g can we still recieve SMS or calls?

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Yes

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[cammykool]

Re: [ROM][ALPHA] quattrimus CM9 (ICS)

downloading jay and silent bob on it good movie..... just saying

 

[anon(319503)]

Re: [ROM][ALPHA] quattrimus CM9 (ICS)

Can't wait until the camera is completely working. That's the only thing keeping me from using this daily. I decided to test this rom out the other day and it looks great and runs fine. Just need that camera to be a bit more usable.

 

[tvall]

Can't wait until the camera is completely working. That's the only thing keeping me from using this daily. I decided to test this rom out the other day and it looks great and runs fine. Just need that camera to be a bit more usable.

After you get used to it the camera is quite usable. Just takes a little guessing, and sometimes a second try

 

[mazucar]

Re: [ROM][ALPHA] quattrimus CM9 (ICS)

Work is great hopefully camera works after next month that way i can remain using my optimus v

 

[Badboytoast]

Re: [ROM][ALPHA] quattrimus CM9 (ICS)

Does mms work??

 

[arnold1997]

Does mms work??

For some people it does for others it doesn't for example me lol

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