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[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] RaymanFX:
Alpha 2 is up on XDA's DevDB now :)

Check the first post or directly switch to the 'Downloads' tab in this thread to get access to the rom.

Have fun :)

More news: KitKat seems to like our Nozomi. I managed to get the main hardware going, a first build should show up soon.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mithab:
YAY for kitkat :D
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] bamboohao:
Dude it is stated in op.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Apology11:
Will you push the source to your github today or isn't it stable enough yet?

Gesendet von meinem Xperia S mit Tapatalk
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] rumkuhgel:
Alpha 2 doesn't want to boot, screen is just black..
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Saurav16:
can someone please link me to the latest right gapps :confused:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] rumkuhgel:
there: http://goo.im/gapps/gapps-jb-20130813-signed.zip
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Saurav16:
wooh... that was fast.. thanks for reply so quick :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] omegastarr:
On my phone it boots just the first time, every other time I try to reboot it just gets stuck on the kernel logo for minutes (until I reboot it again).
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] bamboohao:
Really? mine got stuck too, how do you restart after that? I press volume up + power and when it reboot it still stucked on the kernel logo. Have to do factory reset to make it boot again.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] omegastarr:
Yeah, I just volume up and power until it vibrates one time (2 vibrations is ragequit lol). After that nothing happens..
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Jeremy0:
Crazy dev is crazy!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mithab:
If you get stuck in the kernel logo, make a nandroid backup, then factory reset and after that restore system and data. It will boot fine then. Thats how I'm using alpha 1. Looks like it isn't solved yet :(
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] RaymanFX:
Hmm, I wonder why you all are getting these errors?

Your data must be messed up somehow, I tested the release several times, and it survived numerous reboots each time.

I really can't help with this, I can only fix problems that my device is having, too..
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] bamboohao:
No it didnt stuck on reboot menu it stuck on the kernel logo ( the openSEMC one). Anyway will try your method when the battery is charged.

Edit: oh and it took quite some time for the kernel logo to show up after rebooting, is this normal? I have no idea since i have been on slimbean before this.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mithab:
Sorry, thats what i meant when i said reboot menu :P

Will try clean flashing to see if it boots fine.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] rumkuhgel:
how long approx.?

Because on my device not even the kernel bootlogo showed up..
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] bamboohao:
Not really sure, was chatting when i wait so not that sure, somewhere around a minute or two.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] AnrgKrshn:
Guys, maybe you should leave it at the kernel logo for a while and let it boot. Is that not what we did in alpha 1?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Trevor Chuah:
The second boot, need a little bit longer time (about or more than 5 minutes).

However after you survive the second boot, there is no more long wait to boot up.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] bamboohao:
So, we should wait for around 5 min at the kernel logo for it to boot on second boot?

Will do a clean flash and try as you said.

---------- Post added at 11:08 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:44 PM ----------

Confirming this, dont know why is it like that but this seems to be the way it work.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Saurav16:
No problem booting up

well just sharing up my experience i clean flashed it and it booted up as normally and fast as it should :)

___________________

second boot also went normal :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] bamboohao:
Rayman, how is codefirex doing? I am not asking for ETA nor rushing you, just wanna know the progress as I cant get used to the lack of customization option in CM. Thanks in advance.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Great_Geek:
Torrent download

Why am I the only one seeding this in its torrent form?

Does no one else have the time/bandwidth to help your fellow xda members?

For the people that are downloading via torrent, seed for as long as you can.

I can't leave my laptop constantly seeding.

Even those that got it via the direct link can seed:

Get the torrent file from the download page,

then point your client's download location to the same folder where you stored the direct downloaded zip
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Jeremy0:
Guys, my seedbox (open 24/7) is ready for your downloads!

I will delete the file only when goo.im will be back! Not before.

