yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NATO66613:
Here you go

u0_a115@hwY550:/ $ su

root@hwY550:/ # cat /proc/cmdline

console=ttyHSL0,115200,n8 androidboot.console=ttyHSL0 androidboot.hardware=qcom msm_rtb.filter=0x237 ehci-hcd.park=3 androidboot.bootdevice=7824900.sdhci lpm_levels.sleep_disabled=1 androidboot.selinux=permissive androidboot.emmc=true androidboot.serialno=c71c93ed androidboot.huawei_swtype=normal androidboot.huawei_bootmode=boot androidboot.localproppath=hw/eu usb.pid.index=25 usb.serial=84dbac1d9dd9 androidboot.baseband=msm mdss_mdp.panel=1:dsi:0:qcom,mdss_dsi_boe_nt35512_4p5_fwvga_video huawei,lcd_panel_id = 8

root@hwY550:/ #
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rtmreza:
can anyone make stock rom with EMUI 4 or 5.0
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] felix-development:
Why do you need a stockrom when we have customroms which are more better than stock?:cowboy:

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[MENTION=6864096]NATO66613[/MENTION] Sorry for delay but when you think can you release cm14.1? c:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NATO66613:
Every one of

Y550 problem users & g620s users plz inbox me

Regarding testing for new project Code name Dasvida?a
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MobsterCZ:
I have my L01 rooted. When I turn on my phone, it says "Internal storage is damagged and is not available now". I wanted to reinstall it, but when I enter fastboot mode (VOL +- and power), there is just black screen and blue LED flashing and my computer doesn't see any new device connected. But I can go into recovery mode, adb see the device, fastboot still don't. If I enter recovery mode, it says:

CWM-Based Recover V6.0.5.1

Only for C8817D

Any ideas to help, please?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NATO66613:
Sounds like brick try dload
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rtmreza:
You cant install all app and their data or obb in SDcard
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MobsterCZ:
I've already tried that. I've tried to download about 3 versions, I put the UPDATE.APP file into sdcard /dload directory and then VOL +- and POWER (then the Android system recovery loaded) and selected "apply update from sdcard", choosed that UPDATE.APP and nothing happened, just message that it will reboot, but it booted again to unusable OS. Any other idea?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
You flashed a recovery for an other phone...

Not easy case. Only dload left

Try this in recovery, but now please use the cwm made for our device(or twrp)!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MobsterCZ:
Since I can't use fastboot, this is quite tricky - how should I do that? I can only use adb commands. I've extracted all files from UPDATE.APP (stock ROM) to dload folder and put it in root of sdcard, turn on with +- power buttons, but it's all the same, black screen and blue LED flashing.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NATO66613:
You need to put update.app in folder dload in sd card then +-power and resture to stock shoud start
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MobsterCZ:
Yeah, that's exactly what I've tried. After +-power just Android system recovery appeared, then I selected option 'Update from SD card', selected UPDATE.APP from /dload and it just rebooted and nothing happened..
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stmr:
Then you are doing something wrong.

It didn't ask anything from me, no recovery, just progress bar and that was it.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Sorry, I didn't included this link: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=852905 in my last message

Try it using this and twrp.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MobsterCZ:
Thanks, but I still have that problem that when I type

adb reboot bootloader

it reboots to that weird black screen with blue led flashing and when I want to

flash recovery recovery.img

it just says <waiting for device>, so the device is not in fastboot.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ElvisChris:
Install Huawei device drivers first

When it Says waiting for device it probably means you have not installed the huawei device drivers on your pc. The drvers can be installed using any huawei device running EMUI or stock rom. If not they're usually in an iso file in the system folder somewhere. Just type 'Fastboot devices' on your console to see if your PC has seen your device.

[MENTION=6829336]Hacker432[/MENTION] latest cm 13 boots fine on my device with like only 2 reboots, worked fine with pico gapps. Then issues started when i installed 3rd party apps and the phone started heating and restarting. Google contacts sync also didn't work.

[MENTION=238117]nato[/MENTION]6634 Slim ROM Doesn't get past bootanimation for me.

On other news, I Got my phone to charge up to 100% on TWRP (cm12.1-v5) and now it won't boot up system. It just takes me straight to recovery even when i try to charge it when it's off or when i reboot via fastboot. Solutions please
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hacker432:
I'm on my cm13 and I'm facing overheating and instability too, but this is not my fault but NATO kernel

Inviato dal mio Y550-L01 utilizzando Tapatalk
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NATO66613:
I am prety sure its because of old kernel.

