[Xperia Z3 General] redincali:
My story of how I got xposed to work...

I tried following the steps, no luck. Ended up in a boot loop after each restart unless I cleared the dalvik. I tried many many times. Starting from scratch. Installing the apk before flashing the xposed module, after installing the module. All ended up making me clear the dalvik to get into the phone. Sometimes it would boot loop and recovery would break somehow.

I deodexed the system myself, got crashes. I tried using the flashable deodex zip posted, but still had the same results. Deodex would always result in repetitive gapp crashes.

So after a ton of tries, I decided to just leave xposed alone until more progress has been made. I did a fresh install of LP, rooted, and installed recovery (byeselinux). Then did my usual of going thru system apps and deleting what I don't use (mostly social, online backup, gapps, etc.). Which only resulted in one app crash, one time.

Still not satisfied, I decided to try xposed again. I copied all the files from my system and began the deodex process. While it was doing its thing I decided to modify the flashable deodex zip I downloaded from this thread. I compared it to the current apps I still had and deleted the ones from the zip to match it. And just for the hell of it I decided to make a flashable zip for each of the folders (app, firmware, etc), as well as one that included them all.

I flashed the firmware zip first(not clearing dalvik). Resulted in a boot loop. Then installed the zip with all folders and wiped dalvik. Phone booted, updated all the apps, and ran fine. I enabled the GravityBox for LP in xposed modules, restarted(without wipe), bootup had no issues. So I setup GravityBox how I like it, which also required another reboot for certain options, rebooted(no wipe), recovery vibrated to key me know its still working, bootup went thru, android started. No crashes! Ive restarted several times since and everything is still working.

My process...

1. Flashed Lollipop through recovery

2. Gained recovery with "byeselinux"

3. Deleted apps using Root Explorer

4. Deleted apps from "z3_deodex_23.1.A.0.690.zip" to match my system apps

5. Install "XposedInstaller_3.0-alpha2.apk"

6. Reboot into recovery

7. Flash "z3_deodex_23.1.A.0.690.zip"

8. Wipe dalvik-cache & cache

9. Reboot into android to check for crashes

(if everything is fine, reboot into recovery and continue)

10. Flash "xposed-arm-20150308.zip"

11. Flash "UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.46.zip" (just in case)

12. Wipe dalvik-cache & cache

13. Reboot and you should be set! (I was)

So I hope this information helps others you get their xposed working. If anyone is curious in which apps I removed, I will post a list. Thanks!

Edit:

Here's a list of the apps I removed...

From "system/app"

com.sonyericsson.xhs

com.sonymobile.xperialounge.services

cover-widget

DocumentsUI

Drive

EditorsDocs

EnchantedForest

ExperienceFlow2LiveWallpaper

Galaxy4

Hangouts

HoloSpiralWallpaper

Keep

Lifelog-googlePreloadLive-release-2.4.P.1.4

Music2

Newsstand

NewsWeather

PhaseBeam

PlayGames

PlusOne

SyncHub

talkback

Videos

WeatherWidget-release

WikipediaPlugin

From "system/priv-app"

CivilAlerts

com.bambuser.sociallive

CoverApp

Exchange2

FBCalendarSync

filecommander

GoogleBackupTransport

MyXperia

retaildemo

SemcEmail

SEMCFacebookProxy

SnpVUStore

SocialEngineCore

SocialEngineFacebookPlugin

SocialEnginePicasaPlugin

SomcPodcast

SOMCTwitterAccount

SonyEntrance2

TagGoogle

youtubelive

I uploaded my edited version of the deodexed LP from a few posts back. Enjoy!

So far gravity box works fine, except for the recent app button missing when the nav bar feature is turned on. Burnt Toast Battery History XXL, & Fast Scroll modules are working as well. ScreenOffAnimation module is not working.

Fix for those who downloaded my first version, here is a fix to include missing apps and replace some deodex apps with odex versions to fix crashes - z3_deodex_23.1.A.0.690-FIX

New version with the fix above included - z3_deodex_23.1.A.0.690_V2