yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] TheLoonyRebel:
Here's a link to the PA Gapps thread here on XDA:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2397942
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] randomblame:
Be sure to leave me some feedback
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] TheLoonyRebel:
A few things I noticed:

- External micro SD detects in storage including size of card, freespace, etc but won't let me do anything beyond that. Titanium Backup won't detect the card at all. I can write files to it on Windows 7 but it won't let me read files from it.

- Same sound issue as on the 4.3 ROMs (up pitch audio). Tested with YouTube.

- Other stuff outside of camera and NFC seem to work just fine from testing.

Clean flash using the latest CWM for the Sero 7 Pro.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] chachin:
Here's a really cool tool you can use to make everything odex for runtime art to work better.. it does work and its freaking awesome.. just read the info and install it :)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2527268 credits go to [MENTION=4944549]MatrixDJ96[/MENTION] thanks buddy
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] jaxsin:
Will be installing this tonight. Once again thanks randomblame
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] bpcooper14:
Downloading as we speak. I Don't use the camera or nfc much right now anyway so i'll give it a run. I admire all of the work that's been done with this. I wish I had the time to learn all the intricacies and inner workings to be able to contribute.

For some reason when I go to install, I get stuck in a boot loop. I'll mess with it when I get home and see. Trying to do this while at work.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] DesDr0id:
I was only able to test for 5 min this morning but here's what I noticed:

1. HDMI is broken as it was in jellytime, all output is forced portrait.

2. When using the tablet in landscape the text of the icons on the home screen are cut off. Probably an alignment issue.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] glass330:
The android keyboard crashes if you try to swype type....

Can someone else confirm or deny the same problem.

I cleared the data/cache for android keyboard as well.

I installed pa_gapps-modular-mini-4.4-20131118-signed

Thank You
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] NMCBR600:
Internal sdcard not mounted. External sdcard is mounted as sdcard0.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] trperic:
I did a clean install 30 minutes ago with the full Gapps package and my keyboard swipe works just fine.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] suhridkhan:
Wow, this is so much better than the previous build. You deserve a beer.

I don't use NFC or camera that much. So this is almost ready as my daily driver. Could you make fixing the SD card issue your next target?

Thanks.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] johnnyrichter:
About to test drive this as my first rom for my brand new s7p. Will report back if I have any issues that haven't been mentioned yet. :cool:

ETA: Nvm, can't figure out how to mount the sdcard to throw those zips on it. My buddy I bought this from rooted it for me so it's running CWM 6something already. Can't mount sd from recovery, can't paste files when connected normally as I get some sort of error about the device being disconnected.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] jhienk:
going to try this out. what seems to be the problem with camera? is it the modules? or something else? have you tried vermagic and repacking them as a zip?
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] alfeuss:
Try reapplying this root method work like i charm for me.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=41875861&postcount=2
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] johnnyrichter:
I'm pretty sure the root is fine. It's windows not recognizing the device properly for some reason.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] trperic:
I am really liking the fact that I can run 4.4 on this tablet. One bug I have run into however is that I can't get .mp3 files to play from memory using Apollo or Google music player. When I try to play a song the system freezes.

I'm not complaining though! Just wanted to report a bug.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] xboxexpert:
I'm stalking...
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] Unjustified Dev:
Yeah the nvidia shield had all source even external binaries. Can't wait to get mine now. I want to get it over clocked. Pretty sure we will be able to use some of the overclocked grouper kernels for reference
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] alex_is_the_1:
They also have only 4 days to release 4.3 to us to make their fall release deadline.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] randomblame:
kick ass! I see they posted it on twitter too so it looks like a full fledged surrender on their part. I hope it comes soon and it's complete and actually compilable
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] johnb380:
Ya baby i can't wait... Maybe we can get a freaking section in xda now Damn it!
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] randomblame:
with kernel source comes all of these wonderful possibilities:

overclocking

selinux support

ubuntu touch port becomes possible

performance optimizations driver upgrades etc

ports of new kernel versions

native linux

etc etc
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] TheLoonyRebel:
While I'm in the camp of "I'll believe it when I see it" just getting this far feels like a victory for us. We managed to as an small community get Hisense to acknowledge getting the kernel source released. Now rather if they hold to their word we'll have to see. If they don't then trust me we'll really make sure their own words will come back to haunt them.

