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[HTC One X+] bristow312:
Yeah i know :] nearly destroyed my phone only way to learn though :p ill be trying this tomorow is this method the only way for my carrier branded phone? i have already unlocked the bootloader.
[HTC One X+] AndroHero:
If you extract the boot image, there is a member (can't spell his name off the top of my head) lol in the android development forum, who may be able to make you one of his rootboot methods. But now recovery is out, he may not be doing it anymore.
[HTC One X+] davidstech11:
It's hard to believe Shadow Gun lags on the One X+ when I played the exact same game with a device with the Tegra chip clocked a lot slower than the One X+ and had zero lag.
[HTC One X+] ajftl:
I'm guessing the phone pull out a knife and kill u? Horror stories.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Lyxdeslic:
Or do I have to flash it manually? If so, is there a place I can find a perfectly stock version, un-tweaked with the original kernel, etc? Thank you in advance.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DirgeExtinction:
There is no OTA for 4.2 for any CDMA Nexus. You can flash a stock 4.2 ROM either in the Development section or on the rootz site.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Marisa:
Toro probably won't see an OTA for several months, if at all. VZW might be on the ball with this update and we'll get one by Christmas, but I'm not holding my breath
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DirgeExtinction:
"If at all". Really? We already got JB 4.1 first before even Verizon's own Droid line up. Sure, we wait a bit longer for an official OTA, but we're still one of the first to get it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Marisa:
I only mention it because the fire sale they had on the GN's really makes it seem like VZW is trying to get rid of their stock and move on. I admit that was pretty overly negative thinking, but I don't have much faith in big corporations.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Lyxdeslic:
Thanks for the responses. Any recommendations for a pure stock 4.2? I believe I saw an AOSP 4.2 in the development forum, but I figured it was tweaked around.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Marisa:
MMuzzy's and mwalt2's ROMs are both apparently working quite nicely. I'm on mwalt's myself and have had no problems. Everything right now is basically stock because there's just not been enough time to monkey with things.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DirgeExtinction:
I recommend Jake's JellyBelly rom. It's on RootzWiki, though.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Pender1:
I'm running MMuzzy's ROM and there's nothing tweaked about it. Works smooth.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Lyxdeslic:
Wonderful, thank you everyone. I'll look into all of those.
[Nexus 7 General] dcd17:
I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere else, and its getting very frustrating. Last night my N7 shut down from low battery, after plugging in, it still wouldn't start up. I got it going again holding firm the power and volume button, but now it's constantly either freezing during use, slightly after startup or not turning on at all after gong to sleep.

I factory reset and that seems to have fixed the lockup issue but it's still getting stuck in deep sleep. The only thing I can guess is that it's the magnet feature in my case that is causing it. I've now had the case off for about an hour and had no lockups.

I've never felt the need to root this thing but I'm thinking of routing and fling to a custom 4.1.2 to see if this fixed it.

Has anyone heard of or had this issue before?
[Nexus 7 General] dcd17:
More: its got nothing to do with the case, I've had multiple lockups over the past hour and now a isn't even get past the lock screen without it locking up. Only setting I changed was killing the auto brightness.

No one else is having issues like this?
[myTouch 3G Slide General] okeeblow:
I saw a new repair guide for this old phone here. Might be useful to someone who still owns one of these :)
[myTouch 3G Slide General] the_real_fonzy:
Thanks i was looking for this
[Android Apps and Games] FFU5y:
Contribution to PDroid Manager acknowledgements (in alphabetical order):

mateorod: testing assistance, great ideas, building Autopatcher.

patrickpr: French translation

TamCore: contributing Android.mk, markdown for tables in README.md which were unreadable, German translation

wbedard: textual descriptions of the individual settings
[Android Apps and Games] mateorod:
Still playing with the 2e version. I like what you have done with this a lot. Having an open source version will keep us from being in-between working versions, like we were between gingerbread and the auto-patcher release.

An open source alternative like this keeps that from ever happening again.

