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[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
I can safely say that since the mpdecision fix, the standy battery life went up noticeably.
[Sony Xperia ZL] Luchoc:
Another thing that's fully working now is Bluetooth Low Energy, my phone stays properly connected to my BLE G-Shock now. Awesome!
[Sony Xperia ZL] imkentoy:
One thing I've notice when there's a hover notification screen starts to flicker.. Not that much but it happens. ?. Pretty much rom is working pretty well.
[Sony Xperia ZL] gella1992:
Maybe silly question, but I actually can´t find the Performance Settings. Seems like I don´t have it at Settings.
[Sony Xperia ZL] xyge:
Goto about phone in settings, tap build number multiple times
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
Yeah, that seems to be the case but only with certain apps. Like if you get a notification while you're in the app drawer, it tends to flicker really bad. On the other hand, I was browsing the Web using Chrome and I got an xda notification and there was no flicker whatsoever. It's really hard to track down but hover is still a really early feature so I'm sure it will get sorted eventually.

Sent from my Xperia ZL
[Sony Xperia ZL] imkentoy:
Yep. Hover is better than Halo (well for me) because it creates a small window for to do other stuff without exiting the app that your on. Really amazing. ART is working properly too. ?
[Sony Xperia ZL] gella1992:
It's me again :D

I faced 2 more problems. Coming from PA 4.3 Beta1 and dirty flashed Beta3 (Cache and Dalvik-Cache wipe).

1. problem: All my blacklisted Apps for Hover are gone after a reboot.

2. problem: Since I dirty flashed Beta3 I don't get a Notification when I receive for example a Whatsappmessage when I'm connected to Wifi and Screen is off. Wifi policy for standbye is set to "Always on". Don't know how to fix that...:crying:
[Sony Xperia ZL] imkentoy:
Facebook contact is not syncing. Am I the only one experiencing this? Because if I need to reinstall Facebook I will.
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
Look into whatsapp's application settings and see if notifications haven't been disabled for it.

Just synced my facebook (messenger) contacts just fine.
[Sony Xperia ZL] gella1992:
Thanks for your reply.

No it hasn't been disabled. Also I'm just facing this issue while I'm connected through Wifi. Without Wifi all is working fine.
[Sony Xperia ZL] pedromsouza:
Touchscreen not responding

Any of you experiencing unresponsive touchscreen sometimes? It happens when I press power button and have to "type" the pattern.
[Sony Xperia ZL] xyge:
Happend to me once, thought it was probably due to a lockscreen mod... Worked fine after a restart
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
So, to automate the whole overclocking when listening to music thing, I'm using Tasker to automatically OC to 486 whenever I enter spotify, or any other music app and then do automatically UC to de default value when the app is in the background. Now the obvious downside of this is that whenever you switch to a different app, it defaults to the lowest value until you bring the app back up again. But that's no problem for music listening if you're just starting the app, say poweramp, then locking the device and putting the phone in your pocket.
[Sony Xperia ZL] xyge:
That's neat... I set the governor to on-demand, and schedular to row.... Minimal or no stutter on shuttle player with Viper FX... Keeping the min frequency as is on 384 and yes ART mode.
[Sony Xperia ZL] Calvin2394:
So we're still using Sony 4.2 blobs/kernel to power Android 4.4 on our phones?! :o

No wonder there are so many issues :P

Sent from Xperia ZL
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
Yeah, Sony is a bit slow. On the bright side, I heard they are working on 4.4 for the Early Z/ZL family devices so it's not that bad. Let's just hope it doesn't take them too long.

Sent from my Xperia ZL
[Sony Xperia ZL] Calvin2394:
Does that mean they release blobs/kernel for devices when they release Android updates?

In that case, why aren't the 4.3 blobs/kernel released when Official Sony 4.3 released back in Feb/March?

Sorry for questions, just curious :p
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
To tell you the truth, I have no idea. I always assumed everything was released when sony released new updates. Guess that's not the case.
[Sony Xperia ZL] xyge:
Well they release them within a week...and cm is using 4.3 sources but old ones as the newer ones haven't been successfully integrated to cm yet

We need to realise that zl has a very limited support and official sources aren't meant for cm or other roms... They have to be worked on
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
I was wondering if there's anyway to get hotplug governor like functionality on AOSPA? Other devices have franco kernel that has hotplug intergrated, but is there any other way to get it?
[Sony Xperia ZL] xyge:
It needs to be integrated in kernel... U can get that functionality using setcpu profiles I think.. Not the exact same thing but should work
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
Found what seems to be another bug:

