yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] HippoMan:
Yes, ART is the default in Lollipop, and most apps don't know (nor even care) whether the underlying JVM is Dalvik or ART. That's at too low a level.

Incompatibilities between 4.x.x and 5.0.x in apps are not usually due to Dalvik versus ART, but rather, to other, higher-level differences between those two OS versions. Some apps make use of OS capabilities that have changed or gone away in 5.0.x.

But in my experience, most of the 120+ apps I use work fine, both in 4.4.4 and 5.0.x.

One notable exception are the Xposed routines. Xposed is one of the few frameworks that is indeed Dalvik-specific. That's because it hooks into the OS at a very low level. Xposed is currently not functional in Lollipop, and it may never be.

.​

---------- Post added at 11:25 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:19 AM ----------

Trying this ROM.

I downloaded it, went into TWRP, did a clean wipe (cache, Dalvik, system, data), installed Validus-LP-v7.0-2015-02-02-validus_apexqtmo.zip and installed gapps-L-minimal-signed-1-19-15.zip.

Upon booting, it was sitting the boot animation for something like 10 minutes, with no apparent progress.

So instead of rebooting directly from TWRP, I completely shut down and then booted from scratch.

I recommend shudown-restart after flashing, instead of rebooting directly from recovery.

The ROM came up after something like 5 minutes of the howling wolf (the bootanimation screen), so be patient during this first boot.

The ROM looks good!

After booting, I configured the ROM, and then I restored my apps via Titanium (backed up from a 4.4.4 ROM). All but a handful of the apps restored fine, and most of them are running.

In my experience, if an app is incompatible with 5.0.x, its Titanum restore will hang forever. In this case, I've had to shut down the device (because I don't know how to abort a running Titanium restore), go back to Titanium, remove the offending app from the restore list, and then redo the restore.

Even though Xposed doesn't work under Lollipop, almost all of my Xposed apps restored fine via Titanium. It's just that the Xposed framework will not come up.

Anyway ... GREAT WORK!!!

Onward!

.​
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] Gibson99:
with any new rom, i like to try it as-is for a bit without really tweaking things. i'll try out the default launcher (unless i've used it before and know i hate it, ie: trebuchet... i prever nova), i'll try out the stock messaging app, notification settings, etc. of course i'll always end up changing something... even in windows 7 (and 8.x and win10 preview) i changed the default taskbar button behavior to never combine and always show text - more like XP. for me, it's quicker to see the name of whatever window i'm looking for, since i never have fewer than 8 windows open at any time unless i'm just playing a game on steam or something.

i've just backed everything up and am about to try flashing this rom myself. should be interesting! :cool:
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] HippoMan:
FYI: I brought up the Nova launcher (which is what I used under 4.4.4). It works fine.

.​

---------- Post added at 12:29 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:59 AM ----------

I'm very happy with this ROM. Great work by REV3NT3CH!!

One issue:

The "Show brightness slider" entry in Settings->Notification drawer doesn't turn off. If it is clicked off, it gets turned on again, automatically, and the brightness slider remains in the notification drawer.

Some nice-to-haves:

1. Allow the "Bottom corners shortcuts" to be disabled on the lockscreen, or allow them to be reassigned to something like "Do nothing". I absolutely do not want to access anything from the lockscreen, except the unlock button. I know I can hack this functionality by writing a do-nothing app with a transparent or all-black icon, installing it, and then assigning it to both bottom corner shortcuts. However, it would be nice to have the option of completely disabling these corner shortcuts.

2. Provide a notification-bar tile for switching between sound and vibrate-only mode. A power-menu button for that purpose would be a good alternative.

3. Allow an optional date to the left of the status-bar time field.

4. Allow us to change the color of the status-bar icons such as time, battery indicator, network indicator, etc.

Anyway, keep up the good work!

.​
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] HippoMan:
Problem with detection of physical keyboard.

Unfortunately, I hit a "show stopper" :(

Although the physical keyboard works, 3rd-party keyboard programs such as SwiftKey, Velocity, etc. do not detect that there is a physical keyboard. When using them with the physical keyboard open, the on-screen keyboard pops up. I can still use the physical keyboard to enter text, however.

