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[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adipPL:
Can someone with worikng superSU (thomas build) tell me witch recovery/boot.img he used to install it. Also can you post a link to SuperSU zip.

I tried to install this using twrp from hodorkernel. And it does not work.

Thomas could you write in your first post some kind of mini guide for Gapps (and super su): witch gapps package install with witch recovery. etc... This will reduce number of posts like this.:)
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shaanyt:
Awwww man.... face unlock and smart unlock thingy isnt included in the gapps :crying::crying::crying:
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vishalkris:
Try this SU
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] herubrand:
I believe its a rom thing, not gapps.

Probably the lollipop source used didn't had face unlock in it.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shaanyt:
maybe, but i seem to remember certain gapps included face unlock in the past. Not sure which versions, cuz i vaguely remember that face unlock wasnt under AOSP, but a google thing.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vchiotelis:
Call Issue!!!

Hi! Yesterday I have flash this rom and everything seems to be ok. Great Job but when I was call a friend he told me that he hear me with eco!

Does anyone have the same issue with me or not?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alexus1998:
GAAPS Android Lollipop

For those who still have problems with flashing gapps from PBAX, there's zip file https://s.basketbuild.com/filedl/gapps?dl=gapps-lp-20141107-signed.zip ;)
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] farran:
Yep, MTP is working fine.

Battery life is phenomenal, considering the point of development they've reached.

The only actual new thing we have is the Lollipop system.

We don't have a new kernel version - we're still on 3.4, not 3.10/3.14 - so we don't have the new power management.

We don't have Sony's version of Lollipop driver blobs.

We don't have Sony's Lollipop radio firmware.

We don't have any other Z-specific optimisations.

We don't have CyanogenMod 12 improvements.

I used to get between 1:20 and 2:00 of actual screen-on time under CM11, and maybe 30 minutes longer using stock.

I'm now getting a comfortable 3 hours of screen-on time (as long as I don't play any games).

I'm at 36% battery now (2:36 screen time), and 44% of that usage is Mobile Standby, which I assume is something that can be decreased.

Also, the phone doesn't get nearly as hot as it used to on KitKat.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingvortex:
That low on stock?

I'm on 70% battery now with 1:26 of screen on time on stock (still haven't flashed this lol). That is usual for me. Maybe your battery has lost capacity?

Sent from my C6603
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adipPL:
This zip is also doesn't work.

What recovery are you using?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] farran:
Oh dear, I thought all Zs were like that :/ my battery has always been that bad, ever since I bought it. I did get it second-hand, but that was only a few weeks after it was launched.

Maybe I just use more power-intensive apps than you? I do have about 10 apps with syncing accounts.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sunfl4sh:
oh thank you very much!

but lte etc is working in both?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Monkun:
Help me! booting in black screen more 1 hr

my device booting in black screen more 1 hr.

i use fastboot in flashtool and show flash is sucessfull
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingvortex:
Maybe, but it does seem low. I also have around 10 apps that sync, all syncs turned on, location services active etc.

Oh well, this is a bit off topic in here but I just had to remark that it seemed a little odd. :)

Sent from my C6603
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rajeev:
Are you sure u have successfully unlocked your bootloader?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LaurynasVP:
Do I need to install a custom kernel when I will be flashing android 5.0? Becouse I'm now on locked BL, but afterwards I can unlock it, so I'm considering, does xz requires to be installed custom kernel to run 5.0 ?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 115dan:
I get 4-5 hours of screen time on stock and the phone is 4 or more months old(o bought it second hand for 200$), but i have some problems like 1 or 2 dead pixels 1 broken flap, battery drain when playing minecraft (lol:D). I will try this rom and i hope i will not be disappointed.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IJsbier:
USB headset support

Hi, I have just successfully flashed this version of Lollipop (the 9-11 build). I was wondering if my USB headset should work, but unfortunately it doesn't work completely, music playback works, but the microphone is not working. This should be supported now in Lollipop, or did I miss something?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chauhanjayc:
dont flash via flash tool

use adb to flash image

i had the same problem with flash tool
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] farran:
No that's fine, thank you for letting me know, I must have a dodgy battery. Perhaps water damage? The back of my phone has unstuck, so maybe it happened when I took it swimming.

If you're already getting that on stock then I imagine you should get about the same on Lollipop, maybe better.

I don't think that counts as "drain" if you're playing minecraft! ;)

I hope you won't be disappointed :)
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hunting_:
yap use Minimal ADB and Fastboot
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mielech:
Possible bug report on pabx rom.