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By the way i amof development for feaw days.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] felix-development:
When you installed cm13, have you flashed the kernel called wip_boot which is needed to get rom booting nomally. dl link is at the post where the rom was released. with this kernel the rom should work without any problems. (except rotation) [emoji41] [emoji6]

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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kombuk:
Guys, is there a way to install apps directly on sd card on cyanogenmod 12.1? I tried edditing permissions but it didnt worked.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fwiep:
No mobile data

Hello,

First of all, thank you for giving my phone an extended lifetime. Once I got through the howto's and tutorials about flashing, it is a pleasure to see a recent (and safer) Android on my Y550.

I flashed this AICP 11 ROM and found that mobile data does not work. Voice calling, receiving calls and WiFi do work. When I try to search for network operators, it spins for several minutes, then shows an empty list: "There was an error searching for network operators".

As a possible solution, I flashed the 4XQWT_LP_Modem firmware (as it's recommended for Marshmallow ROMs), but it still does not work.

Could you help me get mobile data working?

Thanks in advance,

FWieP
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stmr:
Try going to settings-mobile network-prefered network type and choose global or experiment. I'm not sure if it's the case with this rom, but NATO's multidevice roms need to be set up like this manually
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NATO66613:
Guys if you found bugs report them. Only now i found out that my M had this modele data bug. thenks to reading forum
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stmr:
Sorry I've never thought it's a bug and I haven't encountered any problems ever. The first thing I do after installing rom is that I go through the settings and set up a lot of things.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fwiep:
Thanks for your pointers in the right direction. I tried all available options in the connection settings, but it still did not work.

Then I found a tip to check the APNs that were configured by default: and there was my solution. I set up a new APN according to my providers specs, and now it IS working.

Thanks once again,

FWieP
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Saint_13:
solution for restarting after minor bumps

my Y550 was restarting after minor bumps or shocks. I just remove battery and clean connector pins on battery and phone with old Toothbrush and Alcohol. yes. it worked for me and phone will remain ON even after hard bumps. :D :laugh:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rtmreza:
Please some of Developer create a Telegram Group

we can speake more and better

the other brand mobile of developer has this for example samsung lg xiaomi
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mojtaba.moji123:
cm 12.1 when I change profile to silent, alarm doesn't ringing

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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] felix-development:
[MENTION=6829336]Hacker432[/MENTION] how is your cm13 going? ;)

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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hacker432:
Great news guys, my ota server is up now.

So I can deliver ota updates now

Regarding new kernel I'm working on it but it's not that easy.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rz5036:
I'm not using a custom ROM on my Y550-L01 till now (still 4.4.4/B246) but it's already rooted , TWRP installed and Link2SD used to move Updates from System Apps in System Partition.

As soon as I replace it with a "new" device I will install Hacker432 CM13 ROM on my Y550.

Thank you for all your effort !
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] felix-development:
Nice!!!

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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NATO66613:
New kernel relese Soviet v4

Changes no more graphite

new optimization flag set

Tuned for A53 cpu neaon ( aka 32 bit mode)

Implemented power effective workque

Added wifi awe lokck blocker

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=529152257862684236
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DantefromSerbia:
[MENTION=6864096]NATO66613[/MENTION] Is that kernel for your newer releases, and for Y550?

Also, could you pm me some guides for developing? I would like to get into it and contribute to our community here
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ElvisChris:
[MENTION=4479868]desalesouche[/MENTION] could you please update us on your progress so far?

[MENTION=6829336]Hacker432[/MENTION] i still experienced crashes in your new cm13+ Wip boot image file when facebooking, using chrome, youtube, etc. I maybe noted it was an overheating issue and i have no idea how to fix this so i reverted to EMUI3.0 by [MENTION=6800235]dabi01[/MENTION]
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] desalesouche:
I am just back from work. will give feed back asap.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NATO66613:
This kernel is for lp-mm roms. I am planing to post guides tumorrow
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Saint_13:
Error while checking device.

Unsupported device. aborting...
[COLOR="Red"]E: Error executing updater binary in zip '/external_sd/soviet_v4.zip'[/COLOR]
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Saint_13:
Ok, just changed device check to 0 and it now work.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Saint_13:
Soviet v4 + cm-12.1-20160902 ROM have best battery life + good performance + no overheating.

I'm waiting for cm13 without rotation bug.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] felix-development:
Yes, for me with Hackers latest cm12.1 and soviat v4 zero bugs and good battery life;)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] glotex:
can i get a Soviet v4 + cm-12.1-20160902 ROM links

please
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adil089:
I miss this phone so much. Really had great battery life. I have a OnePlus now and the battery life is rubbish!!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Saint_13:
http://xdaforums.com/android/development/huawei-y550-development-t3425524

cm-12.1-20160902-UNOFFICIAL-y550 By Hacker432 (Fixed Rotation Bug)

Soviet Star V4 By NATO66613 For LP and MM
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rtmreza:
Group

Hi

This is the Telegram Group

please Join

https://telegram.me/joinchat/CCnOJUECRThEjoWxC2L8fA

we can speak more and better
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Hi guys!

