yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
Guys. Looks like I will have to close my ROM threads.

To avoid GPL violations, moderators want me to publish the kernel source and I am not able to fulfill their

request since:

1) we don't have kernel source provided by manufacturer

2) there's currently no kernel source from identical device available which could be used

The other way would be to publish roms without kernel (this means without recovery,boot,uboot).

which I personally don't like since it would make the installation process more troublesome, especially

for beginners.

I am considering I'll move back to MoDaCo where I spent couple of years maintaining roms and kernels for ZTE Skate before I moved to XDA.

I will request mods there to create THL W8 category for me.

I don't want to get anyone from XDA maintainers in trouble because of this. Shame on manufacturers not releasing kernel sources and thus violating GPL...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Senapone:
It's a shame that THL won't publish "their" kernel source.

Have you tried to ask them?

If you decided to move to the other site please give us some link in order for us to keep follow your good work!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] NZ-Simplicity:
Please, will you post a link on where you are going etc once you get setup etc??

Will we still recieve the updates notice on the new incrementals that you have just setup in the latest one?

It's a pity that you are being forced to move elsewhere to continue your great work, but I do understand...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
Of course.

This is the place where I contributed a lot: http://www.modaco.com/forum/542-zte-skate-skatemodacocom/

I already asked for a new section for THL W8. If we can't get it I'll just use one of the general threads, e.g.

http://www.modaco.com/forum/445-other/
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Senapone:
Could you ask for a section named W8/W8+?

It's quite hard to find something for W8+, your threads will sure have more visibility.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Mr. Premise:
Keep us posted so we can follow you over. I hurried and downloaded everything so it's ready for when my W8 arrives.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
My archive will still be available for everyone. So even if you have no links, You can browse directly in my goo account: http://goo.im/devs/C3C0/THLW8
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
I have an idea which will not only solve the GPL issue but will simplify flashing for different W8 models.

I'll share the details soon.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] clandestino123:
thanks :victory:

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lol!! same here, ha ha.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
First post updated.

Info is important for newcomers only, but anyway, for those who are interested:

- basic package has been stripped from kernel binaries and thus it contains system image only (system.img) to meet XDA rules

- additional W8 model specific binaries can be obtained using my small tool at http://gravity.ceco.sk.eu.org
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Mr. Premise:
--> 403 Forbidden.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
Yeah, I forgot to unlock it for public. Sorted already.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Capadac:
Possible antibrick

ok my friend bricked his w8 by flashing a wrong preloader, and i tried to flash the right one and got the DRAM error. So here is wat finally worked. i flashed the w8+ preloader again http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1966639&d=1368704145 (thanks to C3C076) by itself using stock scatter file and replacing stock preloader. then i removed the battery and put it back so the computer can detect it again, then i click download and flashed each one seperately. then i noticed a charge light (i was excited), then i heard a boot sound, then i saw light in the capacitive buttons ( im really exited now ). i remembered someone saying if the boot and uboot are incompatiple it will show black screen, so i downloaded gravitymod2 w8+ flashtool http://goo.im/devs/C3C0/THLW8/GravityMod2/thlw8plus-gravitymod2-1.5-flashtool-20130512.zip, and again flashed one at a time and boom, i had a boot screen and then i went to recovery (power + Vol +) wiped data factory reset and rebooted, then it booted into android home screen. HAHA Im so happy now. all thats left is the incremental updates.........BUT I SAY A BIG THANK YOU TO GRAVITYMOD2 AND ITS DEV, because i would be able to do it without those files.

If this can help anyone feel free to try wat i said above

Also, sometimes your computer may not detect the phone right away, you just got to keep pulling the battery (waiting about 8 sec each time) and put it back with the usb in until the computer detects it. it was weird the phone only allowed me to flash with the w8+ preloader but the phone is a w8
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
Great :)

Just 1 question. What was the reason of flashing gm2 for w8+ on w8 device??