Can't wait if they really do release the kernel source to see what we can pull off with it.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] scottww2622:
True Apps2Sd? Please and thank you?!

edit: I don't get the reasoning behind emulating the external memory when there is a physical SD slot.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] Unjustified Dev:
The internal memory is emulated it's not physical like a real sdcard.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] cammykool:
now who can we talk to for our own fourmnow that we have source code incomming? WE ARE A REAL TABLET I SWEAR LOL
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] x000x:
this is where you can request a dedicated forum http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1660354

i'd wait until they actually released the source though just to make sure.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] randomblame:
It has nothing to do with kernel source. Its a matter of how much traffic our device will drive to the site and their advertisements :D
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] alfeuss:
Is this what we are waiting for? The size is 100 Mbs

http://hisense-usa.com/support/firmware/Sero 7 Pro_kernel_opensource_us.tar.gz
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] jerbear294:
I believe it is! Now we can fix the camera... And get Ubuntu Touch, CyanogenMod, Paranoid... :D

EDIT: Looks like they have a 177mb LT kernel as well!
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] Unjustified Dev:
Cloned sero 7 source and set it up for kernel building :D
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] cammykool:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=48618878&postcount=12738

thumbup this post so it can be seen!
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] Unjustified Dev:
I just sent xda a tip to feature this great news as well as the device , it's specs , and the great price from walmart. This should spark more xda members to grab up this device.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] cammykool:
the post with the photo?

(lol look at me i dont even own one of these yet :laugh: )
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] Unjustified Dev:
Me either, but I have been here since the beginning with xboxexpert . I have always wanted one and soon it will be true. Uploading kernel source to github now
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] cammykool:
Maybe we can look to official cm support?
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] dolorespark:
I've posted a build of AOSP 4.4.2 here: http://e-vertise.com/sero7pro/sero7pro-aosp442-dopa-v0.zip

I'm posting this here rather than starting a new thread because I consider this a reference build rather than a "product". Perhaps it can be used to identify which problems are inherent to any KitKat ROM built using Hisense's proprietary files and which are caused by attempts at customization.

This build was developed semi-independently and is as vanilla as possible:

* the kernel is the same code as used by DoPa v2.0, just configured for SELinux, and is not overclocked

* all files not created by the AOSP build process were taken from the Hisense 6.02.20 build with minimal changes

* configuration files and original code needed to build the ROM were copied from TakTik and Grouper, then pruned back and cleaned up to remove irrelevancies

* incompatibilities between KitKat and Hisense's blobs were resolved as simply as possible, with no attempt to "improve" things

There are still a few bugs:

* SELinux runs in permissive mode because I haven't bothered to fix whatever is wrong

* trying to use the sound effects in the stock music player kills audio and may require a reboot to restore it.

Beyond these, everything I've tested works (A2DP, charger, WiFi, V4A etc). I don't have any NFC devices, don't use anything covered by DRM (including NetFlix), and never take the tablet anywhere there are multiple routers with the same SSID, so I don't know if these work properly.

To make the ROM more usable, I've included 3-15_GApps_Standard_4.4.2, SuperSU, Xposed, GravityBox, and my Phab7. If you install it, you will have to do a full wipe (i.e. '/cache' and '/data & /data/media').

Please report any problems so we can see if the other ROMs are being built on a faulty foundation.

P.S. you can find my device and vendor trees at https://github.com/dolorespark
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] lexridge:
Thank you!! I think I will just try the newer kernel for now since I got everything running smoothly now.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] enfermo:
one more option

Get the NORMAL non modified version working and then go with the optimum options

same goal just working in 2 fronts for the same idea

Thx to All the PP working in these
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] michaeljr10wv:
Thanks for this...seems to be working very smoothly so far. I'll post tomorrow when I'm using it at work. The other two roms keep dropping WIFI there...and reboots...

I love these vanilla roms...

Thanks,

Mike
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] a178235:
I also like vanilla ROMs. I'm hoping the developers will work together to get a rock solid AOSP build first. I would rather have a AOSP or Cyanogenmod, then add my own Google Apps image second, followed by any custom mods. Once a fully functional base has been working for a month, then the customized ROMs can follow.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] x000x:
same here :D
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] dgjenkins:
While I'm not going to disagree, you do realize this is a development thread and by it's nature we're testing builds that may or may not have bugs, right? Rest assured that there is no perfect version of AOSP or CM and I'm fine with that. Heck, I've never even seen a stock rom that didn't have a bug or two in it, and about the time they get most of them worked out we get a totally new build to play with and start the cycle all over again. The stock rom for this device was actually pretty vanilla and if that's all I wanted I would just root it, throw on some xposed custom mods and call it a day. The hunt for new features and that tiny performance increase is what makes looking forward to the next release fun, but it's inevitable to break stuff along the way from time to time. The hard working devs making builds for this device have done a pretty awesome job given what they have to work with. I'm in awe we have as much stability as we do.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] jhienk:
Thanks installing now. will post bugs if i find them.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] a178235:
Miracast Support

