yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Xperia Z General] Tommy-Geenexus:
how's the performance of this rom?

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[Xperia Z General] mestanr:
Here is my video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrc89NJfF0o

And in Antutu benchmark is score about 17500 points.
[Xperia Z General] :
How do I install the gapps .tgz file? Can I flash it with CWM?

Thanks
[Xperia Z General] Tommy-Geenexus:
Via fastboot / look at op

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[Xperia Z General] :
Any way to do it without adb? I have no clue what to do.
[Xperia Z General] Groovecain:
just copy the tgz package into /sdcard/ make sure it sdcard internal , the reboot , after that reboot and tadaaa
[Xperia Z General] ckyy:
Flash a gapps package. Google gapps, the first result should bring you to a download page.

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[Xperia Z General] ianrobbie:
Forgive my n00bness but is there any reason why we can't just flash this in recovery -

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/android-news/256918-download-gapps-4-4-kitkat.html
[Xperia Z General] quale:
photosphere?

Hello,

First of all, thanks for the rom, i'm using the 4.4 3.1 version and it is great.

Only one question,

Why the camera has no photosphere enabled?

is there a way to have it?

thanks in advance!! :)
[Xperia Z General] schaggo:
Something I noticed: Google backup is disabled ("Backing up to debug-only private cache"). As this is rather convenient to have, any way to enable it or is this ROM/source/GApps dependant?
[Xperia Z General] fards:
the aosp camera doesn't include photosphere as google haven't open sourced it (BOO to google!)

its pretty easy to get photosphere working..

install the latest GoogleCamera.apk (as a normal app!) and copy liblightcycle.so to /system/lib/

I've attached them below.

there's also libjnimosaic and libnji_filtershow_filters but they are already in pabxs' build, unless you desperately want to use googles versions
[Xperia Z General] fards:
pabx haven't had a chance to merge in your latest upstream patches yet to submit a pull on the undervoltage, but it's all in one commit here if it helps..

https://github.com/fards/kernel_a806/commit/8ca674aae8bf37e848135dc8294f76aa0e399d95

I will merge up when I get a chance.
[Xperia Z General] pabx:
I don't want to sound picky, but the source looks reeeeeally bad. There is a buffer overflow in the first function of the patch.

(I'm not blaming you - the source is from the famous i-have-no-clue-what-fsync-does-guy)
[Xperia Z General] alex3305:
It's a bug regarding the rom or the installation of GApps. It's quite easy to fix though. First disable backups. Than just open a prompt/terminal and run the following command:

adb shell bmgr transport com.google.android.backup/.BackupTransportService

Finally enable backups and it will be good to go. You will, however, have to exit the activity (screen) to let the text change :). You will have to have adb/shell root access to execute the command.
[Xperia Z General] 5worthington:
Why are you not using the 4.4 launcher?
[Xperia Z General] alex3305:
Because you should install the Google 4.4 launcher with GApps. It is proprietary software and not a part of AOSP, thus included in the Google Apps.
[Xperia Z General] jpacho89:
Congratulations [MENTION=3911109]pabx[/MENTION] !

Very good ROM, I was on 4.3.1 but I couldn't wait without trying 4.4 and everything is working properly.

Only thing I don't know why doesn't work is Boat Browser, I have tried different versions and all of them force close when I launch them. Any suggestion?

Thanks!
[Xperia Z General] alex3305:
I tried it and it also crashed on my device. However there source seems to be obfuscated, so that's harder to debug. But my best guess is, that it crashes because of the change to Chromium for WebView instead of the old rendering engine.
[Xperia Z General] juzz|NOR:
Search the forums. Search is a powerful tool. ;)

Long press on empty space on home screen, and select settings. The 1st option should be Google Now.

The new Google now is AWESOME.

Let it charge. After about 30 min, you should be able to boot normally.

If not, then VOL+ + Power is a great option to reboot your phone / Forceboot it.

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It does not officially support 4.4 yet.
[Xperia Z General] diopskill:
do i need to rename the apk? i installed per your instructions, and i got a boot loop.any suggestions on what i'm doing wrong?
[Xperia Z General] FCB-Fan:
Same Problem with 100%Stock.

Next Friday i'll get a new Xperia Z for free. (Y) :D
[Xperia Z General] javagreen:
Somehow my GPS/Google Now doesn't seem to work. I've enabled Google Now, and it worked correctly just once, but once I rebooted, it doesn't seem to work :/

I think it's because of the GPS, and/or the data connection - because it just says 'No connection' when all other apps work just fine. I also have the Notification Weather app, and it too just shows 'Error' until I run the GPS Fix app once and then it starts working, until I reboot.