Enjoy!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] omegastarr:
Thanks guys, after reflashing it didn't even get stuck on boot logo. My phone has been reborn thanks to [MENTION=3463426]RaymanFX[/MENTION] :) GREAT work man, tested temple run 2 and fruit ninja - lagless ! I hope you can fix the video recording issue, anyway THIS is my new daily rom :)

Edit: Just noticed that temp video files are created in the camera dir (xxx.mp4.tmp), hope that's helpful..
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ZACHARiAS_:
[MENTION=3463426]RaymanFX[/MENTION]

consider using this mirror mate: http://d-h.st

anyways, thanks for your hardwork.

kudos
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Saurav16:
Getting system UIDS inconsistent message on reboot... Asking me to wipe data or my device will be inconsistent...

DO I NEED TO DO ANYTHING FOR IT?

P.S. as mentioned before I clean installed the ROM and don't have any problem..
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] chuah1997:
Just can't wait to try stable CM10.2 on my Xperia SL XD :laugh: Thanks for your hardwork bro....
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] AnrgKrshn:
Are you seeing that in titanium? If so, then that's normal after a data wipe.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Saurav16:
no.. not in titanium... immediately after phone reboots i get this message...

anyways thanks for reply :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tebra:
Had this problem ones with another device.

For me the source of this problem was Titanium backup don't restor my apps data correctly because of wrong root acces. If I remember good, I solved the problem with updating su binary and restore all apps data ones again
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] dobodu:
Here working fine except an Aosp keybord stop working from time to time. As far as i've tested it's better than rc2. Thanks Rayman

Envoyé de mon Xperia S en utilisant Tapatalk
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mithab:
When manually creating an APN the MCC and MNC values are 0. You have to set them to 470 and 0 to create an APN. Alpha 1 didnt have this bug. :3
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Redstarr1:
Your MCC and MNC depend on what network you're using, it's different for other providers and other countries. This might be a bug only users on your network experience. It's odd that alpha 1 didn't have it though.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Saurav16:
Ok i'll try this however I don't think that I am having any problem because of this... Phone is working quite fine...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mithab:
Thank you for explaining. Actually none of the roms i tried earlier had this problem. The values were automatically set while creating a manual apn. Weird.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Dev.7:
Used alpha 2 for about a day now and I must say its very fluid.

RaymanFX wrote in the OP that video recording doesn't work at all but its completely working for me.

For alpha 1 I had a black screen for about 30 seconds before every boot to which RaymanFX said that he couldn't reproduce this bug so he can't help in that matter.

But in this alpha 2 also I am having a black screen for about a minute now don't know why I am having this issue. Where am I going wrong.

fellow members reply if u too are having this issue or its just me.

If RaymanFX you are reading this,any word of advice on this.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] AnrgKrshn:
Have you clean flashed? That seems to fix the issue.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Dev.7:
Yes, I have completely wiped the system+data+cache+dalvik before installation.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Isidorosis:
Are you sure you don't have brightness to 0 ?

with a program like toggle als starting at boot and fixing the black screen
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Dev.7:
Yes I am sure I don't have such thing going on.

Will try to install it a couple of more times.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] bamboohao:
If you mean black screen for some time before the kernel logo started to show up, i am also having this problem.( clean flash as well)

And since i am posting, i will ask all the question i have in mind. I want to setup adb and fastboot on my pc running windows 8.1. I installed the minimal adb and fastboot from xda and it seems to be working fine. But i was unable to get my phone into fastboot mode ( blue LED ). The blue LED lights up for a few second then the phone will reboot. What is wrong with it? I have search on google and such and figured that it could be driver problem, however i already did installed the driver from latest flashtool , maybe that driver is not what i need? Anyone have a clue here? Any suggestion would be appreciated.

Oh and out of boredom, i saw this https://github.com/OpenSEMC/android_device_sony_nozomi/commits/cm-11.0

Does this mean we are close to kitkat? Don't be mad at me, i dont understand this github thing at all.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] AnrgKrshn:
RaymanFX has managed to boot up kitkat. It's in the works :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Dev.7:
Yeah I meant that only.

I too had this problem.

Windows 8 and 8.1 do not install drivers from unknown sources that is a security measure.