[MENTION=282573]davepmer[/MENTION]

[MENTION=5094650]dolorespark[/MENTION]

I recently purchased a Miracast Freelander AP20 WIFI Display Dongle. I have tried both cm-11-20140317-UNOFFICIAL-m470.zip and sero7pro-aosp442-dopa-v0.zip. I can connect to the Miracast dongle using WiFi direct, and the dongle shows the MAC address of the Sero 7 Pro, assigns it an IP address, and both the tablet and dongle show that they are connected.

When I go to Settings->Display->Cast screen, I don’t see the dongle and there is no ON/OFF slider, or top right context menu to allow me to enable Wireless Display.

Since the Sero 7 Pro appears to connect to the dongle via WiFi Direct when the dongle is in Miracast mode, is there a possibility that these builds have something missing?

http://www.freelanderstore.com/blog...gle-adapter-cell-phone-companion-user-manual/
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] cammykool:
post it on AndroidCentral
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] davepmer:
Not missing actually. I have been trying to find a fix for wifi direct. Originally in JB wifi direct on a broadcom chip set worked. But in android 4.3 something happened in the update and instead of fixing it or giving a reason for why they couldn't they disabled it. All over the place. I have been trying to find all the disables and find out what the problem actually is and see if there is a way to fix it.

So not really missing , just not working and no longer disabled. least not all of it disabled.

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How did you get around the missing symbols?
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] a178235:
Miracast

I did get WiFi Direct working, or at least it connected to the dongle, but nothing showed up in Cast screen. I have two Sero 7 Pros, so I can see if they actually communicate with each other via WiFi Direct.

I tried going the XBMC 13 Beta 2 route and use DNLA, but XMBC only seems to work with itself and not other DNLA devices such as TVs and dongles. They are working on it, but who knows how long it will take.

So the bottom line is that I don't know of any way to show a movie wirelessly from the Sero 7 Pro. I assume that none of the developers have a Miracast device, but I'm tempted to send them mine if someone would be really willing to give it a try.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] tinybeetle:
I use Twonky on my Roku box and Twonky on the Sero 7 Pro. Using that I can send movies and such to the Roku wirelessly.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] dolorespark:
I have a P-O-S "internet-enabled" Samsung TV, and I've always been able to connect to it via WiFi-Direct (both DoPa 2.0 and AOSPv0). However, I've never been able to connect using MiraCast (which is unrelated to WiFi-Direct). I've always assumed it's because Samsung has its own proprietary implementation called "AllShare". When I try, the tablet says "no devices found nearby" and the TV tells me to start the AllShare app on my phone (which doesn't install because it isn't a Samsung).

So, these ROMs could be missing something but I don't know what it might be.

BTW... thanks for posting the link to the dongle's user manual. It's mention of DLNA gives me (faint) hope that I might be able to do screen-sharing that way (assuming Samsung hasn't messed that up too).
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] davepmer:
Well I don't have a Miracast device, don't have anything to plug it into either. Question does it work on the stock ROM?
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] dolorespark:
As I encountered missing symbol errors building or running this ROM, I tracked the error back to the source code and compared KitKat to JB 4.2.1. If the cause was a change in some method's signature (i.e. arguments had been added or changed), I checked to see if CM11 already had a fix. In many cases it did because some other vendor's ROM had the same issue, so I copied their 2 or 3 line fix. In other cases, I restored code that had been removed. In one case (libnvoice.so), I found it easier to patch the binary to look for version 51 of libicuuc.so than add a bunch of functions that claimed they were from version 48.

