yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
GravityBox latest version

Download: GravityBox v1.3.0

Flash via clockworkmod recovery. No wipes needed.

Changelog 1.3.0 - 20/06/2013

- QuickSettings Torch tile (flashlight)

- QuickSettings Network mode tile (2G/3G/2G+3G switch)

- new battery style: Large percent text with stock icon

- option for CRT screen off animation

- added shortcut for launching Engineering mode

- added shortcut for launching Dual Sim Ringer settings

--- allows setting ringtone and notification sounds separately for each SIM

--- requires 3rd party Dual Sim Ringer app for this option to be visible

- updated translations

Dual Sim Ringer 3rd party app will be installed automatically with the update as normal user app.

If you don't need/want this app it can be simply uninstalled.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] d3xtr0:
THL w8 2gb rom

good morning, I was searching for that phone in europe (ebay) and found one version with 2gb rom. Do you think your rom would work with that version? and about that version itself. I won't find anything on internet. Someone have some information about it?

Thanks in advance :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] spicymchaggis:
New model of the phone on sale now

http://www.thlmobilestore.com/news/thl-w8-beyond-5-inch-1080p-mtk6589t-quad-core/
[Miscellaneous Android Development] d3xtr0:
It was for me? Because I'm talking about thl w8 with 2GB internal storage. That link shows me the new fhd version. thnks
[Miscellaneous Android Development] kucyk84:
ok, maybe, but why its starts when i downloaded and installed 1.2.0 ;/

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in Thl W8 i have polish language in almost 100 %
[Miscellaneous Android Development] brady56:
you can install polish on this phone?how?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] peptonib:
Mmm... I've been doing big research and several tests on all this tweaking and speeding up Android scripts in the past weeks...

I really think that 90% of them are a placebo.

After finding some "busted" settings (those which are proven NOT to work, well explained) one can see them adding up all over the Internet.

I am trying small changes at one time, and nothing seems to do a significant change...

Example: the read-ahead buffer value. It's 128kb by default. Several people advice to push it up to 1024 or 2048. But that is really nonsense if you don't do a very specifyc work on data. After all, we are talking about solid state data devices.

I wil keep testing, but, honestly, fine tuning such a complex device and operating system, it's a big task, only to find out minimal improvement and only after a deep study of specific machine use.

Really, we have 1Ghz processor, 1 Gb of ram... That could take us to the moon with a rocket with no problem at all!!!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ch-vox:
Bug report

Something weird and new to me, I don't know when it begun : when I'm in conversation and trying to modify volume (headset or phone speaker, makes no difference), volume slider does not interact in UI. Volume + and volume - touch do work, the volume can be increase/decrease, BUT visually the slider stay in initial position. And when for instance I decrease volume, slider stays, then it dissappears as it has to do, and when I touch volume +/-, the slider is in correct position set by previous decrease manipulation.

This does not happen with ring volume, or system volume : slider interacts well with volume + or - .

Does it depend on GM2 or GB ??
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
Weird. Works fine here.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ch-vox:
OK I've solved my issue by switching off the phone, booting to recovery, wiping cache/dalvik cache, rebooting... really weird _______
[Miscellaneous Android Development] spicymchaggis:
will gm2 or GB work on the new THL W8+ Beyond?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
GB should work on it if it comes with Android 4.2.1

Gm2 - unlikely
[Miscellaneous Android Development] aryanitinkumar:
Repartioning W8+

Nice Job!!

Is there a way to repartition W8+ into 2 Gb space for applications instead of standard 8 Gb / corrected 1 Gb.:confused:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] kucyk84:
just install GM2
[Miscellaneous Android Development] uniextra:
hi just got your mod installed and upgraded all the way to 2.6

the od thing is that my 3G is not working, it should work on 2100mHz but it does not do anything... not even edge...

i have switched the simlots and no change.. i only can get 3g on my other sim, but it does not have data plan!!!

help please!

I just tried with an other sim from the same provider and same result... i was working before installing GM
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
Settings / Wireless & Networks / More / Mobile networks / Access point names

Define new access point name with data you should be able to find on your provider's web page.

