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[Xperia Z General] HSD-Pilot:
KitKat Flasher

For lazy People (like me) > This BAT will do almost everything 4 You! :good:

Just copy the Files (Images + GAPPS) provided by PABX into the extracted Folder and run the BAT (with USB Debugging enabled) > Follow the Instructions

Output:

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KitKat Flasher for Xperia Z

written by HSD-Pilot

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Credits for AOSP 4.4 to

++ PABX ++

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Have USB Debugging enabled!

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Drücken Sie eine beliebige Taste . . .

List of devices attached

BX903F09QT device

Rebooting into Bootloader...

- Waiting for Device -

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Flashing Kernel....

sending 'boot' (9260 KB)...

OKAY [ 0.312s]

writing 'boot'...

OKAY [ 0.452s]

finished. total time: 0.764s

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Flashing System....

sending 'system' (437548 KB)...

OKAY [ 14.758s]

writing 'system'...

OKAY [ 22.589s]

finished. total time: 37.346s

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Wiping Data....

sending 'userdata' (137042 KB)...

OKAY [ 4.618s]

writing 'userdata'...

OKAY [ 6.724s]

finished. total time: 11.341s

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!!!! Let Your Device connected !!!!

We're not done here

After first boot GAPPS + SU.zip

will be pushed to SDCard

(Accept Connection on your Device!)

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Drücken Sie eine beliebige Taste . . .

rebooting...

finished. total time: -0.000s

List of devices attached

BX903F09QT device

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Pushing Files...

2914 KB/s (90632007 bytes in 30.373s)

2583 KB/s (1031912 bytes in 0.390s)

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Installing GAPPS

!Wait untill you're booted into System!

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Drücken Sie eine beliebige Taste . . .

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GAPPS are installed and you're back

on HomeScreen

?????????????????????????

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Drücken Sie eine beliebige Taste . . .

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We're rebooting one last time

to root your Device in Recovery

(Press Vol.Key when LED lights up)

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List of devices attached

BX903F09QT device

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Greetings

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Drücken Sie eine beliebige Taste . . .​

Use @ your own risk > I'm not responsible for anything that happen to your Device
[Xperia Z General] Lewelynn:
Just confirming that bbm is working for me although its a little buggy.

The only issue I had is that es file explorer isn't editing system files but got around that by using cm file manager.

Link for anyone interested:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jsf.cmprojects.cyanogenmodappinstaller

Also using cm torch app successfully from that app.
[Xperia Z General] heubergen:
You can copy the gapps paket manuel to the path /sdcard/, too.

It works great!

Because the big battery bug (so much consumption):

The problem is by the Google Play-Dienste (com.google.process.gapps).

It's consumed 75% of my battery so I have disable it.
[Xperia Z General] muphetz:
BBM its work for me,,dont instal from playstore,just manually from backup app( if you back up the app)
[Xperia Z General] pabx:
Well.. did this EVER work (eg: in 4.3?) I didn't even know that this feature exists :)
[Xperia Z General] fards:
It's a new "feature" for 4.4

Will have a play later on. Not sure if the OMX has changed between 4.3 and 4.4

BTW art does work!
[Xperia Z General] pabx:
Yeah, i also played with it. Looks ok, but whatsapp crashes :-/
[Xperia Z General] ckyy:
Breaks a ton of apps tho. For me atleast.

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[Xperia Z General] greatremix:
How are those that have the same spec. as Z?
[Xperia Z General] jdjta:
When I try to change this it doesn't stick with the selected option and jumps back to LTE/GSM Auto (PRL) when I leave the screen. Do I have to apply the new setting in some way? (I don't think I can acces the 4G of my current carrier but I'm going to switch in some weeks. Maybe I should wait and see if it works but still don't see why it doesn't remember my selection).

The ROM is really nice and works perfect for me! Titanium Backup broke some of my apps but after reinstalling them everything is fine. Only app that keeps giving me battery drain is Clean Master but I just deleted it.
[Xperia Z General] fards:
Not seen any yet, but i don't use what'sapp.

Which others are broken?
[Xperia Z General] tjackbjorn:
If your carrier don't support 4G you can't expect it to work either hehe. :)

And in the menu you don't need to save some settings :)
[Xperia Z General] jdjta:
Thanks, I understand that but think it's kind of strange I can't change my preferences. I mean, when my carrier decides to give me 4G after some time how will I know ;)? I suppose I'll have to wait till I get my new contract in 3 weeks to see if and how it will work.