I also wrote a very simple tool that checked to see whether each library (*.so) could actually be loaded. Where it reported failure due to missing symbols, I used a hex editor to see what other modules it loaded, then searched through them for symbols that were similar to what was missing. This helped identify cases where things didn't work but didn't produce any usable error messages. For example, that's how I identified why the Windows Media codecs wouldn't work: the AOSP code was missing symbols they needed to load. Once I added them (in this case, MIMETYPE strings), the codecs became usable. (Note: I haven't actually tried to play any WM files, so I only assume they now work. If they don't, let me know).
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] michaeljr10wv:
Worked like a charm all day! No reboots, no lockups, even changing between my phones hotspot and work WIFI to print paperwork was flawless. Battery life would be around 9-10 hours...youtube, my videos all seem to work....THANKS!!!
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] davepmer:
Hum I just added the code, to ucnv.c fixed that problem. the others slowed me down. Wish I could figure out the wifi sleep issue or wifi direct. hey could be the same issue
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] Gazoo119:
A big thankyou to delorespark for the aosp ROM. I just installed it and can confirm Netflix works! I have a lot more testing to do but so far its looking real good. I will report any bugs if I find any...lol. Thanks again!
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] a178235:
From the Wikipedia article on Miracast, my understanding is that Miracast is built upon WiFi Direct, like HTTP is built upon TCP. I can do a WiFi Direct connection to the Miracast dongle, and the dongle shows that it is ready to play, but as you stated, I get the "no devices found nearby" in Display->Cast screen. Furthermore, the Wikipedia article seems to indicate that WiFi Display, Miracast, and AllShare, are just another names for the same thing. I've also read that even the 2013 Nexus 7 has issues connecting to some Miracast devices, so there may be many issues on both sides.

Seeing that WiFi Direct actually connects to the dongle, it gives me hope that at last the tablet can communicate with the dongle, it's just that the tablet doesn't see the device, and possibly can't stream the video to the device in the Cast screen code.

My issue is that I use the tablets to connect to a Samba share via XBMC to access the videos, but have no other way than HDMI to show the videos on the TV. I have young children who can't read yet, so the XBMC video thumbnails are really a must. Just seeing only the text titles make it hard for them to pick the video they want.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] lexridge:
If you use the Yatse XBMC remote (paid app on play store) from your phone, you can stream XBMC directly to Chromecast. I think there is a free version you may try out to see if that would solve your problem.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] Gazoo119:
So far I haven't found anything that does not work using the aosp ROM. There are a couple apps that don't work but there are other apps to replace those. Aosp will be my daily driver. The only thing that would be nice would be an over clock kernel. Other than that its been as stable as dopa and I am really loving it.

Just a FYI about xbmc. Bluetooth audio works perfectly on the latest Frodo. This must have been a fix with tiktak as many others had complaints about the audio stuttering.

Of course I will report back if I find any bugs. Thanks to everyone.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] a178235:
So far no issues besides the Miracast support which has been lacking in all ROMs.

---------- Post added at 11:09 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:03 PM ----------

@davepmer

[MENTION=5094650]dolorespark[/MENTION]

I just received an e-mail from someone who mentioned a thread that has source that enabled the Nexus 7 to have Miracast support. Perhaps it's worth a look.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2348991

I also found this about Miracast on 4.4.2

https://github.com/kensuke/How-to-Miracast-on-AOSP/wiki

The following mentions that the above will work with Samsung AllShare.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2515833
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] davepmer:
Well the instructions leave a bunch out, and seem to be adding a lot of what for some reason was called obsolete code. Trying to add all that is needed and see if it will build. But, I have no way to test when I get it to build. dolorespark Do you have a way to test?

OK Why in the world did everyone "Remove obsolete miracast sink code and friends." First I find they disabled p2p (wifi direct) now I find that miracast did not work because it was deliberately removed 6 months ago??? I am starting to feel like someone doesn't like miracast.

OK why would they remove it from 10.2 as well??? Are we looking at a copyright problem???
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] a178235:
On further investigation, it seems to me that Miracast is not mature enough and Google and/or Cyanogenmod felt that it may be better to leave it out for now and if a manufacturer wanted to add it, then it needs to be WiFi Display certified and the manufacturer would be responsible for adding it back in. Just my guess though. While I would like Miracast support, I would rather have a stable ROM, and code that could be more easily ported to 5.0 over back ported Miracast support.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] davepmer:
I tried, the instructions are missing a lot even for AOSP to build. It really looks like miracast support was removed, and not just from android 4.4 it was removed from 4.3 and that is where the instuctions was suppose to have come from well the source code. It also seems to have been removed from 4.21

I could see just not including it in the new source code, but to remove it from the older source code, I am still thinking copyright.

fyi when I follow the directions I have missing .h files when I add them I have multiple build errors.

personally I feel time would be better used on getting wifi to stay awake, and possibly p2p and then the actual wifi display.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] a178235:
Could be copyright. I did see the code mentioned above being submitted to Cyanogenmod recently, the 18nd, so perhaps it will be added back in for M5 or M6.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=51293160 post #165.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] davepmer:
Looks like they only proposed a small part of the changes they need. only really see the overlay change