yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xDroidZz:
Follow these steps.......

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=53739230&postcount=5031

And im using this gapps. from BaNks only 23mb

http://xdaforums.com/google-nexus-5/themes-apps/standard-minimal-gapps-t2012857

Sorry. of course they are not wrong. its their own experience lol. and about google services. by fixing i meant by disabling something on google services so that it will not always run at the background while you are sleeping or doing something else. and i am using 3G always at school mostly not turned off until i get home.

1. Download ROM http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23501681358558361 (its a test build but its stable) just report if something is wrong.

2.Put the rom into your phone.

3. Boot into CWM.

3.Wipe Factory Reset. Wipe Cache. Wipe Dalvik Cache (as always)

4. Flash the rom.

5. its up to you if you want to flash gapps also. (mentioned UP THERE! .

6. Done.

AS ALWAYS BACKUP ALWAYS. (IF YOU WANT TO)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] meicamgh:
bugs: ver 26/6/2014

1)problem with viber (contacts-country code)

2)somtime reboot or shutdown take too long or no shutdown

3) taskmanager(problem with program preview)

4) when use wireless fast battery drain
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xDroidZz:
There is a July 5th test build. mentioned above by me.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] fer2503:
i search but i don't understand how to fix google service drain :confused:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xDroidZz:
lol. i just mentioned it above dude.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] nickytun:
Thanks a lot. But i'm using Trinity Kernel. Do I flash any 4.4 Kernel before flashing this ROM?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2309770
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] fer2503:
you say to disable 3g or disable some component?...How and what i have to disable google service in background when screen is off for example without disable 3g?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xDroidZz:
Dont use any other kind of kernel.

Kernel is already included in the zip.

That means when you are flashing the rom (Paranoid Android) Kernel will flash by itself. you dont need to download or install any other kernel.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] nickytun:
Thanks for your reply. But when i'm flashing ROM. It's said " No file_contexts This package is for "LT26i.nozomi" device; this is a " " E: error in/sdcard/pa_nozomi-4.41-20140705.zip (status 7). And it's abort. My device is still LT26i. Did you know why? Pls help me to fix it!! thanks a lots.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xDroidZz:
come on man just read the long post in the previous page. its everything there. under ''Follow these steps..''

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Here. Flash DoomKernel. thats what i use when im on 4.1.2 Roms. http://d-h.st/qE0

And then flash the ROM.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] chawlasrijan:
Simply Greenify it :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] someone755:
Ew, don't greenify it.

Wait a day or two and it'll go away if you don't interrupt it (keep a charger close tho).

What Greenify does is basically like a task killer. And if we've learned anything in the past 3 years, those suck. Seriously, I get it if your phone has 256MB of RAM or has TouchWiz on it (in that case even 4 gigs won't help, but a task killer still isn't a solution; AOSP-ish ROMs are!), but this is a 1GB RAM device. Killing your tasks on a device like this has been proven to diminish battery life and performance.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] chawlasrijan:
Nope, der is a difference bw greenify & other task killers, greenify doesn't force close apps, whereas only hibernates em

So for example, whenever u dont have ur internet access, google play services will be hibernated, thus saving ur ram & battery

As soon as the network status changes, play services will do its work

From my experience, my cell phone has arnd 260 mb free on wifi (stable internet connection, no frequent changes in connectivity) whereas on 3g (as i keep turning it on & off again n again to save battery) i have arond 210 nb free, now dis is bcs whenevr connectivity changes Google play sevices gets into action, hence wasting ur battery :)

U can try it urself, im pretty happy with this method, my battery lasts a lot, nd i mean a lot
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] chawlasrijan:
Heres your proof if u need it

Im nt currently on PA, but i was a week ago (changed bcs of the new update to eXistenZ)

On PA this worked amazingly well, bcs of the extra 100mb ram
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] airwolf1544:
PA 4.42 official available via Updater.

Flashed it.. App2SD is working again :good:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] nisu4717:
Can u say bugs.

