yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sony Cross-Device General] halfmarathoni:
Hello everybody,

after an awful experience with cm, I installed this beautiful and light Rom, and I am very contendet with it. Many, many thanks to the seeder.

But I have a little question:

I life in Germany and this ROM was for Italy (LTE-Version). Can I get any restrictions about this, so like bad GSM, UMTS. LTE (modem firmware?) or something else?

Thanks
[Sony Cross-Device General] basti2909:
Everything fine in germany! Same signalstrenght as on europe open.
[Sony Cross-Device General] drorcun:
i uninstalled qualcom.qcrilmsgtunnel app that running always. i have no side effect, i think its safe to remove it too..
[Sony Cross-Device General] TheKonqa:
Hello :) finally got an z3c to play with.

First of all i wanted to thank you for uploading this nicely debloated & prerooted ROM :)

But i encountered an issue regarding Titanium Backup ;/

Whenever im going to start it the following error Messages appear:

Error
Sorry, I could not acquire root privileges. This application will *NOT* work!
Please verify that your ROM is rooted and includes Busybox, and try again

This attempt was made using the "/system/xbin/su" command

I tried multiple versions & reinstalling SuperSu via Revovery without a pleasing result.

All my other root requiring apps are working like a charme

Does anyone know how to get it work? :)

EDIT: ok i fixed my issue by reflashing the ROM, wiping cache & dalvik cache afterwards & last but not least reinstalling titanium backup via the play store

dunno what happened before
[Sony Cross-Device General] oneslot23:
cant seem to find the DUALSHOCK3 software in your removed stuffs.. DUALSHOCK MANAGER folder only has DUALSHOCK4, is this normal in lolipop? It's giving me a hard time to connect my ps3 controller wirelessly in my z3c. any idea?
[Sony Cross-Device General] :
vpn restore?

What are the things i have to restore inorder for me to get vpn working after i heavily debloat my current rom?
[Sony Cross-Device General] gundam_warlock:
Restore VpnDialogs to /system/priv-app
[Sony Cross-Device General] ondrejvaroscak:
dualshock 3 has different name something like "wireless controller" or so..
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
search this thread someone already asked this in the past.

btw try restoring first DualShockManager and WirelessControllerManagerService in system/app and then try again after rebooting and report back ;)
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
thanks! I've seen that in always running processes and didn't like that but never removed it before as it seemed related to ril which is pretty important [emoji14]

btw will try here too and if safe will add to the list thanks again :o

everything about ril still working fine? data connection, voice calls, sms etc?
[Sony Cross-Device General] drorcun:
yes exactly everything works.. i'm using it since two weeks..
[Sony Cross-Device General] Nummer35:
Hey, i installed this Rom and everything works fine except the drm-fix so I wanted to install it on my own but I can't enter recovery. Why and how is that so?
[Sony Cross-Device General] Spafey:
Haxsync

Hi guys,

I am enjoying the extra GB from this ROM , but I have come across a (possible) issue. I use haxsync to sync FB profile pics and FB events, however, after using this it does not appear to be able to sync. Of course this could be on Facebook's end but does anyone know if something that was removed would limit the functionality of haxsync?
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
dual recovery is included so if you can't enter recovery sorry but you made something wrong.... ;)

yes I removed something about fb and sync, see OP for the list and search the thread as someone else already asked and fixed this in the past ;)
[Sony Cross-Device General] basti2909:
Try using ndr tool to boot to recovery
[Sony Cross-Device General] Nummer35:
Works this way. Thanks :)

btw: DRM-Fix works for me without any special super workflow. Just flash the fix and your good to go ;
[Sony Cross-Device General] quarrymanpaul:
Bit of a noob question here but I searched and couldn't see it answered:

By using this build does it mean I am unlocking the bootloader?

(I'm rooted on 4.4.4)
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
no! stock FW just debloated, so odexed, locked bootloader, you are not going to loose any drm/keys etc ;)

bye!
[Sony Cross-Device General] martin.liversidge:
Bluetooth audio feedback

Could anyone please advise what to re-install to enable audio feedback via google now.

When asking to navigate somewhere I get the voice feedback, but when asking to call someone I get none, didn't have this issue on the unbloated firmware version.

I've tried installing google tts but this hasn't helped.

Any help would be appreciated.
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
VoiceDialer in /system/priv-app?
[Sony Cross-Device General] alex596550174:
Eh……I tried SOLUTION 2,everything is pretty good,except VpnDialogs. I need it,and I tired your way to restore it.

Unfortunately, I got some problems that I can't download the whole folder in GDrive, but I downloaded it one by one. I don't know weather it works. then I flashed the zip.

Oops……It crashedΣ(っ °Д °;）っ

What should I do now?Would you please you update your script which includes VpnDialogs??

Thanks a lot.

