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[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PANDADU99:
Hello,

the root works but titanium backup don't works..
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nikhil18:
Guys if you all want a flashable zip why not take a backup of only system in recovery and upload it sorry for off topic
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dedito:
have you notice this is thread for developer ? " [EXP][DEV] Lollipop for Xperia Z "

if you an amature then don't screw up your device
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingvortex:
Use the beta version of Titanium Backup.

https://twitter.com/TitaniumBackup/status/524487475738443776

Sent from my C6603
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HyperClocker:
hey guys can we use flashtool to flash those images?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PANDADU99:
Works!!!!! :laugh: Thanks!!!! :good::good:
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mpourfath@gmail.com:
right with you! but everyone like me , wanna see lollipop on their goods.. sorry for offtopic...
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hifi.aulakh07:
can u plz explain me how to instal gapps and flash to sony xperia z .. i m new here. but really want it on my mobile as well.. can u guide me a bit plz
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hunting_:
nice how to root bro plz help me how can i root

thanks
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingvortex:
He's using thomas' build, which is rootable. You cannot root the build you're using.

Sent from my C6603
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xarive:
Sorry for asking you this question. Will there a possibility that your MultiROM TWRP recovery implemented into this ROM instead of the CWM Recovery out of the box?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] speedy56:
Is daily usage possible or should I wait a bit newer release?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danny19901:
Yeah it could be used for daily usage

TAPATALKED WITH MY TAB S 8.4

My Z3 app Ports to all devices
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arvinivra:
After install [MENTION=3911109]pabx[/MENTION] last build i have working recovery and everything works fine but i have root problem even i install supersu 2.16 in recovery but its not work for me
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] farran:
Very weird. I was on Chrome Beta on my phone; maybe the touch went through to the menu underneath after asking me if I wanted to download the file.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mackay53:
yeah, just wipe data first using a recovery, flash kernel then flash system using flashtool
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rajeev:
U can root pabx build but u will lost ur Wi-Fi. It will break the wifi. So u should wait for some days when some better rooting methods comes for pabx build.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muphetz:
Read this...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2929369
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chauhanjayc:
kind of noob q but how to test

WHAT TO DOWNLOAD WHAT TO FLASH OR FASTBOOT

PLZ GUIDE
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingvortex:
If you have to ask, then you don't "test". This is a development thread, therefore not everything is for just flashing.

Remember that although people share things in an easily usable/flashable form, a [DEV] thread is also likely to include conversation and contributions not for use by everyone. :)

Sent from my C6603
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danny19901:
That needs to be compiled into the ROM/Kernel BTW

I rushed the post lol as I have been busy I will be busy the next few weeks as well

TAPATALKED WITH MY TAB S 8.4

My Z3 app Ports to all devices
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingvortex:
*kernel

The person that knows what to do with it was mentioned in Tommy's post. If you're not thomas (or someone that has the necessary knowledge) then don't worry about it and just wait for prebuilt images. ;)

Sent from my C6603
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] babylonbwoy:
Didn't see this Q&A tab before asking a question yesterday on the dev thread where I got no answer (about how to upgrade to the new build without loosing root, no need to reply just sayin')..

So if I understand the situation we have to choose to get root,no recovery and no GPS with the first build released or GPS and recovery but no root with the second release by pabx?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] herubrand:
As per my understanding of the situation the story is as such at the moment

Don't expect pabx version to be rootable as his boot.img has SE Linux set to enforcing as required by 5.0, which makes rooting difficult as per Chainfire. So you'll need a boot.img that has SE Linux set to permissive or disabled for your device to be rootable. Right now the only boot.img available for rooting is of Olivier, but his boot.img breaks wifi function on pabx.

So if you can do without wifi then use pabx build.

Edit: Adding post of Olivier

Just to clear things up - my repacked boot.img was intended for Thomas' ROM only - now that it has been updated, including the "fix" be default, there is no need to flash my boot.img anymore. WiFi (and possibly other things) won't work due to mismatching kernel modules...
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sunfl4sh:
Which is best?

