yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
Aren't they just confused about signal auto hide? Signal icon appears only after authenticating to network.

If no, then it's a pitty... I won't by able to do more about it I already did... If it doesn't work with stock modem then it might be something burried deep in ROM. Maybe some libs...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] manu81:
Yes signal. Work well

Enviado desde mi ThL W8 usando Tapatalk 2
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dyter:
What about proximity sensor ?

It's work very bad :crying:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ch-vox:
I'm searching for information about that, but it's a bit difficult to know what is the real problem.

the only thing I know is that there is slightly no delay with stock ROM...

one more thing : the tonality is little bit noisy when you're waiting for your contact to pick up the call, like distorted. but it's quite functional. :D
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dyter:
When I put water on the sensor, the proximity work. I think it need to be calibrated with lens, but with this rom there is no calibrate option ...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ch-vox:
did it work with ThL stock ROM ?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dyter:
No same problem with stock rom, the sensor work if I make a blur on the sensor ! It's very strange ...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ch-vox:
It's looking like a hardware issue. with stock ROM, no one has any problem with proximity sensor...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] -fluffy-:
i think that the problem is if he went back to stock rom an didnt do a factory reset

so my friend didt u do a factory reset after loading stock rom

i hade the same problem wiht my hdc note 2 wen i loadet a custom rom an went back to factory rom

wen i made the reset it worked again
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ankadnikov:
Here is the next patch. Fullscreen caller photo + Multiline contact names.

Download
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
It looks like they finally released an official update:

http://www.thl.com.cn/Download/list-25-1.html
[Miscellaneous Android Development] coldmeat:
Great!!!!

Enviado desde mi ThL W8 usando Tapatalk 2
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ch-vox:
yes, but it's to be 8P32 version...

do we have information about differences between 8P32 and 8P64 versions ?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
Makes no difference. All we need is system and kernel and uboot, anyway.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ch-vox:
have you tested this new ROM ? I'm trying downloading it but I'm experiencing difficulties, it's not finishing, the download stops before ending.

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great ! thank you kadan ;)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
No. I'm busy ATM.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] amstel:
I think that the 8P32 is for the 4GB version

and the 8P64 is for the 8GB version

is there any difference between them? I don't think that should be, cause hardware is the same apart from sd size
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ankadnikov:
I tried to install it. Seems like FPS is locked at 48, Antutu results about 12850. Languages are only Chinese and English. No Google Play. Lot of Chinese apps. So I flashed back to GravityMod. But as C3C076 noted, all we need is system, kernel and uboot :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ch-vox:
OK,

thank you for those information.

I'm gonna stay on GM2 too.

waiting for it to be upgraded with latest ThL system, kernel and uboot.

have a nice day all
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
I compared the low level system binaries (mbr, ebr1, ebr2, secro, preloader) to 8P64 stock rom. The one and only difference is in preloader. That one shouldn't be flashed, anyway. So what I said earlier applies. It is enough to flash uboot (lk.bin), bootimg and system.

Btw, pitty to hear that FPS is locked and languages are missing. I hoped that Thl will do its job more thoroughly but I was probably wrong (haven't tried rom myself, yet, though)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
Nice finding.

I know Link2SD since I was using it on my old ZTE Skate.

It's really surprising that the external SD could be faster than internal storage.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] progenx:
Sorry if I'm going off-topic, recently I've seen Google's edition of JB 4.3 floating around on some popular devices. Do you think that some day there will be one with GM2 for our models, W8/W8+?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] spicymchaggis:
is there anywhere else to download the 2.6 system.img? its gonna take a day to download atm
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
I'm currently working on 2.7 incremental update which should bring updated kernels and libs for W8 16GB and W8+ that

could hopefully solve the latest incompatibility issues.

While I was inspecting the latest stock rom for W8 16GB (20130616) I found out that there's a new libdvm.so which could

hopefully fix speed and distance calculations in GPS tracking apps (not sure though). So if anybody wants to try new libdvm.so, here's the flashable ZIP that will install it. You can use it on any 4.2.1 W8 rom.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] peptonib:
Actually, the big difference comes when one links the Dalvik-cache files! I'd love to know if someone experiments the same speed increase.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] mtbboy41:
Tried the new libdvm.so but the output from Endomondo was as wacky as ever. Thanks for your efforts!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
OK. Thanks for trying.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
Here's the latest official ROM for W8 16GB.

