yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Xperia Z General] pascalbrax:
Thank you for your approval and your suggestion! :)

By the way, if you can generate an URL for the ZL, I can add it to this page too.

P.S. you should check the page source... ;)
[Xperia Z General] Apollo89:
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Based on Apollo89's work on XDA Developers Forum
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LOL! Thanks ;)

I will generate the URL for Xperia ZL if someone provides me with:

- a screenshot of the 'Software info' screen in the service menu

- first 8 digits of the IMEI number

I need this for each model of Xperia ZL (C6502, C6503, C6506).
[Xperia Z General] simbawimba:
didn't list the firmware when I put my custom number in.
[Xperia Z General] Apollo89:
Would it be possible to post a screenshot of the 'Software info' screen in your service menu?
[Xperia Z General] simbawimba:
here you go
[Xperia Z General] kingvortex:
:confused: You have the same customisation number as me. Works fine here -
[Xperia Z General] simbawimba:
weird, maybe a cross-browser issue as I'm running Opera.
[Xperia Z General] kingvortex:
On your phone? Just tried Opera and it seems to work OK-

Can't imagine why it wouldn't work for you. Strange :confused:
[Xperia Z General] simbawimba:
nope, on my desktop.
[Xperia Z General] kingvortex:
Hmm. Try a different browser maybe? Do you have any sort of script blocker running? That may stop it working?

Just throwing ideas out there :)
[Xperia Z General] simbawimba:
yea probably be fine in a diff browser, I just use opera normally as I have to test on FF/Chrome/ie9 usually so constantly have to wipe data for them. it's rare I get asked to test on opera although I am today lol.
[Xperia Z General] pascalbrax:
Hi guys!

Today I've added "support" for the Xperia Ion (LT28h) and Xperia U (ST25i) firmware check, thanks to Lee480.

http://scavenger.ch/sonyupdate/
[Xperia Z General] mobde3:
awesome
[Xperia Z General] DoubleYouPee:
I will give you ZL info soon
[Xperia Z General] Apollo89:
[MENTION=4704767]lee480[/MENTION] PM'd me two days ago, asking the update check URL for Xperia Ion :D

If you provide a screenshot of 'Software info' and the first 8 digits of your IMEI, I will generate a URL for Xperia ZL too.
[Xperia Z General] lee480:
I learnt how to generate URLs. The Xperia U's URL is from me. Thanks for your guidance anyways. :)
[Xperia Z General] Apollo89:
You can also get these URLs by doing an update check with Sony PC Companion while monitoring your network traffic with Wireshark. That's how I originally got the URL for Xperia Z.
[Xperia Z General] pascalbrax:
Hi guys! This night I've added the Xperia T and Xperia P.

And I've also refined a bit the form.

I'm struggling to have a drop down menu with all the custom numbers, but I have some issues with SQLite at the moment. Nevertheless, I've added some "default" custom numbers just to check if this works.

Thank you again. :)
[Xperia Z General] pascalbrax:
Hi all, I converted this page so it's more mobile-friendly.

And you can save your own bookmark to check while on the road if there's a new firmware available for PC Companion if you want.
[Xperia Z General] babylonbwoy:
Thank apollo89 for the idea and pascalbrax for the site, real and big time saver, as well as USB flap saver too !
[Xperia Z General] pascalbrax:
Hi everybody!

I've updated (thanks to [MENTION=4704767]lee480[/MENTION]) http://scavenger.ch/sonyupdate/ with the Xperia SP.
[Xperia Z General] pascalbrax:
Updated with support for Xperia ZL & ZQ (credits to [MENTION=5164470]Apollo89[/MENTION] as usual, thank you!)

http://scavenger.ch/sonyupdate/
[Xperia Z General] fards:
would it be too much work to add an xml of all the customization numbers and then give users a drop down list choice?

or alternatively a drop down operator/country to bring up the correct customization number ?
[Xperia Z General] crazymister:
Would it be to much trouble to just enter your customisation number yourself? Be happy he made the site for us.
[Xperia Z General] fards:
sorry for breathing..

:(

It was a genuine suggestion if the OP was interested in the idea, but I must have missed the part where you are doing the work on this.