U can disable that security measure by accessing your PC setting search the web for information about.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] bamboohao:
Yeah i am aware of that thing, had to do it on windows 8 but on 8.1 it seems to install fine, i still did the troubleshoot thing and disable the driver signature stuff and the result is same without it disable which is 'driver successfully installed'. But my phone just wont stick in fastboot mode, i really dont know what is wrong here. Now i am so afraid my phone gone soft brick cause i cant use flashtool without fastboot mode.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mirhl:
open windows device manager and put the phone in fastboot mode

as soon as you see a new entry, double click it and go to "drivers" tab and press update (if your phone reboots it's ok.. the only important thing is that you enter this dialog)

then calmly press "search the software driver in the computer" > "manually choose from a list" and "disc driver"

give windows the right path and BEFORE pressing YES in the update driver warning box reconnect your phone

as soon as you hear the "beep" press yes and you are done

[MENTION=5382200]Saurav16[/MENTION]

on the f******g samsung galaxy s2 i fixed UIDS inconsistent message by running e2fsck -fy -c /dev/block/mmcblk0p10 (where mmcblk0pXX is the corrupted partition system path)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] deedwar:
Is anyone else having issues when trying to build from source with the phone and nfc now force closing. Started happening just after the kitkat push. Cant pinpoint the issue.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tania247260:
Hello friends!How is going with OpenSEMC - Alpha 2
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] grigorian941:
Goes well

Sent using my russian SXS
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Saurav16:
Hahaha... I too had that f* galaxy s2 phone before selling it within a month and getting the lovely xperia s.

P.s : I don't understand what you did and how to do it... So I am not doing anything right now and moreover I think the problem is solved..
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] alveos:
Is it that stable to run it as everyday build?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Phantasm4489:
Hi. I've had this issue before. I've normally fixed this by doing a completely clean build. Not sure if this helps in this case.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] alveos:
After i installed alpha 2 and newest gapps the phone wont boot. Its stuck at opensemc logo. WHat can i do?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] bamboohao:
Reflash maybe? I think no one else get stuck at kernel logo at first boot, you propably done something wrong.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] abcdjdj:
Even I experienced this problem on apha 2. It takes exactly 45 seconds for the kernel logo to show up after which it boots properly though..
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] alveos:
Yeah, i cleaned everything and it does work now ;) I have another problem ;( i cannot install anything from Google Store. I click install, and the statur bar works but nothing downloads, why?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tOrNadO™:
I have been using this ROM for 2 days.. Must say great work on this RaymnaFX.. ROM is very fluid and wicked fast.. I barely found a proper and detailed review by other users on this ROM.. So here i am, with one.. The ROM is awesome for an alpha build.. And BTW "U said video recording completely not working, u mean 1080p recording not working at all which seems right".. The rest of the camera features work like a charm.. And battery is good enough to pass a day easily with normal usage.. Multitasking is awesome than Stock or any other stock based ROMs.. Its very smooth and fast despite of less user RAM available which we gotta compromise.. Although i see only around 90-100MB RAM available.. No lags seen yet.. These are the plus points.. Now let me point out the bugs i've seen..

1. First boot was awkward.. I used to see OpenSEMC logo everytime a transition graphics occured, a reboot solved it.. But it happened everytime i wiped cache again.

2. There are some more display glitches. U can see when u change a theme and enter the homescreen.

3. When connected to USB, i tried to reboot the phone and a few times it didn't.. It powered off and i had to hard reset to turn it on again. After a few times, it worked fine.

4. In your bugs list, there is a problem mentioned with TWRP.. I think backup, restore and wiping worked just fine.. May be u forgot to cross check it.

And [MENTION=3463426]RaymanFX[/MENTION], is there anyway to increase user available memory in future builds?? :confused:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] alveos:
Why i can not download apps from google storee?

[MENTION=309187]edit[/MENTION]

Ok i fixed it.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tOrNadO™:
Sign out from your account and sign in again.. ;)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] rc_enzo:
For the ones having a incredible wait every time you boot the device, try updating TWRP (either in fota or through goomanager). My boot times were normal, and I had it in fotakernel.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] omegastarr:
It looks like it records video but something's wrong when it needs to save the file (or compile filters or don't know.. :D ) . It leaves a file with .mp4.tmp extension. Also it doesn't play video files (black screen but the sound goes on). Maybe both problems have common core (filters, codecs..). I am not a developer and I'm very far from developing but as an engineering student that's what my instinct tells me :D
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] gammaboy:
fast charging

please add fast charging to your kernel ..humble request :)

or can anyone suggest a kernel with fast charging support compatible with alpha2 ?:fingers-crossed:

btw..loving 4.3..thanx rayman
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] deedwar:
Thanks have tried deleting all the files but the .repo directory and letting it resync all the directories might just delete the whole folder and try getting it to redownload from my github folder. If noone else is having the issue it must be with something i have broken.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Phantasm4489:
if you are using use_ccache=1 you might want to try cleaning the .ccache folder. That might help.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] deedwar:
Im pretty sure i wasnt using it anymore but just deleted the folder anyhow just incase it was for some reason. Will test it out and see thanks mate.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] alveos:
All files are installed to phone. not storage. After installing few apps i dont have space. In previous builds there was no problem with that. How can i fix that, now i am using:

Link2SD
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Great_Geek:
Testers wanted

RaymanFX, excuse me for this, you know what it is..

Hey guys, I need 3 people to volunteer as testers for a ROM I'm porting.

It could render your device unusable at times, so this is not for the faint of heart.

(I wouldn't even count it as an alpha build)

PM me if interested ;)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] hamad335500:
You are porting kikat 4.4?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] bamboohao:
Let me guess, omnirom?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Great_Geek:
OmniROM coming soon...

Here's hoping our Xperia S doesn't die anytime soon :D

Thank you [MENTION=3463426]RaymanFX[/MENTION] for everything. You're truly awesome!

Just a teaser for now..

A thread will be made when I can post a build that won't blow up in your face :P
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tOrNadO™:
Well.. Some more review about the ROM.. Video actually doesn't work at all.. It seems it only worked for the 1st time after a fresh installation.. But later on, it didn't work no matter what changes i made, including wiping everything, just cache, just dalvik cache, blah blah blah.. :p Everything else is fine with the ROM except for very less RAM available for multitasking.. It seems RAM management is an issue for the ROM to be a daily driver.. Checking 26% of zRAM will help u with it.. And btw the device heats up with more apps open.. I thik these are the issues Rayman need to attend to.. Still, 4.3 experience was truly amazing, back to stock.. Thank you [MENTION=3463426]RaymanFX[/MENTION] for amazing work.. :good:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] bamboohao:
Is it just me or does the others having issue with hangout crashing? Been having the issue when i use slimbean but i though it was because of the bugs present in older build thats one of the reason i made the switch, but i seems like the problem still persist. I am using the build 2.0.122 of hangout but it was sideloaded as my staged update hasn't arrived, but i doubt that is what causing it.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] alveos:
While installing some apps i am getting error "no more space to install apps" before i had no problem. How can i fix that? Another thing is that if i put some widgets to desktop, after reboot they are gone. I need to put them again.

Also the animation while locking and unlocking screen "tv in, tv out" doesnt work.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Trevor Chuah:
About the "no more space to install apps", you can try this:

Allow root access on file manager, goto /data, there is one folder called lost+found, just delete the whole folder.

The space is back.

