[ROM] [4.4.4] [Aug-07] [UNOFFICIAL] ParanoidAndroid 4.5 Beta1 | HOVER - PIE - PEEK

I am proud to present you with another glorious custom ROM for the HTC Desire.
Thanks very much to the PA team for their amazing work and allowing me to publish my homemade version.








THANKS & CREDIT
AOSPA-Legacy, CyanogenMod, OmniRom, Evervolv

DISCLAIMER
I'm not responsible to any damage, earthquake, bleeding from nose or pregnancy you cause to your device.

LINKS
PA's Website & Changlelogs: https://plus.google.com/u/0/107979589566958860409/posts
AOSPA-Legacy Github: https://github.com/AOSPA-legacy


FEATURES
- PIE (with immersive mode on)
- PEEK
- HOVER
- Non intrusive phone call notification
- Legacy parts (is simply a sub-menu that consolidates all of cm/device specific coding and features into one location to prevent a mash with ParanoidAndroid setup)
- PA Wallpapers
- New CM Theme Manager
- CM's cLock
- CM's File Manager
- OmniSwitch
- OmniTorch
- Advanced Power Menu
- Quick Settings (Tiles)
- Status and Navigation Bar See Through

BRAVO SPECIFIC
- Linux 2.6.38 kernel: my self-brew "Utopian" for htc qsd8k-devices (very close to EV kernel plus additional cpu governors and all applicable security patches that are recommended here)
- Latest Adreno libs from AU_LINUX_ANDROID_JB_VANILLA_04.02.02.060.053 (build date: 2013/04/11)
- Trackball to wake the device (not to unlock it)
- OmniTorch as substitute for PA's lightbulb (as it does not work on our device)
- ParanoidOTA removed because it is useless for my homemade rom
- A few tweaks for faster scrolling, longer battery life and smoother overall performance

NOT WORKING
- MMS (present in all 4.x ROMs; Just use Textra SMS instead)
- Video recording (present in all 4.x ROMs)
- Screen recording (error: cannot create output folder)
- OpenVPN (kernel issue: cannot acquire tun interface socket)
- SELinux (disabled by intention)
- Xposed/GravityBox [KK] (causes bootloop)
- Quick tile to turn on/off lightbulb
- Notification/Battery LED

REQUIREMENTS
- An hboot with at least 250mb on system. These include stock hboot or Alpha Jelly (250/5/182) hboot
- A 512mb - 1.5gb EXT partition (EXT4 recommended) on your sdcard. Use this guide to create the partition. Partitions made using other tools (CWM, Minitool Partition Wizard, etc.) will likely cause issues.
- The latest TWRP (credits @Chromium) or 4EXT (credits @madmaxx82) Recovery. Old versions of CWM may cause issues.

INSTALLATION (follow this procedure exactly)
- Remove SIM card
- Full wipe
- Flash ROM
- Wipe Battery stats
- Boot ROM and let it settle down (3-5 min)
- Open up Terminal Emulator, type in 'su' and 'a2sd install ' (chose: Y/N/N)
- Reboot into recovery
- Flash my slim gapps
- Power off and insert SIM card
- Reboot



Have a nice day!







P.S.: You may want to compile it yourself:

CHANGELOG and DOWNLOADS



Initial Release of PA 4.5 BETA1
Codebase:
- AOSPA-legacy 4.4.4_r1 KTU84P
Device specific characteristics:
- Protection against battery drain: http://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/66894/
- Legacy-USB Tethering support
- Built-in A2SD support
- Increased performance by using PurityROM's bionic and compiling with Linaro GCC toolchain v4.9

pa_bravo-4.5-BETA1-20140807.zip - 149.39 MB

spz_gapps-slim-9.zip - 42.54 MB


Todo list for next release:
- Add protection to not allow unlocking device by pressing menu key button
- Look into issue with PA Lightbulb

Screenshots and How to

ENABLE HOVER
- Swipe down to see the statusbar menu and tap on the icon which is left to the "quick tiles" icon

ENABLE PIE
- Turn on immersive mode from quick settings tile (while immersive is enabled (=expanded desktop), status and navbar will disappear)

ENABLE PEEK
- Go to Settings > Display > Notifications > Notification peek

ENABLE NON INTRUSIVE PHONE CALL NOTIFICATION
- Go to Phone > Settings >Other Call Settings > Incoming call in background (use in combination with hover is highly recommended)

ENABLE SOFT BUTTONS / NAVBAR
- Add this line: qemu.hw.mainkeys=0 to your build.prop and reboot

eryunt said:

Wow Spezi, you know how to keep Desire alive!!!
Many thanks!
How to enable soft buttons?

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You are welcome!

I did not use soft buttons with this rom yet.

Try either to add this line: qemu.hw.mainkeys=0 to your build.prop or install xposed/gravitybox.

yeahman45 said:

PIE is not as useful as real softkeys.. I guess I can install xposed and gravitybox to enable softkeys? I thought softkeys can be enabled/customized on paranoid roms

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I have observed that a few rom customizing options from AOSPA 3 are not (yet) present in AOSPA 4. And also that there is no special paranoid settings section any more -- instead we have now "Legacy parts" which consolidates all of cm/device specific coding and features.

About Xposed and GravityBox (don't install on this rom):
I was able to install Xposed, but GravityBox is not working on this rom. After installing it, my phone went into a bootloop. :/

battlekaier said:

This Rom is for me smoother then Evervolv 4.4.4, but i got too many black screens. 5-15 every Day. And how i must set up The CPU?

Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA Free mobile app

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Please give more details in which situations you got a black screen. If possible I would be interested in getting your logcat.

On my phone I did not experience any black screen. Anyone else with this?

For CPU settings go to Settings > Legacy Parts > Performance.

Sent from my Nexus™4 ?

battlekaier said:

Wrong question, sorry. ? Which CPU settings are The best for performance and smoothnes?
And there are not all fonts feom KitKat. ↑↓→←♣♠♪ etc doesn't show
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA Free mobile app

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Sorry, I removed a few fonts to fit into 250mb.

For best performance use PERFORMANCE and max. frequency 1.113GHz

Sent from my Nexus™4 ?

battlekaier said:

This Rom is for me smoother then Evervolv 4.4.4, but i got too many black screens. 5-15 every Day. And how i must set up The CPU?

Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA Free mobile app

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I have used the rom today more intensively, installed a few more apps and I could not observe any black screens. Is this happening to anyone else?

I guess sth could have went wrong during the rom installation on your phone.

Sorry, I have to inform you about a critical issue with telephony!

If you try to call someone, phone process is force closing. :/

Incoming calls work just fine.

battlekaier said:

Just use the phone apk and phone provider apk from evervolv and everything works fine. Maybe, i create a logcat, if i can.

Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA Free mobile app

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aelfinn said:

Do you mean dialer.apk and TelephonyProvider.apk?

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I just tried to replace app/TelephonyProvider.apk and priv-app/Dialer.apk from latest EV nightly -- but it did not do anything good.

aelfinn said:

That’s what I did. Can’t check that right now, because I haven’t got a SIM card to hand for that phone. But: Messaging FC’s upon opening it. But? To do with the apk substitution?

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Well, I have shared a logcat with FC of dialer-apk with the AOSPA-legacy community. I could not figure out where the root cause is (resource missing).. let's see if someone can help.