yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] heiserj:
No, not at all. I would be happy I could send my phone in to Sony to get it fixed. In no way would I want that at the cost of someone else's phone especially when they are helping the community.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] gbohm:
is ja doof.

I thought we could flash the secure signature from some random gpe (just any valid one) and all use your phone as a gpe. But from what i understand that will not be an option ever.....
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] pedal2themedal:
I'll find out today. I have the accidental warranty as well.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] heiserj:
Hopefully they take yours. Please let me know, thanks.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] virtualepiphany:
Here you go.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] oldblue910:
Thanks! Do you happen to know if it's possible to relock the bootloader once it's unlocked?
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] gbohm:
On the regular version of the z ultra yes.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] oldblue910:
Do you just do it the traditional way of fastboot oem lock?
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] gbohm:
Yeah I think it should work for z ultra and gpe the same way
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Bin4ry:
No. On Xperia version we remove the unlocked from ta by writing tacommands in s1 flashmode. The key is stored there and this is the way the bootloader detects if a unlock is already done or not.

Fastboot oem lock

Does not exist on Xperia version, I have no idea if it is possible on GPE.

Regards

Gesendet von meinem C6833 mit Tapatalk 4
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] techpal:
We can lock the bootloader in regular xperia z ultra by restoring TA partition or by flashtool. Dont know about GPe.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] virtualepiphany:
fastboot oem lock does not work.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] pulser_g2:
Yes, it seems wise to not make it "easy" for people to go to GPE, in a manner that could ever accept an OTA.

For anyone who IS wanting to mess around like that, do not go flashing your s1boot and other "special" partitions!
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] pulser_g2:
I don't imagine that string will be changed - I think version "S1" is a reference to the fact it uses Sony's S1boot system... Thus S1 :)
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Bin4ry:
Yeah, it is a "reduced" s1boot. Maybe we can find a way to activate "hidden" flashmode functions ;) i really think there would be some use for it. But i have to go through my files first when i have again some time (again: need to finish my thesis :P :D )

I can already think of a way we could convert between the two s1boot versions, maybe i am right, but i have to get my hands on a TA dump from a GPE edition phone. If someone with GPE edition is willing to share the TA dump with me i would be happy, but WARNING: TA dump holds some sensitive informations like IMEI, current version and god knows which additional informations sony put in there in the GPE. So only share it with me if you are good with that.

For all who does not work with sony devices on regular base: DO NOT MODIFY THE TA IN ANY WAY! IF you screw a wrong bit there you will end up with a 100% dead device. The only 2 ways to restore the device with a dead TA is either:

1.) Resign TA with the RSA simcards i already told you about

2.) Modify a s1boot version to skip the signature checks and try to write it over JTAG/QCOMM Diag etc.

So, this was intended as a warning again, i saw too many dead phones, and this devices are not cheap ;) i just want to save your money :D

Regards
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] pulser_g2:
RE 2, I was of the impression that s1boot was signed with a key stored on the device (read hardwired in). If it's not, that's interesting :)

And to echo the above, DO NOT GO MESSING AROUND WITH THE TA PARTITION. No, really, don't!
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] LordManhattan:
You can write a thesis about the challenges we face in this section. Men a tired and some are even lost in this wilderness of code - on the quest for root. I reckon you'll manage to squeeze it into a 1500 page paper.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Reb0rn:
If u factory restore the z ultra it takes u to a recovery. Where is that recovery placed?
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] warfareonly:
You mean a factory reset? :confused:
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Reb0rn:
Yeah.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] shingers5:
just fully converted my HTC ONE to GPE and even installed 4.4.2 OTA without issues.................i am hoping for the same with this device. wish i knew what it involves so i can contribute. ive seen a few elite devs posting here so hopefully we can get them onboard.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] LordManhattan:
I have no idea where we're at anymore, regarding "Operation GPe". People were all over the place a couple of days ago, Chainfire showed up with a bunch of developers, and the GPe topic was a hot one. Then it died down completely.