XDA genuinely has become a fiasco
[Xperia Z General] crazymister:
Sorry for my blunt reaction, I was kinda pissed at the time because of some other stuff.

But you did ask it in a strange way (almost hypocritical). Next time could you try to re-frase you sentences? that way people won't read a question as a demand (people like me for instance :p)

Again really sorry for my reaction earlier, you didn't deserve an answer that harsh.
[Xperia Z General] Aguares68:
thank goed job
[Xperia Z General] Spectre51:
Here is the info to add the Xperia Z Ultra C6806 USA

First 8 of IMEI- 35808105

Sent from my Sony Xperia™ Z Ultra
[Xperia Z General] pascalbrax:
Thank you Spectre51!

I've added an option for the Z Ultra!

http://scavenger.ch/sonyupdate/?model=C6806&custId=1276-1569

:)
[Xperia Z General] pascalbrax:
Hi guys! I've added support for the Xperia Z1, if someone can test it if it works, it would be great!
[Xperia Z General] pascalbrax:
Sorry, I don't understand...
[Xperia Z General] kingvortex:
Don't worry about him. He's been spamming every vaguely related thread ever since the 4.3 update was released.

He's been told many times that he has to wait for Sony to release in his region or just flash an FTF, but continues spamming anyway, as if anyone here can get firmware that isn't yet released.
[Xperia Z General] GROGG88:
Seriously. Please give it a rest.
[Xperia Z General] Howell:
In wich language should we answer ? YOU JUST HAVE TO WAIT ! (as most of us do ;))

[MENTION=3189658]pascalbrax[/MENTION] : thanks alot for your easy tool ;)
[Xperia Z General] hamie55:
This is spot on been using it for checking for the gen uk release
[Xperia Z General] Djocker:
My firmware is Generic HK but must wait for get update....

Sent from my Sony Xperia Z C6603
[Xperia Z General] MrFortune:
Omg we All have to wait! And you too with your royal superduper special VIP Xperia z
[Xperia Z General] pascalbrax:
Added support for "live images" to include them in blogs or forums.

example:

Just add &img=1 at the end of the URL.
[Xperia Z General] barrielui:
Xperia TX miss…

And, what about replacing customization code with region? That will be more convenient.
[Xperia Z General] luciferzet:
still 4.3

http://scavenger.ch/sonyupdate/?model=C6603&id=1270-7280
[Xperia Z General] kingvortex:
...

It already does work for the ZL, along with many other phones.
[Xperia Z General] pascalbrax:
I'm going to remove some models soon because Sony ended firmware updates support.

SonyMobile ENDS Future android firmware updates for Xperia S, SL, Acro S, Arc S, Ion HSPA/LTE, P, U, Go, Miro, Tipo/Tipo Dual, J, Sola smartphones.
[Xperia Z General] yakiqua:
Good work and thank you
[Xperia Z General] mayur_dhameliya:
Can u add xperia m dual c2004, customization number 1274-5572_R5A , India , Generic IN
[Xperia Z General] pascalbrax:
Yes, done! :)
[Xperia Z General] pascalbrax:
Any updates will be posted here from now on:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2713472
[Xperia Z General] whazz_up:
great!
[Motorola Atrix 2] Kshitijs:
Hi,

Ever since the Jellybean 4.1.2 update I have a problem, my web browsing has slowed to a crawl. I had earlier used Dolphin Browser in ICS and it has always been fast and reliable. Since the update it is my slowest browser. I've tried several others including Opera Mini, Boat Browser, and Chrome; they are all nearly as slow and laggy as Dolphin. The stock Internet Browser seems to be the fastest, but not by much. It takes more than a minute to load the xda-developers forum.

The problem is not related to the internet connection, as i have checked it with different WiFIs. Also, Youtube videos works smooth and downloading things from play store etc are as fast as before. :confused:

All other things have incredibly fastened after the jelly bean update. :)
[HTC One X+] bedalus:
Hello,

Just putting the word out that I've built hxore for AT&T

I can't test it (I do not have the AT&T version) so you'll need to two things to test this:

1) Bravery!

2) A copy of a kernel.img you know works, and a backup of your kernel modules

Here's the post: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=42630684&postcount=782

Please feedback in the kernel thread.