(or backup GM2, restore backup of stock rom and take note of APN settings, restore GM2 and edit APN)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] uniextra:
i have doble checked and APN is correct
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
I can't see a reason why it woudn't work on GM2 when it worked on stock ROM.

GM2 comes with the same modem firware as all other latest stock roms do.

Plus nobody else reported such issue. Are you sure it's not related to some local conditions? (operator out of service, etc).

You could find out by restoring stock rom.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] uniextra:
how can i restore stock rom?

also noticed when connecting the phone to the USB i cant get mass storage or anything..

i noticed something else....

going to eng mode.. on SIM 1 (my voice) i get the UMTS bands and SIM 2 (my data) only GSM...?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
Try performing factory reset in CWM recovery as a first thing.

Regarding backup.

I suppose you did one before installing GM2.. If not, what was your original build number?

If it's W8 16GB or W8+ you should stick to the IMPORTANT WARNING for these devices that's written in the first post...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] uniextra:
Did the facroty reset, same result on bandmode i get full setting on SIM 1 but not in SIM 2..

i din't do the backup since i was testing first the italian rom but i think the build number is ThL_W8.JB2.HD.EN.COM.8P32_MT6589V1.0.4_20130510

thl w8 4gb

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well thats not the problem, i swaped SIMs and On SIM 1 (my data now) i get all the bands...

no internet anyway...

about the USB i something i should set?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
As far as I know SIM2 Slot supports GSM only, not WCDMA.

Stock FW:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=42566494&postcount=110
[Miscellaneous Android Development] uniextra:
Thanks for all the support, i was working before on SIM2 ...

about the USB? how can i get the mass storage? to copy the ROM
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
GravityBox latest version

Download: GravityBox v1.3.1

Flash via clockworkmod recovery. No wipes needed.

Just a small maintenance update (mainly because of the translations).

Plus one useful feature - QuickSettings now open directly instead of empty notification panel if there are no notifications.

Changelog 1.3.1 - 21/06/2013

- SystemUI: avoid "phantom" statusbar collapsing

--- more info: https://github.com/C3C0/GravityBox/commit/4a2f875814ed344bf692cfcfc1df4c6d7f9ad3d3

- Open QuickSettings instead of empty notification panel when there are no notifications

- updated Danish translations (thanks to Mr. Premise)

- updated French translations (thanks to ch-vox)

- updated Spanish translations (thanks to peptonib)

- updated Italian translations (thanks to kidmar)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ch-vox:
once again : GREAT JOB

thank you ceco
[Miscellaneous Android Development] amstel:
Thanks for your updates!!

Is is possible to reorder the status-bar tiles?

Thanks.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] OpenMinded:
Thanks a bunch for all your work C3C076 !!

One note to THL W8 16 GB owners: you might need to flash the W8+ files.

My THL says w8 in the identification and has 16GB.

After flashing with the appropriate files, it would not boot.

I got it back to life by using the W8+ files.

Besides that: I noticed 2.0 to 3.0 update for THL W8 in GooManager.

I do not see in in the First post.

Is it ok for 4 GB THL W8 and not available for the W8+ ?

Thanks again for your work! Any howto somewhere you used to start hacking :)?

NB: if anyone has stock for this phone, I am interested, because with this it seems less fluent (where the 4GB is just as fast)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
Don't flash 3.0 - people had issues with it so I removed it.

Regarding ROM modding:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1574401
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
Bug fix release

GravityBox latest version

Download: GravityBox v1.3.2

Flash via clockworkmod recovery. No wipes needed.

Changelog 1.3.2 - 21/06/2013

- Fixed bug: two-finger swipe won't open QuickSettings when there are notifications
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Boozezela:
As far as I understand, with Mtk 6589 "UMTS mode" is soft swappable between SIM1 and SIM2.

As a matter of fact the slots are not marked as W and G like in the previous MTK6577 based phones.

What you see on the engineering menu is a list of modes that can apply to any SIM slot, with the one used as "3G" getting more bands.

