yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sony Xperia L] Raj joshi:
This is initial stage of devlopment and not for daily user's or members its a dev talk and they have successfully booted the rom so greets and have some patience..:)

Yes he will as he owns the device :)

At initial stage booting is the main focus and they have done it...Thanks to sir [MENTION=4736004]Rachit Rawat[/MENTION]
[Sony Xperia L] AayushDhuria:
Nexus 4 wins over Xperia L, anyday of the week, But the price matters in India. Nexus 4 will cost you around ~26k in India and Xperia L would cost you 16k.

I've had S2, and I find Xperia L slightly better than it, excluding the camera. ;)
[Sony Xperia L] hashroot:
No off-Topic posts please!!!

And as i said CM kernel was needed Thanks [MENTION=4736004]Rachit Rawat[/MENTION]..can you share your CM kernel source ?
[Sony Xperia L] Crytech:
So now dev wil speed up???:confused:...I mean no ETA's but fixing bugs is easy no???

Make.Believe!
[Sony Xperia L] :
No changes in zimage. Look at vengeance 1.36 source.
[Sony Xperia L] Dark Passenger:
Well I tend to go off topic so can you please addthis thread to the first post to keep the development thread spam free.

Thanks,

Dark Passenger

---------- Post added at 06:31 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:30 PM ----------

Hi can you please add a review when you have the time.

---------- Post added at 06:33 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:31 PM ----------

Actually I know I went wrong cause I mistook the processor for the one in Nexus 7 tegra 3.
[Sony Xperia L] Shaaan:
Someone mentioned me here ?

Ahh. I see you got it to boot. Good work..!!

:thumbup:
[Sony Xperia L] Shaaan:
If anyone is following Superman's git, you know the status.

For others, i pushed many missing stuff. Have a look at his github for a better understanding. Should fix most stuff..

OT : I might get this device next month. How is it ?
[Sony Xperia L] keenofhiphop:
I cannot find him on git :( a link would be awsome...

thanks for missing stuff :)

OT: I am sure you know the concept of moto x? not that colorthing, the hardware thing > the question what you WANT and what you really NEED. This device (XL) is for me the answer.

Greets
[Sony Xperia L] damian01211:
Here you go my friend: https://github.com/The-Superman/android_device_sony_taoshan
[Sony Xperia L] kan_bleach:
Assuming you are in India, If your budget is below 20k, then this is the best phone available. Its pretty good
[Sony Xperia L] #define:
I didnt even know my name was there until like, 10 mins ago!!

Great work dude!!

I'm really hoping to contribute as much as I can in this project..
[Sony Xperia L] hashroot:
Thanks ! Will be happy to merge and compile! :)

Device tree: https://github.com/The-Superman/android_device_sony_Taoshan

Vendor props: https://github.com/The-Superman/android_device_sony_Taoshan

Qcom-common: https://github.com/The-Superman/android_device_sony_qcom-common

Common: https://github.com/The-Superman/android_device_sony_common
[Sony Xperia L] naitik2012:
any news ? :D
[Sony Xperia L] Hipom:
Good work:D
[Sony Xperia L] AayushDhuria:
I hate being the one who's carrying OT, but I couldn't resist answering. Although I see someone has already answered, but not in a way that'll help in making the decision.

So here it is, the device is indeed great, I can say it's smoother than what I had to suffer through on S2 because of lack of sources of Exynos. I'm don't play many games on phone but I've tried a couple and they work flawlessly. I only found Camera to be a bit disappointing, a little too much noise (I'm pretty sure it's because of over-processing and can be solved). Audio totally holds up (I was expecting something worse from QCom DAC). The screen size is perfect and resolution is fine.
[Sony Xperia L] Dark Passenger:
[OFF TOPIC]

[MENTION=4060849]Shaaan[/MENTION] so after a lot of OT telling you how awesome this device is ... will you be buying this device(it really is awesome:p).