I know this could end up in a controversial discussion, but I´ve read al lot about pabx´s and thommas´s lollipop and just don´t know which one to use :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

Which is in which way better? And why dodn´t develop one great thing together ??

THank you
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] babylonbwoy:
I just realized that after flashing pabx release, but as I need wifi and root, so I'm gonna go back to the other one.

I need to read Chainfire post as everyone is mentionning it.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tOrNadO™:
Any Indian users or C6602 users having problems with catching a cellular network? I tried using different sim cards from different carriers, tried manual searching.. Networks are shown when searched but not accepting any and says "Your SIM card doesnt support this type of connection".. I think certain carriers aren't being supported..

Fixed..
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LaurynasVP:
So, If I'm in 4.4.4 version, everything that I need is just to unlock my BL, and the flash boot.img, userdata and system and volia? Everything's working fine? How should I install gapps ?

Thanks for answer
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] natibongo:
All great

They are all great initial ROMS. Pabx's rom is very good and includes recovery but if you want root, I suggest you go with Tomas' build (including Olivier's boot.img) .

I hope I've helped (:
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gertz:
Hi, i have a wierd problem regarding bluetooth and my smartwatch (LG Gwatch).

I installed the Version from pabx and everything runs just fine. But the Smartwatch randomly is losing the pairing with my Mobile and then i have to re-pair them... that is pretty annoying and killing the battery from both devices. Is there something known about this, or is this just me and i have to wait?

Greetings.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LitoNi:
thomas is rootable but does not have recovery preinstalled

pabx is not rootable atm but has recovery preinstalled
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adipPL:
Guys can u tell me how to properly install gapps. When i installed lolliopo version i got constant "not responding" message.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bullsheet:
Not a big problem, but if i shut down the phone and i charge it, it turns on. The only one bug i found is that i can't see what's in my external sdcard :\ (music, images etc.) but titanium backup restored the backup i made on sd
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mando85:
i read that on the twrp site. it's strange.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vo4LG:
There are two options: pabx's rom, and thomas's rom. Pabx's build has a recovery but no root. Thomas's has root but no recovery (unless that changed since last night).

To install pabx's build and gapps, see post 36 (scroll down a little).

To install Thomas's, you need to download his rom from the first post on the main thread, unzip it to get the boot.img, system.img, and userdata.img

You then flash them using fastboot: THIS WILL WIPE EVERYTHING ON YOUR PHONE INCLUDING THE INTERNAL SD CARD

fastboot flash boot boot.img

fastboot flash system system.img

fastboot flash userdata userdata.img

Then to get the gapps on there, follow the procedure for using a temporary recovery in post 3 EXCEPT that to get root you need to also flash the supersu zip between steps 6 and 7.

---------- Post added at 11:05 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:03 PM ----------

Actually, you don't want to be using Olivier's boot.img any more. Thomas has incorporated the root-supporting change, and using Olivier's boot.img will cause issues.

---------- Post added at 11:12 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:05 PM ----------

1. This *will* wipe your phone. Everything. Internal SD card. The lot.

2. You will need to have ADB and fastboot installed. I don't know what OS you are using on your PC, but they are pretty easy to find for either. (I'm sure if you post your OS someone will have a link).

3. Lollipop for Xperia Z is unofficial and although it seems to work remarkably well, it may well have problematic bugs that will show up with time and development. To quote wikipedia: 'Alpha software can be unstable and could cause crashes or data loss.'

Anyway, if you're ready for all that, then look at post 69. It should have sufficient instructions to get you through the process.

Unrelated note: I'm probably going to stop being able to provide any help because I just smashed the screen of my nexus 5:crying: so will be using my Xperia Z as my daily device again.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adipPL:
Sorry for spam.

Can someone post a link with working gapps. I tried 4 diffrend packages and apps are crashing.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vo4LG:
The process for installing gapps depends on whether you are using pabx's build or Thomas's build.

If you're using Thomas's see: here.