I have no idea if people are working on it, or if it's completely dead. I know nothing. Nada.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] gbohm:
I am with you on that I thought we got a good phone development wise switched from omni back to 4.3 stock because I don't think we will see great aosp Roms soon...
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] shingers5:
This tends to happen at times guys. I think it might be quite difficult if these guys don't own the device. Also many of these guys are working on other stuff themselves so I ask for patience here. At one point there was nothing then a little something then GPE got released and it got going again. The good times will come
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] abuihsan:
hi. I am not sure if this is corresponded with this topic or not, but yesterday I flashed (over the .290 for C6833) the test-ported-zip from [MENTION=2784807]DooMLoRD[/MENTION].

The phone is booted for a looong time (about 10 minutes **), then about 100 apps optimized. and after boot finished a-pop-up appear said that the system has stopped and ask whether I want to kill or wait. I choose kill and it restart, boot (much faster than 1st boot) and those pop-up appear again, same result when I choose 'kill', and so on..

I messaged him this morning about it.

He said maybe he will give the zip to other dev who familiar with Z ultra so can figure what happen out, also that he need something dumped from 4.3 Stock here, which I don't understand how to make it.. sorry

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=48647374&postcount=79
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Bin4ry:
Yes.

The device is sold USA only, so only a very few devs can pick one. And if you look in Sony Forums usually the same people are doing the first development steps and give other developers the basics to fight with the device.

Well guess what, none of us (Team Freexperia) is living in the US (atleast not that i remember). We are spread over Europe. So no chance for us to work on it in Person.

I guess you guys have pretty much unrealistic wishes for the development speed for a device which is limited to one single country worldwide! Give it a little time and other des will jump in! Its only ~2 Weeks now!

Regards

Send from the Tardis
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] stiggy2012:
My rom does pretty much exactly the same thing. [MENTION=2784807]DooMLoRD[/MENTION] - does the build abuihsan is referring to include a freshly built kernel from the GPe sources? Is it possible to build a kernel from the GPe sources with SELinux turned off?

I uploaded the entire /etc/firmware directory from stock 4.3 yesterday, the link is a few posts back. But I don't think this is a firmware issue. Other than the modem firmware (in my case, owning a C6802), I can't even understand why we would need to change the firmware files. This is the same device, after all?

Personally I'm running out of ideas - not that I had many to start with!

I don't really understand why a stock GPe boot.img and system partition doesn't work on a non-GPe Ultra, which is what I've found. They're basically identical hardware, right? Obviously though, I don't really know what I'm doing here! :o Could anyone else explain why this is the case?

Another (probably dumb) question: I've noticed other 4.4 roms include a "file_contexts" file in the rom zip to assign the SELinux contexts to files. Why doesn't the OTA update zip have this? Is there a way I can check that the file contexts are being set correctly from CWM recovery? "ls -Z" should work, presumably?

The way it fails is very peculiar too. It kinda boots, but then various processes crash. If only I could get a logcat, it would probably be obvious what is stopping it from working properly.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] bigxie:
Perhaps we could unpack the GPe boot.img and set it to insecure. At least that way you can see the logcat while it's booting / crashing.

I'm not quite familiar with Sony devices as I just got my Z Ultra a few days ago, but I'll look into it. I really want to test this, but I'm also a little lazy since I'm using my ZU as my daily right now.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] kramnod:
[MENTION=3183886]bigxie[/MENTION]

Good to see you here from Galaxy Nexus days
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] bigxie:
I gave it a quick try and got the same result as [MENTION=4955229]stiggy2012[/MENTION], though I didn't FTF .290 since I want to stay on .257 for CM.

I can't get it to boot (flashing red LED) with either the stock GPe boot.img or my modified insecure boot.img.

If someone else wants to try on .290, here's my insecure GPe boot.img.

You'll need to stick it in your update.zip since it can't be fastbooted.

http://goo.im/devs/bigxie/togari/insecure-ZUGPe-boot.img

Maybe I'll take another look at this later when I have some more time. Anyways, happy holidays folks!
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] stiggy2012:
You should find that if you flash the .290 FTF first, the stock boot.img should boot. I'll try out your insecure boot.img later if I can, as it may well help. When you say "insecure", how does this boot.img differ from stock? SELinux disabled?

