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Root [ROM][ICS] Paranoid Android Ver1.6 Beta from source (31JUL2013)

Hmmm. I reinstalled including the symlinkedgaps, and didn't find Maps or Navigation installed. Weird

Also, left my phone off the charger last night and this am it was dead. It easily run 12-14 hours on a full charge. Heading out on a quick trip, might have to wipe and reinstall everything again if it acts up.
 
matt832 said:
Hmmm. I reinstalled including the symlinkedgaps, and didn't find Maps or Navigation installed. Weird
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If you didn't install Maps from Google Play, or from a backup, then Maps won't be on your phone after a fresh install with GAPPS.

And if your battery died quickly, maybe you left WiFi on, which drains my battery faster than when it's off, since it can't go into sleep mode when WiFi is on.
 
I've been using PA 1.6 06MAY2013 since it came out. Overall it's the best ROM that I've tried. Almost everything works. Initially there were a couple apps that wouldn't run - Waze and a couple games. I reloaded with the symlinked GAPPS and Now. Waze is working and so are most of the games. The only thing I still can't get is the mA readings using Battery Monitor Widget. It worked in ROMS up to CM7. CM9's can read the mA in Elixer but not in Battery Monitor to chart the mA. I recently tried touch kernal #3 and started to drop the Virgin Mobile connection occasionally. It usually comes back after toggling airplane mode but I had to reboot one time to get it back. It did help the touch sensitivity quite a bit but dropping the VM connection is making me go back to the original kernal. I'm using the old folks font change which makes the screen much easier to read. I've tried many of the governors - currently On Demand 122Mhz-1.4Ghz seems to work the best for me but I've used Smartassv2 and Interactives without seeing much difference. GPS is as good as it's ever been - at least it locks on before I reach my destination (typically in a couple minutes even when moving). The camera works using the basic (including panorama) and in C360. I don't use the FFC though. Thanks BSyds!
 
This ROM is simply AWESOME, thanks for all the hard work.

I wanted to ask the experts on this forum if you guys could try to help me figure something out with my phone. Up until Saturday I was using MTDEV CM7, had been using that rom for months until out of the blue on last Friday I stated having serious texting problems.

I have received repeat texts from my wife, and my mother who are both on Virgin Mobile over the last week. Some messages I am receiving 40 plus times, and I am receiving messages sent days ago as if they were new. New messages sent to me I may or may not get, and messages I send may or may not actually send, even though the phone says it sent them.

I know that it isn't this rom, as I started to have the problems on CM7, I totally wiped my phone (factory reset, cleared cache and cleared dalvik cache) and installed May 6th rom and gapps. Everything else is working great, no problem with wifi, 3G, phone calls, ect...

I called Virgin Mobile to see if anyone else was having trouble in my area and they told me they just did a system update which completed last Sun, they also told me they were fixing a tower in my area from storm damage. I was told to give it a few days, and I have, but I'm the only one in my family having these texting problems and we all live in the same city (my mom is only 2 miles away). The only other thing I can think of that I have done to my phone, which at the time I thought was a good idea, is I updated my PRL to Sprints 61007.

Any thoughts or help would be much appreciated. Once again, thank you for the great rom!!
 
cowboy44mag said:
This ROM is simply AWESOME, thanks for all the hard work.

I wanted to ask the experts on this forum if you guys could try to help me figure something out with my phone. Up until Saturday I was using MTDEV CM7, had been using that rom for months until out of the blue on last Friday I stated having serious texting problems.

I have received repeat texts from my wife, and my mother who are both on Virgin Mobile over the last week. Some messages I am receiving 40 plus times, and I am receiving messages sent days ago as if thefy were new. New messages sent to me I may or may not get, and messages I send may or may not actually send, even though the phone says it sent them.

I know that it isn't this rom, as I started to have the problems on CM7, I totally wiped my phone (factory reset, cleared cache and cleared dalvik cache) and installed May 6th rom and gapps. Everything else is working great, no problem with wifi, 3G, phone calls, ect...

I called Virgin Mobile to see if anyone else was having trouble in my area and they told me they just did a system update which completed last Sun, they also told me they were fixing a tower in my area from storm damage. I was told to give it a few days, and I have, but I'm the only one in my family having these texting problems and we all live in the same city (my mom is only 2 miles away). The only other thing I can think of that I have done to my phone, which at the time I thought was a good idea, is I updated my PRL to Sprints 61007.

Any thoughts or help would be much appreciated. Once again, thank you for the great rom!!
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Google ##virgin# or ##847446#

Do it from a stock rom... this always fixed it for me
 
Thanks for the reply. I have done that reset data using the ##virgin# before, was hoping I wouldn't need to. So far I haven't received any repeat messages for about five hours, so I'm hoping its fixed, if not I will have to re flash the stock rom, data reset, reinstall this awesome rom.
 