[/OFF TOPIC]

PS Sorry The Superman for off topic:D

PPS Shaaan it would be awesome to have you too as a developer fo Xperia L(the more the merrier).
[Sony Xperia L] nolinuxnoparty:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/xperiaLdev/permalink/220628671422548/ :(

Sorry for OT again!
[Sony Xperia L] Dark Passenger:
Some information on MSM8230 chipset yes we aint got snapdragon 400(sony confirmed)

just something I'd Like to mention to the developers working on the device [MENTION=4060849]Shaaan[/MENTION] , [MENTION=4736004]Rachit Rawat[/MENTION] [MENTION=4309448]varun.chitre15[/MENTION] [MENTION=4473453]The-Superman[/MENTION]

i have just been going through the official chip specifications and white papers(i had a bit of free time:D) and didn't want to create a new thread but the chip supports 1080p video playback and recording along with usb host mode,the killer part is Bluetooth Le is also supported(4.3 huh anyone...) also in other news Glonass is also supported.

So finally I just wanted to know if porting these features would be possible(I do know omx libs are source build-able...little read on how to integrate your own h/w codec here).

also so this proves usb otg is also possibly be ported.

finally for anyone else and of course the developers an android 4.3 update however late should arrive ....okay if Sony isn't lazy about it.
[Sony Xperia L] percy_g2:
[MENTION=4473453]The-Superman[/MENTION] why you are not using qualcomm aosp ril ?
[Sony Xperia L] hashroot:
Currently working on slow display (EGL is causing slow display) Which is priority...can't do anything using slow display!

Compiled 5 build but still no luck..:@
[Sony Xperia L] percy_g2:
You have stock firmware dumb on github ?and check this www.github.com/OpenSEMC ,it will help you
[Sony Xperia L] hashroot:
Ya i have stock dump...Shaaan gave me that link yesterday ....! :)
[Sony Xperia L] Sparksys:
Superman , Thank you for this ROM !! and Please Fix it bugs ,, ( I would have helped you if I know how to develop things in android , but I dont know :( )
[Sony Xperia L] Raj joshi:
The work is in progress he will post when he fixes the bugs :)
[Sony Xperia L] MajorMonodon:
I'm patiently awaiting your good work, sir! Thank you for the initiative! :)

Would you mind giving a little details on how one would get started on a project like this? What knowledge is needed or where do you learn about roms and porting?

I would be very eager to learn about this and start working on own projects if I could! :)

Any pointers?
[Sony Xperia L] naitik2012:
i want to ask one question

varun just explained that they cant fix wifi , it means we will face this problem in CM10.1 also ? or it can be fix on CM10.1 ?

thanks
[Sony Xperia L] Dark Passenger:
[MENTION=4309448]varun.chitre15[/MENTION] [MENTION=4736004]Rachit Rawat[/MENTION] [MENTION=4473453]The-Superman[/MENTION] [MENTION=4060849]Shaaan[/MENTION]

here is a link to the cyanogenmod 10.2 development efforts for Xperia SP by eagleeyetom and uberlaggydarwin maybe we could benifit from their work too.(just saying).

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2409083
[Sony Xperia L] hashroot:
If i will use latest kernel source: YES

If i will use .36 kernel source: NO

Here is a guide almost same for every ROM compilation !! http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1762641
[Sony Xperia L] naitik2012:
Phew

you saved me :D
[Sony Xperia L] zakitheracer:
Just wanted to know as to how long will it be till this project reaches Nightly status in official CM.

Cause I am planning to get XL as soon as it gets official CM nightlies :D
[Sony Xperia L] Crytech:
And this is called as ETA which is not allowed:rolleyes:
[Sony Xperia L] zakitheracer:
I know :P

And I also know that it is the first rule of CM :silly:

I may have less posts but not consider me a noob ;)

(I am running CM10.1 on my Blade so yeah..)

Just wanted to know how is CM coming along for XL....
[Sony Xperia L] Crytech:
I dint see ur profile evn;)...Just pointed u out where u were wrong...
[Sony Xperia L] AayushDhuria:
It doesn't matter and even a dev can not estimate the time of arrival accurately. Just wait and it'll come. And you first asked a foolish question then clarified that you're not a noob, it only highlights your stupidity. A dev might encounter some serious bugs that may need help from Sony or he may have some personal commitments, if he tells ETA it sort of becomes promise-ish, that's why no ETA rule.
[Sony Xperia L] Kulwinder Singh:
[MENTION=4473453]The-Superman[/MENTION] bro have u stopped the development?as there is no new commit by you on your github.btw thanku u [MENTION=4473453]The-Superman[/MENTION] and [MENTION=371181]SHAAN[/MENTION] bro for the development!!
[Sony Xperia L] hashroot:
I'm not getting time..and also my build setup is depleted