Disabling "Pulse if battery low" under "Battery LED" options doesn't actually disable anything. Battery low LED still flashes red regardless of the setting.
[Sony Xperia ZL] Luchoc:
I saw a guy on Google+ having an issue where there are no unmounting options using either ext. SD or USB OTG on Yuga. Turns out I'm having the same issue on Odin. Is this normal?
[Sony Xperia ZL] SuperHanss:
http://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/63745/

Needs to be merged.
[Sony Xperia ZL] imkentoy:
Unmount SD card is missing.
[Sony Xperia ZL] SuperHanss:
4.3 BETA4 is up

Changelog

Odin specific:

- Volume rocker wake (Settings>Buttons)

- "Unmount SD card" option is back
[Sony Xperia ZL] xtremepredador:
Update Ota, Great bro !
[Sony Xperia ZL] shivindera:
Hover Settings

Hi,

As per the new update change-logs, we have the option to dismiss hover notifications by swipe and also create blacklist for it if needed. Could somebody tell me where can I find the settings for the same. I searched a lot but could not find them. :confused:

EDIT: Also, goo.im doesnt have the latest build link to download
[Sony Xperia ZL] Luchoc:
You can't change settings for swipe to dismiss. As for the blacklist, it's located in every app's info.

I read somewhere that goo.im was down yesterday? That may explain why the build's not up there. Actually yesterday I tried to update Gapps and I got errors either using ParanoidOTA or trying to download them through goo.im
[Sony Xperia ZL] acabreram:
Bro is this availeble for Z1 Compact(amami) are you the manteiner??

This rom is perfect!

Thanks
[Sony Xperia ZL] TheTofu:
I've been having a lot of stability and performance issues with 4.3 BETAs, reverted back to 4.2 the other day and everything's peachy again.

I'll probably give the update another try when stock 4.4 comes out, hopefully blobs will follow and increase performance.
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
I just switched to stock last night to see how it handles. I really hate the bloat but it runs fairly well and with xposed/lmt it's mostly decent but I still would rather be on AOSPA. I'm gonna wait for a few more weeks, hopefully the annoying skipping audio gets fixed.

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Sony Xperia ZL] shivindera:
Thanks :D
[Sony Xperia ZL] TheTofu:
I don't have my TA backed up so stock really doesn't have much for me and I don't remember the performance being that much better. Though we'll see how things go with stock kitkat once that's out later, for now I'm pretty happy with PA 4.2.

I recently got a Galaxy Note 3 for my mom, and now I'm kind of jealous, that thing is really damn fast...

Plus the extra screen real estate is nice, tempted to get a OnePlus One when that becomes more available, but we'll see how things go with the good 'ol ZL for a bit longer.
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
Been looking at the plus one myself, actually. It's a really hard phone to resist. It does so many things right. But the few problems that it does have, and they're mostly personal preference, are the screen size which, having been a Note user un the past, is too large to not look stupid when holding it against your ear when taking a call, and the lack of an SD card slot and removable battery. So I'll be sticking with my trusty ZL at least until autumn and see what's going on. I'm now on CM11 and I'm starting to like the way they are doing expanded desktop. I'd still much rather have pie out of the box but I can always go back to PA for that. For now though, a few weeks of CM nightlies and hopefully a proper fix for the audio issue is what I'm looking for. Here's hoping for kitkat blobs sooner rather than later.

EDIT:

and yes, stock was bad. Please don't go back to stock. Sure the camera app is better and you have the radio app and the IR app but that's not worth all the bull**** that comes with stock.

Sent from my Xperia ZL
[Sony Xperia ZL] ax-ed:
Can someone teach me how to do the step 3, flash from fastboot?

I've finally unlocked the bootloader after struggling so much with fastboot driver, but can't figure out how to flash the boot.img and rom T_T

Is it via Odin? If it is, which version?(and link if possible)

Thanks!!
[Sony Xperia ZL] Luchoc:
How's CM working for you? I found it just as fast as PA, but that was like three weeks ago when the mpdecision error was still a problem. Now PA's working really good for me, even with that annoying sound bug.

But I also feel like Sony's done a decent job with 4.3. It's not perfect and it's got some bloat, but nothing compared to my old Galaxy S3. It's definitely fast, fluid and mostly useable, apart from an annoying Sony-related wakelock which keeps popping up and destroying standby time. I'm waiting impatiently for 4.4 though, for both the Sony stock ROM and blobs.

Also, since phones are getting exponentially more expensive in my country, I'm planning to stay with my ZL for a looong time.

First copy the ROM and Gapps inside the phone.

