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[ROM][7-14-2009]PhotonMod_Hero (v1.5) [Ready For Daily Use]

Ok, I've been trying out a lot of Hero ROMS and I'm always disappointed in the speed, or lack thereof. Each time I have found myself flashing back to a stable Hero build and then customizing it to my liking (see below). This release is mainly for my own sanity, to save myself the time and effort of getting back to a setup I prefer.
For clarification purposes, I will be referring to these builds as PhotonMod_Hero1 and PhotonMod_Hero1.5
Just understand that v1 is based on LeakDroid's SuperHero3 build and v1.5 is based on JACHero 2.63.
**UPDATE 7/15/09**
As requested, Re-upped PhotonMod_Hero v1 without the Asian IME (pinyinIME.apk). Just be sure to choose English on the first screen of the setup wizard.
PhotonMod_Hero v1:http://www.mediafire.com/?l3inmmtmjzz
NOTE: If you have random Asian characters showing up in odd places, power off the phone and turn it back on. This seems to only happen before the first reboot.
(Reminder, this one does not use AppsToSD. It is basically SuperHeroV3-MAS minus Rosie and all HTC widgets. Also minus swap. and with a few other teaks.)
Also,
Here is "Lite" version of PhotonMod_Hero1.5. I removed the Weather app and widget, and Retro Clock widget.
PhotonMod_Hero v1.5:http://www.mediafire.com/?nyhyfzzyiom
****UPDATE 7/14/09****
Bluetooth is NOT working in any Hero build at this time
New Build release: PhotonMod_Hero v1.5 - Lite
Based on JACHero2.63 with the following changes:
**Changelog - PhotonMod_Hero1.5 - Lite**
-Removed ALL HTC Widgets
-Replaced HTCCamera with one that works (No sideways image)
-Replaced HtcMusic with old Music app from non-Hero builds (b/c that one is a resource hog!)
-Replaced Rosie with standard Launcher
-Removed Teeter.apk/odex, Stocks.apk/odex, DCS_Stocks.apk/odex
-Removed (commented) Swap partition section in a2sd.sh as I want to try this build out without a Swap partition.
-Added section in a2sd.sh to move a "wallpaper" folder to the FAT32 partition on your SD. That folder contains the wallpapers from the Rosie wallpaper gallery (See Below)
-Added AppsInstaller
-Added Custom Lock Screen
-Added a few "Gems" to the Ringtones/Notifications
To use AppsToSD, make sure you have your SD card setup with Fat32/Ext3 partitions. You will not need a third Linux-Swap partion with this build.
To use new Wallpapers, at the Home screen, press Menu -> Wallpaper. Then choose Albums. You should see a wallpaper folder containing 5 wallpapers.
Thanks to JesusFreke, Haykuro, JAC, Cyanogen, L3wish and the Leakdroid crew, Meltus, and all the other great Devs working to give us the experience we want from our phones.
Rename to update.zip and flash as usual.

you really need to try jac 2.63 with a freshly formatted card and a linux/swap partition. its quite a thrill

Can u put some pics

might give this a try on my other g1...just for fun

i want som pics plzzz !!! and some comments of the one who flashed this .

Fully Functional?
As in Bluetooth working?

Why in the world do you need pics...its hero, duh.
And I have to agree, even 2.63 is quite slow (swapper and a2sd)...I might have to try this one out (though I heard SHv3 had many things not working...).
Thanks for the contribution anyway .
@Shaquiel Harris, NO BT works as of yet. JAC is getting close I guess but NO HERO BUILD HAS BT YET!

Working on taking some screenies for you guys...
be posting in a few...

hmm seems interesting.
wonder how this one works.

hmm seems interesting.
wonder how this one works.

