Features, and Bug-Fixes, and Themes, OH MY! Sapphire - 0.8.4

[wingdo]

It's not illegal in Michigan. I wouldn't do it if I was distracted to that degree. When I'm in the car, my Droid is mounted to the front windshield right to the left of my steering wheel. So, even when I look at it (for a second), I still have plain sight of what is going on outside the vehicle. I would say that someone looking down at their car stereo to choose a station would be more distracted. Also, I'm in my 40s, so my loud music phase has long since passed. The headphones I have are the small / on-the-ear type and aren't noise cancelling. When I read and dictate text messages, it's not done while the vehicle is moving (stop lights only). I also take a lot of work-related calls when I'm driving to and from work, so the headphones are great for hands-free phone conversations.

...just wanted you to understand that I'm not a total menace to the road.

Yeah, here in IL, you'd be breaking about 5 laws with your setup. I've had one accident in the past 5 years, I was sitting on the expressway (traffic at a full stop) when I got hit from behind by someone reading / sending a text message.

No true offense was meant, but I don't equate driving on the expressway at 70mph when not in work zones, headphones in ears, reading text messages - with tying ones shoes and talking.

 

[TRIKOTRET]

Im trying to make the clock speed 800 mhz instead of 1 gig to save battery. I have it setup in setup cpu i profiles and to load on boot. I rebooted the phone twice but it keeps going to 1 gig?? However, the profiles for charging do work when I plug in the phone. Any idea??

On boot, sapphire sets your phone manually to use the fastest speed the kernel supports, which is 1Ghz by default. When SetCPU loads on boot, it SHOULD override that with its own settings.

My guess (and I have not tested this) is that SetCPU is either not setting your CPU speed on boot, or it is setting your CPU speed too soon and is being overridden by the default settings. If you are using SetCPU, you do not need the built-in overclocking script. Try getting rid of the default settings by removing the script that sets them:

su
sysrw
rm /system/etc/init.d/01_cpufreq

Now ONLY SetCPU will be setting your speed. I take no responsibility for any problems that result from trying this, and I have no idea if it will work. Make a backup copy of the file if you want to undo the changes I'm suggesting.

EDIT: The suggestion of using an 800Mhz kernel makes more sense than always underclocking a 1Ghz kernel.

So sapphire has its own script for overclocking?? SHould I not use setupcpu and let their script handle it?

 

[Se7enLC]

So sapphire has its own script for overclocking?? SHould I not use setupcpu and let their script handle it?

Depends. All sapphire is doing is setting your min and max speeds to be the minimum and maximum supported by your kernel and using the "ondemand" governor. If that's all you need, it will save you some resources to not have SetCPU running. If you want profile support, temperature monitoring, etc, you'll need to use SetCPU.

 

[sonicboomin]

how do i enable the apps2sd auto off or on?
is there something in the settings to do all this easily like other roms do?

 

[pdroid]

TRIKOTRET: go to the setcpu thread here and try downgrading your superuser.apk. I suspect that's the cause of your problem.

 

[jimmiet]

Im trying to make the clock speed 800 mhz instead of 1 gig to save battery. I have it setup in setup cpu i profiles and to load on boot. I rebooted the phone twice but it keeps going to 1 gig?? However, the profiles for charging do work when I plug in the phone. Any idea??

Had the same problem. Switched to Super User 2.1 and it works fine now. Go here and follow the link in post #2.

 

[pdroid]

Im trying to make the clock speed 800 mhz instead of 1 gig to save battery. I have it setup in setup cpu i profiles and to load on boot. I rebooted the phone twice but it keeps going to 1 gig?? However, the profiles for charging do work when I plug in the phone. Any idea??

Had the same problem. Switched to Super User 2.1 and it works fine now. Go here and follow the link in post #2.

I have the direct link in the setcpu thread to help everyone out who experiences this.

 

[jimmiet]

Im trying to make the clock speed 800 mhz instead of 1 gig to save battery. I have it setup in setup cpu i profiles and to load on boot. I rebooted the phone twice but it keeps going to 1 gig?? However, the profiles for charging do work when I plug in the phone. Any idea??

Had the same problem. Switched to Super User 2.1 and it works fine now. Go here and follow the link in post #2.

I have the direct link in the setcpu thread to help everyone out who experiences this.

Yeah...what he said...lol.

 

[TRIKOTRET]

TRIKOTRET: go to the setcpu thread here and try downgrading your superuser.apk. I suspect that's the cause of your problem.

thanks. Ill check it out

 

[DDCtech]

Tried doing update from 0.7.0, with 0.8.4 black bar. Now gettting balck notification bar, but build number in About phone still says 0.7.0-Droid.

I downloaded 8.4 to my comp, changed it to update.zip, transfered it to my SD Root, rebooted to CW recovery, backed up, wiped (x2), applied zip and rebooted. got the black bar, but sill says 0.7.0.

 

[Lars1]

Awright gang, I need some help. (please)

I am coming over from Kangarade 5.0.9 and I just installed Sapphire.

Before I did anything, I made a nandroid back-up and I backed up all of my apps and data using TiBU.

I put the update.zip and the market fix on my SD card.

After waiting for all apps to re-download, I confirmed that none of my paid apps were there, so I applied the market fix and they showed up in the market, ready for me to download.

At this point I thought I would just restore "missing apps and data" using TiBU.

1/3 of the way through, I get a low memory warning and my phone reboots with only a handful of my paid apps restored and my phone memory full.

In Kangerade, I had apps2sd running well and many of my apps had been moved over.

My questions are;

1- How can I get Sapphire to see the apps already on my SD? (or can I?)

2- How is the best way to use TiBU? (or should I?)

3- Do I want TiBU to restore my data, or is it just better to start from scratch?

4- How do you do it? (back-up and restore, not that!)

I am new to flashing but I love it and I want to know how to make flashing a new ROM quick and painless. Any advice would be appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

p.s. sorry for the long post

 

[Se7enLC]

Tried doing update from 0.7.0, with 0.8.4 black bar. Now gettting balck notification bar, but build number in About phone still says 0.7.0-Droid.

I downloaded 8.4 to my comp, changed it to update.zip, transfered it to my SD Root, rebooted to CW recovery, backed up, wiped (x2), applied zip and rebooted. got the black bar, but sill says 0.7.0.

1). There's no need to rename the file to update.zip if you are using CW recovery. Just pick "Install ROM from SD card" and pick the one you want. Much easier

2). The "black notification bar update" is a different file from the 8.4 update. You need to first apply the ROM update THEN apply the theme. The ROM update should be around 70mb, whereas the black bar theme is very small.

 

[DDCtech]

Tried doing update from 0.7.0, with 0.8.4 black bar. Now gettting balck notification bar, but build number in About phone still says 0.7.0-Droid.

I downloaded 8.4 to my comp, changed it to update.zip, transfered it to my SD Root, rebooted to CW recovery, backed up, wiped (x2), applied zip and rebooted. got the black bar, but sill says 0.7.0.

1). There's no need to rename the file to update.zip if you are using CW recovery. Just pick "Install ROM from SD card" and pick the one you want. Much easier

2). The "black notification bar update" is a different file from the 8.4 update. You need to first apply the ROM update THEN apply the theme. The ROM update should be around 70mb, whereas the black bar theme is very small.

Is it the same for the market hack and the G-apps update? Install the ROM first and then go back and do the rest?

 

[wingdo]

I did the ROM and Gapps during the same SPR session.

 

[Se7enLC]

Is it the same for the market hack and the G-apps update? Install the ROM first and then go back and do the rest?

Yes, always install the ROM first, then install the updates/modifications.

If you use ROM Manager, you can stack ZIP files and have them all apply one after another on a single reboot. Convenient if it works (it did for me when I installed 8.4 and gapps at the same time), but it could be messy if they get applied in the wrong order when the updates have files that conflict (like the market update would)