yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Builders Collective] danarama:
@ All the dudes,

Can anyone recommend me a Debian based distro please? I used to use Ubuntu but I got bored. I moved to Mint, which I really like, but I'm finding I have issues that just bug the crap out of me, so I want to try something else. I'd prefer debian based really... and I want it to be simple enough to run a pretty Desktop environment too. Any ideas? It's my daily driver so...
[Android Builders Collective] expiredd:
I'm looking forward to modify default values in build.prop when building SlimSaber. However I couldn't find any device-vendor.mk file to modify. Any idea? [MENTION=1228651]fusionjack[/MENTION]
[Android Builders Collective] SteveMurphy:
I'm totally going to steal this '@' somewhere/somehow. Just giving you fair warning!
[Android Builders Collective] danarama:
Hahah feel free.
[Android Builders Collective] Lazy79:
[MENTION=2872010]rootSU[/MENTION] what about DebEX with Xfce? :)

http://news.softpedia.com/news/DebE...-8-Jessie-Live-CD-with-Xfce-4-12-476981.shtml
[Android Builders Collective] danarama:
Not a fan of xfce, but if I can change it....

Whats youre experience of DebEx?
[Android Builders Collective] Lazy79:
I really like it. Light and stable. Has two other DEs as additional editions available. However, my main sys is still Arch, just installed DebEX on a second disk because of Debian and Xfce 4.12 as well as some upstream stuff without doing all the things on my own.
[Android Builders Collective] DroidIt!:
Hey [MENTION=2872010]rootSU[/MENTION], I know you were asking about deb builds, but here's a pretty good article I saw not that long ago. It had some popular mainstays, but also some I hadn't heard of. I personally just use kubuntu as I haven't been on Linux TOO long and it made sense for me coming from windows. But, here's the article anyways :) http://www.techradar.com/us/news/so...s/best-linux-distro-five-we-recommend-1090058
[Android Builders Collective] reylafo:
Distro

Every Distro has issues. Pick one with good user support and solve them. Yours are the same issues of many users. Best example is this great Android community.

Linux Mint is my distro...
[Android Builders Collective] Skripka:
Any reason for sticking to Debian? If you're bored of Ubuntu you'll be bored of anything Debian as it is all basically the same right down to the package manager.

Not a fan of any of the Debians myself, in part because of they all share the same wacko philosophy that "stable"="old and patched to hell and back".
[Android Builders Collective] danarama:
Cool, I'll check it out.

My main issue with Mint is a recurring issue with both chrome and chromium where my profile keeps corrupting. I keep fixing it and it keeps returning.

I like the whole Package manager / .deb side of of things - thats why I want to stay. I just find it a little more intuitive than the alternative RedHat RPM stuff. What I got bored about with Ubuntu was essentially the DE, Windows Manager and Nautilus so rather than changing them all, I just thought I'd try another distro. I actually really like Mint except the problems I'm having.

Though I'm thinking of doing something else now. I may Buy an Android Stick to use as my media centre, convert my media centre into a linux box and convert my laptop into a Windows machine again.. Maybe, if I can find thd right android stick and confirm everything is working that I need.
[Android Builders Collective] tcowl:
I've always been a fan of Fedora and openSUSE. However i run a debian based server... I guess it boils down to your personal usage. I don't like debian based distros on the client end but i've always found debian to manipulate and control on the server side. So i personally am using openSUSE on my desktop and laptop but am running Ubuntu on my personal server computers.
[Android Builders Collective] Skripka:
After a certain point Linux is Linux and it is all the same sans packaging/package managers, and update philosophy.

I used to run Arch way back when (back in the KDE 4.1-4 days). Had to drop it when I bought my Radeon HD6000 card for Eyefinity...leave it to AMD to not have any linux driver support whatsoever for a card that had been in brick&mortar retail for 6+months. If you're comfy with CLI it is something different, I found it far more elegant and easy to configure as the config files all live in one place. Also nothing you didn't need. It is also the best documented OS of any sort anywhere, in any language, and probably at any time in history, and is still human readable. The Arch Wiki is really that good, and is kept up to date. Does take the user doing their homework and not just will-nilly running -Syu however, but most of the time bran new bleeding edge code runs really well on the latest libraries....and when not people report it on Arch Forums fast.
[Android Builders Collective] danarama:
Thanks for the insight. I'll read into it.
[Android Builders Collective] theesotericone:
You're gonna get a lot of arch and opensuse responses in this thread. You'll get them for a reason. I switched to bbqlinux. It's a fully configured arch variant that is set up with everything you need to build off the couch. Including android studio. There where some things that I had to do on my end to tailor it too my needs a little further. In all I had it set up and running exactly how I wanted in less than a day. Most of that was me playing with various windows managers to settle on the one I liked the most. As [MENTION=4388555]Skripka[/MENTION] mentioned it's by far the best documented distro out there. Basically if you have access to the web you can fix just about anything you manage to break on it.