If you are using pabx's, then you need to download the gapps from his site and put them in the root of the sdcard.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adipPL:
Thanks but I did using recovery in doom kernel does is change anythink?

My installed gapps are crashing. :crying::crying: I can't even use my homescreen.:rolleyes:
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] farran:
Noooo! :(

My only phone is the Z, and I'm using this ROM as a daily driver. Everything's pretty much perfect now.

Even Google+ installs!

Only problem is that my texts won't restore from SMS Backup+. :confused:
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vo4LG:
Yeah, I was pretty sad. New screen + shipping = ~$100, which sucks. Still, cheaper than the $200 that the Xperia Z replacement screen cost me (when I walked into the corner of a table and smashed it in my pocket).

I imagine you did this, but did you set SMS Backup+ to be the 'Default SMS app' in settings?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vo4LG:
I assume you are using thomas's build.

I wouldn't have expected using doom kernel for recovery to make a difference, but honestly if you're having problems then the best thing to do is to reflash system.img and then do the gapps installation (and supersu if you're using it) again using HodorKernel (just because I've tried that and it worked). Also, it seems that the gapps posted by _infected are the ones to use so make sure you're using them.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Movey11:
Can't install apps

Hey, so uh, I installed Lollipop on my Xperia Z just fine but I can't open any downloaded apk files. I have the unknown sources thing ticked in security. I tried installing the gapps play store using abd, it installed just fine but I can't open it, it just closes straight away.

Before I tried using adb, I found out that I can't even access recovery mode. I tried the physical buttons, spamming volume up when the light shows up just after powering on, and I have tried doing it remotely through adb. It will go into recovery mode but the screen stays completely blank, the backlight stays on to light up the screen when there isn't a thing on the screen.

Could anyone help me with this issue?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] farran:
$200 for the Z's screen? That's mad. I like how cheap the N5 is, I'm strongly considering it as my next phone. (I have the 13W08 Xperia Z, which is one of the batches most affected by the back coming unstuck, so my camera lens is now full of dust and condensation. :crying:)

Thanks for the suggestion but I have tried - it's not actually listed as an SMS handler, so I can't set it to be default.

It worked fine on KitKat.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vo4LG:
Only pabx's build has recovery, not thomas's. If you're using pabx's build, the way to install the gapps is to copy the gapps file downloaded from his site (where his rom is hosted) and push it to the sdcard using adb:

adb push gapps_50_yuga_001-db5e.tgz /sdcard/

For more complete instructions see post 36 and scroll down a little.

If you're using thomas's build, see post 5 for instructions to install gapps using a temporary recovery. There is a link to gapps recommended by _infected in that post.

In either case, if it isn't working right now I suggest you start from scratch and reinstall.

In terms of the specific problem of installing APK files: it might be that a messed up installation of gapps is causing problems with 'verification' of APKs, so try again after reflashing. (I've had to switch my XZ back to KK so I can't test).

---------- Post added at 12:21 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:18 AM ----------

I'm not sure what the problem could be then. Horrible process, but you could try going back to KK, restoring the SMS Backup+ backup, taking a backup with SMS Backup & Restore, going back to LP, and trying to recover that.

Re: $200 for XZ screen: that was the screen and glass, not even the frame or adhesive or anything. It was going to be a lot more than that to get someone else to replace it (so I did it myself).

In this case, it would be about $100 + shipping to get the screen/frame, or $161 + shipping (cheaper shipping than the screen) to get it repaired by LG. This time, I think I'll leave it to the professionals.

Edit: important note for Nexus 5: the 3G & LTE reception here (in Australia) is *much* poorer than my Xperia Z. I live in a bit of a dead spot, but the Xperia Z holds signal quite well and the Nexus 5 very poorly.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] farran:
Yeah that's all I can think of to do as well. SMS Backup+ is set to only backup to Gmail, so there's no way around it without building a new backup file the way you said.