For those of you wondering what all the ART-talk is about (or am I the only noob not understanding what it was about:confused:): Android Police on ART. Not sure if I should enable it at this point...
[Xperia Z General] exekias:
I think your missing the point entirely, even if your phone has the EXACT same hardware etc then the fact it is another model indicates that there is something different with your phone and without owning your specific model this Dev cannot troubleshoot any problems there may be. Remember he is doing this for free so people really need to back off from asking him to do anything.

You want it so badly, make it yourself, all he did was build from community provided sources, those sources are available to both you and me.
[Xperia Z General] pabx:
Enabling 4G shouldn't do any harm: The phone radio will automatically switch to some lower speed if the network does not support 4G.

But you can force the connection type in Settings => More => Mobile networks => Network Mode

About ART: This is a preview feature and is only meant for app-developers to test their own applications. End users should not enable it unless they love to see random crashes.
[Xperia Z General] Novek:
I loose wifi from time to time, fixed by a reboot... Any ideas as to why?

Love to have aosp with battery levels above stock, and way above cm10.2 / Pac rom. :)
[Xperia Z General] exekias:
I get brilliant battery life by using Battery Guru app, it works similar to the stock Sony power saving feature and is specifically crafted for Snapdragon processors. It spends a couple of days learning your habits and then you get the results. Give it a shot.
[Xperia Z General] Novek:
Yeah, I get great battery life too... My question was regarding suddenly wifi crashes which need a reboot to work again. ;)

Sent from my newly flashed toaster...
[Xperia Z General] mcjordan92:
A lil extra info for the non-experts over here please..

What exactly is needed before I can install that rom?

Do I need unlocked bootloader?

And if I come from stock (latest version de-odexed) do I need some special Kernel / recovery / radio?

Also can it be flashed from recovery rather than adb? Im a poop-flasher.. no pc in the toilet-room ;p

Thanks!

Sent from my Xperia Z.
[Xperia Z General] 23Six:
Yup you'll need an unlocked bootlader as this ROM runs on a non-stock kernel.

You will need to flash the kernel (boot.img) and the ROM itself (system.img) using fastboot along with gapps. A recovery way is flashing not available yet as there's no .zip for us. This will come in time. Could be a few weeks.

Also, coming from stock doesn't make any difference to steps.

Sent from my Sony Nexus 4½
[Xperia Z General] alex3305:
You need to unlock your bootloader, doesn't matter what rom you already have installed. You don't need any recovery or anything else. Only fastboot. You can use adb to reboot to bootloader, but that isn't necessary. Just follow the instructions from the OP, you'll be fine!

Btw, I'm getting crazy battery life here too. It has been almost 2 days off charger and still about 35% left with 1 hour screen on time. That's the best battery life I've had on a rom, ever...
[Xperia Z General] quale:
i lost google now after installing v3.2

I don't have the google now pannel in the launcher.

did that happended to anyone?

edit: i found the solution!!!

great rom!!!

there will be version 3.3 with more improvements?
[Xperia Z General] Hellscythe:
yeah, i have the wifi issue on aosp and cm

connect to wifi, sleep my phone for a bit, phone doesnt detect my network even after rescanning, turning off and turning on wifi does nothing, so i have to reboot phone :/
[Xperia Z General] FateNozomi:
I've found another problem, custom ringtone doesn't repeat. Will this be fix or no plans for it? thanks in advanced :D
[Xperia Z General] Novek:
The problem doesnt happen on stock nor cm10.2 for me.

Sent from my newly flashed toaster...
[Xperia Z General] ZeRoWaR:
So i tried out MHL and it works flawlessly ;) ADB and working with android studio also works without a problem.

ART works nearly fine for me, only Whatsapp isn't working (so i'm at dvm again), all other 100+ Apps seem to work, even my own developed apps are like on steroids. With ART the phone seems to be uber fast, every app starts at the press of the icon instantly and the animations are smooth and blazing fast. It's hard to get the phone to lag even though it's still possible ;)

So far the rom is quite stable for me, just like the stock roms. However i noticed heavy battery drain with display brightness set to Auto (it's always too bright), even when the phone is connected to the dock, or the charger, or to the pc it's draining. But with a lower brightness everything is like it should be.

Great job pabx - i hope you will get some helplwith the developement!