ThL_W8.JB2.HD.EN.COM.8P128_MT6589V1.0.2_20130616

It can be flashed in CWM recovery.

Thanks [MENTION=4015191]spicymchaggis[/MENTION] for providing backup from his device.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] mikekgr:
Do you know what is changed from the previous version: ThL_W8.JB 2.HD.EN.COM.8P128_MT6589V1.0.1_20130506 ???
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jnorbi:
runkeeper

use runkeeper instead, works like a charm! ;)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
GM2 3.0 for W8 4GB/8GB/16GB now available

Changelog 3.0 - 01/07/2013

For W8 4GB/8GB

- updated system files from the latest official THL W8 FW

- updated GravityBox 1.4.1

- updated Google apps

- updated Superuser

For W8 16GB

- completely rebased on the latest official THL W8 FW

- fixes blank screen issues

- fixes front camera issues

- fixes CPU frequency scaling issues

- additional languages ported from Eastcom W1 rom

- updated GravityBox 1.4.1

- updated Google apps

- updated Superuser

IMPORTANT:

1) Installation packages are now flashable in recovery (no SP Flash Tool).

This helps to force the users to install CWM before installing ROM and thus there's higher probability they will actually backup they original FW

before flashing GM2

2) W8 16GB installation should be done with full wipes since ROM has been completely rebased on official THL FW (not eastcom)

(well, you don't need to do full wipes if you are migrating from the official THL FW, but at least do wipe cache and dalvik cache)

3) For 4GB/8GB, update without data wipe is possible but you may experience camera crashing after update. In this case

go to Settings / Apps, locate Gallery app, and clear its data.

You should at least wipe cache and dalvik cache when upgrading

4) Rom for W8+ is currently not available. I might do the same rebase as I did for W8 16GB but I will probably get back to it after my vacation
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Mr. Premise:
My hero! I followed the install instructions including data wipe/factory reset and got the best AnTuTu score, 13090, yet on this 16 GB W8.

I have seen no AutoBrightness strangenesses.

At one point during the AnTuTu test, a FPS value of 49,63 is reported. As expected, I believe.

Both front and back cameras work, and there is a Camera icon in apps.

Enjoy your well-deserved vacation. Are you by any chance considering GM2 for the new W8 Beyond at some point?

P.S. The 0629 (i.e. THL) version 2.7 download was b0rken, perhaps something on my end but 3.0 arrived before I got around to investigate that.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] spicymchaggis:
Do you have to do a complete wipe from the 2.7 incremental update?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
I do. Just to be on a safe side.

As I've written already - ROM base has changed. It's better to start clean.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] rodkov:
I've installed the GravityMod2 Rom and everything went fine, all seemed to work.

Then when I tried to lock the phone or it goes into a sleep mode, the phone would not wake up. It's stuck at a black screen, I can hear the sound and the vibration fine, but would not wake up. I had to do battery pull.

What's going on? I have the W8+

Thanks for any possible suggestion.

PS: Any idea when the version 3 is available for W8+??
[Miscellaneous Android Development] arcadesdude:
I installed the latest 3.0 of GM2 and it booted and my shortcuts created by my programs and launcher no longer work for my sdcard.

In this version the ext-sd card is /storage/sdcard1 whereas in GM2 2.6 it was /storage/sdcard0.....and with apps installed on the sd card this makes a big pain to reinstall and change all my shortcuts back to sdcard1 instead of sdcard0 (which now points to phone storage instead of how it used to point to the sdcard).

Changing default storage location changed nothing. Any help for a fix to swap /storage/sdcard0 and /storage/sdcard1? shortcuts.

Im on gm2 3.0 gb 1.4.1 on thl w8 4g
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
Ext sd as sdcard1 is the default behaviour. It is like that on all gm2 versions I released. The reason why you had it swapped is because you probably did so in Settings / Storage previously.

There's an option to set the default write disk.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] arcadesdude:
Changing the default write disk didn't affect anything.

