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Root Cyanogen 5.0.5.6 out

Really basic info like what kernels, themes, and launchers really needs to be provided when a ROM goes mainstream. You can already see Koush's forum filling with problem posts (and yes, I am a Koush fan and contributer). This is even more relevant since everyone and their grandmother is flashing with the popularity of ROM Manager (and haven't a clue of what they are getting into). ROM Manager would be a perfect vehicle to provide changelog and other news.
 
Booted up fine...

Set default home to HelixLauncher (1.x) when dialog appeared after boot. Helix came up fine, but all my home screen widgets all say "Problem loading widget" so I'll have to remove/replace them.

As expected, theme is gone, kernel back to 600MHz stock. Will re-do those to preferred theme and Bekit's 5 step 1.2GHz kernel shortly.

Rebooted once just to confirm everything is hunky-dory...phone, email, browser, wifi, etc., all working fine.

Going to apply the kernel next, then theme...
 
I'll wait a couple of days for JRummy's remix...I love that theme...and now that the ROMs are so stable, I don't mind playing the waiting game knowing that a new update is available.

Question: I have never really been able to find what the differences are between Launcher2 and Helix2...I've had them both running before and the only thing I've noticed is that Launcher2 seems to be a little smoother (and that how I still roll). I haven't searched hard for an answer but if someone knows off the top of their head...I'd appreciate the clarification. :)
 
shrink57 said:
Really basic info like what kernels, themes, and launchers really needs to be provided when a ROM goes mainstream. You can already see Koush's forum filling with problem posts (and yes, I am a Koush fan and contributer). This is even more relevant since everyone and their grandmother is flashing with the popularity of ROM Manager (and haven't a clue of what they are getting into). ROM Manager would be a perfect vehicle to provide changelog and other news.
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Yup - agree 110%, and said similar recently on the cyano forum...ROM Manager would be a very elegant and simple way to provide a change log for updates.

He does maintain a change log online, here - (CHANGELOG at eclair from cyanogen's android_vendor_cyanogen - GitHub).

He said something recently about the fact that the N1 and Droid commits would parallel each other - I checked, and we did get the 5-column launcher in the stock Home app he includes, so this does appear to be our 5.0.5.6 list as well, though it still is labeled "N1":

CHANGELOG

---- 5.0.6-N1
* Latest code from AOSP from Google as of 3/31/2010
* Ability to move installed applications between internal storage and SD (from ChrisSoyars)
* Added libncurses, irssi, htop, bash, nano and powertop.
* Added option to disable USB Debugging notification.
* 5 column launcher drawer (from Kmobs and ChrisSoyars)
* Animated GIF support in the browser
* Updated translations
* Yahoo mail can be used over wifi (from Invader@AllDroid)
* Kernel is now built from source and installed properly by the Android build system (from Android-X86, tweaked by Wes Garner and Chris Soyars)
* New camera features (antibanding, focus mode, jpeg quality) from CodeAurora
* Battery percentage meter fix from ChainsDD
* Fixed some bugs in Dropbear and added dropbear-keygen to generate host keys
* New ARM NEON optimizations from ARM and 0xlab (0xLab)

It has been clearly stated that he "doesn't care about themes/theming" and so it seems like he's going to leave it up to the themers and us to figure out that part. I can deal with that, it's not his responsibility to keep track of what other themers are doing to his ROMs, but again, there should be an easy way in ROM manager for them to provide compatibility and change-log info to users.
 
shrink57 said:
Really basic info like what kernels, themes, and launchers really needs to be provided when a ROM goes mainstream. You can already see Koush's forum filling with problem posts (and yes, I am a Koush fan and contributer). This is even more relevant since everyone and their grandmother is flashing with the popularity of ROM Manager (and haven't a clue of what they are getting into). ROM Manager would be a perfect vehicle to provide changelog and other news.
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I totally agree... I posted something to this nature over at CyanogenMOD and was attacked by multiple posters... some well known. I felt like my teenage son was giving me attitude after I told him not to pick on his sister.. :o Wanted to send them all to there room. :p


Oh well... still love the product... but it's the hard way for them.


:rolleyes:
 
UBRocked said:
I'll wait a couple of days for JRummy's remix...I love that theme...and now that the ROMs are so stable, I don't mind playing the waiting game knowing that a new update is available.

Question: I have never really been able to find what the differences are between Launcher2 and Helix2...I've had them both running before and the only thing I've noticed is that Launcher2 seems to be a little smoother (and that how I still roll). I haven't searched hard for an answer but if someone knows off the top of their head...I'd appreciate the clarification. :)
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From what I've read they are the same in terms of features/functionality... Arctu posts them w/out any differentiation other than their intended install:

Download v0.6 SYSTEM APP: Here -> 565KB [Launcher2]
Download v0.6 STANDALONE: DOWNLOAD FROM MARKET: HelixLauncher2

As I get it, Launcher2 is meant to run from system/app (likely provided for ROM developers and for folks who want to have it in system/app for whatever reasons), and Helixlauncher2 is for distribution and installation from the market into data/app.
 