Google Now just refuses to work though. Any ideas?
[Xperia Z General] :
It's in the gapps package.

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Hey I was wondering .. I know there's a new dialer but on the Nexus 5, the icon looks different than on my phone, is there a way to get the Nexus 5 icons? I'm tired of the ICS icons ..
[Xperia Z General] pabx:
I uploaded a '3.1+' package for people that can not live without the transparent status bar in the lockscreen:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Byx0H5q6Z7OCVlRkbGNUdEtrTGM/edit?usp=sharing

The Package also includes 'Launcher3' (not included in AOSP by default (?))
[Xperia Z General] tjackbjorn:
When I open the appdrawer it's veeery much lag.. Almost everywhere on the homescreen it's lag.. :( anyone else?
[Xperia Z General] 5worthington:
How do I enable GPRS? I have data enabled but get no connection? I only get a 2G connection where I live.
[Xperia Z General] bahuta8:
Try to enable HW acceleration in developers options. Worked for me...
[Xperia Z General] Maikel205:
Everything's working fine in 3.1 except GPS/WiFi and/or network based location isn't working at all in any app for me.
[Xperia Z General] alex3305:
I guess that's dependent on the app. Yahoo weather and Google-apps works great for me. However, the Dutch app called Buienradar wasn't working for me at all. My best bet is that dev's have to adapt to the new style set by Google regarding location.
[Xperia Z General] schaggo:
I made the same observations. Unless I have full-on GPS fix (or had a fix recently, and still have my position "cached"), apps cannot find my current location. Google Maps cannot pinpoint my location, pages in Chrome requesting location data cannot find my location (for example ingress intel map), Hangouts location sharing cannot find my location, Ingress refused to get a fix indoors etc.

The polling of location services starts, as the new location drop-pin symbol appears in the statusbar, but no location - unless provided by a stable GPS fix - is fed back to the application requesting the data. So it seems, network and wifi location does not work.

Also Google Now is very annoyingly adamant that I have no location services enabled and that I should enable it to see the cool location-dependant cards, which in fact I have.

See this post on rootzwiki to compare, this user probably has the same symptoms I/we do: http://rootzwiki.com/topic/106898-pure-aosp-44-for-mako/?p=1502690
[Xperia Z General] chesterr:
My 64GB SDcard doesn't detect at all.
[Xperia Z General] Zorua:
EDIT: nvm.
[Xperia Z General] FateNozomi:
I would like to thank Pabx for this awesome tasty kitkat XD :good:

Google keyboard received quite an amount of data?
[Xperia Z General] LKNim:
So what's the difference home launcher and launcher 3?
[Xperia Z General] quale:
Thanks for the info, but i need to be root for that.

do you know how can i get root access?
[Xperia Z General] shinzi:
read this http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=47075062&postcount=451
[Xperia Z General] quale:
i already flashed supersu, and it worked like a charm!

the only problem i have is the 64gb sdcard, it does not detect it.
[Xperia Z General] pabx:
Looks like the fused location provider changed in kitkat. Will be fixed in release 3.2

Show the output of 'adb shell busybox df -h'

It's the opensource version of the 4.4 gapps launcher.
[Xperia Z General] bariz143:
Right now its smooth and fine no fc's think its a daily for me.
[Xperia Z General] chesterr:
I actually have two SD cards, one 8GB and the other one is 64GB and I tired both and didn't work.

When it says it's broken and needs to be formatted, the phone itself reboots.
[Xperia Z General] fards:
PABX have you tried the new art runtime yet?

Don't think it's perfect, but curious to see how it works

http://source.android.com/devices/tech/dalvik/art.html
[Xperia Z General] :
Hey I was wondering .. I know there's a new dialer but on the Nexus 5, the icon looks different than on my phone, is there a way to get the Nexus 5 icons? I'm tired of the ICS icons ..
[Xperia Z General] chesterr:
Few more that I ran into recently, not big deal though, thought of letting you know,

Great rom. I'm gonna keep this as my daily driver.:good:
[Xperia Z General] tjackbjorn:
No diffrence.. :(
[Xperia Z General] bariz143:
How to remove that bloody Japanese keyboard? I removed every keyboard with titanium backup but it's still there :P
[Xperia Z General] javagreen:
I miss the stock Walkman sound quality, any sound mods that anyone tried compatible with this ROM? PureXAudio, ZBlast both gave me crashes and bootloops.. good thing I had a nandroid backup!
[Xperia Z General] fards:
Why not disable it with the settings/apps?

