[6/4/2010] MikROM Final [Sense 2.5 | 21905 / 23569 | GTX / Original / MikROM Theme]

[amikam]

Originally Posted by rhacy

In regard to feedback, I've been running MikROM 23551 Standard for about a week now. And so far, there are only a few issues showing up. The first one is a lower repositioning of Sense Slider Icons on the screen. When this repositioning occurs, the Slider Icons are half covered by the bottom start bar. Moreover, the problem happens intermittently, and only when the suspended system is turned on with no usb charging cable attached. I'm not sure if the repositioning is due to a glitch caused by Pocket Shield, as it's set to only lock when not connected to external power, or if it's a problem with the Sense 2.5 2012 vga port. Also, not sure if it matters, but I've had the Manila Locker turned off from day one by setting HKCR\Software\HTC\Manila\ Home.lock.Enabled to "0". That said, it's been tough to pin the cause of this issue, as it has shown up here with multiple 6.5.x Sense 2.5 ROMs. The second issue is that my 480x640 home page background image is not in alignment in landscape mode. It worked fine with your previous 23547 Standard ROM, and with mwalt2's HDwall Like VGA Mod for transparent task and bottom bars. But for some reason, the background image is now chopped up in landscape. That said, this problem does not show up in portrait mode. The third issue is that the sometimes the bottom start bar changes to grayish black when the start menu is clicked. It's intermittent and fixed by closing the start menu and clicking it again most of the time. Anyway, other than this Sense Slider Icon repositioning issue, the landscape wallpaper misalignment, and the start menu bottom bar color change, 23551 has been working great. Thank you!

On a huge positive note, there have been zero SOD's, or power on lockups, or any related system freeze up issues over the last week. Plus, even with the system loaded up with 100+ programs and twenty icon x 3 Co0kie Mod pages, the only noticeable Sense slow down has been the speed that the clouds and windshield wiper blade move across the animated weather home page. And as mentioned in my previous posts, I really appreciate the xTask soft key on the bottom start bar and Music Flow landscape mode. Cheers!


In regard to themes, I prefer deep dark black as the base, with green highlights, colored icons and folders, as well as almost everything transparent. A deep black dusk theme with green highlights and cubed color icons would be a sweet alternative theme, IMHO. That said, you should pick your favorite combination, as we can usually modify it to our individual tastes anyway.

Thanks again for all your hard work and help amikam.
Cheers!
R

all of those alignment issues might have something to do with me not including any position fix in the rom.
but i didn't do that because u dont need one if u would use the rom "as is" and not change to other software that controls things differently besides installing some extra programs.
im not sure what u mean about the landscape thing but it could have something to do with the "added day to calendar icon" that i've added to the cab that enables transparency.
as for the bottom botton... i really don't know since im not using 23551 myself.

as far as the theme goes i think everyone would like the 3d looking cubed icons, so ill probably switch to them.
im gonna avoid the green cuz i personally dont like it(although it does sometimes looks very good on black), but ill keep the black for sure.

Originally Posted by JZR

I have this problem with every recent ROM, but it only occurs when I install S2U2. I think it's some kind of timing issue with loading Sense when soft resetting the phone. I just restart Sense by rearranging a couple of tabs.

yes i think we discussed that before... if im not wrong adding a position fix solved it. or maybe not... im not sure.

[JZR]

Originally Posted by amikam

all of those alignment issues might have something to do with me not including any position fix in the rom.
but i didn't do that because u dont need one if u would use the rom "as is" and not change to other software that controls things differently besides installing some extra programs.
im not sure what u mean about the landscape thing but it could have something to do with the "added day to calendar icon" that i've added to the cab that enables transparency.
as for the bottom botton... i really don't know since im not using 23551 myself.

as far as the theme goes i think everyone would like the 3d looking cubed icons, so ill probably switch to them.
im gonna avoid the green cuz i personally dont like it(although it does sometimes looks very good on black), but ill keep the black for sure.




yes i think we discussed that before... if im not wrong adding a position fix solved it. or maybe not... im not sure.

Nah, it didn't fix it, but I'm not worried about it. Now that I know that restarting Sense will fix the problem, it's easy enough to do after a soft reset.

[Dex2]

I'm not sure if it is related to the position fix, but I have been having issue with the volume control.I am using march 27th 23551 lite edition. The size of the volume is bigger than my screen. Also, while trying to change my wallpaper, if I select animated wallpaper and then albums I'm not able to choose from internal storage. It would seem that it is cut off from the screen. In addtion I don't think toggle1x works with 6.5 roms. I can't seem to get it work correctly. After a little editing I can get it to change from 1x to evdo ,but not from evdo to 1x.Other than those issues the rom is working great. I love how you added the xtask to the bottom right of the screen. Regarding your 3d icons I think it is going to be great. I can wait for it. Are you still going to think about do a black version of GTX?

By the way here is a theme from tacchan23 at xda that I found interesting. Would seem to go well with your black themes.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=624874

Here some transparent sliders I found.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...sparent+slider

[amikam]

Originally Posted by Dex2

I'm not sure if it is related to the position fix, but I have been having issue with the volume control.I am using march 27th 23551 lite edition. The size of the volume is bigger than my screen. Also, while trying to change my wallpaper, if I select animated wallpaper and then albums I'm not able to choose from internal storage. It would seem that it is cut off from the screen. In addtion I don't think toggle1x works with 6.5 roms. I can't seem to get it work correctly. After a little editing I can get it to change from 1x to evdo ,but not from evdo to 1x.Other than those issues the rom is working great. I love how you added the xtask to the bottom right of the screen. Regarding your 3d icons I think it is going to be great. I can wait for it. Are you still going to think about do a black version of GTX?

