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Root [ROM][WIP] BACKside ROM (CM7) + Green Machine Theme

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Having a lot of lockups with 0306. Screen seems to freeze once a day or so. Sometimes the top 2/3 of the screen will be stuck in landscape mode while I have it in portrait mode. I can still use the bottom 1/3 of the screen. Don't know if this is similar to the screen rotation bugs that were experienced earlier.
 
runelind said:
Having a lot of lockups with 0306. Screen seems to freeze once a day or so. Sometimes the top 2/3 of the screen will be stuck in landscape mode while I have it in portrait mode. I can still use the bottom 1/3 of the screen. Don't know if this is similar to the screen rotation bugs that were experienced earlier.
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That's it.
 
New build of BACKside is up:

Download via the BacksideUpdater

or

BACKside-IHO-VM670-03132012.zip
md5sum 9a5fa707bb2553e0bfb562b1e9ea6829

GreenMachineTheme-03132012.zip

Download DrewWalton's amazing touch screen recovery here!
edit: md5sum bda76ec1214f88eeb922d05fb18fa1e7

Changes:
--Reverted fingerprint frameworks and pin landscape commits from CM - needs testing to see if this fixes reports of pin screen not functioning properly
--Added an experimental Suspend mode to the power menu - this will put your phone in a semi-deep sleep state similar to airplane mode - no phone calls or messages - but you will still get your alarms - might be good for overnite power savings when no charger is available
--Made the date in the status bar follow the clock color - been meaning to do this for a while now
--Made the status bar system icons follow the general theme of being green when active/connected
--Improved the functionality of the statusbar restart in settings
--Added ability to use any file manager with all BACKside tweaks - status bar mods - BacksideUpdater - etc - no more requirement to use OI File manager exclusively
edit-- forgot the bootanimation changer, it will be changed in the next build
--Added option in BacksideUpdater to download previous versions back to the beginning of the year - once a different date is selected you can download - view changelog - check md5sum - then reboot to recovery to install
--Added option in BacksideUpdater to install a recovery within the app - choose recovery file and it will install it - then reboot straight into the new recovery to test it - I highly recommend Drewwaltons touch recovery!

Note -- If the changelog doesn't show when you load an old version, swipe down in the black text box, it's because the last text showing was larger, will fix in next build.

Thanks as always to Blarf, BobZhome, mrg666, tdm, LeslieAnn, drewwalton, whyzor, bigsupersquid, kermikalelite, the CM team, the AOSP team, and a whole lot more! ;)

Edit: Forgot, I fixed the png transparency support in the notification dropdown chooser. :p
 
Mine isn't showing as needing an update and swiping down doesn't seem to do anything. Not an issue though since i'll just download from here, Just thought I'd mention it.
 
G19 said:
Mine isn't showing as needing an update and swiping down doesn't seem to do anything. Not an issue though since i'll just download from here, Just thought I'd mention it.
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I just updated the manifest, try again. Takes a while to post in three forums, and update the OPs as well, and the github wiki, and the manifest, and, and, and... ;)
 
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JerryScript said:
New build of BACKside is up:

Download via the BacksideUpdater

or

BACKside-IHO-VM670-03132012.zip
md5sum 9a5fa707bb2553e0bfb562b1e9ea6829

GreenMachineTheme-03132012.zip

Download DrewWalton's amazing touch screen recovery here!

Changes:
--Reverted fingerprint frameworks and pin landscape commits from CM - needs testing to see if this fixes reports of pin screen not functioning properly
--Added an experimental Suspend mode to the power menu - this will put your phone in a semi-deep sleep state similar to airplane mode - no phone calls or messages - but you will still get your alarms - might be good for overnite power savings when no charger is available
--Made the date in the status bar follow the clock color - been meaning to do this for a while now
--Made the status bar system icons follow the general theme of being green when active/connected
--Improved the functionality of the statusbar restart in settings
--Added ability to use any file manager with all BACKside tweaks - status bar mods - BacksideUpdater - etc - no more requirement to use OI File manager exclusively
--Added option in BacksideUpdater to download previous versions back to the beginning of the year - once a different date is selected you can download - view changelog - check md5sum - then reboot to recovery to install
--Added option in BacksideUpdater to install a recovery within the app - choose recovery file and it will install it - then reboot straight into the new recovery to test it - I highly recommend Drewwaltons touch recovery!

Note -- If the changelog doesn't show when you load an old version, swipe down in the black text box, it's because the last text showing was larger, will fix in next build.

Thanks as always to Blarf, BobZhome, mrg666, tdm, LeslieAnn, drewwalton, whyzor, bigsupersquid, kermikalelite, the CM team, the AOSP team, and a whole lot more! ;)

Edit: Forgot, I fixed the png transparency support in the notification dropdown chooser. :p
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Awe a going away present to play with on my trip :D
 
I was going to ask about the recovery installer in the updated BACKside updater but I got impatient and just tried it out myself. So far so good! I installed Drew Walton's Recovery and it worked just fine.
 
a5pe4 said:
BACKside updater can check the MD5 checksum after a download. It has been able to do that since at least the new year if I recall.
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I'm aware of the Updater for the ROM MD5, but for a recovery too? Call me paranoid, but I like to check my downloads' integrity just to be sure--especially for a recovery. ;)
 
All of a sudden my phone can't make/receive calls or send/receive SMS messages. Do I have to run the activate again in order to fix this in the original ROM that I backed up?
 
JerryScript said:
Probably, what did you do?
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Honestly, nothing. It was running sluggish earlier so I ran fix_permissions...I got back to my hotel room, made some calls, the battery got low so I plugged it in. After a few minutes I tried sending some texts, no dice. Tried making a couple of calls, nada. This has never happened before so I'm a lil unsure what to do next.
 
a5pe4 said:
Do you have a recent backup you can restore?
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I restored to my VM ROM I had backed up just after rooting for the first time, I then ran activate, it errored out several times before I called VM customer support and they walked me through manually activating my phone and now it's working. Really strange, but I'm gonna put Jerry's ROM back now.

Man what a cluster....

Anyway, weird being back on the original rom for a bit, SOOOO slow compared to CM7.
 
How do you install Drew Walton's recovery if the phone already has clockwork mod? OK, I did it by moving the new .ing to my phone in USB mode and installing after updating to the latest rom.
 
ron scubadiver said:
How do you install Drew Walton's recovery if the phone already has clockwork mod? OK, I did it by moving the new .ing to my phone in USB mode and installing after updating to the latest rom.
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Looks like you figured it out after the update. This is for everyone else:

The easiest way now (0313) is to move the recovery img file to your sdcard, then open BacksideUpdater, press the menu key, select Install A Recovery, then choose the img file you put on the sdcard. ;)
 
The alarm clock icon was changed to a kind of odd looking clock. I just noticed this. Was this intentional
 
That's part of changing all system icons to match the "connected" or "active" color. The alarm clock is set icon is now green.

The color is off. I used gimp's color eyedropper to grab the color off the wifi icon, but it didn't translate right. I'll be working on getting the colors right for the next build. ;)
 
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