yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Xperia SP General] neXus PRIME:
Porting is not an issue. We need a team. Not a band, but maybe 3 people. One compiler, One to tinker with trees and files, One tester. Just my suggestion.

One person cannot do it alone, unless he is an expert dev.

And about coping with L, all current devices having L port are using 4.4 kernel. And our 4.3 copes with 4.4. Technically there are not much issues compatibility wise. Just ramdisk and correct blobs.

I may be wrong, but thats why this discussion is goign on, if someone wants to correct me, please do.
[Xperia SP General] QBerto:
I think this is an interesting project, XDA needs ppl like U

you think is easy port L with 4.3 kernel? I mean I'm just talking w/o reference, but Sony is just (until now) ignoring ART which is the biggest change for L (since 4.4 but well, now is not optional), and I think that could be a barrier to port new android for older phones (like SP)... what do you think about?

I hope this thread came with great news in the near future, :good:
[Xperia SP General] MrSteve555:
This can be either hard or easy, hell or heaven, depending on the changes in L official release. Up until now, the changes are lying in ramdisk, but some features aren't available in the beta release.

But here are a few things that I noticed right now, before the official release:

1. UBL and LBL are stuck with 4.3 blobs. We are already using patched libraries, I guess it will get worse later, even on UBL.

2. I think we should wait until the CM12(?) will be working on UBL, while helping with bringing it up. If it works on UBL, then we should tinker with the LBL version. Actually, we have the hijack part, and we have the patches needed. I think it will be easy to get it to boot. ;)

3. I think when [MENTION=4225567]delewer[/MENTION] finishes his kexec modules, some people that are experienced with kernel development could port it to SP, and then we could use it on forever locked phones. It will take some time, but will be the best for our phones.

So overall, if we have some luck, we would only have to kang CM trees, add the patches for hwcomposer, etc., add hijack and maybe some kernel modules. But we can be extremely unlucky and... I don't even want to imagine the worst case scenario.
[Xperia SP General] neXus PRIME:
Dont worry, the ground work is there. bagyusz gave us a great gift. I am sure Final release wont have boot-related changes. Maybe framework and libs, but not more.

The best thing is, 4.3 SONY rom DID NOT support ART. Bagyusz made it work even on LBL. and as Android L only supports ART, so thats the most important point i think.
[Xperia SP General] MrSteve555:
Hmm, is ART even kernel-dependent?

I think that's not the case, and it's just great for us. So, bagyusz did a great work(it's just amazing), but I don't think he made any change to support ART.

And yeah, maybe there are just changes in frameworks and libs, but I'm still paranoid about this.

Anyway, I think that we are going to make it. That's what I feel, and I hope it comes true :)
[Xperia SP General] mmfh:
As I'm far from developer, I'm afraid cannot be of big help to you.

But I'm willing to contribute by testing builds and discovering bugs.
[Xperia SP General] neXus PRIME:
Not kernel dependant, i know, but you know what, booting a new android version using old kernel with just hijack n scripts is one HELL of a job.

And ART even didnt work for a long time on AOSP CM for huashan on UBL.

My point was, what we have here is a 4.3 kernel and blobs which might or might not be enough for android L. But before official release, we can try to port L from mako, by replacing blobs and ramdisk and boot, so that we have at least a proof of concept that LBL CAN boot L. Just boot. Nothing else.
[Xperia SP General] MrSteve555:
"Just" hijack? Bagyusz gave us an excellent base(hijack), and I bet we can boot FFOS or Ubuntu on that.

I didn't even know that ART didn't work on huashan before. Wasn't it a Gapps problem?

And yeah, these maybe aren't enough, as we are already patching some libs.

Ans one thing - I don't think we could port that from mako. It uses a little different base, and it isn't a CAF base. I think we should just wait ;)
[Xperia SP General] neXus PRIME:
Just hijack meant different in a positive sense. But maybe it came out wrong.