Just thought I would put an update to my text messaging problem. I went to my local Sprint store today just to kill a little time and drool over the Galaxy S4 and got to talking with one of the reps there. When I asked him when we would actually be getting 4G LTE service in Erie Pa he told me that they were currently upgrading the towers in the area and by the end of the year we would have 4G LTE service. He offered, without me asking, that I may have noticed problems with texting, data connection, or dropped calls and told me it was because of the massive tower update.

With Sprint updating all the towers in my area do you guys think I will need to, or should update my PRL? I know that actual Sprint customers have been getting PRL updates for the improved towers, and I can update my PRL again, but would have to go back to stock rom AGAIN to update it. Do you guys think I would notice any performance difference by updating to one of the new Sprint PRL?
 
cowboy44mag said:
Just thought I would put an update to my text messaging problem. I went to my local Sprint store today just to kill a little time and drool over the Galaxy S4 and got to talking with one of the reps there. When I asked him when we would actually be getting 4G LTE service in Erie Pa he told me that they were currently upgrading the towers in the area and by the end of the year we would have 4G LTE service. He offered, without me asking, that I may have noticed problems with texting, data connection, or dropped calls and told me it was because of the massive tower update.

With Sprint updating all the towers in my area do you guys think I will need to, or should update my PRL? I know that actual Sprint customers have been getting PRL updates for the improved towers, and I can update my PRL again, but would have to go back to stock rom AGAIN to update it. Do you guys think I would notice any performance difference by updating to one of the new Sprint PRL?
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The official answer is that you shouldn't see any difference, but some people report that changing the PRL makes a difference. I don't know.
 
dsmryder said:
The official answer is that you shouldn't see any difference, but some people report that changing the PRL makes a difference. I don't know.
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Thanks for the reply, I figured I would change prl and see if it helped or not with all the updates being done in my area. Funny thing is once I reinstalled this rom my prl went back to 61007. I had to reflash the stock rom to change the prl as when I tried to do it running 4.0.4 it wouldn't update. On stock I did successfully update the prl and verified it in 2.2.2 status info (updated to 21094) however once I wiped and reflased this rom, when I checked the prl it was listed as 61007 again. Does anyone know why this would happen?
 
cowboy44mag said:
Thanks for the reply, I figured I would change prl and see if it helped or not with all the updates being done in my area. Funny thing is once I reinstalled this rom my prl went back to 61007. I had to reflash the stock rom to change the prl as when I tried to do it running 4.0.4 it wouldn't update. On stock I did successfully update the prl and verified it in 2.2.2 status info (updated to 21094) however once I wiped and reflased this rom, when I checked the prl it was listed as 61007 again. Does anyone know why this would happen?
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It might be stuck in one of the partitions that flashed in a stock ROM. I'm not kidding when I say that I am stupid busy so could you give me some links on what you are doing to change your PRL so I can try and look at what is done. I might be able to figure out a way to do it outside a stock ROM. Although I thought it figured out already.
 
cowboy44mag said:
Thanks for the reply, I figured I would change prl and see if it helped or not with all the updates being done in my area. Funny thing is once I reinstalled this rom my prl went back to 61007. I had to reflash the stock rom to change the prl as when I tried to do it running 4.0.4 it wouldn't update. On stock I did successfully update the prl and verified it in 2.2.2 status info (updated to 21094) however once I wiped and reflased this rom, when I checked the prl it was listed as 61007 again. Does anyone know why this would happen?
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I would like to suggest the possibility that this ROM is not reading true PRL info, and may simply have the stock PRL version "hard coded" into it, for display purposes. You could verify this by flashing back to any froyo/gb rom and checking what is displayed for PRL.

PRL is not changed by flashing a ROM.

Also PRL can be changed in cm7, just in case you didn't know.
http://androidforums.com/triumph-all-things-root/526028-quick-prl-swap-in-cm7-updated-4-5-a.html

Don't know of any way to do it in CM9, but I believe there are some custom CM9 builds with a utility built in to do it.

Bsydz? :D


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More to the point of the issue, I think:
PRL stands for Preferred Roaming List, and simply lists allowed roaming partners (that the provider has agreements with in a given geographical area) and frequencies to search for listed partners. Specific towers are not listed. New towers will be utilized automatically. Since VM doesn't allow roaming, it's pretty much useless for us to change it, regardless of all the speed increase posts to the contrary. Of all the posts I've seen around here with such claims, there has NEVER BEEN A SINGLE ONE with documenting evidence (using something like Open Signals for example) showing connection to towers differing from Sprint, as with stock PRL. We all know speed varies by the second, depending on numerous variables, unrelated to PRL.
 
