[ROM][GPL] CELB Froyo 3.6(New governor and loop support added )11-9-10
The changes to this rom really make it snappy.
V3.6
Since were changing kernels here a dalvik-wipe is a good idea. Data wipe should not be needed.
Resynced with cmsource as always
added new CFSv8 kernel which has lots of improvements mainly the "smartass" governor
also some updates to the interactive governor.
loop support added in without breaking froyo apps2sd.
"smartass" governer set as default
V3.6
Since were changing kernels here a dalvik-wipe is a good idea. Data wipe should not be needed.
Resynced with cmsource as always
added new CFSv8 kernel which has lots of improvements mainly the "smartass" governor
also some updates to the interactive governor.
loop support added in without breaking froyo apps2sd.
"smartass" governer set as default
Just flashed this to give it a whirl. I've tried KaosFroyo v37 & v38 and Nonsensikal 10.8.1 - so I thought I'd give this a try too just to see what it's like. So far, seems smooth. But I think of Kaos, Nonsensikal, and CELB, Nonsensikal is still my fave. But I'll give CELB a week or so to see how I like it. Thanks for the link!
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I flashed this last night - I usually give a new ROM 24 hours to wait if others report bugs, but Conap has a marvelous history of solid builds now, and I had just tried FroShedYo (not my taste; the font is attractive but hard to distinguish between normal and boldface, and the custom icons for LauncherPro's dock look terrible, IMHO), so I decided to go back to CELB and figured I may as well try the new one. It's running fantastically. Again, I highly recommend this to anyone - I find it the most solid Froyo for the Eris.
I understand you have to flash some sort of Google Applications package right after you flash the ROM. However, the link near the bottom of the CELB development page is broken. If I DO need it, where do I get it?
I understand you have to flash some sort of Google Applications package right after you flash the ROM. However, the link near the bottom of the CELB development page is broken. If I DO need it, where do I get it?
Conap's ROMs and the Google apps package is always at grdlock's site, as far as I know: Android ROM Site
I know Froyo is natively capable of installing apps to the SD card but I'm not sure how it works. Does it do it automatically or is there a manual process you've got to go through?
I believe that this is how it works: the Cyanogen based Froyo ROMs have a setting that can force all new apps installed to go to SD. Settings->CynagogenMod->Application Settings; check "allow application moving" and then change "Install location" to external (though I'd not want that for all apps myself.) Once you allow apps to be moved, from settings->applications->manage applications; tap the app you want to move, there is a button to press to move it to SD. I believe that there are third party apps that allow you to move apps as well, and I think that you can do it within Titanium Backup.
Be careful, however; Froyo's use of apps to SD is different from what you may have done in Eclair. Those ROMs typically had you partition the card, create an ext3 partition type, and then all of your apps would be automatically moved there. That ext3 partition was mounted at boot time, so you had access to all of your apps as the phone started.
In Froyo, it just creates a storage location on your FAT32 based SD card. The main issue is that the SD card is mounted in Froyo very late in the boot process, so a launcher cannot be moved to the SD card, and any app with a home screen widget cannot be moved, either - the widget will not be available when the launcher starts.
I also have to say that I have tried moving two apps to SD in Froyo early on and it didn't really work out very well for me - Titanium would not restore them, and when I flashed a new ROM Google would not automatically reinstall those apps.
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I may be misinterpreting something but, now that I know where to look, it appears that some of the apps are automatically being installed on the SD card. Angry Birds and Google Sky Map, for example. Maybe that's a new feature of CELB Froyo 2.2.1?
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The downside to putting the app on your sd card is that you won't be able to access it when you have mounted the card to your computer. The main thing you'll want to keep on the phone are things you use all the time like widgets keyboardskeyboards Tasker, ect.
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Autokiller is not a task killer, it just sets Androids memory limits, it is widely used in the rooted community. I did run into a snag last night with Pandora. When the display turned off the music would stutter like the CPU speed was being slowed. I didn't run into this on nonsensikal, AFAIK.
Autokiller is not a task killer, it just sets Androids memory limits, it is widely used in the rooted community. I did run into a snag last night with Pandora. When the display turned off the music would stutter like the CPU speed was being slowed. I didn't run into this on nonsensikal, AFAIK.
Hmm... I'm not familiar with Autokiller. I wonder if it's something I should be using.
I just tried to duplicate your Pandora issue but it timed out seamlessly and woke up without so much as a stutter.
