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[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ant_Z:
u have to install cwm recovery once again, or use doomlords recovery (flash it in fastboot) ot istall TWRP recovery it can't be deleted after ROM flashing (recomended).

Ather this flash again the rom and dont forget to flash gapps.

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Thanks for your answer

All file managers show me sdcard's permission as RW (read write), so im confused. I used f2fs since b15, and on b16 i converted sdcard to f2fs. After that i have problems. Don't want to convert back to EXT.... looking for solution.

Is there any another way to check permissions (i use only file managers).

I also tried "fix permissions" option in TWRP but it wont help

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UPD: have just checked the turotial once again. It was updated after i converted to f2fs. I havent done:

so I downloaded terminal emulator. It said me that i have no permission to chmod the sdcard. So today in the evening i'll try to reformat, once again push/pull my files, and use terminal in TWRP. I will write again later if everything is ok.

Thanks
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] wxl104:
How b17 runs?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] nageswarswain:
It runs like b16.smooth.audio fx added.new look of icons like gallery,message,browser.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] wxl104:
How about battery and random reboot problem?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ant_Z:
Had no random reboot since b15. Daily use. Clean install always and PA Gapps
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] vishals16:
Yeah, that is what I meant. I forgot to do the same one time and the sdcard became unusable.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] imightbesomeone:
i tried to get into twrp after following all that but couldnt

then i followed someone's post and flashed doomlord v6 kernel which gave me cwm, then i used that to flash this rom but it aborted during installation. I then tried AOSP for xperia s

5.0.2 and it installed. After that when i tried to go into recovery i automatically got twrp 2.8.0.1.

I have no clue what i am doing but somehow i am on lollipop so i guess its ok.

Thanks for your help
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] nageswarswain:
No random reboots.I think battery as like as previous build.but don't know why it feels more smooth than b16.Thanks to mickybart
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] karasu1024:
B17 NAOSP

Some of the changes i've observed:

New icons for Messaging, Browser, Music and Gallery.

-added new AudioFX equalizer

-much smoother now

-battery life is still awesome

Old bugs

-camera app still is not complete (use google camera, it's the complete version)

-sound on loud speaker still low due to stereo set-up ( i think loudspeaker should be mono, the sounds are great and working properly when using headphones though)

*if you want to know the sound difference, listen to the song (jet black crow by sons of the sea) the 1st 10 secs will tell you the difference, play it from another phone or pc and try playing it on your phone

*i have tried using youtube, the default music player, audioFX and jetaudio plus but they all sound the same

-screen pinning can't be unlocked holding the overview button

-the default email app (not the Gmail) isn't working. It keeps telling you incorrect password even if it's the right password and it crashes after the password error.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] nageswarswain:
Screen UNpinning seems to not working for me

I have pinned an app by screen pinning.but cant unpinning the screen.I tried many times.even trying after 2-3 reboots.not working.May be i followed wrong procedure?At the same time i hold BACK+Recent APPS button but failed.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sodth:
Xperia S stuck on Sony logo

hi, I'm having a problem with my phone. it's stuck at Sony logo after I shut it down and charged it. I have been using nAOSP build 15 rom. I didn't get to install recovery on it. it doesn't happen like this before. when I tried to flash the nAOSP 17 rom and failed, I wiped it all clean, even the OS and flashed it back to the build 15 version. I have disabled a few apps after that and this happened. what should I do? pardon my English.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Mirhawk:
Did You even read the thread? Or even some of previous replies? Phone seems to be stuck at Sony during second boot, but it is booting up! Takes about 10 to 15 minutes to boot up during second boot too!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] btfree:
missing SDCARD

The B16 ran very well for about one week, but somehow it lost the SDCARD mount after an auto reboot. Did anyone experience the same issue? I suspect it may be caused by the Greenify I tried.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] pejman97:
google play service an space storage

google play service forced stop working. how can i fix it?

i didn't flash gapps. i just flashed the rom and wipe chache and wipe dalvik cache(not wipe data)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] expo69:
Hi

I don't want full gapps (for LP size gapps: 155mb). Can I install PICO MODULAR PACKAGE from this page: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2397942

I can't find small package gapps for 5.0
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] karasu1024:
- I think you need to flash both the rom and gapps. That's what I did.