Edit: oops just realised that's the pinyin ime
[Xperia Z General] bariz143:
Because I want it gone and not hidden :)

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Is it only me who has another network connection than the real one? Can't connect to my network which is Tele2.
[Xperia Z General] fards:
This should be the latest fused location, if anyone wants to try it.

Not sure if it installs normally, or whether needs pushing to priv-app/

I'm not seeing any issues with Gps here.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1xWJTWr72ktajUyY3NaS3lpVEE/edit?usp=sharing

Edit: correct link
[Xperia Z General] pabx:
This won't work: Getting the google fused location provider to work requires a rebuild of the base framework.

As i said: it will be fixed in 3.2
[Xperia Z General] Zorua:
Screenshot previews are broken. Also, the led doesn't light up upon receiving a notification if the phone's plugged in. This isn't very important, but the app draw opening and closing transitions seem to be laggy.
[Xperia Z General] bariz143:
The app drawer is laggy. Google now gives me weather updates from old places. Tells me to enable location in data/wifi when it's already on. Can't connect to my original network.

Beside that this rom is awesome and looking forward for this rom. Thank you for the hard work
[Xperia Z General] FateNozomi:
try getting Viper4android http://vipersaudio.com/blog/
[Xperia Z General] mcteague:
Guys is supersu version 1.65 adequate for 4.4.
[Xperia Z General] shoey63:
I think we are privileged to have such an awesome developer as [MENTION=3911109]pabx[/MENTION]. Within an hours of Kit Kat source being dropped, he is already hex-editing AOSP blobs to make it available for our device. Waiting for Sony would take months. We are probably the first non -Nexus device to receive this update:thumbup:
[Xperia Z General] bariz143:
Don't understand what you meant with that word adequate but yes it's compatible with 4.4 :P
[Xperia Z General] mcteague:
Cheers mate
[Xperia Z General] bariz143:
You're welcome. Next time hit the thx bottom to :P
[Xperia Z General] jankhner:
Isn't it enough if i only wipe everything from recovery, put gapps.tgz to /sdcard and flash the zip file? I'm at work and I can't use adb...

I'm using CM 10.2 atm!
[Xperia Z General] jdjta:
It's not a flashable zip so it won't work that way...(see OP, you have to extract the .img files)
[Xperia Z General] seahorsepip:
Do you accept donations trough paypal?
[Xperia Z General] bariz143:
Now that hangouts has built in sms can we disable/remove the stock sms app?
[Xperia Z General] :
No, it's not flashable, you'll have to do it at home and I hope you have Windows 7 because it didn't work for me on 8.1 because of the driver signing.
[Xperia Z General] iKillCypher:
Hello pabx may I know what blobs you patched cause it seems like you only patched libqc-opt library all the others are from 4.3

cause Im having a hard time to get Omni build for yuga :(
[Xperia Z General] Zorua:
Erm, you can disable driver signature enforcement from advanced startup settings.
[Xperia Z General] :
I get BSOD when I disable it on my Acer Aspire V7
[Xperia Z General] bariz143:
No problems on my Iconia W510 :)
[Xperia Z General] pabx:
libqc-opt is the only library that was hex edited (just because i didn't feel like forking libicu for something so trivial)

But you'll have to build libqservice from source & add a few dummy stubs for the camera driver
[Xperia Z General] juzz|NOR:
Run a "fix permissions" from the recovery menu.

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You can disable it from Application settings.
[Xperia Z General] Kallb123:
When I flashed all the images and pushed gapps, the phone rebooted as soon as lock screen appeared. I had enough time to see it mention something about faulty SD card but then it rebooted. Trouble was, it would do this even without SD in... I ended up flashing back to 4.3.

Not sure what I did wrong to get bootloops, am I supposed to push gapps at the same time as flashing or should I let the phone start up a few times?
[Xperia Z General] :
Try to copy all the content of the SD-cars to your PC, download and use SDFormatter to clean up the card, put the empty card and make it recognite it, then copy the files back to your SD-card and it could work.
[Xperia Z General] juzz|NOR:
I just flashed, let my phone boot a first boot then rebooted with gapps on phone memory.

Worked like a charm..

I would advice you to try a reflash of the img files, and try again. :)
[Xperia Z General] Meister_Li:
Any plans on porting this to the ZL? It's basically the same phone with some slight differences (added IR blaster and Camera-Button). Would be really cool to be able to try out 4.4 there. :)
[Xperia Z General] stanlin salu:
Awesome work mate..
[Xperia Z General] diopskill:
yesssss! Viper mod is beast!!! Nothing compares!!!
[Xperia Z General] bariz143:
I downloaded that to and man its amazing.
[Xperia Z General] john_cena163:
any chance for zr?? hope all z series get 4.4 :(
[Xperia Z General] FateNozomi:
Yeah man, thanks to pabx we can get viper4andriod working properly XD, on CM have to use compatibility mode =/
[Xperia Z General] R!n:
The ROM is pretty good so far, the only problem I've encountered was when I tried to change the navbar size to 36.