I just received a replacement triumph and my time without signal has improved since changing prl , also I change the slot index to 4. My battery life has almost doubled in low signal situations. I'm not sure which one helped more though.
 
craig71200 said:
I just received a replacement triumph and my time without signal has improved since changing prl , also I change the slot index to 4. My battery life has almost doubled in low signal situations. I'm not sure which one helped more though.
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If you are running a ROM with a power_profile.xml that has been set up, even the one that is for the galaxy nexus, it will show an improvement.
 
Been doing a cowboy action shooting clinic at my ranch so haven't had time to post today. I was also thinking that maybe prl was hardcoded into the rom and may not be showing the true prl. I was also wondering if you had to re root phone when switching to 4.0.4. I rooted phone when I was running Gingerbread, and phone still says its rooted, was able to remove boot animation and different things. I may try to reflash gingerbread or stock rom and see what prl is listed to see if its just hardcoded and not displaying true prl.

I know for the vast majority of people updating prl wont do much, however they are currently upgrading and installing new towers in my area, and I would like to be able to connect to them, hopefully at the Sprint level access.

Have to cool down horses for awhile, but will reflash stock rom and see what prl is listed and do an update.

Thank you all for your thoughts and info, and thank you for this awesome rom!!! I just love 4.0.4!!!
 
thangfish said:
I would like to suggest the possibility that this ROM is not reading true PRL info, and may simply have the stock PRL version "hard coded" into it, for display purposes. You could verify this by flashing back to any froyo/gb rom and checking what is displayed for PRL.

PRL is not changed by flashing a ROM.

Also PRL can be changed in cm7, just in case you didn't know.
http://androidforums.com/triumph-all-things-root/526028-quick-prl-swap-in-cm7-updated-4-5-a.html

Don't know of any way to do it in CM9, but I believe there are some custom CM9 builds with a utility built in to do it.

Bsydz? :D


Edit:
More to the point of the issue, I think:
PRL stands for Preferred Roaming List, and simply lists allowed roaming partners (that the provider has agreements with in a given geographical area) and frequencies to search for listed partners. Specific towers are not listed. New towers will be utilized automatically. Since VM doesn't allow roaming, it's pretty much useless for us to change it, regardless of all the speed increase posts to the contrary. Of all the posts I've seen around here with such claims, there has NEVER BEEN A SINGLE ONE with documenting evidence (using something like Open Signals for example) showing connection to towers differing from Sprint, as with stock PRL. We all know speed varies by the second, depending on numerous variables, unrelated to PRL.
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+1 man you were totally right!! The prl for this rom is hard coded and will always display 61007 no matter what prl you are actually using. Flashed MTDEV CM7 and it confirmed my prl is 21094.

Thank you all for all your good suggestions!!
 
Just wanted to add that although I don't know if changing the prl will result in any better data connection or phone reception, I figured it was worth a try. As they are updating the towers in my area Sprint is sending "over air" prl updates to all its customers in my area. The guy at the Sprint store said it is so they will be able to take advantage of all the new tech in the towers and get the best service possible. I doubt Sprint would go through the trouble of sending out prl updates that were totally useless, and lets face it VM will never send out an update for ANYTHING, but will act as if its not needed. If we were all on Sprint contract phones we would have all received 3 or 4 prl updates by this time.

I also find it funny that my mother, who just got the Samsung Victory is getting much better connection speed and cell reception than I am. As of right now there is no 4G coverage in my area at all, so all Sprint devices have to connect at 3G max speed. Her phone and mine are both on the same network, using the same 3G connection and yet she gets much better data and cell reception. I know her phone is newer, and may have some better tech in it, however the only other difference is she has a different prl. I was using 61007 she was on 30110 or something like that. I know some people have said that the prl on your phone determines what towers you can connect to and at what priority you connect to services. Sprint customers are given priority over VM customers, so I figured I would see if a Sprint prl would give me better connections.

I know that I today in my north field I was still connecting at 3G which is the first time I have ever gotten anything over 1x at that location. And I also now know that I am using an updated Sprint prl, so maybe there is something to it after all. My mother's phone was also connecting at 3G, and my wife's stock prl Triumph was at 1x. Once Sprint is done with their updates I'll compare my Moto Triumph to my wife's (she wont let me change her prl) and see if there is actually any data/reception difference.
 
dsmryder said:
Well, a true test would be to restore the original PRL and if you drop back to 1x then it would be good anecdotal (I hope that's how you spell it) evidence.
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I had a little time to kill this morning, and after finding that I can update the prl while running the latest version of this rom (I do it during the boot process) it only takes like 2 min to change the prl, so I did a few tests. First of all the only place I ever drop to 1x is out in the fields of my ranch/farm, in town I am always connected at 3G with stock prl or my changed prl (now using 12126). My wife's phone is still using stock prl so while in town last night we did a few speed tests at the same location. I know speed tests aren't a really great indicator as many factors can determine why one phone is getting better connection (including my wife has dropped her phone many a time), but I found that probably 7/10 times my phone would get 100-250k better download than my wife's.

The next round of tests was done using only my phone. I first went back to stock (61007) and walked my fields to see when I would be forced to 1x, and marked the location where I went to 1x. I then used my laptop to reset prl to 12126 and walked the same route and marked where I would be forced to 1x. I repeated this test in all four of my fields, and yes no matter what prl used I would always eventually drop to 1x. I found that the best prl for staying on 3G the longest was 12126. Compared to 61007 (stock) I could get an additional acre or so of coverage overall.

My experience may not be everyone's experience as I really believe prl changes depend greatly upon location as to weather or not they will make any improvements. In my area Sprint has no 4G coverage at all as of yet, however they are actively updating the towers and added a couple more. They are doing stuff every day though as some days texting will be perfect and other days you can't send a text, connect to data, and may not even be able to place a call for awhile as they work on the towers. When they finish I may find that there is no difference between the prls.

One thing that I wanted to ask the experts here is there are different prls for non-LTE phones and LTE phones. What would happen if I installed a LTE prl on the Triumph? Right now I don't think it would hurt it as there still is no 4G coverage, but in a month or so once Sprint has 4G coverage here would it screw up my phone to have a LTE prl, or would it just connect to 3G alone without trying to access 4G LTE? I ask because the LTE prls are newer and have full 800SMR support whereas the newest non-LTE prls are older and only have low priority 800SMR.
 
I'm no expert, and don't know how an lte prl might affect your phone. I'm inclined to think it wouldn't matter, but haven't tried.
I do know however that the Triumph doesn't support the 800mhz band... only the 1900 (1851.25 - 1908.75). :mad:

I appreciate you taking the time to test.
Just remember that if you have more than 1 tower close enough to connect to, it's hard to test without knowing which one you are on at any given time.
Tower range can vary according to traffic load ("breathing"), changing your signal level and affecting your mode (exactly where you are when you lose 3g).

Sometimes at work, if I have a weak connection, I can simply toggle airplane mode and sometimes connect to the other tower in range.

Also, I've noticed that I will stay connected to a more distant tower, when at a gas station virtualy right under a tower, until I toggle airplane mode and reconnect to the closest one.

All this is probably straying too far off topic for this thread. ;)
 
thangfish said:
I'm no expert, and don't know how an lte prl might affect your phone. I'm inclined to think it wouldn't matter, but haven't tried.
I do know however that the Triumph doesn't support the 800mhz band... only the 1900 (1851.25 - 1908.75). :mad:

I appreciate you taking the time to test.
Just remember that if you have more than 1 tower close enough to connect to, it's hard to test without knowing which one you are on at any given time.
Tower range can vary according to traffic load ("breathing"), changing your signal level and affecting your mode (exactly where you are when you lose 3g).

Sometimes at work, if I have a weak connection, I can simply toggle airplane mode and sometimes connect to the other tower in range.

Also, I've noticed that I will stay connected to a more distant tower, when at a gas station virtualy right under a tower, until I toggle airplane mode and reconnect to the closest one.

All this is probably straying too far off topic for this thread. ;)
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Not in my opinion. Any work that improves the community's knowledge is fine with me. I'm sure the other users like it too.
 
I was unaware that the Triumph was unable to take advantage of the 800MHZ band. With that in mind, and not truly knowing how an LTE prl would affect a 3G only device I'm going to stick with 12126. It is a "Corporate" prl that has 3G roaming in Verizon (which of course VM can't do anyway - just incase I keep cdma roaming mode to home only and no data roaming on the outside chance I did connect by some miracle- not worth the risk) and has low priority 800SMR (which I now know the Triumph can't use anyway).

As far as the prl you use and the connection you get, opinions are all over the board on that. Some people feel that if you use a corporate prl you are given priority over a residential (normal) Sprint prl. These people quote that the residential Sprint prl (60xxx and 21xxx prls for non-LTE) gives Sprint customers priority over VM customers 61007, 61008 prl, therefore giving Sprint customers better reception and data connections to towers. I would assume that the full truth falls between what these people quote and people who feel that what prl you have doesn't matter at all. I'm just guessing that Sprint wouldn't make a different corporate prl for its own people for no reason. I'm also guessing that sprint wouldn't waste time, money and effort to push out prl updates to its contract customers if it didn't make a difference.
 
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