[ROM] ApeX for Droid X - An AOSP Experience

[Rhino413]

OK everyone who is running this sick clean ROM
if you want to have some fun and see how fast you can get your phone
try this little experiment. Using root explorer navigate to system/build.prop
make sure root explorer is set to mount R/W then long press on build.prop and open in text editor. then find the dalvik heap size it should be set to 32m
change that to like 60m or even more. save and exit and then reboot your phone

now if you don't have this app you should get it it makes rebooting easy go to the market and get hot reboot. this app is great for the DX

Edit: also understand that if you do this and run quadrant your score will be really low
thats because quadrant and other benchmark testers are designed to test your system running a separate graphics app IE game and by uping the dalvik heap size you are limiting the amout of ram available to the GPU to run games but the over all speed of the Android system will be faster because the system now has more ram to swap in an out with. UNDERSTAND
and this wont affect your games as most of the games force the OS into the background and what ram is left should be plenty for any game you will play.

what does dalvik heap vm do or control? i like speed!:icon_ banana:

the larger Dalvik heap size allows more process to be stored in a larger cache size. from my experience it provides a speedier os but can lag some games and it shrinks the amount of flash ram they can use so its a give and take
edit: the only game that has given me lag is NFS Shift
2nd EDIT: also I have found in my experience that clearing the dalvik cache every once any awhile (like twice a month)brings pep back to the phone
if you do wipe it from with in clockworkMod under advanced and wipe dalvik cache understand that when you reboot it will take a few mins to rebuild the cache area and it will sit at the boot logo (one logo after the M ) your phone is not broken just give a few mins and it will be fine. DO this at your own risk blah blah

Edit 3: HMM @fab I just tried to wipe the Dalvik cache and it says Cant mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 (file exists) any ideas ???

 

[bouchigo]

Yo Fab, did airplane and 22899 one or both got rid of "time without signal" comepletely.
Thanky-Thanky

Where in the phone do you find time with or without signal?

Settings/battery manager/touch battery to see usage/cell stand by.
It would then be under that but if you don't have any "time without signal " then there won't be anything about it there.

Mine says time without a signal is 50%, but I am using Juice Defender to toggle 3G on/off when when the screen goes off.

@Fabolous
Do you think Juice Defender would cause the 50% time without a signal?

 

[Rhino413]

Has anyone had an issue with android not syncing with google calendar right

mine syncs then it deletes off the calendar by itself but only deletes from the phone. and when I refresh it shows nothing on calendar but if i log into gmail from my pc and look at the calendar it shows up

any ideas

 

[GoldenGreg]

I was one of the guys who was having power issues on the last release, but i think i got it fixed either by upgrading to ver 1.0 or by changing emails apk's.
Right after upgrading i went through the list of apks that Fab provided (thanks!) and added BlurEmail.apk and BlurEmailEngine.apk. I was then able to use corporate email again (woo hoo!) so I killed my account on the white email (old droid 1 apk). This old apk always came up with security settings messages and would not push, so i had it set for 5 min. I think this was what was taking all the juice, cause now i have push back and my phone isn't warm anymore! it took about 1.5 to 2 hours to got down 10% where it was about an hour or less before.
Great job on ver 1.0! This is truly fast and consistent. The scripts are very nice touch too.

 

[lawrence87]

I spent the past 24 hours working on my phone. I love this custom rom. A good bit of the issues i had i have gone through the 43 pages and read over and over. there was one mentioning of my problem well part of it but i didnt see a response to it.

My problem is the dialer. i press the voicemail button and it exits out of dialer and my signal goes out and comes back. then the voice dial button doesn't work. I been looking around and i havent see a solution. the verizon vvm that you download from the market didnt link up and well is crap. I installed google voice and i think i finally have it set up right but is there a way to have that button open up google voice or some other voicemail thing. I downloaded dialer one to use but im not sure if i like it. Is there a better dialer or a solution to that issue.



i'm having a problem with the market but i think that is that 50% thing which i did the airplane and the 22899 thing. Batter life i have no idea i been backing up and testing everything. Wifi is eh but even on ota 2.1 and leak 2.2 it never really ran good i had to turn it off and turn back on.

 

[Grillrd]

Is there anyway to use the text messenger app from Rubix 1.0 on this ROM? I like the option to be able to change the LED notification colors for text messages. I do not want to use Handcent.

 

[TreyStyles]

This ROM is the best I'v used yet! Thanks so much for taking the time to make this. I just have three questions:

1. I've installed "Backup Assistant" and when I go to open it, it returns me to the home screen. (As does the Blur Calendar and Email). How do I fix this?