In other words, the physical keyboard works, but its existence is not detected by 3rd-party keyboard apps.

.​
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] falle21:
Well, awesome Rev, I'm using this ROM all day and battery and performance are amazing, I never use camcorder, so all is working great for me.

Thank you very much for keep relay alive

Sent from my SGH-T699
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] juajaime:
Looks like the dreaded GPS bug continues to haunt me, phone reboots after opening Google Maps and GPS test.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] John5788:
I'm also noticing that there isn't a way to sync the Calendar app. Under accounts -> sync, I only see "App Data, Contacts, People Details". When opening the calendar app, it asks me for my username and attempting to use the same Google account results in the app complaining that this account already exists on this device.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] Gibson99:
I'll second this. when i use a pattern lock, i want the pattern to appear immediately when i press power to unlock the device. I don't want to have to slide to make the dots appear. I can certainly see the utility in having shortcuts there, but personally, for ease of use (esp in the car) please make that optional.

still playing with it, getting all my options set up, but so far it looks nice. thanks for your hard work!
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] John5788:
Does this version of Lollipop enable Bluetooth 4.0's peripheral mode?
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] Gibson99:
ok so i tried letting google restore my apps before i used titanium. that was a mistake and a waste of time. so i told titanium to uninstall everything i had a backup for so i could reinstall from backup proper. after that, i noticed that adaway and nova launcher were still there, and apparently they're system apps. adaway included in the rom? sweet! :) that said, i think i'll do a factory reset and NOT restore from google backup this time since i've sort of made a mess of things.

i know i did a wipe before and after flashing the rom, but it was weird how some of the settings were already where i wanted them, such as the default ringtone and notification sound.

one other tiny glitch i noticed tho - first time i went into sound options, the toggle for linking notification volume to ringer volume was set to off, but the volume slider for notif volume was grayed out till i turned the toggle on then off again.

also, how hard to disable or change the shutdown animation? i don't mind the pulsating wolf boot logo (which btw i thought was a Klingon bird of prey lol), but the skulls are not my style. would rather have a simple spinning circle or just a static "Shutting down..." text than that. but maybe i'm just being picky. :p
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] TPMJB:
Yeah, I can confirm. Any time I go to use a program that has GPS, I go into reboot.

Edit: Oddly enough video recording works in snapchat, though that occasionally goes into reboot.

Edit2: It seems the apps don't immediately go into reboot that use GPS, but after about 20 seconds they do. I think I actually got a lock on my gps location.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] REV3NT3CH:
Weird...GPS works great here...I'll look into it though I suggest not restoring apps especially from tibu as it is very issue some in lollipop...the gapps I linked are recommended but slims mini package works well too...gapps can play a vital role...also...if more issues arise with twrp try cwm...just in case...also as well....the first bootup will take a little bit...even though it may not seem like it will boot...just let it sit and do its thing until it does boot...I highly recommend against shutting down on initial first boot as that too can cause issues...but hey not bad for first release
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] Gibson99:
gps causing reboot here too. i installed gmaps from play store, not tibu, still caused reboot.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] REV3NT3CH:
Try flashing with cwm and don't restore any apps...use recommended gapps please
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] Gibson99:
ok, i used the latest twrp (2.8.0.1 i think), got it from its thread here since i was on one from last june or july - whenever cm11m7 came out. this latest time i tried this rom, i flashed it, then wiped everything but system from twrp - dalvik, cache, data, and internal sd (i removed my ext sd for the flash, just in case).

recommended gapps was flashed at same time as the rom, but it doesnt have maps, which is why i had to get it from play store.

will try cwm later tonight.

had another random reboot a little while ago. i'd gone somewhere in the car, played some mp3s from external sd via bluetooth. came inside, opened gmail (also from play store) and as i tried to open an email, it locked up for a few seconds then rebooted.

one more thing - each time i tried it today (three times) the first time setup wizard crashed when it gave you a choice of launchers, before you even had a chance to pick one. it would then let you pick one and that worked but the wizard itself died in the background.