Apologies in advance if it doesn't work! Don't get your hopes up! :p
[HTC One X+] bedalus:
First one didn't work due to my boundless stupidity :p

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=42658745&postcount=796

The version in the link above therefore has a significantly better chance of working! Brave testers wanted!
[HTC One X+] Lloir:
git link please dude, might cherrypick into my ATT kernel, if that's ok?
[HTC One X+] bedalus:
Umm. It's going to be tricky because I merged all my commits from the international kernel into one big patch...

But here: https://github.com/bedalus/ATnT/

Also I've had no confirmation yet that it's actually working!

I think you'd be better off cherry picking from the hxore repo
[HTC One X+] Lloir:
lol sod that then. send me a link in my pm i'll test the kernel for you later :P
[HTC One X+] bedalus:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=42698401&postcount=828

Latest test version, hopefully with wifi fixed, testers needed!
[HTC One X+] yourguitarist:
I'll give it a shot.

Sent from my HTC One X+
[HTC One X+] iggdawg:
fastboot is a pile of aids on my work laptop. I'll give this a shot at home.

Just a suggestion, would this get more of the right kind of exposure in the development forum? I think a lot of the flashaholics don't bother with a given device's "general" forum.
[HTC One X+] bedalus:
Thanks, the new versions been shown to have a serious fault already. But once I get it working, I'll continue the AT&T release announcements in the main thread.
[HTC One X+] yourguitarist:
Keep it up. You'll get it eventually!

Sent from my HTC One X+
[HTC One X+] bedalus:
I'm going to continue to post the AT&T test builds in the main thread from now on.
[HTC One X+] jotha:
Thread closed

...on OP's request
[Xperia Tablet Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gerzii:
Hello!

Is there any way to unlock the Bootloader of the LTE Version?

I dont found a way to do that! With the official way of Sony it doenst work!

So, someone has an idea what i can do?

i cant root and take a customroom :( :(

cheers gerzii

Model number: SGP321

Android version: 4.1.2

Build Number: 10.1.1.A.1.307
[Xperia Tablet Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DdcCabuslay:
When you entered the Service Menu, was the bootloader unlock status "No"? If it was, then look at the root methods for locked bootloaders (you might need to downgrade your firmware in order to do this).

Next time post your question in Q&A.
[Xperia Tablet Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jerdog:
Is there any way to post Questions where they go? Helping you by moving to Q&A
[Xperia Tablet Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gerzii:
unlock status is: NO

oh ok and where can i find this?
[Xperia Tablet Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DdcCabuslay:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2240613

Read through the posts. If you can't find something, then you'll have to be patient for a root exploit. I don't have the LTE model and I just unlocked my bootloader, so I can't help as much as I'd like to.
[Xperia Tablet Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gerzii:
root works :)

but i still cant open my bootloader! has someone any idea?
[Ouya General] Vinny75:
Go to this thread and let them know we want support:

http://forums.ouya.tv/discussion/1380/recovery-mode
[Ouya General] TadeoNYC:
Done! The mobile site won't connect to the create account page for me, so I logged in with Google. Didn't want to do that, but I wanted to be sure I made the request. I hope it's cool with you that I copied this post to another forum.
[Ouya General] Vinny75:
Thanks, the more the better!
[Ouya General] altimax98:
I posted as well... I hope the admin/mod replies to my post though
[Ouya General] TadeoNYC:
I figured as much. Could this be moved to the general section? If there is a big groundswell of support it should make a better impact than posts trickling in over a few days.
[Ouya General] Vinny75:
Update: this what OUYA thinks of its customer's requests...

Posted by alsutton on http://ouyaforum.com/showthread.php?3193-Let-OUYA-know-we-NEED-to-be-able-to-boot-to-recovery

This is ridiculous and insulting.
[Ouya General] adfurgerson:
Copied from Ouya's Google+ page.......

OUYA

Shared publicly *-* Jul 23, 2012

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Hey +OUYA* devs! Don't worry about rooting your device (or purchasing the pre-rooted device). We will provide builds and instructions that can be used to restore the device to 'unrooted' factory state!
[Ouya General] Vinny75:
Official response to my support ticket:
[Ouya General] 4rz0:
Post-Bombing isn't helping anyone.

