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[Sony Xperia ZL] coilbio:
the phone apk isnt working on the 6/23 build

it also doesnt connect to my computer properly.

--edtit--

phone doesnt work on 6/24 either.

the call goes through but it immediately says the process stopped working, if you press ok the call hangs up

but if you just leave it at that screen the phone technically continues to work.

I clean flashed the older version of PACman I was using to see if it was maybe another problem with the radio but that version works.
[Sony Xperia ZL] jug6ernaut:
Dont post the same question in multiple threads.

I replied to this question in the FXP thread.
[Sony Xperia ZL] sergsinger:
ju6ernaut, you don't understand the issue. When the brightness is close to max. level the display twinkle (just like a pulsation). On the stock firmware there is no such issue, and as I remember, FXP223/CM and PAC nightlies from 18.06 haven't this problem.
[Sony Xperia ZL] jug6ernaut:
I never said i did understand the issue, i said it is probably related to backlight issues in prior versions.

Over max?
[Sony Xperia ZL] sergsinger:
Сlose to the maximum value.
[Sony Xperia ZL] apascual89:
OK phone fc will be fixed next nightly.
[Sony Xperia ZL] sergsinger:
Thanks. Please, notify me about fixed ROM, I'll test it with pleasure.
[Sony Xperia ZL] coilbio:
on 6/26 theres a camera bug when taking pictures without the flash.

its pauses like its always taking HDR photos.

it works normal with the flash on.

I absolutely love this rom.
[Sony Xperia ZL] jug6ernaut:
Remember these are nightlies :).

Idk if you saw the news a few days ago but thanks to Sony CM for newer Sony devices is getting native camera features, including hdr, this is still in the process of bring implemented, what your seeing is is the effects of it being 1/2 done. You can expect it to be cleaned up in a week or so if I had to guess.
[Sony Xperia ZL] ATRIXXIRTA:
I hope they port the IR blaster too!!
[Sony Xperia ZL] coilbio:
I saw it on the free xperia site.

I thought it could be that.
[Sony Xperia ZL] s0x247:
Thanks for this superb rom. :thumbup::)
[Sony Xperia ZL] motoridersd:
I always forget how to flash this again on my ZL, so here's a quick guide if you are coming from stock:

Flashing the boot.img in this ROM's zip file was not working for me today with the 6-30 nightly. I get a black screen, so, I just gotta remember to flash Doom's kernel (which includes CWM recovery) and then flash from there. Using v07 today.

Recoveries for locked bootloaders do not work, so you must use a recovery for unlocked bootloaders (and have an unlocked BL of course).

Once the ROM is flashed, its own boot image will be flashed and it will work properly.

Maybe I was screwing up when flashing the pac boot img and could not get into recovery, or maybe today's nightly has a bug with recovery.

edit: The brightness is working much better now! The range is still out of whack and the slider only affects brightness in the top 1/5th. Luckily the auto brightness is adjustable so we can make it work with our screens. I might finally be happy enough with it to use it as my daily ROM. Yay!

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I am missing the menu button from most of my apps. I had to enable it persistently on the nav bar. I'm sure I'm missing a setting somewhere, or is there a touch combination to get into the menu? I like the clean look, but miss the functionality.
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
Hey thanks for that. I was actually wondering about how exactly one goes about flashing this or CM10.1. Now I know!
[Sony Xperia ZL] sergsinger:
Who can help me to find first image when the phone start to work (pac-man & 3 monsters)?
[Sony Xperia ZL] motoridersd:
New nightly is out for 7/02, looks like the only change is: CWM Recovery bump to 6.0.3.3

7/01 had a ZL specific change

odin: update signature from 10.3.A.0.423

I'm on 7/01 and will skip 7/02.
[Sony Xperia ZL] ihsan123:
does the newest nightly include halo already?i'm still considering to unlock my bootloader
[Sony Xperia ZL] motoridersd:
It does. Not sure when it was added but the 6/30 nightly had it. I tried it and wasn't a fan.
[Sony Xperia ZL] jug6ernaut:
It does, but it needs a lot of work still. For instance, the white/black listing simply does not work.
[Sony Xperia ZL] sergsinger:
jug6ernaut, can u help me with #264 post?
[Sony Xperia ZL] apascual89:
Is this what you're looking for?
[Sony Xperia ZL] sergsinger:
Yes, but I have boot image without "Sony" (red) and with a strange wide strip above pac and monsters (green)?