The rest, i never face...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mirhl:
[MENTION=4982178]alveos[/MENTION]

Check the phone logcat if you want the detailed reason for the installation faiure
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] elkadeho:
does anyone used funkys methode to activate "wake device by focus button" (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2332309) for me it doesnt work with this (supernice) rom.

thx
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] bamboohao:
Hangout crashes

Regarding to my last post about hangout keep on crashing, I am attaching a logcat but I get it using the app 'catlog' from playstore as suggested on a thread somewhere in xda. My previous post state that i have some problem with my fastboot driver so i cant pull the logcat using adb, I don't know if the logcat pulled by this app is useful but here it is anyway in case someone is willing to have a look at it. If this logcat doesn't help, i will try again or dive into the fastboot driver problem i have.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] alveos:
Thanks ;) it works now! One more question, is there a lenovo super camera for 4.3?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tOrNadO™:
The same app works except don't touch video recording.. ;)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] RaymanFX:
KitKat!

Don't blame me for the quality, it's 20pm over here and I'm real tired. :P

Sneak preview, because who believes a Rayman with no evidence?

KitKat is nearby. Numerous issues left to solve, but I'm slowly getting there. :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Saurav16:
Can't thank you enough for this... Very excited and happy to see this :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Zoomer88:
It is not the first time when android makes me hungry!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tOrNadO™:
Wow.. U r back in action.. Fantastic news Rayman..Really appreciate what u r doing.. Fantastic job.. :D
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Konamy:
Does that mean you're goingo to abandon 4.3, and jump straight to 4.4? :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mirhl:
he already said exactly this a pair of times
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] alveos:
Is it better to use old car or new one? Well it depends but you know what i mean. New soft, new features. Less bugs from older versions.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] grigorian941:
Its do not correctly work on Nexus 7 tegra, and so..

Sent using my russian SXS
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] AnrgKrshn:
Was experiencing the same problems, but my hangouts got updated on its own from the play store today to this and it seems to be fixed.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] franklin93:
this is the rom that makes me think of unlocking the bootloader again ;) KITKAT is coming.i want to try this because google stated it can run smoothly on 512 mb ram so our phone will fly with speed.and also the process stats,it was in symbian but missed in android.ram is imp in phone because it is less and has to be managed for multitasking,if not,then restart the apps.THANK YOU [MENTION=3463426]RaymanFX[/MENTION] you are one of the other hopes that can keep xperia s alive.THANK YOU :good::good::good:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] bamboohao:
Really? I updated mine as well but scrolling through the conversation still crashes the app. I tried clearing data but the problem still persist. Don't know what is wrong with my phone.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] AnrgKrshn:
I haven't really noticed any closes but honestly, I haven't used it that much since its been updating, cause I have exams. When I did though, didn't have any issues.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] heavens dragon:
if you are group chatting, thn there is a know bug in hangouts where if someone use certain amount of emoji the app crashes...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] bamboohao:
Nope, not in group chat and no emoji involve here, it just freaking crashes every single time...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] AnrgKrshn:
Have you installed any other Google services like the new search and play services just to get the launcher from the nexus 5? Cause I had a couple of issues when I tried. Everything fc'd. The apps got updated once I rolled back and let Google play do its thing and then everything sorted itself out. I just installed the launcher and everything works now. I've been using it a lot now, to test it, and it seems stable to me. There does seem to be an issue with the emoji though. Or fleksy. I was using the fleksy keyboard and hit the emoji button and it closed. But it happened only once and haven't been able to re create it. So I guess its pretty stable as is. If you've in fact tried side loading the apps (hangouts, search, play services, launcher) I suggest uninstalling and updating from the play store so that you get the latest hangouts and search and then install the launcher. Only way I got it to work bug free.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] bamboohao:
Oh right, i installed those 3 app that is needed but i think only the google setting is left cause the google search crashes as well, will try downgrading it, thanks mate, never thought of that. I am using nova cause the GEL lags a lot on me. Really appreciate your help :)

Edit: uninstalled update, reflashed Gapps, cleared cache, it seems to be just a bit better but still crashes...guess i will wait and see until the next ROM update arrive ( when i do a complete clean flash, and hopefully, its KitKat :) )
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ^Reloaded^:
4.4

LOVE YOU [MENTION=3463426]RaymanFX[/MENTION] TAKE YOUR TIME GIVE US THE STABLE VERSION :laugh::laugh: