yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] dolorespark:
DoPa5 v1.2 - AOSP 5.1.1_r8 (US/UK/AU/DE) released

I've released Dopa5 v1.2. See the first posting for links.

I believe this is the most functional and full-featured ROM I've ever produced. All hardware and software features appear to work as expected, from Android Beam to WiFi Display. If you've put off the upgrade from KitKat waiting for Lollipop to mature, I think your time has come: give it a try (after doing a backup, of course :) )
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] ceedj:
Upgraded from the previous build, no problems so far.

Great work! As soon as I fix the charging port on the other two Sero Pros, will be loading this fine ROM into them!
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] sinnedone:
Any changes from the last beta?

Wiping cash and flashing 1.2 over the last beta ok?

Thanks for all your work.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] jkmk:
Nice DOPA. in fact

I am responding via my 7 right now. Will keep using as my daily driver for now too as a full test. Still wish they had numeric battery % in stat bar rather than that bat pic. Lol.

As usual FANTASTIC WORK :good:
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] techrocks:
Control Widget disappeared

Hi dolorespark,

Thanks for all the great work you have been doing, just upgraded my Sero 7 Pro to your Dopa5 v1.2. release from Dopa5 v1.1, working great so far but one thing i noticed is that the control widget that had wifi,gps, screen brightness toggle switch is missing, is there a way to enable this?

Thanks,

Av
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] jkmk:
missing control widget

Are you speaking of the "gear" widget? If so it is still there. Drag the gear widget to the screen and select one of the options presented.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] techrocks:
I'm talking about the widget that had "Wifi, Bluetooth, GPS, Sync, ScreenBrightness" , you could just toggle them on/off
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] sinnedone:
Minus the gps and sync the rest are in the pull down notification
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] techrocks:
I know that but it would be nice to control all that in one single widget.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] jkmk:
missing control widget

Try power toggles in the play store. Many that saw the toggle go away in lollipop have said it replicates+ the old widget.

From my sero7 using DOPA
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] richslocum:
widget

I belive it was called the 'power control' widget.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] paratwa53:
Its called powerful control, and I am using it. Seems to work as advertised.

I updated to the latest ROM, And I am still having no luck with my screen staying alive during charging. I tried the tips dolorespark gave me earlier, but it still goes to sleep.

Yes I went into the developer page and enabled stay awake during charge. But it still goes to sleep. This is very annoying since I use my Sero as an alarm clock. I have to reach over and tap the screen to get it to wake up. This feature worked great with the Kitkat Rom.

Any ideas?

Edit: I downloaded an app called stay awake. It seems to work. So at least I found a work around.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] TheLoonyRebel:
Latest build is giving me "storage space running out" warnings after getting thru setup despite having....

Internal = 5.32 gb available/5.48 gb total

Micro SD = 51.75 gb available/59.47gb total

Also getting application install 504 error. Any ideas?

Edit: I forgot that installing the Xposed flashable zip after this ROM is a bad idea. Will report back upon seeing if Xposed works after instaling post first boot of this build.

Edit 2: Yes indeed it's Xposed that is causing this issue. I think we had this happen on earlier builds. I can't remember if any solution to get Xposed working was found as well.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] BullishDad:
Gapps Crashing

First, I want to say "Thank You" to DoloresPark for all the hard work that goes into the DOPA ROM.

I'm not very experienced with these things, but I did manage to get from stock to 5.11 DOPA v1.1 on my Sero7 Pro.

I installed the v1.2 and that seemed to go fine, but then the Google Apps started crashing. I saw the note for upgraders to install the TK Gapps. At first, I thought the the version I already had was fine (Nano), so I reinstalled that. The installation process seemed to go OK, but then crashes continued. Next, I downloaded the most current version of Nano and tried to install it. The installation failed and I received this message:

TK GAps can ONLY be installed on top of an existing installation of TK GApps. You must wipe (format) your system partition BEFORE installing any TK GApps package.

GApps Installation failed.

Error code: 40

Please help. I'm not sure what to do next. I'd rather not have to reinstall all apps if it can be avoided.

Thank you.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] jachol:
Clean install 10 days ago, just general browsing and screen casting, no issues so far,

Streaming video to TV via chromecast seems very good and more reliable now.

Well done Dopa, your efforts are greatly appreciated. ... J
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] paratwa53:
I also tried installing Xposed, thank goodness I had made a back up before doing so. It made my Sero slow and very unstable. I reinstated my previous back up and every thing is back to normal.

From what I have read the latest version of Xposed is a beta and has known issues with lollipop. They are working on it. Hopefully they will get it fixed soon.

I have also tried installing Nova and Apex launchers. Nova completely crashed my tablet, and Apex was not much better. For now I am going to just stick with the stock launcher.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] nitsuj77a:
Greetz all. And of course, thanks Dolorespark. DOPA keeps my Sero in service instead of in a drawer...

Been running 1.2 for about a week now. All has worked on my Sero save for bluetooth audio. My headphones connect and I get sound out of it, but it's like someone is messing with the pitch control. Audio is fast and choppy, like the tablet sends audio faster than the headphones can process it.

Only other issue is NFC, but I think my radio died. Anyone else have any similar experiences?
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] dolorespark:
If you were running a current Gapps version (i.e. targetting 5.1.1), it should have gone OK. Anyway, fixing this should be easy and shouldn't cause any loss of apps or data.

Reinstall Dopa v1.2, then install your most recent Gapps package. Don't wipe or format anything - the installer will take care of whatever needs to be done. Reboot and all should be well - if not, let me know.

What format is the source in (i.e. MP3, AAC, WMA)? There used to be a problem with Windows Media and a few others but that was fixed long ago (or so I thought). What little I have is AAC that I ripped on a Mac and it plays fine thru my BT speaker (which I originally bought solely to test BT audio).

As to NFC... someone gave me a Nexus 7 last week so I was finally able to test it for the first time ever. I transferred some pictures and that worked OK (note that NFC handles the "I've got something for you" part - the data itself is transferred via Bluetooth).
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] BullishDad:
Black Screen

I was playing around and tapped the Brightness level on the control pulldown all the way to the left. This caused the screen to go dark. Is there a way with the buttons or taps to turn it back on? I also reinstalled 1.2 and TK GApps hoping that would help, but it didn't.

As it boots up, I can see the DOPA screen, but when it should display the desktop page, it remains black.

Edit: I managed to get the screen working again. I tried swiping and tapping where I thought the Brightness control would be and managed to change it back to normal. I'm going to leave it alone, but there should be a minimum level that can be seen or a way to enable it back on.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] dolorespark:
OMG! That's TERRIBLE!

I thought we'd fixed this by setting a minimum brightness level of '10' (out of 255). I reduced my brightness all the way down but the screen was still visible - as expected. Then I went into Settings and turned on "Display->Adaptive brightness" (which I always turn off). BIG mistake! My screen went black and no amount of touching or swiping helped.

This forced me to boot into Recovery in the hope of messing with the database that stores all these settings. I found it but had no clear idea how to modify it. Happily, there's a 'sqlite3' program in /system/xbin; using it's various "help" options, I was able to load the DB and dump its contents. 'screen_brightness' was indeed set to "10" but 'screen_auto_brightness_adj' was set to "-0.84000003" - which is to say "reduce the current setting by 84%".

Since I don't know SQL, I couldn't use conventional methods to reset the values, so I had to resort to brute force. I pulled a copy of the database, modified its contents using a hex editor (fortunately the values were plain text), then put it back and hoped for the best. When I rebooted. the screen was back to normal. If this hadn't worked I would have been forced to delete the entire DB to return all the Settings to their just-installed defaults. (For future reference, the database is '/data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db'.)

I'm unlikely to release a new version very soon but I'll try to resolve this once and for all. Meanwhile, you may want to turn off adaptive brightness (I always turn it off because I dislike it when a computer tries to be "helpful" - it seldom is).

BTW... did your reinstall(s) fix the Gapps problem?
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] kc12:
This actually happened to me yesterday. I never use auto brightness. I turned it on to see how it worked. I went outside for a while, when I came inside the screen went black. I couldn't turn it up. I panicked. didn't know what to do. In desperation I held the tablet next to a light bulb, it adjusted and came on. I turned it off immediately and thought " I'll never do that again!" . Glad to see you're already aware of it. you're awesome. Thanks for all the work and dedication you put in to this tablet for us. I've never had a device with a developer as dedicated as you. it's amazing. it really is!
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] nitsuj77a:
Thanks for the reply! The source was youtube, spotify and the synology audio app playing MP3s at 256-192Kbps. I don't use the headphones (sx-907c) that often so it isn't a huge deal, just didn't know if you (or some users) encountered the issue before - I must have missed it the last time.