By the way here is a theme from tacchan23 at xda that I found interesting. Would seem to go well with your black themes.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=624874

Here some transparent sliders I found.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...sparent+slider

well... as far as i know htc volcontrol dont work with 6.5.x roms... so i never cooked it in, so u will always get the wm vol control.
album will work in landscape... thats the price to pay for having the tweak that takes the cache to internal storage... worth it in my book.
x1 works good for me, but u can always just set it from phone settings and dont have to use the link from tweaks folder.
i think i gave up on a black gtx... i got to much things going on right now... so like i said a few posts back, ill probably make s2w new theme to fit vga and use his theme, or at least a modified version of his theme that ill make.
im sorry for getting a little lazy, but time sucks right now for me, and even though i love playing around with Photoshop, i dont really have time to create my own thing... not yet anyways...
im thinking about using s2w theme only lose some of his red elements, but he didn't really complete the theme yet, so i gotta wait and see how it will end up looking like.
im gonna stick to my black highlights, change the icons to the 3d looking ones and keep all the transparencies.
but nothing else is planned right now, and nothing will happen for at least a week.
thanks for the comments.

[shanep13]

Hello Amikam,
Your ROM’s are great and only getting better, really enjoying all the time and effort you put in.
Using the 27Mar10 Lite 21897, with finger keyboard installed

If we are getting away from black and white and transparent (which I like):
Heard of two votes for dark Red highlights, personally would prefer a dark Blue.
As has been stated, anything you choose would be great, by all means please use what you prefer and like/prefer. Continue to surprise us!

Like Dex2’s suggestions (however, think you stated you did not like blue…)
Metallic blue 2.5 slider
Dusk Blue taskbar
Can these be installed/ uninstalled on our ROMS? (been way too busy to try to improve on your ROM)

Experienced several lock ups as well (none that has even made me consider jumping ship yet):
Have experienced the power on problems stated by SABROSO (situations B, D and E)
Have also experienced the Text messaging issue as IRONRED where the phone locks up when going from all messages view back to sense home screen and requires removing the battery to restart.

Also one issue is GPS, cannot get Google maps or TeleNav (finally got TeleNav to load and run on my sprint account (without stating the account is expired)) to work, would prefer TeleNav and wish it would work. (Google maps never finds any satellites, and TeleNav states weak signal find a better view of sky) Anyone can help get either of these working?

Thanks again for all your time and efforts, looking forward to your next release
Hope your schooling is going well and taking priority.

[mwalt2]

Originally Posted by Dex2

Also, while trying to change my wallpaper, if I select animated wallpaper and then albums I'm not able to choose from internal storage. It would seem that it is cut off from the screen.

That happens because the wrong version of mediatoolkit is probably included in the ROM (just guessing based on my experience of using the wrong version). The correct version is Media_Tool_kit_1_2_20113122_0 from programatix's thread on the album 3.2 vga port at xda.

Link to EXT package is below. Copy files to \windows and overwrite the ones there.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/2jyyne..._20113122_0.7z

[Dex2]

Originally Posted by amikam

well... as far as i know htc volcontrol dont work with 6.5.x roms... so i never cooked it in, so u will always get the wm vol control.
.

Sorry about that amikam, I meant to say that the wm volume control is to big. It would seem to be big for my screen. It is as if it was ported for a wvga device.

Originally Posted by mwalt2

That happens because the wrong version of mediatoolkit is probably included in the ROM (just guessing based on my experience of using the wrong version). The correct version is Media_Tool_kit_1_2_20113122_0 from programatix's thread on the album 3.2 vga port at xda. I made a cab from the EXT that you can try (attached to this post), but I can't guarantee it will work since I'm already using that version in my ROM.

Link to EXT package is below:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/2jyyne..._20113122_0.7z

Thanks mwalt2, I'll give it try and let you know. Thanks for the help

[mwalt2]

Originally Posted by Dex2

Sorry about that amikam, I meant to say that the wm volume control is to big. It would seem to be big for my screen. It is as if it was ported for a wvga device.





Thanks mwalt2, I'll give it try and let you know. Thanks for the help

I've had the volume problem (or one like it) previously too. Check the following registry entries and see if you have them and what path is where XXXXX is. If you do not have those registry keys, it cuts off the bottom part of the standard volume control. Changing to a different .tsk (assuming it has those entries) will fix it.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Today\Bubble]
"BubbleBorderThemeImage"="XXXXX"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Today\Toast]
"ToastBorderThemeImage"="XXXXX"

[JAChavez99]

For those with position issues when installing S2U2 I've had them in the past and what worked was to have the phone plugged in when rebooting it. It seems to me that if S2U2 locked the phone before Sense was fully booted the position error would appear.

[JZR]

Originally Posted by JAChavez99

For those with position issues when installing S2U2 I've had them in the past and what worked was to have the phone plugged in when rebooting it. It seems to me that if S2U2 locked the phone before Sense was fully booted the position error would appear.

That matches up with my experience as well. I didn't realize that having the phone plugged in would prevent this, however restarting Sense with the phone unlocked also will fix this in case you're unable to plug in the phone when rebooting.