2. Is there any other way for me to get my contacts?

3. I've tried to install the Blur stuff using the command "install BlurJunk.apk" and its telling me this apk does not exist, but I don't see it in the removedapp.zip. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance for your help!!!

Fabolous Rocks!!! :icon_ banana:

 

[Tesler32]

This ROM is the best I'v used yet! Thanks so much for taking the time to make this. I just have three questions:

1. I've installed "Backup Assistant" and when I go to open it, it returns me to the home screen. (As does the Blur Calendar and Email). How do I fix this?

2. Is there any other way for me to get my contacts?

3. I've tried to install the Blur stuff using the command "install BlurJunk.apk" and its telling me this apk does not exist, but I don't see it in the removedapp.zip. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance for your help!!!

Fabolous Rocks!!! :icon_ banana:

To help with your questions

1. Back Assist isn't installed
2. Google Syncs everything
3. The command "install BlurJunk.apk" is "Install YourAPKNameHere.apk" so if the apk is called Calendar.apk it would be "install Calendar.apk" after you give the terminal su rights ofcourse.

 

[Syco54645]

I have some black swype going on. I cannot get it back to normal... If I install the original apk it only sticks unroll reboot. Lease help. This looks horrible....

 

[copyguy]

This ROM is the best I'v used yet! Thanks so much for taking the time to make this. I just have three questions:

1. I've installed "Backup Assistant" and when I go to open it, it returns me to the home screen. (As does the Blur Calendar and Email). How do I fix this?

2. Is there any other way for me to get my contacts?

3. I've tried to install the Blur stuff using the command "install BlurJunk.apk" and its telling me this apk does not exist, but I don't see it in the removedapp.zip. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance for your help!!!

Fabolous Rocks!!! :icon_ banana:

To help with your questions

1. Back Assist isn't installed
2. Google Syncs everything
3. The command "install BlurJunk.apk" is "Install YourAPKNameHere.apk" so if the apk is called Calendar.apk it would be "install Calendar.apk" after you give the terminal su rights ofcourse.

and make sure the apk is at the root of the SD card.

 

[copyguy]

I have some black swype going on. I cannot get it back to normal... If I install the original apk it only sticks unroll reboot. Lease help. This looks horrible....

not sure how to help you, but I love the black swype.

 

[Tanium]

This stuff is great,I can't put this thing down.
droid x 2.2 running apex v1. Overclocked to 1.2.
I don't seem to have any real issues at all.
Wanted to say that first, I think apex is sweet, all the junk is gone and running sweet.
No weird reboots nothing. My batt is even lasting about 20 hours.
I do have that 50% signal deal.
Is this something to worry about?:icon_eek:
Also do you guys still run advanced task killer.

 

[biggestmexi]

Using the overclocking programs I can't max this out. 1.2 is stable. Any thing higher is a no go.


Any one have a link to a black status bar? I dis like white

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[SonicMetal15]

Please help!! Stuck in boot loops after SBF'ing to 2.2 from ApeX ROM***

ApeX ROM was working just fine for me until I tried to update theme to Incognito's Red Blurless; it would get stuck on the customized boot animation "Android" with Incognito's customized notification bar. So I decided to SBF back to stock 2.2 (which has worked for me many times before) but after several flashes, it's always the same results: boot loops at the stock Droid Eye boot animation. Also, RSDlite says under status, "Please manually power up this phone", even though under progress it says, "Executed: 100%".

I think this problem is due to the overclocking script, which I did turn on using terminal emulator when I had the ApeX ROM up and running. The SBF must not have flashed correctly in the overclocked condition it was in. Does anyone have a solution to this or know how to eliminate the overclock script??

 

[Fabolous]

No, it's because you need to do a factory reset.

ApeX ROM was working just fine for me until I tried to update theme to Incognito's Red Blurless; it would get stuck on the customized boot animation "Android" with Incognito's customized notification bar. So I decided to SBF back to stock 2.2 (which has worked for me many times before) but after several flashes, it's always the same results: boot loops at the stock Droid Eye boot animation. Also, RSDlite says under status, "Please manually power up this phone", even though under progress it says, "Executed: 100%".

I think this problem is due to the overclocking script, which I did turn on using terminal emulator when I had the ApeX ROM up and running. The SBF must not have flashed correctly in the overclocked condition it was in. Does anyone have a solution to this or know how to eliminate the overclock script??

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