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[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] Gazoo119:
I second this. I donated once and it was the best I could do. And I am going to donate a bit more soon. Its well worth it and I love the Roms and the support we receive from dp. :good:
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] jhienk:
stuck at hisense screen after formatting for new rom

I figured i would give the new rom a try and also f2fs. Must have done something wrong cause after formatting to f2fs i couldnt install the new rom cause it wasnt there. now im stuck at hisense screen and its been so long since ive had any kind of problem like this. Ill have to search for a way to get it back up and running. Any help would be appreciated.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] Pow_2k:
Are you able to boot into recovery or fastboot? I think one is holding down vol- while powering on, the other is holding down vol+ while powering on. I believe this is the route you'll need to follow.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] jhienk:
I used the old xe recovery from fastboot. It now boots into the old cwm recovery but from there nothing I can do.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] jerbear294:
Can you flash the newer recoveries over USB?
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] jhienk:
Hey Jerbear, not sure how to do that. Tried to get adb sideload to work but to no avail. Not that good at these things. Ive flashed this tab a million times and now am stuck
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] tmoulder:
Awesome Rom, best ever

Dolorespar, thanks for your hard work. This is the best rom yet for the Sero. I did a full conversion to F2FS and this is by far the smoothest, fastest-booting, best-running rom I've used on any android device. Fantastic!
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] Gster09:
Download the ROM (and flashable recovery if need be) again and save it to your micro SD card. Insert the card into the Sero 7 Pro and when you get to recovery chose the install option from external SD card. You should be good to go from there. The reason your ROM went missing in the first place is that when you formatted to f2fs, you must have had it saved on your data partition. Give this a shot and see if it gets you back.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] bast525:
Anyone else have an issue where doing a soft reboot causes wifi to stop working until doing a normal reboot? Not a huge deal but soft reboot is nice for saving time.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] dolorespark:
It doesn't work. From what little I can gather from the logs, the upper-level Java stuff gets out of sync with the underlying processes that are doing the work. It looks like the upper level is trying to start and initialize software that's already running, so the attempt fails. If you turn off WiFi before a soft-reboot (by going into Airplane mode, for instance), it will work when you reenable it.

FWIW... on my tablet, a full reboot takes about 42 seconds longer than a soft reboot - 12 seconds of which is spent doing an orderly shutdown.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] paratwa53:
I have found that the Soft reboot option just does not do any good. I even removed it as an option on my tablet.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] jhienk:
Tried that but recovery says cant mount ext sd card
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] Gster09:
Hmmm... My thoughts are that your current recovery might not be reading the mount points correctly because of the f2fs format. ?? I would try to flash the latest DoPa recovery (sero7pro-philz6.56.2-v2.51) via fastboot. Can you get into fastboot? (pwr & vol+) Then extract the img file called philz.img and flash it via the [fastboot flash recovery philz.img] command. If that gets you the latest recovery, you should be good to go from there, yes?

I just re-read that you've used the xe recovery script successfully. In lieu of the above, you could simply extract the philz.img to the folder where you have the XERecovery.exe and delete the cwm_touch_recovery,img. Then rename philz.img to cwm_touch_recovery.img and run the exe again.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] jhienk:
Thanks!

Replaced the recovery like you suggested, and voila! I'm back in business! Thanks. Was starting to worry about my Sero being dead.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] Gster09:
Glad to hear it.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] ObviousMan:
No good deed ever goes unpunished.

Thank you for dedicated support of our devices.

Can I ask everyone who converted /data into f2fs - do you see noticeable speed improvements with the run of the mill usage, like web browsing with Chrome or Dolphin; puzzle type games, youtube and other streaming videos? I mean on non-overclocked kernel, just converting to f2fs?

Thanks.

OM
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] ziddey:
[MENTION=5094650]dolorespark[/MENTION], usbdisk does not have write access without root.

In init.m470.rc, write permission needs to be changed from 1023 (media_rw) to 1015 (sdcard_rw):

service fuse_usbdisk /system/bin/sdcard -u 1023 -g 1023 -w 1015 -d /mnt/media_rw/usbdisk /storage/usbdisk

Otherwise, you'd need to hack /system/etc/permissions/platform.xml to add media_rw permission where it doesn't belong (what I've done in the past / Samsung as well).

-w 1015 is how Motorola adds support for usbdisk write access
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] dolorespark:
According to the "Usage" screen for 'sdcard', the solution is even easier: just get rid of the "-w" argument because the

default

is 'sdcard_rw'. Regardless, thanks for pointing this out - I'll fix it in the next update.

