yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Toasty Clown:
Here are some instructions for if you want stock firmware, kernel and all. If you want to change the kernel and/or rom, I'll add such instructions upon request.

Turn your phone off with the battery intact.

Go download an older firmware from here (you'll have to scroll down quite a bit).

Place the .ftf file in "C:\Flashtool\firmwares" or wherever your flashtool installation is.

Open Flashtool (as administrator if option is available).

Click on the lightning icon and click 'OK' on the following pop-up.

On the left of this new menu, highlight your downloaded .ftf (it should read somewhere along the lines of "|R800i |4.0.2.A.0.XX | -Name of vendor or region goes here- ). On the right, leave all settings as they are except "Wipe data" which you must uncheck. Now click 'OK'.

Wait for the menu instructing you to plug the phone in. Do so: insert the usb of the turned off phone while holding down the back (leftmost) key. Please note that if the menu does not vanish upon doing this then you do not have the required drivers.

Wait while Flashtool does its job. You will know that it's done when the text "Device disconnected" appears in the program window.

Disconnect the phone and turn it on.

If you followed the instructions properly, the phone should boot into the older version with all downloaded apps, data and settings intact.

Insert USB.

Follow instructions here.

There you are. It's rooted. There may be certain apps missing; these are usually preinstalled apps that were on your system partition which was formatted during the flashing process.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 216Monster:
You have it right indeed. First thing i would flash the 4.0.2.A.0.62 FTF file using FlashTool (flashtool can be found in the development section, first or second thread) after it is done and If your boot loader is unlocked, go to the LuPus v7 for Gingerbread thread (also in the development section) download his kernel, then to make it easier, rename the file "boot.img" now plug your phone in USB for fast boot mode, and in the command window type " fastboot flash boot boot.img" When it is done unplug and power it on, when the notification lite turns blue press up or down (up or down will indicate which "recovery" version you want to enter) once in recovery choose "instal from SD card" and select the superuser.zip and instal it. You can find the superuser.zip in a few places, but Wedgess made it easy, its also in the LuPus v7 for Gingerbread thread so you can download it from there. Then reboot and your rooted with running 2.3.4!

It seems like a lot I suppose but once you a familiar with it, it becomes second nature, once you get that down, your ready to give some custom roms a try, the developers in the xperia play forums have done some nice work!

Sent from my R800at
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AceWhatever:
Thanks, but like I explained before I don't understand why the .62 needs to be flashed and I'm having trouble finding stocks that are recognized by Flashtool on my R800i. Is there a region independent .62 or .58 I can use?
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KiraYahiroz:
Flashing the stock ROM (.62) will wipe everything, it's more like a factory reset and will make it the pure original Xperia Play ROM, meaning that there will be nothing that could cause problems when installing custom ROMs on top of it. There's a link of stock .ftf files in the "official firmware" section here, see if you can flash R800i_4.0.2.A.0.62_phoenixvendor.ftf onto your Play with flashtool, as when you also flash a custom kernal later, this will unlock some hidden internal space.

On the other hand, have you managed to unlock the bootloader using Sony's official method (that you linked in #7)?
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AceWhatever:
Yes. That was luckily the easiest step.

After much fidgeting around and cross comparing instructions, I finally managed to root the damn thing. I would have preferred not install a custom kernel without fully understanding what it does but I was getting impatient and everything seems to be working fine so far so no problems there. Feels good to finally be able to use Titanium Backup to toss all that stupid bloatware out.

Thanks to everyone who helped! :good:

So I'm assuming that in the future any updates or replacements to the kernel or the need to install a custom ROM will require wiping everything all over again? It's not a huge hindrance to me since I don't have a lot of apps and data restoration is simple, but I figure that since this is an almost weekly/monthly thing for some people here is there some kind of method to batch restore all your data and settings in a few steps?
[HTC EVO 3D] swiftfraser:
i am unable to flash a jb rom without my phone bootlooping, i have tried to get s-off using unlimited.io method but was unsucsesfull.

i can boot into any rom, by flashing it then going into the bootloader and using fastboot flash boot boot.img

any ideas what to do next?

any help would be appreciated!

S-ON

HBOOT: 1.53.0007

RECOVERY:4EXT
[HTC EVO 3D] hossman:
You need s off for jb
[HTC EVO 3D] JimzFreebies:
There is a SMART FLASH option in 4ext recovery. Just switch it ON. Then try to flash jb again.

