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[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 Android Development] jpdesuasido:
Good work.

But is this based on Bieltv3's CM7? or Percy's CM7? You said in the credits bieltv3 for kernel only. If you based it on biel's CM7 please also add credit for it. :rolleyes:
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 Android Development] Omar El- Hussien:
yes you are right .... it's mu fault :(

i will give him proper credits :D
[General Questions and Answers] jerald123:
may i req the download link of custom rom with scatter file of cherry mobile life for sp flash tool TY
[Xperia Z2 General] regenwurm16:
Am I the only one thinking that Sony being handled as "the most developer community friendly company" is a bit of nonsense?

Look at what problems the official bootloader unlock poses with Sony and all the uncertainty what's still working after and what not.

With HTC you don't have these problems the only thing there is that a few easily reinstallable apps get deleted but nothing like camera not working or not so good anymore, lost DRM keys, lost other features, not the mention the complete wipe of nearly everything when unlocking the bootloader with Sony even with Samsung this whole process is easier as far as I know.

I can understand why the DRM keys are deleted even though it wouldn't be necessary as they are bound to the exact phone so piracy isn't really possible but with the previous Xperias where even the camera stopped working until Android 4.3 and other features were rendered unusable I'm having a hard time to believe this is "the most developer community friendly company".

They should be named as the most GPL compliant company as far as I read.

Or am I missing some important points completely?
[Xperia Z2 General] Jackos:
You're kinda right, although you should notice that Sony is improving every year.
[Xperia Z2 General] feis:
You loose nothing, just music unlimitted and video unlimitted, which i believe sony has right to. And your example of htc isnt valid, as bootloader unlock is basically same stuff factory reset is also made.
[Xperia Z2 General] Why So Serious?:
You're greatly exaggerating the camera issues... The camera has always worked after unlocking except for a short time with the Z1. This wasn't intentional and Sony fixed it.
[Xperia Z2 General] regenwurm16:
Video unlimited and maybe even music unlimited isn't even working here in Austria so... But no other manufacturer wipes your SD-card content too isn't it so?

I've read about losing mobile Bravia engine, x-reality, song info download, ..... at least with z1
[Xperia Z2 General] feis:
Nope everything seems to be working. And no, it doesnt wipe sd card, that would be nonsense. You could just remove card and insert it later after unlocking dont you think? :D
[Xperia Z2 General] regenwurm16:
This from their bootloader unlock page:

For Xperia™ devices released 2013 or later (for example Xperia™ Z and Xperia™ ZL), the SD card of your device will be formatted and you will lose all content (for example photos, music, videos) when you unlock the boot loader.

Maybe they mean internal storage/SD-card but then they should declare it better
[Xperia Z2 General] Felimenta97:
Those are the drawbacks of unlocking it. They are dev friendly because all of their devices (except ones sold in carriers, but they don't have control over it) have unlockable bootloaders, and they provide all the tools, with tutorials and such to do it. They also offer great tools and files to help other devs do their work.
[Xperia Z2 General] flumps:
everything is working fine on my unlocked bootloader except the unlimited services as others have said, camera is fine, well...overheats but meh
[Xperia Z2 General] shinshoryuken:
Um I actually thing Sony is the least developer friendly company...

I had various brand phone and HTC/Samsung blows Sony in terms of development...
[Xperia Z2 General] DooMLoRD:
i had a HTC One X... unlocking bootloader wiped the /data partition (internal SDCard)
[Xperia Z2 General] Reb0rn:
Nice... Really need root...

Sent from my Xperia Z2
[Xperia Z2 General] robt772000:
Hey buddy can you check x-reality still works?
[Xperia Z2 General] waynekirby:
It does, there isn't anything lost that's worth noting
[Xperia Z2 General] KyleSforza:
Dude, boot loader unlock resets and formats even Nexus devices. What are you on about? :rolleyes:
[Xperia Z2 General] jatinrungta:
That! Lol
[Xperia Z2 General] xyge:
Well nope... U had more development in those phones cause there was a larger community for them... It wasn't HTC or Samsung's tools but user created ones for them

Z2 is very new..and isn't available in half the world yet.. Let people get the device first and then contribute
[Xperia Z2 General] shinshoryuken:
Wrong!

I had the z1 and the development community was a ghost town!