Meanwhile, users can just grant (temporary) root access to whatever app needs to write to your USB-OTG storage.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] ziddey:
Ha, I noticed that as well but figured there must have been something more to it than the description since in my prior implementations on the Nexus 4, I needed to further work around permissions issues (a la http://www.chainfire.eu/articles/113/Is_Google_blocking_apps_writing_to_SD_cards_/ Update #2). I just took another look at my N4 and found that my script never actually injected it in 4.4 because of the addition of sdcard_r (my dumb sed criteria) and yet write was still working (no -w).

Only came across it so quickly since the Moto G explicitly sets -w 1015

:good:

I'm curious if exfat-nofuse can offer any performance boost: https://github.com/dorimanx/exfat-nofuse/commits/master

Going to look into that when I get some time

https://github.com/dorimanx/exfat-nofuse/issues/5
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] xtil:
power up stuck on "android" screen

I have been using dopa v1.1.zip. Today I installed philz recovery as instructed. Next I installed "sero7pro-aosp444-dopa-v2.51.zip" When restarting, the Hisense screen comes up, then the "android" screen, but it is stuck there. I can power down and get into recovery. Am I missing something? Can someone advise me on the next step? I have a nandroid backup. Also the charger is working. I didn't install a Gapps package. Not sure what that is. I also have a Titanium backup. Thanks.

Read up on Gapps. Where do I get the proper file? Also read that Titanium backups are no good for this.

Found the Gapps link. Hope the tablet starts working when Gapps is installed. Any particular Gapps recommended? Thanks ---no good

Now I can't use my CWM nandroid backups because the new "philz recovery" will not see them. Enough for tonight. :)

Not sure what I did, but, I got Philz recovery to restore my CWM dopa 1.1 nandroid. Back to where I started. At least it is not bricked. One of the things that I did was run xboxes recovery.exe which installs CWM. Could this be why Philz was suddenly able to see my CWM backups? Philz is still installed.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] bluehacker007:
Couple email related questions:

1. Will the email app that is built in to this ROM update when Google releases updates? (Answer to this question is no)

2. What is the version of this email app?

3. The email app is in the play store now and I downloaded it and installed but it did not replace the email app built in to this rom and I noticed that when I ran it, I could not create Exchange email accounts - does anyone have any experience with this?

(See updates below)

The only thing I need from the email app is the exchange support it provides and I can use the one that is built in to this ROM but I'd like to be able to use the latest one from Google.

Update: I used adb to replace the Email.apk in System/App with the latest Email apk from Android and cleared Dalvik cache before rebooting. When I launch the new Email client it still doesn't give me an option to create an Exchange account - what gives?

Update 2: I realized I needed to replace the exchange services with a new one. I used apks provided at this link if anyone is interested: http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/1...4-4-with-gmail-style-ui-and-a-slide-out-menu/. Managed to put both the latest email and exchange services apk into /system/app without any issues. Cleared cache and Dalvik cache and rebooted. Was able to set things up fine from there. Still would like to know answers to the questions above.

Update 3: From poking around in the version of the email app I now have it is definitely a newer version than the one that comes with the ROM. The main reason I even looked into this was because I got super frustrated today when I tried to attach a file to an email and found that my only choices were to attach a picture or video. The latest version of the Email app from Google eliminates this issue and my app now says "Attach File"
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] Pow_2k:
Xtil, when I had this problem it was (I think) because in addition to the ROM the kernel was updated too. My solution was to wipe data, then allow it to reboot. After that I was fine and could restore all my apps/data via titanium backup. If you're confident in your backup you could give this a try.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] xtil:
pow I gave it a try-no luck. Thanks
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] dolorespark:
Some of what you've encountered is Google's response to problems it has with its stakeholders, the "mobile-industrial complex" ;), namely the manufacturers and carriers.

Google wants them to update their software on a regular basis but they've decided it's not in their best interests. Manufacturer: "You want new software? Buy a new phone". Carrier: "You want a new phone? Sign a new contract". So, Google has done an end-run around them: it has taken the generic apps, enhanced them, made them proprietary, and put them in PlayStore. This puts Google in control of both the features and the all-important distribution channel. Anyone who wants the stock, generic app's code is welcome to it, be it me or Samsung. I leave it as-is, Samsung and its carrier clients customize the crap out of it. There's nothing I can do about this except encourage users to get the latest-and-greatest directly from the source (Google frowns upon ROM-developers including their apps but turns a blind eye to those GApps packages.)

As to your Exchange problems, I think I encountered the same issues as you did. I just tried using the stock Email app and went as far as I could given that I don't have such an account. I then installed the Google version and found no Exchange option (even though the PlayStore blurb says it's supported). Apparently, it requires the Google version (com.google.android.exchange vs. the builtin com.android.exchange). It's good that you were able to find a copy that had been pulled from someone's stock ROM because it doesn't appear to be available from PlayStore - no clue why...
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] Gster09:
TabletUI

There is an Xposed module called TabletKat that restores the Tablet UI on the Sero 7 Pro running the latest DoPa ROM. It seems to stutter sometimes and the fonts and icons are a bit large, but I'll keep playing with it and see how much we can customize it using other modules and settings.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] ziddey:
Hot damn it's fast! Have't done any benchmarks yet, and am ghetto-mounting for the time being (plus needing to flip selinux to permissive), but GTAVC plays without lag for the first time ever running off the sd card. Load went from ~2.5 down to ~0.4

[MENTION=5094650]dolorespark[/MENTION], our kernel has the old utf8s_to_utf16s function that only takes 3 arguments. In exfat_nls.c, the call needs to have UTF16_HOST_ENDIAN and the second MAX_NAME_LENGTH removed. Haven't looked into it too much to see if it'd cause other issues down the line (was really just a proof of concept for right now). That or our kernel sources could be updated.

Edit: Preliminary benchmarks before and after with A1 SD Bench with a dinky sandisk 64gb (if anyone is in the market for a card, there's often good deals on the Samsung EVO. The new pro version is superb but price is still a bit steep):

fuse-exfat: Read: 22MB/s, Write 8MB/s

exfat-nofuse: Read: 27MB/s, Write 9MB/s

And of course, the main reason is CPU usage. No more mount.exfat taking the top cpu usage slot

To keep the existing vold implementation, I replaced /system/bin/mount.exfat with a shell script:

#!/system/bin/sh
mount -t exfat $@

and added a line to init.m470.rc to drop selinux to permissive mode until I can find a suitable sepolicy or figure out a way to inject the policy for exfat (I'm lazy)
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] Unidave199:
f2fs or not f2fs??

I know not to get too worked up with the benchmarks, but if I am measuring against myself on the same device I figured it may be a start!

Does anyone have any benchmarks before and after converting EXT4 to f2fs? Is there any appreciable difference?
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] bast525:
Hahaha that 42 seconds can seem like an eternity. Thank you for the reply though I didn't even think to try turning WiFi off first. That was one of only two "bugs" I've encountered with this rom, the other being screen mirroring thru chromecast, it works, no sound, but causes the tablet to reboot when turning it back off. I was surprised as hell that it even worked.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] ObviousMan:
I previously asked without any answer. I converted to f2fs and I can not tell any difference for Web browsing, youtube videos, puzzle type games, and the like.

OM
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] dolorespark:
There were some comments in the code for PhilZ Touch that suggested it was much faster. I think there was also mention of a patch that added read/write NTFS support to the kernel - do you know anything about that? Regardless, where did you find the exFAT patch?

One of my motivations for implementing this would be to remove as much CM code as possible. so I'd revise (and probably simplify) vold as needed.

Ditto

What's the error? I've gotten pretty good at resolving pesky SEPolicy issues.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] ObviousMan:
Sorry if this has been covered, and also for posting here. There is more activity on 7 pro here.

I got the OTG charging cable that was linked recently, and it appears to be working fine. I just can't figure out how to acces external storage or a camera with it. Does it have to be manually mounted?

Thanks.

OM
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] ziddey:
https://github.com/dorimanx/exfat-nofuse

I simply created a kernel module for the time being to test with. It could just as easily be integrated into the kernel with the directions in the readme.

sepolicy lacks genfs context for exfat (wasn't an issue before since fuse has a context)

https://github.com/PhilZ-cwm6/andro...mmit/a559b91cbf7edde20bf0bbc37fac0ea25ac52512

Copying the vfat genfs context should do.

For what it's worth, this should be able to handle fat12/16/32 as well, and could simply replace it even maybe (taking over vfat context) although that seems like it'd be god awfully hackish. edit: This is the temporary approach I've taken and it works just fine :p of course had to disable vfat in kernel. selinux enforcing

Unfortunately, it does break support for regular fat partitions:

[EXFAT] Unrecognized mount option shortname=mixed or missing value

exfat-nofuse really is a miracle compared to fuse-exfat. I have a 64gb microsd filled up with mp3s and a remount causes the tablet to be completely unusable for 10-15 minutes while mediascanner works (with mount.exfat as the top cpu consumer, bringing on a load index north of 30...)

Those currently using a fat partition won't see any performance improvements. But if you need support for files >4gb, this is the answer.

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It sounds like you aren't using this rom? Not sure what to tell you then. With this rom, usb drives will be automatically mounted assuming it's a supported file system.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] paratwa53:
If your using the ROM that is being talked about on this Forum, then it will just show up when you plug the USB or other device in. The stock ROM for the Sero 7 does not work with OTG at all.

If you are using the stock ROM, then you might seriously consider using a custom ROM. It will give you some major upgrades.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] ObviousMan:
I am using this ROM, and I found the mount. Too embarrassed to admit what happened.:silly: I did not choose the handle for nothing after all.

External keyboard and mouse work too.