Hope this helps

Sent From HTC EVO 3D loaded with Mwakious3Drom v16.2 + JiMz-Pac Statusbar v3.0.16s
[HTC EVO 3D] swiftfraser:
already tried

already tried! didnt work :( :crying:
[HTC EVO 3D] coal686:
You need an Hboot lower than 1.50. To get there, you'll have to get s-off. I recommend that you use Ramjet's guide here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1889438
[HTC EVO 3D] Xerc:
Do the wire trick to get s-off first then downgrade with the zip file saved in the sdcard that the bootloader read/flash to get 1.49.0007. That's the best way to do it rather than downgrading first then s-off for 1.53.0007 hboot S-on, esp running on ICS.

I just did it last night.. now s-off on hboot 1.49.0007. Flashing Rom like crazy.lol
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] HTC:
Wassup All,

Is this a Second Edition? (note the minor version number - 167)

http://www.cddnet.com/Support/RUU166167WWE_CDL-SKU2.zip

Waiting for your reply!
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] noviur:
the link what you have - it is Arabic version... you need:

http://www.cddnet.com/Support/ruu166131wwe_cdl_sku1.zip
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] MattM:
It's not Second Edition.

And it's not terribly great from my testing ... :-(
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] HTC:
Hi,

I know. Thanks!

Last time when I was upgrading my I-Mate, the difference between Arabic and English versions was only in sku1 and sku2.

And now, do you think they changed minor version just to show the Arabization incorporation to ExtRom?

For those who download Arabic version: Please, provide some device info (rom, radio and ext, ppc) after this (167) upgrade. Thanks in advance!
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] noviur:
From www.clubimate.com

The latest upgrade to the i-mate™ Pocket PC is now available for download in both English and Arabic versions. It includes the security fix for MSN® Messenger, configuration settings for the Bluetooth Serial Port profile, improvements in handling SMS and the latest radio version.

The upgrade will erase all existing information on your device. It is strongly recommended that you synchronise your Contacts, Callender, Mail and Tasks to your PC before updrading your device.

The details of the ROM image are:

Rom version 1.66.00wwe

Radio version 1.10.00

To find out what ROM version you have, and if you then need to install this ROM upgrade, you can go to your Start menu, select Settings, then select the 'System' tab and tap on Device Information.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] HTC:
Ok! Will try by myself...
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] noviur:
just had a time to download... sorry can not be more helpful...
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] Saint-Nikoli:
I-Mate Pocket PC New Rom: 1.66.167 WWE English version

Please send me new rom nikoli_k@mail.ru

url not work :-(
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] Rudegar:
roms with nr line 1.xx are always 2003

roms with nr line 2.xx are 2003SE

2005 is a different nr line and cant be compared

to find roms go to the ftp

to find out how to get to the ftp go to wiki in the upper left corner of the screen
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] Saint-Nikoli:
cannot write ROM to i-mate pocket pc :-(

Please help me.

Not starting write ROM v1.75
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] Rudegar:
and the device in question is a himalaya device ?

and did you follow the guide in wiki ?
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] Saint-Nikoli:
I cannot start a mode of programming. The program writes that has not found the device.

It is necessary to connect credl together with programming?

How to start pocket pc in a mode of acceptance ROM?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tiwas:
Has anyone actually got Cloud backup to work? This is a Samsung feature, no? I only get network errors - unable to restore and mostly unable to back up. It would be a killer feature, but...no luck :S

Having a nandroid backup and just restore messages would be a killer feature :D

I'm using the latest leaked stock FW, by the way
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Have you tried with a genuine released firmware ??##

jje
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroidPlant:
Titanium Backup. I think that also offers cloud backup.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tiwas:
Don't think it's ever realy worked for me. It seems to back up, but I don't think I've ever got it restored...

Will it backup MMS as well? I have another SMS backup program, but that doesn't backup the MMS'es :S
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ryanscobberwash:
it works perfectly fine for me on any rom ive used :o i think ive only had a network error with it once but i just tried again and it worked so im not sure :o but as the guy above me said you can backup your sms using titanium but im not overly sure about mms i will check for you and report back :P

just checked and yes it does backup mms :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tiwas:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1537931

http://www.incredibleforum.com/foru...ms-messages-titanium-backup-rooted-users.html

Thanks for putting me on the trail :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroidPlant:
No problem! Titanium Backup is amazing at what it can do.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] b-eock:
I know everyone hates KIES but it can backup and restore both SMS and MMS now
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroidPlant:
No one will bother with it anyways.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slaphead20:
^^^^^ speaking for everyone? :confused:;)
[HTC One S] bilal_liberty:
This is AOSP 4.1.2 for HTC One S VILLEC2 (s3 processor). Just flash and enjoy!!
[HTC One S] bilal_liberty:
Bugs

Sound changes to mono after call...