I had noticed that CollegeDev had not added preloaded-classes to his PDroid2.0 build patches, a potential security leak. Without any access to the source or even version control with the patches I didn't have much recourse to correct the issue. I was left to suggest it in his thread and hope for the best. While he never brought it up again, I did finally see that the suggested change was integrated, but it struck me that having version control for the patches would be for the best as well.

In the spirit of having the entire process open AND available, I have pushed repos for the updated original PDroid patches, worked on by pastime1971 with some help from me, and the PDroid2.0 build patches (which I call PDroidCorePatches) by CollegeDev (which are already open-source, just not available with version control AFAIK) pushed as well.

If CollegeDev or you update the build patches for 4.2, we can either use those repos or start new ones, if necessary. But I am more than willing to add read/write to both of you. Wbedard has ported the PDroidCore patches to AOSP, but I will wait and see if he wants to put up a repo first before adding a new one (or possiibly a aosp-4.1.2 branch).

My hope is that the move towards complete open-source could galvanize all of us who work on PDroid to work together instead of splitting our efforts...we'll see how that goes.

Anyway, great job! I will eventually push the entire history (gingerbread to today) but for right now only 4.1.2 is up.

Original PDroid

PdroidCore

If anyone who has been working with us on Pdroid wants push access, pm me. Anyone who wants to contribute that I don't know yet, submit a pull request and we'll get to know you.

I think having the patches be attached to the same repo as the Auto-patcher and smali patches makes sense, but I am open to suggestion.
[Android Apps and Games] Lanchon:
dear OP,

i was under the impression that GPL2 did not allow additional obligations (like attributions) being added to the burden of the receivers of the licensed code. however, i think GPL3 made special provisions for some extra obligations in other common permissive free software licenses (manly attributions) to make them compatible with GPL3, so there are some attribution provisions in GPL3 i think.

an example of GPL2 ban on additional restrictions: GPL3 enforces further obligations on receivers, such as non-tivoization, and thus is itself incompatible with GPL2 for the previously stated reason.

could you please clarify the method you chose to extend GPL with attributions in this case? thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] FFU5y:
The code is GPL3 licensed, and the additional attribution (and differentiation) requirement are under GPL3 Section 7 (b) and (c).

If there are specific contexts in which people would like to use the app that are excluded by GPL3, they are welcome to contact me about alternative licensing arrangements. Of course, as soon as others contribute GPL3-licenced code then that will get a lot more difficult, but right now that is an option.

I hope that answers your question, but if not let me know.
[Android Apps and Games] dbx4:
This is so absolutely awesome, thanks a lot FFU5y!

The filtering options for user/system apps and permission type are exactly what I needed. Further ideas would be:

search app by name

advanced filtering for a single specific permission, e.g. "start on boot"

batch operations: e.g. block network & gps location permissions for all apps
[Android Apps and Games] FFU5y:
Cheers dbx - glad you're finding it useful.

These are good ideas (and indeed, I started on 'searching app by name' but de-prioritised it for release). I'll add them to my github issues list as enhancements (so they are listed somewhere centrally).

I'm not really sure at this stage how I'd go about implementing the filtering for a single specific permission, mainly because I'm not sure how to represent it in the user interface without cluttering it up.

One way may be to have a specific view for filtering by setting, which shows a list of settings, and then upon choosing a setting shows only the apps to which that setting relates (e.g. choosing 'GPS location' from the list of settings shows only those apps which have that as a valid setting - i.e. those with permission to access the GPS).

I'm afraid those features will probably take a little bit of time to develop, but hopefully you'll find the app useful in the meantime while I'm working on them.
[Android Apps and Games] FFU5y:
Version 0.2.3 ALPHA has been relased:

CHANGE LOG

2012-11-25: v0.2.3 ALPHA

Changes

Added improved text for the access notifications

Added a help button for each setting with a summary of what the setting does (I know it is ugly, and I plan to fix that soon).

The application list status indicator should now work under all normal circumstances

Dialogs have been added when loading, saving etc. to avoid interactions that could cause crashes

Known bugs

When multiple apps are installed one after the other, the notification to update settings of previous installations is replaced (rather than additional icons appearing).