What does the sticker located under battery say? I wonder how it is possible that ROM for w8+ having kernel for FHD screen that is not compatible with w8 works on it. I don't think it's possible.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gerryg73:
C3C076 you are great...:fingers-crossed::good:

You won't find THL W8+ written anywhere on the phone... just W8...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Capadac:
this sticker says w8 and in the phone setting it says w8 but it might be a w8+, and because i used a w8+ preloader is why i loaded the w8+ gm2 rom
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
You can check with antutu benchmark to find out what is the screen resolution. But if you find interface normal sized (not too small and not too big), then it's really a w8+...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] zomig:
i used the antutu benchmark to confirm mine was a W8+ as there is nothing on the phone to say it is.

Have to say i think the w8 (nm890) is quicker but it is early days as not really used it day to day as wanted to get CWM and root done which i have now done thanks to this forum.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Capadac:
oh yea its 1920*1080 so it is a w8+, wonder the stock rom wont work.....lol well at least there is a way to resurect a bricked w8/w8+
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
Yep. It is normal for smaller resolution screen to be quicker. It needs less time to redraw "thanks" to less number of pixels.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Capadac:
hey do you know where i can find the stock w8+ rom
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gerryg73:
ThL_W8.JB2.FHD.EN.COM.8P128_MT6589V1.0.4_20130515

hxxp://pan.baidu.com/share/link?shareid=411503&uk=4213659546

this is the last stock rom for W8+
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Senapone:
If i'm not mistaken in CyanogenMod there's an option to disable boot animation to make the device boot faster

Do you think it would work in GM2 too?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
Disabling boot anim won't save any remarkable amount of time.

Use Settings / Accessibility / Quick boot instead.

As a side effect - you won't be able to use volume+ and power to boot into recovery while power is off.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] joemilan:
change the battery icon

Hello, I'm trying to change the battery icon ...

I got your zip flashable Incremental update v1.5 "framework with modified circular battery icon", I looked into

(both in SystemUI \ res \ drawable-xhdpi and is in the framework \ framework-res \ res \ drawable-xhdpi) but I have not found traces of

circular icon ...

can you give me a hand??

Clearly, once done I'll put at the disposal of the community

thanks, Joe
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
This is CyanogenMod circle battery and it is not based on images. It is a self-drawing object inherited from ImageView class.

It is referenced in status_bar_gemini.xml layout.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] zomig:
Anyone know the procedure to flash this to a W8+ ? I am assuming you use SP Flash but is it the same as flashing the custom rom using the download button as mine is 1.03 so be worth going to 1.04?

Thanks
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
You just open scatter that's included in the package in sp flash tool.

Leave only these checked:

Uboot, boot, android.

This way you won't loose installed applications. You could also replace recovery image with one from my recovery thread compatible with that build number and flash it together with those other 3.

Use download Button to flash.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] zomig:
loaded the scatter file but it ticks everything including the preloader, do i just untick the lot and only tick the 3 you mentioned plus download your recovery one as well for that build ?

Thanks

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that seemed to of worked..... :good:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
Yes. Just untick and leave only those I mentioned.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] badola:
battery drainage

I am noticing battery draining out quicker after upgrading to GM2. There are couple of mention of this problem on this thread but don't think there was any further discussion. Battery settings show its "Android System" eating up almost 80% of the battery cycle. I am not sure if this is something I can fix by changing settings itself. Is the system doing lot more than official rom in background? How much impact does the fps makes? If its that, shouldn't culprit be shown as screen not android system?

The battery life of the phone is still much better than my wife's iPhone. But would be very good to be able to get close to the original rom battery performance.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] zomig:
All worked, some of the apps force close so will probably reset it but all in all it went on ok.

Thanks
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ch-vox:
:confused:

My W8 has same battery life before and after upgrading.... :silly:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
Try wipe cache and dalvik cache first.

If it doesn't help, go for full wipe.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
Battery usage statistics are not correct - looks like it's not coded right. Screen will always take only 2% no matter how intensively it is used - which is incorrect.

