yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Bloodflame:
Another victim of the price drop here. $442 Canadian with tax and priority shipping for the GPe - a hell of a deal if you ask me, considering the base price was once $729. It would have been $800+ after tax and shipping without the sale!

It's too bad the GPe has been lacking a bit in the development forum, but I can safely say I've been happy running stock Android with Xposed + GravityBox ever since KitKat launched. That combo seems to make me happier than any custom ROM these days, so the GPe will be perfect for me.

I'll be honest here. I was originally planning to get the OnePlus One, but ultimately decided to jump on this instead. I remember when Z Ultra first launched, I was amazed by the size and specs, but never thought I'd ever own it. I'm coming from an aging Nexus 4, and I've had some experience with a friends Nexus 5 (with similar specs, minus the massive screen, of course). I've been pretty happy with the performance of his phone, so all said and done, I should feel right at home on the ZU.

Probably gonna end up selling my Nexus 7 as well, seeing as my phone and tablet are one device now! :cyclops:
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] madphone:
In Germay there is an awesome offer for a while now. 222€! Of course without contract.

http://www.smartkauf.de/Handys/Neuheiten/Sony-Xperia-Z-Ultra-schwarz/p/90022638?hw_only=true
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Rykoshet:
FYI if you want a purple one (albeit c6883) you can get it for a nearly identical price here:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/251341858287

I am having mine shipped to Canada (2 day from Singapore) and will advise whether I am charged tax or not. Right now, hoping for $370!!!
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] uToTMeH8:
What's stock battery like with nlpunbounce activated in xposed? I get about 4 days worth of battery with it on candykat ROM.

http://xdaforums.com/xposed/modules/mod-nlpunbounce-reduce-nlp-wakelocks-t2853874
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Bloodflame:
Couple things to point out...

First, I'm a heavy user. I'll never get 4 days on any ROM with any phone. That just isn't happening with my usage habits :p

And this phone is still quite new to me - I've only cycled through a couple charges. I still have a lot of tweaking and tinkering to figure out exactly what gives me the best performance to battery ratio. For what it's worth, I'm finding an average of about 5 hours screen on time, and that's before any major tweaks. I'm running the stock 4.4.4 GPe ROM, rooted and running Xposed, Gravitybox, nlpunbounce, plus a few other modules, and still on the stock kernel as well. Once I load a tweaked kernel, I can play with voltages and other settings to get better results.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] blueether:
5 hours screen time is typical if there is any CPU use, just screen time you can push it out to 7+ hours:
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] asadkhanduhh:
hey guys,

my xperia z broke, so i was searching for a new phone to replace.

i have been eyeing the ultra for quite some time, and finally bought one out of necessity.

got it @ a fabulous price. 349.99$ inclusive over overnight shipping, and 8gb microsd.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produ...76_0150_16gb_xperia_z_ultra.html/prm/alsVwDtl
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] spiritcrusher33:
Got mine b stock for $269.00. Came Friday looks brand new. Was worried but for the price couldn't pass it up.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] adfurgerson:
More available at this price.

http://www.expansys-usa.com/b-stock...9aU-keAHRz7UXJuTeBONd3OuZQ&ito=LKSTM20TXf59aU
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] spiritcrusher33:
Yeah 269.00 is a hell of a deal. Haven't had a single issue. Rooted stock. Same as my nexus 5. I'm a happy camper. Paired with my 55 a month cricket wireless plan with 10 gigs of data a month. Who needs a contract.. Lol
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Z4nd4r:
Got mine b-stock as well; I should have it in hand tomorrow. I actually almost prefer refurb units as they at least have been tested. For $270, how could I go wrong?
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Visa Declined:
You guys ordering from Expansys USA had better hope you don't have to deal with returns. This company was a nightmare for me when I needed to RMA mine.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] dmunjal:
It depends. After 14 days, you deal directly with Google. Google has been amazing with the RMA process. Sony was very difficult.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] Abednego:
Hi there,

I 've been using my XDA trion for several weeks now and I must confess, I don't regret switching from Sony. However there is one thing that strikes me as odd: It seems to be a kind of bug that I cannot enter any more special characters (e.g. German umlauts (äöä)) into a note via the hardware keyboard after the note has reached a length of 488 characters (the count might be off by one or two). I'm not quite sure what to make of this, especially since I can

a) still enter special characters with the software keyboard

b) keep inserting special character with the hardware keyboard in the text before the 488th character

Is there anybody out there who knows what to do? Is this a HTC-bug? A O2 bug? A MS bug?