Screenshots...
See Attached
Here you see I have changed the background to one I liked from another build. I also have installed the Retro Clock widget, Weather Channel widget, and a few apps (AndroZip, Last.fm, and I really can't remember which else). Right now I currently have about 10MB free (not running apps from SD)

I don't see the bluetooth is working? What do you mean "fully functional"? is the led work, too !?

spiderman_anhvu said:
I don't see the bluetooth is working? What do you mean "fully functional"? is the led work, too !?
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Ok, I just tried Bluetooth for the first time and it does not turn on. This was my mistake. I do not use it and did not ever try it. I may grab JACHero latest build and mod it the same way (if bluetooth does work in that build) if anyone really wants it. Personally, I never needed it.
As for the LED, as with most Hero builds currently out, the LED does not work. If someone can point to one that does, let me know.

not feeling the "ophone" icons.
but everything else seems legit.
but really isn't fully "functional" due to the fact there is no "rosie" which makes up pretty much the entire experience of "Hero" but good job regardless!

johnnylicious said:
not feeling the "ophone" icons.
but everything else seems legit.
but really isn't fully "functional" due to the fact there is no "rosie" which makes up pretty much the entire experience of "Hero" but good job regardless!
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This is true, but every time I try to use Rosie I definitely do NOT have a fully functional phone.
I suppose I should say Fully Usable (once I get BT working anyway)

photonmedia said:
This is true, but every time I try to use Rosie I definitely do NOT have a fully functional phone.
I suppose I should say Fully Usable (once I get BT working anyway)
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lol forsure good luck on it i know its tough

Is the notification sms on the icon ? i mean when you receive one sms it puts a 1 in the icon, is it ?

theslam08 said:
Why in the world do you need pics...its hero, duh.
And I have to agree, even 2.63 is quite slow (swapper and a2sd)...I might have to try this one out (though I heard SHv3 had many things not working...).
Thanks for the contribution anyway .
@Shaquiel Harris, NO BT works as of yet. JAC is getting close I guess but NO HERO BUILD HAS BT YET!
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Well why would he say fully functional when indeed it isnt? and 2.63 is slow for you because your using swapper. Your supposed to make a linux swap partition and have a fat 32/ext2/3 and linux swap. 2.63 is the fastest and most reliable rom that has been made so far And well this is the rom i will stay with. I dont need bluetooth because well i dont use it kinda want LED's Though But besides that.

IOmega666 said:
Is the notification sms on the icon ? i mean when you receive one sms it puts a 1 in the icon, is it ?
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No,
and I can't say I've notice that on other builds I've tried. Is there somewhere you've see that? It may be part of the new MMS app (which many people are having reliability issues / not getting messages)

Shaquiel Harris said:
Well why would he say fully functional when indeed it isnt? and 2.63 is slow for you because your using swapper. Your supposed to make a linux swap partition and have a fat 32/ext2/3 and linux swap. 2.63 is the fastest and most reliable rom that has been made so far And well this is the rom i will stay with. I dont need bluetooth because well i dont use it kinda want LED's Though But besides that.
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I have updated my original post that BT is not working. As for speed of JACHero 2.63, I'll give it a whirl now that I can easily get back to this ROM.
But I've heard "Really Fast" about a lot of ROMS running Rosie/SensUI, and have not yet been convinced by any of those claims.

[REQ] Black Notification Bar AND COLOUR NOTIFICATIONS with White Text;) FOR R18

http://www.mediafire.com/?bqvzmrmiwnh
I by no means take credit for this work, i just cooked up this update zip so people on plain r18 can theme a little
When booting first time, you will need to leave it for up to 10 minutes to odex, my one stuttered but eventually got there...
This is by no means perfect, but it will do in the meantime, untill the big guns release there armory.
It will give you the nice coloured notifications, in the not. bar
JD

what about the icons? still the same? any screenshots? any de'odexed rom? means also the new MCR r16 which is de'odexed?