Poor GPS

Poor camera
[HTC One S] bilal_liberty:
Changelog

20th April 2013

Initial release

Wifi Fixed

Menu button is now recent app button

long press home will act as recent app button

some camera fixes
[HTC One S] vksjangra:
How is the battery on this rom

Are the bugs same as that of CM or is their some improvement
[HTC One S] bilal_liberty:
I havent used it much. but I have done some changes to build.prop which should improve battery life.

Test it and give me feedback, if it would be better, I would implement those changes to cm also.
[HTC One S] vksjangra:
Alright bro

Thank u for another rom for our c2
[HTC One S] krysiak115:
wi-fi don't work, can't find any routers
[HTC One S] bilal_liberty:
Ya, trying to fix it.

what about camera and other features?
[HTC One S] krysiak115:
camera and bluetooth working ;)
[HTC One S] klemensior:
Unfortunately camera isn't working (maybe just for me). After i tried to take a few photos camera hang and then I got "camera error can't connect to camera". After a couple of minutes I tried again camera didn't display the error but the screen was black, nothing was shown, like camera and buttons in the app weren't working. After reboot I could take a photo but a second after the same - camera hangs, black screen gallery crashes. But I would be really happy if it the rom would work properly. Waiting for a fix and thank you for your work ;)
[HTC One S] wognwarren:
Will Test

Will be testing this once my data usage cycle refreshes on the 23rd. I have no idea how I finished my 5GB quota in 14 days :/
[HTC One S] bilal_liberty:
Wifi is fixed.... links will be updated soon
[HTC One S] Hmmy 4444:
plz teach me how to make a custom rom or jst tell me from where i cn learn
[HTC One S] bilal_liberty:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=porting+roms#
[HTC One S] Macanakin:
hehe, Funny!!
[HTC One S] bilal_liberty:
New Chnagelog:

Wifi Fixed

Menu button is now recent app button

long press home will act as recent app button

some camera fixes

Please test battery for atleast 24 hrs and report.
[HTC One S] Poez:
Can i flash this on hboot 3.01?
[HTC One S] bilal_liberty:
yes flash it on any hboot which is greater or equal to 2.11
[HTC One S] seagerfreak:
Found the sound bug. The music is stereo, but after I end a call, the music is mono. also, when listen to music, when I receive a sms, I hear the notification sounds over the music, and gives playback distorsion. Thanks.
[HTC One S] wognwarren:
This bug exists on pretty much any ROM, even the bone stock ROM from RUU!
[HTC One S] Cayman.n2o:
There is no sound bug on India stock rom. I am using lux rom which is based on India rom and there is no sound bug.

Sent from my HTC One S
[HTC One S] wognwarren:
When I used lux the bug was there, and yes I was using the version which had India ROM as base.
[HTC One S] bilal_liberty:
Before this rom, I was using latest 3.19 EU update and there was no sound bug :)
[HTC One S] wognwarren:
I used latest Asia WWE RUU and even that had the bug.
[HTC One S] Cayman.n2o:
So we can only conclude that bug is not in rom...Kernel,radio, faulty chip or who knows what

Sent from my HTC One S
[HTC One S] seagerfreak:
Can't be a faulty chip, 'cuz when I'm on ICS the sounds it's amazing :)
[HTC One S] fatpanda0:
What exactly is this sound bug. I see no issues when receiving a call in between listening to music and then resuming once done. Sound just comes fine. Surely the loudspeaker is horrible when compared to the magic on earphones but no idea what this issue is. But one problem as always it's the earpiece sound during speaking is too loud even in the lowest sound. Was on stock. Same here.
[HTC One S] Dr_Plaschke:
Hi

How long is the time fore the first booting?

I installed the rom after the instructions on first post, (use TWRP 2.4.1.0, and the boot.img extracted from the SuperXE-villec2.zip), but there was no finaly booting. I can see the collored cross on the display, but after 15 minutes I canceled the booting-process withe no results.

Anybody know, what´s wrong??

