FAQ
FAQ: Why You Shouldn’t Be Using a Task Killer with Android
Dec 26th
I see this come up over and over again. People saying that a task is running in the background and they think it is killing their battery or hogging all of their memory. So their natural reaction is to download a program made to kill tasks. Here’s the thing… you are likely doing more harm than good by killing tasks that aren’t ready to end. I was the same way when I first got my CDMA Hero. There were tons of things running that I didn’t want so I just kept killing them. After a few weeks I realized that if I stopped using a task killer (and totally uninstalled it in fact) my phone actually began to run better! The applications would close themselves and things just seemed to be running better. I get that there may be short term benefits from clearing a task, but you should still take the time to read through this.
FAQ: What Does Fresh ROM Change / Why Flash It?
Dec 17th
I get asked this question a lot. What’s the difference between Fresh ROM and the stock image. I just took all the change logs and combined it in to one list. I didn’t necessarily go in to detail on what something meant, but you get the idea. If you don’t know what something does, it was probably something to speed it up. Ha.
Known “Issue”: Battery Icon Not Accurate (1.0)
Dec 16th
Issue: The battery icon on Fresh ROM 1.0 is not accurate. It drops to 80% very quickly and doesn’t match the % on the phone.
Cause: This is not an issue at all, but is a limitation of the phone. The status bar only supports 20% increments on the battery. I left the numbers in the icons hoping that I could modify the framework to show smaller %. This is why the old battery meter didn’t have any % markers in it.
Leaving this in “open” so that people see it.
Download: CDMA Hero App Installer v2.0
Dec 7th
More than anything else I receive questions on how to put a stock application back on the phone. Fresh ROM has removed a number of apps in order to free up space and memory, but a lot of people have trouble figuring out how to put them back on the phone. Here is a very easy way on how to do it.
How to: Create your own update-script
Dec 4th
This is not a step-by-step tutorial but is designed to help those who are making their own roms / themes / patches on how to make an update-script. This script is required for an “update.zip” style flash in Android so that it knows what it is actually supposed to do. The tutorial is really going to revolve around how to create a script for a theme only. An update-script for a full rom is much more involved.