In the eng menu they are still named SIM1 and SIM2, still I can use SIM2 to do 3G data.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Mr. Premise:
- FYI some 16 GB users have fixed flashing issues (including but not limited to boot issues after flash) by removing the SD card at various points in the process.

- As discussed in this thread earlier this week the 16GB W8 takes a heavy performance hit with GM2 (AnTuTu benchmark ~12500 with stock ROM, ~7500 with GM2 'for 16GB'). Are you saying you're running the W8+ GM2 ROM on a W8 16GB? If so, what AnTuTu score do you get?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] OpenMinded:
I had no SD card at all inserted while flashing.

According to the supplier I ordered a W8+ (16GB, 1920x1080 screen), but the model of the phone says W8, as well as the ROM.

The firmware version was matching one of the W8+ ones on the CWM page (link in FP).

So without any SD card, flashing the phone with W8 16GB firmware/system file, the phone remained black.

I then used a W8+ 16 GB system image, which worked, so after that I flashed it completely with W8+ 16GB files.

The update files also recognize it as a W8+ , the about still shows W8 , but the ROM running on it is now Gravity Mod 2 for W8+.

I get an Antutu score of 11244 (or something like that).

I am not sure where the difference lies between the W8/W8+.

One could try a W8+ ROM, but it might not boot.

Just backuo first with CWM to external SD (and remove after) and try.

Hope this helps anyone!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Mr. Premise:
If I remember correctly others have said (in this thread and/or the "THL W8 anyone?" thread) that the only ways to tell if you have a W8 or W8+ is the firmware and the screen resolution. All variants come in the same package (though I dunno about the new 1.5GHz one). So my guess is you have a W8+.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
I have created new v2.6 basic cumulative system packages with all incremental updates included.

Check out the first post.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] masmddr:
Can I install gravitybox on the stock w8 8gb firmware?

Specifically to fix the number matching in SMS/dialer app?

I seem to have issues with the cell network locking up and I'm not sure whether it's gm2 or my new provider so I want to try stock again
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2316070
[Miscellaneous Android Development] masmddr:
Thank you

Since stock is based on 4.1.2 , that means no to my question

In that case, anyone has an issue that the cell network related stuff just lock up?

Shows good reception, H+, but can't make calls, internet doesn't work, changing between 2g and 3g does nothing and the signal status doesn't even change

Can disable mobile data but enabling it does nothing, can go to airplane mode but can't come out of it

It worked fine on old provider but I recently changed cell service provider and sometimes this happens

The new provider sometimes roams (that's OK and should happen) and it works fine most of the time, except when it doesn't
[Miscellaneous Android Development] vuralemre:
i installed the w8+ rom to my w8 phone. because of my fault, the phone is not opened. i think its brick.

always its on black screen.

i installed the driver to pc. and when i plugged, plug dingdong sounds. when i flash the recovery with sp tool, i take this error

how can i save my phone?

look at pls
[Miscellaneous Android Development] uniextra:
I had issues, signal on both sims but no 3g on one... i had to go back to the Italian mod... :(
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
You need to ask somebody that has the same w8 model to extract preloader for you (read back in sp flash tool, start address 0, length 0x100000). You can then sent me that preloader so I can hex edit it into correct format.

Then you need to flash that preloader. After that you will be able to flash ROM.

What was your original build number?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] chentz78:
In this version, one-finger swipe won't open notification to choose SIM Card when we are in the call app.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] vuralemre:
Dont know..

I know These

THL W8 mtk 6589 hd ips 4 gb rom 1 gb ram

Always black screen. Any lights and leds dont work.

I Try to flash with scatter and flash tool but after % 100 red bar , it takes error ( above)

How can i have preloader and How can i use to flash it.?

Does the orijinal firmware work.? downloaded from needrom.com
[Miscellaneous Android Development] arcadesdude:
Here is the preloader from my 8P32 (Original W8 4G model) from SPFlashTool attached to this post. I used the start address and length you mentioned and the readback mode was read page+spare. Hopefully this can be useful.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
Thanks.

But first we need to know exactly what model he has. Because preloader needs to be taken from exactly same model.

Edit:

I see his post now. We can try with yours then.

[MENTION=4548769]vuralemre[/MENTION]

I will get back to you soon via PM
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
Fixed.

Will be part of the next version
[Miscellaneous Android Development] uniextra:
HI, Im now with the italian mod, and got my 3G working... how can i save the APN or watever was wrong when on GM?

thanks
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
Copy out /system/etc/apns-conf.XML and try to use it with gm2
[Miscellaneous Android Development] uniextra:
thanks ill try this.

is there no way you can get from this rom http://www.androidiani.com/forum/thl-modding/301573-thl-w8-jellybean-4-2-2-rom-samsung-style.html

the APN config so it included in your rom? Im having problems with Vodafone ES

thanks for all the work!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] inspectaclueso:
No Google Maps in Flashable V2.6

Hi there,

Many thanks for sharing all your hard work. I regularly check in to see what updates you release and appreciate your continued work on the ROM.

Just noticed that v2.6 now comes as a system.img and then you download the separate image package with boot, recovery etc. for your specific model.

I also know that in v1.8 you moved Google Maps from the system partition to the data partition.

I problem I now have is that if I do a factory reset at any time Google Maps disappears and even if I reflash the phone with v2.6 Google Maps does not reinstall as there is no included userdata.img

The only way I can see would be to reflash v1.5 and do all the incremental updates again.

Would it be possible to include a userdata.img file so when I reflash the phone with v2.6 Google Maps is reinstalled?

Thanks in advance
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
Simply install maps from play store.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] progenx:
[MENTION=2565561]inspectaclueso[/MENTION] i think it is not necessary to quote the whole post. Just saying..
[Miscellaneous Android Development] uniextra:
please let me know i will try today
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ramnm:
w8 4g old - Camera 8mb e 3.2mb

w8 4g new - Camera 8mb e 5mb

must be why some people say that the camera does not work.

there is the boot.img that contains the hardware information? and the exchange of GM2 by what comes in the original?

excuse my bad english
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
GravityBox latest version (for GravityMod2 ROM)

Download: GravityBox v1.4.0

Flash via clockworkmod recovery. No wipes needed.

Changelog 1.4.0 - 25/06/2013

- Bugfix: don't switch to QuickSettings when SIM Switch Panel is showing

- Lockscreen tweaks:

--- option to set lockscreen background style (default, color fill, custom image)

--- option to show lockscreen widgets maximized by default

- added Power tweaks category to group power related options

- option to disable LED flashing when battery is low

- updated Hungarian translations (thanks to Indiant)

I will release additional maintenance release after I obtain new translation strings from our translators.

New strings are at the end of strings.xml - no changes have been made to existing ones.

Thanks in advance.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] kevin0216:
THL W8 16GB

AnTuTu benchmark ~13122
[Miscellaneous Android Development] uniextra:
Hi again, news regarding my 3G Vodafone problem...

i did what you sayed about copying the APN file, but that didnot do the tric...

what i finaly did was to install italian rom, configure the 3G on there, then install GM2 with out wipes and working! seams to be something else in configuration...

can i help somehow to solve this?

Also notice a bug.. when on call, if i lower the volume, it changes too litle to notice, even on the lowest setting the volume is lowd.

thanks!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
I have no clue how installing different rom could solve your 3G problem. I am sure it's some kind of a coincidence.

I suppose full wipe would solve the issue while on GM2 alone. Interesting anyway.

Volume levels for different sound subsystem (media, ring, ...) can be set in Engineering mode.

There's a guide somewhere. Try searching.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] uniextra:
Hi i have tried wipeing everithing when on GM2 with the 3g working, and stoped working again... i had to reinstall italian rom and then again GM2

it seams to me that the data you have on Vodafone ES is incorrect, so when i install GM2 it does not work... maybe you could extract such info from the other ROM and instert it on GM2....

this is the link to the ROM http://www.adrive.com/public/zpSBpy/S4Pao_V1.5_FlashTools.rar

http://www.androidiani.com/forum/thl-modding/301573-thl-w8-jellybean-4-2-2-rom-samsung-style.html

hope you can solve this, it will help me troubleshoot an other problem that i have with CPU usage...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
I am using APNs definition list that comes from CM10.1 which I think is the most complete one.