So that's no excuse!!!
[Xperia Z2 General] xyge:
No idea about that as I never had the z1 myself... And don't think it was popular either... Check out z or s or even arc for that matter
[Xperia Z2 General] Jackos:
Are you comparing to all those kang ROMs for example Samsung devices have? Did you notice that all those ROMs have the same features? That's no real developing.
[Xperia Z2 General] malek777:
I've noticed that HTC one m8 has some serious development. I would probably say on par with the nexus 5 or even better.
[Xperia Z2 General] shinshoryuken:
Better than zero development...
[Xperia Z2 General] coolmingli:
I agreed, if you like to play around with your phone, HTC M8 is the one to go, last time I checked there were about 20 different ROMs out there, plus you can do audio mod, viper audio, harmon kardon, super CID, sim unlock, S on off.......

Sony phones has smaller community, not too much developments, I had the Xperia ZL and I still have Z ultra, so I know.
[Xperia Z2 General] jatinrungta:
not actually! Sony is the only oem that has a cross section dev on XDA. The point about z2 having almost no roms is that it has not reached to the masses yet :/
[Xperia Z2 General] coolmingli:
It is indeed, look the z1 forum, z1 has been around longer than the M8, take a look how many custom ROMs z1 has then compare to the M8 and S5, with that said, the z2 might get more attention then the z1, I am sure z2 outsell the z1 by big margin, I personally like to run stock but rooted, I am going to wait for while see if someone can root the z2 without unlocking the bootloader.
[Xperia Z2 General] Dragooon123:
You practically only really need one ROM with Xpose, a few decent Kernels and AOSP ROMs (stock, CM and PA). I hope that comes soon to the Z2
[Xperia Z2 General] Tommy-Geenexus:
Yeah knox and efuse are so dev friendly, how can we live without it?

Samsung blowz Sony away with their insane support.

It's a Nexus
[Xperia Z2 General] jatinrungta:
It seems so because devs choose samsung and HTC over sony due to higher sales on those devices. Devs can hava a larger audience this way as most people buy samsung
[Xperia Z2 General] Tommy-Geenexus:
That's right, still there is no point in calling Sony least dev friendly.

Samsung is by far the least dev and user friendly company.

It's a Nexus
[Xperia Z2 General] RHBH:
I don't get why some former or current Z1 owners that complains about lack of development are buying the Z2. If development is so important for you, you should really buy a Nexus device.

At least for me, I don't care about custom ROM/Kernel because I'm fine with Sony Stock Android, it's just better and more stable than most custom ROMs.
[Xperia Z2 General] jatinrungta:
Yea samsung sucks! It even has a counter to count flash.
[Xperia Z2 General] vittogn:
This is probably correct from a theoretical view point.

From a user view point I see much less AOSP rom available for Z1 (nothing for Z2) compared to S4, M7 and G2.

Inviato dal mio LG-D802 utilizzando Tapatalk
[Xperia Z2 General] DooMLoRD:
you are using non-flagship (ZL), niche devices (Z Ultra) and you are comparing to flagships? how can you expect loads of ROMs/kernels?

# of ROMs are least important - i can create a shell script to spit out 50 different ROMs which will vary just by a few apps but which some of the cooks in Sammy/HTC community "market" as "new ROMs"... thats completely useless...

Audio MODs? look at Z, Z1 communities... LOADS of Audio MODS...

Super CID => useless for Sony users as we can anyways flash WHICH EVER REGION FIRMWARE WE WANT! thats called FREEDOM & FLEXIBILITY!

SIM Unlock | S on/off => Sony bootloaders are TOUGH to crack, the last time someone was able to do so was in 2011... after that NO SONY DEVICE HAS BEEN HACKED... very secure bootloader... AND YOU SHOULD BE VERY HAPPY THAT THIS IS THE CASE!

also achieving such SIM Unlocks / S on/off is largely dependent on the user community... more the user base, more likelyhood of having more devs... when the expert unlockers see that there is potential (large user base) they either wait for a big bounty to cash in or start selling their exploits to developers who create paid "UNLOCKING SOFTWARE"...
[Xperia Z2 General] strongylad28:
Coming from a HTC one m7 and unlocking bootloader and rooting the day of purchase, I am a little gutted my bootloader can't be unlocked and therefore can't get root. Roms are nice to have in buckets, but not essential. I stuck with 1 rom through the 12 months I had the m7. However I do badly hope someone finds a way to root the z2 with locked boot loaders. There's a few tweaks I'd really like to do on mine, to make it more to my taste.