When i place a call on a pinned phone/dialer app, the call is being placed but there is no visual confirmation of such, and therefore i cannot hang up.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zqchin74:
some problem I facing

1. I can't hear my wechat voice message sent from my friend. Also when I'm playing game the sound effect are present but music are absent. Other thing like notification sound and music are work like normal

2. I rooted but I unable to use exposed installer and freedom. I can't play GTA san andreas (it gives force close)but other games work great. Maybe it is commom problem for new android version

Anyone face this problem also?Maybe anyone can share about this problem or its solution

Anyway this rom works great, keep it up:good:
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BrainRex:
Since ART runtime is default for Lollipop I don't think xposed will work
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Donald K.:
On pabx's build smartlock is there:

Security > Trust Agents > Smart Lock ;).
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wat':
Yea smart unlock for trusted devices, but not the smart face unlock that unlocks the phone if it sees your face before you enter your pin/pattern.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LaurynasVP:
PLZ help why can't i flash boot.img, I've downloaded fastboot but it says it can't find boot.img..
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] siddhesh1609:
I found the smart lock feature on thomas' build also but dont know how to set my bluetooth headsets as a trusted device
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingvortex:
Did you open the command prompt in the same directory that you extracted the images to? If not, do that (or navigate to the correct location) . ;)

Sent from my C6603
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LaurynasVP:
maybe a dumb question, but I've installed only adb, fastboot.exe's, do I need whole SDK,?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zqchin74:
ok..now I've know that ,thanks
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arismelachrinos:
i used Oliver's modified boot.img which has a recovery and then I booted into that an I flashed SuperSU version 16 .. then I powered off and i flashed original boot.img again and I have root.... Oliver's boot.img is page 24
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zqchin74:
How to provide logs??

Another problem happen again..the google search bar accidentally dissapeared on recent apps..lol
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingvortex:
I don't know what you downloaded/installed, but you don't need the whole sdk if you downloaded some sort of minimal fastboot package. If you did, place the images in the same directory as the fastboot package (or navigate there via the command line if you know how). :)

Sent from my C6603
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingvortex:
How to logcat. There are other guides around if you Google.

If you're going to be using experimental software and participating in their XDA threads, then you should learn how to do it. ;)

Sent from my C6603
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LaurynasVP:
[IMG="IMG"]http://www.part.lt/img/f2c9ecd6c4e6a51383d303af56929343413.png[/IMG]

What I'm doing wrong?? It doesn't recognizes..
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingvortex:
The command is

fastboot flash boot boot.img

Go back and read the instructions in the main thread as you could brick your device if you're not careful. ;)

Sent from my C6603
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LaurynasVP:
You're my saver.. Than you very much. I really appreciate your help. I've missed "boot" it due my inconcentrate.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Donald K.:
Press the smart lock button in security, then press secure ... (Turn on BT) press the + and choose bluetooth...
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adipPL:
It's still doesn' work. I 've made fresh installation and I tried su 16 and beta 19 but without success. I asked about this in chainfire's superSU beta thread and he said that I need patched kernel. But those kernels are rooted. What's wrong with this root?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pabx:
It has come to my attention that this thread got fully-spammed with 'how go goat rooooot!' questions.

Could someone elaborate to me why the need to jeopardize the security of his own phone is so important?

Don't get me wrong: You can do whatever you want with your own hardware - i'm just curious on why people actually need root. I've never used SuperSU on any android phone.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] glückspilz:
i think i figured out a way how to flash this rom.... if someone could backup his rom and share the files here so that the others can "restore/flash" it, i think this could work, anyone already tested this?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] babylonbwoy:
Anyone else experiencing issues with imap ? As soon as I finish setting of an email adress and click ok to sync it force close.

edit : btw I'm on thomas's rom.

edit 2 : OP should be edited to include instructions for both builds, otherwise people will continue asking how to flash, what's the differences between the two, etc.

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I should feel lucky then, they replaced mine for free (broke while in a bag), plus the bootloader was unlocked but they repaired it anyway..
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingvortex:
Why does anyone want to run anything apart from the software their OEM gives them? :D

Honestly, running anything built from source by anyone but yourself is jeopardising your security, or at least placing it in the hands of whoever built the prebuilt rom/kernel you're using.

Actually, you could also say that using gapps from sources unknown does the same thing, yet you provide them to install along with your rom.

There are a multitude of reasons people want root, but usually to run root apps that modify things or perform functions not usually available without su, but I'm sure you know this already. :)

I'm short, not everyone uses their device in the same way. :)

Sent from my C6603
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adipPL:
Here you have a link .

For me most important are number 5 and 8.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hutilicious:
Hi man [MENTION=3911109]pabx[/MENTION],

might be useless to you, but it helps a lot keeping stuff easy on android. TitaniumBackup is the best example. backup apps and data, flash rom, restore and youre done.

Most apps dont need a backup, like Gmail and stuff. But some are tricky, Threema, Whatsapp for example. Whatsapp is bugging you with phone registration and Threemas data backup mechanism is just bad and slow. I guess it depends on what youre using and what you need. As for me, root is very helpful keeping my apps and stuff in the right shape. On the other side it might open ports to bad guys, but I hope SuperSU and Linux wont let those guys in here.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pabx:
I fully understand the backup requirement: but you can do this using ADB: There is no need to tear a big hole into your phone: Opening an ADB connection to the phone will already give you full root privileges - even on Android 5.0
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingvortex:
[MENTION=3911109]pabx[/MENTION]

But who is going to exploit this "big hole" if you only use software (even with root priviliges) from trusted sources?

Everything comes down to trust when modifying your device. I have to trust you for a start, because if I cannot trust the kernel you built, then it's game over for the security of my whole device. You might say "build it yourself", but not everyone can do that and they put their trust in the developers.

Personally, I trust Chainfire has sufficiently secured SuperSU to only allow root access when I grant it (to apps from trusted sources), therefore I don't see it as such a large security risk as you do.

Sent from my C6603
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chauhanjayc:
totally agreed sir

but small system changes like replacing apks or editing build in prop, or enabling call recording and many other things which make life much easer requires and doing so with adb is little bit harder

still agreed with your words
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LaurynasVP:
Another dumb question, why can't I enter the service menu through dialer (*#*#7378423#*#*)?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingvortex:
The service menu is only available via stock roms.

Sent from my C6603
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adipPL:
Everythink because of simplicity of app like titanum backup or rom toolbox when you have a root u can just select a couple of apps and make backup or uninstall them (oem and system apps).

There are also xposed modules (no for lolliopop yet).
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sunfl4sh:
just installed thommas lollipop. Thank you for your work.

but two questions:

1. how do i get the gapps? actually there is a lot written and i don´t know which is up to date etc...

2. which kernels do you suggest? would love to have t2w etc.

thank you guys
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LaurynasVP:
Oh, thanks for answer. As I can, there are no Walkman, Album and Video's included.

Here are download links :

Walkman (TESTED 'n' Working)

Album (TESTED 'n' Working)

Video (TESTED 'n' Working, just reuploaded to file hosting 'cause I've downloaded it from whole .zip)

---------- Post added at 08:53 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:37 PM ----------

Oh, by the way, why can't I chose my own song? Here appears only sonds in which aren't my liked ones... And If I'm choosing them with File Commander, It says unknown song
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adipPL:
I "recomend" to flash hodor kernel and using recovery install [MENTION=1077833]infected_[/MENTION] 's gapps link , after installation reflash stock boot.img.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sunfl4sh:
ok thank you, but the hodor is made for 4.4.4. but does still work for 5.0 right? and one more question: which recovery should i install on 5.0 ??

thank you
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arismelachrinos:
make sure u download the latest build ( 09/11 ) previous version didnt work for me either
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adipPL:
After installing hodor you only have to install gapps in recovery. You don't need to boot lollipop on horod kernel. :)
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sunfl4sh:
ah thank you kow i have it all working. perfect. but this means evertime i want to flash something i have to change the kernels and so t2w isn´t available?

in your opionion which is the best way to get root? thx ( alot of questions, i should pay you ;)
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adipPL:
Ther is also [MENTION=3911109]pabx[/MENTION] build it's with recovery but it's not rootable/rooted (i don't know witch one is better word for this situation)

What do you mean by t2w is it tap to wake?

I haven't got root yet. :crying: It just don't work for me, but you should take a look on this post link. There is also superSU 2.19 beta witch you can try.

If you succeed tell me how you did it. ;)
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Donald K.:
No t2w, because there's no such kernel for lollipop yet.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sunfl4sh:
this is what i meant, but is already answered.

didn´t work for me either

(edit:)

now it does work........

flashed the custom boot.img --> flashed the supersu --> started the xperia z and supersu (noe root) --> flashed old boot and ..... root
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Supersaiyan.IV:
Writing this Q&A post to direct more people to this thread instead of the development thread.

How to install Android L for Xperia Z with root and gapps

Unlock your bootloader.

Download Lollipop for Xperia Z and the suggested SuperSU and gapps. Any other Android 5.0 Lollipop compatible gapps is fine too.

Copy downloaded gapps & SuperSU to SD card.

Enter recovery (if you have one, otherwise skip this step) and factory reset everything. Wipe cache, data, dalvik, and /system. Exit recovery by choosing 'poweroff'.

Enter fastboot mode, and flash everything. Note that this wipes your internal SD card.

Enter recovery and flash the gapps, and SuperSU you copied to SD card. Exit recovery by choosing 'poweroff'.

If recovery didn't read your sd-card, then boot back into Lollipop, copy gapps and SuperSU to internal sd-card and try again.

Wait patiently for your device to boot.

Done.

Q&A

Q: But my Titanium Backup doesn't work? Yes it does, except that you need a more recent build with Lollipop support.

