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[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mpttrung:
letama I flashed cm 146a in native and I got a whole black screen after rebooted @@. Any solutuion ??
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
I just checked the repack, it's fine, but I had the same problem as you at first: my first boot went black screen and rebooted, modem problem at first glance, second is showing the logo and reboots, hitting the same bug as loopback because partitions were not clean apparently.

Here is what you can try:

1) Power down completely the phone by pressing power+vol up until it vibrates 3 times.

2) Try to re-install with a factory reset.

I did it another way, ext2fsck from recovery with adb, but re-installing should have the same effect.

Let me know if it helped...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Soheil_rf:
@letama

what about cm10 for loop ?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
It's coming soon. It requires a patched kernel and my kernel source code is a bit whacked as I'm in the middle of debugging. As soon as I have something less messy I will upload it.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Soheil_rf:
Thanks mate , can't wait to test it
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
:)

Here is the kernel, rom links will be on the first posts very soon.

Flash first rom then kernel, then try to boot. Again, it's a dirty patch, not a final fix.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Soheil_rf:
Thanks , /system is read only :(

not working list :

camera

audio

video playback
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
Something went wrong with your install, system is r/w and everything that you listed works fine on mine.

You should try full power off and restart, if still no go, try to re-install.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Soheil_rf:
yees it's working

reinstall rom solved my problems

Thanks again
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
Forgot to say though:

Please don't report problem to FXP team if you run cm10 with boot manager... As it may be related to Boot Manager or loops or my patch, they shouldn't be bothered with this. If you want to report something, you should run it directly on device without boot manager and reproduce the problem.

Thanks!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Felimenta97:
I was looking at XTXExperience v5 update-script, and it doesn't work like v2 used to (mounting /system, and not a specific mount point). That means I can't flash it, and I don't know how to edit it to work to update my ROM (I'm still on v2).

Would it need a full repack or just editing the update-script should do it? It doesn't have a built in kernel, btw.

Anyone want the update-script so it can be edited?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
Yes, show me the update-script, but if it doesn't have a kernel and you want it on native, you don't have anything to do. Repack is need on native only if there is a kernel, even if it mounts via mmcblk0pxx.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Felimenta97:
I just want to make sure of it. There are some blocks things mentioned, and I was kinda scared of messing up :P Updater-script on attachments :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
I checked, no problem if you want it on native, nothing to do.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Felimenta97:
Thanks letama, for your help :D
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
You're welcome! :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Felimenta97:
Another bug I found: Seems like keyboard on TWRP isn't working for LOOP. Couldn't set a backup name for a backup was going to create. Haven't tried modifiying a backup name neither using it with Stock. Also think it isn't really a TWRP bug because, if I recall corectly, it worked on the old Mericon kernel.

Also: .55 firmware was released. Binary's root method doesn't work (it is that it uses the same blocking method as Xperia T). As soon as that is fixed, you should update the repacked firmware.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
Yes, this one is known, and it's a twrp bug, twrp changed a lot since Mericon's build... It's fixed already in their last source code, it will be fine in next bootmanager release. Until then, keyboard works with directory rename in embedded file manager.

Why do we need Bin4ry root ? This is useful only if you don't have unlocked bootloader ?

Downloading it! Thanks for the tip!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Felimenta97:
Oh, yeah. Forgot about the auto rooting kernel lol

And didn't knew about the TWRP thing, sorry. Was a long shot guess.

Also can't wait for XTXexperience based on it.

"What really matters in this world, anyway?"
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
Well, no, it's not auto rooting kernel, I removed that as it take too much space and it's only useful if you flash not rooted firmware from flashtool for instance. I just embed su and SuperUser.apk in the repackaged zip.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] fersy:
Is there a flashable.zip of bootmanager_0.5

Thanks
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Soheil_rf:
@Letama

Seems you found the bug , it's true ?

If yes you will update BM to 0.6 ?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
Yes, found the location and Kali found the solution.

Bug is in CM10 kernel, not boot manager so no, I won't update to 0.6 yet, next FXP releases will work with 0.5...

I still have work on 0.6, at least add to cwm what I did on twrp.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
No, there is not. I have a post somewhere that explain how to edit the upgrade zip script to do that, it should be few pages back.

Why do you need it ?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] fersy:
i used twrp recovery.... Nands are also done with twrp... then i tried out the new P.a.c rom and flashed latest sspeedkernel

Now i can't restore my nand with bootmanagerkernel, because now i am on cwm recovery
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Felimenta97:
That's why I asked it. I'm going to search for it. I also need it. Give me 5 minutes.

EDIT: I found. I will edit the file corectly. Shouldn't take long. 10 minutes at max for download (I only have the file on my phone, and it is curently on the HDMI, so...), edit and upload.

---------- Post added at 04:38 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:19 PM ----------

Ok. Here is it: http://www.mediafire.com/?3sd5f3ycl3m4lbw

I didn't tested, though. Please report back.

@Letama, if it works could you add it to the correct place?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] fersy:
Thanks... working for me
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Soheil_rf:
147 released , please make it for boot manager

Thanks
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
fxp 147 cm10 for loop added! It's working fine now with the original FXP kernel.

New Sony firmware had been added too, new way of repackaging it, let me know if it works fine for you.

Have fun!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Felimenta97:
Nice work letama :D

Can't wait for PA 2.56 with FXP new kernel fixes.

Also, could you upload the .55 kernel only? For stock.

"What really matters in this world, anyway?"
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Nimche:
Letama,

Thanks for your interesting work. Is dual-booting the max for now? So I would flash the CM10 over CM9? Is it possible not to have stock and only CM9 and CM10 both there? Maybe this is complicated.

EDIT: I see that now I can flash CM9 as stock.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
:) I just finished uploading FXP137 cm9.1 on native/stock, so now it's possible to dual boot CM9/CM10. Flash the native 9.1 one from "stock recovery" and the loop 10 from "custom recovery" and you're set. However, you can't triple boot stock, cm9, cm10, not enough room on the kernel partition.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] fersy:
Awesome work... Thanks a lot

Running just fine on my Nozomi
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] championswimmer:
you can make a shell script using sed grep and awk to do the dirty job automatically

will save you the trouble and multitude of user requests
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] shivunaikc:
very nice, i could able to manage dual OS..
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
Yes, I'll see what I can do. I'm going to have much less free time in the coming days unfortunately...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] :
I have few Questions

1)Will it affect my mobile life time in anyway ??

2)If i want to revert back to normal kernel(i mean like going back to ADVANCED STOCK KERNEL or any other which is single boot ) wat files should i delete or just flashing the kernel will be enough
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
1) I can't tell for sure, it could. It shouldn't do much difference but it could have impact on flash life duration.

2) Yes, just flash your kernel and then remove the loopback images on internal storage (custom_data.ext4, custom_system.ext4, custom_cache.ext4).
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Vipitus:
1) No at all.

2) Yes, just flash stock/custom kernel. You can also delete loop ext4 files from sdcard.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Apology11:
Can you make it usable for cm9.1 as "stock" rom, because this is the rom i use all the time, but I want to test cm10 and aokp too, but there not stable enough for me yet.

Gesendet von meinem Xperia S mit Tapatalk 2
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] :
what does this mean ""but it could have impact on flash life duration."" after particular limit i can't flash my mobile ????(if so will this applied to normal kernels or only for this dual boot kernels )
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Vipitus:
It means that your flash memory (internal) will wore slightly faster. But at all memory is used that same amount of cycles with stock and second system (stock is writing/reading from memory same as loop system).
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] fersy:
What about nandroid of custom/loopback

is that possible?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
That's already possible, flash the cm9.1 "stock/native" version with the stock cwmod, flash cm10 with the custom cwmod.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
Let's clarify:

New flashing mod is not more intense than flashing a regular kernel, so it's no different. If you flash too much, you could end up with bad sectors on kernel partition, with boot manager or not.