Now, someone said they there planning to use the tablet as an external screen for an DSLR camera. How do you go about making that happen?

Thanks.

OM
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] paratwa53:
If your using a Cannon DSLR, check out this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcKykAW4U84
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] ObviousMan:
I actually already found the app for Sony A77 - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.dslrremote

or

http://rccdroidpro-en.glensk.com/

Will give free one a shot first.

OM
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] ziddey:
Wow, this really tempts me to download the rom source to add this commit: http://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/63293/

That or figure out which cm bt files need to be stolen

wiimote support o_O
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] ObviousMan:
Wiimote? I presume you would hook this up to you large screen TV for some serious gaming?

OM
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] jerbear294:
Aren't there apps that can connect a Wiimote?
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] ziddey:
The funny thing is I used GTA Vice City more as a benchmark than anything, but now that it finally plays smoothly, I'm getting a little carried away.

They used to work until Google switched from the bluez stack to bluedroid back in 4.2.

There is one app that works but it requires using a usb bluetooth dongle
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] jerbear294:
My Sero can barely play GTA 3 on max settings at 80 draw distance. I get 10-30 frames. How did you get your VC to run smoothly? Was it the 1.7 OC?
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] dolorespark:
"All things in the fullness of time...".

I have to do a new build to get the kernel-based exFAT stuff integrated into the ROM, so adding that patch shouldn't be any big deal. I should have something ready in a few days.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] ziddey:
Awesome, thank you. For what it's worth, there's also http://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/63389/ but that shouldn't matter for us since we're on 3.1.

I see that CONFID_HID_WIIMOTE is already enabled, but CONFIG_HIDRAW needs to be as well from what I understand. As well, the keylayout needs to be included (if it isn't already; I haven't checked)

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FWIW, I read people said VC runs better than 3. Not sure if true or not. Draw distance is so vital, so I have that and resolution set to max. I don't care much for visual effects or dynamic shadows, so they're set to low and off. Not sure if they can be bumped without sacrificing fps.

What are you using to track fps? I imagine mine is probably 10-30 as well, but it's completely playable-- I pretty much had everything set to the lowest setting before and it was still unplayable when using exfat-fuse.

Yes, this is with gpu@520 and cpu@1500, although I really can't say if they have much impact at all (just doing it for the lulz)

edit: I tried Gamebench and it looks like I generally have a low around 17fps, averaging in the 20s. Of course this is with gamebench constantly snapping screenshots and whatelse, and it felt slightly more choppy than usual, so normal results may be slightly higher. CPU load is pretty mild, so maybe I'll look into pushing the gpu further even.. 600 is next =o
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] enfermo:
need help

I INSTALL the adb driver from PDA net

and the motochop pack installing the super user

BUT using the Vol - and power get me the menu I select the sd card with the un zipped Philip img and it start but in a secons say error

can you pls help ?

Thx for the time and help
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] jerbear294:
This is because you need a custom recovery already installed to use Philz. [MENTION=557282]xboxexpert[/MENTION] has a thread for the Sero with an all-in-one root/install ClockWorkMod script for Windows. Once the script finishes you should be able to flash Philz with volume down + power. If it says "success" power down and do volume down + power again, and you should have a purple recovery screen. This is Philz.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] enfermo:
Thx a lot

It say philz install

next is ?
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] jerbear294:
If your recovery says Philz, now you can download the rom from the first post of this thread. Then boot into Philz, wipe data, the hit "clean to install a new rom"

Once you've done that, just go into the folder with the rom you downloaded and flash it. When you reboot you should be greeted with an "android" screen.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] enfermo:
Yes it say Philz

Thx for your time and help

I wil try and instal 2.51

PS

It install ez dopa 251 thx

ps

Thx Dopa

You have some Money Your way is not much
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] enfermo:
Need help

Neet Your ideas opinions Pointing etc etc

I like to have a custom Apps pack for . . . .

maps (California) need to work off line so I can used driving or walking

Smart Compass, Run Keeper, GPS Essentials to calibrate the sensors

like to have the option to connect to Netflix VUDU Youtube And to be able and save the movies and videos to the external sd card then the save video will be play later (I will download the movies at home and later my son can play that in the car)

Like to use the music or audio book on the driving or walking time

how can I get the audio books or the books from amazon and or Nook stores (need ? . . . to rich and download)

Need to read the news papers on line (Chrome or ...) also like to vist the Forums xda etc

Need to check the e mail (hotmail) and use the msg in my pc I use Pidgin some PPL sugest IM+

Need to use spreed sheet and doc (Like Microsoft Office ) from the tablet

the games Candy crunch Sudoku Mahjong

Utilities Flash Light Q R bar-code reader

How to use the NFC to make payments transfer business cards and files

Make calls to a regular cell o land line using the tablet on a wifi spot like a airport

Your opinions and ideas will be appreciated Thx for your time