Sent from superman's Xperia
[Sony Xperia L] Matrriosh:
Hello there,

i would really like to see CynogenMod for Xperia L finished and working perfectly. So i hope you will finish it. I don't really understand how all those custom mod things work but if you can, can you make CyanogenMod so it can be installed with locked bootloader? I can't unlock mine,it says bootloader unlock : not allowed. So i think there is no way i can unlock it. If you would do that and if you would finish it i would be very thankful. Already clicked THX button and subscribed to this thread to see how work will go on. Thanks. :good:
[Sony Xperia L] Marius Cristian:
You can unlock your bootloader,but not for free.I think,firstly,you need to unlock your phone(so it's not locked only on 1 network-usually the company from where you bought it,like vodafone for example).This usually it's done by phone services,it will cost you (here is about 15-25 euros,depending on the phone if it's older or newer).Then,if everything went well,I think it'll say bootloader unlock allowed.After this,you can proceed ;) .Also,I don't think CM can be installed on locked bootloader.So you better hurry and unlock your phone.I haven't unlocked bootloader myself yet,I'm waiting for a stable version of CM since I'm bored of Sony ***** adds/apps/mods/etc :|

Also I got a question...is that wi-fi problem that is keeping this rom from not being updated or you really don't have much time?...anyway,no hurry.Thanks for you work!
[Sony Xperia L] hashroot:
You need to unlock bootloader for installing CyanogenMod!

I'm Not getting time!
[Sony Xperia L] BlazerJenzo:
It's sad there isn't more developers for this device
[Sony Xperia L] Matrriosh:
Ok guys thanks for your answers. I will unlock my phone first then i will try to unlock bootloader.

Sent from Sony Xperia L
[Sony Xperia L] skad00sh:
Hey Superman,

The link you provided for kernel in 'How to Flash' is broken!

Which was that kernel? Vengeance or ThunderZap??
[Sony Xperia L] karkand:
Extended kernel by Rachit
[Sony Xperia L] skad00sh:
Oh!!!

I tried this on Vengeance and ThunderZap and didn't work!

So I asked you!

EDIT: Unable to find Stock extended v1 kernel link!

Same thread is used for v2!!

So CM is not starting! Stucked on bootanimation

Sent from my C2104
[Sony Xperia L] Crytech:
Download link for v2 has v1 also in same folder...
[Sony Xperia L] skad00sh:
Oh! Yeah!

I didn't open folder!

Thanks!
[Sony Xperia L] percy_g2:
Test BUILD

LINK:- http://goo.im/devs/percy215/taoshan/cm-10.1-20130831-UNOFFICIAL-taoshan.zip

MD5SUM:- 0a1d467a7ed8f783c37a63797c236c52

Use cm kernel for your device to boot it
[Sony Xperia L] hashroot:
Logcat

Blank screen! Not even booting
[Sony Xperia L] skad00sh:
Even kernel is not booting in my case!

Sent from my C2104
[Sony Xperia L] hashroot:
Flash this CM kernel
[Sony Xperia L] percy_g2:
delete these lines from build.prop and try again

dalvik.vm.heapstartsize=8m
dalvik.vm.heapgrowthlimit=64m
dalvik.vm.heapsize=256m
dalvik.vm.heaptargetutilization=0.75
dalvik.vm.heapminfree=2m
dalvik.vm.heapmaxfree=8m
[Sony Xperia L] Pudel89:
Blank screen after tweak build.prop : (
[Sony Xperia L] b00tbu9:
+1
[Sony Xperia L] percy_g2:
I will try to provide new build ASAP
[Sony Xperia L] naitik2012:
thanks for supporting our mobile , we really need some custom roms

thanks again
[Sony Xperia L] Shaaan:
Mother of God! Can anyone post the build.prop? Also anyone available to try out a few things?
[Sony Xperia L] MajorMonodon:
I reckon you mean the build.prop in this rom? Or the build.prop of the original firmware? (Sorry if this is a weird question, I'm quite new on this board)

Edit: Plucked the build.prop out of the rom and attached it, I hope this is what you were looking for. Had to add the .txt extension to get it to upload...
[Sony Xperia L] hashroot:
Stock build.prop
[Sony Xperia L] hashroot:
Recovery.fstab: https://github.com/The-Superman/Taoshan-wip/blob/master/recovery.fstab
[Sony Xperia L] skad00sh:
Thanks!!!