- You can use the Pico, I used the mini PA gapps and it worked for me. I even uninstalled google play music, google play movies and google play games. You just need to flash both rom and gapps.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] expo69:
@UP

Thanks, I found this topic, gapps for 5.0.x -> http://xdaforums.com/paranoid-android/general/gapps-official-to-date-pa-google-apps-t2943900
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tema_mogilev:
All functions are working perfect, thanks a lot to you for this!

But I have one problem with Instagram - after processing pictures app go back to newsfeed. =(

And one more. AudioFX didn't work in background, permanently stopped and I will turned it off. Maybe because I'm also have MusicFX from b16. In any case sound with Poweramp in headphones are great.

I'm using b17

P.S. Sorry for my bad English, i'm working on it.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] frov:
Running Naosp Xperia S, b17

Hi,

I saw that b17 was released for Xperia S from Mickybart and I dirty flashed it.

It seemed to work fine, but it kept indicating that play services stopped working.

And I also then found out I could not get into the playstore. Bummer.

So I completely wiped it all and reflashed the rom and gapps.

Then all was fine. This FYI.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] AnuragGovila:
Hi...So I downloaded GAPPS, reinstalled ROM from Recovery and then GAPPS and its done :good::good:

Performance and UI has been good so far, even battery consumption is low :good::good:

However, it went haywire last night and kept calling, texting, adding contacts on it own. :eek::eek: It was not responding to my touch, it wasn't even shutting down..erratic behavior stopper only when I put it on charging.

Any clue on what could be the reason :confused::confused:

- Anurag
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] nageswarswain:
Contacts not showing

Many times contacts are not showing.when an incoming call arrives it only shows the number although that number is saved.anyone also have this problem?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] karasu1024:
TWRP udpate

How do you update the TWRP 2.8.0.1 to TWRP 2.8.5.0?

Is it safe to update?

thanks in advance!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] vishals16:
Download the image file. Rename it to fotakernel.img and place it on the sdcard. Then either through adb shell or through terminal emulator run the following commands.

su

dd if=/sdcard/fotakernel.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p11
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Mirhawk:
Yup it is safe, I have flashed it and it seems to be working.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] karasu1024:
Thanks guys! I will try to flash it now.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] shuuts:
can any one tell me what i need to do if i want an overclocked kernel
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Mirhawk:
Yes, the ROM has phantom touches, so it performs actions where it touches. Enable "Show Touches"from developer settings, You will understand what I mean (when the problem occurs again). To solve the matter temporarily, Yo need to reboot the phone whenever such events occur by pressing power plus volume up button.

There are two choices for over clockedd Kernel, 1.7Ghz and 1.8Ghz. Their filenames are:

1.7Ghz- boot.img-oc

1.836Ghz - boot.img-oc_ultra

Choose which one You want, and then extract the respective file from ROM.zip of version You are using(b16, b17 etc). Then connect Your phone to PC (switched on) and flash it using the following command:

adb reboot bootloader
fastboot flash boot boot.img

replace boot.img in the command with the file You wan to flash.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] abhinavjoshua:
Hi,

I don't know how but I managed to install nAOSP ROM 5.0 for Xperia S (b16). After three days of research and experimentation I have the Lollipop! But I am facing some problems and the phone is responding very slow. I could see some updates:

(nAOSProm 5.0-b17) and (boot-b17-dt2w-fix)

So, few questions needs to be answered and to avoid confusion, kindly answer my questions pointwise:

1. How to update to these latest updates?

2. I have installed these Gapps (gapps-lp-20141109-signed). What are the latest updates to these?

3. I have also installed some regular apps like Whatsapp, hike, etc, so I don't want to reinstall every app after my update to b17. Should I take a backup of all apps in Sony Companion PC Suite? Will it restore after the update?

4. Do I have to unlock the bootloader and root the device again?

5. I want to erase everything on my SD card after the update to b17. How to do that while flashing the ROM?

6. I always get confused in flashing the TWRP thing. Please redirect me to a link where it is explained a bit more in depth.