Suggestions:

Kernel tweaks: (Fastcharge, more Governors/ I/O shedulers, s2w, t2w) - If someone could help me to find some references on building kernels, i would try to contribute as much as i can.
[Xperia Z General] fards:
Have a play with the backlight settings in the xperia z bit, see if that helps.
[Xperia Z General] Bioschnitzel:
Can anybody do a mod for a smaller navbar?

The Stock-Navbar ist way to big :rolleyes:
[Xperia Z General] Ambroos:
Really impressed with this. Less than a week after the source is released and we have a stable fully functional KitKat. I happily unlocked my bootloader for this and I'm usually a diehard stock guy!

Thanks pabx, love your work!
[Xperia Z General] Krsnik:
I'm still on stock since I haven't had the guts to unlock my bootloader but that may be about to change ;).

One question though, how is the camera quality with this rom?

With most other custom roms I heard the picture quality is quite abysmal which is the main reason I'm still on stock.
[Xperia Z General] feesta:
kernel

hi!

is there any kernel with double tap to wake compatible with this rom??? :)
[Xperia Z General] fards:
maybe of interest with the wifi issues

D/WifiConfigStore( 801): Loading config and enabling all networks
E/WifiConfigStore( 801): Error parsing configurationjava.io.FileNotFoundException: /data/misc/wifi/ipconfig.txt: open failed: ENOENT (No such file or directory)
D/CommandListener( 347): Setting iface cfg
D/CommandListener( 347): Trying to bring up p2p0
[Xperia Z General] Kreuzfelder:
Hi...and sorry...i forgot to copy the GAPPS bevore flashing :(

Now i have to copy the gapps to the SDCard (8GB) and reboot ind Fastboot Mode and do this >

adb push gapps_44_yuga_3.tgz /sdcard/

First error > no adb.exe found. Then i copied the *.exe in the Fastboot Folder and do it again >

adb push gapps_44_yuga_3.tgz /sdcard/

...but a second error > error: device not found :(

I need a little bit help please :)
[Xperia Z General] HSD-Pilot:
Copy the GApps to the internal SD > reboot!

And ADB won't work in Fastboot Mode.

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[Xperia Z General] Kreuzfelder:
Sorry for my dumb question, but how do I copy the gapps without manager?
[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.
[Xperia Z General] HSD-Pilot:
Just connect it to your PC and drop the .tgz package to your internal storage. Push adb won't do anything different.

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[Xperia Z General] pschvn:
how to use adb

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2303834
[Xperia Z General] EmeraldTimer:
Half Nav-bar screen
[Xperia Z General] Kreuzfelder:
Hi Buddys,

thanks a lot for your help.

Now my XZ works like a Charm :)

When i click on Owner, there is nothing?!?

..but one last Question. There is no root and CWF for this Rom, right?
[Xperia Z General] pabx:
Just FYI:

I will not upload any new releases:

I just noticed that some posts of me (& posts quoting my post) silently got deleted by some XDA Admin.

So goodbye XDA.
[Xperia Z General] Tommy-Geenexus:
nooooo:(:(:(

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[Xperia Z General] 51r:
Reboot Menu

"Reboot to Recovery" from Power Menu not working :\ ..
[Xperia Z General] Nolimited:
No :(

Why the hell would they delete some of your posts and posts quoting you?

That's stupid. But, that's Xda Admins in a nutshell i guess :/
[Xperia Z General] PNuT.:
that is a shame...... can you be found anywhere else???
[Xperia Z General] Kreuzfelder:
Yep, me too, but the "old" Way works perfect ;)
[Xperia Z General] venky716:
Seriously wtf is happening !!

My post got deleted, I simply said you should continue your work and maybe starfigther should help you fix some bugs.

Don't see anything wrong with that.

One more out of XDA:(

They should get their sh*t together.

Pls do continue developing though :fingers-crossed:
[Xperia Z General] Kreuzfelder:
++ :good:
[Xperia Z General] Krsnik:
And just when I decided to try this custom rom :(.

Well if it's not supported anymore that's not going to happen.

Overzealous mods can be really harmful, that's one reason a lot of good people quit another android forum I frequented...
[Xperia Z General] zeroed:
Srsly dude dont do that,everything will come in place.
[Xperia Z General] heubergen:
Schad dasd üfhörsch, respektier das aber. Alles gueti für d'Zuekunft.