Thanks!!
[HTC One S] klemensior:
Can someone confirm that camera is fixed or not yet?
[HTC One S] wognwarren:
Use other TWRP versions. 2.4.1.0 is known to be buggy. Mine booted in under two minutes.
[HTC One S] klemensior:
Mine booted after two times flashing rom and kernel on 2.4 with full wipe and erase cache in fastboot and one on twrp 2.5 without wiping in fastboot and twrp. Try not wiping anything after flashing. Then it booted in almost 2 min.

Edit. I also removed the boot.img from zip. Maybe try it too.
[HTC One S] motorola_la:
instaled , flash google 4.2 cam and work superb :D nice rom
[HTC One S] bilal_liberty:
Plz test battery life and report for me its 15hrs on battery and still 50% is left...

If its same for us guys then only I'll port the tweaks to cm.
[HTC One S] Dr_Plaschke:
OK, I will try it one more with TWRP 2.3.3.0 and deleted boot.img in the zip-file...

Edit: No chance.... I flashed it without boot.img in the zi-file and one mor try with an original, fresh downloaded SuperXE-villec2.zip

Everytime it hang on the boot-process. I can see the coloured cross, and thats all.....

Next step I flashed one more the boot.img via fastboot after installing the google apps, but without any results.
[HTC One S] bilal_liberty:
are you doing factory reset? If you were able to run cm then this rom should work.

Edit: first boot takes some time 5-8 minutes
[HTC One S] Dr_Plaschke:
Yes, with factory reset. I didn´t testet CM, I come from trickdroid.

Maybe I´m to impatient. One more try with looking on a clock.

Edit: now the first boot, 1:17 pm in germany...:cool:
[HTC One S] bilal_liberty:
Is it booted?
[HTC One S] Dr_Plaschke:
No, now are 11 minutes gone.... :(
[HTC One S] bilal_liberty:
What is ur hboot version?
[HTC One S] Dr_Plaschke:
2.11

OT:How can I avoid the 5 minutes waiting for writing my next post??
[HTC One S] bilal_liberty:
Increase number of posts....
[HTC One S] Dr_Plaschke:
OK, thanks!!

Any other idea?
[HTC One S] bilal_liberty:
You can post your logcat which will give me idea why are you unable to boot this rom.

Type command adb logcat > logcat.txt when it is in boot loop.
[HTC One S] hellodzulz:
The video recording doesnt record after 10 secs. the app hangs at 11 secs while recording video. I should say the camera still has bugs. the camera is still okay it's the video that is the problem
[HTC One S] Dr_Plaschke:
Ok, here we go....
[HTC One S] seagerfreak:
The sound is mono.
[HTC One S] hellodzulz:
okay, i just found out, sometime when i record video, it will force close , and also the music player doesnt work. it will force close too
[HTC One S] bilal_liberty:
Are u wipping dalvik cache?
[HTC One S] Dr_Plaschke:
Yes, in this order:

via TWRP:

Factory reset

wipe system, cache and delvik cache

Flash the rom

Flash clock fix

boot to bootloader

flash boot.img using fastboot

boot to recovery

flash Google apps

and now rebooting....
[HTC One S] LeiManPRO:
Camera working FULL HD ?
[HTC One S] bilal_liberty:
Those who are facing cam problems flash this and report.
[HTC One S] wognwarren:
I still have the same bug which I have with every AOSP ROM that is shot pictures are blank and 0kb. This time though the camera itself hangs.
[HTC One S] fatpanda0:
The shot picture is blank bug gets resolved if you re-flash the ROM without any sort of wipe. After booting after the 2nd flash if it still doesnt work try clearing cache once and see. had the same issue in CM10. This process cleared the problem.
[HTC One S] bilal_liberty:
It looks like battery problem is solved by some tweaks. It is now 21 hours and 30 minutes which was 6-7 hours in cm.
[HTC One S] fatpanda0:
Noob question but installing AOSP 1st time.. Is it supposed to be this stripped. I mean not even a file manager??
[HTC One S] bilal_liberty:
I am also using aosp for first time. There are many file managers at play store. And u can also extract them from cm and install like a normal application.
[HTC One S] wognwarren:
This is pretty much what you get in a Nexus phone.

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Still does the same thing. Worse still it changed my touch sounds into the HTC Sense touch sounds instead of the stock Android touch sounds.
[HTC One S] fatpanda0:
Ya well I am sure I can install everything I need but its kinna weird thats all.. wanted to confirm is I got the installation right or not..

