[ROM] Velocity V1.2 | LG Ally | Android 2.2.2 Froyo | Sexy | Sleek | Stable

[fuhrl]

Thank you. Just a few points/questions.

My battery usage seems to be increased since I installed 1.2 (I was stock before). I thought it was because I increased the CPU speed to 768 but I changed it to 480 and it still seems to be using a lot of battery.

Anyone else having an issue?

Google Voice.

Yesterday I missed a call and only this morning did I get an notice that I had a Google voice message.

Calender Alerts

I had an appointment last night at 7:05 and at 7:20 I got the reminder about the appointment (it was my son's baseball game so I was there).

my battery life seems to have gotten worse as i've updated from 1.0 to 1.1 to 1.2. maybe it's just the battery itself since my phone is now over a year old but i don't have any way of telling without buying a brand new battery

 

[rrhartjr]

This ROM is amazing.. it's amazing what can be done with Froyo and some ancient hardware. Top notch job!

 

[fAthAwg13]

Any way to get the stock 1.2 theme back?? I flashed a theme thru scripts and kinda want to go back to stock.

 

[Zoandroid]

I have a mildly annoying problem with Velocity 1.2.1

I am unable to get the Ally not to play a sound notifying when I get new email.

I prefer to keep the Ally running all night (on the charger) in case I get an emergency call from a family member. So I don't want to turn it off, or use Airplane Mode at night. But since emails come in at all hours of the day and night, I get notification tones with them also in the middle of the night.

I use Gmail and K9 Mail for my email. So this makes for 2 places I 'should' be able to turn of email notifications. I set K9 to use a "Silent" notification. I can't even find a place in the GMail settings for notification tones. But the notifications play anyway. So I set K9 so the ringtone to use for notifications is a tone that is very quiet ( a wav file I transferred from my PC). They ignore that setting and then play the ringtone I use for calendar reminders instead! Naturally that one is plenty loud, so I can hear them when the Ally is in my pocket during the day.

In Velocity 1.1, I was successful by setting K9's email notification not to play and then rebooting the Ally. Even that doesn't seem to be working this time. Has anyone else experienced this, or better still, found a solution?


(Update - I was just going through K9's settings for the umpteenth time, and found it set, under Notifications, to "Use default". ?? I did NOT set that. Somehow it got changed by itself. So I have re-set the notification to Silent again, and rebooted. So far it is staying that way. )

 

[blay]

So tonight I noticed a few apps 'auto-updated' on their own. SuperUser was one, I think Voice Search was another, and GMail keeps trying to update (and fails), tho I'm not seeing an option to disable it's auto-update "feature". Anyone else see these apps updating?

 

[mziminski95]

I'm having many problems now with this ROM, I love it, but I don't know what's going on. I've been noticing it a lot the past two days: when I go to send a message, it doesn't send, and it keeps saying sending. Also, when I'm in the dialer, it will keep saying "dialing" even when the call is connected. Why is that? I already relfashed the ZIP file. I'm still having the same issues though. What can I do? Someone please help me. Thanks!

 

[Zoandroid]

Any way to get the stock 1.2 theme back?? I flashed a theme thru scripts and kinda want to go back to stock.

When I asked that right after the release of 1.2.1, Savoxis said there will be in a future update, but not now. The only way is either to restore a Nandroid backup of the newly flashed ROM (which I had failed to make) or re-flash (which I ended up having to do).

 

[Zoandroid]

I'm having many problems now with this ROM, I love it, but I don't know what's going on. I've been noticing it a lot the past two days: when I go to send a message, it doesn't send, and it keeps saying sending. Also, when I'm in the dialer, it will keep saying "dialing" even when the call is connected. Why is that? I already relfashed the ZIP file. I'm still having the same issues though. What can I do? Someone please help me. Thanks!

Well, this may be related. I have had some issues trying to send mail from K9 mail, where it keeps saying "sending" just like you mentioned. One of them never did send, and I had to delete it and send it from my PC. This had happened right after an "unclean shutdown" spontaneous reboot when I clocked up to 748 MHz. I used to be able to run at that, but now the Ally seems unstable higher than 729 MHz (which was happening even before Velocity 1.2). FWIW, I have installed 1.2.1 twice, because I wanted the original theme back. I did not have any problems flashing the ROM either time, and for the most part everything seems to run OK (except for the email notification issue above).