I've reverted to my 2.6 backup. My settings for 'preferred install location' are let the system decide. Default write disk is SD card.

After going to 3.0 it is the same settings and changing them didn't fix the issue.

How do I change this?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
Strange. There's nothing special changed in 3.0 comparing to 2.6 (for 4gb and 8gb).

Just couple of system libs. Nothing that could be related to storage handling.

I haven't noticed any storage issues myself after upgrading to 3.0, neither.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
For W8 16gb version.

I forgot to mention that CRT effect won't work since thl made drastic changes in DisplayManager rendering default AOSP electron beam animation unusable.

This is a trade off for correct autobrightness handling eliminating blank screen issues.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] arcadesdude:
How do I fix it?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
As there's a warning about apps disappearing when you change write disk, I suppose you have to reinstall apps that are moved to SD after changing write disk. Maybe you could transfer all those apps to internal memory first (if there's enough space), change write disk and then after reboot move apps back to SD.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
Or. Make a backup in cwm.

Perform factory reset.

Boot into clean system, set desired write disk. Reboot to cwm and use advanced restore feature to restore only user data.

But I'm not sure if it will actually work.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] arcadesdude:
The only thing was I hadn't changed the default write disk settings. After upgraded, sdcard0 and sdcard1 were swapped.

I fixed this problem by installing FX File explorer again, mounting /system/etc as RW, editing the vold.fstab and vold.fstab2 and swapping the mounted names for sdcard0 and sdcard1 and everything is working fine and I didn't lose any apps.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] yewchieh:
I have issue too after updated the latest update.

I checked inside the Storage Setting, my SD card become phone storage and my phone storage become SD card.

Its like after you flashed the latest update, your SD card and phone storage swapped name.

See the picture below,

1st picture is my SD card but it became phone storage in the new update.

2nd pic is my phone storage but it became SD card in the new update.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] longhorn2040:
I have the same problem. I've done a factory reset and same thing happens.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] blackz1982:
I have the same problem. Games dont see yours cache, that's what's scary.

Отправленные с моего ThL W8 с помощью Tapatalk 4 Beta
[Miscellaneous Android Development] arcadesdude:
If you're having a problem with the phone storage and sdcard swapped after latest GravityMod2 3.0 update (GravityBox 1.4.1) you can do this to fix it:

UPDATE: C3C076 posted an update 2 minutes after I posted this :D Just update to GM 3.1 to fix it within recovery. No need to do the rest of these instructions if you update to 3.1.

If you've already done these instructions and installed 3.1 just repeat these instructions to change your vold.fstab and vold2.fstab files back to before so they will work correctly with GM2 v3.1.

Backup your phone first just in case.

Install GravityMod3.0. Boot into it. Stuff might be strange and apps installed on SD card won't work yet because the names got switched.

Install FX File explorer from the play store. Install the FX root addon too.

Open FX File Explorer.

Navigate to System (Root) -> system -> etc

Tap Tools at the bottom of the screen then mount as RW. Tap I understand the risk and accept.

Open vold.fstab with Text Editor:

## Vold 2.0 Generic fstab
## - San Mehat (san@android.com)
##

#######################
## Regular device mount
##
## Format: dev_mount <label> <mount_point> <part> <sysfs_path1...>
## label - Label for the volume
## mount_point - Where the volume will be mounted
## part - Partition # (1 based), or 'auto' for first usable partition.
## <sysfs_path> - List of sysfs paths to source devices
######################

## Example of a standard sdcard mount for the emulator / Dream
# Mounts the first usable partition of the specified device
[B]dev_mount sdcard /storage/sdcard0 emmc@fat /devices/platform/goldfish_mmc.0 /devices/platform/mtk-msdc.0/mmc_host
dev_mount sdcard2 /storage/sdcard1 auto /devices/platform/goldfish_mmc.1 /devices/platform/mtk-msdc.1/mmc_host
[/B]## Example of a dual card setup
# dev_mount left_sdcard /mnt/sdcard1 auto /devices/platform/goldfish_mmc.0 /devices/platform/mtk-sd.0/mmc_host/mmc0
# dev_mount right_sdcard /mnt/sdcard2 auto /devices/platform/goldfish_mmc.1 /devices/platform/mtk-sd.2/mmc_host/mmc2

## Example of specifying a specific partition for mounts
# dev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard 2 /devices/platform/goldfish_mmc.0 /devices/platform/msm_sdcc.2/mmc_host/mmc1

# usb otg disk
dev_mount usbotg /mnt/usbotg auto /devices/platform/mt_usb /devices/platform/musbfsh_hdrc

Change those two lines to be:

[B]dev_mount sdcard /storage/sdcard1 emmc@fat /devices/platform/goldfish_mmc.0 /devices/platform/mtk-msdc.0/mmc_host
dev_mount sdcard2 /storage/sdcard0 auto /devices/platform/goldfish_mmc.1 /devices/platform/mtk-msdc.1/mmc_host[/B]

Tap File, Save.

Repeat for vold2.fstab

Reboot!

Optional, move FX Explorer back to SD card if you want.

I didn't lose any apps this way and am running 3.0 successfully.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
Sorry for the incovenience. I have identified the problem. Fix in on it's way. You should see it in GooManager soon. Or in the first post as soon as it's registered by Goo server. Fix is small. Just 200kb. Flashable in recovery without wipes.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
Incremental updates (installable via custom recovery)

THL W8 4GB/8GB:

Incremental update v3.0->v3.1 (hotfix for default write disk setting) (MD5: a04df439bcd58983999108d89dff7e32)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
What a mess :D

I think I really need a vacation.

On the other side, in the meantime, testing of v3.0 for W8+ goes quite well :D
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
[MENTION=5268604]Mr. Premise[/MENTION]

All audio files that are in official thl rom and gm2 8gb ROM are in place. There are even couple of extra ones.

Are you sure it's not related to volume for alarm being set too low?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Mr. Premise:
The alarm works fine and is perfectly audible, just re-checked. It's the timer which makes no sound (as it used to) - and the timer does not have a settings menu.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
Mine has no settings menu, too. I don't think there should be any.

Anyway. Clock app comes from thl 20130616 ROM. You may try installing it to see if it makes a difference. But I doubt that.

Or I can give you my clock app as a flash able zip to try.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
Another incremental update for 4GB/8GB. Hopefully, the last one today :P

THL W8 4GB/8GB:

Incremental update v3.1->v3.2 (hotfix for front camera resolution) (MD5: d34c95bd5ff50935096a6a9c49f5d7d4)

Changelog 3.2 - 01/07/2013

For W8 4GB/8GB

- Hotfix for front camera resolution

IMPORTANT: if camera crashes after update

it is necessary to clear data for Gallery

(Settings / Apps / Gallery -> Clear data)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] manu81:
The phone no see my picture and sound into micro SD

Enviado desde mi ThL W8 usando Tapatalk 2
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jsuarezcasana:
Hi OP

What would be best path for those stuck on the previous "Bad" 3.0 version?

Would overwriting old 3.0 with a full wipe new 3.0, then 3.1 -> 3.2 allow me to keep my apps?

Cheers and thanks again for all your efforts
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
You can try. Wipe dalvik cache at least. If you experience problems like apps crashing, go for full wipe.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jsuarezcasana:
I just did a wipe cache/dalvik, 3.0 -> 3.1 -> 3.2 without problems

kept the apps and seemly everything is OK as if nothing happened

Thanks!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] spicymchaggis:
The phone froze once since 3.0 with black screen and status bar up top. Reinstalled and hadn't happened again. But the reboot into recovery option isn't available. Also had to reboot to get the battery icon to change. Battery drain seems a little bit quicker as well.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Mr. Premise:
Did you enable 'Advanced Power-off menu' in GravityBox settings?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] spicymchaggis:
Yup. Was working fine in 2.7 which I might go back to. Couldn't fault it.

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Also doesn't seem as smooth. Any disadvantage to using 2.7? Gonna restore to it now
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
Sounds like your installation is broken. Looks like Xposed framework is not installed correctly as well.

I would start from scratch.

There's no reason why 3.0 should be more laggy than 2.7.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] spicymchaggis:
Probably right. Will give it another go tonight.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] peptonib:
init.d support...?

