I've been promising some kind of usable Sense 2.1 ROM for old radio 32A for a while, so here's at least sort of "alpha" release for those of you that are wondering about the new Sense UI but didn't "move on" to the new radio just yet, like me. It's not perfect, but I find it quite usable.
Thanks to nprussell and sanpei (and ahmgsk) for creating the base we could build upon.
The ROM to me doesn't feel yet like something that should deserve a 1.0 version number, hence the "alpha" status for now. It's got a few quirks here and there and some things don't work, but other than that I must say I quite like it. I've been running it as a day-to-day ROM for a while now. So don't be alarmed too much by the "alpha" status - if you don't mind the issues the ROM has, it's actually quite nice. Also, it's not the fastest of the bunch, but it's not that slow either. Also seems quite stable. Tested only on my phone so far, though (see my signature).
I'm not promising frequent updates (so please, don't expect them), but I'll try to work on it as time allows. I think the Legend RUU is the best 2.1 Sense UI available.
What's in the ROM and works without problems:
- The ROM should be multilanguage (tested English and Czech).
- 3D works great (see the second post for screenshot).
- Multitouch of course works as well, including the new "pinch home screen" in Sense UI.
- Google Maps replaced by the latest Google Maps modified by brut, thus multitouch works in them as well. And there's of course Google Navigation thanks to brut as well.
- Market Enabler added.
- Nexus One boot animation.
- Added some notification sounds and ringtones, all in Ogg instead of MP3.
- Default analog clock changed to Pulse clock (yeah, again
)
- GPS, compass, accelerometer, all that jazz.
- Google and Social network sync, SIM contacts, Friends stream, animated weather on home screen...
What's known NOT to work:
- Bluetooth. At all. Yeah, here we go again. Sorry.
- USB mass storage. I've added the "USB mount" application to work around this issue.
- Autobacklight (obviously). It's enabled after install, though (the build.prop option to disable it by default doesn't seem to work for some reason).
- No app2sd, no swap, no nothing. For now. Swap and/or compcache might be added later (though it seems like the ROM does not really need it).
Quirks and known issues for v0.5:
- Not really an issue, but - the startup, especially the very first one, is quite long! It can take several minutes. It's even longer on v0.3. So have patience - if the boot animation is moving or the "unlocking SIM" spinner is spinning, it's still booting.
- Editing APNs may or may not produce FC and/or crashes.
- LED notifications. Orange LED doesn't work at all and the apps seem to be using only green LED for all notifications (even if the app uses different color on regular 32A - ie. Twidroid's blue notification light becomes green).
- Keys backlight doesn't work.
- Camera. If you take picture, the preview sometimes doesn't show up at all and when it does, it's in black & white. The thumbnails of the photos you took with this ROM in gallery are corrupted (several different issues). Even though there are these several issues, the actual photos are fine! You can view them on the phone fine, you can upload them fine (Here's one I took today and uploaded to Picasa and Facebook with this ROM)
- Camcorder. It seems it can be made to work if you set it to record video without sound. If you enable sound, it'll freeze as soon as you press the Record button.
- Because the Legend ROM is quite big, there's slightly less space for your apps. Nothing drastic compared to other ROMs, just saying.
- Sometimes, when the ROM starts up for the very first time, after completing the setup wizard you get the Sense home screen that is "incomplete", ie. doesn't contain the default flip clock and other widgets seem to be missing from the ROM as well (you can't even add them manually, they're missing from the list). If this happens, just go to Settings, Applications, Manage Applications. Find HTC Sense in the list, click on it and select "Clear data". When you return to your home screen, it reinitializes itself again and this time everything should be as it's supposed to be (and stay that way).
- You tell me...
Downloads and changelogs are in the second post
Thanks to nprussell and sanpei (and ahmgsk) for creating the base we could build upon.
The ROM to me doesn't feel yet like something that should deserve a 1.0 version number, hence the "alpha" status for now. It's got a few quirks here and there and some things don't work, but other than that I must say I quite like it. I've been running it as a day-to-day ROM for a while now. So don't be alarmed too much by the "alpha" status - if you don't mind the issues the ROM has, it's actually quite nice. Also, it's not the fastest of the bunch, but it's not that slow either. Also seems quite stable. Tested only on my phone so far, though (see my signature).
I'm not promising frequent updates (so please, don't expect them), but I'll try to work on it as time allows. I think the Legend RUU is the best 2.1 Sense UI available.
What's in the ROM and works without problems:
- The ROM should be multilanguage (tested English and Czech).
- 3D works great (see the second post for screenshot).
- Multitouch of course works as well, including the new "pinch home screen" in Sense UI.
- Google Maps replaced by the latest Google Maps modified by brut, thus multitouch works in them as well. And there's of course Google Navigation thanks to brut as well.
- Market Enabler added.
- Nexus One boot animation.
- Added some notification sounds and ringtones, all in Ogg instead of MP3.
- Default analog clock changed to Pulse clock (yeah, again
)- GPS, compass, accelerometer, all that jazz.
- Google and Social network sync, SIM contacts, Friends stream, animated weather on home screen...
What's known NOT to work:
- Bluetooth. At all. Yeah, here we go again. Sorry.
- USB mass storage. I've added the "USB mount" application to work around this issue.
- Autobacklight (obviously). It's enabled after install, though (the build.prop option to disable it by default doesn't seem to work for some reason).
- No app2sd, no swap, no nothing. For now. Swap and/or compcache might be added later (though it seems like the ROM does not really need it).
Quirks and known issues for v0.5:
- Not really an issue, but - the startup, especially the very first one, is quite long! It can take several minutes. It's even longer on v0.3. So have patience - if the boot animation is moving or the "unlocking SIM" spinner is spinning, it's still booting.
- Editing APNs may or may not produce FC and/or crashes.
- LED notifications. Orange LED doesn't work at all and the apps seem to be using only green LED for all notifications (even if the app uses different color on regular 32A - ie. Twidroid's blue notification light becomes green).
- Keys backlight doesn't work.
- Camera. If you take picture, the preview sometimes doesn't show up at all and when it does, it's in black & white. The thumbnails of the photos you took with this ROM in gallery are corrupted (several different issues). Even though there are these several issues, the actual photos are fine! You can view them on the phone fine, you can upload them fine (Here's one I took today and uploaded to Picasa and Facebook with this ROM)
- Camcorder. It seems it can be made to work if you set it to record video without sound. If you enable sound, it'll freeze as soon as you press the Record button.
- Because the Legend ROM is quite big, there's slightly less space for your apps. Nothing drastic compared to other ROMs, just saying.
- Sometimes, when the ROM starts up for the very first time, after completing the setup wizard you get the Sense home screen that is "incomplete", ie. doesn't contain the default flip clock and other widgets seem to be missing from the ROM as well (you can't even add them manually, they're missing from the list). If this happens, just go to Settings, Applications, Manage Applications. Find HTC Sense in the list, click on it and select "Clear data". When you return to your home screen, it reinitializes itself again and this time everything should be as it's supposed to be (and stay that way).
- You tell me...
Downloads and changelogs are in the second post
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