Slightly greater drain is caused by:

- newer android version

- larger fps
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gerryg73:
sorry

@ C3C076

I want to upgrade from 1.0.2 to 1.0.4

Is it possible flashing only the 3 parts you mentioned before (UBOOT, BOOTIMG, ANDROID) ?

May I also replace the recovery file cwm for w8+ (hxxp://goo.im/devs/C3C0/THLW8/recovery/recovery-thlw8plus-cwm-6032-104-20130515.zip)

tnx for help
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
What's your full build number?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gerryg73:
the full build number is:

ThL_W8.JB2.FHD.EN.COM.8P128_MT6589V1.0.2_20130418
[Miscellaneous Android Development] mslr:
New bug ?

Hi,

I have a new bug, when i was in my car with bluetooth connection and i use the navigation (waze) when i receive a call, the phone switch off and i need to put my pin number.

I have not this problem with 1.07 version

Does anybody have the same problem ?

Regards

Marc
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
Should work fine.

Reviewing 1.8 changes, I can't see anything relevant that could be related to this so I am sure that 1.8 is definitely not a reason. Just a matter of coincidence...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] muratzilla:
is it possible to set fps at 60, 48 or 30 fps in gm2 rom? if so, how?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
No.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] smutje64:
hello, sorry i am very busy at the moment. with 7 kids, one of 7 has down-syndrom and is in hospital!

here ist the link to the star s5 Rom that works:

http://www.needrom.com/wp-content/u...P_mt89_v9_c05_pulid_jb2_20130321-160914_PC.7z

i mixed it with the gravitymod files and make a firmware update in flash tool and my bricked w8 phone runs like new.

in this star s5 Rom is a htc logo, you can Change it with any logo.bin from android

chris
[Miscellaneous Android Development] paradigmslost:
I have tried to update the firmware on my W8 thl 4 gig rom, and now doesnt start. Anyone have advice to get it working. Doesnt power up, just sits there when trying to turn it on.

Cheers

Jay
[Miscellaneous Android Development] paradigmslost:
THL W8 Not starting

Hi, tried to flash my Rom, on my W8 THL 4 gig ROM, now Phone doesn't show any life at all. Any ideas on resurrecting it.

Thanks in advance.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Indiant:
it is the modded rom, or the original one? (Star S5 has 4.2.1 rom, but gravitymod is 4.1.2, so I'm confused)

Can we use it on W8??

I can not open system.img.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Senapone:
Hi C3C076, do you know how to remove all the photo sound?

I mean focus and shutter.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
There's no option to since it might be illegal in some countries.

But I can give you a hint:

Replace camera sounds in /system/media/ui with files having silence only (use e.g Audacity software to generate such files)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] smutje64:
i am shure it is a modded star s5 Rom.this way it is only for bricked phones! that was a way to unbricked my w8 phone (i had first flashed a w8PLUS Rom and the phone had a black Screen an no lights!)

you can use it on W8:

make the whole star s5 Rom in a Folder, than make the gravity mod files in the same Folder)

in Flash tool make a Firmware update (not download)

my w8 phone runs perfect with this mixed Rom, i have gravitymod 4.1.2 with all updates and custum recovery

perfect for me,
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Capadac:
Thx
[Miscellaneous Android Development] thangcuoi:
New W8 owner. Great update from my old HTC Desire.

I find the backlit capacitive key (?) to be very bright. Would it be possible to disable the backlit?

Is there a patch to enable on screen soft key?

Do you plan to update the Recovery to Touch version?

Thank you for all your hard work.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] amstel:
just bought 32GB SD card,

how do I move some of the apps there to the external sd card?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
I was looking for some official info on new Eastcom W1 1.0.3 rom and found on some

chinese forum that the new kernel should have better support for 2000 mAh batteries.

I've been testing the new kernel on my W8 for couple of days and have a feeling

that the battery life increased slightly. However, this is too subjective and

everybody might get different result. It could also be a placebo effect.