I admit it can contain some special cases where data are incorrect. But this is something that can simply be edited

by user.

Btw, if you tried that apn xml from that italian ROM on GM2. I suppose you did

"reset apn" list when you copied new one into /system/etc (this can be done by pressing menu key and choosing reset while in APN settings screen). This reloads all definitions from new XML file.

If I took the APN from Italian ROM, it could solve your problem. But at the same time, it could introduce problems for other users having different providers.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] uniextra:
OK i did copy but i was not aware of reseting this.. i will do this today...

anyway i hace an other phone, actualy tab2 that has CM10.1 and 3g from Vodafone work correctly... :S
[Miscellaneous Android Development] uniextra:
NICE, the reset APN did work and now 3g works!

onto the battery problem ill inform asap

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OK this is going to be even harder to solve...

i got the phone will wipes donde, so clean start. i check battery and shows correct usage, most signal and inactive device...

the problem comes as soon as i set brightnes to AUTO, Android System gets fast to the top with 50% usage of battery!

i had the same problem with the italian ROM, it might be a problem with the phone actualy, but then again.. just to check...

how can i help you troubleshoot?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
For all those who can't post in this forum.

Try this thread instead of sending PMs:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2262548

To this date I got almost 400 messages in my inbox and it is becoming unmanageable to answer them all (yes, I did answer to like 90% of them)

I'm sure that in that thread, there'll be probably other kind people willing to help. I really can't answer to all the questions on my own and do further development at the same time. I'm still a human being :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] aoprea:
I miss option to mute ring sound when turn phone on side down... On other chinese phone exist this option...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
GravityBox latest version

Download: GravityBox v1.4.1

Flash via clockworkmod recovery. No wipes needed.

Changelog 1.4.1 - 27/06/2013

- updated Italian translations (thanks to kidmar)

- updated Russian translations (thanks to romashko)

- updated Danish translations (thanks to Mr. Premise)

- updated Spanish translations (thanks to oicirbaf)

- updated Hungarian translations (thanks to Indiant)

- updated French translations (thanks to ch-vox)

- added Portuguese (BR) translations (thanks to lelemm)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] NZ-Simplicity:
Don't forget to add the ability to turn off the time on the status bar at some stage please :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] aryanitinkumar:
@ NZ-Simplicity............... hv U tried with RD Mute??

http://appgravity.com/android-app/business/com-raidroid-rdmute

Hope this helps!!!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] NZ-Simplicity:
Thanks for the trouble in finding it, but I am a little confused as to why I would need it :) - maybe you meant it for someone else?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] aryanitinkumar:
Surely.......apologized!!

@ aoprea.......may b it helps you instead!!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] yewchieh:
[MENTION=5008415]C3C076[/MENTION]

Are we able to disable the shortcut which pressing the menu key to unlock phone?

Cuz my phone always unlock when i accidentally press the power button inside my pocket.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
I will try to make it optional in the next GB version.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] C3C076:
[MENTION=5000683]uniextra[/MENTION]

These are just a battery statistics - a distribution of 100% amongst different subsystems. The percentage doesn't have anything to do with the consumption - it's just a distribution which is simply not calculated properly. But that doesn't necessarily mean the real battery consumption is worse or better.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] peptonib:
Just some personal findings, not directly related to GM2, but to the phone itself.

Made some tests about "disk" access times, internal and external. Not much difference. Internal is little slower (maybe quality is not so good on this phones).

I found a notable speed increase by moving all my apps to a second partition on my external card, using Link2SD. Basically, you partition your external card with 2 partitions (read Link2SD F.A.Q.), and use the second one for Link2SD to keep all the "real" files (apk, libraries, AND Dalvik cache!!!!). Link2SD takes care of all this, making symbolic links for the files in their original location.

I would say about 20% perceived speed increase in loading apps.

This is NOT about moving your apk to SD, which is internal storage, but to a second partition on your external sd card. It' and exclusive function of Link2SD.