It looks not so good as the PAC ROM.
[Sony Xperia ZL] motoridersd:
07/03 Nightly is up

Changelog: http://pacman.basketbuild.com/main/logs/changelog-nightly-20130703.html

Looks like new sounds, volume fix and other non-ZL changes
[Sony Xperia ZL] sergsinger:
Do you know what changes? I haven't noticed any special changes.

Why doesn't kill-all button close all the apps and the last one in the list remains (it closes only when kill-all button is pressed for the second time?

On the CM or FXP kill-all button works correctly.
[Sony Xperia ZL] motoridersd:
They don't seem to apply to the ZL. Check out the link I posted, it has all the changes they have made to the build. A lot of them are device specific that don't apply to us.

When using PAC on my Nexus 4, kill all only killed every app but the one currently running. If you do the kill all from the home screen, it should kill all.

What do you mean a second time? You press the task changer button once, and you get the running apps, you press it again and then it kills them. Is that what you mean?
[Sony Xperia ZL] sergsinger:
I have just tried and it didn't work. In the currently running or at the home screen kill-all button leaves the last app in the list open.
[Sony Xperia ZL] motoridersd:
I like that it works that way. Otherwise you would kill your currently running app, and I personally have not run into a situation where I wish it would kill every single one. This is the way PAC works, there's probably a setting you can change to make it do what you want.
[Sony Xperia ZL] motoridersd:
I noticed that when using A2DP in the car, the audio is not as good as it usually is. It sounds a little tinny and missing something. I am using my aux cable instead lately because of this. I had not used A2DP on previous builds of PAC, so it might be a bug. I'll have to let the devs know.
[Sony Xperia ZL] sergsinger:
Using last nightlies I'm experiencing one issue with widget of stock calendar.

After reboot it works perfectly (first screen), but after some time or even else it becomes like in the second screenshot.
[Sony Xperia ZL] motoridersd:
7/04 nightly is out

Changelog: http://pacman.basketbuild.com/main/logs/changelog-nightly-20130704.html

Here's the changelog from the Z build, they must be similar right?

0704:

- Compiled with Linaro O3 flags for the whole ROM including kernel (wow, that really makes a difference in smoothness)

- UV down to 600 mV

- UC down to 192 MHz (now set as Default lowest frequency)

- Wheatly CPU governor (now set as Default)

- ROW I/O scheduler (now set as Default)

- Simple I/O scheduler (SIO)

- USB Fast Charge

- fix unknown chargers not charging the device

- Added Faux Sound Control

- On Click Flip Tile animation (Quick Settings)

Also, flashing gapss when coming from a previous version of PAC is not necessary, so all you need to do is wipe cache, wipe dalvik and flash new nightly zip.

I don't see the Wheatly governor or the ROW I/O Scheduler in our build, so the Z build must be different than ours. They use a different kernel?
[Sony Xperia ZL] mithun46:
Am the new OP here. Hi Guys :)
[Sony Xperia ZL] motoridersd:
Hi there! Will you be updating the first post with change logs and updates? :)
[Sony Xperia ZL] apascual89:
You guys are in good hands!
[Sony Xperia ZL] motoridersd:
Thank you for your work!
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
Just installed PAC today and i have to say its amazing. Thank you for porting it over and keeping it updated for us. We really appreciate it.

Now for a question: Why are all the options in the advanced settings missing. Or are they supposed to be missing? They are missing for me on every CM based rom (AOKP, CM and PAC). Cant even adjust haptic feedback. I would really like to have outdoor mode and gamma settings.

Screenshot of the menu below.
[Sony Xperia ZL] apascual89:
We'll look into it
[Sony Xperia ZL] mithun46:
That's because that feature is a WIP
[Sony Xperia ZL] SafiXS:
for me, the systemwide colourazion of statusbar and navbar in hybrid settings didn't work, only when i do it app specific. oh no, please, set it up for every app?

Edit: Hey mithun46!
[Sony Xperia ZL] motoridersd:
Guys, what is the difference between the Z and ZL builds? The Z build has a ton of kernel features that the ZL one doesn't have. Is it not that simple to have them on the ZL too?

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7/05 nightly is out

Only see one odin related change:

set internal storage as primary
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
It's also missing from the CM stable release which is a bit odd. You'd think a stable release would have said settings.
[Sony Xperia ZL] mithun46:
Hey dude!! Whats Up?? ;)

We are working on all bugs.