Just attempted this on Paul's latest de-odexed offering, and I'm stuck in a boot loop.

does not work on de-odexed MCR 16

i was just getting ready to flash this with that rom ....im glad i checked back first lol

Sorry guys, will fix and re-link, dont try for now
JD

Yeah it will not run on the new de-odexed rom;(
Very Strange,
It runs on my froyo no problem, im running a de-odexed FRF50 on my Desire, and im running the froyo-o-rama services.jar and framework-res.apk on my desire rom???
Paul must have a put in an imperitive framework;((
JD
Gonna remove this for now

gief back! =)

Pull the files from kang froyo

there is a new version of MCR r17 now which should be de'odexed the right way

qvert said:
there is a new version of MCR r17 now which should be de'odexed the right way
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I was sure i didnt do anything wrong, i cooked this with good effect on the desire forum
New links added!!!!!
Make sure you are using a properly de-odexed rom pleeeseeeee
JD

Enjoy guys,
Should work on r17 and other de-odexed roms

now it works on r17!
thanks

Is mediafire down or is just me?
EDIT: Nevermind...

No problem guys, just a little goodwill from the desire forum
The black desire bar is best

will you marry me? thx

Just gr8
10char

Just to warn people... if you apply this you wont have custom trackball notifications with trackball alert.
The Notification bar may be changing something that is preventing trackball to display other colors...

Lysin said:
Just to warn people... if you apply this you wont have custom trackball notifications with trackball alert.
The Notification bar may be changing something that is preventing trackball to display other colors...
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I experienced this problem. . . but only when the screen was on. If I turn off the screen, then the trackball lights up with the TBA colors. I believe this is due to edits done in services.jar, but don't quote me on that.

you need to credit manup456
You need to credit manup456 because this is basically nextheme for froyo...

Change slider colour

I'm on Telstra's piece of **** branded HD2, which among other things they've created a blue theme for.
I've tried Co0kie's stuff but it doesn't customise the colour of the slider down the bottom (don't know if that's the right word - you know, the thing to slide between home, music, calendar, etc. buttons).
I know you can change what buttons are visible on the slider, but how about the colour?
The blueness is also present in the music and calendar apps and kind of generally right through settings buttons etc.
Is there any way of getting the regular black HD2 theme on it, without having to flash a stock ROM? I'm kinda scared about losing contacts or bricking the phone by flashing it.

laserviking said:
I'm on Telstra's piece of **** branded HD2, which among other things they've created a blue theme for.
I've tried Co0kie's stuff but it doesn't customise the colour of the slider down the bottom (don't know if that's the right word - you know, the thing to slide between home, music, calendar, etc. buttons).
I know you can change what buttons are visible on the slider, but how about the colour?
The blueness is also present in the music and calendar apps and kind of generally right through settings buttons etc.
Is there any way of getting the regular black HD2 theme on it, without having to flash a stock ROM? I'm kinda scared about losing contacts or bricking the phone by flashing it.
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yes that is possible, it is just changing some manila files. but witch one and how I can explain this tomorrow if you like, of if nobody else have don it.
I must to take sleep now Sorry I'm human!

C'mon you know you wanna enlighten me now!

kurt-willems said:
yes that is possible, it is just changing some manila files. but witch one and how I can explain this tomorrow if you like, of if nobody else have don it.
I must to take sleep now Sorry I'm human!
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LOL Kurt... Sleep is over rated. It's Friday night (Saturday morning for you) You dont need sleep.

language ?
i have the telstra branded hd2 with the 1.72 telstra rom and my phone has ZERO mention of telstra on the phone anywhere !
its all doable m8 !
and im with telstra (great network) LOL ---->
D.

Okay like I have promises the manila file you search must be the follow one!
511c6915_manila!
@ wolfee
Yes it whas 3h in the evening/morning when I saw it!!
And like I say I'm human so I need some sleep!

jusD said:
i have the telstra branded hd2 with the 1.72 telstra rom and my phone has ZERO mention of telstra on the phone anywhere !
its all doable m8 !
and im with telstra (great network) LOL ---->
D.
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You mean because you modded it? Cause the stock version is Telstra'd to hell.

