[ROM] Lithium Mod - Source built awesomeness! Themes galore!

[seang]

So it's safe to say nobody knows why the exchange won't connect after the Lithium Rom update? I've asked several times and it just gets ignored.

i connect to exchange just fine.

 

[robs1011]

So it's safe to say nobody knows why the exchange won't connect after the Lithium Rom update? I've asked several times and it just gets ignored.

i connect to exchange just fine.

Interesting. I'm not sure why mine won't connect? I use the same settings and everything. Pisses me off because I really like this ROM but I need my work email and contacts.

 

[tdweng]

I am still seeing issues with my GPS. I am running the blue theme, not sure if that has anything to do with it. I have reverted back to a backup i had then did a wipe cache/data and reinstalled and still seeing issues.

Seems that it is locating me farther north then i am and is not even within the range of where i should be. It is not like it is putting me a couple of miles away but close to a mile. Even when i turn GPS on it still does not fix the issue. Anybody else seeing these issues, i may try later to revert back to a backup where i know it worked and check to make sure it is not my phone.

 

[tdweng]

So it's safe to say nobody knows why the exchange won't connect after the Lithium Rom update? I've asked several times and it just gets ignored.

i connect to exchange just fine.

Interesting. I'm not sure why mine won't connect? I use the same settings and everything. Pisses me off because I really like this ROM but I need my work email and contacts.

Same here mine is working just fine. Did you change your password recently? That always gets me and i forget to update it on my phone so it never connects. I wouldn't imagine your settings got screwed up, but worth a check, but i would verify the password thing first.

 

[bucket truck]

I am still seeing issues with my GPS. I am running the blue theme, not sure if that has anything to do with it. I have reverted back to a backup i had then did a wipe cache/data and reinstalled and still seeing issues.

Seems that it is locating me farther north then i am and is not even within the range of where i should be. It is not like it is putting me a couple of miles away but close to a mile. Even when i turn GPS on it still does not fix the issue. Anybody else seeing these issues, i may try later to revert back to a backup where i know it worked and check to make sure it is not my phone.

Try downloading the app GPS Status form the market and run it. This fixed my location problems a few roms back. It will recalibrate your GPS. Mine gets a fix much quicker now and more exact. Hope this helps.......

 

[samsonite801]

So it's safe to say nobody knows why the exchange won't connect after the Lithium Rom update? I've asked several times and it just gets ignored.

i connect to exchange just fine.

Interesting. I'm not sure why mine won't connect? I use the same settings and everything. Pisses me off because I really like this ROM but I need my work email and contacts.

What app does it use for Exchange? Is it some corporate email app? I'd try to figure out what app it is, and if it's installed in /system/app I'd uninstall it and then re-install that apk again, or find another version if that one just wont ever work.

I don't use Exchange at my current job so I don't know much about connecting Android to Exchange, but I'm just offering some basic suggestion based on my experience when I've had problems with certain system installed apps not working. I usually would just uninstall the broken app, and then go find a newer version of that app or even just try re-installing the same version I removed just for kicks, and sometimes that will fix the problem.

Way back when, with the JRummy Kangerade, there were issues with the system installed program: Maps.apk working right and the solution was to uninstall it from system, and then go into the Market and install it from there and it would then install it to /data/app or something like that and it would fix the update problem.

 

[robs1011]

i connect to exchange just fine.

Interesting. I'm not sure why mine won't connect? I use the same settings and everything. Pisses me off because I really like this ROM but I need my work email and contacts.

Same here mine is working just fine. Did you change your password recently? That always gets me and i forget to update it on my phone so it never connects. I wouldn't imagine your settings got screwed up, but worth a check, but i would verify the password thing first.

The password is fine. I did a wipe clean and went back to step one and had to type in the settings for 2.1 and it worked just fine. So then i did another wipe clean and typed in the exact same settings for 2.2 and it fails. It's so frustrating because I feel like it should be easy. I want to use Lithium so badly but I'm forced to stay with 2.1 right now. Pete's BB drained my battery too fast. If anyone has any ideas at all please do help as I would like to be a part of the Lithium group. haha... seriously though!!

 

[tdweng]

I am still seeing issues with my GPS. I am running the blue theme, not sure if that has anything to do with it. I have reverted back to a backup i had then did a wipe cache/data and reinstalled and still seeing issues.

Seems that it is locating me farther north then i am and is not even within the range of where i should be. It is not like it is putting me a couple of miles away but close to a mile. Even when i turn GPS on it still does not fix the issue. Anybody else seeing these issues, i may try later to revert back to a backup where i know it worked and check to make sure it is not my phone.

Try downloading the app GPS Status form the market and run it. This fixed my location problems a few roms back. It will recalibrate your GPS. Mine gets a fix much quicker now and more exact. Hope this helps.......

So i downloaded that app, but doesn't seem to be working for me. Get a constant status like it is updating or trying to do something. Compass portion is functioning properly, just not the GPS.

 

[bucket truck]

You may want delete the maps app. Then reboot and go to the market and download the maps app. Might even try a reset by dialing *228 option 1 and also 2, its just a thought......

 

[samsonite801]

hey just to verify the kernels that work with lithium are p3's, correct? its said "coming soon" under kernals section on Jrummys original post for a few days. anyone have luck with Chevy's or someone elses. im looking for a 1ghz lowv. thanks fellas.

Hey, what it really amounts to is that most people have tried every 2.2 kernel and there's always somebody who got them to work, so a lot of how it works is that it can really depend on many factors, some just being your particular hardware.

My experience has been that, Sometimes I've gotten ChevyNo1 kernels to work (about 1/2 the time), and it seems like I had better luck with the LV ones from him, but I did get 1 ULV one to work from him. P3Droid kernels tend to be a safe bet for most people though on JRummy ROMs. I tend to prefer P3Droid kernels since on my hardware (M Droid) they always seem to run most stable (for me that is).

The new ones they had here for the Lithium Mod ROM seem like they will ultimately have a chance at running the fastest (since they believe in cutting out all the fluff), but they don't have WiFi support yet, and I forgot how to manually apply kernel modules (haven't had time lately to focus on phone stuff for too many hours because of work), and to get WiFi you must have support for IPtables firewall, and have the tiwlan_drv.ko kernel module installed, so I'm sure that they will fix this at some point soon, but for now, the P3Droid kernels tend to run stable for me and WiFi support (for both tethering and wifi client always work), and for me I must have these features in my phone.

Typically, the method for me is to find the kernel you want to try, or think will work, or even find I FEW you want to try at once, with different max CPU speeds and such. Then put them all in one folder, and make sure you have ROM Manager so you can go in there and flash on the ClockworkMod recovery tool so you can boot into ClockworkMod (since they let you install zips from folder with any file name). Now, I go into SetCPU and uncheck the box to start at boot. Then boot into recovery, and perform a backup of your existing ROM and then reboot into recovery again. Now install the preferred kernel, and reboot. If phone does not reboot or gets stuck in a boot loop, just power-cycle phone but hold down 'X' key to go into recovery again and try another kernel.

Once you get your phone to boot, go into SetCPU and select Settings>Autodetect CPU again and throttle-up your CPU at that point. Try to determine the fastest possible speed you can run at and still be stable. Then, me personally, I like to go with a speed slightly slower than what my phone can handle just so it gives me some margin of safety where all programs will perform correctly and not cause errors or lockups.

Once I determine what is the max CPU speed I want to run my phone at, I usually go get my favorite 7-slot kernel with that max CPU speed being the highest slot. So if I want to run 1gHz max, get that kernel of 125 mHz min. speed (or 250mHz min. whatever you prefer), that has the max of 1000mHz so that in normal use you are using all of your slots for quick speed CPU stepping. Because if you use a kernel with a max of 1.25gHz and you only run it at 1gHz max, you are wasting the slots above your max so you effectively only have a 5 or 6 slot kernel (if there are 2 slots above the max you run). Hopefully, that didn't sound overly confusing.

 

[samsonite801]

any way to change led notification for missed calls and gmail? Thanks

Settings>Call Settings> 'Missed Call LED Notify' Ticked checkbox: LED will blink when call is missed

The only thing I see for email is in email settings you can select to Notify in Status Bar, which if you disable that, then I could possibly turn off LED notification, I don't know.

There are some fancy LED apps on the Market to make the LEDs flash in different colors depending one what type of notification you are receiving. So you could make blue be your email, and red be missed call and such.

 

[samsonite801]

So far I'm really enjoying LithMod. Love the Lime theme, the colors are great.

Only issues I have noticed, like the others, the call answer swipe keys are off a little and also the Gallery and Maps zoom keys (+ and -) are offset vertically from each other.

Other than those cosmetics everything has been functional.

Thanks JRummy!

someone earlier has suggested changing fonts to the stock droid, or smaller fonts and it seemed to realign their answer button. maybe it'd work for other misaligned things too?

I don't know if you can easily make the fonts smaller, but I'm sure the devs can. What I had been thinking though was that perhaps certain fonts were displaying larger at a given font size in Lithium Mod, just due to the font type itself, so my suggestion had been to try going back to the default font (as an easy way to test this theory of why the buttons on the slider might be misaligned), or at least to try some different fonts and see if it has any influence on how the slider looks.

This will help the devs to determine what is happening, so they will have a better idea about what needs to happen to fix the problem. It could be that they need to adjust the font sizes in some of their scripts. You know, they do have a lot of different themes to test all of their changes on, so whenever they make some global change in their code it might break things on 5 other themes somewhere else and it can take some time to figure out what new problems exist and what is the best way to prevent those kinds of things from happening again. This is cutting edge programming, and we are essentially running beta software, and so we are the testers.

 

[billjohnson]

So far I'm really enjoying LithMod. Love the Lime theme, the colors are great.

Only issues I have noticed, like the others, the call answer swipe keys are off a little and also the Gallery and Maps zoom keys (+ and -) are offset vertically from each other.

Other than those cosmetics everything has been functional.

Thanks JRummy!

someone earlier has suggested changing fonts to the stock droid, or smaller fonts and it seemed to realign their answer button. maybe it'd work for other misaligned things too?

whats up with the colors? lol

Is there any place I can download the default fonts to fix the call slider?

 

[samsonite801]

Interesting. I'm not sure why mine won't connect? I use the same settings and everything. Pisses me off because I really like this ROM but I need my work email and contacts.

Same here mine is working just fine. Did you change your password recently? That always gets me and i forget to update it on my phone so it never connects. I wouldn't imagine your settings got screwed up, but worth a check, but i would verify the password thing first.

The password is fine. I did a wipe clean and went back to step one and had to type in the settings for 2.1 and it worked just fine. So then i did another wipe clean and typed in the exact same settings for 2.2 and it fails. It's so frustrating because I feel like it should be easy. I want to use Lithium so badly but I'm forced to stay with 2.1 right now. Pete's BB drained my battery too fast. If anyone has any ideas at all please do help as I would like to be a part of the Lithium group. haha... seriously though!!

Another thing you can try is to try installing JRummy's Kangerade 5.0.9 and see if it works on there. Then try upgrading to Lithium Mod again without wiping data (only clearing cache), and see if that works.

 

[audioscience]

someone earlier has suggested changing fonts to the stock droid, or smaller fonts and it seemed to realign their answer button. maybe it'd work for other misaligned things too?

whats up with the colors? lol

Is there any place I can download the default fonts to fix the call slider?

I believe Insane Nemesis said you can download it through his theme in ROM Manager. Just bypass all of the standard ROM stuff and there is an option for it.