Thanks,
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] bigxie:
I edited the ramdisk to enable root over adb and allow debugging, so you should be able to adb logcat while it's booting up and capture any errors in there.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] stiggy2012:
That should be a huge help, thanks. :)
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] bigxie:
Actually, I just tried it and didn't have any luck. I may have repacked the boot.img incorrectly. I'm a bit unfamiliar with Sony devices, so I followed some guides but was unable to build a dt.img from the GPe sources, so I assumed it was a little different from regular ZU kernels and just packed it without a dt.img.

Perhaps that was wrong? Can anyone else provide the stock GPe kernel with the default.prop mods in the ramdisk so that we can debug the crashes?
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] stiggy2012:
The best guide I've seen on this subject is doomlords guide here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2447310

However, I'm not sure if you will be able to build the dt.img file without building a completely new kernel from the GPe sources. I tried doing this myself, but ran into compilation errors. I tried using the GCC 4.7 toolchain, but it may be worth trying a different one.

Thanks,
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] ps000000:
Do you think C6806 has the same hardware as C6833 ?
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] bod128:
I think XL39H LTE SKU is all same hardware except antenna parts.

Same SoC and same EE design. So maybe GPe version rom can porting on C6806, C6833, C6843.(remove RF radio file)
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] acbc2k:
What about C6802 the non-LTE model? Can use GPe ROM?
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] evaradar:
I am not sure where to post this question, but how does one install the Google Play aka stock Kit Kat ROM onto the phone which is locked to a specific carrier and that has bloatware, etc?
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] egzthunder1:
You can't. Someone needs to port the ROM before you can flash it. I have not roamed around the xzu section and as such, am not certain if there's a port out there or not.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] blueether:
There is no port yet, but there are a couple of people working on one. So just amateur of time.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] jutley:
GPE rom seems like a tough cookie to crack.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] LordManhattan:
Yeah, especially when we have like 1.25 developers :p The Z1 has a lot more, so it's understandable.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] stiggy2012:
As someone who looked into this a little: It may seem odd, but it seems it's actually easier to get the GPe rom to boot on a Z1 than the XZU.

To get a booting rom on the Z1, Doomlord did the following:

Compiled the GPe kernel against the honomi defconfig, rather than togari.

Replaced the firmware files in /etc/firmware with stock 4.3.

If you do this on an XZU, you do not get a booting rom. In fact, I've tried many variations on this theme to no avail.

There is "something" that differs on a XZU relative to both the GPe XZ and the Z1, which causes a strange bootloop issue to occur. I nor anyone else (as far as I know) has been able to determine what this difference is, and why the GPe rom fails to boot on the XZU but does boot on the z1.

Personally my best guess (which is worth very little indeed, as I don't really know my arse from my elbow here) is that it's something in one of these weird Sony partitions or the bootloader. I would not be remotely surprised if once a stock 4.4 FTF is available, you can flash the stock GPe boot/system partitions right over the top and it "just works".
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Rudolpht:
I was just wondering if the 1.25 developers of a GPE rooted ROM have made any progress. I know gratitude won't buy a cup of coffee, but I would have gratitude.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] LordManhattan:
@thermatk is trying to port it, and you can follow him here. He managed to hard brick his Ultra though, so it might take a while before we see a GPe port (unless DoomLord is bored and energetic) :p
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] warfareonly:
4.4 Sony will hit us earlier than the GPe, I think :p
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] lonelykite:
screenshots plz

can anybody plz post the screeshots of the recent stock 4.4

thanks
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] LordManhattan:
Why? It's stock Android. There aren't any colorful and magic horse pictures or any other surprises. It looks like stock AOSP.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] lonelykite:
Okay i thought that its a Stock Rom developed by sony.:confused:
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] LordManhattan:
Oh.. yeah, Sony has "developed" it, but they have simply ported AOSP to the Ultra, so it's stock Android with X-Reality and other minor tweaks. It's basically a Nexus.

Here's Sony's GPE promo:

[YOUTUBE]Q9heYQxZ-1g[/YOUTUBE]
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] chefp:
I tried installing the stock 4.4.2 update zip using Philz and TWRP recovery. It errors out with:

"This pacakge is for C6806 devices; this is a togari."