AOSP Theme for EVO Flashable Zip Works On 2.2 Signed

This is my first release of a theme or anything so i hope you like it screenshots are included
What it Does
Themes the following
check boxes (some of the HTC ones remain un-themed)
volume indicator (yellow)
taskbar (white)
all taskbar icons -BT, wifi, 3g, battery, 4g
menu selections (yellow AOSP selection)
power menu icons
what it doesn't do
it does not change the application icons except for settings
if you want aosp themed app icons i would suggest NonSence or bugless
Things to work out
the location service icon has been removed but still takes up a space in the taskbar (i do not know how to remove that so any help would be nice)
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DOWNLOADS
For 2.2 Roms (08/23/2010)
Vanilla Lock AKA Flipz
Clear Lock -Will Release Soon
Stock Lock - Will Release Soon
Bar Lock - Will Release Soon
Black Task Bar with Aosp icons as requested by ericwgarza1
Flash one of the above files first if you would like to have full theme then flash the black Taskbar zip
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For Android 2.1 Below this Point
*thank you konikub for letting me use your theme to fix this for ruu it wouldn't be up otherwise be sure to check out his work*
Vanilla Lock AKA Flipz
Clear Lock
Stock Lock
Bar Lock
Black Task Bar with Aosp icons as requested by ericwgarza1
Flash one of the above files first if you would like to have full theme then flash the black Taskbar zip
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old versions
Flipz Lock Screen
Stock Lock Screen
Clear Lock Screen
Credits
google for making the original theme
flipzmode for the lockscreen (Info about Flipz Lock Here)
Konikub for helping with the ruu
and of course all the devs who make roms for us
and me for putting together the zip for evo

Thank you very much for this!

does it work with htc sence? hheeeh

magicalan said:
does it work with htc sence? hheeeh
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it should work with sence and it should also have the espresso dock on the bottom
there should be no reason as to why not although i have not tested it

Confirmed working with damagecontrol 3.2, only gripes with it are the 3g and reception icons in the taskbar are considerably lower res than the other icons, and the charging icon looks a little big and out of place.

Fadakar said:
Confirmed working with damagecontrol 3.2, only gripes with it are the 3g and reception icons in the taskbar are considerably lower res than the other icons, and the charging icon looks a little big and out of place.
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i'm surprised about the lower resolution gripe cause i used higher resolution ones then the stock aosp
but thanks for the feedback
and as for the charging icon i assume you mean the one on the left (for switching between disc/charging) yeah i need to fix that
off topic note the search buttons look out of place when hitting the search button

Perhaps they got screwed over when the os tried down-sampling them itself?

Fadakar: I'm not seeing any difference whatsoever. Can you ss it?

good job. this looks awesome. glad you threw this together. I personally am allergic to anything resembling stock and i also had darchs aosp setups on hero, so its nothing new to me. i like a completely new experience. However i know theres a **** ton of aosp junkies that will love this. thanks​

MagnusRagnarok said:
good job. this looks awesome. glad you threw this together. I personally am allergic to anything resembling stock and i also had darchs aosp setups on hero, so its nothing new to me. i like a completely new experience. However i know theres a **** ton of aosp junkies that will love this. thanks​
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You paste the same crap in EVERY thread. XDA should add the mod to allow users to ban other users by paying. Make money and clean out the crap threads.

I'd pay for a 2 year ban on that magnus dude just for making ugly themes.

Kinda harsh guys. But he should stay on topic.
Love the AOSP look. Just enough to hold me over until someone can make a full rom of it. Thanks!

Thanks
Added to themes in sticky thread.. Well done, thanks for sharing

failed to install via Amon_RA recovery. switching to clockwork to see how that fairs
edit: installed with clockwork i didn't wip anything maybe i should've wiped cache had a weird boot loop going would make it to lock screen and then restart
edit2: my sdcard was bad which impacted the system after fastbooting back to amons recovery and the nand backup i had there verified through my disk utility that the card was bad >_<

Good job...This is really cool!

a picture with htc sense and this theme would be nice i wanna c the taskbar with sense thanks

mrpuffin said:
i'm surprised about the lower resolution gripe cause i used higher resolution ones then the stock aosp
but thanks for the feedback
and as for the charging icon i assume you mean the one on the left (for switching between disc/charging) yeah i need to fix that
off topic note the search buttons look out of place when hitting the search button
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I also noticed that the 3g and bars were a little blurry. Not a big deal, but just for the record.

Anyone using this with DamageControl? Which version did you flash?

okay so an update to everyone who said that the icons were low res the system was using the wrong set of icons the 25x25 so i updated the package with flipz lock to contain the 38x38 icons
and later tonight i will upload the other one along with one with a clear lockscreen
still in the search bar the icons are dark when i switched them for the lighter ones every time i would hit search it would restart my phone so i gotta look into that some more
that should be about it
oh and sence still has the scroll page indicator but the espresso dock so it doesn't look great might revert back to stock sence if i have the time sorry
recommended with other launchers

i love this theme but for some reason when i get an email or message the icons on the taskbar have a black square around them instead of just being the message icon or the gmail icon

Anyone interested in a near-working Wildfire S "port"?

I found a guide that mentions basic Sense porting to another Sense device. I tried this with this Wildfire S ROM for a few reasons:
--I prefer the "standard" HTC Sense as found on any other device (ie. Black status bar, black apps, etc.)
--I wanted to see how well it'd run
--I wanted to see if there'd be any problems with anything
After following the above guide, I notice only the following bugs:
--Camera is upside down
--Rosie keeps force closing because of forced landscape orientation so I have to use an alternate launcher
--Lockscreen is always in Portrait no matter what
--Keypad backlights don't turn on
--Facebook button doesn't work (duh)
--(New)GPS doesn't work - need to mess with GPS libs when I have more time
--(New)The FM Radio app's graphics are messed up
To try and fix the Rosie problem, I tried copying over the Rosie.apk and Rosie.odex from the Chacha's 2.3.5 OTA, but no dice, the system doesn't even see it.
Anyone have any tips on how I could fix any of the above? I'm no dev, and I only tried this for (basically) the fun of it to see how it'd turn out and my "experience", so to speak, only goes as far as swapping files here and there - I felt like the Development forum was the best place to post this. Apologies if it isn't.

good attempt! nice to see to back into work. May be some developers can help you out.

I would like to apologize first, as it is 08:19 in the morning and I'm already drunk. lol.
Well, let's start with the easy bits:
1. --Keypad backlights don't turn on
Mainly the thing is that the Wildfire S ROM does not have support (or it is not activated) for a physical keyboard; therefore the need for backlight is redundant. To fix this you will either have to manually add the code lines or un-comment them. I suggest talking with adlx or xdbg since both of them have implemented this feature in the two custom ROMs.
2. --Facebook button doesn't work (duh)
As above, the ROM doesn't know (or doesn't want to know) about the physical keyboard. Same suggestions as above.
3. Landscape/portrait issues.
Well. The main problem here is the android system. By definition it detects the longest size on the display and sets it as the height. Therefore you'll have a tough time fixing the standard display to landscape. As above, I suggest speaking with the devs that worked on these roms and implement the ChaCha kernel files into the Wildfire ROM.
Aaaaaand that's about it I guess. I wish you good luck!

