yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SandroBSupp:
You can use Drony

xda thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2320008
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TK8:
Is there any tut available to learn how exactly does the porting of features from one phone's ROM to others happens ?

I really want to port honami features like HOME, Contacts, Msgs, and many more. Actually the whole framework if possible to other devices like Xperia Z and ZR.

I have a XZR.

I have FTF of honami. Now if someone can show me a way how exactly is this done i would love to learn. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you :)
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading] headcaseone:
I have recently upgraded my rom from the 02 website. All went fine, but cannot change the password for the GPRS connection settings, and I need to as I haveunlocked the phone and using a Vodafone SIM. Any idea chaps, has anyone come across this before? :?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] artemis92:
Over the past 4-5 days I've owned the Phone I've been monitoring my battery usage, and have noticed that Google Services consistently takes between 10-20% of my battery, has anyone else experienced this or know what is causing it?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BossJ:
That's not high at all.. but if you want it gone, turn off your location services.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
I started using Angel Browser which is similar to the ICS browser with pie control. Its has all kind of settings and doesn't require root or flashing. Check it out on Play Store.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] christty31:
I need some help!

What is the best ICS or JB ROM for Xperia X10?

Phone is rooted and have xRecovery, locked bootloader....

My wife has the phone, but she want ICS or JB as I have on my Note GT-N7000....

thank you!
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dzufa:
For X10 every ICS or JB, have camcorder issue. If you don't bother that thing, then you can install Scritch007 JB rom or Fera's JB rom. You can find them under development thread.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dr Goodvibes:
You'll have to unlock the bootloader otherwise you're not going to install anything.

Also most post GB v2.3 ROMs/Kernels are all installed with CWM as xRecovery is old.

xRecovery is activated by pressing back key on startup at LED flash.

CWM is activated by pressing volume up key on startup at LED flash.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Serious1:
There is none in development that I know of.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Psiryu:
Roms for the Galaxy S4 can't be ported over very easily to the T989 if that's what you mean. They're phones of different architecture types, it's not very easy to port them over.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] kemar007:
No I mean that the other s2 got all the best s4 touchwiz rom an I dnt see any for this s2
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dagocs1971:
I have a Note 2 i317m from rogers, but I had it unlocked for use on the telus network.

If I root it, will I have to unlock it again ? and will I lose everything on the phone ?

I'm new to rooting, I just don't want to take any chances in losing everything, also, is there a way to back everything up and get it back on the phone after rooting if I choose to root it?

just trying to cover all my bases before I get it rooted.

thanks.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dnle71:
Will try this out when i get to go back in win7. Thanks for sharing this bro!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Shivam Bhalla:
AMAZING MAN!!!

Will give it a try!!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Sudeep Duhoon:
i was still editing it when you replied. i guess there was a huge need of this. ;)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Shivam Bhalla:
As you know buddy there's nothing much happening for MTK devices we didnt have Cyanogen Mod we didnt have source codes for our devices and there are so much development in other sections of other devices but nothing for us. So each and every new thing is very precious for our MTK devices.

Again Thanks for this tutorial !!! :good:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] superdragonpt:
Looks good, thanks

This looks like the same mod i did for my old ZTE Blade, from the MoDaCo forum.

Great MOD.

Will try it on the next weekend :good:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Sudeep Duhoon:
I have never had a zte blade, but i did got a lg optimus. I got inspired from data on sd mod and tried system on sd, got success. Tried the same on canvas music and not to my surprise, worked again.

Will edit more to make this better.

Sent from one and only Canvas 4 unnamed rom for canvas music
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dnle71:
You mean by tassadar? From p500 forum?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Sudeep Duhoon:
I don't remember as it's around 6 7 months now.

Sent from one and only Canvas 4 unnamed rom for canvas music
[Miscellaneous Android Development] superdragonpt:
Yeah the base MOD and the principal is the same, well done for porting to our platform ;)

Just tested, so far so good ; )

This is something i will use, still, maybe i (we) can improve this MOD ;)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] mufti.arfan:
Class! Space for improvements, in terms of switching and all that. Well done man!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] thirdzcee:
Woah... Dual boot.... Wish i still had my xolo a1000... But then again I got a lot of followers who are willing to test it for me here in my country... Will try this soon :D:D:D.. Great job... Thanks. For sharing it

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Btw... This just came to my head... Since external sdcard requires class 6 or greater.. Have you tried using the internal sdcard if it yields good results???