Completely lost,

Bernhard
[General Questions and Answers] robertradabaugh:
Can I restore a backup from a S3 to a S4? I have backup my S3 several ways... the whole phone using titanium backup, rom manager, and maybe even a few other software's too... I had very important information on it (for my divorce I am going through with my committing adultery) and wanted to make sure I had a backup no matter what. Can I restore my rom and / or backups onto a S4 that I have or even my new S5 if I have to. Both phones my S3 and S4 I am giving each someone in my family (both of people in my family needs the phone because they broke theirs and don't have insurance) and I need to make sure I can restore my backups or at lease be able to access it to get the pictures and text messages off the backups. Both phones are backed up by means of the same method. All help would be great... I have been really lagging on getting these phones to them because of having a neck injury and have been in too much pain to deal with it.... Thank you!!
[General Questions and Answers] Kobro:
what exactly do you need? please be more specific.
[General Questions and Answers] robertradabaugh:
I need to know if I can take the Rom's and/or backups and restore them on either my S4 before I send it out or be able to put them on my S5. I need to be able to do this in case I need to retrieve important information for my divorce in court. But I have to send out my S3 today. My S4, I need to send out very soon. So I won't have either phones any longer and just my Note 3 and S5. My S5, I don't use that much so I can, if I am able to do it, load the backup onto it from each phone. I know it maybe a process to do but I need to make sure I can do it if I need to. I hope this clears things up a little more. Thanks.
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jake5253:
Good day, all!

I've been working on [my first] ROM for Verizon S5 and everything seems to be going great! I've cleaned out as much Samsung/Verizon/Google trash as I can, applied some tweaks to build.prop, changed some default apps to (IMHO) better replacements, and anything that is left (functions correctly) has been moved to /data/app so they can be Uninstalled fully (not just Turned Off). Just a few quick questions:

1) How can I "bake-in" app data? I have replaced the normal, crap launcher with Holo Launcher and cannot seem to get correct permissions when the ROM is installed thru SS. I believe the issue is permissions for /data/data/ get screwed up or not set correctly. I have looked and looked and tried to determine the correct permissions, but still no joy. I've tried to fix /data/data permissions in the updater-script, but it seems like each subfolder/file has different permissions making me think I'll have to go thru them one-by-one.

I have a work-around in place using a OneTimeInit script that does work, but it seems like that's not really the best approach?

2) Kind of ties into question number 1, I patched the framework-res.apk in to allow WiFiHotspot, but without being able to install the system settings data properly, there is not a "Quick Shortcut". Again, I've resolved the problem using the OneTimeInit to update Sqlite DBs after the system is up.

3) How do I de-odex the stock ROM? Using Android Kitchen doesn't seem to do it right. It works mostly but I still seem to get various FCs. I tend to believe that some things just cannot (should not) be De-Odex'd?

I've also discontinued Zip-Aligning because it sometimes produces errors on my ROM. Is it not advised to use Android Kitchen to do these tasks or is there some trick to getting it to work just right?

Bonus Question) I was going to share my ROM on XDA but it says I'm not allowed to post in Development. I assume because of my low post count. Any way I can get an over-ride or should I just make a few more posts and then do it? :p

Thanks again guys!

I appreciate all the help as always!

Jake
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elliwigy:
1: All I had to do was place apk in /system/app or /system/priv-app and thats it. Make sure when you add your apks you dont unzip the archive. basically use kitchen and build your base rom then simply open the archive and make your edits. I also used the updater script from beans base build and only edited the ui print.. Messing with the updater script i wouldnt recommend as it could be causing some of your issues.

2: If using beans base theres no reason for you to edit anything as the hotspot is already baked in.. you must have borked it.. If you are not using beans base then maybe you should copy his files for the native hotspot as its already done properly. I wouldnt mess with framework or settings apks unless you know what your doing. Id work on gettin the fcs n other issues sorted first as you might b doin too much too fast.. work on learning how to make your apks work first before making edits to framework n settings apks.