Then you do it exactly the way you unlocked your bootloader. Connect the phone in fastboot mode (volume up while it's powered off), open a cmd, cd to platform-tools. After that, grab the PA .zip and extract boot.img. Paste it in platform-tools or wherever your fastboot.exe is located. Then write the following: fastboot flash boot boot.img. Finally, unplug the phone and power it on. Press volume down when the notification light turns purple and it should access recovery. Wipe and flash the ROM and Gapps.

Coming from a Samsung phone which behaves differently from Sony/Nexus devices I know what it feels to be lost so even if installing instructions are a little off-topic it's always nice to have them around :p
[Sony Xperia ZL] ax-ed:
You're a saint! Thanks, I'll do that ASAP!
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
CM nightlies are great do far. Just as fast and stable as PA. The only real reason I'm sticking to CM for now is because I really enjoy reading nightly changelogs :D it's one of my little obsessions. As for stock Sony firmware, definitely not as bad as Samsung but not too great either. To put it into perspective, I have 1.2gb of free ram on CM whereas on stock I had 600mb.

And for the guy asking about fastboot, use flash tool for all your external fleshing needs.

http://www.flashtool.net/index.php

Sent from my Xperia ZL
[Sony Xperia ZL] ax-ed:
I've finally got the PA running!

But now, I got one more problem. Since there is no hybrid option, PA's PIE cant be customized and i eventually went for LMT Launcher as an alternative. But now I can't turn off the PA's PIE whenever I activate the immersive mode. (There was a pop up when I first activate immerse, which let me choose whether to use PA's PIE when immersive is on, or not)

Do I need to re-flash/factory reset the rom? I can't find the option to reconfigure the immersive mode.
[Sony Xperia ZL] Luchoc:
Settings > Backup and Reset > Reset preferences
[Sony Xperia ZL] adibayer_:
i just install this ROM today, only one question, what kind of sounds bug does in this ROM?
[Sony Xperia ZL] imkentoy:
Well for me?.......... There's none! ?
[Sony Xperia ZL] Luchoc:
Just as it happens in almost every other AOSP ROM for the ZL/Z, unless you set the minimum CPU value to 486 MHz the audio skips badly while playing music, as if whatever you're playing got corrupted for a reason. It even happens with notifications sometimes. However, if you set the minimum speed properly it's a fine ROM.

BTW, the tweak doesn't take a toll on battery life. Not for me, at least.
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
So now that stock Sony kitkat is out, how long before we get proper kitkat blobs?

Sent from my Xperia ZL
[Sony Xperia ZL] SuperHanss:
4.3 BETA6 is up (skipped BETA5)

Changelog

Odin specific:

-Temporary fix for sound stuttering
[Sony Xperia ZL] ax-ed:
Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask, but when PA is stuck on boot splash screen(bootloop), do I need to re flash the ROM?

I had this issue happened several times, and when force shut down don't do the trick, I always re flash and lose a ton of data T_T.
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
You have just made me switch back to PA. Thank you SuperHanss. I really hope this temp fix stays in the beta until a proper fix is introduced.
[Sony Xperia ZL] SuperHanss:
Cool, lmk if it works. I plan to keep it until 4.3/4.4 blobs have been merged.
[Sony Xperia ZL] xyge:
Great work with the sound bug, seems to have gone. :good:

A major annoyance though, the systemui crashes whenever i interact with notifications(stop or skip music, or answer a call(with call in background enabled)), with both hover enabled or disabled and in dalvik and ART.
[Sony Xperia ZL] SuperHanss:
Confirmed bug with both official and legacy. Someone derped.
[Sony Xperia ZL] TheTofu:
Any idea on how long it might take for blobs to get merged?
[Sony Xperia ZL] SuperHanss:
No idea. There aren't many devs around now, they've all moved onto Z1/Z2's.

When I get some free time in a couple of weeks I'll look at it.
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
Weeks, months, whatever. Honestly the rom is working as smoothly as can be expected given its a beta. I was on CM nightlies for a while and let me tell you, now those are betas. The phone was dropping 5% battery every 2hours in standby. AOSPA on the other hand has amazing standby and great battery life.

Now onto beta 6. Thanks again for the sound fix, it works superbly.

One thing I noticed other than the FC previously mentioned is this(see attached screenshot)

I flashed the rom twice because I thought it was just something on my end but it seems like there's something wrong with OTA. Not a major issue but I just felt like I should check and see if anyone else is experiencing this.

Sent from my Xperia ZL
[Sony Xperia ZL] SuperHanss:
4.3 BETA7 is up

Changelog

Download and flash manually for this build, OTA will be fixed and ready for the next build.
[Sony Xperia ZL] Calvin2394:
I think CyanogenMod is merging 4.4 sources :D

Saw some Adreno 4.4 blobs and Allow to use own 4.4 blobs changes in 06/01 nightly.

Can someone please check cmxlog and confirm?
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
Yup, saw some things being merged, although one specific adreno merge was pulled for breaking some devices.

Sent from my Xperia ZL
[Sony Xperia ZL] xyge:
Most probably they aren't for fusion, cos the sources aren't available yet
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
Actually they were just Qualcomm common commits

Sent from my Xperia ZL
[Sony Xperia ZL] adibayer_:
PA 4.4 Beta 1 is coming, i saw it in G+.

So will you make it for ZL too? :D
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
"It's the reply we deserve but not the one we need right now"

EDIT:

Latest PA build is up and apparently they're suggesting a clean install (full wipe) due to the big changes.

Also, nice to see theme engine make its way over to PA

Guess it's time for a clean install. Again.

P.S. I hope your audio fix is still in there, SuperHanss !

Sent from my Xperia ZL
[Sony Xperia ZL] SuperHanss:
BOOM! 4.4 BETA1 is up :cool:

Changelog

A clean flash (factory reset) is recommended as it's a huge update.

The fire rises.
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
4.4 beta 1 has been running pretty good so far, no major bugs to speak of. Anyone know of any good sources for CM11 (themer) themes? The play store is a bit of a mess when it comes to finding themer specific themes.

Also, for those who care, i flashed 4.4.3 gapps and they work just fine.
[Sony Xperia ZL] Luchoc:
I went on the Internet and I found this: https://twitter.com/CyanogenMod/status/474700148657098752
[Sony Xperia ZL] adibayer_:
so what's the minor bug? i think diiferent device will have different minor bug too, but don't know what about our ZL?

still can't download due to my internet connection :(

Edit:

One more question, where did you get 4.4.3 gapps?

Edit again: Founded the 4.4.3 GApps :D
[Sony Xperia ZL] khangozzy:
Is the new build support reduce the size of Nav Bar as PAC?
[Sony Xperia ZL] ikentoy:
Simply install xposed and gravity box mate. ?

---------- Post added at 09:19 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:03 AM ----------

Boss any ideas on how to add themes on the new feature called "themes" in the settings?
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
To be honest, I haven't found any small bugs either. Everything is running as intended so far and I wouldn't be lying if I told you this is a solid daily driver ( I use it every single day extensively )

As for the themes, thank you so much for pointing me to the tweet! Means it will be that much easier to find proper themes. Good news is flowing steadily when it comes to AOSP for the ZL so far!

EDIT:

Seeing some more Sony kernel commits to the latest CM nightly! More good news!
[Sony Xperia ZL] adibayer_:
what about hover?

sometimes i got random error display, like half of my screen are black while the other are fine. It is like seeing old TV :D
[Sony Xperia ZL] xtremepredador:
Great Update !!! Ow Perfect
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
Anybody else experience notifications that stop working after a while? They don't work anymore after a while and the phone needs to be restarted for them to work properly. Nothing notification related works anymore (peek, hover, notification led). I'm on ART, can't reboot and switch to Dalvik now because I'm low on battery. Anyone else experience this? On ART or Dalvik or on both?

Sent from my Xperia ZL
[Sony Xperia ZL] xyge:
Nothing as such yet(on ART as well), i keep hover disabled though

U clean flashed the latest beta?
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
Yes I did, wiped everything. It's the second time this happens, and it happens after not rebooting the phone for a couple of days. Maybe it's because of hover since I have it enabled. Let me see if I can pull some logs.

Sent from my Xperia ZL
[Sony Xperia ZL] adibayer_:
Hey, I already disable my hover through notification panel. But the hover still keep coming. How to completely turn it off??
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
Just put my phone to charge and the moment I connect the micro USB, the notifications started pouring in, lights, hover and all. I also remember losing notifications once by connecting the phone to the charger. Something weird is going on here.

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Sony Xperia ZL] TheTofu:
The battery in my ZL stopped working properly a couple weeks ago so I had to order a new one, and in the week that it took to get here I got a galaxy s5 as a temp phone, which only reinforced how much I don't like galaxy phones. :p

Was so happy once I got my replacement battery and got this phone working again.