That's fair enough if it's so much cheaper. $200+ for a repair is far too pricey, especially considering the Z's digitiser isn't great: in a waterproof phone, it should not be affected by water on the screen!
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danny19901:
Sorry this a little irrelevant but this is kinda looking good for Lollipop development

5.0 AICP for Nexus so if source is out for 5.0 AICP this will be good news also looks like TWRP can flash lollipop (Sorry gone off subject a little)
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adipPL:
I am using tkmas build and i tried invader's apps before but with this kernel its working.

I flashed also supetsu but i i have another problem rootchecker confirm that I have root but i can't use it in any app. For example in es file explorer I select rootbrowser mode and then su window shows up. I grant root acces. Nothing happens. Similar problem I have in romtoolbox root granted and nothing and nothing.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LitoNi:
reflash the supersu zip from chainfire, might be a dirty download or install, if that doesnt work refastboot flash boot and system img
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Donald K.:
I found out that installing gapps with older recovery is the issue of google apps crashing, you could try to use the boot.img of olivier to install the gapps package and after that flash the boot.img from thomas.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vishalkris:
do you have root???

how???
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wat':
No root, but I don't really see the need for it, without xposed root hasn't much use for me.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vishalkris:
i'll try to have it tonight...im going to work on it

.

its just a foolish thought i had in my mind which im going to implement.

lets c if it works.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LitoNi:
can someone be kind enough to upload the

prebuilt email exchanger 3

folder with the apk in it in the system/app/ from Thomas's built?

thank you

nvm i got it from the gapps lol
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xarive:
is there any workaround that I might be able to do by myself ? or perhaps you could prepare one exactly what you did for the last build ? much appreciated.

br
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vchiotelis:
Great Rom!!!

I have flash this rom yesterday and everything is seemingly working great.

Great work Keep up the good work!!!
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nemer12:
hi,

First thx for supporting our Xperia Z and for uploading a 5.0 Software for us.

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I have a question....can I use this software as my daily one? ?( i mean calls, mails, etc)

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Thx again,

Nemer
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chauhanjayc:
yes

you can

every thing is working super fine
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rzr92:
Hi there....first of all kudos for the awesome rom :D

bdw does anyone know how to enable the notification light while charging?

because when i put it on charge only charging led lights up but doesn't display notifications by changing colors
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LitoNi:
sorry i still cant get ADB to work, i have root though, what am i supposed to do with the libgps.utils.so.tar.gz zip? need my gps to work QQ.

many thanks nvm i figured it out lol
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingvortex:
Either -

1. Learn to build from source.

2. Ask a dev in the ZL section to build it for your device. ;)

Extract the contents and put it in /system/lib. Set perms to rw-r--r-- (0644) and reboot. You can simply use a root enabled file browser to do it if you're rooted.

Sent from my C6603
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Donald K.:
Altho it's an experimental build, all functions (camera, bt, gps, data, calls, wifi) work! So yeah it's working good for daily use. ;)
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mielech:
Hi guys,

First off, great work! Ive been waiting for this day to come, and i never expected it that soon!

The experience is nothing like android i used to know :)

Im running on pabx mainly because i found it difficult to install gapps on thomas rom.

Today i see step by step guide with proper kernels posted.

My question is, which one is more future proof, thomas or pabx rom? As far as i understand thomas is purely based on 5.0 while pabx is mixed with old stuff.

Im asking now, without any testing time cuz i already encountered some issues on pabx. For instance new calendar app keep force closing when trying to create an event.

In this case its pointless for me to keep going on this rom and i thought that maybe this sort of issues are related to rom being mixed with old stuff.

Please correct me if im wrong.

Cheers!
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hutilicious:
calendar sync doenst work, which makes me fall back to 4.4.4 for the moment because I need it. But apart from that all seems smoooooooooooooooth. jesus, XZ never felt so smooth!
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danny19901:
Try a different calendar like today see if it works or Google calendar
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deepongi:
i am using google calendar apk 5.0-1554015 and its syncing ok. maybe try another gapps?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hunting_:
mobile data not working coz i skip activating cellular service on first boot coz its take 2 much time but still on activating anyhelp im on pabx_aosp_yuga-500a
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mielech:
In case your syncing doesnt work or maps keep force closing on pabx rom, simply reboot the device.

