yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] kanej2006:
Don't assume it's faster, it's definitely faster!!

As for battery life, I did previously complain about poor battery life and the phone not going into sleep mode and the screen not sleeping resulting in a heavy battery loss...

I've noticed that after 2-3 charges, the battery life has gotten far better, anyone notice this?

Battery was piss poor when Lollipop was first installed. I'd lose 10-15% over 1-2 hours when doing nothing!!

Now, after 3 or so charges, the phone feels like it's brand new and the battery is holding great!

Last night, before going to bed, I put my phone on charge as it was down to around 6%

Around 5:00 am I was still half awake and noticed the green light displayed indicating the phone has been fully charged...

I removed the cable and around 6:00 am I got ready and left for work.

It is now 09:18 and the battery is reading 96% Screen brightness is 100% (as usual) and power saving mode is off...

Apart from a few phone calls I've not touched the phone. However, the battery has only dropped 4% over a 4 hour period, not so bad...

Once the battery gets low I'll take and upload a screenshot to share with you guys how long the battery lasted for with the new Lollipop update...
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Prabash:
Constant Freezes

I have been using this ROM for a couple of days now and have to say it's an excellent ROM! Thanks a lot Scrubber for this :)

Anyhow, I would like to let you know some of the issues I found when using this:

First, I found the User profiles not to be working. As soon as I try to switch to a Guest profile, the phone freezes.

Apart from that, I found a bit of a serious issue where my phone freezes pretty constantly (about 2-3 times a day), and my guess is that it's happening because of a memory overflow? :confused:

Has anyone encountered a similar issue with this ROM?

But everything else is working pretty great! So again, thanks for this awesome ROM! :)
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] parkduck:
i have a question.

Hello, it is awesome rom!! But my 6833 isnt workig home button. But it works about google now.. what do i do for this problem??
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Wakatsik:
charging with the micro usb cable seems fine with my phone
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] madsponge26:
Force close and trying to call using fb messenger by then freezes.

Logcathttps://www.dropbox.com/s/kw9eu4cvasmyovh/logcat_and_device_info.zip?dl=0

Sent from my Bacon Machine
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] javagreen:
I'm using 320 dpi and I noticed the apps displayed in the recent apps list are quite blurry now. Any idea how to fix that? It looks ugly in an otherwise beautiful ROM.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Prabash:
I am using 342 dpi, which I assume is the default dpi of the Z Ultra. Everything looks fine with that! Hope this helps :)
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] dandyqb:
320 dpi is the default, 400 to the GPE variant
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] pemell:
Did you buy any chance restore apps and data with tb or some other tool?
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Aphex13:
I was trying to restore a Lollipop backup on top of the same Lollipop version, so it's not a kernel mismatch issue. At first, I thought it may be an issue because I restored my cache, but I had the same trouble without the cache as well. The boot animation will play like it's trying to boot, but it just keeps rolling. It will lag from time to time, and the phone heats up a little bit. It doesn't get hot, but you can tell it's working on something. I'm wondering if it's something to do with ART, but I'm just guessing though.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] appleknight:
Negative, I've restored back to KitKat with no issues using cwm backup, however if I'm on lollipop and restore lollipop I get a boot loop, you know like if I eff something up and want to "undo" it
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] cerebralplaya74:
This seems like this would be an awesome rom, but here is my problem. When I attempted to flash this rom, I first got the boot animation for 20 min and it went nowhere. Then I went back in, wiped everything (including dalvik 3x) and I got the russian script like it was booting up and that froze as well. What in the world am I missing here? I am coming from CandyKat 4.4.4, by the way…
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] fooznugget:
When you say it freezes, is that with the screen on or off? My phone freezes with the screen off about 1-2 times a day. Also, I noticed that when I do reboot, if I use the phone immediately after booting, it will freeze. I have to let it boot, then leave it for a few minutes in order to avoid this.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] zost:
My experience is the same.

In addition, restoring back (using TWRP) from Scrubber's GPE Lollypop to Scrubber's GPE Kitkat is OK and with no problems, everyting works. Reverse process - restoring (in TWRM) from Scrubber's Kitkat to Scrubber's Lollipop finishes OK, but then Lollypop works with a lot of bugs.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Lervly:
I found a little random "freeze" for 1-2 times per day

but , It's very smooth and fast

Thank you very much , scrubber
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Prabash:
Well it happens both when the display is off and on, but mostly it happened to me while the phone is idle and screen is off. But I didn't have any problems after rebooting as u mentioned.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] indianJoe:
Hi. I noticed what BT don`t work on my c6833. When i try recive or send any file it`s write "no nearby bt devices found":(:( Any suggestion?

as well as this ROM awesome:D thx
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] KINGMANI:
Have been using the rom now also for some days ;)

Pretty nice some little bugs like the frezze where you have to restart but thats okay its just once a day.

But i found out that i can`t set a custom ringtone it always puts a default bell on.

Someone gets the same or knows how to fix it ?
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] BlackOrder:
I did mention it before. I got the same problems as yours. Solved it be re-flashing with CWM. Now everything works perfectly.

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You have to choose a ringtone from your internal SD. The phone app will not play ringtone from the external SD card. :(
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] hanifh:
had several freezes for the first couple of days until I cleared cache and dalvik yesterday. been spotless since then. try it out.

/h2
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] soniamukerjee:
Thank you Scrubber. The ROM is awesome. Everything is working fine for me except I came across a weird issue.

After I power off, the screen wakes up every few seconds with the Google logo on. I even tried resetting the phone, but to no avail. Anyone experiencing similar issues?

The power and volume + button trick worked temporarily, but then the issue pops up on the next recharge. Any clues?
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] SURYA:
re flash the rom , wait for it to boot , if doesn't book restart it with hard restart button inside sim tray , scroll up when that language comes now everything will work fine :)
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Leechoonhwee:
Just a suggestion for everyone who's having issues like freezing, bootloop, etc but coming from any other than stock 4.4.4 rom please try to flash Sony latest stock 4.4.4 before flashing this. It might help.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] kikemotions:
Ok once you get to the russian text, you scroll up to get english or your language, you enter yor wifi config and it will freeze. Then you force reset by holding power+vol up. Boot again and voilaa
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Aphex13:
I had the same problem, but it all seemed to work after I renamed my device in bluetooth settings. I'm not sure why, but it's worth a shot. :)
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] oriontattoo:
First i have problem device screen not responding with black screen but still ON and need to hard restart even I have reflash two time, the problem still persist. And then I have flashed with original Sony latest version 4.4.4 (.108) and after that flashed back with this ROM. Now the problem was gone but I found other not critical problem. My unlock screen keep show 'charging' notification even I have finished charging my device. Need to restart the device to make it disappeared. Anyone got the same problem?
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] lideweister:
I was getting the random freezes as wel so I tried what you did. Installed latest stock ftf and then flashed this rom again. No luck, I just had another freeze. :(
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] mu_shim:
Excuse my ignorance, but on the first page of this thread, it says there are no bugs in this ROM. But then folks are having random freezes requiring reboot.

Am I missing something? Is it because people are not following the correct steps prior to flashing the ROM? I'd have thought if it's a dump of the GPE ROM, it should work as it's running on the same hardware, assuming the same kernel is in use.

Bottom line, I want to know if this is suitable as a daily driver, and/or will there be updated versions available?

Thanks
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] DarkSandmaN:
I have no bugs with this rom. No freezes all good. I was on pac man 4.4.4 rc 1. Just flash kernel from this zip done whipe and install rom its all good exept now my phone think its c6806 insted 6833
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] ashish2k4.dce:
this is indeed nice rom, all hats off to scrubber.

but unfotunately, i m not able to find lollipop better than kitkat, so moving back to scrubber's GPE kitkat port. i m missing xposed framework, gravity box, double tap to lock feature....moreover better battery (battery is good in lollipop as well, but kitkat one has more better), plus i m also getting freezes 4-5 times a day n need to restart my phone.

so back to kitkat till xposed framework is not coming for lollipop... :)

once again thanks to scrubber n his hard work :)
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] mu_shim:
Apologies if this is documented elsewhere, but why can't users just download a factory ROM from Google, as you can for Nexus devices? Or Is it Sony who issue the stock Android ROM for GPE devices?

