CyanogenMod-4.2.2

October 28th, 2009

Here’s another tiny release that fixes a few irritating bug. The issue with the home icons disappearing sometimes has FINALLY been fixed. A big thanks to Zinx for finding this. FLAC audio is working again, and the new Google Voice app is working (there is no conspiracy, just a mistake in my build.prop).

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=567610

GodBunny

awesome! you deserve more than you get, great work once again. glad we are stable again!
Sisterchick

Well done and very appreciated. This rev still hangs at “Formatting Cache”, but after rebooting all seems well. Thanks for your efforts!
JD

Thanks a lot; Just worked my fingers and fixed the GV bug:|
Steve

A TON of reviews of the latest Google Voice app complain it’s not working anymore. I guess a lot of people use your ROM.
Evan

Seamless flash of the new ROM. I had to uninstall/reinstall the Google Voice application, but now everything is running smooth. Thanks again!
Justin

The application Touch Input (process com.htc.android.htcime) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again.

This happened with 4.2.1 and still with 4.2.2. I hope this gets fixed soon, as the on screen keyboard is unusable!
DJ

Cyan….fantastic work…no issues as of now.
any plan on Office and PDF tools? can u please put them back in ur release? plz plz plz plz plz.
terryx

Sweet update! FLAC is back. No problems yet. It’s faster than ever. Cyanogen is the Man-ogen!
theCow

I would also like the Office and PDF tools back again. Is there a possibility to put them back in? or is it a legal/rights problem?. Thxs.

greets from Hamburg/ger
pelo88

How do I manually install the normal on screen android keyboard (not the htc one)? It disappeared when I updated to 4.1.999 and it’s not come back since despite updating to every version since then…
pelo88

Also.. it’d be nice if the updater were fixed. Is there a different server to set it to for it to pull these 4.2x updates?
pelo88

Scratch that, I just had to reset the update server.
Zvika

after instalation the phone reboot it self and after the android logo disappear i have black screen and no respond from the phone it’s just freezed.
Andrew Ward

@DJ: He can’t put them back in, they are warez. try a google search for ppc2warez if you are a pirate.

This update is nice and stable. Icons staying put now for me which is good.
Evan

@Justin,

You need to uninstall the IME and reinstall the new version that is included in Cyanogen’s post.
jerry.

Needs flash
Dominick

Love this ROM my phone has never been faster i love it. No problems great work keep it up. Thanks.
http://ibloviate.org jer_

Absolutely fantastic. A wipe before loading from a pre-4.1.9 version to 4.2.2 and I couldn’t be happier. Fast, pretty, and feels stable so far. Thanks!
Landroid

When can we expect 2.0 firmware? lol
duuster

AWESOME, that was a quick update. Thanks Cyanogen for such a great ROM. I thought JF was good, but your ROM blows its doors off. I just cant believe how much faster your ROM is, and theres alot less force close’s. Thanks again for all your GREAT work. I love my G1 again. The update from 4.2.1to 4.2.2 was painless, I just ran the update from any zip from the recovery screen and GV is working again.
Henrik L-N

Great work but my Google apps have stopped working…
A few days ago I flashed 4.2.1 on top of 4.1.9999, but then the phone hang on the first green Android logo “forever” (at least 1.5 hours then I rebooted with GreePhone-Menu-RedPhone). I tried to flash back to 4.1.9999 but still had the same problem.
So I “went back” to flashing the HTC 1.6 image and then flashing 4.2.1 again. Now everything seems to work, except the google applications. Gmail, Market and Calendar just crashes without any warning or notification. If I do a “wipe all” and re-enter my google credentials they work fine, but as soon as I restore my latest nandroid backup they stop working.

Does anyone have an idea on how to solve this without having to do a “wipe all” and loose all my other settings as well?

I’ve tried to clear data in all google applications in the “Manage applications” list in Settings but that doesn’t seem to work…

Thanks in advance!
Henrik L-N

By the way – an upgrade to 4.2.2 didn’t magically solve the problems with the google applications…
Jackosn H

Hey, I just wanted to report some bugs in 4.2.2 on the G1 – thanks for all your great work!

1. Unpredictable freezes – battery pull required to reboot.

2. Gmail fails to sync properly. A reboot fixed this issue on my phone, but not on my husband’s phone.
Björn L

Hi!

I have a question for you guys that probably installs new ROM-files every now and then. How do you restore all your installed applications, settings, home screens etc as smoothly as possible? I find reinstalling all applications as biggest issue since I need to confirm each and every application restored with MyBackup for instance. Is there a way to get around the confirming?
Evan

@Henrik – Are you running an EXT4 partition on your flash card?

@Bjorn – Unless doing a major upgrade, I just install right over top of the old ROM. Unless you wipe, all your applications, settings, etc will still be there.
Henrik L-N

@Evan: Yes, I have my apps on an ext4 partition on the SD card.
yz99

It appears that the latest version of google finanace is broken on 4.2.2.
Insomnious

Flashed and cannot get past the boot logo. Same as with 4.1.9999. Any way of getting through?
Evan

@Henrik – Sorry buddy, can’t help you then. I’ve seen a bunch of people who exhibit those symptoms but only with a corrupt or malformed ext4 partition. I think you might need to try wiping everything, SD Card included… sorry
simon

HTC Magic 32B VodaUK. Been running 4.2.0 and 4.2.1 as they came out no probs. Installed these two manually. Used CM Updater 4.5 to put 4.2.2 on. Was this wrong thing to do? In last hour it has rebooted whilst using NewsRob – twice. Also lost all home screen icons/widgets once. Loss of icons coincided with replacing a widget that appeared to have stopped working. Any funnily the only icon visible was the one new widget. Reboot they reappear.
AMACG1

I WAS HAVING TROUBLE WITH MY PHONE THE OTHER DAY WITH FORCE CLOSES AND MY PHONE WAS BEING REAL SLOW SO I INSTALLED THE 1.6 HTC IMAGE THAT WE WERE SUPPOSE TO USE TO FLASH OVER TO 1.6 FROM CUPCAKE AGAIN AND IT TOOK AWAY MY ROOT ACCESS WHAT DO I DO AND NOW I DONT EVEN HAVE UR PIMPED OUT RECOVERY IMAGE PLEASE HELP
Harrison

I’m curious to how 4.2.1/4.2.2 is a [stable] CM ROM when people are listing countless errors, all ranging from low to high problems, such as key problems, sounds, market not loading, stuck on home screens, laggs, compatibility, alarm clock, camera & gallery, if basic functions are not working properly how do you consider it a [stable] ROM? People are following steps, wiping, once, twice, three times, & still following directions but the outcome is still there are problems. Too quick to jump the gun? Not saying your work isn’t great cyanogen but I don’t think it’s quite near a stable ROM from 4.1.99-4.2.2 there have been various problems. I think i’m sticking with a true stable CM 4.0.4 ROM for a while till a more stable & reliable ROM is released. As far as anything else GREAT WORK! I hope to see an updated 2.0 eclair ROM.
Bastian

How can I remove the CyanogenMod on the HTC Hero?
Alan Cox

By far Cyanogen has been the best. Going from JF 1.5 to Cyanogen 4.1.9 to 4.2 -4.2.2 was fun for me to do.

For those of you having issues please remember to whipe before & after installing Cyanogen ROM.

As for not having 3g after Cyanogen- give your provider a call. T-mobile told me that after updating your phones software their data base has to update what phone your using. It’s rare but happens. They’ll reset your data plan and you’ll be working again.

The community support is awesome!!! The same DAY issues were found they were fixed and CM Updater took care of the rest.

Cyanogen runs milky smooth!

Cyanogen? Steve(i think thats your name)… Your the Android Jedi! Thank you!
henrik L-N

@Evan: OK, thanks anyway. Actually it helped just doing a “wipe all” in recovery mode. All apps still in place and working, but I had to set all my custom settings once again… now everything seems to work as it should!
(This is all on a HTC Google DevPhone 1 by the way)
Victor salinas

Great work!!! i did the update to 4.2.2 easily and flawlessly. one question though, i have noticed that if i take out my SD card and reboot the phone, the phone won’t start up. it gets stuck on a black screen. anyone else having this happen to them? let me know.
Evan

Cyanogen, how’s this for an obscure bug: Thomas Riley’s Text To Speech Toy doesn’t seem to work. When I load the application, it appears to start the Market.INTENT and the text is not converted to speech when I hit the button. Certainly not critical.
tjerk

This is really great.

All the people that r complaining abojut errors or say this is not worth to be labelled stsble: please use a normal google rom . Using a mod like this is risky, even when its called stable.

