[ROM][Sense 2.2.1][Jun 25th] HeroLatte 0.9 beta (including new and improved lags?)

This is a port of the T-Mobile MyTouch 3G Slide Froyo Sense to the Hero GSM. If you don't have a Hero GSM, look elsewhere.

Outdated intro:
After the dust settled with all the excitement of the new Sense Gingerbread, I revisited this port, and IMHO this one has real potential. It seems fast and stable and I am hoping to get everything working in the near future, well at least everything except the camera. Additionally, I am in parallel working on a method to add proper RTL support (Hebrew, Arabic) to closed source ROMs, and this ROM will incorporate this as well.

Current version:
HeroLatte-0.9.zip (Android RTK)
HeroLatte-0.9.zip (Multiupload)

Fix for setting lockscreen wallpaper on version 0.9: (disables JIT and breaks root for most people)
HeroLatte-dalvik-0.5.zip (Android RTK)
(Please also do a dalvik wipe just in case when flashing this update, full wipe not necessary)

This is a major upgrade with a lot work done, there might be some new bugs added. Would appreciate help testing this version from the flash junkies. See also the known bugs and change log below.



Instructions:
- Full wipe and flash from recovery
- First load will take a while

Known bugs and limitations:
- I was experiencing some bad lags while doing the initial setup with this version (0.9), much more than I thought there would be. Still after it rested for a bit, it seems ok now. Please share your experiences about the lag on this version.
- Graphical glitch on incoming call lockscreen with default theme
- Graphical problems with Russian dialpad
- It's highly non trivial to change Lock screen wallpaper, let me know if you succeed (see above dalvik update)
- Camera, not sure if its possible to have a working hero camera on Sense 2.2 ROMs
- Camera does not make click sound.
- This is a port of a T-Mobile ROM (USA) so the Sense UI does not have the translations for European languages.
- Translation to other languages might not be perfect as I took them from the Wildfire ROM.
- Wifi hotspot does not work (I believe we don't have kernel support for this)
- Trackball notification does not work (WIP)
- Menu key unlocks lock screen?!
- When the screen dims just before it times out, touching the screen will prevent the timeout but when using auto-brightness will result in very low brightness either until the screen is turned off and on or until there is a change in ambient light (causing a recalculation of the auto-brightness). Not much I can do about this HTC bug as they didn't give me the sources ;(.
- Arabic reshaping is not supported in the web browser (and other "small" Arabic problem support problem like the crazy cursor movement, which at least currently also exist in CM7).
- Anything else?

Changelog

Version 0.9
- Camera fixed (although no click sound )
- Notifications fixed + trackball notification for missed calls
- Autobacklight dim bug fixed
- Replaced dalvik implementation and enabled JIT
- UI tweaks
- Recent apps removed from status bar
- Menu key no longer unlocks boot screen
- OpenGL 1.1
- Updated google apps
- Low memory and scheduler params tweaked
- Added translations from the Wildfire Froyo Sense, there could be some places which are still missing translations because this ROM originally only has english.

Version 0.5
- Espresso Sense tweaked to look a bit better - Thanks ArnoSlag
- GPS fixed
- BT audio fixed (I think)
- Light fixed (but not trackball)
- Gyros fixed (at least partially)
- Audio gliches fixes
- Added reboot menu
- ROM Cleanup a bit
- Full Hebrew and Arabic support (except for Arabic support in browser)

Version 0.2 (Herosso)
- Initial version base on T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide update 2.15.531.3.
- App2SD
- Basic hardware support

Thanks
Thanks to Arnoslag for the help with the 0.5 release.
Thanks to Sebastian for getting the camera working on newer Sense versions and general tips about porting.

Ciprilik said:

First of all : Great Job! and Welcome back!

1. Camera kinda works when you change the resolution from 5MP to 3Mp back and forth you always get an Negative-ish effect for about 1 second of what your pointing the camera to. Maybe the driver just needs to be tweaked I think (I'm not a dev so I dunno if it can be fixed)

2. APN list is missing ?
3. I've installed superuser and after I've restored my apps with TB, all of them work

Clocked at 176 - 614 Smartass:
Linpack score: 2.694 - 2.634 - 2.726 (ran the test 3 times)
Neocore: (with sound) 25.4FPS
(without sound) 30.2FPS
Quadrant score: 376

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1. Depending on the specific non-hero camera lib you use, you get these negative distorted images. If I remember correctly in one sense 2.2 ROM I even managed to save such a distorted image. This does not change the fact, the camera libs are not for the hero. I tried the simple solution of push the hero camera libs and this does not boot. I'll try to play with it a bit more but don't get your hopes up....

2. What do you mean APN list is missing? Its there and it seems to offer my the appropriate choice for my provider. I can only test this in a limited way as I don't have a data plan....

rdejager said:

On clockworks this rom wont flash so installed AmonRa and works like a charm, booting now and will report back with everything ill find

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Any ideas on why it does not flash on clockworks? Do you have a log with the problem or something?

Ciprilik said:

I am in Romania and my network is Orange. I asked if the APN list is missing because if I flash any 2.1, 2.2 vanilla, or 2.3 roms, my APN list has Orange RO (Internet) and Orange RO MMS (mms) settings from first boot as the rom recognizes my network. I've flashed Herosso 2 times with full wipe and it doesn't add those settings but it recognizes that I am on Orange and phone calls work.

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Does this fix your problem: Elelinux-apns.zip

if not, then on which ROM do the apns work for you?