Just to add the front camera is still not recording videos.. checked and sense allows that.. is the kernal ported or the one developed by u and u-ra?

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Then you must have got something wrong someplace. wiping system, data and cache should have stripped the phone off sense related items correct??

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PS: whats the clock bug??
[HTC One S] wognwarren:
It should. To add to that before installing any AOSP ROM I unlocked the bootloader which should remove absolutely everything.
[HTC One S] fatpanda0:
Well unlocking just cleans up the sdcard to be precise and factory resets the phone. So anyways u have to manually wipe system and factory reset in twrp. I suggest you try once again and see.. I got a boot hang the 1st time I installed this.. Reinstalled and it worked.. Its a thing with android.. Do everything correct once it doesnt work.. do exactly the same thing again.. it magically works!!!
[HTC One S] wognwarren:
Thing is Instagram camera works, never tried the other cameras in the Play Store but the AOSP camera just doesn't want to work.
[HTC One S] bilal_liberty:
Some force closes which are fixed by the patch.
[HTC One S] bilal_liberty:
Camera is the biggest problem which will always be buggy in aosp roms no matter how much we try to solve it.
[HTC One S] fatpanda0:
I dont have root.. tis the same as it was when we were trying to get root back on the initial jb roms.. binary update issues.. wat 2 do? flash superuser by koush?
[HTC One S] bilal_liberty:
Flash this and u'll be rooted.
[HTC One S] wognwarren:
I Think

I think I found the problem with the camera. Apparently if you turn the JEPG Quality to super it will be bugged.
[HTC One S] fatpanda0:
ya installed the 1.25 from chainfires thread. but this ROM is very rudimentary.. Not one can use out of the Box.. but seems damn fast.. guess you using it to fix the cm10 which is actually what we need.. btw just wondering how have Ville guys moved to 4.2.1 when even they dont have the stock kernel out.. or do they??
[HTC One S] Macanakin:
I have root with this.
[HTC One S] Macanakin:
Well:

-Installed ROM

-Clock fix flashed

-SuperSu-1.04 flashed

Result:

-Root works fine.

-Camera force close after take 1 photo.

Second Round:

-Cam fix flashed.

Result:

-No more Force close but Video Camera doesn't works(force close).

-Wifi & Bluetooth Works.

-USB tethering works.

-Wifi AP works.

System works smoother than CM10.( Only a few minutes of test).
[HTC One S] jfassbinder:
Wich boot to choose

Hi! I dont really know wich boot.img to flash. I read the whole thread but i cant find it here. Do I have to use the CM10 img?

Thx
[HTC One S] bilal_liberty:
boot.img is inside the rom zip.
[HTC One S] bilal_liberty:
For me video camera is working fine after that fix.
[HTC One S] LordRyanStark:
I flashed the aosp camera but it only worked for a short while then said Gallery crashed. I used a third party camera app but the image suddenly freezes after around 3 seconds. I flashed 4.2-JB AOSP Camera and everything worked pretty well until I tried using the photosphere. Again, the error was the Gallery wasn't responding. The camera froze when I reopened it and the phone automatically rebooted.
[HTC One S] Macanakin:
Flash boot.img inside SuperXe-villec2.zip
[HTC One S] bilal_liberty:
aosp camera doesnot works

only the camera that is already there works but it is buggy
[HTC One S] Macanakin:
Bilal, why dont you map "Recent Apps key" to Menu Button(Long Press)?

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OK, False alarm. Maybe random Force Closes

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Native quick settings on AOSP? is it possible?
[HTC One S] bilal_liberty:
I dont know how to change behaviour of long pressing buttons thats why :laugh:

Long press home button to open recent apps was from before so I changed the recent key button to act as menu key since we dint had one.
[HTC One S] fatpanda0:
Need to change the cy8c-touchkey.kl file in /system/usr/keylayout

app switch shld be 249 .. i think it sld b 217 now

That will work I think.. sry was frustrated with the ROM so removed it prematurely. so cant test it myself and confirm..

Can someone confirm the present mapping in this file.. you can use root browser lite and open in RB text editor over the phone..

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Camera did not work at all in this one.. tried like 10 of them and every time after one click it stopped.. also GPS was not working for me.. kept searching for location for hours.. Assisted Gps is also not working..
[HTC One S] bilal_liberty:
bugs noted, thanks for feedback :)