Means random reboots

Using still beta1
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] wxl104:
screen short works?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] airwolf1544:
My last random reboot was about 1 month ago..

Nope... screenshot only works in Deedwar's selfbuild roms or with a custom patch.

There's a problem to implement the patch in PA Git, cause it only affects Xperia S.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] shujaswati:
[MENTION=4884137]xDroidZz[/MENTION] thank alot bro. I flashed again and updated properly. Then downloaded the Gapps as u mentioned. Its running fine now MashaAllah. Came from 95% to 15% in 11hours with excessive use of skype and whatsapp on wifi.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Redstarr1:
What does that prove? I have more free RAM without Greenifying anything. Free RAM is wasted RAM anyway, it's not a measure of how you're taxing your phone. Memory is just a bunch of cells that are put in a certain state but hardly drain any current. You should look at cpu activity to see how much Greenify is saving on your battery, see how long the phone spends at max frequency and how often sleep state is disrupted.

It's as someone775 says, after a clean flash, Google Play Services takes a few days and after that it settles down. I agree it's much too battery draining at first and Google should do something about it. What helps is turning off location history in Play Settings, in the Location tab. I also turn push notifications off as much as I can.

And do you realize that "hibernating" an app, is just another word for killing it? There is no "hibernation" state, all Greenify does is kill the app when the screen is off and

automatically restart

it when you start using the phone again. Restarting an app takes more cpu cycles than just keeping it running, of course you save cpu cycles when the app is killed, but there's a big spike whenever you use the phone again.

You're asking this about an official PA build, not a deedwar build, what do you think yourself? How many times must we say this, screenshots can be fixed, but not for official builds. If Phantasm or deedwar find a different way to solve the problem, it would surely be announced here in this forum and it's not going to solve itself. Until then, only deedwar builds have fixed screenshots, and Phantasm usually makes a patch for the official builds. The bug is still listed in the OP, and I know deedwar doesn't update that often, but something like that would seem like a good reason to update the OP.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] De@n:
You clearly have never used Greenify [emoji14]
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xDroidZz:
No problem ^^ i was really sure that the rom wasn't the problem of battery draining.

just report if you have other problems....
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Redstarr1:
I have used Greenify, but it's been a year so I might be wrong about the way it works. I did some reading and seems it's a bit more complicated, it prevents new processes to be launched. Anyway, hibernating isn't an actual thing and is just a term the dev has given it. I just don't really see the point to use Greenify since in my battery stats screen is responsible for 46% drain, and everything else are basic Android services like mobile standby, wifi and system. Google services do drain 10% but that's still minor compared to the screen. And I'm not turning down the brightness even more to save juice on the screen :p. Does the basic Greenify (rooted) edition even work on system apps nowadays? The dev said you should only Greenify apps you don't use regularly, and if you use a lot of Google apps or have Google Now active, you restart those Play Services all the time.

I still stand by my argument that the amount of free RAM doesn't say anything about battery drain or speed of the phone and that Greenify isn't meant to free RAM.

Anyway, I think we can agree that the battery drain most here are experiencing is related to apps running in the background and not some bug in the ROM.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] someone755:
D0 u evn gremmr 3r0?

Thn t3ll m3 hw ds dis hibrntng thng w0rk?

Look a bit deeper into the app than just the description on Google Play and you'll see that, at it's core, it is essentially a task killer. Only difference between this and ye olde ATK is that Greenify has app running sensors instead of a timer.

I did use it, but that was at a time when I was, metaphorically, blind.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] chawlasrijan:
Heres ur cpu stats screenshot

My device is mostly in deep sleep, just because of greenify :)

I think u should give greenify another try, it might change ur views abt it
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mgrinwis:
I don't use Greenify and my percentages are as follows:

Deep sleep, 72% of the time

384 MHz, 10% of the time

1512 MHz, 14% of the time

Does this mean that Greenify does not work? No, it in fact it does not prove anything if you do not keep all the factors, except the one you are interested in, constant. In short: you cannot attribute the percentages of used frequencies to Greenify. In this case,it can be no more than a guess that it is or is not.