---------- Post added at 08:31 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:52 PM ----------

is there a zip version of cwm that can be flashed from recovery? all i found was the img version, in the new toad L rom that also showed up today. was trying to do everything direct on my phone without hooking up the pc, since right now all i have is a win10 preview box, which if it decides to flake during a flash would not be a good thing.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] REV3NT3CH:
Yea give me a bit I'll find the flashable zip...also...not wiping system keeps you were you were before...I've yet to have a reboot lol
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] Gibson99:
ok to clarify. first time round i followed your first post to the letter. updated twrp, put rom and gapps zips on internal sd, then did the wipes you specified, flashed rom, and then i wiped cache and dalvik again out of habit. reboot, came up slow as expected on first boot. i messed up the apps trying to restore from google then titanium, so i rebooted to twrp and did a factory reset there. boot again and seemed ok, played with it a few hours, but then decided to reset again. this time i went to twrp and wiped everything except system (this is what i was talking about above). so i've only applied the zips once and just wiped the various partitions a few times.

eagerly awaiting cwm recovery zip. :)
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] John5788:
Here is a flashable CWM. I believe its 6.0.3.7: https://transfer.sh/3sfxK/322-relaycwm.zip
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] REV3NT3CH:
More up to date cwm Click Me!!!

here you go bud..
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] Gibson99:
ok, so i found the cwm 6044 zip in magamo's thread on fat toad 5.0.2 and stuck that on internal storage. booted to twrp, wiped everything except storage (wiped system too) and flashed cwm. dismissed msg about no root - well yeah system's blank so it's not rooted. rebooted to recovery, verified cwm 6.0.4.4. flashed rom then banks minimal gapps. wiped cache & dalvik again just to be sure. good thing i wiped system while in twrp cuz i couldnt see where to do it in cwm. cwm also offered to fix root when i tried to reboot, but i said no.

rebooted, then did some cleaning downstairs so i dont know how long it actually took, but it prevented me from getting impatient and rebooting during that first boot. started setup wizard, had to try 4 times to connect to my home wifi (not sure if i was mistyping the keyphrase or what), connected google account (i like how it automatically grabs the 2fa key from your sms), then it crashed on the home chooser screen again. picked launcher3, then went straight to play store and got google maps. installed fine, ran it, agreed to terms, and it got a fix of some sort because i recognized my neighborhood streets.... for about 2 seconds, before it rebooted.

so it should be pretty easy for me to reproduce. would catlogs survive a crash/reboot like that? i can get logcat and try to capture something if it'll help. or any other logs u want me to try and get. willing to help as i see a lot of stuff i like in this rom.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] John5788:
Found a similar post on reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Nexus5/comments/2jlda1/cant_get_google_calendar_to_work_in_lollipop/

I ended up doing the same thing, installing Google Calendar from the Play Store fixed everything. Included Calendar app doesn't work correctly.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] REV3NT3CH:
yes any kind of log is greatly appreciated
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] Gibson99:
sent you a PM with the link to my logcat. hope it helps, since i have no idea what to look for in that log.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] chuckiev79:
Alright. So i officially got on this mofo, and gps works like a boss! Yeahhh. Umm. I get the impression that ram problems might be an issue for us on this one. Although, I have only ran with this for half a day. Gps definetly is good. Camera and video is as posted. Sound is bit low, but good. Kernel is awesomesauce as usual. Is there a setting to disable just the menu and back button backlight? I like the keyboard to be backlit but not these two. If anyone knows a solution to this little problem please let me know.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] taiber2000:
Can confirm this working,

i believe the gapps that are posted in OP does not include the calender sync witch installed as you install the Google colander from the play store.

edit:

i didn't have any issue with rebooting using any app that needs GPS, but i didn't got any signal lock either.

edit2: this rom also restored the abilty to use link2sd that was lost in cm11
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] taiber2000:
can we use the pa-gapps packages instead of the recommend one in the OP?

i mean using the mini / micro / nano / pico versions of the PA-GApps.

i believe that those packages are the best version of the Gapps and have zero compatibly issues with google services.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] chuckiev79:
So I found an app for backlit button disable. I just want to give a heads up, avoid GPS aides app it will mess GPS and everything to hell and back. Had to start from scratch again after this.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] Gibson99:
tried gps again today and surprise, its working without rebooting or crashing!

however, i did notice when i reached over to turn off the alarm this morning (yeah, i'm oldschool and still have a clock radio lol) that my phone was rebooting while sitting on the nightstand, plugged into charger. last night i took it out of my pocket to check the time and saw it was rebooting there, too. no idea what's causing these random reboots since they both happened when i was not using the phone.

tried google camera and it works fine for both photos and video. didnt try photosphere but i expect it'l be fine too. so maybe you can omit the stock camera and include google cam in the gapps you recommend?

the stock "music" and file manager apps doen't seem to acknowledge that i have an sd card. i know that's the trend in L since fewer and fewer phones even have an sd card slot, but plenty that will be getting official L still do, like the S4. i dont care that stock file manager doesnt work with sd cards since i use es explorer, but i wanted to try the stock music app... it just doesn't want to see the 20+gb of mp3s on my sd card.

i know about remounting the internal/external storage to make extsd look like internal to the os, but i swap sd cards often enough that this would cause problems. ie: i have several dashcams and sometimes take the sd card from the cam and put it in the phone to review footage.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] chuckiev79:
I also have a crap ton of mp3s on external SD and at first they did not show up. I also had an issue with all pics in gallery not showing up. I have been doing allot of tinkering and believe somehow the media scan is tied into ram. I think this because after I freed up some ram and possibly a reboot or 2 all gallery pics and mp3s show up. Also I went into developers options and turned on diable hw overlays and everythings seems much more snappy.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] chuckiev79:
OK so after further experimentation I think it's intelliplug that borked GPS for me. Happened again to me today. Also messed with data ui in quick settings. Very strange stuff. Forced reboots when trying to use maps. I got waze to work but relay got super hot and battery drained like crazy. After I turned this off GPS was cool, but took cache wipe to restore ui for data in quick settings.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] falle21:
I have ram usage issues too, after a few hours my phone gets a little lazy, I have to reboot it. With Wheatley don't have any GPS or reboot issue neither
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] chuckiev79:
I also have had goggle maps/GPS reboots. I now know its due to under clocking. When both CPUs are at Max on interactive and Gps is on high accuracy no issues. When I underclock to 1350 I get reboots. Undervolting has no effect. I just set up two profiles with this in mind using android tuner. It's now called 3c toolbox.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] chuckiev79:
Scratch that still reboots. Still think ram is the cause. 5.1 Is coming though and better ram management is in tow.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] Gibson99:
just made a phone call on mine... (i know, weird, huh?) volume was CRAZY loud via handset earpiece. - at arm's length i could still hear the other person clearly. tried to turn down but it was already all the way down. switched to speakerphone and it seemed normal, back to earpiece and it's loud again. on a whim i turned it UP and it almost sounded like volume was working backwards till it got up past halfway, then it got loud again. it's as if the volume slider display thought it was at level 1 but was actually at 11, and moving it up to 2 reset everything to be correct - turning it back down to 1 was as quiet as it should be. the person on the other end said he heard an echo of himself but it sounded fine to me. could have been him though - he always has phone weirdness in colorado.

i'm still having random reboots, almost always while the phone is idle or immediately upon pressing power to wake.

and on that note - i turned off "home button wakes device" or whatever it's called, but pressing home still turns on the screen. doesn't seem to matter which way i set that toggle - it doesn't do anything.

gonna need my phone a lot this weekend so i'm going back to my old rom for now but will keep an eye on this thread. i like the looks of this rom!
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] HippoMan:
Any feedback about the physical keyboard problem?

Has anyone else seen the problem with the physical keyboard that I reported here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=58615876&postcount=11 ?

If so, is there a fix in the works for this issue?

Sadly, for me, this is a show-stopper, since I always want to use SwiftKey (one of the 3rd-party keyboard apps with which this problem occurs).

Thank you.

.​
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] taiber2000:
Don't have this problem with anysoftkeyboard, which also helps me with my own language - as I write in english and hebrew.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] falle21:
I dont have any issue neither
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] Emil Borconi:
Reboots and GPS

Hi.

Great ROM, thanks!

So far so good. I installed it and started playing with it, quick, smooth, nice. Reboots... yes... :(

What I found is that if I change Location to Device only (mobile + wifi) the reboots tend to stop, I can open Google Maps, Camera and any other app the needs location data. When I switch to high accuracy (GPS + Wifi) or to device only (GPS), then the problems are back. I used TWRP 2.7.1.0 to flash the rom. Wiped clean, and no backup. Installed the rom + gapps. Signed in to Google and restored all the application which I had previously installed. Is there any point to redo all this with CWM?

Very nice rom anyway waited for so long for Lollipop....
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] HippoMan:
Thank you, but I think that maybe I didn't explain things well.

I'm not talking about using a soft keyboard.

I use SwiftKey, Velocity, and TouchPal, but in all cases, I have set them up to recognize the physical keyboard. On other ROM's, when I open the physical keyboard on this device, no soft keyboard pops up on the screen. I just use the physical keyboard, and a small area near the bottom of the screen shows the word suggestions. This is the behavior I get with other ROM's for all three of the keyboards I mentioned.

However, on this ROM, when I open up the physical keyboard, the soft keyboard opens up on the screen, although the physical-keyboard keystrokes are still recognized. This is the behavior I get on this ROM for all three of the keyboards I mentioned.

In other words, for me, the behavior of the physical keyboard on this ROM is different from the behavior of the physical keyboard on all other ROM's I've used.

If you and others are not seeing the soft keyboard pop up when the physical keyboard is opened, then maybe I'm dealing with some kind of keyboard configuration issue on my device. If so, does anyone know of any Lollipop setting that might control this behavior?

.​

---------- Post added at 09:17 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:25 PM ----------

OK. I found the setting: Settings->Language and Input->Advanced Options->Disable fullscreen keyboard.

When this is not set, all keyboard software that I have tried will fill up the entire screen when I open the physical keyboard and start typing. Selecting this option disables this behavior. For some reason, this option was cleared on my device. Maybe I did that accidentally, or maybe it's the default.

In any case, I set this option, and now, the physical keyboard is working the way I'm used to.

Thanks to all for your feedback.

.​
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] HippoMan:
Relocation errors in Lollipop

In Lollipop, selinux and other security "enhancements" are causing some programs and shared libraries used by various apps to generate linker relocation errors when I use this ROM.

For those of us who don't want this level of security to inhibit us from using the software on our devices, is there any chance that the system linker can be optionally replaced with the patched version that eliminates the checks for PIE ("position-independent code")?

See this discussion: http://xdaforums.com/goog...t2797731/page2

Obviously, not everyone wants this feature, so I'm wondering if it could be offered as a setting or via some sort of alternate ROM installation bundle.

What do you all think?

.​
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] Gibson99:
no it does the same random reboots even when flashed from cwm. what you said about disabling high accuracy makes perfect sense since google tries to track your location for google now cards and other stuff.
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] HippoMan:
Maybe there's hope for the future, after all ...

Semi-off-topic (but only "semi-") ...

For those of us who are mourning the absence of the Xposed framework in Lollipop, I thought I'd share some hopeful news that I stumbled upon ...

http://www.landofdroid.com/2015/xposed-style-framework-for-lollipop-in-beta-testing/

.​
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] falle21:
You try the ROM without changing any performance settings?

I don't have any reboot on this rom
[Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G] HippoMan:
Relocation errors in Lollipop, redux

My message, above (http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=58718888&postcount=47), had a bad link for the discussion I found about position-independent executables.

Here's the correct link:

http://xdaforums.com/google-nexus-5/development/fix-bypassing-pie-security-check-t2797731/page2

.​