Sony make available the FTF files for flashing the Sony skinned ROM- just trying to get my head around why there's not pure Android image available.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] alphahere:
True that. I really miss xposed. Will convert back to kitkat. I did net have any freezes with lollipop. Really nice rom
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] kucing2k:
Smooth as butter! 3 hours screen on for 50% battery. Sure I miss xposed but I can live without it for now. Feels like having a new phone! :cool:
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] blueether:
I've been avoiding this thread like the the plague because of all the "me too" and "I can't read" posts, but I'll answer the above

Sony produces the GPe ROM for google. Even if there was a 'factory image' available it would still have to be ported to the non GPe as it has different bootloader, recovery and partitions - so flashing it would kill the non GPe .

Sony doesn't make FTFs available for download, they are all created by users extracting/downloading the OTA that the phone gets and converting it
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] mu_shim:
Thanks for the reply- I'm not new to flashing ROMs, but am new to Sony devices. I was trawling XDA, and the Sony site and couldn't find any info.

The Sony site is a bit bizarre, on the one hand it's quite developer friendly with advice on unlocking the bootloader, and links back to XDA, and on the other hand it's missing certain basic information.

Anyway, thanks again- you answered a question I couldn't find an answer to, and I'm realising that I probably should be asking these questions in the Q&A thread, so apologies.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] ChillyChan:
+1. I'm also looking for a solution to this.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] cerebralplaya74:
I went that way but I never got to the screen where I could change the language or set up the Wi-Fi. IT is as though it never fully boots up.....
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] texaspledge:
This is actually a very stable rom when it installs properly. I first used twrp and was getting some lockups and couldn't use the multuser feature. Based on some advice from here I wiped and installed with cwm. Multiused now works and no lockups so far.

Its basically a stock AOSP releasee so not buggey, there just seems to be something we don't know at moment about flashing with different recoveries.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] rsohne:
I flashed this directly from a completely wiped C6833 and 4.4.4. I have had 3 complete lockups ( no freezes ) . I carry a paperclip in my wallet. I had a person ask me about the device in my shirt pocket the other day. Grabbed it all proud to show off my Lollipop and notification led was blinking but could not wake the phone without hitting the little reset button. Other that that this phone is a different beast with this ROM and I can't see going back.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] mu_shim:
Did you install just CWM recovery or the dual recovery mentioned in the main rooting thread?
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] rowihel2012:
can i install this kernel by recovery then install the rom ?no need the fastboot anything?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2769608
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] mathurmatt:
Yes But the kernel you mentioned in your post is only for GPE version...............
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] rowihel2012:
so what kernel should i flash it? is their a link to it?
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] dadme:
Works nice. Thanks scrubber. fastboot flash boot boot.img from rom archive, twrp wipe all and go.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] halifage:
Everything works?!?

can someone confirm that EVERYTHING works in this port (camera, video, GPS, mic, etc)?

Thanks
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] rowihel2012:
should i rename the kernel file rom archive to boot.img before fastboot it?
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] zemblance:
Extract boot.img from zip file.

It's installed perfectly for me. Play downloading all my apps and settings now! Will test things thoroughly and let everyone know.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] doctahjeph:
I extracted to kernel from scrubber's zip and fastbooted that one. Then I went into recovery and wiped system, data, cache. Then I installed the rom. Everything went perfect!

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not necessary. Just as long as you type the right name when you fastboot it.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] skarba:
Camera works, YT playback works, GPS works, speaker works, haven't tested the mic yet.