I wanna make some Christmas present for everyone even if I said that I stopped development.

Is there anyone who would be happy to see a much more stable cm11?

PLS reply asap to make me start it!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Saint_13:
of course !!! why not ?!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coma666black:
Yes, At the moment it is the most stable, it lasts to me much the battery life, the only inconvenience is the #### in the carrier

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What application do you show in the captures to modify the CPU?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] michele955:
Hi, Android one device General Mobile 4g got few days ago official android 7.1.1

It has snap 410 too.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] felix-development:
?

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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] michele955:
https://www.generalmobile.com/products/GM4G

That brand was unknown to me, then i've read about android 7.1.1 update on their device.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coma666black:
Which recovery version do you use, when flashing soviet kernel v4 the recovery freezes and restarts in recovery again, already modified the file anykernel.sh, that happens with recovery that I use twrp 2.8.4.1, when flashing with recovery twrp 2.8. 7.0, it only says error1 and does not install it .. Would be less problematic if it were a boot.img
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Maurycy 89:
I'm using this ROM and Kernel. Battery life is very good, performance great, no rotation bug and overheating but

i have a little problem with in-call volume. During the call the volume is very low. Have you any solutions?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Saint_13:
kernel adiutor mod

TWRP_Y550_20150821_v2.8.7

it gave me Unsupported device error and I just edited anykernel.sh with sublime text.

yes, I can confirm low call volume , I have no solutions !

it's just OK with my ears ! :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pijussimke123:
Any news about android 7.1 for huawei y550?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HrbtzXk:
Which is the best and more stable Marshmallow Rom? Does it has working rotation?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EngelP:
Thanks Alamos, very kind of you, I have not forgotten you or your recommendations, sorry for the delay and the time that happened :o, I was away for more than 1 month, I will retake the subject again, I will install the ROM that I recommend and edit the file "build.prop", my email is engelperez2014@gmail.com, I need the exact links of the Glokin666 ROM v8.6.18 for the Huawei Y550. Are you sure the version is 8.6.18 of Glokin666?, Searching on Google, does not exist. (Note: This version not use Gaps?). You can write in Italian. Thank you. :good:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fwiep:
AICP extras not working

Thank you for this ROM.

The AICP Extras app cannot be started. I tested this with two distinct Y550 devices, both show the window for a few milliseconds, then it is closed.

Is this a known problem, is there a fix?

Thanks again,

FWieP
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NATO66613:
That's actually something new. Thing is right now I work on nugat, because of space limitations I had to ditch mm

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Regarding 7.1.1 it's booting but have a bootloop issue lays in kernel I for now I haven't be able to fix kernel. So problem is following we need new kernel

Possible solutions are add us to Cynogenmod /Huawei_msm8916_kernel since it's up to date

Ore try to merge it in ours

Merging has issue of conflicts in mdmss, audio & wlan driver

Because of missing Huawei code

Adding us to cynogenmod is different story for that you can ask Delasauce & hacker

In general don't except not soon for our device at best I see being able to get 7.0 r19
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pijussimke123:
When its going to android 7.1 be released for y550?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NATO66613:
No ETA at this stage never
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pijussimke123:
what do yo meen never? and what about android m roms any new android m roms?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hacker432:
He meant that the development is almost stopped
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pijussimke123:
Is there any android m f2fs roms? because i tried slim rom but i didnt like it
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] desalesouche:
rotation

Hi all i am working on fixing orientation problem in kernel for lis3dh_acc in my latest cm-13.0 rom for y550 compiled with cherry device tree.

I couldn't port y550 to cherry cm-13.0 official kernel for now.

So i decided to try to fix rotation for for lis3dh_acc in kernel i did for y635 and y550 by the past.

I have good progress, rotation is back but stop to work.

I guess kernel need a few more commits....
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] felix-development:
[emoji106] [emoji106] [emoji106]

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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] desalesouche:
Rotation fixed with lis3dh sensor.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] felix-development:
How can I find out what sensor I have?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] desalesouche:
use cpu-z
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] felix-development:
thank you i got it i have lis3dh-accel
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] desalesouche:
press button thanks! :p
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] felix-development:
done at 4 times [emoji12]

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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] desalesouche:
tester needed with kionix rotation

hi all, i am looking for a testor wich have kionix rotation
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coma666black:
It seems like I have kionix sensor
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] desalesouche:
uploading...

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check your pm
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mateox7:
I have kionix sensor too so I can be a tester :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coma666black:
[MENTION=4479868]desalesouche[/MENTION] rotation bug: The rotation is reversed and slightly delayed

Video of the test

[YOUTUBE]<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AZPmXZCPTsI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>[/YOUTUBE]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZPmXZCPTsI
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stmr:
Few pages ago there was somebody who found out that Doze is making rotation stop, so maybe that will point you in the right direction. He made it work on your old cm13 rotation build by using some app that switched off power saving
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NATO66613:
Doze is overlay it.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] desalesouche:
hi all i fixed in kernel proximity sensor with cheery device tree and sensor folder.

https://github.com/HUAWEI-Y550-Y635/android_kernel_huawei_msm8916/commits/cm-13.0-rotation

uploading a test.

i need feed back from kionix user and lisdh.

how is proximity sensor now?

will add link

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https://mega.nz/#!QZBznTKb!v1HAvKU_pUQ_6L8wKfa6LsnKpyiyLmJJ6i7bFSp4IzY
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pijussimke123:
It works on huawei y550-l01 :D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] desalesouche:
what about rotation? do you have kionix or lisdh? check with cpu-z.

I need feed back for kionix rotation.

To all, please feed back any bug.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hacker432:
L01 has lis3dh
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pijussimke123:
I have lis3dh-accel
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] felix-development:
Ive installed your latest cm13 build with fixed rotation for lis3dh and on my l-01 rom and rotation works very good.

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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mateox7:
I have L01 with kionix

Rotation works perfect now :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] desalesouche:
:D :cool: thank you
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hacker432:
Are you sure guys?

That's strange
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] desalesouche:
Best way to know is to test on your device...

i did fix rotation for all device exactly as i explained you and others a few months ago, following dian cm-13.0 kernel commits.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] felix-development:
Yes. My father and I have both L01. But I tested it with CPU Z and i have lis3dh- accel and his L01 has kionix

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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hacker432:
Yeah, I know I could have done it too for cm13 but that kernel is not a good base for marshmallow so I didn't try

Anyway, what I meant was, maybe a ROM shows device like L01 but it is not....well seems like Huawei engineering ^^

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Huawei engineering haha :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NATO66613:
New kernel

Soviet star R5

Lot of tweaks

Added rotation & sensor stuff [MENTION=4479868]desalesouche[/MENTION] tnx dude

Added intelli thermal solution ( lets cool down)

Aded Intelli govs

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=385035244224405526
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Great kernel guys!

Rotation fully and smoothly works and it made my phone just 25-27 celsius with this config:

200-1401, interactive, msm sleeper with only 1 core when sleep, minimum time for offlining and longer for onlining

intellithermal

55c, 62c for first 2 option

310 max gpu

simple ondemand

deep black colorful screen profile

fiops and 1024kb

pc mode virtual mem

all wakelocks disabled

westwood and disable android logging
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] felix-development:
Installed Kernel and I use this Settings now. I will try it for everyday to use.

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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mateox7:
btw, volume increased in voice calling for me so I thinnk [MENTION=4479868]desalesouche[/MENTION] solved more than one problem :D and all sensors working very well :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pndwal:
Peter W

I have two l02s each with different sensors. Will try new 13.0 / kernel soon. Thanks for efforts guys. :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Saint_13:
[MENTION=4479868]desalesouche[/MENTION]

worked very well on L02 lis3dh. :laugh: :good:

[MENTION=6864096]NATO66613[/MENTION]

if I install your new kernel with AOKP Rom or any other Rom, will rotation work or not ?! :confused:

I will add new Rom and kernel in thread index
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
rota won't work:(

but nato is working on the aokp with rota fix
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Saint_13:
I have tried AOKP-2016-09-20 with Sovit R5 and rotation works well ! (lis3dh)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Saint_13:
[MENTION=4479868]desalesouche[/MENTION] flashlight doesn't work from tiles !
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hacker432:
Probably it's a ROM sources problem
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] desalesouche:
If you reboot rom it should show and work!

i have it working, may be i should upload my latest build...?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Saint_13:
Yes , thank you, reboot solve problem.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coma666black:
Latest CM13 rom in my device with sensor kionix, working very well the rotation and proximity sensor, the only problem is the heating and high consumption of battery and the SElinux in restrictive mode prevents link2sd function, in the old roms CM13 link2sd worked ..

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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Saint_13:
use kernel adiutor mod : hotplug , misc controls.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NATO66613:
I sugest touse my kernel & enable intellitermal and tweak it a bit

for your personal use
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stmr:
New CM13 + v5 kernel is great, ROTATION WORKS! :D Thanks to the devs

I haven't much time for playing around with it but with first installation I'm facing these issues:

1) When calling , I can hear ambient sounds from rear microphone in speaker

2) With Dabi's settings, the phone is slow as hell

Can anyone confirm/revoke? I will test further later.

Thanks guys!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NATO66613:
Tnx to change mixer settings
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kombuk:
Is there stable CM13 that i can flash for everyday use? Thread is long i cant read all thaaaaaat. Thanks