FroydVillain 1.2.1 "Return of the Photon Receptive Imag..."

[helio_150]

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 cock 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.


(Thanks to soulasassin for benchmarking) and yes that's Neocore with sound -on-.

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: Select all276501f2709e595a3fc4fa7c656817df FroydVillain-1.2.1-release-signed.zip
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
0003fd30eb6ca960c9877632eb4b0e6d nindroid-v1.2-19-748-test-signed.zip
954a19202806e08f951b69bdd472b009 nindroid-v1.2-19-768-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
0e1d92f777a688b47cf79dad6f5c0468 nindroid-v1.2-352-787-test-signed.zip
dca2be74cb09a636845c804011322026 nindroid-v1.2-default-test-signed.zip


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.

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.


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.

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!"

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.

For those people who can't find the link, (Hint: When was 651mhz a preset frequency)
Download FV 1.2.1:
www.villainrom.co.uk/releases/FroydVill ... wnload.php

[Nebulous]

Os cuelgo algunas capturas:

IMPORTANTE: Flashear la rom y despues el kernel que querais.
Configuracion:

Yo he quitado las particiones a mi SD, ya que Froyo permite hacer apps2sd con FAT32 (manualmente).
He formateado la tarjeta, he hecho los wipes (los 5) y he copiado la ROM y el Kernel (he cogido el 352-691 porque es el mas estable) a la SD.
He flasheado la ROM y SIN reiniciar he flasheado el Kernel.
Una vez iniciado, he configurado mi cuenta de Gmail, pero es importatante que desactiveis la opcion de Backup (os saldra despues de que os pregunte por lo de Ubicacion).
Una vez iniciada, apagar y volver a iniciar para que todo se ponga en su sitio.
Una vez reiniciada, ejecutar el Set CPU que trae la rom, activar "enable CPU setings" y donde pone "adjustment method" ponerlo en "interactive" tanto para pantalla activa como para pantalla apagada. Mas abajo, seleccionar "Minimum frequency" y "Maximum Frequency" tanto para pantalla activa como para pantalla apagada. (En mi caso es 352-691 para pantalla activa y 352-352 para pantalla apagada).
Reiniciar una vez mas.
Una vez reiniciado, darle a menu>aplicaciones y activar "origenes desconocidos"
Ahora estoy configurando todo el sistema para dejarlo bonito.

Ya contare como va de bateria, etc... (La camara ya funciona).

[jesu320]

Buenas ahora q funciona la camara voy a probar una de estas froyo, pero me gustaria q me guiarais un poco, he probado muchas y hacia los 3 wipes pero la tarjeta siempre la tengo con los 3 formatos, se deja como esta y se flasea? O hay q hacer algo? Y despues de flasear la rom se mete el kernel o se enciende una vez g luego se mete el kernel? Gracias.

[jose_lete]

Hola, estoy al 101% con lo que dice jesu320....


Nos podéis indicar a grandes rasgos como hacer el proceso correctamente????


Ademas eso de elegir el kernel asi a lo Buffet libre... jijiji como que va a haber muchas dudas tipo esto no me funciona por que tengo el kernel que no es????


Bueno Gracias y que conste que yo ya la estoy descargando en cuanto saque un rato libre la pongo.

[jesu320]

Descargada y a la espera de instrucciones

[Nebulous]

Edito: Pego este post de configuracion en mi post con las capturas.

[esegarry]

a la espera... se em cae a baba jeje... por cierto... rom en perfecto español??? na de na no?

[matiascaba]

ahun esta verde, se queda colgada y va lenta

[matiascaba]

rectifico, no esta verde va fatal

[Nebulous]

 Cita: Originalmente Escrito por esegarry

a la espera... se em cae a baba jeje... por cierto... rom en perfecto español??? na de na no?

Si hombre, esta en perecto español. Configuralo como he puesto mas arriba.

 Cita: Originalmente Escrito por matiascaba

rectifico, no esta verde va fatal

Como lo has configurado? Has flasheado el Kernel? Has desactivado el Google Backup?
A mi de momento me va bien.

[POLDER2010]

y si no quiero tocar el kernel porque quiero usar lso valores de fabrica 528mhz? no le pongo ninguno solo flaseo la rom y ya estaria no?

[Nebulous]

 Cita: Originalmente Escrito por POLDER2010

y si no quiero tocar el kernel porque quiero usar lso valores de fabrica 528mhz? no le pongo ninguno solo flaseo la rom y ya estaria no?

Nop, al parecer el Kernel que trae por defecto es un kernel sin optimizar. De todas formas hay problemas con el SetCPU, que tras estar el telefolo durmiendo un rato, no devuelve los valores del overclock, por lo que comentan que es mejor borrar el CPUSpeed.apk y usar otro programa para overclock (puedes usar overclockwidget o setcpu mientras lo arreglan). Pero los valores del Overclock son los mismos.

[matiascaba]

cuando pongo set cpu se cuelga siempre, alguna idea?, graficamente me gusta y eso que soy mas de sense

[Nebulous]

 Cita: Originalmente Escrito por matiascaba

cuando pongo set cpu se cuelga siempre, alguna idea?, graficamente me gusta y eso que soy mas de sense

Que Kernel has puesto?

[Nebulous]

ATENCION: Problemas con el reloj. Se adelanta que te cagas. Jajaja. Es buenisimo, sin tocar nada, pones la hora del reloj y poco a poco va adelantando. Tenedlo en cuenta, que pa salir del curro antes esta bien, pero a la hora de levantarse por la mañana es una putada que te suene a las 7 y sean realmente las 5...

¿El reloj va mal? Uf, me echo para atras...

No se si probarla, parece muy buena, pero el reloj...

[Nebulous]

 Cita: Originalmente Escrito por Davtun

¿El reloj va mal? Uf, me echo para atras...

No se si probarla, parece muy buena, pero el reloj...

Dentro de nada estara arreglado, ya han identificado el bug y estan en ello.

 Cita: Originalmente Escrito por Nebulous

Dentro de nada estara arreglado, ya han identificado el bug y estan en ello.

Genial, ¡Pues a bajarla! Ya os contare

helio_150; Corrige el link del kernel que se ha bajado Nebulous, dan 404 y un bonito video de Mushrooms

[matiascaba]

bueno, la galeria va mal, al girar el telefono no funciona, se ve mal, se cuelga con el set cpu, se come la bateria, no trae la galeria de fotos de serie, da muchos fc

pd, asi que lo arreglen puede que este bien, pero de momento no la recomiendo para su uso diario