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What? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I`ve never understood why Sense roms always had to be SOOOO slow on my MT3G and have only gotten less reliable with Overclocking and JIT compiling; I was also really tired of the randomly bitchy screen and keyboard - you know, where you`re typing and it pauses for 10 seconds, then puts in a symbol instead of your letter? Or how about SHITTY battery life and lag on incoming calls so bad I miss most of them and get nothing but voicemails. I want the features, but I`ve been using Donut roms instead because Sense has sucked. Till now. Several weeks ago I found an old 2.1 Sense rom by Drizzy that f***in` flew like nobody`s business, but everything was broken in it (see the original thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=677518 ). I`ve been working since then to fix everything that was broken, add new features and all the while, keep the speed of the original rom as my number one priority. Well, I`ve been working on this non stop (as you can see from my myriad of posts in chef central) while learning android from the ground up. After nearly a month and a half here`s my second beta!
HappyRom v0.9 BETA by Aeltrius - This rom, all by itself, is faster than any JIT, OC`d and ramhacked Sense rom out there. Even on the G1 without touching setCPU - this is CONFIRMED! - this rom is heavily based on work done by Drizzy and Eugene373.
Special thanks to Cyanogen (I`m using his kernel), ChiefzReloaded, Asuske, enatefox and the godfathers of the sense port - Eugene and Drizzy.
What exactly is happyROM? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- happyROM is a hybrid 2.1 Sense rom that is made from a mixture of Hero, Droid and sapphire/trout
LETS GET HAPPY!! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Youtube video with PROOF of incoming call speed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qgPlnI8RMA
Installation Instructions for Newbies! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don`t get mad at me if you don`t follow these!
1.) Make sure your SD card is properly formatted. My personal recommendation: 128Mb Swap 512 Mb ext(2|3|4) 2.) FULL WIPE! 3.) Flash the Zip and restart your phone 4.) Watch for the lockscreen. Once it appears, wait 2-3 minutes for the rom to settle. Skip through setup till you get to the Home screen "Loading..." - During and after setup, you may get a message "calendar storage is not responding" a few times - just hit "wait". This goes away once you set up your Gmail Account. 5.) Wait for the Home Screen to load up, then give it a minute or 2. Open programs and hit your Market. Log into your Gmail here. 6.) Wait till your email is downloaded - phone will be slow for about 30-45 seconds until Gmail is synced up. Done Once you give this thing a couple minutes to settle, its SUPER fuckin fast. ------------------------- EXTRA INSTRUCTIONS I RECOMMEND setting transition and window animations to "Fast" in Spare Parts.
DO NOT enable compcache in spare parts - it is enabled in this rom by DEFAULT and cannot be turned off.
NOW - this thing should be fast enough all by itself with no additional mods (hard to believe, but I`m serious) or tweaks but it has so far only been tested on the MT3G, so G1 users or needy MT3G users, I`ve included SetCPU in here so you can max out your CPU if you want it to be even faster. I`ve also added spare parts if you want to speed up window animations and such.
The first time you bring up the dialer it might be really slow, but after that it won`t be anymore.
------------------------- Requirements G1 - Death SPL - MAY work on other SPL`s - I haven`t tested this on G1. It will probably work on Danger, too, but I won`t guarantee that as I haven`t had a chance to prove it G1 & MT3G - ext partition (you can use ext2/ext3/ext4 - your choice, ext2 has been the least tested, but it HAS worked) - 96Mb Swap (128Mb Recommended!!!)
Current bugs? What doesn`t work or is weird? READ THIS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Facebook contact sync does NOT work yet. Period. Google contacts sync works, but takes a few hours and/or a few phone restarts to download sometimes. This bug is ONLY for the contacts sync, not calendar or email. Twitter is not installed in this rom - the HTCTwitter app has been acting up, I won`t include it till its fixed Weather widget will not let you type in a city, you need to choose "current city" or one from the list.
Clock app FC`s right now. I`m working on it, but for now I`ve added AlarmClock app for those of us that need to wake up in the morning.
If your "Current City" weather doesn`t load within 5 minutes the first time you load the rom, restart your phone with HOME+PHONE+POWER
If you find any bugs - give me a detailed description or I`ll ignore you.