When you want to test the effect of Greenify, you should develop a standardized test method. I.e.: repeat the same steps with Greenify several times and then repeat the same steps without Greenify several times. By doing this you should keep all environmental influences constant. I'm interested in your results! ;)

Ps. English instead of fragmented words please.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] chawlasrijan:
I think at the end of day whatever works for u works for u

From my experience, greenify is a lot help, so i stick with it

Probably not in your case, but if ur happy with ur device, thn thts it i guess :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ahlulnugraha:
Come on guys we got bunch of discussion about task killer in android on the web and most of them are in xda. Best task killer is tweaks android native task killer to suits your usage, cause different people has different apps. Common sense.

#StayParanoid
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] reyfista11:
4.42 seems more fluids on the ui

the settings is changed little bit

FC when open the paranoid OTA settings

waiting for the screen shot fix
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] someone755:
THIS. I can't stress enough how much Android's RAM management has improved since Gingerbread. And this is Kitkat, 8 API levels after Honeycomb where this was first introduced.

Tweak your OOM settings if you want apps to not run, that way you actually save battery.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] powerup90:
Hey can u tell me how did you install that rom ??

Even I wanna try it out but I am nor able to do so I can't flash the og stock ROM through flash tool it show some lines with written header or something and phone gets disconnected!!!!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] chawlasrijan:
Sure, head over to this link http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2476341 for all the packages you need to download

Download v1.00 & v2.0.5

Download this special kernel (745 MB Ram) from here https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...more ram.zip

https://app.box.com/s/zkgfqoz9lnd8utxo2xe8

Put everything in your internal storage

1) Flash the kernel first from recovery

2) Reboot

3) Enter CWM

4) Wipe & format everything

5) Flash v1.0.0 & then v2.0.5

6) Reboot

PM me for further questions, lets keep this thread clean :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] o2xygen:
No if you want apps not to run, you disable its receiver that is causing it to start. By tweaking oom values, you kill them more often. To disable its receiver, you tweak its autostarts. You may also use greenify to do it for you. It also acts as a push proxy to wake it up when its alerted rather than never. So in effect, so called hibernated apps do not start without your explicit permission. Sometimes, learning, researching, accepting different views, other than your own is a good thing; you can't always be right, take this advice as something to live by.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] someone755:
I was telling this to the guy that didn't use his phone over 75% of his battery time. I have a feeling he'd like OOM tweaks more than disabling receivers. I mean really, did you see the CPU freq times he posted? That's insanely little, leaving me to believe his phone doesn't get much use and he doesn't like/use background services. Battery life increase = over 9000!

I've done a hefty amount of research on this in the past few years, I doubt there's something in increasing battery life for every usage scenario I haven't yet found on the Internet.

And, in fact, I do live by those words. But damn right am I not saying somebody is right when he isn't (from the data at hand).
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xDroidZz:
Dont discuss it here man. Its a PA thread not a ExistenZ. Stay on the thread everyone.

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What build are u even using?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] reyfista11:
4.42 is PA version, not the Android.

i'm the latest official build (8 july)

i'm using dalvik and it smooth as ART.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xDroidZz:
ahhh thats okay got it! because im on deedwar's build no (july 5) and screenshot is working fine :) (4.41 version)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] lpossari:
Sorry, but how to use dalvik?

I'm at latest build to it's seems stable but after 12h of daily use I got a restart..
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xDroidZz:
Go to settings Developer options and press " select runntime" if im not wrong. you are already using dalvik.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] drdoomgod:
Using the latest paranoidota version, seems stable, no fcs. However black screen flickering is still there. Strange that no one else seems to have this problem... :(
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Phantasm4489:
screenshot fix for official build 2014-07-08.

As usual just enable system partition and flash - also don't attempt to use on any other build than this one.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xDroidZz:
What are the differences from 4.41 and 4.42 PA versions? are there any big changes?