To give you a little example I'll use one of my recent brain farts. So Thursday night I decided to play with Compiz. It's the window manager I choose and it is beyond fully configurable. I was bored and playing with it's settings via CompizConfig Settings Manager. A GUI based settings manager for Compiz. Well, me being me, I did zero research and went into prefferences. I chose a backend that is not supported by my DE. As soon as I switch compiz freaks out. Windows I had open are blinking, closing, opening, moving and rescaling. All in all my desktop looked like a Vegas casino on a Saturday night. I can't enter CLI to do anything. I reboot to the same issue. Totally unresponsive and useless desktop with no way to get anywhere.

I booted up a live usb stick I keep around for such things. Get on arch's wiki and figure out exactly where the .config file is stored. chroot into my main drive and edit that config to put the proper backend back in place. All in all from the time I broke the thing to the time I was back up and running was less than a half an hour. So yeah their documentation is that good.

Spend some time reading the wiki and boot into a live CD or USB and take it for a test drive. You might like it.:cool:
[Android Builders Collective] danarama:
Cool thanks.

I may make a live USB, but My laptop can be flattened at any time anyway, it just has a few RRO projects on there that can be moved to the NAS in seconds.
[Android Builders Collective] sykopompos:
I've distro hopped to many different distros over years including gentoo, opensuse and all those. I've always found myself coming back to kubuntu though
[Android Builders Collective] danarama:
Cheers!
[Android Builders Collective] Skripka:
Kubuntu, the red headed orphan step child ofKDE and Ubuntu ;)
[Android Builders Collective] danarama:
Yep. That's the one. We use KDE on Fedora at work. Kind of the reason I don't want KDE or RedHat. Too much like work ;)
[Android Builders Collective] DroidIt!:
:) Well, just as a shortcut, if you look at #9 in that article, that's a deb build. Granted I did all my research on what distro I wanted to settle on about 8 months or so ago, so I honestly don't know much about the fine differences between deb, ubuntu, etc. but the article was listing Sparky as a good deb build if you're looking for one to try.
[Android Builders Collective] fajarlazuarding:
Hello, sorry if this was already asked before, but which one in the ROM list that have network notification like this one for nexus5? Thanks for the answer :)
[Android Builders Collective] cd993:
I absolutely LOVE this rom.... However weirdly for me, once all apps restored and rom has settled, I get a weird encounter of everything going black and not being able to do anything. The navbar and status bar remain, but launcher disappears and must restart. So strange!
[Android Builders Collective] AquilaDroid:
Have you installed any layers? I had the same problem a week or so ago and uninstalling all layers and rebooting helped. I've since gone back to Eizo's latest build and it's working fine with Simplex layer app.
[Android Builders Collective] cd993:
Thank you for the reply. So was that with Twisted? Do you have link for this layers app, can't seem to find it.

Yeah I had used layers so perhaps I'll try again, but I wonder what the issue was as I'd fear it returning. All I wanted was a nice black theme, I was using Pitch Black.

It was a little frustrating as this rom seemed so good, but that error I found for me made the rom unusable.
[Android Builders Collective] PerfectSlayer:
Why not just Debian instead of a Debian based distro?
[Android Builders Collective] danarama:
No reason at all. But, why just Debian instead of Debian based?

;)
[Android Builders Collective] rpr69:
Almost all of them have that. Read the OP/change log for the ROM's in this thread to see which ones have it.
[Android Builders Collective] Skripka:
Do you think brand-spanking-new-code that works great is necessarily inferior to old-patched-to-snot-code that everything-else-needs-patched-to-work-with in order to run right...simply because the newer code is new?

Do you never want up-to-date apps, because up to date apps are too new?

Do you have a beard and think tie-dye shirts are amazingly cool?

Are you still wearing your PJs at 3PM in the afternoon?

Then why not straight Debian! :cowboy:

YEEEEHAW!!!!!

