yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Xperia Z General] mmamedov:
Wow, thanks for screenshots, that is impressing!

How exactly can you change mobile network settings? In the description it says, that it makes settings app crash.

Doing some backup for moving to this Rom - excited)

One more question - does the boot, that is included in this Rom has custom recovery? Does the Rom has root? If not, is it possible to get it?
[Xperia Z General] venky716:
Change network works no crashes, check screenshot.

Yes it has Cwm recovery, volume up during boot.

Sent from AOSPA XZ
[Xperia Z General] ancilary:
installed rom

i switched from samsung so was kinda hard :P

now i hve trouble installing gapps

if phone is on and connected then it shows abd offline

if i enter through fastboot mode then it shows abd no devices found
[Xperia Z General] venky716:
I had trouble pushing Gapps too via adb.

This is what i did, download 4.4 gapps from this link (PA's 4.4 Gapps) and go into recovery, Volume up while booting up (Sony logo) and flash em.

Also don't forget to flash supersu 1.65 zip.
[Xperia Z General] gjleonardo:
I hope that the next release will be Google friendly, i mean why not include the gapps? :p
[Xperia Z General] ancilary:
i simply copied to sd card myself and rebooted phone

now everything works perfect but how to get root now?
[Xperia Z General] gjleonardo:
should be rooted already. Have you flash the supersu using recovery?
[Xperia Z General] ancilary:
phone not booting into recovery
[Xperia Z General] bariz143:
Hold Volume Up when the led turns white. And you should go in to recovery

You have to flash Supersu1,65.zip
[Xperia Z General] pabx:
Of course it will boot and work as long as google didn't change the gralloc/hwcomposer/audio ABIs in 4.3

This has nothing to do with system-ui, settings.apk and the kernel.
[Xperia Z General] DesertHawk:
Um I have a thread already. It's in Xperia Z General chat. Please refer there.
[Xperia Z General] DesertHawk:
Obviously. I just needed those APKs for something else lol.
[Xperia Z General] Lemagex:
I love this so much its come a fair bit further already. Camera is on par with their stock ROM and its finally a "Google" ROM worthy of using as a daily driver.
[Xperia Z General] adamsweeting:
Thanks for the update pabx.

Great ROM, upgraded with no issues whatsoever.
[Xperia Z General] alex3305:
Just a quick question, did you include the HDR video and picture options that are available in the CM10.1 rom?
[Xperia Z General] rotkiv3451:
Does anyone know if battery is better, worse or on par with CM10? If so, how much screen on time are you guys getting?x
[Xperia Z General] pabx:
No, and i do not think that the feature is worth the effort (Sample picture captured with stock firmware: http://genesis.eqmx.net/hgms_demo/xpz_hdr.png).

But i would be willing to include it if someone sent me a pull request for the camera wrapper.

I get about > 3 hours with normal usage. I probably could get ~5 hours under optimal circumstances (= screen on / no cpu activity).

The ROM includes a few options to improve the battery life under Settings -> Xperia Z Settings.

You can controll the Scale used for the screen brightness and set the powersave_bias + put the phone into singlecore-mode.
[Xperia Z General] Hellscythe:
Just wondering if using Sony blobs makes the ROM smoother?
[Xperia Z General] xarive:
hi bro. I see you have your 4.3 repo. When are you going to compile them ? just asking. I'm a big fan of it. :)
[Xperia Z General] pabx:
I'm compiling right now - but i have no idea if it will even boot ;)
[Xperia Z General] pabx:
Just a quick update: Building 4.3 will probably take some time:

So far i have wifi, telephony and the camera working.

Audio and Bluetooth are broken and anything else was not tested ;)

But be warned: You should probably WIPE your phone if you upgrade to 4.3 - Google did (once again) a truckload of internal changes.

Oh: And the 4.2 gapps crashes on 4.3 ;)
[Xperia Z General] adamsweeting:
Thanks for the update pabx.

Will keep a beady eye on this!
[Xperia Z General] Hellscythe:
hey pabx, are you moving away from the 4.2.2 build onto 4.3?

or are you aiming to make 4.2.2 perfect first?

thanks
[Xperia Z General] lzyllp:
You try android_hardware_qcom_audio-caf?
[Xperia Z General] pabx:
No: Thats a CM repo - this won't help on AOSP 4.3.

But i got it (and almost anything else) working: I'm currently uploading a 4.3 build.

I'm moving to 4.3 as there isn't anything left to do on 4.2.2
[Xperia Z General] pabx:
Ok, the first 4.3 release is up :)

Almost everything seems to work ok so far, including:

GSM Data

WIFI

RIL (phone calls)

Audio Playback and Recording

Bluetooth (didn't look at low-power yet)

OMX Video

Camera

Phone encryption

SD-Card & MTP (this took way too much work - thank you google)

GPS

Sensors (rotation,brightness)

My two main issues are:

The AOSP Voice Dialer is hanging (known AOSP bug, will fix in 2.1)

Google-Voice search crashes. This is a gapps bug and will 'fix itself' after upgrading 'Google Search' via play store (And soon there will be a 4.3 gapps anyway)

Feel free to report any other issues. And keep in mind that you should do a FULL WIPE if you are upgrading from 4.2.2.
[Xperia Z General] sangreal:
This is fantastic news. My main hope is that Bluetooth smart is working on this build so if anyone can confirm this it would be much appreciated?

Failing that will install it later today and see for myself and try to pair an HRM with the phone.
[Xperia Z General] tjackbjorn:
It's not rooted right? :)

Xperia Z.
[Xperia Z General] lzyllp:
How to make bluetooth work？where source code changed?this bluetooth fix upload to your github？
[Xperia Z General] ancilary:
thank you everything works

installing custom roms in samsung was easier :P
[Xperia Z General] bariz143:
Haha you bet it was. Sony Xperia z will be my last Sony phone because of locked and unlocked bootloader thing. And that we have to flash boot.img

I had s2,s3,s4 :)
[Xperia Z General] pabx:
* I told the person in question from the beginning that i would like to not see my ROM 'kanged' (eg: gave no permission). This was ignored by the guy (i only noticed this because someone was linking to the kanged version from this thread). Having to report such people feels like kindergarten to me - but apparently that's how XDA rolls.

* I am a member of the GNU Project (pab@gnu.org) and do not share your opinion. There are a lot of ethics an morals in the year 2013 in almost every opensource project/community. But XDA seems to be a BIG exception. XDA was quite a nice place when i started, but it has become abysmal in the last few months and just seems to be a themers & modders place.

Ah.. and what exactly did you fix? I'm eager to see your diff.

No: You do not have my permission to use any of my work. (just like you didn't have the permission to use my 4.3 and 4.4 builds)
[Xperia Z General] exitjen:
Will u make a flashable zip version of ur rom?

Eager to try it :)
[Xperia Z General] HSD-Pilot:
Use this if you're not confirmed with Fastboot & ADB

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=47185858

Your Bootloader has to be unlocked, so i guess your Drivers should be installed already.

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[Xperia Z General] 86123maxxi:
I am not wanting to be a **** but post your questions in the help and troubleshooting section. Please don't flood the dev forums with questions like these. Thanks! :)

But anyway, battery life on AOSP is slightly better than stock depending on which ROM you go for - yes AOSP supports 2G only - navbar size to change easily go for a Paranoid Android ROM or PAC ROM - test out the ROM yourself, if you like it you like it, if not then don't use it.
[Xperia Z General] chesterr:
I knew it that when StarFighter opened that thread here that he just took pabx's work lol,

But honestly I don't want you to discontinue this awesome work man.
[Xperia Z General] DesertHawk:
Doesn't take a genius it did say in the OP.
[Xperia Z General] muphetz:
+1
[Xperia Z General] ianrobbie:
Has anyone found a way to change the DPI in this ROM? I had it installed yesterday and tried Xposed (not compatible with 4.4 yet) and Build Prop Editor (which made the text on some of my apps disappear).

Any other suggestions? Aside from these problems, this is an amazingly stable and quick ROM!
[Xperia Z General] fards:
Edit build.prop manually, don't rely on 3rd party apps to mess it up when you can mess it up yourself just as well ;)
[Xperia Z General] exekias:
Expressing my gratitude

I left this rom for a day because I thought the WiFi was a bit screwy turns out it was an issue on my router and so Im coming straight back.

For those of you who are new: this ROM is great, Superb even, works better than stock and just a breeze to run. Kudos to the person who suggested Viper for android.

Has anyone tried Gravity box on this rom? It was my understanding most of those mods wont really work with 4.4.

Talking about the Elephant in the room, I don't think it should be discussed here. Starfighter is in the wrong and neither him NOR the moderator should be conversing via comments in this thread, its inefficient and just changes the mood of a thread that should be filled with dev talk. The mod is the one tasked with the job to help police this sort of behavior and should be maintaining the high road at all times, arguing in a public forum removes all that credibility.
[Xperia Z General] PhilAd:
is it a known issue, that you're not able to reset the handset via settings?

trying to reset the handset more than once just ended up in a reboot.

I tried ART and I had a lot of FC's and also some Apps like WhatsApp did not work ... Installing Apps from Play Store failed very often ... so I switched back to Dalvik but the problems stayed. Thats why I tried to reset the Device.

I had to reset it using userdata.img
[Xperia Z General] Lemagex:
I honestly hope you reconsider continuing with this rom just because someone decides to copy your work and call it their *own* that only shows your work is actually good enough that people want to do the same thing. If you decide to move to another forum or any type of android community, at least leave a link. But yeah, this **** happens a lot on XDA. Imagine how all the other devs feel but it doesn't stop em. I discontinued my one XL soundmod because it got stolen and put into 3 roms without my permission and I actually regret it now.
[Xperia Z General] 23Six:
Everyone is saying the ROM is buttery smooth etc. Is it just me who's experiencing frame rate drops in some animations? i.e. when pulling down notification bar, and switching to quick settings.

Sent from my Sony Nexus 4½
[Xperia Z General] Nightwish sgsl:
Yeah. I have them too. (
[Xperia Z General] bariz143:
I have it to.
[Xperia Z General] Hellscythe:
not sure if relevant or not, but it happened to me on the 4.3 version
[Xperia Z General] shoey63:
I removed my modified kernel/recovery from the "other" 4.3 ROM. ( All I did was add Philz CWM touch).

Sorry [MENTION=3911109]pabx[/MENTION] if I caused you any offense.
[Xperia Z General] tamsomlao:
Good question ^^ someone do that and you! You be able! Mister Paxx ;)
[Xperia Z General] 51r:
I used https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jrummy.apps.build.prop.editor&hl=bg and it worked .. :)
[Xperia Z General] HSD-Pilot:
For me it's the smoothest experience since i own the XZ. I only applied some Tweaks through init.d here and there and all lags are gone :thumbup:

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[Xperia Z General] mcteague:
Wow that works great
[Xperia Z General] jcpearl:
would u share the tweaks u made?

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Thanx it works. Onlt my icons in the appdrawer look a bit oversized. is that normal? i set the dpi 360
[Xperia Z General] gjleonardo:
+1 on this, the only tweak I made is to force GPU, and that is it
[Xperia Z General] HSD-Pilot:
I guess not, because i would run into trouble because of Credits.

I downloaded almost every Tweak Pack on XDA, look @ them to learn this stuff and combined / edited the Parts, so that they fit my needs.

Problem now is, i can't remember from which Guy which Part was taken from.

The last day has shown, that this can be a huge Problem, so i'll keep it privat 4 me.

Sorry, but i won't get trouble and keep the fun 4 me > XdA is sometimes a lil bit toooo serious 4 Crackflashers like me :beer:

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[Xperia Z General] 86123maxxi:
Is Google Now working for you guys? I've just installed the ROM and Now isn't showing up anywhere.
[Xperia Z General] gjleonardo:
Yes it does, youtried swiping to right when you are in home screen?
[Xperia Z General] 86123maxxi:
Oh I was digging in the Google Settings and found the toggle to turn on Now. Problem with this ROM is that it doesn't go thru the default setup process so the Google Now settings is really buried under a ton of menus. Cheers to pabx for this great 4.4 ROM!
[Xperia Z General] Tommy-Geenexus:
you need to enablebit in launcher settings

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[Xperia Z General] Danifamous:
Poor battery life for me with screen on. About 1 to 2hours. 8hours standby which isn't bad. No root access via Superuser koush posted on G+. With SuperSU are people just installing from market?
[Xperia Z General] HSD-Pilot:
Just some stats from my side. No Games, but over 1,5 h Music via Bluetooth.

It's sleeping like a Stone when not in use :thumbup:

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[Xperia Z General] venky716:
Could you pls PM me links to your init.d tweaks.

Would really help.

I tried a few from Vanir but didn't work so well.

Thanks.:fingers-crossed:
[Xperia Z General] PNuT.:
no, you need to flash the superuser zip file in recovery
[Xperia Z General] HSD-Pilot:
You have to enable init.d before you can apply any Tweaks

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=32716412

Use the term-init.sh and start tweaking after that.

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[Xperia Z General] venky716:
Yup did that already.

Also tried many combinations of init.d from the following threads

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1353903

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=29627835

That's why asking for your's, since they work for you I thought I could try them as well.
[Xperia Z General] Evil_Sephiroth:
instead of fastboot using (except then for oot.img) can I flash the zip in recovery?
[Xperia Z General] deathontheshore:
No you can't. When you could it would be mentioned in the OP.
[Xperia Z General] exekias:
The dev doesn't want to make a flashable zip and in his opinion he prefers his method of using ADB.

To be honest you only want a flash able zip because its what you already know how to do. But this is a dev forum the aim here is to do a bit of learning not blinding following guides. This method is straight foreword once you do it once which is how it is for every thing. So follow instructions and give it a crack any issues give us a yell. But stop asking for a flash able zip when its obvious the dev doesn't want to.

Protip: make sure your SDK is up to date b4 flashing

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Dude build prop editor is the ONLY way. All the third party programs just edit that file for you with a GUI. Best try another editor and go again. Make sure you do a backup
[Xperia Z General] Evil_Sephiroth:
nevermind....done....

Btw I know it's a trivial thing...but...can we have a nexus 5 style bootanimation?
[Xperia Z General] exekias:
You sure can there is nothing stopping you finding that file yourself and changing your own boot animation. This is after all a forum for people to DIY.

Leave development requests for the dev and do the cosmetic ones yourself.

If you dont know how. Just Google, search the forum and or ask
[Xperia Z General] Evil_Sephiroth:
stupid question to use ADB phone must be connected in ? fastboot mode? other?
[Xperia Z General] BoneMo:
i think no mode...just normally running phone,Android SDK for adb and command line :fingers-crossed:
[Xperia Z General] pabx:
For the people asking if i would continue the development on XDA: The answer just changed from 'maybe' to 'no' a few minutes ago.

As we can see: Nothing changes on XDA: The same sh*it happens again and again and again:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2518294

Just to make myself clear: I'm not against people using my work as a base for their own ROM - but i do not want my work to show up in hacked-up ROMs because:

* They violate the GPL (where is the link to the kernel sources?!)

* The ROM was not built from source - so there is NO DEVELOPMENT going an. Slapping APKs into an existing ROM is *not* development.

I may (or may not) continue to post new Builds on my personal homepage:

http://www.blinkenlights.ch/ccms/android/yuga.html

You can also try to follow me on Twitter (https://twitter.com/adrian_blx) or G+ (https://plus.google.com/115564237657785223556/posts)
[Xperia Z General] stanlin salu:
If u leave this forum?? The people won't change, they will continue using you builds as their base, people who have learned to copy others work can never understand the pain that is put into original development to bring the output..:( (stupids fond of thanks meter):mad:

Its better you stay and continue, there are many others who appreciate your works:):thumbup:
[Xperia Z General] AngelBob:
Such a same a few idiot's destroy thing's for the many.
[Xperia Z General] egzthunder1:
One last thing as I can see some already started posting "opinions". This is a DEVELOPMENT thread. We are trying to amicably solve the situation at hand, so unless you are going to post something useful or relevant to the development of THIS ROM, please refrain yourselves.

Thank you.
[Xperia Z General] fards:
As the OP expressly said he didn't want people to do this I can see why he gets upset when ignore him and go ahead and do it. Would it be ok to take someones book change the title add a word and say "hey I released this" without asking first?

If the OP here has (after a lot of work) asked others not to just take his work and re-release by changing a couple of minor additions then why aren't you supporting him? if you are then you really have not put it across that way, in fact the opposite.

if someone has a mod for this, why don't they just add that mod (not re-release the entire rom) in this thread at the permission of the OP?
[Xperia Z General] 51r:
the standart is 320 :) not 360
[Xperia Z General] egzthunder1:
First of all, I love your signature :p

I have not followed this thread entirely, but I cannot see anything in the OP of this thread where he asks people not to use this build as a base. Care to point me to it?
[Xperia Z General] M_T_M:
Thread temporarily closed due to many OT posts.

Cheers,
[Xperia Z General] M_T_M:
Thread has been reopened... no more OT posts or infractions will start flying... capisce?

Last warning....

Cheers,
[Xperia Z General] gjleonardo:
Yey! Waiting for updates... Please please create a rom flashable using recovery
[Xperia Z General] shoey63:
I will make an update.zip with Philz advanced CWM. No kitchen, mods, or anything, and post it here:)
[Xperia Z General] 888noxxi:
not booting

no matter what i try i cannot get it to boot past the nexus logo, is there something i am missing here?

(edit) cwm says "warning no file contexts) and it says it cant mount logs
[Xperia Z General] Evil_Sephiroth:
And btw I know that OP prefere the adb method and fasbooting .img is easy and not different from stuff but i'm having serius problem on my motherboard to use adb (don't know why and can't format PC) then if it's possible flashable gapps are awensome)....

I know i'm selfish....but that's my problem atm XD

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try from recovery to full wipe (factory reset+wipe cache and dalvik and from mount and storage format system and other stuff)

After this fastboot the 3 img...

worked for me
[Xperia Z General] zai89:
With pabx permission right?.. :)
[Xperia Z General] ianrobbie:
When I installed this ROM before I changed the DPI using Build Prop Editor to 320. The problem is, every time I did this and pressed the Home button, the keyboard popped up (I used android keyboard, Google keyboard and SwiftKey. All had the same effect.)

Has anyone who's changed their DPI had this problem? Any fix?
[Xperia Z General] gjleonardo:
Make it google friendly please :) (add gapps and all)

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Lets avoid OT please so mods will not lock the thread.. :)
[Xperia Z General] PNuT.:
I seem to have a problem with notifications that i place in system/media/audio/notifications or ringtones... I have always done this with every rom I have used but on this one the sound is not what it should be... it actually comes out as the *castor* notification sound... even the ring tone one :eek:

have tried deleting *castor* as well but it is still there

any ideas?
[Xperia Z General] 51r:
It's from launcher.. not changing DPI ... I have this bug too..
[Xperia Z General] leapfrogg:
Nice !!!!
[Xperia Z General] ianrobbie:
Does it happen if you use Nova or Apex launchers?
[Xperia Z General] fulltimepanda:
This was happening to me on 3.1, moved to 3.2, started using launcher3 and it's stopped. I've changed my dpi to 340.
[Xperia Z General] usama007007:
Is it just me or the camera actually sucks balls? Anyway to improve it?
[Xperia Z General] Evil_Sephiroth:
Wait for me fastboot work fine for system boot and user imh...but I have lot of problem with ADB...and can have market.....

A flashable zip for market is just fine......i can download all other app (and it's way better cause downlaoding chrome form the market fixed the included chrome crash for me)
[Xperia Z General] ckyy:
Camera and sound are pretty ****ty ( even with v4a).

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[Xperia Z General] golfgtiedition30:
Yep...the camera is crap

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[Xperia Z General] Lemagex:
There is no DPI Fix as of yet, but I have reproduced the same bug on 5 different settings. it seems he's only made it friendly with 480. My guess would be if you bring it to his attention on here he may fix it in the next release.

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Also, I have no issues with the camera, make sure your settings are set right and you have focus on the right spot. takes pictures comparable to stock firmware.
[Xperia Z General] usama007007:
The whites in the pictures I take...glow :/

Tried adjusting white balance n exposure but still the same...
[Xperia Z General] shoey63:
Here is a flashable zip of this ROM for those who dont have access to a PC or have problems with fastboot/adb http://d-h.st/EqS

Made with CWM, not kitchen, so flash through CWM ONLY.

gapps-kk-20131031 are included.

There are no modifications to kernel or system.

Make sure you wipe data/factory reset before flashing, and keep a backup of your current ROM on external SD card.

I will remove link if there are objections.
[Xperia Z General] 51r:
No :)
[Xperia Z General] bariz143:
Really nice of you man thank you. It would be amazing If u uploaded it to mega instead :)

How about boot.img? You got to have access to a PC if you are going to flash this ROM.
[Xperia Z General] shoey63:
You don't have CWM recovery installed?

Edit: Boot.img is in the update.zip, but I'll make flashable zip of the boot.img only that can be flashed through TWRP or CWM.
[Xperia Z General] bariz143:
Of course i have .and you dont have the launcher with the blue icon included. You cant turn on google now with thoose launchers
[Xperia Z General] Evil_Sephiroth:
Really really nice...thank you a lot....

Btw for the camera......leaving aside the quality the text on scene selector is wrog.....it say "no scene" on "party" icon.
[Xperia Z General] gjleonardo:
Did you guys tried this already? How is it?