I don't want to confuse myself again. (It's painful). So please let me know the steps on how to update from b16 to b17 and how to flash that latest TWRP thing. (I used the flashtool)

Thanks in advance. This is a great community!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ant_Z:
1. Download latest zip with ROM to sd card, download latest gapps to sdcard. Reboot to recovery (i prefer twrp), make wipe, flash these two zips, wipe cache - and boot. It will take 3-5 minutes for the first boot. It is Clean install. If u want a dirty one - don't do any wipes - just flash only ROM.

2. I use PA-Gapps minimal. They are ok. http://xdaforums.com/paranoid-android/general/gapps-official-to-date-pa-google-apps-t2943900

3. I think that sony pc companion won't work. U may use dirty install. If u use clean install u'll have to reinstall your apps. It is not so long)

4. If u use this rom - it is already prerooted. Just flash new version - 5 minutes and u are updated.

5. In TWRP recovery u can format sd card.

6. I was also confused in flashing TWRP but it was not so hard. It is so cool. TWRP won't delete from your phone after every flashing (as Doomlords recovery). HOWTO FLASH:

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I have written permissions in TWRP's terminal and everything is perfect now. Thanks
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] abhinavjoshua:
Terminal Emulator - No such file in directory

Thank you so much for replying! It's clear to me now but I'm stuck on one thing now. The terminal emulator app says that "No such file or directory".

I've copied the fotakernel.img to storage/sdcard0
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] expo69:
battery drain?

Anyone have battery drain with process "miscellaneous" ? I don't know what is it. I have screnshots from wakelock detector too. Do you know what is the problem? :confused:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Mirhawk:
Are You sure You typed it correctly? Because that means the terminal emulator app couldn't find the file.

Some of the answers to questions were not accurate as told by Ant_Z, so just re-typing them.

1. You can either dirty flash or clean flash. If You go for clean flash, You wipe system,, data, cache and dalvik cache and then flash the ROM and gapps. This causes You to loose Your apps and their settings as well as Your personalisation.

If You do a dirty flash, You wipe only dalvik cache and cache, and then flash the ROM. This helps You retain Your apps, their data and the personalisation You did. Although it causes problems sometimes. You don't need to flash gapps again.

2. You will get updates to those from Google play itself.

3. PC companion stops working once You unlock bootloader.

4. No once, You unlock bootloader, You don't need to unlock the bootloader again, unless You lock it. There is a different procedure to it, it won't get locked by flashing a stock firmware or any other ROM.

5. See, if You format sdcard, You loose the ROM.zip too. So You cannot wipe everything. If You do want to do that, then first check that adb is working for Your device when You boot into twrp. To check, do as follows:

Boot into Twrp. Open adb, and check with

adb devices

If it shows the device, try pushing a file to it. You can do so by following command.

adb push file.zip /sdcard/

Remember, the file You want to push should be in the same folder as where You have the adb.exe file.

Now check if the file has been copied to the phone. If it has been, then You can wipe sdcard too and then push the ROM.zip and gapps to phone via TWRP after You wipe sdcard and then flash them.

That is an Android bug, it is faced by some. For now there is no good solution to it. The bug used to go away by flashing the ROM, but I cannot guarantee that it won't come back.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] abhinavjoshua:
yes

Yes I have typed it correctly and tried five six times.

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Thank you so much Mirhawk for replying!

:good:

But I'm still getting an error in terminal emulator in running the code to flash TWRP and yes, I renamed it to fotakernel.img
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] vishals16:
I think you renamed the filename to fotakernel.img. The extension has to be .img. Check if that is the case.

:)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ant_Z:
I recommend u to double check what u type in emulator (every symbol, every space, every letter), also check that fotakernel.img is on the sdcard (in the root of sdcard). Also dont forget to hit enter after u typed su in terminal (there should popup a window to give root accces to terminal). everything should be ok if u havent misspelled

:good:

I did my best)

vishals16 can be right - maybe u typed fotakernel.img.img ? :confused:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] abhinavjoshua:
****! I am so noob. I'll just try it and post the result here.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Mirhawk:
Do one thing, open adb on pc and then type following commands:

adb shell
su

At this point, check Your phone, it will ask You for root permission or something similar.