However, loopback are a bit different: they are located on internal storage. Internal storage flash is the same chip as data, so it has the same life duration. But data partition is using 4K blocks, internal storage is using 32K blocks. I have no idea if using a data partition on 32K blocks is causing more writes than on a native data partition. That's why I put disclaimer, it could wear flash more than regular android, but the good thing is that it's on a 28gig partition, loosing blocks here is not as bad as loosing them on a 2 gig data partition.

Again, pure speculation, no scientific proof...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
Honestly I don't know if it works already or not. I believe it works, but it's sharing same cwmod directory currently, so I don't know the impact, especially with the new nandroid backup that is using a differential scheme.

However, if you want to do a full backup of loopbacks, just boot stock and copy the 3 ext4 in a directory. If you want to restore, copy them back at internal storage root. It's already disk images, perfect copy of your running environment (in fact, they are your running environment).
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Apology11:
But you say in the second post, that I have to be on stock 2.45 to flash your kernel, so if I am running cm9 now I loose all my data to go to stock and then flash your kernel and then I can install cm9 with stock cwm?

Or can I just flash your kernel while beeing on cm9?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
If you're already on cm9, flash the dual.elf, don't boot anything and go straight to cwmod stock, flash the cm9 native zip (you have to flash it to get the modified kernel in it) without formatting data/cache, you should be ok.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] hhlong89:
Do this step mean install system and data partition?

My choice was 768MB and 1024MB, it was enough or we should go to the max?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
Yes, that's system and data size. It really depends on how you plan to use the secondary firmware...

768 for system is on the high, useful if you want a full stock firmware on loopbacks (it doesn't exist yet). CM/AOKP/MIUI don't use that much, 512 is usually enough. Natively, system is 1024MB

Data is mostly determined by how many apps you want to install. Natively, data partition is 2048MB but 1024 is plenty already, especially on a secondary firmware.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Soheil_rf:
@letama

Is Sony 6.1.A.2.55 kernel same as 6.1.A.2.50 kernel ?

if not can you add Standalone unsecure kernel for 6.1.A.2.55 (native)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
Kernel is probably different, can't know. It's already unsecure on the built I uploaded, I'll add kernel only zip later...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
Felimenta97, PA 2.55 repacked with FXP 147 kernel, it works fine ;).
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Felimenta97:
Nice! :D

Now waiting for .55 kernel only :D

Again, thanks Letama.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
NP :)

Here you are, untested!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Felimenta97:
Working (I think, XTXexperience isn't showing it).

Did a AnTuTu benchmark (I know they don't say much but). Well, I lost 6 points, coming from .50 fw. I'm going to backup and apply PimpMyROM again and see if it helps.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mpttrung:
letama : Can i flash bm_loop_pa_2.55_1711.zip for native partition ???
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Felimenta97:
Nope. He would need to repack it for native before installing...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
I have it, I will upload it soon but it won't be tested... Testing on native is a pain :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mpttrung:
Nice. I'll test it :d
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
Uploaded! Let me know...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mpttrung:
Confirm it works perfect ! Thanks letama :d
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
0.6 is out! Check first posts...

Please report if you have any issue with it, I didn't test upgrade zip!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] championswimmer:
This does bring me to a problem...

I cannot "ota" update to cm/aokp etc from the bootmanager

I mean if i currently use bootmanager and i want to ota update aokp and go back to single boot aokp (like normal) then i used to do it by just flashing zip from any one of the recoveries...

Now i need a pc with fastboot to erase dual boot kernel
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Felimenta97:
Except for the championswinner related problem (this also affects me, it won't be easy to test PA/PAC/Dark Passion), it looks awesome. Please find a way to get over that, and I will update ASAP :P

Good job, letama :D
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
Well, that's an easy one to solve, the protection is simply done by renaming partition device.