Sent from my C2104
[Sony Xperia L] ronii ahmad:
great work....
[Sony Xperia L] Eskuero:
Can somebody provide me a full explain of actual situation with this device?

Maybe I'll get it, but before that I must make sure that it's okay for me.

Afyer reading that recovery.fstab I suppose we don't have a recovery partition, so how is it installed?

Is it builtin inside boot.img or what?

I would like to develop for this device since it looks a bit abandoned and I prefer to work in calm, but I would like to hear the good and bad things. (:

As I said maybe and only maybe I'll get it, depending also if my carrier keeps the offer.

Enviado desde mi GT-I8190 usando Tapatalk 2
[Sony Xperia L] hashroot:
It's inside boot.img
[Sony Xperia L] adfad666:
I've had major problems with a Sony service centre to fix my XPERIA J, so it looks like I'll be getting my money back. If that happens I'll probably pick up an XPERIA L or M and dive right in to bring up CyanogenMod.

The XPERIA J was pretty easy to get working so I hope I don't have too many problems with this device.

However after downloading the ftf for this phone I'm having trouble converting the system.sin to a system.ext4 with sin2raw, has anyone successfully done it?
[Sony Xperia L] percy_g2:
use flash tool to dumb the ftf system.sin files and then use ext4 tool to extract
[Sony Xperia L] adfad666:
Great, that solved it. It looks like Sony updated their sin format, now i'll have to boot into windows to unpack a FTF file :(
[Sony Xperia L] percy_g2:
Playonlinux application can run that tool on Linux and there is a ext4 converter for Linux also
[Sony Xperia L] damian01211:
Pick up an XL, it will be great if you develop CM for Xperia L as The-Superman is not getting time right now ;/

If there will be a CM, I could try doing an MIUI rom (I'm noob at developing rom's but find a lot of tutorials on how to make miui rom on a based cm firmware on miui forum).
[Sony Xperia L] adfad666:
From a quick poke around the CAF repos, the msm8x30 chip heavily depends on msm8x60 sources so it should be relatively easy to modify mint/blue sources to be compatible with taoshan. That should also be true for the msm8x27 chip in XPERIA M as from what I can see, the only difference between the two chips is the maximum clock speed.

Which makes the 1GHz speed of the msm8x30 in this device interesting. I looked in the released kernel sources and Sony has purposefully underclocked the device! Removing the ifdefs shown below should give a nice 20% speed boost, which should be stable as the chip is designed to run at 1.2GHz, unless Sony made some poor design decisions.

[B]arch/arm/mach-msm/acpuclock-8930.c[/B]

static struct acpu_level acpu_freq_tbl_slow[] __initdata = {
{ 1, { 384000, PLL_8, 0, 0x00 }, L2(0), 950000 },
{ 1, { 432000, HFPLL, 2, 0x20 }, L2(5), 975000 },
{ 1, { 486000, HFPLL, 2, 0x24 }, L2(5), 975000 },
{ 1, { 540000, HFPLL, 2, 0x28 }, L2(5), 1000000 },
{ 1, { 594000, HFPLL, 1, 0x16 }, L2(5), 1000000 },
{ 1, { 648000, HFPLL, 1, 0x18 }, L2(5), 1025000 },
{ 1, { 702000, HFPLL, 1, 0x1A }, L2(5), 1025000 },
{ 1, { 756000, HFPLL, 1, 0x1C }, L2(10), 1075000 },
{ 1, { 810000, HFPLL, 1, 0x1E }, L2(10), 1075000 },
{ 1, { 864000, HFPLL, 1, 0x20 }, L2(10), 1100000 },
{ 1, { 918000, HFPLL, 1, 0x22 }, L2(10), 1100000 },
{ 1, { 972000, HFPLL, 1, 0x24 }, L2(10), 1125000 },
{ 1, { 1026000, HFPLL, 1, 0x26 }, L2(10), 1125000 },
[B]#ifdef DISABLE_MSM8230_LITE[/B]
{ 1, { 1080000, HFPLL, 1, 0x28 }, L2(15), 1175000 },
{ 1, { 1134000, HFPLL, 1, 0x2A }, L2(15), 1175000 },
{ 1, { 1188000, HFPLL, 1, 0x2C }, L2(15), 1200000 },
[B]#endif // #ifdef DISABLE_MSM8230_LITE[/B]
{ 0, { 0 } }
};