I can't seem to be able to execute init.d scripts... Can someone else check, please?

After several tests, i finally used 00test from here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1933849, but it's not creating the log file it is supposed to create in /data

Help, please.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
Make usre it has correct execute permissions (chmod 755 /system/etc/init.d/00test)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] peptonib:
If I run the script on it's own, it DOES create the log file... strange

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No luck. Changed permission but still not working... :confused:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
Looks like your kernel has no sysinit support or busybox is missing.

What ROM are you on currently?

You can send me your backed up boot.IMG, so I can take a look, although I am quite sure I included sysinit support to all the kernels included in the latest gm2 3.0
[Miscellaneous Android Development] peptonib:
I just updated to 3.2, but the problem was there before. Can't tell you since when, because I thought it was my problem, and been investigating.

I'll send you right now the boot.img by mail. Thank you very much. :fingers-crossed:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
One more thing. Can you show the contents of this script?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] amstel:
does upgrading from version 2.6 to version 3.0 requires a full wipe?

does dalvik and cache wipes will do the job?

Thanks
[Miscellaneous Android Development] :
add this into init.d folder in uor Test file

mount -o remount,rw -t ext4 /emmc@android /system

mount -o remount,rw -t ext4 /emmc@android /data

set_perm_recursive(0, 2000, 0755, 0755, "/system/etc/init.d");

set_perm(0, 0, 0755, "/system/etc/init.d/ Test or uor name file");

but first u must be superuser and busybox + run-parts or run-parts symlink !

otherwise it will not work !

AND U ARE GOOD TO GO !
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jojopi:
Is THL W8 worth it?

Hi ppl I m very interested in buying THL W8 from here : http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2013-5-0-...73959?pt=UK_Mobile_Phones&hash=item43bd506f07

I m very new to rooting, Is it worth it to keep the smartphone stock without any rooting, will it be good?

Or if it really needs rooting, is it that hard to do it as I am inexperienced?

Thanks guys
[Miscellaneous Android Development] spicymchaggis:
2.7 is still better for me. I had to reboot for the close all programs button to take effect. Also the boot into recovery when powering off option still isn't working for me.

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My mistake it is there. Under power off rather than reboot
[Miscellaneous Android Development] peptonib:
Ok, found my problem with init.d

I did an upgrade of BusyBox and installed it in /system/bin instead of /system/xbin, and that broke init.d support

A reinstall on /system/xbin did solve the problem.

Thanks to all.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Mr. Premise:
Which version is it, 4, 8 or 16GB? The price is about what I paid for a 16GB in a Chinese webshop before customs, so seems OK if you're in the EU.

I ran stock ROM with GravityBox for a while as GM2 was not so good for 16 GB version at the time. That was OK, but I like GM2 better. About the phone in general it appears from the W8 threads here on xda that people are happy with it, except some (me included) have problems with GPS lock-on times (search the W8 threads for discussion).

C3C076's ClockworkMod Recovery for THL W8/W8+ (MTK6589) (which is easy to install if you follow the instructions carefully) will ask you if it should root the phone for you. Easy as pie.

At least get the CWM and GravityBox.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jojopi:
Hi, its the 8gb model.... can you send me skype username private msg so I can talk to you better there, thanks :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] amstel:
can someone please explain to me:

for 4GB/8GB versions, coming from stock version,

it must have custom CWM or not in order to install GM3.0?

can I install without doing full wipe?

does update to v3.0 can be done from any GM version without full wipe?

same question about installing from custom recovry for 16GB version.

would appreciate answers
[Miscellaneous Android Development] chentz78:
Hi,

Do you have any performance improvement with this kernel config changes ?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
It has already been said when 3.0 was announced.

Anyway, general rule: you can try without wipes as long as it is the same Android version. You can't go wrong with that since if you experience weird issues like apps crashing, system misbehaving, you simply go into recovery and make full wipe additionally...

And always wipe cache and dalvik cache when upgrading.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] amstel:
Thanks for your answer.

let's say I got and new device with stock rom and stock recovery.

do I have to install your custom recovery in order to install your new version?

or will it work using stock recovery?

Thanks.