It works fine, but when I tried to change the scaling of the back-button, I realized the SystemUI.apk was missing from /system/app/

Did I miss something? Is it somewhere else now?
[Xperia Z General] HTC Venom:
great work [MENTION=3911109]pabx[/MENTION] , as usual the guy who hold all hopes for developing the impossible for everybody , we hope to get your work with 4.4 on our lovely HOX
[Xperia Z General] dasprot:
How did you change the navbar size if I may ask?
[Xperia Z General] heubergen:
I can confirm that the root success with http://download.chainfire.eu/351/SuperSU/UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.65.zip?retrieve_file=1
[Xperia Z General] R!n:
By modifying the framework-res.apk. There are various tutorials on here.
[Xperia Z General] Akiainavas:
Is the 4.4 version of this rom pre-rooted ?
[Xperia Z General] bariz143:
No its not prerooted. Download the supersu 1.65zip from chainfire and flash it in recovery after flashing the rom. Peace
[Xperia Z General] Lewelynn:
No but just flash this in recovery to gain root

http://download.chainfire.eu/351/SuperSU/UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.65.zip?retrieve_file=1

Hey pabx, maybe you could mention it in the first post?
[Xperia Z General] zaidx:
how can i port your rom to xperia s lt26i please someone tells me like a guide or something
[Xperia Z General] Akiainavas:
I don't want root, that's why I asked :) Thanks for info chum, downloading now.
[Xperia Z General] Radixtrator:
Myphone wont enter recovery by the boot menu, so my question is, how do i get into recovery?
[Xperia Z General] :
You turn the phone off, you hold the power button until you feel it vibrate and then you spam the vol-up button until the notification light turns purple and the recovery will load up.
[Xperia Z General] chesterr:
Yea exFat isn't supported at the moment I guess. I formatted to fat32 and it's working alright again, :good:
[Xperia Z General] Radixtrator:
Thanks a bunch ^^
[Xperia Z General] mljjlm:
If there was a guide, someone would probably have ported it by now, right? - Sometimes people should think before posting. Including me, obviously.
[Xperia Z General] heubergen:
[MENTION=5139718]zaidx[/MENTION]:

You know at all how heavy and complicated it is ti port a rom?

Wait for profis or Sony for a firmware or buy a Xperia Z :)
[Xperia Z General] 23Six:
UI Lags for anyone else?

Flashing back to CM until there's a kernel with the updated screen cali
[Xperia Z General] shoey63:
Thanks for your efforts [MENTION=3911109]pabx[/MENTION] :thumbup:
[Xperia Z General] samuelhalff:
To me, this is the only interesting project after FXP for the Z.

Nothing beats Swiss engineering ;).

Thank you. Keep it up pabx.
[Xperia Z General] jervine:
exFAT support?

Just flashed this, and noticed there is no exFAT support compiled into the kernel. Is this something that can be added easily? The email app is quite useful for some people - for the Exchange ActiveSync support for corporate email accounts.

Other than the above - really nice job on the ROM though. Feels like a Nexus device.
[Xperia Z General] pabx:
You can cross compile https://github.com/rxrz/exfat-nofuse with this patch:

diff --git a/exfat_super.c b/exfat_super.c
index 5175473..9eccc55 100644
--- a/exfat_super.c
+++ b/exfat_super.c
@@ -1543,7 +1543,7 @@ static void exfat_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
//mark_inode_dirty(inode);
}
invalidate_inode_buffers(inode);
- clear_inode(inode);
+ end_writeback(inode);
exfat_detach(inode);
/*
struct exfat_sb_info *sbi = EXFAT_SB(inode->i_sb);

But IMO there is no real reason to use exFAT on any android device: If you are using a large sd-card just use ext4: Android will share the filesystem via MTP anyway. Also note that the legal status of reverse engineered exFAT implementations is 'unknown'.
[Xperia Z General] _EriK_:
Hi! Thanks for this ROM , it's just amazing!!! Btw, is there any chance to implement T-mobile theme engine?
[Xperia Z General] jervine:
Fair point - decided to go with your suggestion of formatting with ext4 (once I've backed up the data on the sdcard). The reason I'd chosen exfat was that the stock ROMs had a module available for exfat, and that 4.2.2 seems to support it natively, whereas ext4 has not been supported on the sdcard. (I'll admit I'm lazy)

Thanks for making the sources available too.
[Xperia Z General] pabx:
Sony ships with the 'Tuxera exFat' kernel driver. Tuxera has a contract with Microsoft so they are allowed to ship their own exFat implementation.