English:

Pity that you stop, but I respect this step. All the best for your future.
[Xperia Z General] MR.Samo:
For god sake!!!!!

We can't take much more pain, one more great developer is leaving us, the problem is we don't many devs in Xperia z forums and now we are loosing one of the best of them

To adminsadmins all the respect for you but the way u handled this issue was wrong and u r making us paying the price for your fault.

And I just want to say to pabx remember my friend u were doing this for us, for sharing with people, for making us feel good and for trying something we would never try without you, thank u for everything dear.
[Xperia Z General] pschvn:
you the man

we are waiting for you to come back ,you the man
[Xperia Z General] ItalDiamond2008:
Pls. don't

Pls. do not give up! Your work is amazing...please. Our community supports you completely.

Cheers my friend! :victory:
[Xperia Z General] Nightwish sgsl:
What???? What the hell these admins are doing?? Why....dont leave us please. You are one of the REAL developers of our forum. I say again, please dont leave:(
[Xperia Z General] 1lucano:
Excuse me, but to you with bluetooh headset work?

thanks
[Xperia Z General] alex3305:
It would be shame if you left pabx. You are one of the finest dev's of XDA and one of the best for the Xperia Z, together with Entropy512 you saved this device :).

I hope you will keep compiling your roms and upload them, maybe not here but that's ok :). Or at least I hope you will still maintain the github, so I could compile it myself.

Thanks for the great builds and I hope that you reconsider :).
[Xperia Z General] Kreuzfelder:
BT Headset i don't know, but BT In Car works great.
[Xperia Z General] BoneMo:
our last hope is Sony which according to news should release KitKat for XZ soon and of course CM11 when it is ready......it is a pity that there wont be next AOSP release :crying: because pabx is a real dev and works amazingly fast
[Xperia Z General] ZeRoWaR:
That's true, however i think the XZ will firt get 4.3 as a official ROM, but maybe they will release sources for the 4.4 build this way it will be easier for us to make ROM's.

pabx i hope you reconsider it and continue your great work. Maybe we should somehow get some attention to this thread, so the situation will be eventually cleared!?

Thx @ M_T_M for the info
[Xperia Z General] charlodroid:
Great ROM pabx.

Hope I can meet up with your work again one day.

Respect.
[Xperia Z General] Novek:
Yeah, bluetooth handsfree works great!

Sent from my newly flashed toaster...
[Xperia Z General] M_T_M:
Hello everyone!

Please stop posting support messages as it will clutter this development thread. The OP is fully aware of your support and we are aware of the situation.

Let's continue with development talk, please :)

@ OP....feel free to PM me with any questions you may have, please. I sent you a message earlier, check you inbox.

Cheers,

M_T_M

Senior Moderator

PS: I will not delete any messages of support posted before this announcement but any new ones will be erased to avoid cluttering.
[Xperia Z General] pabx:
Yeah, that would be nice.. but the reality on XDA is that

development threads are cluttered with basic questions

People like 'Mr. who shall remain unnamed' simply copy my stuff & slap some APKs on it without even recompiling or contributing ANYTHING back. (..and this happened the 2nd time: He did the same with my 4.3 build and 'forgot' to give me any credit until i reminded him about the fact that his work is a 1:1 copy) *

That's quite frustrating, especially if you hear things like 'ROM of blabla is so much better than yours' and 'all you did is compiling Android'

Guess what: Porting 4.2, 4.3 and 4.4 to yuga wasn't that easy - and this has been an one-man show.

* Note: I'm not against people using my work: I was part of the AOSP Port-Team for the HTC One X and we had a GREAT collaboration with the people doing the CM Version: They fixed Video and we gave them Audio & BT fixes (anyone remembers the Echo bug? yeah..)

My only question is: What happened to my postings (+ the postings of some other users) that were silently deleted?
[Xperia Z General] M_T_M:
Well...this is not the PM I expected but, here it goes:

-If in any occasion you feel, think or know you are being "kanged"...report that member using the report button or PM any Moderator.

-I understand your frustration and all I can say (no sarcasm intended)...welcome to open source with no ethics or morals on the year 2013. Sadly, it is that way though. We are aware of these types of issues ans always do our best to correct them when someone if found in the wrong.

-About your posting...obvious answer is obvious. They were deleted and I'm investigating about it as we speak.

Please PM me next time as I will not discuss any cases like this out in the open in order to avoid problems and out of respect for the members involved on each case.