Drunk, this early??
Good effort!
Sent from my A810e using Tapatalk

qzfive said:
I found a guide that mentions basic Sense porting to another Sense device. I tried this with this Wildfire S ROM for a few reasons:
--I prefer the "standard" HTC Sense as found on any other device (ie. Black status bar, black apps, etc.)
--I wanted to see how well it'd run
--I wanted to see if there'd be any problems with anything
After following the above guide, I notice only the following bugs:
--Camera is upside down
--Rosie keeps force closing because of forced landscape orientation so I have to use an alternate launcher
--Lockscreen is always in Portrait no matter what
--Keypad backlights don't turn on
--Facebook button doesn't work (duh)
To try and fix the Rosie problem, I tried copying over the Rosie.apk and Rosie.odex from the Chacha's 2.3.5 OTA, but no dice, the system doesn't even see it.
Anyone have any tips on how I could fix any of the above? I'm no dev, and I only tried this for (basically) the fun of it to see how it'd turn out and my "experience", so to speak, only goes as far as swapping files here and there - I felt like the Development forum was the best place to post this. Apologies if it isn't.
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Nice!
For the backlight, maybe you could try using system/lib/hw/lights.msm7k.so from the stock Chacha rom, or even from SuperOSR...
You cannot copy/paste an apk+odex file, it will probably never work. Try deodexing it first, then copy it.
I guess this is the right place to ask

adlx.xda said:
Nice!
For the backlight, maybe you could try using system/lib/hw/lights.msm7k.so from the stock Chacha rom, or even from SuperOSR...
You cannot copy/paste an apk+odex file, it will probably never work. Try deodexing it first, then copy it.
I guess this is the right place to ask
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I copied lights.msm7k.so from SuperOSR, and the keyboard backlight works now.
I used an application on my laptop called xUltimate to deodex both this ROM and Chacha 1.54 stock, and the only things that wouldn't deodex are the Lockscreen and Rosie :/
Camera appears right-way round/up if a 3rd party camera app is used
Additional bugs I've noticed after trying it out a bit again:
--GPS doesn't work - I'll mess around with gps libs tomorrow when I have a bit more time
--The FM radio app's graphics are messed up

For gps try also to use stock chacha libsensors (or something like that)

the right names for the files are:
/system/lib/hw/gps.chacha.so
/system/lib/hw/sensors.chacha.so
try using the one from SuperOSR.

Is this ROM going to be official released anytime soon because I am working on a ROM from another HTC device aswell and was wondering if you needed any assistance on final touches?
TechMayhem

This would interest me greatly, as I really love the "standard" sense and was quite disappointed with the amount of white/light colours used in the ChaCha's version, and how it just doesn't seem to fit in very well at all with the HTC family. Would it be possible to use the Desire Z's rosie? As that supports landscape natively.

TechMayhem said:
Is this ROM going to be official released anytime soon because I am working on a ROM from another HTC device aswell and was wondering if you needed any assistance on final touches?
TechMayhem
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Tbh, I haven't done anything on this for a while because I started flashing CM7/SuperOSR.
From what I can remember, the following things wern't working:
-Lockscreen - Always in Portrait, won't rotate
-Rosie - Force-close loop, had to replace with an alternate launcher
-GPS - Icon doesn't appear in the status bar
-FM/Dailer/maybe others - Graphics messed up due to forced landscape resolution
That's all I managed to check before I got caught up in crackflashing XD
I am by no means a dev - all this was done by replacing files in a Wildfire S ROM with ones from SuperOSR/stock Chacha
Atomix86 said:
This would interest me greatly, as I really love the "standard" sense and was quite disappointed with the amount of white/light colours used in the ChaCha's version, and how it just doesn't seem to fit in very well at all with the HTC family. Would it be possible to use the Desire Z's rosie? As that supports landscape natively.
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Precisely why I tried this in the first place - I wasn't expecting all this white, which doesn't make the Chacha feel like an HTC as much to me - I already tried the Desire Z's Rosie - while it did work, all the icons were huge (because of it being scaled for HDPI screens). Dunno about widgets.
Once I find it amongst all the crap I have on my laptop, I could upload it if anyone might have an idea how to fix what's left and to see what else is broken?