I cannot test it myself because i uninstalled Paranoid OTA lol
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ahlulnugraha:
Check their Google+ page

#StayParanoid
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xDroidZz:
Oh yea you are right! Thanks!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PunchUp:
Also,

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2583582
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xDroidZz:
Yea i see it now :D
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PunchUp:
Has anyone clean flashed the latest official build?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xDroidZz:
Nope. still at 4.41 and waiting for news from deedwar if there is something. and PA said they will add something on monday.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] o2xygen:
My reply took in consideration whatever you wrote about greenify that go two or three pages back. I am not talking about a specific case but the general principle behind greenify and how its implementation differs from a task killer, as you have described it. Its actually much more intuitive than you think. Might be the anti-atk circlejerk doing its work.

Yes there is no wildcard solution or a size that fits all. What someone needs to do is understand his usage patterns and adapt to them. If you want to run facebook on the background, then dont put it on the greenify list. But you should put things that you dont use often or are of low importance, not reliable, need absurd receivers BUT you still need/want thus not unistalling them. These would complete whatever they want to do when you need them to alas when you open them intentionally and not while your phone is sleeping. And today, almost everything wants to run when you dont really want it. Its something like what google is cooking for L.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Hamodi:
705 build is stable enough for me for a daily use

708 last build had the Facebook vedio blackscreen problem

How I can increase the rom volume I noticed irs low comparing withe other roms
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Gold_Phenix:
I always make clean install.

And I see new version recovery 6.0.5.0 . New menu option performance is in legacy parts...

I have FC ota update, and app sales, chrome, to many apps :-\

Reboot in recovery and screenshot don't work like always ;) but I see fix for screenshot thanks. But I wait for fix reboot to recovery I many times enter in recovery :( and this option is very important for me. And Max CPU frequency is 1566 not 1512.

Lt26i tapatalk Poland
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PunchUp:
Please check your inbox
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] lpossari:
I didn't find developer settings o.O

Using 0708 PA

Enviado de meu Xperia S usando Tapatalk
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Andbax:
I'm on 4.42 and cannot record a video. When i stop recording the phone reboots.Just my problem?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] reyfista11:
really. . . if you're able to flash a custom rom. you should at least know how to unlock dev options

go to about - tap on build number 7x
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] lpossari:
Thank you for info and sorry for don't know about unlock dev options, I never need before

Xperia S, Tapatalk
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Andbax:
Solved reducing the resolution to 720p.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] reyfista11:
that's okay. :D

haha weird. so you never use usb debugging? :confused:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] lpossari:
Yeah, but I think in jb don't need to unlock developer settings

Xperia S, Tapatalk
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] fer2503:
Anyone know how eco mode (trickster mod) works in this rom?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Redstarr1:
Not in JB 4.1 but starting from 4.2 you had to press build number 7 times to unlock dev options.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] nisu4717:
Little lag in Google now launcher.. With home button
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xDroidZz:
Google Launcher is the worst for our phone.....
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] karasev1:
What are you using?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] chawlasrijan:
Try Epic Launcher, its the closest one to Google Now Launcher, with lots of customizations :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xDroidZz:
Launcher 3 .....
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] nisu4717:
Very unusable build.all most time when I touch screen flickers a lot. I need to reboot to use.did a clean install.

Revert back to beta.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xDroidZz:
It is usable lol it is just not stable .....
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PunchUp:
I have experienced some flickering lately. But it's not really intrusive. Definitely not ‘unusable’
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] someone755:
The flickering only happens for me when I'm running low on ram. I just hold "Home" and swipe the recents away.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PunchUp:
I only notice it when the red hue of twilight is enabled.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] powerup90:
Did a dirty flash but not experiencing any flickering till now!!!!!!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] andreacorti:
Neither do I
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] reyfista11:
try to use ART

on build 2 july i had screen flickering when using dalvik. but it's gonewhen i switched to ART