Cheers,
[Xperia Z General] ianrobbie:
[MENTION=3911109]pabx[/MENTION]

I have to thank you. At first, I thought the installation instructions were a bit disjointed but after going through them and executing the instructions exactly as they appear in the OP, they turned out to be some of the clearest installation instructions I have come across on XDA. I really do hope you don't shuffle off into sunset, because, after reading this thread, it's clear you know what you're doing and I hope to call on your expertise again.

Thanks again.
[Xperia Z General] JasonX199:
Are the adreno drivers correctly ported too? The Launcher seems to suffer from framedrops sometimes.

Something I also noticed is that the charging takes a longer time to charge in comparison with Sony's rom.

Also, you guys can discuss these things endlessly on here, but there has to come a end to this. We don't want another flawless dev to quit this, he's working on it's freetime and all. Give this guy a break, he brought us 4.4 for the XZ.

It would be a shame to quit pabx, you've got already this far with the rom.
[Xperia Z General] greglord:
After using this rom for 1 day here are the things i've found out:

1. well, first reaction obviously was wow, XZ has 4.4 already? /salute pabx

2. switching runtime (dalvik<>art) isn't needed at the moment because you wont, no, really, you wont see the difference. apps work, except whatsapp (under art runtime)

3. sometimes when reading feedly or gallery,.. it seems as if invisible finger would move me to previous page/site. has anyone noticed this?

4. calendar bug as pabx said is fixed after 2nd reboot (see OP)

5. i've noticed some of my chargers (or only microusb cables connected to computer) all of the sudden aren't recognized imediately. I have to "fix" their position. If that doesn't help, reboot usually does.

Hey, I can live with all of those "problems" i've noticed. We got KitKat people!!! Not even all Nexus devices don't have it OTA yet!!! Well, pabx made this possible so big thanks to him! :)
[Xperia Z General] DesertHawk:
[MENTION=3911109]pabx[/MENTION], [MENTION=1707123]M_T_M[/MENTION]. I have requested for my ROM thread to be deleted (not closed) as I don't want to cause trouble. I will send my fixes to PABX tomorrow and upload my HTC Sense build with permission from PABX as I used his 4.3 kernel. I hope I have made the right decision.

Edit - Thread Deleted : All fixes will be here to help PABX make an awesome rom
[Xperia Z General] Nolimited:
That's big of you.

That earns you a lot of extra respect points.

Thank you, my good man.
[Xperia Z General] zeroed:
Well i hope mr.pabx reconsiders his decision then.Please mate keep making us happy dont make me regret i didnt buy nexus 5 when your stuff is better plus you are the first dev in 6 months that made me unlock my bootloader,i am aware you already know how big is the thing you did.
[Xperia Z General] vibranze:
No wonder I couldnt find it. Salute to your big heart! :)
[Xperia Z General] FateNozomi:
+1! I totally agree with number 3, it's pretty annoying especially when you're reading manga :eek:
[Xperia Z General] gjleonardo:
Bow to you sir...
[Xperia Z General] M_T_M:
Ok.... let's continue to discuss development mates.... OP sure will reconsider and be back to old self soon ;);)
[Xperia Z General] MR.Samo:
Thank u all dears.

Thank u PABX for your passion.

And thx to starstar, u got my respect man.

And big thx to M_T_M for handling this without u we could lost PABX .

After this I feel that I belong to the greatest forum in the world again.

Now writing for version 3.3 :D:D
[Xperia Z General] mmamedov:
So, this is going to be my first AOSP Rom. I was on Stock Roms for 9 months mainly because of Walkman. Now it's time to make changes)

Here is some questions I have for users:

1. Any comments on battery life? Is it increased or decreased? Can we survive without stamina?

2. Is there any way to change mobile network to 2G only? Through special apps or changing system files?

3. Are mods (ex. soundmods) for AOSP 4.2.2 going to work with this Rom?

4. Can you change navbar size and app drawer grid? Is there any mods or apps for that?

5. Would you recommend this Rom for daily usage? My expectation are: less Ram usage, smooth experience, no major lags or crashes.

Thank You for reading, and hopefully answering these questions (especially last one).
[Xperia Z General] venky716:
Battery life is very good, check screenshots and calculate for yourself.

Yes u can change to 2g

Vioer4android doesn't work, so other mods too will have to try and see for yourself.

Daily use - yes, turn on force gpu and everything is buttery smooth, no crashes whatsoever.