I can prepare a zip that revert the rename, you would have to flash it before flashing the ota (without rebooting the recovery), or a zip that will flash one "normal" kernel that has a recovery, reboot, then flash the ota. Let me know what you prefer...

In next release, I'll probably add a special "unprotected native cwm/twrp" menu entry :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Felimenta97:
I'd rather the second one. If it can have a TWRP recovery, even better :D

Championswinner, what do think?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
Well, thinking of it, it already exists! Just flash one of the bootmanager recovery 0.5 zips and reboot :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
And for the completeness, here is the unprotect zip :)

"Flash" it (it doesn't flash anything, just rename the device), and flash the ota just after without rebooting, it should work.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] championswimmer:
Confirmed :)

Nice method
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Felimenta97:
So it is just flag the old 0.5 and install the ROM or install that zip?

"What really matters in this world, anyway?"
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
Method 1:

1) Flash unprotect zip

2) Don't reboot

3) Flash ota/firmware

Method 2:

1) Flash old 0.5 recovery (just recovery, not whole boot manager)

2) Reboot

3) Flash ota/firmware

Method 1 is better imho as it saves a reboot and flashing unprotect.zip is almost instant. And it's one less flash on partition.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Felimenta97:
Thanks :D

"What really matters in this world, anyway?"
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Soheil_rf:
I flash dual.elf v0.6 via fastboot , i lost my cm10 147 kernel for loop ,now how can i flash kernel only ?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
Flash this...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Giblet-dono:
So are we going to see PAC in the near future :)!?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] utsav911:
is there any of the stock GB Rom available for loop ? :silly:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ahmedyar91:
+1 for GB Rom... On Loop With Stock Kernel..

Please Letama..
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
I'm uploading for loop, I didn't test it though...

What version ? Can you give me a link ? I have lt26i_6.0.A.3.75_CE1.ftf, but that's the only one I have...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ahmedyar91:
Here's Is The Link

It's UK Generic Latest

LT26i_6.0.A.3.75_Generic UK.ftf

http://depositfiles.com/files/kpahh4qme
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
Upload done, let me know if it works... If it doesn't, try flashing FXP kernel from here.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mpttrung:
After flash the kernel it works really good :D
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] utsav911:
Please this one. :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
So it doesn't work without flashing the kernel ?

Thanks for the confirmation...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mpttrung:
Yep, didnt work without flash kernel :D
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Giblet-dono:
@letama

Thank you SO much for P.A.C., Bootmanager an everythign else you did for me!!!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
Ok, it's older kernel then... Thanks!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Akhil:
Just love it...thank you so much for this..

just wanted to ask one thing that the apps in internal storage are not working so i can download apps in phone memory only??
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
It seems that yes, apps moved to sd/internal storage are lost when switching from one rom to another.

Factory reset from any of the recoveries will clean app2sd location for both loop and native, so maybe that's only this, but it could be also a cleanup at startup that removes app2sd apps that are coming from the other build. No idea...

Unfortunately, I can't do much about this, the location is hard-coded in firmwares and there is no way to have two separate directories for each rom on same internal storage. The only solution I could think of is splitting internal storage partition into 2 partitions, but it would be very annoying.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Akhil:
Thank you so much for fast reply..

Its completely fine with me , 3 GB(1.5 gb for each kernel) is enough for me to put simple apps in it ( I dont play much games on it ) and i know you will find a way out..

And can you please repackage XTX 7 for native as it is based on .55 firmware ? If you are busy then no problem...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
Still no kernel embedded in xtx 7, right ? You can flash it as-is then, and then flash .55 unsecure kernel...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
Ok, repack is done.

Unfortunately, enabling data is crashing modem and make the phone reboot. Uploaded anyway for nostalgia :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Akhil:
Yes no kernel ....

I will try it and let you know..
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] championswimmer:
DISCLAIMER: YOUR DEVICE WILL BLOW ON YOUR FACE IF YOU TRY THIS. ONLY FOR ADVANCED USERS

k so i ran a CM10.1 (i.e. Android 4.2) build for Xperia S

the ota is here

http://icxperia.com/championswimmer/S-xperia-nozomi/CM10-1/cm_nozomi-ota-eng.championswimmer.zip

the system image is here

http://icxperia.com/championswimmer/S-xperia-nozomi/CM10-1/system.img

and the ramdisk is here

http://icxperia.com/championswimmer/S-xperia-nozomi/CM10-1/combinedroot.fs

i think on the latest FXP148 CM10 kernel, if you wipe all stuff (system, data, cache) and just

fastboot flash system system.img

it should give you with a bootable build.

if it doesn't then probably we'll need to replace the ramdisk with the given cpio.

(the kernel failed to build. thus the boot.img part of the ota is just a 0byte file) only the ramdisk was built.

am posting here because there are many experimental and experienced people who keep following this thread.

DO NOT SPAM THIS THREAD. IF THIS WORKS OR NOT WORKS YOU CAN REPLY MY VIA PM
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ahmedyar91:
Letama Can U Please Repack KA's Gingerbread Rom..

and See If the Problem Persist..

http://www.xdafileserver.nl/Files/S...roid 2.3 (Gingerbread)/KA08_Xperia_SSpeed.zip
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Giblet-dono:
Wow letama!

You are very quick with the new p.a.c 16.2.2!

One question, is the new p.a.c 'kalis' kernel included in this release?

Thanks so much!

- EDIT: Just found that it does not work wihtout installing the kernel post a few pages back..

So even if the kernel is included, it does not work
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
I won't because it won't change anything... problem is radio/ril incompatibility, nothing that would be done differently with ka.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
:)

I have a script now that does all the work, now what takes time is download / testing (that I didn't do on this one) / upload.

The kernel is the one PAC team embedded for 16.2.2. If it crashes, it means they're still using the 4.6.x toolchain instead of using 4.4.3 like fxp team does now.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] fersy:
Is it possible to make XTXperience 7 for loop... Thanks

Sent from my XperiaS
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ahvipardik:
Did you even read previous posts?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] utsav911:
Actually it reboots many times apart enabling data. sometimes just after bootanimation and sometimes after few seconds of starting.

Anyway thanks for repacking. :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] fersy:
Yes i read the posts... but XTXperience 7 won't boot up, it crashes in bootanimation...

So my question is, can anybody please make it work for loop
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Akhil:
I m using it on native and it works perfectly fine ,small apps everything .

It should also work on loop as it doesnt contain any kernel in it. Try installing it in native.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] fersy:
Do you have Sony 6.1.A.2.55 unsecure kernel for loop? So that i can test it?

Which bootmanager are you using... 0.5 or 0.6
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
No, for loop repack is needed.

I'll take a look.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
Done, working and uploaded :). Flash with the 2.55 kernel I posted too.

Note: addons will work without repack.

Mirrors are uploading...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Felimenta97:
Letama, what was the kernel that you included on the PA 2.54 for loop? I will update to 0.6 soon, and some were saying they lost the kernel for loop, so I can prevent myself if I end up losing it.

"What really matters in this world, anyway?"
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
Can't remember... Best way to be sure, backup the one you have.

Here is a way:

1) Go to recovery for loop

2) extract kernel with this:

adb ke 2 /tmp/zimage /tmp/initramfs.loop.gz

3) save them on pc:

adb pull /tmp/zimage

adb pull /tmp/initramfs.cpio.gz

To flash it back, from loop recovery:

adb push zimage /tmp/

adb push initramfs.cpio.gz /tmp/

adb shell kf 2 /tmp/zimage /tmp/initramfs.cpio.gz

Loop kernel was lost because it was not flashed from upgrade zip, it was directly a fastboot flash of the elf. I don't have feedback on upgrade zip yet...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Felimenta97:
Thanks. I will try it later. My younger brother is playing Minecraft now lol

"What really matters in this world, anyway?"
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Akhil:
If i make a nandroid backup in native/loop , will that work in native/loop when i restore it ??