(I may be a bit biased and opinionated)
[Android Builders Collective] Garrykd:
Not really a recommendation ( I haven't tried it), but if you want to be on the "bleeding-edge" of debian :eek::D.....

http://manual.siduction.org/welcome

P.S. I know for a fact though that Toots has been known to wear his pj's till 3pm:angel:
[Android Builders Collective] ralpheboyo:
....Arch linux and i3 WM is what I have settled on...

http://i3wm.org/

1+1 Ultra~Slim
[Android Builders Collective] cd993:
Ahh also I'm on Nexus 6/shamu, hopefully a build for this device will be released by Eizo!
[Android Builders Collective] AquilaDroid:
My, this thread is BOOMING today!

Here's the URL for the Simplex Layer:

https://plus.google.com/+RyanRogers316/posts/6JSoMwC7Mhu

I had several different types of bizarre behavior including problems with Play Store, so bad that I actually did a CLEAN flash. Still happened and I discovered that it was probably one of the several layers apps I'd tried. Even deleting it and rebooting didn't fix the problem.
[Android Builders Collective] Skripka:
Sadly Ezio only builds for toys that he owns. I know, I've harassed bugged guilted asked hime nicely a few times. :)
[Android Builders Collective] cd993:
Hmm ok so this perhaps tempts me to flash again (I'm back on temaseks), clean flash as always and apply only the system ui layer. But saying that, it was never a particular app that crashed, I just couldn't return to my home screen, and nova had no layer applied to it I don't think..... Hmm!

This is sad news, but here's hoping it one day changes as this rom is like something special! The speed vs battery balance is untrue..!
[Android Builders Collective] danarama:
On a Sunday, I wear them until bed time.
[Android Builders Collective] sykopompos:
Yes

No

Yes

Yes, still wearing them at 5 pm
[Android Builders Collective] Fastrite:
I was looking for an android stick for MC and couldn't make up mind and ended up using my Raspberry Pi with OpenElec. A few addons later it suits my needs even though its only the old single core model b.

Pretty happy at the cost too.
[Android Builders Collective] DroidIt!:
I love the Amazon Fire TV. No it's not a stick, but I got it for $100 and it's got a quad core in their that way outdoes any other android box I've tried. You can turn on the developer options too and sideload...oh say for instance xbmc. Now I haven't done that, I stay strictly legal ;) but you could if you wanted :)
[Android Builders Collective] danarama:
I bought my raspberry pi to run open elec. I ran that on my old desktop until it died. Same model as yours but i found it was very laggy. Even at h.264. I hate confluence skin too but any other lags like crazy.

But definitely want android because I know all the apps I want work. The only thing I'm struggling with is that I need 3 channel audio.
[Android Builders Collective] danaff37:
I have an original single core pi and a new pi 2. On the single core, raspbmc (now lsmc) runs far smoother than openElec. I even hosted a website for me and my wife to track our budget on at the same time it was a media center, and never a hiccup. The pi 2 doesn't care which one though (although I am now turning it into an emulation station instead)
[Android Builders Collective] Fastrite:
When I first tried it about year and a half ago it was quite laggy, but recently set it up again with the latest version (kodi 14.2) and it doesn't seem so bad. It may be my imagination or just the cost (nothing as I had all the bits :) )

I know what you mean about the skins.

It did set me wondering whether I should get a quad core pi or android stick though.
[Android Builders Collective] danarama:
Yep, the pi 2 I would consider but definitely want android so.I can run kodi, Spotify and Netflix in a way I'm used to. But. Every solution has a problem with audio channels, including pi, android, Mac mini....
[Android Builders Collective] proyatzu:
Hi there, in these ROM is present the *WiFi wont connect* bug of lollipop?
[Android Builders Collective] SteveMurphy:
No, these roms are perfect. I've not seen that "bug" you mention anywhere, to be fair.
[Android Builders Collective] fajarlazuarding:
Sorry, but just to be precisely, the shape of network notification icon is like 'triangle' not the 'arrow' one. I hope i am clear lol sorry for my bad English.
[Android Builders Collective] pkelly517:
I've got a minor problem.

I can't copy from the clipboard into Settings. I never get the paste bubble. I know I've seen this before, and there's some setting somewhere in Settings that disallows this. It's in Accessibility, Security or some such place, but I can't find it now. I use Lastpass for all my passwords, and I want to copy in the 20 random character password for an account.

I'm using Ezio's almost latest.

Thanks
[Android Builders Collective] AquilaDroid:
I've had the same problem with LastPass , thought it was a security issue that the paste bubble didn't appear. I'll try it again to see if it's still doing that.

EDIT: Go into settings/accessibility/Services/LastPass and set it.
[Android Builders Collective] DroidIt!:
I've got 7.1 Dolby on my fire TV ;)

---------- Post added at 08:11 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:08 PM ----------

I've got ezio's latest on the wife's N5 and no problems with the stock copy/paste. I also use he xposed clipboard tool. But copy/paste definitely works with and without the xposed module.
[Android Builders Collective] pkelly517:
Thanks. That was the first thing I tried.

I've tried to copy some BS string from anything else. It's not just Lastpass. Settings won't allow the paste bubble.

I've seen this before, but I haven't found the correct keywords that brought me the answer last time.

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I'm absolutely not blaming the Ezio build. It was just a piece of the puzzle. I clean flashed 20 minutes before posting. Reflashed gapps built this morning.

I've disabled Lux, thinking the overlay may be the issue. No joy.
[Android Builders Collective] JaylanPHNX:
This is NOT that kind of forum, dude. [emoji47] [emoji87]

[emoji13]

It's baconnn!
[Android Builders Collective] WiwiPouPou:
[MENTION=2095315]ezio84[/MENTION], i know you love commits :

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=59780908

Just in case ^^

Envoyé de mon Nexus 4 avec xda Forum
[Android Builders Collective] PerfectSlayer:
My servers runs fine on Debian and I feel confident with it. My built setup is a testing Debian and works fine. But I don't have any X server.. So I don't really see old dated apps ;)
[Android Builders Collective] kantjer:
SlimSaber-bacon-5.0.2-20150331 with AK.138.OPO.SKULL.CM12 kernel released

OTA notification and SlimCenter integration now fully working.

Have fun!

ROM download

Changelog
[Android Builders Collective] mistersixt:
I have the same problem since the very first day with Lollipop (and still with the latest slimlp build from ezio84), I opened a ticket here a long time ago (code.google.com)...

http://goo.gl/7VD5Sp

... I tried to contact Josue Rivera from the Slimrom team (he seemed to be too busy with other stuff), and I metioned the bug in this thread, too, but no one answered yet.

Maybe someone can to look into the details?

Let me know in case you need any further information but the logcat from the ticket at code.google.com !

regards, mistersixt.
[Android Builders Collective] spacerule:
[MENTION=3306843]kantjer[/MENTION], some issue during optimizing the apps, phone keep rebooting...
[Android Builders Collective] kantjer:
Does the reboot happen when optimizing the same app every time?

I flashed this build twice today, no reboots or any other issues.
[Android Builders Collective] pSyCh¤_O_O:
All good here...no issues whatsoever...

Dirty flashed

ROM

+

Yesterdays Dankoman Gapps

+

Modified Slim V4A.zip

Rebooted

Success[emoji6] [emoji106]

Thanks [MENTION=3306843]kantjer[/MENTION] buddy ;)

You given up with V4A? I remember you started using maxxaudio...any insight?

I still prefer V4A...

Any plans on including it in your builds?

[emoji16] [emoji72]
[Android Builders Collective] kantjer:
I'm still using maxxaudio, V4A is to complex for my liking :D
[Android Builders Collective] pSyCh¤_O_O:
Swap you some tasker lessons for some V4A lessons[emoji12]

Lol. Joking...I'm no expert either. But once setup its awesome and its only a question of restoring profile.

I purchased Zhuhangs PRO IRS a couple of days ago and its even better now[emoji39]

Sorry for OT gentlemen
[Android Builders Collective] Arijit.Ray81:
I get a bootloop at the 1+ logo after flashing the 0331 build.
[Android Builders Collective] rpr69:
I had to look at it 3 times before I even noticed the difference. Your english is fine, btw, I never even thought about that being a problem. This is a really big issue for you though? You can't just live with the arrows? Because honestly, for such a very minor thing, I think you may have to just figure out how to do it yourself.
[Android Builders Collective] kantjer:
try to flash stock AK kernel.

The kernel in my build is newer than the released AK kernel. Perhaps that's the issue.
[Android Builders Collective] pSyCh¤_O_O:
Maybe its because of this
[Android Builders Collective] kantjer:
Thanks, could be. I'm not using UKM so no old scripts.
[Android Builders Collective] DroidIt!:
For my opinion...and don't kill me :) but the CM one still seems to get the best results for me. I've had ROMs with V4A and CM on both my N6 and N5, and in both my wife's truck and my car, at least for us BT audio sounds quite a bit better with the CM one. I just set all audio outputs on the Rock preset and leave everything else alone and the sound quality to me is a lot better. Plus you don't have the glitches that V4A seems to bring more often than not...my opinion :)
[Android Builders Collective] wvcadle:
AOSP keyboard layout

Would anyone be kind enough to tell me what I need to extract from one ROM to another to have the ability to choose punctuation marks to be overlaid on the keys?

I was using letmedanz's ROM, which had this feature, and I've been flashing a few others while waiting on Slim's official 5.1, that do not.
[Android Builders Collective] spacerule:
Not the same app but some apps, like maps, google sync etc.

Usually i clear cache and dalvik after flash rom... Now ok, after clean wipe...
[Android Builders Collective] clock51:
I can flash your rom on SlimSaber 20150327 fusionjack of doing dirty flash
[Android Builders Collective] kantjer:
yes you can.

But it's good practice to make a nandroid before every flash
[Android Builders Collective] ClintT:
Flashed the latest build and it is very smooth. The only thing I have is the hardware buttons feature. When I disable it the on screen buttons pop up which is ok, but when I enable hardware buttons again it comes on but the on screen buttons remain. Not a big deal.

Sent from my A0001
[Android Builders Collective] ak:
In download ... thanks a lot :)
[Android Builders Collective] Spaulding89:
[MENTION=3306843]kantjer[/MENTION] I have a problem with your newest build. After a reboot the time isn't correct it shows 7july everytime and when I change to the correct time the ui freezes and the phone reboots. After this reboot all is fine. But when I manually reboot this freaky thing appears again. So I think it is randomly. Flash back to yesterday build and is fine everytime.

Sent from my slimsaberd Bacon with AK
[Android Builders Collective] kantjer:
Is it fine if you flash my build from yesterday?

Sounds like an issue with contacting the time server, but no idea why. Can't see any new commits that can be causing this.

Also rebooted a number of times today (last time 5 min. ago after flashing new gapps), no time problems.

I have no idea ATM what could be causing that.

Have you tied disableling auto time/date? just to test
[Android Builders Collective] Spaulding89:
1.yes with build from yesterday all is fine.

2.Yes and when I re-enable it setting freezes and my background disappeared and the phone reboots after some seconds.

Flashed build from today again now and the issue is away. Really freaky. Maybe a bad flash. I have no plan lol. I will write you again when it happens again.

Sent from my slimsaberd Bacon with AK
[Android Builders Collective] kantjer:
weird, lets hope it will stay away.
[Android Builders Collective] Spaulding89:
I hope it too.

BTW. Thanks for this build. [emoji111] and your awesome help to kill all issues.

Sent from my slimsaberd Bacon with AK
[Android Builders Collective] ClintT:
[MENTION=3306843]kantjer[/MENTION].

Sent from my A0001
[Android Builders Collective] RobbieL811:
You need to be using the AOSP keyboard. Not the Google keyboard. Make sure that whatever Gaps package you are flashing isn't replacing the stock AOSP keyboard.
[Android Builders Collective] Skripka:
Heh, I've just taken to using Super Swiftkey.
[Android Builders Collective] wvcadle:
Thanks. I am using the AOSP keyboard. Does Slim's Gapps overwrite the stock AOSP keyboard?

---------- Post added at 04:43 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:42 PM ----------

I've tried Swiftkey and Swype. I used Swype for a couple years, and preferred it over Swiftkey, but compared to AOSP and Google Keyboard, it was slow and had some lag. I've purchased both Swiftkey and Swype. Maybe I'll give them another look.
[Android Builders Collective] Skripka:
I've found any and every keyboard lags under the right/wrong circumstances. TYried Kii, tried Google, AOSP.

This is Super Swiftkey BTW ;) http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1016053
[Android Builders Collective] RobbieL811:
I think the full gapps has Google keyboard. Just unzip the zips and check.
[Android Builders Collective] ak:
I have make a dirty flash over SlimSaberLP, i have tried to change date/time but i dont have problems related to ui crash.

do you have installed any theme?
[Android Builders Collective] HaTrED_:
I was able to replicate that problem too without UI crashes! Although i can change time accordingly, when i set it to auto again it never syncs! :eek: