yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] championswimmer:
ok guys,

this method is scrapped

someone upload me a kernel.elf or boot.img or whatever from the FXP122 release, i'll work with cwm recovery now

i'll be back tomorrow with a new kernel... and most probably i'll be able to give you recovery inside stock ics kernel :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sminki:
yes, boots into /system

no, triggers not working

no, no recovery

(as for superuser, i said it was "present" i never said it worked :p are the permissions correct?)

Edit: damn too late..
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] somemadcaaant:
I know how tough it is to mod software with out the device, frustrating... champ any chance you can get ahold of a device for testing? Tis a great phone to update to.

Not sure if Doom uses his SXS device as his primary mobile, maybe he could forward on the device for testing.

-smc
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] championswimmer:
ahmedabad(where doom is) is about 600 km from delhi (where i am) so it's not all that easy

moreover doomlord is not permanently away...i'm sure in future he'll develop for SXS too... he's just a little busy atm

and most of my friends use samsung phones... i'm the only one who's a sony fanboy :p

and it's not important to have an xperia s

an xperia P or U could also work for me as all 2012 xperias use a similar kernel packaging (in fact i wish to buy the P soon, just need to save up some money :p)

basically there are lots of nice things that a dev can do if he has a phone in hand. i can test my kernels right away which saves me lot of time (no need to upload and wait for tester) also i can make the scripts write output to a file on the memory so that i can check later how far the script got executed and precisely where it stopped.

also i can make it run adb a little early so that i can start getting logcat output from the early stage of booting...

in a single line... i can get an advanced stock kernel out within 1 or 2 hours....

ofcourse it would be somewhat outrageous to ask if the community wants to donate me an xperia P ...(lol.. because i'm no doomlord, and even if i have a device, there's no GUARANTEE that i can do awesome things for it) ... but if that happens, it'll be very nice, both for you guys and for me ;)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] colossus:
Are you aware of this Chanmp, it may help you but do not know if they will ship to India?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] championswimmer:
not for indians :(
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SnowOokami:
The program is aimed at the U.S./Canadian market, we cannot ship devices outside of the U.S. and Canada.

:silly:

kinda fail since asia is a big market too... and we europeans are always being skipped :angel:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Arakmar:
I manage to get recovery to boot and system too. :)

Here is the kernel (works on my phone) : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12943198/kernel.elf

To boot into recovery, press the volume key just after the sony logo appear. There are no leds right now, I'm working on that.

To boot into system, no intervention required.

It's stock kernel + FreeXperia recovery. I use a wrapper script instead of the init binary to select the correct init.rc if it's recovery or not.

So, no more bootrec.

I'll upload sources to github in the evening :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] noob.fl:
thanks mate... works fine on my device :laugh:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ranrick:
can you also check, if backup works?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Arakmar:
I tried a backup and it works. Restore not tested though, but it should work.

A version with DoomLord's autoroot and init.d is on the way :)

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Updated Version :

- autoroot

- init.d support

- system partition mounted by default on recovery (fix adb)

Same link : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12943198/kernel.elf
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] noob.fl:
yes, can i

backing up works, the file is generating

it gives a message : error while generating md5 sum!

but restoring works to

after restore, everyting looks fine on system :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sminki:
nice! backing up as i type :)

will be interesting to see the script...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Phantasm4489:
anyone tried this updated one yet because it doesnt look like a valid kernel image to me. I suspect you might have packaged up the wrong file for the ramdisk because it doesnt look right.

nevermind: just 7zip getting confused about the file format
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] noob.fl:
the kernel works... dont know if autoroot works, cause my devices is rootet, but the kernel.elf works fine :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sminki:
is SU working for you?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] noob.fl:
kernel.elf is a normal Format

@ autoroot: does not work.. unuroot my device, after reflashing the kernel, the superuser apk isnt installed and with downloadet supersu cant grant su, cant install and update the su binary
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Phantasm4489:
dlete
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Arakmar:
Weird, make sure you have removed /system/autorooted before.

And if it doesn't work again, paste here the content of /data/local/tmp/autoroot.txt
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] noob.fl:
will try it

it works with clean out the both autorootlogs :)

i learn a loot from you guys - thanks :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] slyevo:
I flashed this kernel & booted into recovery without any problems!

The only question i have is, I know what superuser is and that it's needed to grant superuser permissions but what is SuperSU and is it needed too?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Phantasm4489:
can i also suggest support for booting into recovery through rom manager by checking for the existence of the file /cache/recovery/boot in the same way the bootrec script does in doomlords kernel
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] optik19918:
what version u managed to go into recovery?

does it boots in to system?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Kh0rdan:
SuperSU is just the .apk that manages the SU permissions... It's just chainfire's alternative to "SuperUser" from ChainsDD, the more common tool to manage the permissions.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] slyevo:
Font

Hi

Would it be possible to increase the font size of the recovery text.