Thanks scrubber!
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] cafenetland:
screenshots

ok. screenshots are from my device.. just installed it and no problem at all
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Sm0L:
Lollipop is nice and all but it is still very GREEN, i miss all the customizations of LiquidSmooth or AICP :o

Did this altered the partitions in any way? Can i restore a nandroid backup with a 4.4.4 ROM with this recovery safely?
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] doctahjeph:
All works on my end.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] rowihel2012:
where is that boot.img in the rom archive cant locate it

the kernel img or the system img?
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] doctahjeph:
it isn't called boot.img. It is call For_ALL_ZU_5.0_Scrubb_GPE_kernel_initD.img
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] TimeTurn:
For_ALL_ZU_5.0_Scrubb_GPE_kernel_initD is the boot.img

I got camera problems here, camera works only with fixed focus. I try flashing stock and reflashing this ROM
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] lavenderyew:
Will you be working on locked bootloader version?
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] rowihel2012:
done externally easy love the new animations and materiel
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] metalurgus:
Thanks for porting! I'm extremely happy!

BTW, it took about 5 min. to boot first time, so everyone pls be patient and don't pannic.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] TimeTurn:
Camera is working after re-flashing stock ROM and flashing this ROM again. This time I flashed the For_ALL_ZU_5.0_Scrubb_GPE_kernel_initD.img instead of the CM 11 boot.img
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] theinspector:
Everything seems to work great except i can't get the guest mode working. Setup keeps quitting.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] kikemotions:
First thing i suggest, and it's the first thing i did.

Can some One please Upload the original Mixer_Paths.xml please?

i lost my backup

Does anyone get the SBH52 app to work with Lollipop? i've installed it, but i cant see the icon in the app drawer, and cant get to configuration. So it works basically as a bluetooth headset. it doesnt syncronise the calls or messages.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] usagi111:
Been using this ROM for more than a week now, its a great daily if you don't mind the fancy tweaks that Xposed can give you, one thing I will say (and have repeatedly in previous post) is the Tumblr app does not like this ROM, I don't know whether it hasn't been updated for 5.0 or something else but within minutes of using the app makes the phone freeze up instantly, with no other available Tumblr app in the play store its gotten to the point where I just use the browser and go on the site directly.

I'm patient enough to settle for this till an official release.

If anyone can suggest any alternate Tumblr apps or a fix (I tried clearing the cache and dalvik cache, didn't work), let me know...

Once again, great job, Scrubber!
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] charleykj:
I just found another smallish bug, was in the car connected to bluetooth, got a text, listened thru car speakers, and every 2 min the notification would go off again (i have chompsms) had to reboot the phone to keep the notifications form repeating....and dunno if just my phone but the screen seems extremely sensitive to touch, opens pics n such way too soon (as in when still scrolling on a page)
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] bchaney16:
Thank you Scrubber. Been anticipating this for a long time.

Anyone have location issues when the screen is off? I use tasker to switch my device to vibrate while I'm at the office. Since I flashed this ROM the device will not reliably go to vibrate and back.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] mknewman:
I'm also seeing occasional freezes. 2x today, non responsive and holding power button long enough will get it to reboot. On reboot there is a message about Android being upgraded.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Wakatsik:
Is there a custom kernel that we can use with this ROM? Thanks
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] khalpowers:
Try clear dalvik cache via cwm recovery (up button)....then restart....walla!..this rom is awesome!...everything is perfecto ...i can running all apps on mine without freeze n reboot..tumblr and kodi also running fine without glitch...thank you very much scrubber!!:good:
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] amanda.cristopher:
sir! can you please tell me how to make the nav bar background transparent?:)
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] lukits01:
I had the freezes at first, I suspect it might be the apps i restored from ti backup.

cleared dalvik and cache as a few people have suggested here, seems to have helped.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] amanda.cristopher:
How is your nav bar transparent boss? :p
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Arkadash:
k i k emotions

I use sbh52.. All is fine. I install smart connect and when i pare the headset it ask to install the sbh52 app. I install it and the headset works fine. Resent calls is here, sms etc…
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] pemell:
I'm using Nova Launcher.

Most launchers out there supports transparent navbar (but not the default launcher bundled with this rom).
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] rsohne:
Google Now Launcher will give the same effect also. Makes it feel more stock.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Miustone:
Hey!

Great Port with some small bugs ! But i have a big bug and i can't find a fix.