And I'm talking about porting. Framework. Not building from source. They are actually doing same thing. I'll have to give it some time though.
[Xperia SP General] MrSteve555:
Yes, I know what you are trying to say with porting L. Actually, there would be a few things that would break:

1. The YUV color palette support (fixable with our hwcomposer, gralloc etc)

2. GPU drivers - this is the "best" part. L is precompiled, and I think it uses the libRS override, which doesn't work on our huashan because of a kernel difference (if we could build from source, we could just not enable it). There are a few other things that aren't compatible. So even if we got it to boot, it would just show black screen, and I assume by "just booting" you mean actually seeing the effort ;)

3. The whole "thing" is built off AOSP repos, not CAF ones. Idk if SP's stock kernel would play nicely with the whole different stuff.

These are just my assumptions, in the end everything could work just fine. If you have the sufficient time, it's nice to try. Just deleting the mako proprietary stuff, and adding the needed huashan blobs + adding correct ramdisk would get it to the bootable/half working state (or there is a chance that the "build" wouldn't even boot.). I guess it's not done yet for a reason.

Anyway, I have to squash one last bug in my CM builds. If it will work, I could also try porting the magical "L".
[Android Apps and Games] Sephi:
Hello there,

I got a problem. I had to send in my Note 3 for repair. Before that, I made backups from my what's app database and copied it over on my PC.

Now I got my Note 3 back and I put the database back in the What's App Folder, trying to restore them. What's App finds the database and asks me if it should to a backup. I say yes, it calculates about 10 minutes and then tells me "Sorry, we couldn't restore your messages". And that's it. Any idea?
[Android Apps and Games] Sephi:
No one? :(
[Android Apps and Games] ph37rd:
Why not just contact WhatsApp support and ask them?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EM|NEM:
My brother was recently messing with his galaxy vibrant and he somehow screwed up the EFS partition (or some file in it)

I was able to extract the EFS partition. IMEI seems to be intact, not sure about the nv_data.bin

This is causing it not to detect any network. *#06# shows IMEI as blank. Baseband in about phone is unknown

Its currently on CM7, rooted with custom recovery

I want to flash back to stock JFD but I have only one PC with windows 8.1

I've tried a multitude of drivers but none of them detect it in download mode. adb recognizes it in recovery and also when it boots up. Only the download mode is not being detected and therefore Odin isnt working.

Are there any drivers/workaround to this problem? I currently dont have access to a machine with win7 or xp

P.S. when i extracted the EFS it had a .nv_data.bak (and the md5 file) which i renamed to nv_data.bin (also the md5 file) and copied back to phone, still the same problem.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[General Questions and Answers] Murali dharan:
how to add features like Halo... Hover. Themes... For custom rom...?? (xperia)
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TehNinjaah:
My Samsung galaxy tab GT-P1000 is refusing to charge. I have no idea what's going on with it.

When it's plugged in (via usb charger) after 10-20 minutes it brings up a picture of an empty battery with what looks like a loading symbol.

Unfortunately I cannot provide pictures at this moment in time but if anyone has any idea why it is doing this please can you help.

I have tried removing the battery and putting it back in, numerous different chargers too. My computer and my works computers refuse to detect the tab either.

Thank you.
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TehNinjaah:
I'm assuming no one knows what's wrong with my tab.

I've called Samsung and they said to use a different cable which I have used multiple and that isn't working.

The only other thing I can do is to send it off to Samsung. It's out of warranty so I'd have to pay a hell of a lot to get it sorted when I could buy a different and newer tablet for less.
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SandyJK:
Is your really ran out of battery?
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TehNinjaah:
After numerous attempts I managed to boot it into download mode and flashed the base rom to it. It's now working and charging fine.

I flashed the stock rom back to it with odin.
[LG G Flex] 2015Ducatimulti:
guys, what the difference between these to models, is the international one just unlocked for any carrier and has all the same LTE bands as the ATT version? I did a search and couldn`t really find a anwser to my question any help would be great:good:
[LG G Flex] robdevil:
International is d955 I think
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Ducatuca:
I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY ADVERSE WITH YOUR PHONE!!! You do it at your own risk !!!

First of all your Idol 2 must be rooted and you must install touch recovery, find it here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=55723217&postcount=6

Please make a backup first, before you do anything!!! Just in case...

Link for Android L Mod: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9v4FSeSYlHcSWQ2dThrM21UTzg/view?usp=sharing

Please download zip from here and extract it. Install Rom Manager and copy the unzipped folder OT_Idol_2_Android_L_by_Duca to sd card clockworkmod / backup / here. Directory OT_Idol_2_Android_L_by_Duca in itself must have: custpack.img, nandroid.md5, system.ext4.tar and system.ext4.tar.a ...

Get into Recovery, go to Wipe Menu - Do Factory Reset, WipeDalvik Cache and Wipe Cache. After that, go to Backup and Restore and the Advance Backup Restore - Advanced Restore and find OT_Idol_2_Android_L_by_Duca, click system and then to custpack, Reboot phone and that's it.

You have Android L Mod on your Idol 2 phone :)

Please let me know if you find some bugs...

If you like what I did for you, please click thanks button!

Preview:

http://youtu.be/xDWoOZ9d3IE

______Version 2______

Change Log v2 – November, 3

new transition animations

keyboard input and exit animations

press material circular animations

some new status bar icons (alarm, vibrate, adb etc)

new launcher (nova 3.2)

new gmail v5 (material)

new calendar v5 (material)

new playstore v5.0.37 (material)

sms, mms new look

btn check on/off new animations

new switch buttons

new lollipop system icons

dark notifications (much better look)

circle contacts (people)

new default wallpaper

new stock browser with full screen option

deleted some system apps (system update...)

some other things of course also, but i can't remember :)

Link for download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BweOW5tN4s5NX0tQVVh1NnBVT00/view

Flash it on the same way like version 1...

Install Google Play Services to get Gmail to work correctly.

To turn on transition animations please go to Settings->About Phone and click few times on Build Number to become a developer. After that go to Development and put Window animation scale, Transition animation scale and Animation duration scale to 1x!

Enjoy guys!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Chempalov:
Nice)

This is a very beautiful, and this visualization really pleasing to the eye. You have done well, Duca)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Ducatuca:
Thanks! I'm glad you like it. Since this will be the first rom for our lovely Idol 2 :)

Added recovery option.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] pedjakis:
And this is also based on 4.2.2? By the way, excellent work duca, I like it very much.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Ducatuca:
Yes, it is based on 4.2.2.

I have some problem with making the rom because Android Kitchen can't see the phone. I've tried many things with edify_defs but the phone is still unknown :) Hopefully I will figure that out soon and finish the rom!

Thanks for the nice words guys!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Ducatuca:
I've ported today touch recovery 2.5 thanks to Master Shifu Carliv and yuweng! So owners of Idol 2 if you want to add please just install Mobile Uncle from playstore and put recovery.img in the root of your sdcard. From Mobile Uncle go to Recovery Update and the first one on the list should be recovery.img, just install it and you will have touch recovery on your phone.

Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/oolgnroy0i5aqaf/recovery.img?dl=0

Cheers!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Ducatuca:
Look what I've added in this ROM!

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[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] dusan78hitech:
za Ducatuca

Hi Ducatuca,

i am dusan from krusevac, i left for you private message, please read it.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Ducatuca:
New status bar and some other things added:

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[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Ducatuca:
More screenshots:

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[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Ingkong2016:
is this rom is compitble to OT-6037k???

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how can i flash this rom to my 6037k?? is this compatible to my 6037k??
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Ducatuca:
I don't think it's going to work on 6037K, because "K" has 2 sim cards. And 6037Y has only 1...Am I right?

You can try to flash it, but please make a backup first!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] veljaaa:
Hello.

I have installed the Recovery and copied the files to sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/ but when I go into Recovery to restore the system, it says 'E: can't mount /sdcard/'.

Does it have to be on the external SD Card? I don't have one now to test.

EDIT:

You do need an external SD Card to restore backups.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Ducatuca:
New icons added, v2 will be ready soon!

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[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] smokerman:
it may work but maybe you lose 2 SIM slot..you can only use 1 SIM..but try it on your own risk..difference from y and k are 8GB vs 16GB and single sim vs dual sim..maybe Duca can answer it better..by the way a mod for dual sim version will be awsome.:D
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] smokerman:
i ve used framaroot but it didnt work..what method to root you guys used? i have alcatel idol 2 dual sim 6037k running android 4.2.2..
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Ducatuca:
Only KingoRoot is working with this phone :)

You can find it here: http://www.kingoapp.com/
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] smokerman:
it works fine on dual sim phone..mine is rooted already..great! just need kitkat update..great design and eco mode is amazing.:D
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] xanhellx:
Does it work on the 6036A?

Hello Duca, nice work here!

I'm impressed about all the details and all the effort you are putting in this mod, man, I must say it is better than the guys at alcatel, lol.

Do you think think this will work on my 6036A? It came with 4.3 and I rooted it with TowelRoot.

Thanks in advance and keep up the great work!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Ducatuca:
Version 2 coming soon!

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[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] chainbolt:
Here is the situation: I am one of these sorry Softbank users who have to resort to all sort of tricks to get their TyTn working in English using the Softback network. I flashed a WWE ROM and have now all services, including MMS properly working. Naturally the WWE ROM does not include Japanese fonts, and whenever you receive an e-mail in Japanese or want to browse a Japanese website you see only gibberish.

I tried to solve the problem with installing Askul's "LetsJapanNo5" cab that comes with Japanese fonts.

http://asukal.seesaa.net/article/6912738.html

It works for IE and e-mail, but unfortunately this cab is somewhat mixing up with tje English fonts: Suddenly certain WM 5.0 parts are displayed in Japanese as well, such as the "calendar" function in "Today", and there is suddenly an annoying mixture between English WM 5 fonts and Japanese fonts.

I then tried "CE-Star for WM5" advertised as "the first and only true Chinese/Japanese enabler software suite for Windows Mobile 5.0 based Smartphone."

http://microsoft.handango.com/Platf...&productType=2&platformId=11&productId=193804

After installing it, the same happens like with Askul's Japan cab. Japanese fonts become available for IE and e-mails, but again certain WM functions, like the "Calendar" in "Today" are displayed in Japanese and cannot be changed to English, also there is an annoying mixture between English and Chinese/Japanese fonts. I can only warn to use "CE-Star" from Mobem, because you cannot de-install it, and I had to hard-reset to get rid of the *****.

Any idea how to get Japanese/Asian fonts working? So that they can be selected for IE browsing like in Windows XP without messing up the entire WM installation?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] qtotter:
if you read japanese, visit here.

http://smart-pda.net/useful7+index.id+5.htm#フォントのダウンロード

there are samples of some free or free-ish... fonts and links to the sites where you can download those fonts.

if you have a pc with japanese win xp, you can copy msgothic out of c:\windows...
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] harryk1372:
chainbolt,

i strongly recommend this font called Meiryo from Windows Vista. it works better with the clear type setting than any other japanese fonts. you can download it from here .

unarchive the lzh file and you will get the font file meiryo.ttc. just copy that into your \windows folder and make the registry changes as follows.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\FontLink\SystemLink\

there are four fonts Arial/Courier New/Tahoma/Times New Roman in this. change the font link of these all four to \Windows\meiryo.ttc,Meiryo and that's it.

btw, i use ce-star v28 and it works fine for me although it does have some glitches as you mentioned. it does have the uninstall capability though. it should be too late for you now but you can unistall it by Start->Programs->CE-Star->Uninstall.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] chainbolt:
Thanks a lot. I could smell already that I have to change some registry settings as well, not just copying the font into the Windows folder. Interesting that with ce-star. Do you also get "Date/Time" and the "Calendar" in Japanese?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] otoro_315:
After installing it, the same happens like with Askul's Japan cab. Japanese fonts become available for IE and e-mails, but again certain WM functions, like the "Calendar" in "Today" are displayed in Japanese and cannot be changed to English, also there is an annoying mixture between English and Chinese/Japanese fonts. I can only warn to use "CE-Star" from Mobem, because you cannot de-install it, and I had to hard-reset to get rid of the *****.

Any idea how to get Japanese/Asian fonts working? So that they can be selected for IE browsing like in Windows XP without messing up the entire WM installation?[/QUOTE]

did you tried to verify your Regional Settings on your cell -

from start-settings-system-regional settings ::: go through all the option tab.

especially the Region tab - set to English
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] otoro_315:
INPUT Japanese - of how to

@harryK -

on another Note:

did you are able to setup your cell to accept input japanese language?

please advice
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] chainbolt:
Harry, thanks again. I have done all this, but no success, I can neither select a Japanese font for IE (in the option menue) nor can I read Japanese e-mail. It actually did not change anything. I of course made a soft re-set after changing the registry. Do I miss something?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] chainbolt:
hehehe, I found a way how to do it:

The new font has actually to be installed into Windows/fonts/

as described here here:

http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/index.php?blog=24&p=1353&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

I can now open and read Japanese websites, but still Japanese e-mail comes in "blocks".
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] qtotter:
if you read japanese, visit here.

http://www.yasukawa.com/blog/archives/000336.html

there is a step-by-step guide on this page.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] chainbolt:
Thanks for that. That seems to be a very detailed description. My Japanese is not good enough, but I will ask the GF. :)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] CJBS:
Locales and Date/Time settings

From my understanding of Asian languages on PPCs (only 2003SE, but I assume WM5 will be similar), the actual installation of the fonts as descibed allows Japanese to be displayed. The settings for Today (in fact, all regionalised date/time settings), are set in Regional Settings [Start -> Settings -> System -> Regional Settings]. If, after you've installed the Japanese enabler, such as CE Star, you'll probably notice that Japanese has been set in Regional Settings. If you change this back to English [and your appropriate locale, eg. English (Australia)], then, after a soft reset, date/time/Today settings should be in English again.

Note that these settings also affect the ability to restore from a backup using ActiveSync. The device to which a backup file is to be restored must first have the same locale set (in Regional Settings, or the registry) as that recorded in the backup file at the time of the backup.

This is set in the registry at HKLM\nls\DefaultLCID

-> For example, 0x404 (1028) is for Chinese (Taiwan)

It's also set in HKLM\nls\overrides\LCID

This may have changed in WM5.

Note that there are other settings in there which allow manual setting of Date/Time settings. For example, in HKLM\nls\overrides\SLDte, the System Long Date format can be set. I have manually set this to "dddd yyyy'年'MM'月'dd'日'". Instead of changing the Locale, you may instead manually set your date settings here.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] harryk1372:
i have installed ATOK for Pocket PC for the japanese ime.

note that it's not that easy to install this and you need to read this page qtotter mentioned in the later post for not having side effect problems. if you just install it, you'll be screwed.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] harryk1372:
that's bizarre. i have it installed in the \windows folder and not in the \windows\fonts.

you also need to check your regional settings (start->settings->system->regional settings) and change Region to Japan when you want the full japanese display capability, but this requires changing the nls. just adding a japanese font is not good enough. the only way to install the japanese nls file is either installing ce-star or Asukal's cab. you can change the date and time formats to english even japan is set for the region.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] harryk1372:
thanks for the follow-up. what you explained is all true and they are the same with wm5.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] chainbolt:
:D

It's definitely in the "fonts" folder, as described in the "how to" I linked. It works for IE browsing, but not for e-mails.

I can't set in "regional settings" to Japan, because such setting does not exist in my WM 5.0 installation (WWE ROM 1.35).

I give CE Star now a second try. :D