3: The kitchen is best to deodex and zipalign.. also these two things should not cause fcs or errors if done properly. zipalign should help more than anything.. i just like workin with deodex bcuz its easier and only one set of files instead of .apk and .odex for just bout everything..

Again, if you are not using beans bases id recommend to do so.. his bases are already deodexed have hotspot zipaligned read/write to ext sd etc.. so you wouldnt have to do all from scratch and have so many issues..
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jake5253:
Thank you for the response!

It seems perhaps I didn't quite make clear what I've done versus what I'm trying to accomplish.

Firstly, I wouldn't go so far as to say I'm "having so many issues". Everything in my ROM is in perfectly fine working order. I just have these few quirks that I would like to address both so I can learn, and to make this and future projects better.

While I appreciate the recommendation to use bean's base, I have taken a look at his and there seems to be nothing in his which copies data into /data/data/com.whatever.package (or at least there's nothing in his zip in the /data/data folder -- not sure if his ROM has the toggle activated?)

I have the Apps working correctly in my ROM -- they just go in /data/apps, /system/app or /system/priv-app, respectively.

What I need, is to get /data/data/com.whatever.package/ copied With Correct Permissions when the ROM is installed; I do not want a second zip to update things after install, especially for a toggle and a couple shortcuts, seems silly.

For instance, when you boot your phone up with the default [stock] samsung launcher, it has a list of default apps and widgets on the first screen you see such as phone, messages, a clock widget, etc, etc. Since I've replaced the stock launcher with Holo Launcher HD and some other default apps have also been replaced, there's very few shortcuts on the main launcher screen.

** Holo Launcher does have a list of default apps it adds to your main page, but many of those have been removed in my rom.

The solution I've come up with basically waits for the system to boot up to the point that Holo Launcher actually creates the default (mostly blank) /data/data/com.mobint.hololauncher.hd/databases/launcher.db and then my script uses sqlite3 to update the DBs with a list of different shortcuts -- ones to apps that actually exist.

The Hotspot Toggle is the same way as above.. Hotspot works fine in my rom if you go through settings!

I just cannot add the notification panel pull-down toggle to /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/database/settings.db until after the system boots up at least ONE time, and then update the DB to include WiFiHotspot in notification_panel_active_app_list and notification_panel_active_app_list_for_reset

As for the zipalign and deodexing, I will have to try those again now that I have a fairly stable rom.

****EDIT****

I think I figured it out. I can just use busybox to kill the systemui after I update the databases during the first boot. I also figured out how I can add the SetupWizard without it locking up on activation.

Thanks anyways, guys.

Look for my rom, coming soon!

=P
[Verizon Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 3izz:
Please add support for more languages

I found a mod for Motorola latest 4.4 please port it
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cris1:
[/B]I really dont know what to do with this error messages and i need an urgent help[/B] :crying::crying:

(E: Unable to mount '/cache')

(E: Unable to mount '/data')

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

PLEASE I NEED HELP:crying:
[Oppo Find 7 and 7a] KindsKoPP:
Hi dudes,

did anyone try the mhl for the 7a?

i tried with note2 mhl adaptor but doesnt work.

or will it work with a nexus5 mhl adaptor?

cheers!
[Oppo Find 7 and 7a] rfiore:
appears to be NOT supported from find 7a
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] james20020:
Can any one help me to root my galaxy mega 4.4.2 kitkat any guide pleasee thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] starmaster10:
Hi..if you have the new kitkat update then rooting is not possible at this time as far as I know..as with the new kk update it takes the rooting away until someone comes up with a way to do it. :)
[Moto G General] Varun77:
I Converted My Indian Moto G to GPE And Got The 4.4.4 immediately

No Problems Whatsoever , Single Sim Working With no problems.

Got internal Memory of 12GB+

Here is the working Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzdl_QtEI10

I Followed The Conversion Guide Step by Step And I Got The OTA Updates From Google.