P.S. sorry if this is known information, I haven't looked around the other threads here yet.
[Sony Xperia L] b00tbu9:
Or you can mount the ext4 on a folder and copy system files.
[Sony Xperia L] adfad666:
I just use Android-Kitchen, it unpacks and deodexes for me. Though it didn't deodex frameworks_ext.jar :(
[Sony Xperia L] Marius Cristian:
[MENTION=4193352]adfad666[/MENTION] It would be great to have you developing for our XL.I remember you from old optimus one ( hero phone :D ) forum.cm 7.2 developed by you was really great.also cm10...too bad you didn't continued :P Our phone needs badly a CM...also,it's a good midrange phone...XM it's more like a budget phone.Good luck ;)
[Sony Xperia L] adfad666:
Optimus One really was a hero phone, pretty much every forum I go to there's always someone who mentions they remember me because of it :D
[Sony Xperia L] Marius Cristian:
hehe,well I hope you'll get XL.It's a very powerfull device...if o1 with 600 mhz and 512 mb of ram and adreno 200 reached stable 4.2.2 ... i can't imagine where XL will go with 1 ghz dual core,1 gb of ram and awesome adreno 305 :D 4,4 or even 5.0 should be piece of cake,even if it's not annouced yet :laugh: I'm also beginning to hope that we'll get 4.3 OFFICIAL :D Good luck man.Respect!
[Sony Xperia L] Hipom:
There is some progress with cm10.1??
[Sony Xperia L] hashroot:
I'm busy with some other things and also my setup is deleted...
[Sony Xperia L] :
Dude, please , you can not abandon this project , because the XL deserves better than that ! ;)
[Sony Xperia L] hashroot:
Did i say i have discontinued this project? NO

XL has high potential than this obviously it deserves better! Till i'm busy [MENTION=4913184]percy_g2[/MENTION] will release few builds here!!!

Also [MENTION=4060849]Shaaan[/MENTION] will help us! :)
[Sony Xperia L] percy_g2:
Tomorrow or tonight new build , i ****ed my setup and sources 4 days ago .I have synchronized the sources again and will release a test build without any modifications to see that it boot then will start fixing :angel:
[Sony Xperia L] hashroot:
No changes??? How it will boot?

Sent from my Xperia!
[Sony Xperia L] percy_g2:
Will upload two builds ,one with no changes to see if it boots then egl ,camera ,framework, etc fixes .
[Sony Xperia L] hashroot:
(Y)

Good luck!

Sent from my Xperia!
[Sony Xperia L] ImTooNoob:
Sorry for offtopic, but didn't Shaaan buy a Nexus 4 instead of a XL?
[Sony Xperia L] naitik2012:
Thanks for supporting our phone

Sincere request

Please support our phone , we are totally doomed ,e1 after 3 month we dont have any ROMs except serajr's ROM, not a single custom kernel and now popularity of mobile is also decreased from 45% to 6% seems like no one buying this phone it means no development in near future :( YOU ppls are our only hope ,we all like to play with custom ROMs & kernel :p thats y i bought this mobile, i was expecting that mid range phone with superb CPU & GPU will obviously get more developer support but i was wrong we have only 5-6 developers :( out of which 2 developers stopped developing der kernel just because of wifi issue so now only few developers are left.

Thanks
[Sony Xperia L] :
If you're talking about the stats in gsmarena, you could see that every phone had a huge drop,

so I'm guessing there is something wrong with their system. :)

PS: But, yeah, devs are needed! :P
[Sony Xperia L] MajorMonodon:
I'm teaching myself android development right now, on the Xperia L, so hopefully in not too long a time I'll be able to call myself a dev and produce a decent rom. But keep in mind the professional developers like The-Superman will most likely be the first and maybe only people bringing quality roms, so treat em nice. ;)
[Sony Xperia L] percy_g2:
Test Build to check if the build boots or not , No changes yet in build just updated cm-10.1 sources .