Related to:

Google calendar

Worked for me.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] herubrand:
I can add events on pabx rom without any force closing, so either try some other rom or try another set of gapps. I am using this one https://s.basketbuild.com/gapps

Even thomas has 4..4 stuff merged with his rom eg his gps fix. So there's no such thing as future proofing atm.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 115dan:
How is battery life on this rom compared to stock? How much on screen time hours do you get?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 115dan:
Is MTP working? And how is battery life?
[Nexus 6  General] rmjones2006:
Just snagged a 64gb in midnight blue!!
[Nexus 6  General] 10pmStalker:
Good job buddy!
[Nexus 6  General] osetivo:
Now I can start complaining about the wait!

64GB MNB N6
[Nexus 6  General] JNCHD:
So stoked! Actually got one.

Midnight Blue 64GB N6. :D
[Nexus 6  General] jhumps:
holy cow ....i actually got one 64gb midnight blue!!!!! got the twitter alert and boom! got it!
[Nexus 6  General] Birdsfan:
Blue 64 as well!
[Nexus 6  General] 10pmStalker:
Seems they had more stock this time, went quick but by this time last week there were a ton of people saying they missed it.
[Nexus 6  General] rmjones2006:
pushbullet notifications were spot on. allnexus6availabilityus
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
none for me :( Too busy updating my google maps and missed out.
[Nexus 6  General] 10pmStalker:
dude why would you do that?
[Nexus 6  General] biggiestuff:
I took my eye off the page for just a little bit when i saw the article on new apk for google maps. I was like..Ooooh, app update, let me go check it out. Turn around and gone hahaha
[Nexus 6  General] 10pmStalker:
Ahh man haha. See ya next week!
[Nexus 6  General] lolgank3d:
Aaannnnnnd...they are gone. :crying:
[Nexus 6  General] uzfresh:
Screwed again. Probably just gonna buy from TMO next week.
[Nexus 6  General] HankStorm:
Dang work stuff got in the way of me checking.

What time did they actually appear? Not that it's a guarantee but might be an indicator for next week.
[Nexus 6  General] antiochasylum:
Got mine. Ordered at 12:14 central time. It was up for all of 10 seconds. Literally.
[Nexus 6  General] ocblazer949:
Wooohooo! Randomly just went on the site from my phone and got a blue 32gb. Wasn't going to take any chances again like last week and be picky.
[Nexus 6  General] 10pmStalker:
It was more than 10 seconds. I got mine last week but I was refreshing for atleast a minute to see how long it would go away.
[Nexus 6  General] rmjones2006:
12:14 for me also
[Nexus 6  General] charesa39:
What the f**k! From the very beginning I was able to add to cart. But everytime I would try to check out, it would say "error occurred."
[Nexus 6  General] jhumps:
my order was 12:14:14 PM CST
[Nexus 6  General] antiochasylum:
Well i only saw it available for the 10 seconds of auto refresh on my program i had running. Then gone.
[Nexus 6  General] rmjones2006:
They are up and down right now. I'm getting a bunch of push bullet notifications

Just keep trying
[Nexus 6  General] dave4100:
I took the white 32 but wanted the blue. I figured that if I refreshed, I would loose out, so I grabbed the white. The shipping date is the same as everyone else, 11/21
[Nexus 6  General] Ameri-CAIN:
I got the blue 64 myself. The pushbullet notification was dead on! I never saw the one for IFTTT come through.
[Nexus 6  General] frigidazzi:
Damn it had the 64 gb blue, which is what i really want in cart 3 times but kept saying cart empty.. ug.
[Nexus 6  General] jhumps:
same thing happened to me...i just kept pressing the buy button and it went through
[Nexus 6  General] antiochasylum:
I was going to be picky. 64gig blue or bust. Luckily first try. No errors. Bought in about 2-3 seconds. Had everything stored and ready to order.