The app will probably crash if PDroid is not installed.

Also see my github list: https://github.com/wsot/pdroid-manager/issues
[Android Apps and Games] Dr.69:
Hi, PDroid is a very important app, and I wanted to thank you for making an open source alternative with much more features.

Wish I was a dev, so I could help you more, but I will gladly test it the moment the autopatcher supports 4.2.
[Android Apps and Games] FFU5y:
Cheers =)

I'm eager to give it a run on 4.2 as well, but I am aware that CollegeDev is working on a new release of the PDroid 2.0 Core and App, so I'm not going to try to port the core to 4.2 until the update is released (otherwise there may be a lot of re-working needed, and if CollegeDev is porting it already then I'd just be duplicating work).

In the meantime, I'm going to try to get some fixes and new features into PDroid Manager which can then hopefully move smoothly to the 4.2 version.
[Android Apps and Games] Magissia:
Hello, i'm using Permission pro to remove rights i don't want from program, do your program works the same way, or rights are removed by an other way ?

Also, some Gameloft games have managed to get their start at boot rights back, with every programs i used, i was never able to kick them, so this is somewhat important to know, for me, if it will fail the same way.

Don't know if it's possible to do, but people not using Jelly Beans cannot block notification from a program, amybe we could get it with PDroid manager ?
[Android Apps and Games] FFU5y:
The quick answer: PDroid and PDroid Manager do not block notifications from programs. In new version of Android, there is a feature to limit which applications can create notifications. If there are a lot of 'marketing' notifications you should report the app to Google (I think you can report it at the Play store) because they are starting to move against that kind of activity.

Anyway, continuing...

PDroid 2.0 (and PDroid Manager) work quite differently to permissions pro. First, PDroid 2.0 (which is the Android modification that PDroid Manager configures) requires a modification to be made to the ROM on the device. This allows for the Privacy Service to limit the access apps have to private information, even when they have Android permissions to access the information. The PDroid Manager App (or the alternative, PDroid 2.0 App) allows you to choose what private information is provided to what app.

So, in order to use PDroid Manager, you need:

A ROM patched to add the Privacy Servire, which you can achieve by either patching the source code yourself using the patches in the PDroid 2.0 thread and compiling the rom, or potentially by using mateorod and pastime's excellent autopatcher

PDroid Manager (or the PDroid 2.0 App) to configure

The advantages of PDroid over Permission pro is that with PDroid, the app still has the same Android permissions, but when the app requests data from the Android operating system the privacy service provides back blank or incorrect data. This means that rather than the app crashing, as often happens when its permissions are changed, it keeps running.

The main disadvantages of PDroid compared to Permission pro is that it requires changes to the Android frameworks, which means you need to be willing and able to modify your ROM in order to use PDroid. It is not 'easy', and it also means there is a delay before new Android version are supported because the patches for the framework need to be modified to support the updated framework.

I hope that helps.
[Android Apps and Games] Magissia:
Hello, thanks for your answer, on the autopatcher page, it's not clearly written if it will work on OEM's rom (but it's clearly written it won't on samsung/htc one)

I'm currently usng ASUS' stock rom and guevor's kernel, any chance to have it working ?

If the service reply false information, it's still able to block an app at boot ? to make it unable to start itself at boot ?
[Android Apps and Games] FFU5y:
Autopatcher will probably not work on an OEM ROM at this stage, unfortunately. That is something mateorod has been working on, but I believe it is still a work in progress. You can give autopatcher a try nonetheless, though. If it can't patch it, it will tell you. Also, if you search around the forums for your device, you may find someone has created special patches just for that device.

If you can get the ROM modded to include PDroid, then one of the features allows you to prevent an app being notified of when the device finishes booting. For those games, that means they would not be started when the device finished booting. However, it is possible that they may use a range of other ways to make sure they start which PDroid doesn't affect.

Probably the best way to deal with these types of problem apps is to use a tool that can 'freeze' the apps, and then just 'unfreeze' them when you want to use them. If they are giving you notification bar spam, you should definitely consider reporting them at the play store, too. Notification bar spam is against Google's current policies for the Play store.