Hard for old people like me to see the text!

Thx & Great work
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Arakmar:
Done !

New version : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12943198/ics2.elf

- /cache/recovery/boot support

- Improved autoroot script (copy missing files even if /system/autorooted exists)

ramdisk sources : https://github.com/Arakmar/xps-ics-ramdisk
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sminki:
thank you Arakmar for the kernel and releasing the source, i like what you've done you came at it from a different direction, maybe you should've released in your own thread (just saying.. ;) )

Anyway.. to the point: "mount USB storage" in recovery fails:

E:Unable to open ums lunfile (No such file or directory)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] slyevo:
What do we do with ramdisk?

Also the previous version did not boot to recovery from CMW app!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Arakmar:
I was just a bit lazy to create a new thread, but yes I'll probably do that soon ;)

In the ICS gadget driver, the location of the lun file have changed.

We need to build ICS recovery from CM9 source. I haven't my CM7/CM9 build environment anymore so I'll do that in my local computer when I'll have more time.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] slyevo:
I can't get any of the two previous versions to boot into recovery from cmw software!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Arakmar:
Hum, I'm not really sure RomManager use /cache/recovery/boot to trigger CWM at startup.

If it uses the "reboot recovery" command, I fear it won't work because the bootloader seems to not pass this parameter.

For instance, in Samsung phones there is a $bootmode variable which comes from the bootloader.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] noob.fl:
i had 3 SE Devices and if i got remember right in my mind, if never can boot from the Sys intu recovery, not with the pro, not with the mini and also not with the S - but was never a big deal for me - so will try out your latest kernel :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] fNOOB:
Hmm I thought I remembered booting into recovery using ROM manager back on GB on KA08...?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] DevilsArc:
Hi Guys

This sounds awesome, but can I get a quick run down guide on what to do to achieve getting this installed please ? Im a noob!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Giskardors:
Thank you so much guys!!! really worked out
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] championswimmer:
hi arakmar...

thanks for getting this done....

instead of new thread.. just pm the FSM and get this thread transferred to yourself....

if the FSM asks, you can show this post of mine to her that i have no issues with ownership transfer :)...

no point in creating any new threads imho....
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] championswimmer:
if you can tell me the lunfile location of ICS kernel, then i can build you a cwm 5.5 recovery accordingly... :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Arakmar:
The new location is /sys/devices/virtual/android_usb/android0/f_mass_storage/lun/file

(or /sys/devices/platform/msm_hsusb/gadget/lun0/file, I don't really know xps internals :) )

But it seems it doesn't work, both in CWM and ICS, it's weird.

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You're right it's better, I'll do that ;)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tofclaire:
hello, ;) and thanks for recovery, ;)

I've installed ics2.elf with fastboot (fastboot flash boot ics2.elf), it's ok, but i can't boot in recovery... the volume key after logo sony don't work...

Have i forgotten something ?:confused:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] nickholtus:
yes,

you need to press the buttons when you see the sony logo, not after the logo
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Arakmar:
There is a delay of three seconds to press a key when the sony logo appears .

So if you want to be sure to boot into recovery, don't hesitate to press the key several time. But if you see the xperia logo, it's too late.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tofclaire:
yes...i press during logo, but it don't work...

I try volume up, volume down, the two...nothing happens ; the logo xperia come and i boot in system...:silly:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] nickholtus:
press the buttons a serval times after you get the vibrate (before sony logo) and keep pressing
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tofclaire:
ah ok !!!! i press several times and it's ok ! :o

sorry ;)

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ok, thanks it's ok ;)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] championswimmer:
why not use the LED ?

use FXP's LED trigger, it works with ICS kernels

doom's one may not work :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Arakmar:
In fact, I forgot to mount sysfs in init.sh. So now it works :)

New version : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12943198/ics3.elf
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] noob.fl:
1. your BL must be unlocked (if it is, you got all needet drivers installed

2. download the Kernel.elf from Arakmar

3. copy the kernel into your fastboot folder

4. Shutdown your SXS and connect in Fastbootmode with your computer (Press Vol + while you connect USB... the LED from SXS will be blue)

5. open the Command Prompt (CMD) on your computer and navigate to your fastboot folder

6. print "fastboot flash boot kernel.elf (or whatever the new uploads from Aramar called) and press enter

7. wait till flash is finish, then unconnect SXS

boot SXS and while you see the sony logo, press a serval times the vol + button to boot into recovery... if you dont press anything, you will boot normal into the system
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] remco.k:
Are u going to add the governers ???
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ranrick:
can you also add some modules like TUN/TAP module, please?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] remco.k:
is there a better way to get into recovery i tryes the volume+ button before the sony logo and i doasent work
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] somemadcaaant:
Try the new version ics3 it now has handy led to indicate when to press the up volume ;)

Thanks again for your hard work guys!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Cach123:
Any bugs with Arakmar's ICS3 kernel anyone? :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] remco.k:
doasent wont boot for me if it`s during the sony logo that would be super.

thanks for the hard work
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] KeiranFTW:
Hey,

what tools are you guys using to get ramdisk from kernel.sin from Sony FTF?

Cheers,

Keiran
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Phantasm4489:
this is a stock kernel with recovery. tun/tap modules need kernel sourcecode to be released by sony before they can be compiled.

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you can use sin2img python script

https://github.com/defer/semc-xperia-tools/blob/master/sin2img.py
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] KeiranFTW:
so,

sin2img kernel.sin kernel.img

then unpack boot image into ramdisk and kernel, how do you guys do this?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] colossus:
@Arakmar

I have merged you into the OP now so the thread is all yours.

Looking forward to trying the new kernel later when i get chance.

Cheers colossus.:)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] championswimmer:
use the kitchen in my signature

it can unpack/repack .img, .elf and .sin all of them...

you will find appropriate commands in the scripts :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] poo-tang:
Thanks for the kernel. Is there any chance could have updates in flashable zips as these 2012 devices support that. Thanks :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] championswimmer:
ok here's a zip

http://icxperia.com/championswimmer/nozomi-xperia-S/kernel-flasher.zip

place the desired kernel you want to flash in /sdcard/kernel.elf

in recovery go to mounts and storage, mount sdcard, and then flash this zip :)

(this will flash the kernel.elf file in sdcard to boot partition.. use it carefully... it can soft-brick your phone if you use an improper kernel)

DO NOT FLASH THIS ZIP IF THERE IS NO FILE CALLED kernel.elf PRESENT IN SDCARD
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] remco.k:
got version 2 working just fine know the letter type is bit small but its working....

Can you make the letters bigger for us in version 2 and with the same boot in to recovery when you see the sony logo....

Thanks
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SnowOokami:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=27918955&postcount=120

this one works :laugh:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] KeiranFTW:
You should also say you need an unlocked bootloader, without unlocked bootloader boot partition is not visible afaik?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SnowOokami:
it's in the dev section... nothing in here will work without a locked bootloader :(
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Arakmar:
Thanks !

First page updated :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Apology11:
Can you use adb with it?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] championswimmer:
if you are on locked, you do NOT have a recovery in the first place

so how will you flash it ?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ben36:
Can you put a tutorial on the first post with it of how to install please?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] slyevo:
Is it possible to increase the font size?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ben36:
Do we lose all data flashing?

Also are you gonna add overclocking?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Apology11:
Tried the Newest Version (ICS3.elf):

wokrs fine for me :good:

adb works

cwm works

but can´t boot into recovery with "Rom Manager" (but thats fine for me)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] DeJe63:
Flashed ics3 to german generic and so far it's wotking good.

I would also request to increase font size.

Did not tried LUKS yet...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] slyevo:
No that you know how to make and edit the kernel, What would be the possibilities of making DooMRecovery v05 style recovery?

I'm only asking as i don't know & won't even know where to start...

You guys are the dogs bollox!!!!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] raydekok:
ics3 working. up and running now.

nice work.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] dmbardal:
Kernel works like a charm! :D
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Yakandu:
hmm Superuser with supersu binaries? thats weirdo!

Also:

- when booting into recovery: Cant mount :Cache/recovery/command, log and last_log)

- unable to mount USB storage (unable to open uns lunfile no suchfile or directory)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Advoc@te:
kernel

I've flashed kernel.elf via QuickIMG, programme said Finished without mistakes.

But looking in menu About phone, I see in Kernel version such information:

3.0.8+1.0.21100-30145-01926-g787c968
BuildUser@BuildHost #1
SMP PREEMPT Tue May 29 20:15:09 2012

Is this identification of Advanced Stock ICS Kernel ?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sminki:
yay! I got a mention! :silly: thanks again Arakmar for v3 :highfive:

Yes, It's the stock kernel, therefore the version in about will be the same, the only difference is the goodies in the ramdisk
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Cach123:
Thanks! Very happy with my phone now!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] NoobTW:
Thanks! It works without problem.:good:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Arakmar:
I need to build recovery from source to do that. So, not before this week end :)

Flash a kernel only involve the boot partition. So no data loss in system, data and cache.

Overclocking not before sony release kernel sources.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Arakmar:
Oops, you're right, su fixed in build 4.

I don't have any problem with cache partition in CWM. Did you try to mount it manually from the mount & storage menu ?