For Those Who All Cant Wait For 4.4.4 Update in India on Moto G , you Can Get It By Converting :D

Happy Flashing

Hit Thanks if helped :D
[Moto G General] usertag:
There is no need to convert to gpe. The ota for Indian ROM is available.
[Moto G General] Vishalculty:
Converted to GPE while running 4.4.2. Smoothest transition to 4.4.4. :thumbup:
[Moto G General] Varun77:
Awesome :good:
[Moto G General] windylawyer.1712:
then u will get a big trouble to get to stock moto 4.4.2 :(
[Moto G General] Varun77:
I Used GPE Version for a couple of weeks and switched back

I'm currently Running 4.4.2 Stock Rom ( Asia Version )

I have no Problem :D

I Flashed it the normal way
[Moto G General] windylawyer.1712:
U convert to gpe, then ota to 4.4.4, then flash back to stock normally.That is weird. Cause many threads in general was started cause we get a big trouble when going back to stock 4.4.2 moto firmware.

Some break their bootloader, cant flash via fastboot, stuck at boot screen...

That is really weird :(

I'm stuck at gpe 4.4.4, and still dont dare to flash back, although i want it.

:sosad:

Gửi từ Super-Android-Phone
[Moto G General] Varun77:
God I Got Scared After Reading The Risks , But I flashed it back without any problem. Maybe Luck.
[Moto G General] windylawyer.1712:
Yep, i had to say that u are very lucky :(

Now i dont know, how to back to stock in a safe way :-s mine is still working well execpt the battery. Very poor compare to 4.4.2 :(

Gửi từ Super-Android-Phone
[Moto G General] Varun77:
Ill Try Flashing My Device Again And Give You a proper Working Procedure , Chill :D
[Moto G General] Vishalculty:
Hi windy

Can you please post the battery stats. I am getting WAY better battery on converted GPE 4.4.4 than on 4.4.2.

I would think I err on classifying myself as a heavy user. But I have got more than 6/6 and a half hours screen on time per day(15 hr day between charges) for the last week or so. This on dalvik(need to run some Xposed modules which ffs should start supporting ART by now)
[Moto G General] windylawyer.1712:
Hmm the 1 st day after converting, all is fine. Battery seems good. At least like 4.4.2 stock.

But today, when i dont touch my phone, it drain like hell, and shut down after 10h. I check the battery usage then the android system take 30% battery.

I'm charge mine and see how battery is tommorrow.

P/s : btw, i dont follow ur instruction,cause before u, there are already 2 threads about converting.

Just tell u, no mean anything ;)

P/s 2 : thks for ur enthusiasm to share and help :D

Gửi từ Super-Android-Phone
[Moto G General] Varun77:
Even I Got Around 15-16 hours of battery life with continuous usage of wifi and certain apps on my converted GPE 4.4.4
[Micromax Canvas Juice ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] EndLess:
Hellooo friends.....:cowboy:

Finally After Lot of Struggle And Hard work , I succussfully Ported PhilZ Touch Recovery To MMX A177...!!

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PhilZ Touch 6 Recovery

CWM Advanced Edition 6.x

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:victory:Press Thanks Button If u Like My Hard Work :victory:​
[Micromax Canvas Juice ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Droidbuster:
recovery

grea monty finally you ported this but you ported this via linux or windows?
[Micromax Canvas Juice ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] EndLess:
Using windows ..
[Micromax Canvas Juice ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Chris s5830i:
thanks bro at first mobile uncle tools did not work and it would reboot to stock recovery then I installed the latest version of mobile uncle tools and it worked perfectly,its good to have modders like you around pls bring some more good stuff for our phone.
[Micromax Canvas Juice ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Chris s5830i:
Bro please give me an easy way to deodex my phone the whole framework please give me an easy way is there a script or any procedure pls give link for the apps or exe files I need.
[Micromax Canvas Juice ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] EndLess:
For doing This u have to look here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2431204

press thanx button if i helped u :victory:
[Micromax Canvas Juice ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] Tech N You:
YOU CANNOT USE THESE SHORTST.E or any other link. Against XDA Rules.! Take link down
[Micromax Canvas Juice ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] AlphaSoft:
Well Mr Endless i flashed it but i had CWM recovery installed and when i flashed it and loaded recovery mode... I got the same recovery back.. Why so???????????????????
[Micromax Canvas Juice ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] EndLess:
Bor.... first of all plzz Follow the procedure and try again there is no problm like u said if u follow this procedure given above i sepratly mention all the procedure here . give a look to it carefully.. ;)

1) After Rooting your device and installing Mobile Uncle tools, download the "PhilZ Recovery image" From Above .

2) Rename it to "recovery.img"..

3) Place it in the root of your SD card .

4) Open Mobile Uncle tools and choose the "Recovery Update" option.

5) Choose the recovery image you placed in the SD card and install it.

6) All Done,You have flashed PhilZ Recovery . :good:
[Micromax Canvas Juice ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] AlphaSoft:
No i followed all these steps but I get the same recovery again i.e CWM .......

---------- Post added at 12:17 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:14 PM ----------

And tell me has it any special advantage over CWM recovery????:what::what:
[Micromax Canvas Juice ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] EndLess:
Yes u will get additional features in this recvry u can saw features section for more info...
[Micromax Canvas Juice ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] EndLess:
Read this thread before asking any question bro .... here is everythng explained . see above there is deatailed explanation of its feature .
[Micromax Canvas Juice ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, &] G.Ashwinkumar:
Would like some help asap. So i installed the Philz recovery. Took a nandroid backup. And then choose the option clean to install a new Rom. Cleaned dalai cache. The man flashed the new Rom. And then a bootloop occurred with a new Rom. This is quite common to me so tried different combinations to access the recovery. And think I found it, it is volume up and power button. But when I click them instead of going to the recovery unfortunately it goes to bootlogo till a press these keys I notice the bootloop occurs otherwise it just opens and shows the bootlogo. Any help? I have the nandroid backup in the SD card. But since am not able to access the recovery am not able to do anything as of now. So what should i do? Push through add? Would be happy if you could help me.
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] discopimp019:
I have a Friends Kindle Fire that their child somehow "red screened" I bought the fastboot cable from amazon and came here for advice on how to un-brick it. found this Thread...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2304584

and followed the instructions fully. Cmd window said finished, I unplugged it from the kindle, pressed the power button to power down and reboot pressed the power button again and NOTHING! plugged the fastboot cord in and nothing, plugged charger into wall and nothing, tried running that otter2-u-boot-prod-10.2.4.bin again and cmd box says waiting on device. device is unresponsive in every single way. I have all of the drivers installed correctly because everything went good the first time. but now, Nothing, nada, zip, zilch! what can I do if my pc cant even communicate with it? was I instructed to install something wrong for my tablet? what happened?
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stunts513:
If it was a kindle fire HD (tate) and you flashed a kindle fire 2 (otter2) bootloader then yes you hard bricked it, the bootloader aren't cross compatible on kindle devices. You will have to do some soldering to fix it.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] declanthedork:
I don't like having the Facebook app on my phone. It takes up around 90% of my running processes to track my every move.

That being said, I need it to log in to other apps, such as HaxSync, Tinder, and Spotify. Is there any app that I can use that will let me use Facebook's authentication without having to actually keep the app on my phone?

Thank you!!
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] ELRAKAWY:
Hi,

I want to have your recommendations to select which firmware to download and upgrade my Galaxy Mega 6.3 I9200 to Android 4.4.2 KitKat.

basically I have only 7 choices to choose between them;

[IMG="firmares"]http://s30.postimg.org/6ixhq67kh/capture_20140714_060427.png[/IMG]

now you have to know about the device gonna be upgraded to determine the right firmware suggestion.

[IMG="info1"]http://s7.postimg.org/yc5zpmwzf/Screenshot_2014_06_30_04_59_40.jpg[/IMG] [IMG="info2"]http://s7.postimg.org/5nt1meut7/Screenshot_2014_06_30_04_59_46.jpg[/IMG] [IMG="info3"]http://s7.postimg.org/iglr02vsr/Screenshot_2014_06_30_04_59_52.jpg[/IMG] [IMG="info4"]http://s7.postimg.org/58hrte8vv/Screenshot_2014_06_30_05_00_00.jpg[/IMG]

thanks so much for your time.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] alexischino:
I have flash all (7) 4.4.2 kk firmwares from the sammobile website for the gt-i9200, and i can say for sure that you can use any of them without any problem at all. I also have flash philz touch recovery and root all 7 firmwares after flashing them with odin.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] ELRAKAWY:
I'm so glade for you're answer. I only want to make sure that the difference in firmware baseband / PDA between the new one and the currently installed and working on the device now.
[Samsung Galaxy Mega] ELRAKAWY:
thank u one more time.

I've tried chile country firmware and it works correctly on my device.