UBRocked said:
I'll wait a couple of days for JRummy's remix...I love that theme...and now that the ROMs are so stable, I don't mind playing the waiting game knowing that a new update is available.

Question: I have never really been able to find what the differences are between Launcher2 and Helix2...I've had them both running before and the only thing I've noticed is that Launcher2 seems to be a little smoother (and that how I still roll). I haven't searched hard for an answer but if someone knows off the top of their head...I'd appreciate the clarification. :)
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I'm with you there bro... I'm loving JRummy's.... got a question for you though, have you noticed any strange re-boots? I was getting a few when I first installed it, so I played around with a few different kernels to see if that was it... Didn't really help, so I decided to turn off JIT and that seemed to do the trick. Was just wondering if you are anyone else running JRummy's had seen this.... Can't wait for the JRummy's update... :)
 
ska.t73 said:
I'm with you there bro... I'm loving JRummy's.... got a question for you though, have you noticed any strange re-boots? I was getting a few when I first installed it, so I played around with a few different kernels to see if that was it... Didn't really help, so I decided to turn off JIT and that seemed to do the trick. Was just wondering if you are anyone else running JRummy's had seen this.... Can't wait for the JRummy's update... :)
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You answered your own question. JIT would be my primary suspect when it comes to reboots. Not sure if it improved in 5.0.5.6 but I have tried it in every ROM I have flashed and always settle on turning it off. I would rather have stability than a slighly improved benchmark.
 
ska.t73 said:
I'm with you there bro... I'm loving JRummy's.... got a question for you though, have you noticed any strange re-boots? I was getting a few when I first installed it, so I played around with a few different kernels to see if that was it... Didn't really help, so I decided to turn off JIT and that seemed to do the trick. Was just wondering if you are anyone else running JRummy's had seen this.... Can't wait for the JRummy's update... :)
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Yep, Shrink is right again :D

JIT is just unstable. One of these days it will be running smooth but until then, I only enable it on a new rom...every once in a while...just to play with it. It will force close various apps, randomly reboot, etc. I will say that Cyanogen and JIT has been the "most" stable...but not nearly stable enough.
 
That is what I figured, thanks guys... Now let's light a fire under JRummy!!!!

Oh and Happy Easter...
 
also just tried launcher 1.3 BETA2 and it works as well. it appears launcher 2 will not work for me at all even after fixing permissions. thats ok cause i like the standard better. however i wish the the on press color was green instead of orange.
 
Well that's only if he bought the premium version, otherwise you can get it at the cyanogenmod.com forums under the Droid section.
 
I have been running this all day with the Smoked Glass Esque Theme with Bekit 5 slot 1ghz Kernel. Everything seems quicker then 5.0.5.4 which I had the same exact setup. I don't really miss the 3D app drawer you don't really use it much anyways when you have more then 3 screens with Helix.
 
I tried to upgrade from 5.0.5.3 to 5.0.5.6 (w/apps) and after rebooting my home screens were cleared and many of my downloads appeared to be gone. Is that to be expected?

In response to earlier questions, I am OC'd to only 800. 1000 spontaneously reboots (PC for crashes) too often for my liking.
 
Really love the NexTheme (as noted, in ROM Manager paid version, and there's a thread on cyanogen droid theme forum).

However, the thread in the cyanongen forum only appears to have the 2.0 version, and the ROM Manager shows the 2.01 version. Don't know if the issue is the text hasn't been updated, but the actual download files have been.

I've used the ROM Manager version of NexTheme on Koush's 5.0.5.4 and 5.0.5.6, and it installed perfectly and runs great on both.

Recommend this theme highly, it updates Menu items (some themes leave them all grey/stock) and I just really like the overall look.

Also have Bekit's 1.2GHz 5-slot installed, and happy - it's the only kernel over 1.1GHz that I've ever been able to use...

Going to play w/JIT a bit later just for fun, but expect it to fail stability as in previous tries.
 
OK, I guess it is brain lock time. So I will ask too. How does one disable JIT? I've got CM 5.0.5.6. Looked in all the wrong places and I'm going back in "boot loops" of my own.
 
SteveC said:
OK, I guess it is brain lock time. So I will ask too. How does one disable JIT? I've got CM 5.0.5.6. Looked in all the wrong places and I'm going back in "boot loops" of my own.
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Sounds like you didn't nandroid first (sorry - seemed like a good teaching moment.) ;)

JIT Enable:

abd pull /system/build.prop build.prop
Open in WordPad and add
Add as the last line:
dalvik.vm.execution-mode=int:jit
SAVE

adb shell mount -o remount,rw /dev/mtd/mtdblock4 /system
adb push dalvikvm /system/bin/
adb push libdvm.so /system/lib/
adb push libnativehelper.so /system/lib/
adb shell chmod 755 /system/bin/dalvikvm
adb push build.prop /system/
adb shell reboot

JIT Disable:

Change in build.prop:

dalvik.vm.execution-mode=int:jit

To:

dalvik.vm.execution-mode=int:fast

Easiest way to edit is to use Root Explorer (free app) to edit the file (has a built-in text editor).
 
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