If someone's really interested in that matter, he'll find answers for his questions in this forum!
[Ouya General] Vinny75:
These posts are not located in this forum and are relevant to the topic. thanks, though.
[Ouya General] jmhalder:
Post bombing either forum isn't helpful...
[Ouya General] invisiblek:
Voice your opinions here. I think it more clearly explains the situation we are working with.

s/with/against

http://www.reddit.com/r/ouya/comments/1gk0km/ouya_advertised_as_a_hackers_welcome_device_quite/
[Ouya General] Nate Rules:
I was all set to buy an Ouya, but after reading this forum I'm not so sure. Ouya doesn't sound like a company I want to support. What do you guys think about the Mad Catz console coming out. I want Ouya's hardware not their restrictions. It seems like it will be more open. And to the guys at Ouya, don't hinder the peeps at xda, they are the ones that are going to make you successful.
[Ouya General] honki24:
I posted, thank you for the link. Was wondering where I should voice my concerns.
[Ouya General] lovekeiiy:
I posted[/URL as well. I based it mainly as a fail safe for things just happen. The other comments, were more based on others assumptions.
[Ouya General] Nate Rules:
http://www.madcatz.com/m-o-j-o-android-micro-console/

What do you guys think about this. It seems like more what I want. I think if Ouya is going to be restrictive, all dev support should go to a better company. Lets face it, people are looking at the Ouya for what it could be not what it is. It has the hardware to easily replace all the Google Tvs, Apple TVs and Rokus. I actually want it to dual boot into Google TV. Anyway, the Ouya will be releasing soon and there will be many tech articles about it. If we can go onto those articles and leave comment about how the Ouya isn't the good solution we can make a good company popular. I think most people buying the Ouya are just assuming that they will be able to hack it any way they want.
[Ouya General] ej_424:
Confused

So do we or dont we have access to a custom recovery? Based on the dev forum I see we have a customer recovery available..what issues are there with it? Also i see WIP for multiple custom roms and even a kernel. I can't imagine one would waste time and making these if there is no viable way to flash them.....

Any information would be much appreciated.
[Ouya General] Ozz465:
The custom recovery works, many confirmed it on that thread including myself, as for the rest there stillb WIP's
[Ouya General] Vinny75:
Yes, we can do those things - the heart of the issue is that if any of those things mess up you have the potential to brick your device with no way to recover short of sending it back to OUYA, Inc. Most android device provide a method to enable a usb recovery mode in the event of such a drastic failure, the OUYA console does not. How many people are willing to test/use software that could potentially brick their $100 device that they have been waiting months to get?
[Ouya General] TadeoNYC:
The thread title is a bit misleading/confusing, recovery is accessible by rebooting to recovery. The problem is that you there is no way to boot to recovery via hardware except crashing the device during boot up using a keyboard.

They have gone about it all wrong, by allowing users the tools to brick OUYA but not the tools to fix it. Forgive me if I am wrong, but booting in to recovery does not allow us to do anything we can't already do by rebooting in to recovery. I have to wonder if behind closed doors they are moving towards removing root access.
[Ouya General] jmhalder:
That all sounds about right, if there is no accessible bootloader mode, and you can't use NVFlash... It's quite brickable. especially if the recovery partition gets corrupted... I'm glad there is already a CWM recovery available, and as soon as there is a semi-stable build of CM10.1, I'm flashing it. In the last 6 months I've owned a Roku 2 XD (iirc), a Boxee TV, and now a Vizio Co-Star... they were all purchased at walmart, and all returned within the 90 days... I pre-ordered a Ouya, because I want ALL of the streaming services and a sweet controller (the Google TV can't do Hulu, but Android can't do Amazon Instant Video). The Co-Star will be going back once I get my Ouya, hopefully I can use a heavily modified Ouya OS with the Play Store, or CM10.
[Ouya General] Vinny75:
Sort of - most, if not all, android devices provide a method to enter a USB recovery (download) mode by a pressing a hardware combination (vol+ and power usually) that will let you push an image to the device even if you can't boot into the system normally or recovery. So if you can't get past that initial init you'll never have a chance to use the sysreq trick.
[Ouya General] ej_424:
Ok that clears things up. Understood and yes a means to boot directly to recovery via hardware in effort to restore a bricked device would be ideal. I'm sure some of the smart dev's may figure this out, give it time.
[Ouya General] Oscar_david:
Let's see if I've got this right:

So on my phone, if I flash a ROM, occasionally the first thing that happens is I'm stuck at the boot screen. No problem. Re-boot to recovery, wipe cache, wipe dalvik, and all's well.

From what I'm reading in this thread, (without access to recovery through hardware) even this minor issue would result in a bricked OUYA? That's crazy. For a system marketed as hacker friendly to be designed this way is just unacceptable. I may never get one now. And that bums me out.
[Ouya General] Nate Rules:
I just got the Co Star, and while I like what it does I want something more capable. The Ouya is definitely better hardware wise. But Ouya plans on making money off of their game store. So it is in their best interests to stop us from changing roms. But for us, we should be able to buy one of these new games and play it on our micro console, tablets, and phones. I already have a Moga Pro, so anything the Ouya can do, my phone can do. I might give the Ouya a test run, but if there is no solid recovery option by my return window than I am returning it.
[Ouya General] lovekeiiy:
No one is saying if they build a custom ROM they will include the Ouya store. It's just being assumed in arguments it's just going to have Google Play.

On top of that, there is no reason Ouya should let people play games from the Ouya store on their other mobile device. They're creating a pseudo-platform. I understand from the consumer side, why do I want to rebuy a game or application that I've already purchase on my other mobile device for this? What different, and is it worth the cost? Not a perfect analogy, but it's similar to buying a game Xbox, but you have to buy it again if you want it on the PS3; obviously the games are only playable on their hardware unlike the situation here. And it doesn't help that apps you buy on Google Play can be used, barring device compatibility issues, on all a person's Android devices.

The problem here is people assumed, I did, when they backed it, Google Play would be accessible, so there would be a game library of games you wanted to play already.

I do agree, about the almost non-accessible recovery mode, yet claim to be hacker friendly. Some of the responses people say they got from Ouya, are outright insulting.

---------- Post added at 04:15 AM ---------- Previous post was at 04:03 AM ----------

Really? I wouldn't say Madcatz is any better. The issue looks to be more that Ouya said they were going to be hack friendly. And they lack of a hardware accessible recovery mode seems to opposite of it. It's been the fail safe. But really, it's nothing new since we restrictions on our mobile devices. They just tell tell us not to root and void the warranty if we do.

Personally, I think the hacker friendly was more to help game developers more than consumers.

What kills me, just in general, the product hasn't even been released to the public. And it feels very beta to me.

Plus, I think we all got this product based on what we thought it could be. And I think we're still trying to figure out what exactly what it can be.
[Ouya General] masr1979:
I cancelled my pre-order about 2 months ago because I felt Ouya was deviating from what they claimed at first. I bought on Odroid X2, but was still planning on buying a Ouya... after reading some of these posts... not so much.

*SIGH* I guess they are taking a page out of sony's "bait n' switch" encyclopedia.

On a related note, madcatz? NO, just NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Whatever these guys do I'm positively sure madcatz will out do them. I just hope ubisoft and ea don't release android consoles too, that would be just plain scary.
[Ouya General] v5HMeca:
I didn't bother to register on their forum, but it should be pointed out that when he says that less than 0.1% of users on his site have made the request, it's possible that it's because developers won't purchase the Ouya until they see that they can actually do something with it.

I know I make many purchasing decisions based on how strong the development community is for the device I'm about to purchase. I've been doing this ever since the WinMo 5 days.

Case in point, I was excited about purchasing an Ouya and came here just now to see how development was going on it. Turns out that it's not worth the risk to me so I'll go ahead and skip this generation of the Ouya. Hopefully their second generation is more friendly to folks like us.
[Ouya General] DeaDnuLL:
I had the exact same notion as you when considering the Ouya but after finding out they are not overly willing to support the devs that want to build custom kernels by locking them out of hareware recovery makes me lose interest in this system all together. I have no reason to buy an Ouya now. I am not a retro game fan and I have media system that can do every thing the Ouya can do far better. The only interest I had in it was to re-purpose it as a toy to hack/tinker with.
[Ouya General] cv81:
Done +1