LINK:- http://goo.im/devs/percy215/cm-10.1-taoshan/cm-10.1-20130912-UNOFFICIAL-taoshan.zip

MD5SUM:- df98eafc5522a45bf2abc717d80bd172

EDIT:- anyone tested it with rachit's kernel ?
[Sony Xperia L] varun.chitre15:
Well I won't be able to make builds but I can help in fixing stuff. Just need logcat and dmesg ;)
[Sony Xperia L] Hipom:
Thankx man!you the best!!:D
[Sony Xperia L] Pudel89:
Anyone tried this new build?

I don't have phone at this time : (
[Sony Xperia L] Marius Cristian:
Please tell me what I need to do to test your build.So far I am only on rooted stock,deodexed.Provide me a quick tutorial for all the steps(like unlock bt/flash cwm/what to flash first/etc) and I'll test it tomorrow.I noticed that very few people test here...someone has to do it after all.Thanks!
[Sony Xperia L] MajorMonodon:
I think it's:

-BACKUP everything, cause you're gonna have to wipe everything.

-Unlock bootloader, there's threads enough for that

-Flash a kernel with cwm, I think thunderzap is the popular choice around here

(Wrong, see post below this one)

-Go into recovery (read thunderzap page on how to) and use the flash zip function to flash the zip file in this thread

-Wipe cache and dalvik for good measure

Everything on your phone may/will get wiped, be ready to accept that
[Sony Xperia L] percy_g2:
use kernel which support cyanogenMod ,i don't own the device but rachit's kernel is only kernel which supports it .
[Sony Xperia L] Marius Cristian:
Ok...first thing in the morning I'll unlock my bootloader,flash vengeance kernel,flash this test build.One more thing...could you teach me how to make a good back-up before doing anything in case that something goes wrong?thanks!
[Sony Xperia L] MajorMonodon:
Ok, did not know that, thanks for correcting me!
[Sony Xperia L] skad00sh:
While unlocking bootloader you will get bootloop. So root your current Rom and use apps like titanium backup to backup your device. Also, inbuilt backup app is good but slower!

After having cwm you can backup your whole rom!

Sent from my C2104
[Sony Xperia L] hashroot:
1. Use superbackup app from play store and take backup

2. Root and take backup of bootloader

3. Unlock bootloader

4. Push test Rom to your sd card

5. Flash this kernel www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23060877490004158

6. Goto recovery...wipe everything and flash Rom

7. Reboot system and see it boots or not...Happy Flashing!!!

Sent from my Xperia!
[Sony Xperia L] Marius Cristian:
by wipe everything you mean system too?won't that erase kernel?
[Sony Xperia L] hashroot:
It won't erase kernel

Sent from my Xperia!
[Sony Xperia L] Marius Cristian:
Ok.Well then I can inform you that I tested the build,but with vengeance kernel.It was stuck at booting screen(which was also broken).I waited for like 10-15 minutes,no response.Now I'm flashing stock again in order to test with kernel provided by you.report soon.
[Sony Xperia L] hashroot:
This is cm kernel...Rom won't boot on stock kernel

Sent from my Xperia!
[Sony Xperia L] Marius Cristian:
Ok.Will test soon.Now i'm on clean 2.17 again.will root,flash new kernel,wipe,install rom,be amazed :D

---------- Post added at 12:48 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:26 PM ----------

I have a question at nr 6...how to go to recovery?When i tried with vengeance kernel,i firstly flashed thunderzap and gave the recovery.but now,since i am on clean stock the recovery is gone.should i first flash thunderzap then cm kernel,then rom?

one more thing...this cm kernel isn't supposed to boot on stock right?because it doesn't.
[Sony Xperia L] Marius Cristian:
Well it doesn't work.I couldn't figure out how to flash kernel then rom,so i installed tunderzap,firstly flashed rom via recovery and secondly flashed kernel via flashtool.When I tried to boot,the sony screen appeared,then the CM logo,then the phone rebooted & remained at sony screen.After my phone will charge up a little I will test this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2437895

The OP claims to have 2.17 with working wi-fi via serajr rom.