[ROM] Playground ICS: New Era

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nsg86

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Jun 21, 2011
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I'm sorry to report that Playground ICS does crash if GPU is stressed enough. I run Google maps, Temple Run and then Star Chart. It finally reboot. But definitely better than IceColdSandwich.

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I'm just wondering is gingerbread will be fine if run Google maps, Temple Run and then Star Chart..??
 

itandy

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Have you solved your front face camera problem. I also have this problem and want to know if you can fix it.

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I just tried a fresh install of Playground and still the front face camera doesn't work. I guess the current camera HAL for IncS is just broken. :( Hope it can be fixed in next release.
 

ChewyVision

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In installed this ROM two days ago after 3 months on Virtuous Quattro as I was getting sick of the stability issues and non-working camera (other than that great ROM).

So far, loving Playground, it's very smooth and I've had no stability issues yet.

One thing, is there a way to change the notification LED to flash green instead of orange? I can't find a setting for it anywhere...
 

ChewyVision

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Ok a couple of problems, now:

1) I can't send text messages over 160 characters
2) Skype video calling doesn't work, it initializes and then hangs up (related to camcorder issue?).

The Skype problem isn't the end of the world, but the text message thing is quite annoying. Are there any fixes for this, which don't include a 3rd party sms app?
 

inSaN1Ty_X

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Ok a couple of problems, now:

1) I can't send text messages over 160 characters
2) Skype video calling doesn't work, it initializes and then hangs up (related to camcorder issue?).

The Skype problem isn't the end of the world, but the text message thing is quite annoying. Are there any fixes for this, which don't include a 3rd party sms app?

The SMS thing might be some sort of security thing. Heard that at least ICS does not allow you to send empty(?) Or multiple sms's in bursts.

Sooo its possibly limited to 160 so malicious apps cant spend all you sms's.
Sounds dumb, I know. And might be totally different thing/problem, but after all, the 'over 5 sms in 2min' was also dumb limitation.

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classnetd

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The SMS thing might be some sort of security thing. Heard that at least ICS does not allow you to send empty(?) Or multiple sms's in bursts.

Sooo its possibly limited to 160 so malicious apps cant spend all you sms's.
Sounds dumb, I know. And might be totally different thing/problem, but after all, the 'over 5 sms in 2min' was also dumb limitation.

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160 characters? I would rather call the other fella than typing so much. Anyway you could probably try whatsapp or something similar if this is indeed the limitation... :)
 

ChewyVision

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I had no problems sending SMS's of over 160 chars on my previous ICS ROM, so I'd like to see this fixed on Playground, as on all other counts Playground is a brilliant ROM.

For now I've installed GoSMS, but I prefer the native Messaging app.
 
I had no problems sending SMS's of over 160 chars on my previous ICS ROM, so I'd like to see this fixed on Playground, as on all other counts Playground is a brilliant ROM.

For now I've installed GoSMS, but I prefer the native Messaging app.

It's been fixed, just wasn't built. Still prepping a few things to start supporting new devices like this one a little more officially.
 

incrediblealex

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Oct 11, 2011
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Does the HTC one v ics kernel help in the development of this great rom?

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itandy

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Anyone can successfully use Screenshot function in the power button menu? Mine just cause FC in SystemUI.

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Bionik_kaos

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Some apps can't connect using 3g like instagram but mostly its pretty nice rom
Ps. Face unlock works 1 in 5 times

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    ___________________Playground ICS___________________

    An android AOSP source maintained, and developed by xda-developer twistedumbrella.

    twistedumbrella said:
    I would like to take a moment and humbly thank AllDroid.org for supporting my campaign to keep Android development moving forward as a community. We are a single voice reminding everyone that as much as we are Android, Android is us.
    Donations to twistedumbrella:
    Discussion on playground has moved to the Playground forums:

    Playground Index: http://twisted.dyndns.tv:3194/
    Playground source: https://github.com/theplayground
    Bug tracker: http://code.google.com/p/cupcake-frosting/issues/list
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    I know someone will ask, what is different between this and Ice Cold Sandwich?

    It's a kind of different. Ice Cold Sandwich is a hybrid that has a lot of AOKP feature modifications called ROMControl, and uses twisted's camera source, frameworks and other ode.

    Playground ICS is more 'standard' base in mind, a lot like how a future CM9 would look like.
    There are no fancy mods, wallpapers and lots of random features. It is more of a 'professional' type rom that avoids adding unneeded features in order to have stability.
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    Back in to catch up. Took some time off to do some real life stuff. ROM building/working took too much time the past month, so I put some priority on reality stuff the past several weeks.

    I see that twisted has came to aid (I'm glad he did), I will update the thread and stuff with the new information after catching up with the reads.
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    why is it not possible to send an SMS which is longer than 160 characters? tried search from within this thread but couldn't find "search this thread"...seems like disappeared or something :O

    I have intentionally designed the rom to make simple tasks as difficult as possible because I like seeing the same question every 5 posts.
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    Alright. It's up.

    Quick explanation of the graphics lib issue: lordclockan decided to port just the libs and skipped the firmware saying it wasn't needed, then the icecold you have was built using that setup. He saw other sources switch to how I set up and cloned it fixing the issue in the process (since we did have firmware) but the source for the build here was already ported from that layout so the fix was old libs to match old firmware. I add the new layout, but libs are still being overwritten by old versions that are still being imported. The reverse problem occurs from old libs but new firmware. This version aligned the new libs with new firmware in the same build which should fix it.

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