I can take Phone Calls but i can't connect to Mobile Data! No 2G,3G or LTE at all! i checked all Settings and the APN config. Everything is ok but when i Dissconnect from Wifi i've no Data Connection ! (I'm on o2 Germany,same with a Vodafone SIM)

Phone Model is C6806 LTE (I was on latest Sony Firmware before flashing this Port)

Help?:crying:

Edit: Flashed 2 times with Full Wipe before!
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] usagi111:
Did you turn the mobile data ON?...you have to do it in the drop down notification window...check back to page 8 or 9 of this thread for the picture...

**edit**...its on page 5.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Miustone:
Sure :eek: ! i get this ... (Look at the status Bar...):confused:
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] E90 Commie:
Regarding the mobile data issue: Are they demanding IPv6?

I had a similar problem on AICP: no data at all. Turned it on etc but nothing over LTE (HSPA+ worked) and the solution was to enter the APN setting and change from IPv4 to IPv6. LTE started to work after that.

It can be an APN related issue with other words.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] diamantericos:
After a week of this ROM now photos process wants to keep force closing repeatedly. Even Sony album. I cleared caches same result
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Miustone:
This is not the Fix for me:crying: My Baseband is Correct! I checked it in the First Post. [MENTION=1124510]scrubber[/MENTION] any idea?
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] serberto:
Is it possible to update through ota to 5.0.1 vor wie habe to wait for another port?
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Miustone:
[MENTION=6243656]no_limiz[/MENTION] Sent me this! Thanks to him it is working now!

Just set MVNO-Type from IMSI auf “none” and it's fixed (Only for o2 Germany)

We have to wait... :fingers-crossed:
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] halifage:
Is there any good app that handles advanced reboot on lollipop? So far I have to switch off the device and back on manually to enter recovery for example.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] unidentifier:
I had two "lock ups" that were solved with the reset button. Can't say if it's the ROM for sure though.

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This ROM works better than anything I've tried thus far. I have no reboots or WiFi issues. I flashed the kernel included before using TWRP to install.

Only thing that doesn't work for me is cast screen. Anyone have a fix?
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] kucing2k:
Since there's no xposed I use TWRP Manager to do this. I'm also curious if there's any other way.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] kikemotions:
Hi guys,

I'm doing OK with the rom. I have 2 days of learning with it.

So far I made my SBH52 works. It needed besides the app, the Sony smart extension app.

Another tip is that you can unlock the percentage indicator for the battery . its easy as install this app from a developer here in XDA. This is the app threadxdaforums.com/google-nexus-5/themes-apps/app-enable-battery-percentage-android-4-t2516913

The X- Mod app doesn't work with Android 5 because the use of art, so if you want to use it, stay away of this ROM.

The Facebook app is using too much battery, but I hibernated the app with Greenefy and so far is going good.

I've clear the cache (art ad system cache) as they mention before, and after that I haven't had any lock or freeze.

Anyone get the Sony camera to work on this phone? And other Sony apps like the mail app?
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] kanej2006:
Yes there is, I've been using this app since Kitkat and it works perfectly on Lolipop:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.camber.ndrutils&hl=en_GB

It's called NDRUtils [root] . It allows you to:

Power off device

Reboot device

Quick reboot

Reboot to primary recovery

Reboot to fastboot

Reboot to flashmode

You can do all the above without having to turn your device off. Simply download and run the app...
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] halifage:
Thanks,

But after installing it, it just reboots but not into recovery.

It says it couldn't access some file to determine primary recovery
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] kanej2006:
Are you rooted? Do you have recovery installed? It works for me...
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] halifage:
Yup I'm using this rom so I'm obviously rooted. I think it only works with NUT's recovery which i believe is the one installed here. Hence my confusion
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] danonlaska:
Hi!

Can anybody explain to me step by step how to port this ROM? I'm planning to buy a z ultra and don't want sony's software as my current phone is nexus 4. I've flashed a factory image on my nexus so I know something about the process :) Thanks in advance! and PM me with instructions if it's not the appropriate place for such a message.

Regards
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] y0ung:
This ROM from Scrubber already ported. You need follow instruction in the OP only.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] danonlaska:
Sorry I meant flashing the ROM. My bad. I don't get especially: "Fastboot flash boot.img w/ recovery (use CM boot.img, or comparable)". The rest I think I will cope sith somehow :) Thanks for your answer