Q: My root refuses to work! You did something wrong. Probably didn't exit the recovery as said in the guide. Note that an accidental reboot will pollute the cache and dalvik partitions.

Q: Root still doesn't work! I've even tried SuperSU v2.19 beta! You did something wrong, and should post a question in this thread.

Q: There's no CWM or TWRP on this rom! Yes there is, but it got me into a boot loop so I don't recommend using it. If you got into the boot loop then enter the CWM and wipe cache and dalvik cache, then reboot.

Q: Help me I have too many questions and don't even know what adb or fastboot is! Time to educate yourself here.

Be sure to thank people in the posts I linked to above, thank you!
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chalofito:
:fingers-crossed:

hello, really impressive as you, thanks for everything, work a question, could you build for Xperia ZL Lollipop? Thank you
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adipPL:
Am only I can't root this?:crying:
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danny19901:
I don't think devs In Xperia Z have ZL you need to ask debs at Xperia ZL so they can develop for the Xperia ZL I mean this is a Xperia Z part of forum so if you don't have Xperia Z then don't post here

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Root has been discussed a couple of times now flash SuperSU from recovery if you don't have recovery flash boot.img from a kernel to get recovery
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tryantar:
not trying to be an ass but you guys are asking this like for the nth time.

please ask your device developer. yes z and zl may have similar specs on paper. but there may be differences in the hardware and coding. more over, it is harder for developers to port lollipop to a device they dont own. its akin to driving blind.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danny19901:
Already stated this above you it is kinda annoying people keep asking for ports though ;)

TAPATALKED WITH MY TAB S 8.4

My Z3 app Ports to all devices
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thedark1979:
Thank you very much ... every things work 100%

I flash Lollipop then I flash custom boot then flash supersu and gapps ... and WOW ... I have Android 5 with root

Thank you all specially thomas1991_12
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xarive:
I'm having the most important exam in my life (sort of). If this is an easy work for you could you please do us a favour? if not I'll try to do it after my exam. Thanks.

br

EDIT: I've done it myself . Thanks for your guide. Couldn't resist not to do it.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vo4LG:
My use cases for root are mainly convenient and automatic backups (using Titanium) which I often use to clone data between devices, and using Xposed for XPrivacy (which isn't available for Lollipop at this stage). I've used ADB backup in the past and found it pretty abominable: it may have improved with time.

In reality, I will not be using Lollipop as a daily until XPrivacy or something equivalent is available for it (or Google introduce fine-grained permission management, which seems less likely than XPrivacy porting itself to Lollipop.

I can certainly understand why you talk about root being a great big hole: it is. I remember a long while back an article on XDA (maybe by Chainfire? Koush?) talking about getting rid of root by providing non-root mechanisms to do the kind of things root apps want to do: e.g. read/write the data of other apps. It was interesting, and looked to a time when root was redundant. However, if Android did provide a means to carry out these kind of privileged operations *without* root, they would probably just start being requested by apps left and right and most users would continue to ignore the warning and blow themselves up (so to speak). I wish root were really not necessary but I think it is like democracy: bad, but better than the alternatives (to paraphrase Winston Churchill).
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iainbong:
This ROM is working awesome on my Xperia Z C6603! :D My experience with the ROM after flashing it is that it heats up SUPER FAST, and that it drains my battery like hell. I then went to change the governor and I/O to stock's (ondemand and noop), it got me a 8hrs+ batt life with minimal usage (whatsapp, some camera quality test - with WiFi on most of the time) on 1.5Ghz max and 192MHz min. Then I remembered with my deoxed 4.4.4 self-modded stock ROM I can easily get at least 12hrs battery life at the same usage and kernel settings. As far as I have changed I couldn't remember the governor and I/O that came with this ROM after flashing. So I'm asking, did you guys change your governor and I/O and if you do, what are y'all using to achieve a balance of battery life and sleek performance? :)
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PranavBijwe:
Forgive me for being a complete noob, but can I follow [MENTION=4329876]Olivier[/MENTION]'s instructions (on page 49, post 483) to get a working recovery on thomas' build?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hemanthsai10:
Direct FLash?

Cani flash this directly using TWRP

Bcz im not much aware of abd and fastboot

If i can some one plz giv ink to flash using TWRP
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] doomhammer07:
Could you share it? Thanks in advance ?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ie5x:
Just noticed gesture typing doesn't work in the AOSP keyboard with any application. Anyone else having this issue?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whitefang3456:
Do we have magnetometer in Xperia? Was trying Google Cardboard and magnet pull doesn't work to trigger actions in Cardboard apps.

Whitefang
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adipPL:
I know how to flash superSU.

My problem is that when I reboot phone after installation superSU doesn't work.

I followed several guides from this thread and can't do it.