 

[FinalStorm]

Hi, first off, I love the new ROM, kudos to the developers. I just installed it like an hour ago, I love it so far. I only have one problem: the Gmail and Google Docs are not updating. When I click the update link in the Android Market, it says "Application is not signed correctly". What does this mean? Is it a fault of Google or the Dev Team (I'm not being mean here, I just don't know what's going on here.) If someone could please help me, that'd be really great.
Thanks in Advance,
Michael

Hello all. I am getting the same issue here. I did notice when I flashed them both at the same time I was getting the calendar issue. I redownloaded the patch and flashed and the calendar is working. However gmail fails to update with the error mentioned. Google Reader did the same thing but I uninstall/reinstalled it and it works.

Same problem here, Gmail and Docs not updating, and blank Calendar. Smooth cal widget still pulls calendar info though, interesting. I haven't applied the 1.2.1 patch though, hopefully this fixes this.

Okay, so, I am having another small problem. I had this in Velocity 1.1, so it might just be a Velocity bug. Sometimes, when I dial a # in the dialer and then touch the green button to dial, it will keep say "dialing", the call will connect just fine, but when I go to hang up, it still says dialing and I'm not able to hang it up. The screen will just turn green (like when the call will actually say connected). I have to reboot it to get it to stop. Any suggestions on how to fix this?

I'm having many problems now with this ROM, I love it, but I don't know what's going on. I've been noticing it a lot the past two days: when I go to send a message, it doesn't send, and it keeps saying sending. Also, when I'm in the dialer, it will keep saying "dialing" even when the call is connected. Why is that? I already relfashed the ZIP file. I'm still having the same issues though. What can I do? Someone please help me. Thanks!

I had this problem in Velocity 1.1 as well, but not yet in Velocity 1.2. It seems to be fixed.

 

[greenless]

I just applied the green/black stock theme, and after the reboot the Velocity toolkit is now gone from 'settings.' How do I get it back? Is there a way to find a shortcut to the apk?

 

[mziminski95]

Same problem here, Gmail and Docs not updating, and blank Calendar. Smooth cal widget still pulls calendar info though, interesting. I haven't applied the 1.2.1 patch though, hopefully this fixes this.







I had this problem in Velocity 1.1 as well, but not yet in Velocity 1.2. It seems to be fixed.

I too had this problem in Velocity 1.1 but the problem is still continuing. I love this ROM, but if I have to keep rebooting my phone, it's not worth it .

 

[Zoandroid]

I too had this problem in Velocity 1.1 but the problem is still continuing. I love this ROM, but if I have to keep rebooting my phone, it's not worth it .

Make sure to do the same wipe when applying the patch as you did before flashing 1.2. Also, if you are overclocking you might want to reduce the clock speed a bit and see if that helps.

 

[azuma73]

Can anyone help me get my data enabled via wifi on my retired Ally? Is this a common issue or am I all alone?

 

[FinalStorm]

Wiped dalvik cache and flashed 1.2.1 patch, cal issues fixed. I am now a happy camper.

However Email, Docs, and Youtube still not updating in the market. It actually shows them as not installed, but when I click on their respective links in the market it shows "update" on their respective page. Not a big deal, I can live w/o updating these apps. They work just fine as-is. It just seems odd that they won't update.

 

[mziminski95]

Make sure to do the same wipe when applying the patch as you did before flashing 1.2. Also, if you are overclocking you might want to reduce the clock speed a bit and see if that helps.

Okay, so you're saying to wipe everything, flash the Velocity 1.2.1 ROM, don't reboot, then wipe everything again then flash the patch? I hope you see this before the end of the night so I know what to do. Thanks in advance!

 

[FinalStorm]

Okay, so you're saying to wipe everything, flash the Velocity 1.2.1 ROM, don't reboot, then wipe everything again then flash the patch? I hope you see this before the end of the night so I know what to do. Thanks in advance!

Just wipe dalvik and flash the 1.2.1 patch....... reboot and done. Make sure you nandroid first, just in case.

 

[Zoandroid]

Just wipe dalvik and flash the 1.2.1 patch....... reboot and done. Make sure you nandroid first, just in case.

What he said.

If you had started using the Ally and working with apps and files before flashing the patch, then I would re-wipe the stuff. But the second time around for me I did exactly as above, figuring if I do the patch right away no need to wipe anything. It worked fine.

 

[Zoandroid]

I can't believe my eyes! There was just an ipad2 ad in the header of the Android Forum at the top of the page!. Blasphemy!!

 

[FinalStorm]

I can't believe my eyes! There was just an ipad2 ad in the header of the Android Forum at the top of the page!. Blasphemy!!

NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! Apples make me have tummy troubles

 

[Zoandroid]

NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! Apples make me have tummy troubles

LOL!!

I guess we need to get Verizon to advertise the Android Moto Bionic on the crapple forum site.

 

[mightysween]

I just applied the green/black stock theme, and after the reboot the Velocity toolkit is now gone from 'settings.' How do I get it back? Is there a way to find a shortcut to the apk?

My velocity toolkit disappeared, too... but I have not made any changes to themes.

 

[Zoandroid]

My velocity toolkit disappeared, too... but I have not made any changes to themes.

I'd like to help you guys out, so I have made a Titanium Backup (PRO) of the Velocity Toolkit, setting preferences to 'no compression'. I have found the backup file in the TIBU folder on my Ally. Being a system app, I don't know if it even 'can' be reinstalled from this file, but perhaps someone else can tell us.

Is it permitted that I post a copy here, or is that not allowed? I don't want to break any rules in doing so, or make the devs angry. Someone of authority please let me know.

 

[mightysween]

I'd like to help you guys out, so I have made a Titanium Backup (PRO) of the Velocity Toolkit, setting preferences to 'no compression'. I have found the backup file in the TIBU folder on my Ally. Being a system app, I don't know if it even 'can' be reinstalled from this file, but perhaps someone else can tell us.

Is it permitted that I post a copy here, or is that not allowed? I don't want to break any rules in doing so, or make the devs angry. Someone of authority please let me know.

Thanks. I did a little digging last night, and the toolkit is actually still installed. It seems to be an issue with the shortcut in the Settings menu. Strangely, a reboot made it come back.

It might be worth noting that the two times I had this problem I also had an issue where the ROM didnt seem to know I unplugged it from AC power. The icon showed it was charging and the LED stayed solid green, despite About-->Phone showing that the USB was disconnected.

A reboot fixed both problems, and I have yet to be able to duplicate them.

 

[Zoandroid]

Thanks. I did a little digging last night, and the toolkit is actually still installed. It seems to be an issue with the shortcut in the Settings menu. Strangely, a reboot made it come back.

It might be worth noting that the two times I had this problem I also had an issue where the ROM didnt seem to know I unplugged it from AC power. The icon showed it was charging and the LED stayed solid green, despite About-->Phone showing that the USB was disconnected.

A reboot fixed both problems, and I have yet to be able to duplicate them.

I've seen both those issues with version 1.1 of the ROM, as well as a refusal to enter Airplane Mode. In the latter, the Airplane Mode 'button' becomes grayed out after pressing it, but the Ally radio stays on, at least according to the notification bar icon. In all 3 cases, a reboot would fix the problem (until next time). But I have yet to see them in version 1.2.1 (knock knock).

Glad you worked around it.

 

[Zoandroid]

I remembered seeing mention of checking back to message #2 in this thread for mods, so I just went there and saw Ripple Lock. Looks cool. So I read about it on the Market. Here is the first part of the description under Permissions:

"
This application has access to the following:
Services that cost you money
directly call phone numbers
Allows the application to call phone numbers without your intervention. Malicious applications may cause unexpected calls on your phone bill. Note that this does not allow the application to call emergency numbers.
"

Seriously!? Call numbers without my intervention? Why would anyone ever agree to such a thing!? WTF!? I can't believe someone even made such an app, much less that apparently thousands of people have installed it. Be cautious folks!