Sorry I can't give you better news - patching of already-compiled OEM ROMs is not my focus area.
[Android Apps and Games] Magissia:
Hello, i already reported gameloft for their notification ads, and a video game doesn't need to be notified of system's start. Fact are they are "super dev" in play store and i doubt google will do anything.

PDroid seems more complete than Permission Pro, to make programs unable to acces data.

So, if i understand correctly, when i refuse a right to a program, the service will give blank information instaed of letting it see the real information. Does it have a big impact on the performances ?

I wouldn't mind switching rom, but it seems that no rom is able to install and keep all the data/configuration, means you have to use the custom rom since start or you're stuck if you want to keep things.

Edit : Seems Pdroid 2 is for 4.1.2+, my device use 4.0.3, will keep this thread bookmarked and will come back once i'll have enough courage to switch rom (since ASUS won't let us get the update anyway)
[Android Apps and Games] acultr:
Hy!

enough if I flash in recovery the my ROM's update zip?
[Android Apps and Games] drraptor:
root required ? :fingers-crossed:
[Android Apps and Games] acultr:
hmm

it looks like it works.

Thanks.

ROM:cm10 Flinny 129.
[Android Apps and Games] acultr:
is possible into other languages translate?
[Android Apps and Games] TamCore:
It's easy. Translate this file and open a pull request or attach it here.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] MaxWorks:
Hello Team.

Not everyone knows that the NEO was somewhat offended. For some unknown reason to me NEO section /System and /Data partitions are smaller than on other models Xperia 2011.

It is should be fixed!

We will need:

- FlashTool latest versions (version above 8)

- Installed driver in the system (located in the flashtool\drivers)

- Downloaded NEO V (MT11) .587 FW (Find it in the header. Localization does not matter, I Used nordic) (another .587 FWfor NEO V)

- Installed CWM on the phone, or you can find it in the custom kernel (to make a backup of the installed firmware, and restore it after that)

1. Go to the CWM and do a full backup of your ROM. (you can skip, but will have to re-install the ROM again)

2. Run FlashTool and Flash previously downloaded FW from NEO V 587 with this markers:

3. After flashing reboot and go back to CWM. Do factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache. And restores the previously made backup.

So what we had:

And what we have now:

As you can see /System increased from 312.5 to 400MB, and /Data from 380 to 420mb.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] vinhpz0:
Need someone to confirm …
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] mttca:
Should work as many have confirmed. But be aware of the drawback before deciding if this mod is the right for you.

Me - not (explained in an another topic)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] venoma333:
What's the drawback, I haven't experienced any problems and I've been using it for a few days now.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] archer928:
I just used the one from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1766539 but we need to fix the camera if we used stock ROM
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] kuzenka:
thanks mate ! it works ! ^^
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] grizzlyspid86:
Every Xperia Neo user should have done this. Great tutorial there. I've been using it for about 5 month now and never experience drawbacks or whatsoever.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] medozse7s:
where is the downloaded FW from NEO V 587 ?

i can't find it ?

can you give me link for download it

sorry for bad english
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] BorjaRRR:
I've been using it for 2 months and no problems ! :D
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] mttca:
It's good that you didn't notice any drawback. it means this mod worked for you as you wanted.

Here is the reason I don't want that.

After the mod, /system increased from 312.5MB to 400MB (88MB difference) and /data from 380MB to 420MB (40MB increased).

From where the space from? It is from the partition intended for /system/vendor. After modding - /system/vendor mount point disappeared, means its contents is now in /system partition.

As I do not use stock rom, the 133MB partition intended for /system/vendor can be wasted. But thanks to alliance kernel, it is (automatically) mounted and used for dalvik cache (described HERE). Without it all the dalvik cache would occupy a lot of space in /data.

In MY CASE, the dalvik cache directory is as big as 98MB. By a simple calculation, I just think the mod can increase the data partition in 40MB, but will cause 98MB of dalvik cache to be moved to /data. So I decided that this new partitioning schema is not for me. I need more space in /data rather than /system.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] danisariandi:
Could I flash neo v kernel into neo ?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Ghostfreak NB:
I don't know about all.... But mostly it works!

Correct me seniors if I'm wrong
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Bertellio:
For Locked bootloader the tutorial is much more long.

After flashing neo V system we need to flash .062 neo v kernel, make root, flash .587 neo kernel, install cwm, restore backup of the rom.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] MaxWorks:
You can шадфыр ROM without kernel, and load CWM via fastboot command:

fastboot boot kernel_with_cwm.img and restore ROM
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] engahmed91:
i did but nothing happens

how could i check this method is working correctly
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Toz1k:
Confirmed.

It works. But flashing new firmware of Neo via Flashtool removes the partition and takes it back to old size.

So the solutions are:

1. Don't flash firmwares via Flashtool (flashing other ROMs via CWM doesn't crash the partition)

2. When you use flashtool,- just flash ROM from Neo V, and than any custom ROM via CWM.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] MaxWorks:
Install any terminal emulator from the Market.

Enter to it and enter df command.

You will se full list of your partitions
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] engahmed91:
thank u

but now i`m sure that nothing change

any ideas?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Bertellio:
?

For locked bootloader root user is given from the rom, not from the kernel. The same is for cwm, as we lose it if we format /system.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] MaxWorks:
with fastboot boot you didn't flash kernel, only load kernel into phone, and after restart it's gone.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] drafha:
I ever found something like this before, I found it somewhere in the forum I forgot it.. Just there are a bit different:

Download the ftf file of .587 Neo V:

Flash only: userdata.sin, cache.sin, system.sin and loader.sin

Tested on my Neo, also work and give the same result like this..
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] engahmed91:
how does it work on your neo , because it doesn`t on mine

it`s necessary to download the neo v ftf or the original neo ftf like what i did
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] mttca:
Of cause you need NeoV ftf to get the new storage partitioning scheme like NeoV (no /system/vendor partition; extended /system and /data partitions)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] silverfvck:
It works, but there is an error keep on flashing on my screen: "Unfortunately, keypad has stopped."

Please tell me how to fix it? Thanks a lot! :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] kuzenka:
try to restore your nandroid backup. .
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] silverfvck:
I've done it. I restore my backup after I flash the Neo V firmware. I followed the instruction.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] mttca:
Looked like you have flashed NeoV stock kernel together with required sin files. Restoring nandroid won't bring back Neo old kernel so you'd need to flash back stock kernel for Neo or a mod kernel. No impact to everything else if you choose a correct kernel.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Bertellio:
Are you sure that with locked bootloader I can use fastboot mode? Beacuse I get this (the same with flashtool or fastboot package):

21/042/2012 18:42:39 - INFO - FASTBOOT Output: downloading 'boot.img'...

FAILED (remote: The Device must be rooted first) finished. total time: 0.001s
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] silverfvck:
I excluded flashing the Kernel and Baseband of Neo V firmware based on the images I've got found on the firsf post. I'm using Alliance kernel and abled to flash the backup using it then after flashing the nandroid backup, the error kept insisting on the screen. I tried flashing the backup again and it won't worked. Anyway, the firmware I've used was the customized Neo V (Nordic).
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] MaxWorks:
try VDS kernel from here http://d-h.st/users/maxworks
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Bertellio:
I've learnt that with locked bootloader still I can't boot unsigned kernel, also while just booting without flash. So for locked bootloader we need to root Neo V rom in Neo, then install cwm and install custom rom. Tomorrow I will try it.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] drafha:
Yep, answered by the people above..

You need the Neo V ftf file..
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] silverfvck:
Problem still persist. I guess, it was because my rom is deodexed.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] xange:
MaxWork: do u have anyway to increase the size for dalvik-cache partition? it is the main problem that we can's install too many apps into phone and "invalid file package" error came out.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] MaxWorks:
no, i have not.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] mttca:
I use link2sd to move lower priority apps with its dalvik cache to sdcard's 2nd partition