I'll work on that :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] championswimmer:
as we can see here

https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_device_semc_fuji/blob/ics/BoardConfig.mk

the lunfile is not mentioned in boardconfig so it uses generic galaxy nexus style luinfile location that does not work

and

TARGET_RECOVERY_PIXEL_FORMAT := "BGRA_8888"

this ^^ line is maybe responsible for too low font size ?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] fredcom2:
euh...

link for ics3.elf and ics4.elf are the same --> both ics3.elf
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] championswimmer:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12943198/ics4.elf

^^ common sense
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Arakmar:
Fixed :D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Akatosh:
Hey guys. Just came from a sensation where everything was simpler. The kernels were just for speed there but the my assumption of them being the same here appears to be wrong.... any tips on their function and whoch to use would be appreciated.

Also, ive never seen a modem on any other device sub section so what are they actually used for..?

Sorry for these questions but it also seems a bit strange for me :o
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
Stickies, and this thread in particular has all the info you need.
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] goutamniwas:
The most bugfree miui rom for galaxy mini ever

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the rom is supersmooth like minisense v4 and has all the tweaks and other stuffs which was in minisense v4

Download miui_initialrelease.zip(OUTDATED)

Download miui update pack 1(OUTDATED)

CHANGELOG OF UPDATE PATCH:

-fixes wifi issue

-fixes browser force close issue

-adds another miui launcher (u can use it in ur wish that doesnt get fc even at the first boot)

-adds a battery indicator app as a temporary solution for battery indicator bug

MIUI RC1 ​

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD(OUTDATED)

CHANGELOG:

-lots of bug fixes

-lots of improvements in performance and stability

-the rom is lot more smoother and high performing now

bugs solved:

-reboot on connecting usb storage to pc

-launcher forceclose

-battery status display

-unstability (rebooting issues and black screens when getting back to the launcher)

-lagginess

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wipe data and cache b4 and after installation ​

changelog of miui rc2

- all the known bugs are solved ;) (miui custom theme bug , lockscreen wallpaper bug)

- added some jellybean wallpaper and lockscreen backgrounds

- some optimizations to ldpi

- some mods to miui apps and some updates to miui apps

- music output quality increased

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CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD miuiX V1

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Wipe data and cache b4 and after installation

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based on cyanmobile x

upgraded to android 2.3.8 with latest libs and sources

usb mass storage bug on installing apps on sd card is now solved

ringtone single loop bug solved

stability and performance wise improvements

smooth scroll volume (15 steps for ringer,alarm etc and 30 steps for media volume)

sometweaks and lot more improvements

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the rom bootloops for the first time , wait for the rom to boot , it will take around 5 minutes

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pressing thanks encourages me
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] goutamniwas:
install procedure:

*reboot to recovery

* wipe cache and data

*install rom

*wipe cache and data again

*wait for the rom to boot it takes a while , the rom may bootloop for the first time

screenshots :

​
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] goutamniwas:
changelogs

CHANGELOG RC1

-lots of bug fixes

-lots of improvements in performance and stability

-the rom is lot more smoother and high performing now

bugs solved:

-reboot on connecting usb storage to pc

-launcher forceclose

-battery status display

-unstability (rebooting issues and black screens when getting back to the launcher)

-lagginess

CHANGELOG OF UPDATE PATCH:

-fixes wifi issue

-fixes browser force close issue

-adds another miui launcher (u can use it in ur wish that doesnt get fc even at the first boot)

-adds a battery indicator app as a temporary solution for battery indicator bug

changelog of miui rc2

- all the known bugs are solved ;) (miui custom theme bug , lockscreen wallpaper bug)

- added some jellybean wallpaper and lockscreen backgrounds

- some optimizations to ldpi

- some mods to miui apps and some updates to miui apps

- music output quality increased

- AND MANY MORE IMPROVEMENTS
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] goutamniwas:
credits

credits

*bravon for resized widgets and some apks

*siznex for init.d script

*xiaomi for miui

*mebitek for cm7 also cyanogenmod teams official cm7

*last but not least , guys in this section who have supported me a lot
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] R.A.G.E:
Get Fc from launcher

Theme not work
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] goutamniwas:
u will get fc at the first time , force close it and then wait, the launcher will restart by itself and it will take some time for the rom to get smooth
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] R.A.G.E:
How about theme do i need to create folder in system
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] goutamniwas:
what theme? there is no theme set at default?
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] R.A.G.E:
I meam if i want to change theme. When i click theme app it just show white screen
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] goutamniwas:
but themes app is working fine for me
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] R.A.G.E:
Ok may be i will reflash
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] radnou974:
Problème with wifi, i flash the file of fix wifi, in thread of minisense v4

EDIT; after flash with wifi fix, it's working !!!
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] D1358531:
Port this to SGH-T499? :D :D
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] goutamniwas:
yeah this is just an initial release , miui v1 will be released soon , btw thnkz for reporting
[Samsung Galaxy Mini] ast00:
One bug: Digital clock widgets saying Loading widget, but nothing happens.

Another thing, what is not bug: MIUI widgets are not there with samsung home.