---------- Post added at 12:51 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:51 PM ----------

Btw... This just came to my head... Since external sdcard requires class 6 or greater.. Have you tried using the internal sdcard if it yields good results???
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Sudeep Duhoon:
I am using internal sd in data partition for primary rom and moved apps to external s de for secondary rom, so i can't try. And it will be a bit difficult to partition internal sd according to our wish.

This way i get,

For primary rom-

580mb system

2.5gb data

50mb internal sd

26.76 gb external sd

For secondary rom-

550mb system

1536mb data

200mb cache

26.76 gb sd

Sent from one and only Canvas 4 unnamed rom for canvas music
[Miscellaneous Android Development] hariks0:
Demo please.

Why don't you guys take a video and post its link? Atleast those who were not able to follow the OP can enjoy seeing the instructions in action. A fantastic idea and a fantastic guide as it is apparently working.

Thank you all once again.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Sudeep Duhoon:
The famous restriction with me-limited data.

Can't upload vid.

Sent from one and only Canvas 4 unnamed rom for canvas music
[Miscellaneous Android Development] hariks0:
A video speaks a million words.

Any other takers ?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] KineichiNxt:
awesome idea :o
[Miscellaneous Android Development] billyfraser93:
great guide !!!

I enjoyed going through the guide very easy had a few minor adjustments for my star s7189 (mt6582) worked great thanks !"!!!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] addictz10:
what are the changes youve made?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Minimilised_MR:
@OP, I've a class 4 SD-CARD. Are you sure they'll there will be freezes? :o

Regards.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Sudeep Duhoon:
yup. a bit.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] mayur.3.92:
Buddy off topic post can u port apps?

If yes then can u port dialer of Kitkat to jb?? :-/
[Miscellaneous Android Development] manos78:
Hi,

I like to say that this works with my Chinese phone! Congratulations to the author. My phone is a white brand with a MT6589 chip running Android 4.2.1.

Now, my 2 cents:

:p

- I developed a small .ZIP file (for "install" using the recovery) to "interchange" the partition map. The idea is: you have a normal CWM installed on your recovery partition. Then, when you need to access to the second ROM on the SD from the recovery, you "install" this .ZIP and then you remap to the second ROM. Get the files for the .ZIP here:

/etc/recovery.fstab: http://pastebin.com/35Rvbdpj

/META-INF/com/google/android/updater-script: http://pastebin.com/fdM9udZk

To use it: First, create the typical "update" .ZIP with these files (or use attech file "chroot-secondary-rom.zip"). Second, copy the .ZIP to your SD. Third, boot to the recovery. Four, "install" the .ZIP. Five, when the recovery restarts, go to "mounts" and "unmount cache" (is already mounted!). Six, to check that all is going right: in "mounts" do mount: system, data, cache; and check that data inside directories /system, /data and /cache are from the second ROM. Finally, you can "backup" or "restore" your SECOND ROM, or install patches (

but check the updater-script and remember to remap partitions!

).

- Suggestion 1: When you repartition your SD card, format new partitions from the shell in the recovery. I have troubles if I try another method. Use "mke2fs -T ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk1p2" (also with mmcblk1p3 and mmcblk1p4).

- Suggestion 2: I use these sizes for the second rom: for system 1GB, for data 1GB, for cache 256MB.

- Suggestion 3: To "port" a ROM to the SD card,

do ONLY these changes IN the ROM

(don't forget to remap the updater-script of the installer):

Edit the "boot.img" (you need specific tools), and modify "fstab" replacing "/emmc@android" to " /dev/block/mmcblk1p2", also for "usrdata" and "cache"; also COMMENT OUT ANY entry of "/sd-ext"; and in "init.rc" do only these changes IN THE SECTION "on fs_property:ro.mount.fs=EXT4":

-- Comment out ALL lines with "exec e2fsck", "exec tune2fs" and "exec ext4_resize".

-- Replace ONLY lines with "mount ext4 /emmc@android ..." to "mount ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk1p2 ..." (and also for /emmc@usrdata and /emmc@cache).

With these minimal changes my MT6589 can boot a secondary ROM from the SD card. :D

I hope the author of the thread agree these suggestions and do updates in the first post. I found difficulties with the changes from "/emmc@android" to "/dev/block/mmcblk1p2" not good explained; the troubles with commands that checks/modify partitions, and that only TWO files are required to tweak. :highfive:

Remark: I use this only for test new roms for development, not for daily use! Use at your own risk!

;)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Diego910:
It is possible to do this in internar memory?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] oizhyy:
I'm sorry for my poor English.Thanks for your great work,but there are some problems with my devices.I have 2 MTK devices,one is MTK6589,and the other is MTK6592,on the MTK6592 device,the secondary rom would be flash to the system partition on the device-----the mmcblk0p5,just looks like the modify of the updater-script was not work,but it would format the secondary rom's system partition on the SD card.Other way,on the MTK6589 devices,it would be flash to the sd card,but it doesn't work,just stock at the first screen.Could you give me some help?Very thanks.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cappa72:
Many thanks.

I tried it today and I can confirm that it works.

I did not forget to press thanks button, ;)

Even if you mentioned that this is not a noob's guied, it is really understandable, clear and useful explanation.

C.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] sudeshkmr:
Thank you Sudeep for another great guide :)

Why cannot we partition the internal EMMC and store the 2nd ROM right there? The same can be done for user data partition.

On MTK phones its easy - just carefully edit the scatter file, change EBR1, EBR2, make room for system2.img, userdata2.img and cache2.img.

The rest of the things (changing boot.img and recovery.img) will stay same.

The microSD cards are not really designed for this.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ReneX10:
E4.5 scatter no EBR2... can anyone help?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] DarkHeart Z:
help needed

Bro I had tried your solutions and chroot zips too edited the ramdisk and all you said to do but phone still stuck at boot logo my phone is symphony w82 mt6572 emmc i checked the emmc@android and others too they are linked to the specific block file like it is for secondary rom but for some unknown reason phone still stucks at boot logo . Please help :(
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Jbazt_katuforzs:
I got a huge proble on my LENOVO A3000H and i want to know if this can help me.

situation

- rom is stocked

- recovery is stocked

- rom is rooted with usb debugging is on

- installed chainfire3D

- now it hangs on boot logo

- pc cant detect preloader,adb,vcom drivers when plugged so I cant re-flash TAB with stocked firmware via SPflash tool. Used different PC/usb cables with OS both freshly installed and still no.

- can access recovery, fastboot, meta mode. but cant detect on PC at all. Did a clear data/cahe on stocked recovery but it seems to no taking effect

so I bumped to this thread and want to know if I can bypass the device boot and assign my SD as my primary boot with a custom recovery so i can adb command sh /system/lib/cf3d_uninstall.sh and remove chainfire3D libs. Any light here would be appreciated.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Mr.Ak:
Awesome.So much development for Mtk SoC's
[Miscellaneous Android Development] edi_purwanto:
Nice guide
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dmilz:
Hope sooner somebody will come up with an app or a flashable that can patch boot to allow for MTK multi ROM booting..
[Miscellaneous Android Development] mirfatif:
[HOW TO] BOOT FROM SD CARD [SUCCESSFULLY] on QMobile Z8 with BRICKED/DEAD eMMC

I have been successfully able to boot from SD card on QMobile Z8 by partitioning SD card on a Ubuntu machine using

'parted'

and

'fdisk'

commands, replicating eMMC partition table and then flashing factory firmware images to these newly created partitions using '

dd

' command. Then I modified "fstab.qcom" & "init.tegra.rc" files in kernel (boot.img) and "recovery.fstab" and "uneventd.rc" files in twrp recovery to initiate mounting and booting from sd card instead of internal memory. It was successful after some experiments. Details can be found here:

https://xdaforums.com/android/help/how-to-boot-sd-card-qmobile-z8-bricked-t3712171

But I have still a few queries to be answered. Please have a look. Any help, comments, information or suggestions will be appreciated.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] romish:
This thread is kind of old. I wonder if anyone has tried this on a MTK 2016 or newer. I have a MT6580 32bit that I would like to MB.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] T33H00:
Hi there!