Anyway, at least it feels better to have the latest kernel installed.

This kernel is applicable to W8 models only. However, my update script

is intelligent enough to detect the type of device to decide

whether to flash it or not.

New CWM recovery image is available for both - W8 as well as W8+

Update should appear in your GooManager app and in the first post in a while.

Changelog 1.9 - 28/05/2013

W8 models:

- updated kernel taken from the latest Eastcom W1 1.0.3 official FW

--- better support for 2000mAh batteries

--- should increase battery life slightly

All models:

- updated CWM recovery to 6.0.3.3. Includes:

--- synced with upstream sources

--- changed font to increase font size

--- brought back /sd-ext support

--- added custom recovery name and version info

--- links to relevant commits: Part1, Part2
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Senapone:
Under /system/media/audio/ui there's plenty of file ogg, i think the ones to be replaced would be camera_click, camera_focus, camera_shutter and videorecord. Am i right? :good:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Xperia-Ray:
to disable camera sound- you need to mod the build.prop file - you will find an option something like "camera sound=1" change it to "0".

I need your help- I gonna buy this phone THL W8 4GB 720P - do you recommend it? does it come ready from the box to daily use? or should I from the start need to root and tweak files/setting to make it run 100% stable&factional?

Just sold my Xperia Ray :(

p.s- what about official THL latest rom?

http://en.thl.com.cn/Download/detail_104.html

I have told that THL W8 official comes with 4.2 and not 4.1.

can we use this rom too?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Haxxa:
Hi, Just wondering if I can upgrade straight from 1.5 to 1.9 or how to go about it, just got phone today! Any other worthy things knowing (not noted in instructions), Do I need to do anything else?

Thank You & Best Regards - Harrison (hasamoder) :good:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
Works straight out of box. Please, use general thread for general questions. You might get better answers there.

Instructions clearly say, quoting: "Download

all

available incremental updates. Install all

in correct order

while in custom recovery."
[Miscellaneous Android Development] clandestino123:
Ok. Received my THL W8 today. Had a play around just with the stock ROM and it was pretty impressive to be honest.

Now I've installed GM2 and the incremental updates up to 1.9. It is a massive improvement on the stock ROM. Huge!!! :o

Coming from my original Galaxy Note, this THL W8 absolutely blows it out of the water in terms of fluidity, speed and also, enjoyment.

C3C076 - thank you.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Haxxa:
Sorry haven't been able to fully download rom of goo yet, as servers are really slow at the moment, I'll make sure to take a close read once it has downloaded. Cheers.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
[MENTION=535343]all[/MENTION]

little more patiente required for new 1.9 incremental update.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] thangcuoi:
After GooManager failed download twice, I switched to loading your dev page on the website and download using LoaderDroid. It resume broken download so I got the file in the end.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gerryg73:
ok now I have GM2 + incremental updates until v1.8... on mu W8+ (16GB)

Great rom! :victory::angel: tnx a lot C3C076

bugs solved: no black screen in auto-brightness mode, gps fixes fast (insert gps.conf-file in system/etc)

The only bad thing I noticed is a continous popup of ads, isn't this rom ad-free?

How can I cancel this adds? Ad-Free-App ?

ciao

GerryG

P.S.: Still no rom-upgrade appears in the GooManager/Check for updates-folder... (1.9)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Senapone:
Hi gerryg!

Where do you find adds?

I only found them in apps that deserve them a space on the bottom of the screen.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
What do you mean by adds? You mean application adds?

Well, I am not the one that will be providing the ad blockers in the ROM because I think it would be more appropriate to support developers and buy their add-free versions of apps (in case they provide paid version) ;)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] clandestino123:
Can you provide details explaining exactly what you did here?? cheers
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Senapone:
That's what i find in my /system/build.prop file under # audio:

ro.camera.sound.forced=0

ro.audio.silent=0

nothing more.

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There was a lot of italian W8+ owners with problems with GPS.

It was able to discover satellite but it won't catch them.