The recovery doesn't match the recovery's device ID apparently. How can I install this zip? I searched around for a fastboot system img but that seems to be a rare beast.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] blueether:
What ROM are you on at the moment, CM/Carbon? Where did the recovery come from?

I'm not going to tell you to use the same trick that you used for CM as you will lose recovery I think - God I hate not having the device to test things out on.

I think the best option is to edit the updater script then for someone/me to create a patch to CM/Carbon that gives it the correct names.

I'm downloading the update zip now to have a look at how to fix the problem for you...

---------- Post added at 09:33 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:35 AM ----------

If you have these tools 7zip and notepad++ you can do this:

Open the .zip (don't extract)

navagate to META-INF\com\google\android\

Extract the file updater-script

Edit it and remove the second line "getprop("ro.product.device") == "C6806" || abort("This package is for \"C6806\" devices; this is a \"" + getprop("ro.product.device") + "\".");"

Save the file

Drag back into the zip and make sure the zip is updated
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] chefp:
Thank you kindly for figuring that out. It was able to flash the zip but is stuck in a boot loop. It gets as far as the "Android is upgrading" screen, finishes optimizing/compiling the apps, and reboots to the 4-color animated clover thingy over & over.

[Edit: wiping internal storage fixed the bootloop]

I'd like to use Cyanogenmod but the Z Ultra's accelerometer on CM11, among other things, doesn't work yet.

Regarding the recovery I'm using: it's Philz dual recovery packaged by ChillyChan

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=49565501&postcount=337

Given the abundance of close variations of this device, it'd really help if the recovery would support dynamic device ID selection. At the very least switch between togari and C6806, though there are surely others that would be useful.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] blueether:
The problem is with the script, most ROMs look for the full gamete of names ie c6802, c6806, c6843, c6833 and togari.

The accelerometer works on the normal ZU (well it works in Carbon/Slim etc) not sure if of why it's broken on the GPe
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] DooMLoRD:
@OP

thanks for the OTA files

probably you should add this to your guide in the OP:

[How-To] Restore to original Google Play Edition firmware!

regards,

DooMLoRD
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] LordManhattan:
Ermahgerd, what's up with the Ultra's 4.4.3 update? Is it an urban legend?
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] cCclown:
No,

the Android 4.4.3 update for ZU GPE is now live!

http://www.android.gs/sony-xperia-z-ultra-google-play-edition-android-4-4-3-ota-update-now-live/
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] LordManhattan:
Yeah, I know. AP, DL and all the other big Android news sites reported it like yesterday (depending on where you are). It's out alright, but all GPe owners have disappeared from the surface of the planet, never to be seen again. They have our precious 4.4.3. Curse you, OTA monster! :(
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] adfurgerson:
I have checked every hour more or less, no update for me yet.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] LordManhattan:
Sad. This is sad :p
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] graffixnyc:
Posted it ;)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2773168
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] acbc2k:
Anyone with full 4.4.3 ROM zip file?
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] santod040:
Don't want the OTA right now?

Tired of deferring the update?

How can you stop it or get rid of it before or after it downloads to the device?

Answer:

M7vzw OTA Killer - Flash in Recovery

Enjoy! :good:
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] Cares:
Awesome thanks! Is there a way to get OTAs back after flashing this? Just curious.
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] santod040:
Flash my full odex stock rom...they won't apply to much else anyhow.
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] Cares:
I am going to flash this with Bonestock. Shouldn't be a problem right?
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] santod040:
You can flash this on any rom. :)
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] lan04:
which rom of yours is full odex stock?? i;d love to try it
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] TidusWulf:
sant0d, you are da best. Not that I need this, but you've done a lot to ontribute to this model phone. So thank you.
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] Robertjm:
This work with your KitKat ROMs too?

I just went through and flashed your Odex Debloated KitKat ROM, and downloaded this to block the OTA from happening. However, I just noticed the last update of this is from December. Is it still OK to flash this on top of the KitKat ROM, or is that going to muck up things? (Or did you already "bake" it in by getting rid of some of the stuff in the debloat process?).

Thanks again!