Any news from Newegg? Today is 14 already. Im waiting for it, getting crazy now
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] deadlyff:
New Update?
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] cheokyuen@gmail.com:
Hi all,

Just finished chatting with newegg and they themselves have no idea when it is shipping. Please update this thread if anyone has any latest shipping news.

Thanks,

Anthony
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] T33H00:
This means they still dont have it in stock for now. Why do they set the date at 10/14?

That sucks
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] antmay1:
I pre-order just 2 days ago from newegg and I am guessing I won't see it ship any soon. But according to websites that broke the news about newegg pre-order, it is supposed to be shipped today.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] LordManhattan:
To get pre-orders :)
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] jinque:
Updated to 10/28 now..
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] pedal2themedal:
Wtf, I'm pissed. Maybe I'll just cancel and get the N3. That is crap.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] mywingtophone:
I cancelled mine as I'm totally pissed, first I pre ordered mine from Negri electronics and they just keep pushing the date even further. Now just ordered the c68062and be happy with hspa+ the difference in speed is not that much besides less than a year we will be seeing a new model.

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Sony website in the US is already selling the c6806 for $679!
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] omniphil:
Is the Sony website shipping them though? EDIT, I don't even see it on their website now at all..

I am on the lookout for a C6806 as well since i'm an AT&T customer. I have an HSPA+ phone now (Galaxy Mega 6.3) but it seems like the signal is not all that good. I really don't care about the LTE speeds too much i'm more worried about signal strength. Not sure if the LTE give me better signal in the area's i'm at. I was holding out for the 6806 version, but maybe it'll get pushed back even further, not sure if I should just get the C6802
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Funk2641:
It's in stock and shippin at Sony Store: http://store.sony.com/xperia-z-ultr...d-Phones?vva_ColorCode=000000&_t=pfm=category
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] omniphil:
Hmmm, I guess we'll see if those really ship out or not...
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] pedal2themedal:
I wonder the same thing.....
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] jinque:
if you add to cart and look in cart, it says ships in 1-2 days
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] omniphil:
I placed my order and it said "Estimated ship date 10/16/13", so we'll see if that's true or not. I will let you guys know.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] gerizafa:
Z Ultra on Sony's Site

I see it on Sony's site too. Both the c6806 and the c6802. Interestingly they have two phones labeled as c6802bk on the list page, but when you click on one of them, the detail page shows c6806bk. It's the one that's also titled "LTE".

Here's a link to the detail page:

http://store.sony.com/xperia-z-ultra-lte-zid27-XZUC6806//cat-27-catid-All-Unlocked-Phones?vva_ColorCode=000000

Also, $679 instead of $729 on newegg.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] antmay1:
I cancelled my newegg pre-order and ordered it from Sony website. Paid the express shipping and should get it in the next few days.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Spectre51:
They have them in stock sitting in the wherehouse. Order away.

Sent from my Sony Xperia™ Z Ultra
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] mywingtophone:
I got mine today, bought at the local sony store here in orlando. I got the white one and was so happy but it doesn't come with a headphone.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Afrobean:
Oh, that's unfortunate. I had heard of various international models coming with a dock or bluetooth unit bundled with it. I was hoping we'd get that over here, but if they're skipping the headphones, I guess there's no chance of that. Oh well, I'll still be getting mine regardless, I can get the dock separately and I don't even need the bluetooth thing. And it's much cheaper than I was expecting to have to pay, so that's nice.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] aalupatti:
Ordered yesterday but got mail today saying back ordered. ?.:mad:
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] mywingtophone:
funny cuz our local store here in orlando fl. have more than 20 instock and all the colors are available
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Spectre51:
The 6806? Wonder if they sold the initial stock. I'll see if I can find out.

Sent from my Sony Xperia™ Z Ultra
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] pedal2themedal:
I just bought mine online. Said it was in stock....guess we will see.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] omniphil:
I ordered mine yesterday (C6806) and I got shipping confirmation today. so they are definitely shipping out.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] antmay1:
I cancelled my newegg pre-order yesterday (10/15) and order it from sony store website. Received 2 emails from sony yesterday about order confirmation. Today about 30mins ago, I received another email from Sony saying it was shipped with tracking number. I did order with Express shipping. According to FedEx, I will get it this Friday.

My best decision was to cancel my newegg pre-order.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Honogram:
I got mine (C6833) shipped from Taiwan for $630 CDN. The thing is that the LTE speeds are smoking fast in the places that you have that kind of reception. Having the LTE version of the Ultra is definitely worth it. (check out the screenshot attached!)
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] mywingtophone:
smokin fast !
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Honogram:
Yea... I live in Vancouver, Canada. Comparing speeds yesterday with my brother who is on an iPhone 5 (which is LTE capable, too) it was like 80Mbps for the Ultra vs. 30Mbps for the iPhone 5.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] mywingtophone:
So at your location , who needs an LTE if your getting that much speed!
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] gerizafa:
Ordered mine from Sony on 10/16. Received an email on 10/17 saying my order was confirmed. Still no further info 10/21...
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] pedal2themedal:
That sucks man. I'd give them a call. I ordered mine last Wednesday and had it in hand Friday morning, but I did pay extra to expedite it tho.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] mywingtophone:
First i got the white ultra then i decided to return it to swap for a black one at the sony store. I like the black better it sleeker looking plus it looks smaller than the white one. Heres some test i did under LTE connection

Freakin Thin!!!!!

Comparison to my Galaxy note 3
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] aalupatti:
[MENTION=577301]mywingtophone[/MENTION]

Do you mind posting some more pics comparing ultra with note 3

What do think about weight and portability between the two ?
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] gerizafa:
I think that's a note 2.

[edit] my bad, he said note 3 [/edit]
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] gerizafa:
Dang, somehow... my order became cancelled... no idea what happened, so instead of getting it this week... looks like probably next week. Supposed to be shipping out tomorrow. Glad I checked, thanks for the advice.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] kcsween:
What is the difference between these two forums below:

Sprint Galaxy Note 3 Android Development

AND

Sprint Galaxy Note 3 Original Android Development

Being that the phone just came out, I'm a bit confused at there being an original dev forum and a dev forum. There being two of the same forums for the HTC EVO 4G LTE would make sense since the phone has been out for more than year, I could see the reason for the Orig Dev forum being for the early devs and the other forum being for newer dev progress.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Jocelyn:
One is Touchwiz, the other is AOSP
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] miguelfp1:
Original work includes kernels, recoveries, ROMs built from source, apps/mods written from scratch, and ROMs with extensive mods integrated into it (for example, think of Viper4G on the Evo LTE).

The rest goes on the normal Android Development forum (including ROMs ported from other devices)
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 3] rpenrod23:
Apparently you didn't read the very first thread inside of the original development forum. This is in almost, if not every, forum for every device.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2465986
[General Questions and Answers] oliverlabi:
Hello! I think I have bricked my phone. This is what I did : I rooted my phone, then went to Rom toolbox to change my statusbar icon colors to yellow. Then, my phone started popping errors everywhere. I tried to reboot, but after that, I could've not go to download mode and also boot it. Charging icon shows when charging the phone, but doesnt boot. I do not have custom recovery. Is it a hard brick, soft brick or Idk what brick? Also, help :c Im desperate

Lg Optimus L7
[General Questions and Answers] crohit911:
Should be softbrick according to what u did.

It's lg so i dont know much about flashing tool and the download mode

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Try holding power, vol. down and connect to pc while holding
[General Questions and Answers] oliverlabi:
Nothing works, just flashes the touch buttons below. (Back and buttons like that)
[General Questions and Answers] crohit911:
Remove and reisert the battery. Then press and hold vol up + vol dn + power button and tell me if u get into emergency mode.
[General Questions and Answers] tonymontana234:
The version checked in the settings of the phone shows 4.1.1, A rooted , custom rom of 4.1.1 is being used. However, while installing an apk that needs (min sdk of 15), I am getting this weird error in eclipse.

ERROR: Application requires API version 14. Device API version is 10 (Android 4.1.1)

Is this the case with custom roms ?