on official build 8 july i've never had any problem at all. (i always clean install, do 2x factory reset to make sure that it's absolutely clean)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] nisu4717:
OK.I will try
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] saeam:
iam using latest official build 4.42 ota updated, and having all problems, black screen, random reboots, fcs, and a very weird probldm which is time and date every time i reboot i find that time and date starts at 1972, and it being corrected after loading carrier network, i didnt find any one having such problem
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] MAPM:
I'm with the latest ota and works like charm for me. Today I got 2 hours 21 minutes of screen, having used Navigation, listened to music and played some games and that has been my screen time record. I'm pretty happy with it.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] zaidx:
I have an ota update so anyone tried it?

Is it stable (no FC's)?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Andbax:
I'm using it. I had 2 main problems:

1. rebot after recording a video >> solved reducing the resolution form 1080p down to 720p

2. black screen when try to login in app such Spotify or TuneIn. I had to uninstall Spotify, TuneIn was ok after the reboot.

It's also pretty slow browsing pictures using the google photo app and 1 time i had to reboot to watch some video (hosted on theSD card) but I never had a single FC.

It's anyway imho the best rom for XS atm, I hope for further improvements ; )
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] reyfista11:
great battery life with build 8 july(clean install). no wakelock
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] drdoomgod:
Same for me, Im on Art
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] preo1:
Guys I'm on the last build and I don't have Hover anymore.. :confused:

Also, did they reduced the RAM? The phone was smoother with the other build (the first one with the 100 MB boost)!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xDroidZz:
Hover is at your notification panel. press the thing above that looks like a window.

And the phone is just laggy a bit because of 3D GPU is set to a lower value. (i think)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mgrinwis:
Based on the amount of RAM in the most recent version of PA (20140708) on my phone, I think they have not reduced RAM. I have 724 MB which is the same as the previous build. How much do you have then?

The GPU frequency was set lower in deedwar's latest test build. In this build, the GPU is set at 320MHz (clean install), so the UI should be the quite smooth (at least I did experience it as really smooth).

About the 320 MHz of the GPU: I have the idea that this setting causes the phone to crash when 1080p camera recording is used. Therefore I've clocked the GPU back at stock speed (266 MHz), 1080p camera recording is working since. Do others have the same experience?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] preo1:
I know where it is.. it wasn't working. But get ok after a reboot :)

As for the GPU the value is the same but it's still laggier then before..
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Gold_Phenix:
I'm back to version 06.26 in New version I have to much FC . Can I use kernel from 07.08 ?in 06.26 ?

LT26i tap from Poland
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PunchUp:
Are you sure? For me, 0708 hasn't crashed like the test builds at all. And I dirty flashed it over 0705 test build. Only problem is black screen while watching videos sometimes. But other than that everything's fine
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Gold_Phenix:
Sorry I want say rom is stable but many apps don't work I have FC app like ota update, chrome, app sales...

LT26i tap from Poland
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] saeam:
Time issue

Guys is it only me suffering from TIME issue

every time i reboot my device i get strange date "3/4/1972" and also strange time, is it only me ?????
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PunchUp:
Searching the thread would be useful
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] zaidx:
ota update sucks

screenshots not working

back and menu buttons not working

it's unusable

going back to carbon rom
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xDroidZz:
lol Latest test build is stable for me. since i've used it for a week now.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] airwolf1544:
Hi,

im on 4.42 from 8 Jul 14. I have a problem with apps who i have pushed to sd (app2sd). The apps are working fine, but after i reboot the phone, the icons disapear from the google now launcher. The apps are still there in the drawer.

Can someone confirm?

This problem doesnt exist in the old builds bevore android 4.4.4. Maybe it has to do with the latest app2sd fix?

[MENTION=1171001]deedwar[/MENTION] Thx for your work on nozomi.. you're my hero (RaymanFX of course too :) )
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] NoMoreAres:
Hi how can i make screenshot working for 0708 build. I love this room.