The code linked in my previous post on github is in a grey-area as Microsoft *requires* you to pay them in order to distribute exFat implementations.

The vanilla linux kernel (and AOSP) never included exFat support and probably never will.
[Xperia Z General] elspanish88:
Any chance of sticking this in a zip to install?
[Xperia Z General] jervine:
Yeah, I"m happier to use ext4 (or other native Linux filesystem) as my desktop and laptop are Linux systems anyway, but as most (all?) stock ROMs don't support ext4 and I wanted support for file sizes greater than 4GB, exFAT was my original (in retrospect unwise) choice.

With a 64GB ext4 formatted SD card, it's not automatically mounted - listed as blank or has unsupported filesystem. I can mount the filesystem manually when connected via adb - although it seems that 'correct' way to do this in Android is to mount it somewhere and then use sdcard to 'remount' it in the location that the OS will actually use (sdcard seems to be similar to a bind mount but mounts via fuse in a way to remove permissions and case sensitivity).

The source for sdcard suggests this should work, so I guess I'm missing something somewhere else...
[Xperia Z General] pabx:
It doesn't get mounted because vold only expects fat32 sdcards. I hacked up a small patch and this makes the automount work:

http://pastebin.com/yM2aHhcG

However: You'll run into permission issues - setting a default ACL doesn't work as android apps will just override it with their 'more secure' umask.

So i guess yeah: The only real solution would be to launch the sdcard-daemon for the external sdcard.

CM has a patch for this: http://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/31215/ - but i wonder if it wouldn't be simpler to solve this in the kernel. (the sdcard daemon is just a big hack of google to simulate the old there-are-no-permissions-on-/sdcard behaviour)
[Xperia Z General] jervine:
:( Yeah, I've spent today going round in circles to discover this as well. Android expects the sdcard to have no permissions and no case sensitivity. As a result, it's really not happy with an ext4 filesystem on the sdcard. The filesystem can be mounted within adb (and init.d support can be added to ensure this mounts during system boot). However, your'e right, the various applications don't like seeing the ext4 filesystem attributes. I've not figured out the syntax to pass to the sdcard binary to 'correct' this.

I was mounting /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 to a 'temporary' location, and then trying to use sdcard to mount this to /storage/sdcard1 via:

sdcard <temporary location> /storage/sdcard1 1023 1023 (where 1023 1023 are the uid and gid expected). But the sdcard binary just 'hangs', and although Ctrl+C would show the /storage/sdcard1 directory as mounted when 'mount' was ran - you couldn't actually browse the filesystem. so that was a no-go.

As a last resort I tried the ezymount app on the Play Store - and this really didn't work ... It could see the ext4 partition, but every attempt to mount it would fail, and to add insult to injury, a factory reset seemed to occur when I next rebooted my phone. Not fun. This is all caused by the ubiquity of FAT :(
[Xperia Z General] freerunner:
Awesome work [MENTION=3911109]pabx[/MENTION]

And greatest respect for you for keeping your source open.

Going to marry your device repos with my Primerunner project.

Feel free to pick anything you want from my repos vice-versa.
[Xperia Z General] pabx:
I had a look at the ext4 support today:

The CyanogenMod patch is a big mess, would require a significant amount of work to merge it into AOSP (CM10.1 is missing many 4.2 features in vold) and i simply do not like the sdcard-daemon-fiddeling.

IMO, a much better solution would be to add a new mount-option to the kernel that tells the VFS layer to represent all files with hardcoded uid:gid. This would be easy to do, but we still would need to fork vold() and we still would have to add support for each non-fat filesystem manually (fsck / mount calls).

But this still results in a complicated setup where the only benefit is to have support for files >4GB on an sdcard - and i do not think that this justifies the patch-mess.

Btw: UDF woulb be a VERY nice option (supported by all major operating systems) but unfortunately the linux implementation doesn't allow you to force the uid:gid for newly created files (you can tell it to 'forget' the UIDs on remount, but that doesn't help)
[Xperia Z General] Stony-D:
Hey pabx

Is your Rom based on the latest official Sony AOSP Workshop Rom?
[Xperia Z General] pabx:
Workshop ROM? You mean the one from FXP? No:

This is based on Sonys c6603 device config and uses the Sony AOSP blobs.