Then copy paste the following as it is, so You won't have any errors:

dd if=/sdcard/fotakernel.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p11

Yup, hence the "accurate"! No offense meant though!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] vishals16:
I mean maybe he renamed it to fotakernel.img (just the filename, not including the extension), such that the filename with extension becomes fotakernel.img.img.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] abhinavjoshua:
I renamed the file to fotakernel (.img) being the extension. Still getting that same error.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Mirhawk:
Try this two commands in terminal app, and then check the name of the file in it.

cd /sdcard/
ls
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] abhinavjoshua:
Hey Thanks Mirhawk, It worked!:good:

The file was not showing in that list. I realized that I pasted it in the wrong directory and I mentioned it in my second post. It was storage ( a folder)/ sdcard0 (another folder)

But it had to be directly in the first directory.

Sorry for being so noob! :rolleyes:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] karasu1024:
Help!

Quick help from the gurus here.

My email app doesn't seem to work. Both b16 and b17 didn't fix it.

It keeps saying wrong password even though it's the right one.

It then crashes after the password error.

Also the loud speaker is still in stereo. Found a work around for it by using forced mono from jetaudio.

Using the headset is fine though.

The camera i think would be better if we just used the google camera app.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ant_Z:
What app do u use? I use gmail and no problems

What do u mean loudspeaker is in stereo? Sound is good both in music apps and during calls.

Camera is a bit slow, but i don't remember it was quick anyway
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ahmed Negm:
Bluetooth Control Via Windows & Chrashing apps

Hi there!

I have flashed the rom and it's working great.

But I have a bit of a problem. I can't control the device via Bluetooth anymore.

There had been a "Control" option when I right click the device icon in the Bluetooth Devices. Since I flashed the rom, it's gone. I can assure you it's not something related to the OS (Windows 7) because I have tried a bunch of other phones (including another LT26) and they all work.

Does it need some sort of a driver or a ROM tweaking or something else?!

btw, Great Work! Really!

And Thanks for putting so much effort into making other ppl happy.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] vishals16:
Yeah, about the email app. It works only for microsoft accounts. Configuring any other accounts force closes the app.

I found that it works better on ucyan rom.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ahmed Negm:
Updating from b16 to b17

Do I have to wipe anything when updating or can I just flash the b17 over the b16?

And why there's a new boot.img file the boot-b17-dt2w-fix ?!!

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Hi there!

Since I flashed the rom and when I connect the phone to my PC via bluetooth, I can't "Control" it. The option used to appear when I right click my "phone icon" on the "Bluetooth Devices" section under Control Panel".

That allowed me b4 to use a lot of options like "Using my PC speakers as my phone's" and some other stuff.

Is there a solution?!

It's not Windows related coz I have tried a bunch of phones (including another LT26) and they all work fine but this Lollipop guy?!

Great Work building this btw!!!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] dudssdud:
root xperia S not work just in flashtools

Folks, I'm having a problem with the root xperia. I use Titanium BKP and the Busybox normally also access the flashtools when it indicates that the root is okay, but when I try to flash the kernel, it says that the phone is not root, someone has seen this problem? thank you very much! (sorry for the bad english, google translator! hahaha)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] shamsul007:
Requests

Things I would like to see in the next update.

1. Governor and IO tweaker

Makes things easier to manage instead of having to use an app.

2.Force Kill

This was how I stopped most apps in KK.

3. CM12 Theme Engine (?) Most likely not possible but I thought I'd ask. I know its in uCyan. But I haven't got round to trying it yet. As it's the same kernel can I dirty flash it over nAOSProm?

4.V4A

It seems to be working in uCyan and it uses the same kernel. But we're having problems. Its a minor thing tbh, I don't want hold up development for everyone as a result of my selfishness.

Thank You.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] karasu1024:
-yeah, the reason I used the default email was for my microsoft account and it doesn't work at all. It keeps saying wrong password and then crashes. The gmail app is okay though.