This is only for the peoppe we want to live of the cutting l, less stable, edge
http://beingmattrobertson.com Matt R

I love this ROM. I’ve been upgrading from the beginning, but I can’t get my bluetooth to work at all with this one.
isenkaje

been having problem with my G1 physical keyboard since 4.2.1, some keys are giving funky input when i type it, for example space will give me “/ ~Z{”

Anyone know how to fix this? I don’t see this as a problem for anyone else though, confused on how to deal with it
John

Everything works good for me, except I miss my yahoo mail sync…It says invalid username/password but I sign in all the time online, even from the phone, and I used the right port and imap url. Anywho, thanks. I had to fetch google maps oddly too. That’s the only thing that vanished when I loaded the 4.2.0 rom. I’m gonna donate as soon as my yahoo syncs again…it won’t sync through the email app anymore.
John

@AMACG1: you to thepiratebay.org and search android. You should find a copy of JF 1.5 flash recovery. You have to get utorrent too btw. It’s free.
Zvika

sorry for my complaint!!!
Absolutely fantastic. A wipe before loading from a pre-4.2.1 version to 4.2.2 and I couldn’t be happier. Fast, pretty, and feels stable so far. Thanks!

must wipe before loading.
http://www.futbol666.com manu

Hi, I have the same issue as #23, gmail sync is not working as it was before, any idea?
Chris

manu, have you tried going to Settings -> Manage Applications and clearing the data for Gmail Storage? Do this, open Gmail app and let it resync.

Worked for me last time I had gmail syncing errors.
Vinny

What is FLAC mean?
savvar

After trying these my Magic is stuck on vodafone startup screen.

Did all these
1- Perform a Backup……nandroid, etc
2- Download: http://developer.htc.com/adp.html#s3 Android 1.6 Recovery Image. This isn’t the type of recovery image we know. It’s HTCs version of an update.zip
3- Download my ROM. Posted Below
4- Mount your phone and place BOTH 1.6 Image and my ROM on your SD Card.
5- Reboot into recovery mode *Home+Power*
6- WIPE!!!! This will allow google apps to function, correctly.
7- Apply sdcard:choose zip *PICK dream_devphone_userdebug-ota-14721.zip* from the list
ALLOW IT TO INSTALL FIRST…..you will see the “unbox” image………then it will automatically reboot HOLD HOME button while it reboots.
8- Apply sdcard:choose zip *Pick cm-4.1.99-signed.zip* from the list.
9- Reboot!

At step 7 i saw unbox image and then hold home and waited but nothing.

phone stuck on startup. no boot no startup nothing.doesnot let me do anything
victor

I have a problem, when my phone sleep and I wake up sometimes appear a message of crashing with this log
10-29 09:38:09.740 W/InputManagerService( 136): Window already focused, ignoring focus gain of: com.android.internal.view.IInputMethodClient$Stub$Proxy@43bb6990
10-29 09:38:09.904 I/XT9IME ( 1200): [finishInput]
10-29 09:38:10.080 I/ActivityManager( 136): Process com.google.android.apps.maps:LocationFriendService (pid 1741) has died.
10-29 09:38:10.080 I/ActivityManager( 136): Low Memory: No more background processes.
10-29 09:38:12.470 W/InputManagerService( 136): Window already focused, ignoring focus gain of: com.android.internal.view.IInputMethodClient$Stub$Proxy@43b30a80
10-29 09:38:16.350 D/skia ( 1660): purging 112K from font cache [13 entries]
10-29 09:38:16.470 D/dalvikvm( 1660): GC(1) freed 2185 objects / 171160 bytes in 111ms
10-29 09:38:21.420 D/dalvikvm( 935): GC(1) freed 7 objects / 240 bytes in 72ms
10-29 09:38:21.720 D/dalvikvm( 1660): GC(2) freed 197 objects / 8344 bytes in 108ms

I guess that I must do a wipe of data…
http://www.cmisak.com CraigM

Found an Error….

I’d report it the “proper” way if i knew how. But while in a call my touchscreen doesn’t work. I can’t type in a number for a prompt my scroll ball works and i can cycle around and choose it to bring up my tray or type in a number but its too slow and the prompter gets mad and confused.

Please help, i’ve done the fix_permission script
johnli

Hi, I found that the wifi connection is not stable enough for daily use after my flashing 4.2.2 to my g1. Sometimes, I step with my G1 out of my wifi coverage and step in again, I found that the wifi status icon was still in connection mode even the wifi coverage is beyond. Could you check this issue?

I have not found this issue while my G1 is flashed with other roms.