One can hope! The guys who spend there time working on this kind of thing are amazing, so I'm sure if it can be done, it will be, and I thank them for trying! (just hope someone somewhere is making progress, or even working on it ha)
[Xperia Z2 General] AndroidInsanity:
When you put it like this it makes me want a Z2 even more.... But from your experience. Do you think that in the near future we will have ROMs that are compatible with locked bootloaders? ( I don't want to unlock a Sony boot loader. As with the Z1 it lost some camera software making low light pictures worse, no idea if that's the case with z2)
[Xperia Z2 General] Jhon998:
Good luck with the knox thingy...
[Xperia Z2 General] knoxploration:
Total nonsense. You lose hardware features with third party firmware on HTC, just like anybody else. And hell, HTC will even charge you for known hardware problems if you've dared unlock your phone. They couldn't be much less friendly to unlocking.
[Xperia Z2 General] NoTengoBattery:
who really understand Android?

Yes, as DooMLoRD said, the bootloader of Sony is quite strong from the point of view of development. With my little experience with Xperia Tipo I have noticed that there are several other advantages over OEM.

1. The bootloader is not in eMMC, this means that you can delete (in theory) the entire memory and (in theory) you can turning back. This makes the Xperia virtually unbrickables.

2. Sony launches blobs and other files necessary even before launching the phone (as with the Z2).

3. Sony offers AOSP for certain Z devices.

4 Thanks to s1boot (Sony S1 flash boot) You can leave your phone using Flashtool as factory, as if nothing ever happened.

5. Flashtool is infinitely better than Odin (Other tools are unknown for me).

However, there are several disadvantages in Sony's system:

1 If you touch something on TA, welcome to the world of expensive paperweight. The fact that the bootloader is virtually inaccessible makes it virtually irreparable.

That's what I've noticed in my two years with the Xperia Tipo. I had bought a Xperia Z but at 20 hours of the first start screen, it damage alone (self crack), was so fleeting that I could not put a password on the screen. It is current stored by two months because I have no money to repair it.

I'll buy Sony again despite my bad experience (even suffer, my current phone is a XYN305, just google it) because it seems as if Sony had made the bootloader, code release, etc etc for developers to enjoy (that's my staff review).

Regarding the DRM keys I think is right, I mean, imagine you're Sony, and I came with my Xperia Tipo with burnt processor and say it was your fault (knowing that burned for kernel I put). I doubt that you would like to be Sony in that situation.

Anyway, with a backup of TA and flashtool you can leave your phone as fresh out of the box, unlike Samsung which puts a token counter that can not be erased.

That's my way of seeing things, all this makes me believe that Sony is much more friendly to developers than most OEMs. Sony seems to understand well the meaning of freedom of Andorid.

Apple it's like: "We know the best for you, we know it. Use it or leave it and buy Android"

Samsung it's like: "We worked a lot for you and bring you such amazing features. So, as we worked a lot, we can't just leave to delete our work because we need to show to the whole world that we are better that Apple".

Sony it's like: "Do whatever you want. YOLO. We really don't care, the phone is yours and if you want to destroy it you can do it freely. BUT you NEVER should touch our keys, if you do, you will suffer."
[Xperia Z2 General] NoTengoBattery:
Yeah, if something goes wrong, you can virtually "refresh" the device and start again without doing crazy things like I have seen in other OEMs (in Sony it's easy as press two buttons, connect to PC and flash a new perfectly clean system), plus crazy, things that are dangerous.

That is, several times Flashtool has been half-writing my Xperia Tipo because my USB cable is old, but I've never had problems, I never have had the misfortune to see my Tipo die as I saw a Galaxy S3 inevitably die.

Think about this: maybe Sony has a vested interest in making the Xperia that way, maybe there is something to suit them (for example, it is impossible to change the IMEI, which in any case is a plus), but the fact that they took the trouble to "rebuild" Android that way (because Android on a Xperia is radically different than it is on other devices, for example, there is no such thing as S1 Boot), I think they have well deserved the award OEM of the year of XDA.

I'm not saying Sony is the best company to developers, but is very close and they would be the closest representation of what Android is capable of doing (for the representation of what android was built rather).

This is personal: If Google had such a thing as S1 Boot, the bootloader on a dedicated chip and Flashtool, I think all developers (including myself) would not think more than Nexus.

That's it, I can list a large number of Xperia-only features that we (developers) enjoy.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CaptHatch:
Got my prefered VPN installed. Attempted to activate. Pop-up with "No VPN api".Sigh... With no api, this isn't going to be solved until root/custom rom, right?
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tarvoke:
it's possible the VPN api is even there, just that our user doesn't have enough privilege to access it...

so, yeah probably. something like Cisco AnyConnect Root or other flavors of rooted ones. or if Amazon gets enough requests/complaints or somehow finds the motivation to support vpn.

if that guy making xbmconfire has success getting amazon to accept his launcher screen, it's possible they would accept other developers submitting vpn support (or, usb mass storage support, lol) - I'd definitely pay money for stuff like that.

...

only other stuff I found was from p[oking around in the sideloaded Settings.apk, I can open VPN under the wireless "More..."

but it immediately says "You must set a lock screen PIN or password before you can use credential storage"

if I try a numeric PIN, it crashes back a screen, as soon as I enter the 4th digit

if I try a password, it crashes, as soon as I enter the 4th character or digit.

if I try a pattern, it crashes as soon as I press "Next"
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tarvoke:
router tunnel?

had an idea that should have occurred to me long ago :)

a place I used to work, we used to set up permanent site-to-site VPN tunnels between offices all over the world. and it worked really well. this was with business class switch/router hardware of course.

but routers with ddrwt/openwrt/tomato/etc. are now capable of a lot of the same functions - between/amongst each other, mostly (plus in my experience, tunnels behave better if you have the exact same device on each end anyway). and support all sorts of common flavors - l2tp/ipsec, pptp, openvpn...

I have never tried any of the paid public/popular VPN host services, so I don't know if they only support direct VPN clients from single devices, or if they support site-to-site tunnels too. I imagine if some did, they would advertise so on their website.

if tunnel connection is supported by providers, that might be a workaround. (possible annoyance: all traffic from behind your router would also be on VPN, unless maybe some fancy routing glue code is applied)

another way is if someone in UK has ddwrt router and has a friend in US with ddwrt router, you could totally set up site-to-site -- this is existing functionality. of course there still probably needs routing glue on both ends (mainly, knowing most/all of the amazon services IPs used by firetv apps)

probably too much time/work/testing, but...
[General Questions and Answers] Vforvanadium:
I have an

Xperia SP currently running 4.1.2 rooted, bootloader locked

.

My aim is to upgrade to 4.3.3 and root, for which i will have to unlock the bootloader. To do so I need a TA partition, for which again, root is required.

So, my question is that is it okay if I take a TA Backup now [in 4.1.2] and then upgrade OTA and unlock bootloader, root and then restore the 4.1.2 TA backup onto 4.3.3 in order to restore DRM keys and Relock the bootloader?

Has anyone done this?

is it safe?
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GoNavyMike:
Yesterday I downloaded Ric's Rom and today I can't find it on here. Where did it go? Anyone have a clue?

Thanks,

GoNavyMike
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Inkedadrenaline:
He took it down. He posted in the Baja thread it was too much to keep up with.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GoNavyMike:
Ric's Rom

So I go into Baja now to get to Ric's Rom?

Thanks
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Inkedadrenaline:
No the rom is gone. He just posted to let everyone know in that thread
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrmcintosh:
Glad that I got it before he took it down. ;)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drecu:
Darn! Does anyone have a link to the latest build he had some great stuff going there.
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rwilco12:
The OP had requested his thread be removed from XDA. He has since changed his mind and the thread has been restored here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=52577085

Enjoy!
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CallOfHonor100:
Hi! Its been a while!

So i unrooted my phone a while ago but then i was bored so i decided to root it again!

I re-installed all the drivers, uninstall htc sync, and decided to root it via revolutionary method!

I entered the beta key and it finally said SUCCESS! It asked me to flash recovery and i types Y (yes) but it said failed to flash!

But then i noticed in the bootloader screen that nothing was changed. It didnt say REVOLUTIONARY in pink like it used to say before! There was S-OFF written but no revolutionary!

I decided to try to root it again! The same thing happened! It said SUCCESS but no REVOLUTIONARY written on top of the bootloader screen!

Then i decided to flash the recovery manually. I tried the fastboot method but when i entered the command it said:

READING

WRITING failed (remote: not allowed)

what is this? does this mean im not rooted.

But then i successfully flashed recovery via PC49IMG method and flashed a ROM without any problems!

I just want to ask is it okay if REVOLUTIONARY is not written on top of the bootloader screen?

Thnx in advance! =)
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] heavy_metal_man:
Its very strange to see. What is your hboot version at the moment? As long as you don't upgrade or downgrade your hboot s-off should stick, but you won't have access to the fastboot commands without the hacked hboot :)

Interesting case :)
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CallOfHonor100:
This is what is written on a bootloader screen:

BUZZ PVT SHIP S-OFF

HBOOT - 1.01.0001

RADIO - 3.35.20.10

What do you think?
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] heavy_metal_man:
All should be well pal, just ask long as you don't upgrade your bootloader you should be fine. You wont have access to fastboot commands though, but its not an issue :)
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CallOfHonor100:
No....all is not well sadly! I've tested this 'unrevolutionized' rooted phone with 3 ROMs and noticed that the apps keeps on force closing on its own! Also, the battery life turns SOOOO CRAPPY that my phone turns into plug-and-play! =(

And once I unroot my phone, it works COMPLETELY fine!

So probably there is something im doing wrong! Any ideas?
[Wildfire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] heavy_metal_man:
Hmmm. It could be how the revolutionary exploit is done, I'm not sure what process they use and it could leave the stock hboot damaged I suppose. Not sure if I'm honest pal. Good to hear that a return to stock has has helped though!
[Android Apps and Games] geppo1988:
Hi guys!

ZombieBeer is my first game on Android!!!!!!

I'd like to present play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.DrunkGames.ZombieBeer (paste in browser)

Video trailer is here: youtube.com/watch?v=le98g1boQT0

i58.tinypic.com/33w85cw.jpg

Description

Help the Zombie "Monko" to go back home safe and sound...he drank too much!!

Tap the screen to make him jump and avoid more beers as possible, reach the highest record and challenge your friends!

Watch out for the bonus, not all will make your life easier!!

Try them and tries to catch the ones that fit your playing style!

ZombieBeer is a new ActionGame produced by DrunkGames! Bring Zombie in amazing environments!

lh6.ggpht.com/ybWzXKom8axNypJHnJOcrelfgdQZPG3GCXghb_nZBeZoP4NY5ryaT3eNXnBguTkJRJg=h900

Do you like??
[Android Apps and Games] dokkis:
The game is very fun and I like the idea of the drunk zombie :D

This game is a must and i think it's better than flappy bird!
[Android Apps and Games] geppo1988:
Thank you dokkis :) this is my first app, but i'm working hard to improve it. which device do you have?
[Android Apps and Games] geppo1988:
New version of ZombieBeer is online :) try and rate to support me ;P

play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.DrunkGames.ZombieBeer
[Android Apps and Games] mobihack:
http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.DrunkGames.ZombieBeer

Link for easy download

And size is high will download later
[Android Apps and Games] OB Games:
Cute and nice game.
[Android Apps and Games] tibers:
The game is very interesting
[Android Apps and Games] geppo1988:
Thank you guys :) !! any feedback?? Do you like Graphics? I need to move banner in menu scene, in game cause same lag....
[Android Apps and Games] geppo1988:
ZombieBeer Update

New Version of ZombieBeer is Online!!! Do you like new look?? :) thank you guys

play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.DrunkGames.ZombieBeer (i'm new user i can't post link)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hifitech11:
iberry Auxus CoreX8 3G Mobile data connection issue in stand by mode. when tablet is on stand by mode mobile data gets disconnected automatically , and when i wake up the tablet it wont connect to mobile data . i have to manually turn off and turn on to get mobile data connection to get mobile data connected .
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Roni045:
Getting the same issue? Any solution
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hifitech11:
nope

nope no solution yet.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Roni045:
Hey i did some research apparently the HUAWEI Ultra Stick E1220 goes to sleep when the tablet enters stand by mode.This same modem is also used in laptops and has the same problem when the laptops go into sleep mode.Unlike the wifi modem which works in sleep mode this modem turns off as a power saver setting .Hope there is some update to fix this but i doubt