-I use the default email that came with the rom not the gmail. Gmail is fine, the default one doesn't take my microsoft account.

-The default settings for the loudspeaker was mono while the headset is stereo. To explain what I meant by the stereo problem on the loudspeaker, when you play a song, you only hear the guitars and a faint bass and drums (kinda like when you only use one of the earphones when listening to a stereo headphones). When you use both headphones though, it's balanced because you can hear all the instruments on each ear. I have to use force mono when i'm on the loudspeaker so i can hear all the instruments. I hope this info is enough to understand. If you want to know what I mean, try listening to "Sons of the Sea - Jet black crow" on any media player then listen to it using loud speaker on your phone. The first 10 seconds should be enough for you to tell it sounds different or try listening to it with your headset then through loudspeaker. Just the first 10 seconds will be enough to tell the difference.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Mirhawk:
That means Your bootloader is not unlocked. Also, You could have asked this question in QA thread.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] pakku10:
GApps Not working after installation

Hi All,

I have installed the Android 5.02 and its working fine, but only one thing missing Google Apps.

I had installed the gAPPs (The one I had for kitkat gAPPs) after the ROM but its not reflecting in the phone once it rebooted.

Is there any link for new 5.2 gAPPs? Please let me know. Thanks in Advance.

Regards

Prakash
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Mirhawk:
Kitkat gapps won't even get installed on Lollipop. Use the gapps from here.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] luigi0824:
I've flash boot.IMG with oc but I can't overclock. What am I doing wrong
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Mirhawk:
It is pre-overclocked.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] karasu1024:
Battery Drain

Hey guys and gals,

I have a bit of a dilema.

Today, I woke up to a drained phone.

This is the first time this ever happened to my phone both from stock and custom rom.

I have no idea what's happening. I always dismiss all apps and clear cache before locking my phone to make sure nothing is running.

I have this "miscellaneous" thing that's running in the background consuming 72% constantly.

I'm not using live wallpaper, (wifi, gps, 3g) was turned off before i went to sleep.

Any ideas? Is this a bug? Screenshot below.

Also I just turned off the option for apps to search for wifi while phone is sleeping but the "Miscellaneous" is still showing 72%.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ant_Z:
What build do u use? How long do u use this build (more than 2-3 days?). I had it once on b16, i thought that i haven't fully plugged my charger in. Maybe a bug. But it won't happen again in my case.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] karasu1024:
I'm using the lastest b17. i used it since the b17 came out. I was just surprised to find my phone dead, all drained.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ant_Z:
b16 is the most stable for me - b17 has some changes prior to cm12 and they are not smooth and maybe are buggy.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] AnuragGovila:
HI Mirhawk, Thanks for the reply..too busy with work these days. I was wondering if there is any permanent solution on phantom touches. I have to reboot atleast ten times a day coz of phantom 'menace' touch.

Thanks

Anurag
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] schumifer1:
No phantom touches here! (Thank God, i remember when i had them (until i figured them out), drove me nuts!!!)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Speaker87:
Internal storage (sdcard) won't mount

I'm having a strange issue in my xperia s. After a fresh install plus gapps, i can acess sd card, and it mounts.

After a few hours of usage sdcard gets unmounted , and even a sdcard format through twrp gets this issue solved. I boot the phone again , and using "es explorer" from store, i still cannot acess the sd card, i get the message "umounted sdcard". i tried to manually mount the sd card trought twrp, and using the file explorer from trwp , i can acess the partition sdcard.

Any thoughts?? =/
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] luigi0824:
What does it mean?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] urilyn:
Rom nAOSP 5.0.2 issue

Hi Guys, I have a Sony Xperia SL, and I am trying to install nAOSP 5.0.2 for Xperia S with no luck. Everytime I go to CWM Recovery install zip, an error always appears the the rom is for a "nozomi" device, can anyone confirm if this works on SL? I've tried editing the build.prop to nozomi and it soft bricked my phone after installation, now I'm back to stock and rooted my phone again, can you help me with the steps on how to apply this?