I've been using latest beta for about a week myself, I've had no such issues with notifications (I'm using dalvik) . Only problems I've had is a random reboot every once in a while, usually when I'm doing a lot of things with my phone, but during daily usage I've had no issues.
[Sony Xperia ZL] xyge:
anyway to lower the minimum brightness(not settings but at system level) ?

also [MENTION=4983940]SuperHanss[/MENTION] could you take a look at implementing gamma control if you have spare time? :D
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
Switched back to Dalvik and I'm going to test it like this for a couple of days and see if the issue comes back.

Sent from my Xperia ZL
[Sony Xperia ZL] Luchoc:
RC1 is up, if you're gonna check for issues better do it on the latest version (?)
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
Oh, I didn't know, thanks. Can't flash now because I'm at work but I'll so it tonight.

Sent from my Xperia ZL
[Sony Xperia ZL] SuperHanss:
4.4 RC1 is up :cool:

Changelog

Odin specific:

- Add .230 (KitKat) Adreno blobs

Enjoy!
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
Can we flash over or should we clean-install? Also yay for adreno blobs!

Sent from my Xperia ZL
[Sony Xperia ZL] Luchoc:
Yay for Adreno blobs!
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
Regarding the notifications issue. I'm a ****ing moron. A stupid ****ing moron. I turned off background data (restricted) for Google services and that made my notifications stop working. The only reason they appeared to work when I put my phone to charge was because at home I was using wifi instead of mobile data. Nothing to do with the charging itself. God I feel so ****ing dumb.

Sent from my Xperia ZL
[Sony Xperia ZL] SuperHanss:
Dirty flash is fine (wipe cache and dalvik).
[Sony Xperia ZL] xtremepredador:
Very Nice !!! great great
[Sony Xperia ZL] adibayer_:
by dirty flash is fine, so i assuming update via OTA is fine too? :D
[Sony Xperia ZL] insanexd:
I have a bug to report: When I try to raise the earbuds volume the safety warning comes up, than comes another PA warning giving the option to dismiss it. Than, when I choose any of the three options (Yes, Ask Later or No) my phone reboots. This happens every time. :(
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
just plugged my headphones into my phone and did this and no reboots.
[Sony Xperia ZL] insanexd:
:( I have installed 3 times... still the same. Did all wipes and everything... do u have any idea?
[Sony Xperia ZL] xyge:
Happens with me as well

(art runtime.. Clean flash)
[Sony Xperia ZL] insanexd:
I actually manage to raise the volume. But if I press any of the options, the problem persists
[Sony Xperia ZL] SuperHanss:
Confirmed
[Sony Xperia ZL] xyge:
Any idea where these settings are saved?

If we could temporarily set a flag there?
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
Just came across a neat little feature that comes with the latest build. while in immersive mode + PIE, swiping either like this "\" or like this "/" from the bottom of the screen instead of straight up brings up the status bar (if you have it hidden). May not sound like much but its actually quite useful if you dont feel like holding PIE to see battery levels/notification count/etc. Funny thing is, I was going to report it as a bug at first thinking the status bar was appearing at random. But after a few tries, I can now trigger it at will without too much trouble.

Also, weird how I didn't get the volume crash bug. Wonder if it's because I dirtyflashed instead of doing a clean install.
[Sony Xperia ZL] Calvin2394:
Any work around for the Safe Headset Volume issue?

It's really annoying :(
[Sony Xperia ZL] xyge:
The kitkat sources are out! :highfive:

http://developer.sonymobile.com/dow...s/open-source-archive-for-build-10-5-a-0-230/
[Sony Xperia ZL] TAL333:
With Play music, using any of the preset profiles in the equalizer or setting all levels in user at +15 dB decreases the sound level output.
[Sony Xperia ZL] feydakin:
And even for the next 233: http://developer.sonymobile.com/dow...s/open-source-archive-for-build-10-5-a-0-233/

Lets hope some Defs can now get the new Blobs and merge them into cm source.
[Sony Xperia ZL] Calvin2394:
Any possible time frame to merge all sources to CM?

Just an approximate, nothing exact, based on experience of FXP speed of merging :)

Also, this will solve ALL issues like dt2w, screen flickers, lag in music, lag overall, etc right? :D
[Sony Xperia ZL] xyge:
Yep, it will be fixed and expect even better performance :D

As for time frame, well its been fast in the past(till 4.2.2) and then most people moved onto newer devices... We still have some pretty awesome devs here, so let's just wait for them to get free and work their magic ;)
[Sony Xperia ZL] SuperHanss:
4.4 RC2 is up.

Changelog

Odin specific:

- Add app2sd support

Hover screen flicker bug is still present, this is exclusive to odin and yuga and will hopefully be fixed with new kernel and blobs.