It's been installing updates unsuccessfully when the app is on SD. As soon as I move it back to the phone and reinstall, it works fine. Am I missing something? I'd hate to have to move it back and forth every time there's an update!
Are you just seeing the update problem on this ROM, or have you seen it on others?
I just flashed CELB for the first time yesterday so I haven't had to update an app that's on my SD card yet. My personal experiences is all from other ROMs, both 2.1 and 2.2. There have been times when an update failed for whatever reason and I had to restart it - I never paid any attention as to where those apps resided. However they would always update on the second try. *I* always put this down to trying to do too many updates at one time, as it always happened while doing multiple updates.
I've only got 3 apps on my SD card, I just checked and none of them need updating, so I can't do a test to see if they'd work correctly.
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I moved one of my apps that needed updating - Autokiller - to the SD card and then went to the Market to update it. The update ran as normal. I went into applications and verified that the version of the app on my phone matched the version of the app in the market. So on my phone at least, the placement of the app doesn't effect whether or not it updates. Which isn't to say that you're not having the problem, but rather it seems to point some combination of variables are causing the problem on your phone.
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Maybe when your screen shuts off your CPU is being throttled down and stalling the updates, similar to my Pandora problems. Maybe the newest kernel changes will help with this problem.
Maybe when your screen shuts off your CPU is being throttled down and stalling the updates, similar to my Pandora problems. Maybe the newest kernel changes will help with this problem.
Nope. I've been keeping the phone awake. I'm waiting for another batch of updates to come through. I'm going to test mhotovec's theory and see if it's because I've been pushing too many updates through at once. I have been doing several at a time. I'll see if I can get one through at a time. Then we'll know.
BTW, Pandora hasn't given me ANY issues with this ROM. It's been smooth the whole time.
Sense was able to link Facebook contacts to your Google contacts so they showed up as one contact. That feature seems to be missing from this ROM. Is there a way to do that?
Sense was able to link Facebook contacts to your Google contacts so they showed up as one contact. That feature seems to be missing from this ROM. Is there a way to do that?
It's a bit different than Sense. Install the Facebook app, login with your account, and the Facebook app itself will give you the option to sync contacts - either sync all of your Facebook contacts, only those that match the contacts already on the phone, or no sync at all.
It's a bit different than Sense. Install the Facebook app, login with your account, and the Facebook app itself will give you the option to sync contacts - either sync all of your Facebook contacts, only those that match the contacts already on the phone, or no sync at all.
In other words, there's really no way to link the accounts superficially..? I thought that was a nice consolidation feature.
Is anyone else having less than stellar battery life on this ROM?
Yesterday I sent a couple of text messages, checked the weather once (was on and off the app in under 5 minutes), read an ebook for about 1/2 hour and was on the phone for about an hour. At 9:00 I noticed the led was blinking, checked and saw that the battery was down to 9% charge. Typically I would still have been around 40% or better with that kind of usage.
I'd done my normal tweaks to try to improve battery live (no animations, fairly low screen brightness, infrequent syncs - that sort of thing).
I'd thought it had been a bit lower than normal (10 - 15% lower I thought) when running the ROM the last few days, but hitting 9% last night really surprised me.
In other words, there's really no way to link the accounts superficially..? I thought that was a nice consolidation feature.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "superficially". The Facebook sync does consolidate your contacts. If you go to settings->accounts&sync, you can see Facebook listed as a sync source as well as your Google account. (This is pretty much the same for a vanilla/AOSP/Cyanogen based ROM.)
Is anyone else having less than stellar battery life on this ROM?
You may want to do a full charge, go into Recovery, and wipe battery stats to see if things improve, if you haven't done that already. To be honest, I get the best battery life I get from any ROM that I have tried with CELB, all other things being equal.
Silly me, I hadn't thought to wipe the battery stats.
I'd EXPECTED to get very good life from a Conap ROM, and was surprised when I didn't. I'll give it another shot to see if wiping stats helps it (flashed FroShedYo v5 this morning, but I've got a nand of celb).
Is anyone else having less than stellar battery life on this ROM?
Yesterday I sent a couple of text messages, checked the weather once (was on and off the app in under 5 minutes), read an ebook for about 1/2 hour and was on the phone for about an hour. At 9:00 I noticed the led was blinking, checked and saw that the battery was down to 9% charge. Typically I would still have been around 40% or better with that kind of usage.
I'd done my normal tweaks to try to improve battery live (no animations, fairly low screen brightness, infrequent syncs - that sort of thing).
I'd thought it had been a bit lower than normal (10 - 15% lower I thought) when running the ROM the last few days, but hitting 9% last night really surprised me.
I was having bad battery drain after wiping the battery stats. However, I installed Autokill (Moderate Preset) and now I'm getting about 4 times the battery life per charge that I was getting on XTRSense!
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "superficially". The Facebook sync does consolidate your contacts. If you go to settings->accounts&sync, you can see Facebook listed as a sync source as well as your Google account. (This is pretty much the same for a vanilla/AOSP/Cyanogen based ROM.)
Let's say I have a friend named "Robert Smith." Now, let's say his Facebook login is "Billy Bob." Therefore, my contact list has a couple entries.. one from Goolge and one from Facebook.
In Sense, it would allow you to 'connect' them so they would show up as one entry in your contact list rather than two. In fact, you could consolidate more than a couple entries if you wanted. Is that functionality available without Sense?
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Let's say I have a friend named "Robert Smith." Now, let's say his Facebook login is "Billy Bob." Therefore, my contact list has a couple entries.. one from Goolge and one from Facebook.
In Sense, it would allow you to 'connect' them so they would show up as one entry in your contact list rather than two. In fact, you could consolidate more than a couple entries if you wanted. Is that functionality available without Sense?
I know you can consolidate and merge contacts in gmail. If you have all your phone contacts sync with gmail you can merge them on your computer and they will update on your phone. I don't know if it will link the facebook profile to the person or if facebook sync will continue to make a different contact, but you could give it a shot.
In Sense, it would allow you to 'connect' them so they would show up as one entry in your contact list rather than two. In fact, you could consolidate more than a couple entries if you wanted. Is that functionality available without Sense?
I believe that the Facebook app connects the contacts by their email address, so as long as that is in your Google contact it should work. I can't check whether you can manually link right now, though, as I am running xtrSENSE at the moment. The next time I start CELB I'll check. I will say this: I never saw a duplicated contact in CELB in all the times that I ran it.
I haven't seen duplicates of the same entry but I have seen multiple entries for the same person listed under different names, one for Facebook and one for Google, for example.
People having battery problems I would be willing to be 99% that your email app is hanging. Mine has a serious problem with hanging when I try to delete an email and not letting the phone sleep. When my email isn't causing a partial wakelock, I'm getting well over 25 hours of battery life, that instantly drops to about 12-15 if email is locking up. The only solution I've found is to kill it using Settings-Apps-Manage and then force close it then re-open it. I've decided to just not delete emails off the phone and that seems to work.
Let's say I have a friend named "Robert Smith." Now, let's say his Facebook login is "Billy Bob." Therefore, my contact list has a couple entries.. one from Goolge and one from Facebook.
In Sense, it would allow you to 'connect' them so they would show up as one entry in your contact list rather than two. In fact, you could consolidate more than a couple entries if you wanted. Is that functionality available without Sense?
it gets worse.
suppose robert smith used to have a yahoo account, then created a facebook account with his school address (and cell number), and then created a new gmail account(with a gv number).
I miss having sense link contacts automatically for me, but it *is* possible in google, its much easier to do on the web interface.
In other words, there's really no way to link the accounts superficially..? I thought that was a nice consolidation feature.
Yeah you can. Go to your contact list, click on the contact you want to join, Menu-Edit Contact-Menu-Join then select the contact you want to join with it from your list and you're done. It's not as user friendly as Sense's way of doing it by any means, but it gets the job done.
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Yeah you can. Go to your contact list, click on the contact you want to join, Menu-Edit Contact-Menu-Join then select the contact you want to join with it from your list and you're done. It's not as user friendly as Sense's way of doing it by any means, but it gets the job done.
Not that I've found. You just have to depend on the Facebook apps ability to do it on it's own (which is absolutely awful unless the person lists their phone number in their Facebook profile, then it's flawless).
I still havent been able to successfullly update any apps that are stored on the SD card without first moving them back to the phone. Is there a trick to it or does it just not work in this ROM?
I can honestly say I've never had that problem with this rom. Even with apps forced to sd. Widgets and keyboard apps don't seem to like being forced to sd though fyi
I still havent been able to successfullly update any apps that are stored on the SD card without first moving them back to the phone. Is there a trick to it or does it just not work in this ROM?
The few times that I tried moving apps to SD I had the same problem so I no longer bother trying.
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[ROM][GPL] CELB Froyo 3.6(New governor and loop support added )11-9-10