Robert
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] santod040:
It should still work fine on KK.

But the debloated rom already has the OTA stuff removed.

Look in Settings > see anywhere to even check for a software update? No you won't... ;)

It's already been removed.
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] JSDragon:
Thank you so much!!!!! Finally something that actually works to get rid of the OTA Thank you so much Santod045 you are the best!
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] onthehole:
Oh yeah. Will this still work with sense 6.0?

Sent from my HTC ONE.
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] santod040:
Yes, it should work just fine.
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] onthehole:
It does indeed! :)
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] sopont:
Thank you very Much :good:
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] xenacick:
Stock Un-Rooted HTC One..?

My husbands phone (which he refused to let me root when we had the chance, has been giving him a lot of grief with this latest OTA. It keeps downloading, attempting to install, and there errors 410 update failed, and exits software update. When I checked his phone after the latest attempt by the phone to install 4.4.3 to see if the download was still ON his device, it had disappeared with the failure of the update.

My question is, he's just sick of getting the prompt, error, and reboot - as a temp fix, can I push this OTA Killer onto his phone even though it isn't rooted and have it work, or do I need to find a signed RUU of the 4.4.3 and flash in bootloader (as I was originally planning on doing, but came across this...)

Thanks in advance!!!
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] Uzephi:
If he has a custom recovery installed, then it will work. Have you tried downloading the OTAzip to his SD card and running the ota directly from stock recovery?

Get into recovery, select install update from SD, select OTAzip.
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] xenacick:
NO, no custom recovery installed, everything is 100% stock. He spent a good part of 3 hours with tech support with Verizon and HTC and they were both dumbfounded....go figure!

Problem is because it's a virtual SD, I have no way of verifying (without root) that it's even downloaded to the virtual one on the M7. Would it hurt anything to take a shot at it from stock recovery.....?

Or is there a link someone could suggest to a download to the OTApkg file?
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] Uzephi:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=55244412

[MENTION=3472611]dottat[/MENTION] uploaded it to his android file host account.
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] (24ZyL0ko:
would this help my problem??

I recently read a post, I don't know where now, but it had to do with a hidden Trojan/malware. That was started in 2013... After reading, thinking back to when this really started affecting me Feb,26, 2015. I noticed some strange things mentioned in my service log from around that date. The post mentioned how it places a high tracker in some obscure app. Unfortunately I got the bug, BAD!!! So not knowing about this until I made it worse by plugging my phone into my computer... I'm sure you can figure out the rest. My everything is screwed now. My HTC one m7, is the only device I can use period, now. I tried to root, and couldn't. Then downloaded another root checker, and it said my device was already rooted. Is there anything I can do(on my knees begging). This has to be the worst inter-web experience ever. Any and all ideas, advice, similar problems, links, and time are greatly appreciated. Thank you
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] GhostCyber:
Or can someone explain to me how to get back to stock without having a backup, while keeping my cam state?

thanks all in advance, this forum and is users are awesome sauce.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] LordManhattan:
What do you mean with "keeping my cam state"?
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] hamdogg:
i think he means that he's got issues.. LOL

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Hey Ghost...

What you need to do is download some PC software called 'flashtool'

Then using this tool you can flash what is known as an 'FTF'

Essentially this is a ROM that is pure stock, and stock kernel. It makes your device like it was out of the box.

Here is a guide on using flashtool LINK

Here is a link to the FTF's to download LINK

Don't be scared.. its a piece of cake. Personally i've flashed FTF's about 10 times per week... its easy
[HTC One Max] wtd03:
I have a rooted evo 3d with 16 gb sd card. Everything is saved to the sd card

Just got a brand new Max. I am looking to unlock and root later tonight. What is the best (fastest, easy and efficient) way to get all my data, contacts, photos, files apps etc from the evo to the max after I root it?
[HTC One Max] pradeepvizz:
You don't need root to transfer files :silly:

As a part of the setup process, HTC has the option to transfer everything from your old phone to MAX.

You will be guided by the setup itself, in case you skipped it, you can always go back to setup. in the app drawer. You will be prompted to install HTC Transfer tool on the other phone and data is transferred via WiFi nice and easy.