OK . A new ZL kernel is coming Up :)
[Sony Xperia ZL] motoridersd:
Sweeet!!
[Sony Xperia ZL] R4GE199:
does this rom contains halo?
[Sony Xperia ZL] mithun46:
Yes
[Sony Xperia ZL] motoridersd:
7/06 nightly is up.

Who builds the nightlies? Are all device versions compiled by the pac-man group? Or does each device get compiled by different people invested in each one?

I see some MSM7x30 wifi changes and some camera updates.

I have found the Galaxy S4/HTC One Google Play edition Camera version 1.1.40012 to be pretty stable on these nightlies. Although it does not seem to have an option to turn the shutter sound off, whereas the 4.2.2 camera version 1.1.40001 allows to mute it.
[Sony Xperia ZL] mithun46:
We Have A BuildBox For it and all
[Sony Xperia ZL] mithun46:
Expect a Experimntal build today. If you don't know what a Experimental Build is , then check out the FAQ. And Once the build completes it will be uploaded to first post under nightlies
[Sony Xperia ZL] mithun46:
Experimental Build uploaded. See OP for download link
[Sony Xperia ZL] motoridersd:
Awesome! I have two 3 hour flights to play with this.

Great job on updating the OPs. I love the ZL Screenshots
[Sony Xperia ZL] mithun46:
Please if you guys like this ROM. Hit the thanks button. I know there is a lot of users for this and none of you guys thanked me. Is there a problem? Please say me and I will try to correct it :)
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
Any change logs for the experimental build? I'm really hoping for a brightness fix.

Sent from my C6503
[Sony Xperia ZL] mithun46:
There is no changelog for Experimental Builds. They are just optimized builds
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
Oh I see. I should give the new one a try then

Sent from my C6503
[Sony Xperia ZL] R4GE199:
the new one is working good! no problems uptil now :)
[Sony Xperia ZL] mithun46:
Did you know that the new one is a Linaro build including O3 strict-aliasing optimizations with highly optimized TWRP recovery and a Over and Under clocked Recovery
[Sony Xperia ZL] R4GE199:
you mean the latest nightly?

and any idea how to get walkman sound enhancements working on this rom?
[Sony Xperia ZL] mithun46:
Not the latest nightly but Experimental builds
[Sony Xperia ZL] R4GE199:
Ohh I havnt tried it :P but please tell me how to get walkman equalizer working?
[Sony Xperia ZL] mithun46:
This is AOSP ROM and it doesnt support Sony apps that require sony frameworks
[Sony Xperia ZL] R4GE199:
What is new in the latest nightly? I saw the size increased by 2mb :p
[Sony Xperia ZL] mithun46:
Latest merges from CM, AOKP and PA
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
Woah that should be in the OP. Good stuff!
[Sony Xperia ZL] mithun46:
That's there in FAQ ;)
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
Just noticed. Thought those were specific changes made to this particular experimental build.

Btw, any news on the brightness level issue? As far as I know the issue is CM specific so it persists in all CM based roms.
[Sony Xperia ZL] flipke211:
Big THANK YOU for the developers!

Installed yesterday the experimental build and it rocks.

I am really happy with the fluidity and the optimisation settings offered by this ROM.

Nice job!
[Sony Xperia ZL] mithun46:
Glad you like it
[Sony Xperia ZL] coilbio:
I like the smoothness of the experimental build.

480p DPI needs to be an option. 360p is too small to read at times.
[Sony Xperia ZL] motoridersd:
Any plans for a newer Experimental build? This one is pretty good, pretty stable and pretty smooth. I've had a couple of reboots and I've run into some lag from time to time (fixed with a reboot). I still have issues with bluetooth audio streaming, quality is really bad and I have stopped using A2DP in the car and using the Aux input instead.

I also am seeing some cell problems. I am losing service in places where I usually would only have flaky service (a quick data drop or garbled audio during a call), and reconnecting takes a long time. This could be the modem firmware used on the phone, or T-Mobile making changes in San Diego with the official launch of LTE. I have seen some new LTE spots this weekend, so I'm thinking it could be the latter.
[Sony Xperia ZL] ffh2303:
I tried flashing the boot.img from the experimental build to my phone that's running CM10.1 nightly and I can't turn on my wifi. What should I do to use the kernel from the experimental build with CM?
[Sony Xperia ZL] mithun46:
That's cause some linaro components in kernel depend on some linaro parts of ROM. And CM which is non linaro lacks those. I can compile linaro CM if you want
[Sony Xperia ZL] ffh2303:
I would be very grateful if you do. :angel:
[Sony Xperia ZL] schnuffdroid:
hi!

how do i get picasa web albums in galerie on this great rom?:confused:

edit:

jipppiieee-

I've found a solution myself: flashed this zip and all is fine now! :)
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
Google services is preventing my phone from going into deep sleep for some reason. Dunno I'd its because of gapps or something else but its annoying when I'm trying to calibrate my battery. Its been doing this for the last 3 nightlies. I'm on the nightly from the 20th, by the way.

EDIT: I have all location services off which might also cause some sort of conflict.

EDIT #2: Yep it's location services. It seems they keep trying to turn themselves back on or something which is preventing the phone from going into deep sleep. I turned location services back on and the phone has no problems going into deep sleep now. Need mithun46 to give his expert opinion on this if possible.

Sent from my C6503
[Sony Xperia ZL] mithun46:
Bro, What's Up??

Regarding Google Services, Its goo.im responsible for it. Also that's unusual. Try to do this Clear Data.

On Side note, I know about nightly builds. But I have no internet on PC now. So can't help. But I will try to compile thru my tab via ssh and give u a latest build ASAP
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
Thanks man, much appreciated. No rush tho', don't worry, this is a minor issue for what is otherwise an amazing and rocksolid rom.
[Sony Xperia ZL] mithun46:
Oops Typo. I meant Experimental Builds not nightly builds lol
[Sony Xperia ZL] zombiej79:
Picking up a zl today coming from a htc one xl was running a pa style rom how is this rom for daily use?
[Sony Xperia ZL] sergsinger:
This ROM is great, but you can face display brightness issue.
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
I've been using this as my daily driver since the day my ZL arrived. Spent about 20 minutes with stock sony android before i couldn't take it anymore. This ROM works wonderfully as a daily driver. Only nagging issue that persists across all the CM based roms is the brightness doesn't adjust properly so it needs a bit of tweaking to get it working normally. Other than that its smooth, stable and as feature rich as you could hope for.

Also, I solved my deep sleep issue, mithun46. Reflashed Gapps from here, cleared cache and dalvik and fixed permissions and now everything is working great and battery isn't getting murdered anymore.
[Sony Xperia ZL] mithun46:
Good News Brother! :)
[Sony Xperia ZL] schnuffdroid:
one little thing is bugging me a bit:

when i longpress my home button in the middle of the navigation bar, the navring comes up. it is supposed to come up when swiping up from the navbar, and this is how it works on my n4 with aokp rom.

sometimes it works properly, but most of the time it doesn't.

any adwise?:confused:

xperia zl * pacman * tapatalk
[Sony Xperia ZL] mithun46:
Post in bug tracker
[Sony Xperia ZL] motoridersd:
What have the nightlies been up to lately? I'm guessing nothing worth building a new experimental build on. Still running 7/08
[Sony Xperia ZL] babylordx:
thanks for this amazing rom for zl. instead of slimgapps,is there a compatible version of the latest full gapp i can flash this with.
[Sony Xperia ZL] mithun46:
U can install goo.im gapps
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
So, I've been trying to figure out who exactly I should ask about the ever-annoying auto-brightness issue. Which bugtracker should I post it on? CM? I really want this solved since it's the one and only bug that prevents every single CM based ROM from being a fully functional ROM. I need someone with dev skills to look at the issue and figure out what exactly is the source of the problem. Should I post this in PAC's bug tracker or CM's bug tracker?

EDIT: I've also noticed this is going into the next CM nightly. Hopefully PAC's next build will have this too:
[Sony Xperia ZL] motoridersd:
I use Lux Lite and have disabled the built in auto brightness. You can set Lux with whatever brightness points you like and you can easily make the auto brightness work properly.

Check it out https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vitocassisi.luxlite
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
The thing is, I really don't want to use a 3rd party app for something so basic. I really like to keep my phone as clean as possible when it comes to running processes and having to install an app for something that the phone should already provide doesn't seem like an adequate fix for me.

That being said, I'll give the app a try. If it reads the light sensor properly and adjusts the brightness accordingly then that's useful info to have for fixing the built in auto-brightness. Means the issue is much more software-level than anything serious. Thanks for the suggestion.
[Sony Xperia ZL] motoridersd:
It's definitely software related. When you use Lux you can tell that the sensor values are completely out of whack. The first 3/4 of the slider don't do anything, so you are left with a very small range where the brightness actually changes.

I can see how adding a third party app would be undesirable, but since the built in auto brightness is a process as well, you are pretty much replacing it with this.

The nice thing about Lux is that you map the light sensor output to the brightness level that you want. I started using it on the Nexus 4 where the stock auto brightness was still not as good as I would like it to be. I've never been a fan of auto brightness, the one on the iPhone always bugged me and I'm used to disabling the features on my phones. With Lux, I don't have that problem anymore.

And the best part, you can do a titanium backup of the app and its settings and never have to worry about what a ROM will do with the brightness.
[Sony Xperia ZL] mithun46:
Good News Guys :)

New Experimental Build Uploaded
[Sony Xperia ZL] jug6ernaut:
Maybe i screwed something up idk, i flashed this over last experimental build and flashed gapps and my zl wont boot. @ work and no cable so im dead in the water right now lol. Will try some stuff later...

OK, got it working. [MENTION=4922752]mithun46[/MENTION], seems the boot.img in the newest experimental build is doa. I had to flash the boot.img from the newest CM nightly.

For everyone else download the attached boot.img and flash from fastboot.

To do so...

1. Plug your phone into your computer.

2. Turn your phone off and boot/reboot while holding the volume up button, you should get a blue notification light.

3. Then enter the following command "fastboot flash boot path/to/boot.img", replacing path/to/boot.img with the actual path to the boot.img

This assumes you have fastboot setup.
[Sony Xperia ZL] motoridersd:
Awesome! Downloading now. Is there a change log? :)

Thanks for the heads up jug6ernaut
[Sony Xperia ZL] mithun46:
****. Have no internet on PC to help .

So am stopping experimental builds till I get PC

Maybe [MENTION=312638]jug6ernaut[/MENTION] can help u in new experimental builds
[Sony Xperia ZL] motoridersd:
How do you build these?
[Sony Xperia ZL] mithun46:
I have made some scripts :)
[Sony Xperia ZL] motoridersd:
I'd be happy to offer my PC and time for building experimental builds :)
[Sony Xperia ZL] mithun46:
Pm me your hangouts
[Sony Xperia ZL] babylordx:
New nightly build brick my phone ;[ ,keeps saying trebucet launcher fail. Cant reboot into cwm
[Sony Xperia ZL] mithun46:
Not brick. Its errors with SELinux

DO NOT FLASH A NEW NIGHTLY WITHOUT FURTHER NOTICE
[Sony Xperia ZL] babylordx:
Thanks but warning came too late. Well my bad for updating instantly >,<
[Sony Xperia ZL] bouvrie:
My summary of this thread :P

I've been going through this thread in my search for custom ROM options for the Samsung Xperia ZL. I'm thinking about getting this phone but worried about future proofing. Custom ROMs would help with this but I'm not familiar with Android devices and the effect of custom ROMS.

I assumed most apps compatible with the stock ROM would be able to run on custom ROMs like this one if you install them (APKs). I also assumed custom ROMs would enable more functionality/customization/optimization compared to the stock ROM, while keeping most functionality found in the stock ROM available.

But from reading this thread, I've deduced:

* This custom ROM requires a custom kernel, so the device's bootloader must be unlocked. When unlocking the bootloader of the Xperia ZL, be sure to backup the device's DRM keys or they WILL be lost forever and Music ID/Walkman app Gracenote/Bravia Engine 2 will not function properly and your warranty WILL DEFINITELY be lost. Not sure if warranty can be claimed with the backup, but it can't without.

* Walkman equalizer doesn't work because of the ROM not supporting (Sony) apps that require Sony frameworks. Can't Sony frameworks be copied from the stock ROM? Or are they binaries that need to be rebuilt as this custom ROM uses a different Android version?

* IR Blaster doesn't work, perhaps also related to Sony frameworks?

* Camera doesn't work completely (read: functions identical to or better than the stock one?) yet. Camera is based on the one in CM and CM team is working on it from Sony code.

* Display brightness is bugged, have to use the Lux Lite app as a workaround.

* Advanced settings are missing. Which implication does this have, I assumed that it's one of the main reasons I'd want a custom ROM?

* Speaker phone doesn't work. No real big issue for me.

Functionality-wise, I'd dislike applying a custom ROM only to see some features aren't supported. Is there a more extensive list of 'disabilities' along with prognosis on whether they can be fixed? As Sony released the ZL source code, would this mean everything can be fixed by the community now?

*edit*

Also, I read in various reviews that the phone can run quite hot (reminds me of the trouble I had with Sony's PS3 that died because of overheating). Is this a real problem with this phone and/or do some ROMs perhaps address this issue?