I figured NFC was working, just mine doesn't. There's a tester app I used to check it and it says the HW is present, but never on/active. But then it hasn't for a while anyway though and I never tried to open the Sero for further investigation...

Update 8/1---------------

Tried the headphones again on a whim and sound is fine now. Thanks!
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] Pow_2k:
Very cool, I did not know this was how the transfer operated! While it may not have been anything important to this thread I appreciate you including this little nugget of info. Thanks!

Regarding correcting the brightness from recovery mode...

I'm not sure exactly what the syntax would be for sqlite3, but it would likely be something similar to this:

UPDATE settings.db WHERE column1='screen_brightness' SET column2=255

"column1" would be the column where "screen_brightness" was found and "column2" would be the name of the column where the "10" value was found. I just threw "255" in there as the brightness in order to max it out til Android is booted into and the normal means can be used. I'm not sure exactly how sqlite3 identifies the database to use so the "settings.db" value I mentioned may differ.

Simple SQL is quite simple once you know the syntax for the SQL program you're using. Getting more advanced can make your head spin though. The most important thing I've learned (luckily, not the hard way) about SQL is that when doing an update be absolutely sure that the "where" test you are providing is what you want. You can quickly overwrite everything in a DB if you have that test wrong or omitted. It is good practice to do a "select" first and review the results to ensure your "where" test is selecting the records you intended.

Hope you found this useful! Thanks for all your hard work on these ROMs!
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] RandyM:
Blank Screen

After installing AOSP 5.11_R8 DoPa5 v1.2 I just get a blank screen after startup, kinda like the launcher is not starting...I can hold the power button down, and option comes up to shutdown. I am not able to access anything else...I have tried to format and install again, just did same thing. I have tried with and without gapps mini. I am upgrading from your 4.4 rom. Any Info or help on fixing this would be appreciated. Thanks

Randy

P.S. I really love the hard work you do for the Sero 7 Community.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] techrocks:
Try upgrading to Dopa5 v1.1 and then to v1.2, it doesn't take much time
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] lilchronic:
nexus 7 spoof 2.7

Hello

So when i installed the "sero7pro-nexus7spoof-dopa-v2.7" My sero 7 / Nexus 7 just gets stuck at the boot screen? Is there a way to uninstall it back to a sero 7 spoof?
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] BullishDad:
Yes, the reinstall worked beautifully. Thank you. I thought I posted that performing the two installs one after the other solved the problem, but I don't see it here.

Back to the black screen problem. I had been testing playing music via Bluetooth to a wireless speaker when I thought the brightness slider was for volume. When I tapped the left side and the screen went blank, I knew that caused the problem. The music continued playing at the same volume, so the tablet was active even though nothing was on the screen. I was in a bit of a panic because nothing was getting the screen back. I know I was lucky to get it back on. There was no way I would have been able to fix it the way you did. I used the Recovery mode to see if I could change a setting, but the closest thing I found only affected the brightness of the Recovery screen. I even tried going to a brighter room and looking for a faint image, but couldn't see anything. Someone else posted they put the tablet under a bright light and that allowed him to turn off Adaptive Brightness. Maybe that would've worked for me if did something similar.

I've turned off Adaptive Brightness as you recommended.

All is well now, and my Sero7 Pro has never performed better. :)
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] dolorespark:
First, just to confirm I'm reading this right: you did format your /data partition, wiping out anything that might have been left from KitKat?

I saw this problem last week - not with v1.2 (Lollipop) but with my build of the "M Preview-1". There aren't any prepackaged Gapps for it, so I had to cobble something together from various sources. In an early attempt, I got the black screen you report while 'logcat' kept spewing messages that the Setup Wizard was trying to start the Launcher (to no avail, seemingly). Replacing one of the files in my package got me past the problem. I assume it wasn't compatible with the Android version I was running.

This makes me wonder if you were using the latest Gapps - especially since the

current

Mini package will NOT install for lack of space (this was discussed a page or two back). I'd suggest starting afresh: get the current TK Gapps Nano package, reformat '/data', then reinstall the ROM and Gapps. Once you're up and running, get the Google apps you really want directly from PlayStore.

What version of the ROM were you installing this on? Each version of the Nexus 7 spoof is only compatible with the corresponding ROM version. Mix-and-match is a recipe for problems.

You have several options: 1) if you have a mismatch, install the correct version of the spoof; 2) reinstall your current ROM and Gapps (you won't lose any data); or 3) let me know what version you're using and I'll create a flashable zip to restore the original 'build.prop'.

I tried the light bulb trick for it didn't work for me (though it should have). I also should have tried taking it into a pitch-black room in the hope of seeing _something_. Woulda been so much easier :)

Thanks for the info! I s'pose I could have figured it out - or just looked at the code for SettingsProvider which contains all the SQL statements used to manipulate the database. However, I was feeling lazy and stupid, so I reverted to my hackish ways...

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BTW... Since I mentioned my build of the "M Preview-1" above. I just want to let y'all know that there's nothing interesting in there. Unlike the complete ROMs that Google released for Nexus devices, they carefully omitted all the "good stuff" from the code they released: no install apps to SDcard, no user-controlled permissions, no Doze mode, no multi-window, no nada...

Still, getting it up and running has been useful. The proprietary Nvidia "blobs" that both the Sero7 and Nexus7 rely on require several libraries ("dlls" in Windows-speak) that are no longer part of Android. This seeming incompatibility prompted a comment in the Nexus 7 forum that they might never see "M". Maybe not, but that won't be a problem for the S7. My "hackish ways" come in handy every now and then :)
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] lilchronic:
went with option 2. Got every thing working. I installed dopa5-v1.2 so i thought the sero 7pro-nexus7spoofv2.7 should be the right one ?
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] enfermo:
No the ROM Dopa5 - v 1.2 have its own spoof is the second item to download in the frist post Number 1

hope it will help U
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] namronb:
Seek Thermal camera working!

dolorespark, thank you so much for your work in putting out these releases! I had been using the 2.7 AOSP444 release, and I was unable to use my Seek Thermal camera. It works perfectly under this latest 511 release, however! I now have a dedicated thermal camera with a 7" display for ~$350. (It does need an OTG extension cable to work properly because otherwise the camera would face the user and be upside down. That's just a limitation of the camera and software.)

The only glitch I've noticed with DoPa5 v1.2 is that logcat doesn't every show any messages (and neither do any apps that provide a logcat GUI). It turns out I haven't needed it because the OTG just worked and I didn't have to do any debugging.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] paratwa53:
My current 32 gig flash card is full. I just bought a 64 gig SDXC card, How do I best format it / partition it?

G.SKILL 64GB microSDXC Flash Card
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] jachol:
Hi,

I have 64GB card in my Sero 7, I use this software to format SD cards https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/ it automatically formats in exfat over 32GB didn't bother with partitions, but that's a personal choice. ... J
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] fanciscoxdd:
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[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] TheLoonyRebel:
I found a fix for Xposed to work with the current DOPA build courtesy of this post here:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=60773276&postcount=1824

After doing this build.prop fix and doing a cache wipe Xposed loaded perfectly and no low memory issues going on as well.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] paratwa53:
I will give it a try. Maybe tomorrow.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] TheLoonyRebel:
Just to give you an heads up it does slow down a few aspects of the ROM operation namely apps optimization after you do a cache/dalvik cache wipe. Otherwise things have been pretty speedy for me and it's so nice to have GravityBox working on DoPa again. :D
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] TheLoonyRebel:
Here something interesting I noticed with messing around with RRO Layers... a lot of text boxes and even settings looks like the attached picture no matter what RRO Layers theme I use. Any idea what is going on or what is causing this to happen?
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] sinnedone:
Xposed installer probably.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] TheLoonyRebel:
Same thing happens with Xposed not installed as well.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] CardinalChaos:
Yikes...

Ran into significant problem, after I grabbed a backup of my DOPA 5.1, I started navigating around philz and instead of hitting back button under the filesystem / mounts menu-- I accidentally hit enter / circle button and it unmounted /sdcard

Now if I try and enter recovery it just hangs with "FASTBOOT." If I try and load OS it also shows the DOPA logo and then just hangs.

Is there anything I can do to remount it?!

---------- Post added at 07:28 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:56 PM ----------

Well, not sure what exactly did it. It seems I powered it down and then re-powered on and let it load DOPA and everything seems to be fine now.

A.D.D. making me sweat over here--
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] Pow_2k:
FASTBOOT <> RECOVERY. I assume you were trying to get into recovery via a button combination? My guess would be you had the wrong one. If memory serves Power + Vol Up is FASTBOOT, Power + Vol Down is RECOVERY. But, I could have those backwards or possibly even confused with another Android device of mine...

Regardless, glad you're up and running again tho. Weird.