By putting a file named "gps.conf" under /system/etc with italian specs everything works fine.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gerryg73:
Hello!

The ads are in italian and they appear in the scrollbar at the top of the screen

like "Buy ringtones" (in italian)

The ads appeared 3 times... but now they disappeared... but I think it´s my fault.... strange because with stock rom they never appeared...

Now I´m gonna upgrade from 1.8 to 1.9

Thanks a lot C3C076 :good:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] kucyk84:
can i change battery low ogg sound with another ogg sound without issues?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
Yes.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Senapone:
Thanks you so much, instead of replace all of the files i simply renamed them from .ogg to .bak.

It works like a charm. :good:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
Nice to know. Back on gingerbread, there was no check if sound file actually exists thus making camera crash.

Edit. I can now safely say that battery life improved in 1.9 (for W8 models - thanks to new kernel)

Previously, I was getting about 5 to 5 and a half hours of screen time.

As you can see in the screenshot, I am getting 6:17 hours screen time and still have 11% left.

My screen time typically includes: wifi on, 3G on, sync on, lot of browsing, 1.5 hours of GPS navigation (Waze), ...

Let's see if others experience the same improvement.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Senapone:
W8+ kernel

C3C076 i would ask you something about W8+ kernel.

Were you (or maybe one of W8+ owners your friends) able to compile a new one to get some FPS/battery life improvement? :fingers-crossed:

Have you find differences between the ones included in official firmware releases (1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4)?

And for your rom which one are you using?

Many thanks
[Miscellaneous Android Development] brown777:
Has someone any estimation about the fix of the GPS tracking issue? Will it be fixed in the near future? As I know it is a general 6589 problem.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
We can't compile kernel for W8+ ourselves since we don't have access to source code. And I am not able to tell you difference between W8+ kernels (1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4) since I don't own W8+ and it's impossible to test them on W8.

I think I've used the 1.0.3 in GM2.

I believe the tracking issues are related to Dalvik VM bug which has been addressed in CM10.1 some time ago. ( https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_dalvik/commit/6799723387fe725e5418a83d2762539530a8835c )

I am not sure if we can use libdvm.so from other device. I have built one myself from CM10.1 sources but haven't tried it yet.

Some say, that GPS tracking works correctly when you use it with AGPS turned off but I can't confirm myself (haven't tried)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] brown777:
Do you planning to try it?

At the afternoon I will check it, and I will report the results, thanks for the tip.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
I get a bootloop. But maybe it's because CM10.1 is Android 4.2.2 and we have 4.2.1.

I should try with AOSP sources that are closer to our build instead, but I have no time for such experiments ATM.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Haxxa:
Ok, I am having quite a bit of a problem, no matter what I do, I can't boot in to Recovery, whether it be ADB or using VOL+ on boot. My phone itself is working fine however I believe there must be a problem here somewhere. So to start from the beginning, yesterday I got this phone in the mail, it was working great but straight away after reading I tried booting into stock recovery without success. VOL+ would prevent the phone from turning on, after removing my finger from VOL+ it would boot fine, but no matter how many ways I tried I could not boot into recovery.

This left me with ADB, which too had issues as after booting with adb reboot recovery, nothing happened. Eventually after 3 more attempts I got to green open android but no menu? I could not get any menu anyway I tried. Finally I flashed, the CWM Recovery found here using the instructions... http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2237779

My phone build is - 8P32_MT6589V1.0.4_20130328

With the flash successful I tried again to boot with adb reboot recovery which now instead, reboots a couple of times before proceeding with standard boot.

So I am out of options, I have tried every resource I know what am I doing wrong? I can flash things but can't boot into recovery which I need to follow the installation instructions.

Please help me out here, your help is greatly appreciated.

(Sorry if I am a n00b and I have missed some key resource or information). P.S I know some THL W8's can't boot with VOL+ into recovery but even adb doesn't work...

Best Regards - hasamoder
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Senapone:
Have you tried to tick off "fast boot" on Settings \ Accessibility?