(My English is not good,plz ignore some mistakes. >A< )
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
when you open the link of the removed stuff uploaded in my gdrive, did you click on the upper part of the screen "open in drive"? if you do so, you can then download the full folders ;)

otherwise you have to re-create the correct folder structure:

A "VpnDialogs" folder with inside "VpnDialogs.apk" and "arm" folder, and then inside "arm" folder the "VpnDialogs.odex" file

then the whole "VpnDialogs" folder should be placed inside the restore apps zip, inside system/priv-app ;)
[Sony Cross-Device General] alex596550174:
There's still something wrong, I will try it later agian. Thanks a lot.
[Sony Cross-Device General] gundam_warlock:
I aslo had problem in vpndialogs after update to lollipop .28 and apply script v4.

After restore, the app (i use hideninja) can't start, but without fc.

Then i re-flash the pre rooted fw, apply script v4, and after boot into system i restore vpndialogs first before restore app from TB.

And voila... Now it works without problem.

Just for your consideration if you still have problem with vpndialogs :)

----Edit-----

Forgot to mention, before flashed pre rooted fw, i did factory reset (wipe data, dalvik, cache) and system too :)
[Sony Cross-Device General] ovizii:
Write to SD card problems.

I had v1 or v2 of this FW and all was great I then flashed v4 on top of it and everything "seemed" fine but I just found a problem:

my TitaniumBackups failed so I went into its preferences and went to select the backup folder located on the SD card and it says: "This folder is not writeable".

Does anyone have a proper fix to allow apps to write to SD card again?

---------- Post added at 11:50 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:42 PM ----------

I FIXED THE PROBLEM WITH THIS SOLUTION: http://android-revolution-hd.blogspot.de/2015/01/how-to-unlock-external-sd-card-writing.html

I'm really wondering why nobody else has these problems :-/
[Sony Cross-Device General] gundam_warlock:
Should it normally like that (3rd apps party cant write sd card)? Since google prevent it in kitkat and lollipop also? Cmiiw

And we need some mod to make the sd card writeable or install app like sdfix
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
always had some problems with ext sd card management since I started using lollipop, but I knew it was because of google itself, and the ext sd card worked partially (enough for me) so just ignored that and didn't investigate too much.. :p thanks for the link btw will test it and eventually include that fix in V5! :o

EDIT: seems to work fine! now I can do some operations on the ext sdcard that before I couldn't ;) thanks for that, will add it in V5 that is coming soon! :o
[Sony Cross-Device General] ovizii:
I remember previously trying sdfix apps but the ones I tried, on first start reported that my sd card is writeable and so they didn't do anything.

By default it seems strange, i.e. I symlinked a folder from external sdcard to internal so that my Whatsapp media files were always on a safe storage and couldn't get whatsapp to save onto external media while my camera apps were saving their media onto external sdcard just fine.

The fix I linked to seems to solve all that problems.
[Sony Cross-Device General] Pedimento:
Will v5 be from fw 62?

By the way I am using your rom from V1 and it is perfect for me, thanks.
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
V5 will be uploaded tonight and no, still .28

considering .62 is only for D5833 for now, and for D5803 is not out yet, I don't want to mix things up.

I know stuff for D5833 should work fine in D5803 too, but still who knows.... maybe basebands etc can be a problem and don't want to lose time eventually if something goes wrong downloading/uploading wrong things etc .... ;)

bye! :o
[Sony Cross-Device General] alex596550174:
I followed your steps one by one, but everything I wanna restore(for example,"Live Wallpaper Picker.apk") would FC!!! I don't know what's wrong,I will try again and again.:(

At last,would you please update the script which includes VpnDialogs?:o

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I tried, I failed :crying:

I thought might it's my FW's problem, because the other apps also would FC.

However, thanks for you help. I'm waiting for v5.
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
try flashing this one, it does include Live WallpapersPicker and VpnDialogs...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/f7zo2tgzvs0x3r7/live_vpn.zip?dl=0

seem to be working fine (at least live wallpapers, didn't tried vpn as I never used it before so wouldn't know how to test it) and for sure I'm not getting any FC here...

if you messed up /system when you tried to restore them, of course you must delete anything you added in system by yourself before, or even better wipe system, flash my fw, and then the restore zip linked above..

dunno btw how you could have done that wrongly as it is very simple operation..

ps. just found internet connection with ridiculous upload speed today so couldn't upload v5.. will try again tomorrow....
[Sony Cross-Device General] quarrymanpaul:
Looking forward to v5 and SD r/w working out of the box :)
[Sony Cross-Device General] alex596550174:
I found out there's something wrong in my "system",but I decided to flash your great FW. And now everything is good.Thanks for your working and your great patient.:highfive:
[Sony Cross-Device General] aeres123:
Hi, how do I install the white balance .apk back on my Z1 Compact (D5503)? I've tried to flash it back but the app keeps crashing. Only solution I've seen in this thread is to flash all the apps back, and that seems to defeat the purpose of a debloat :rolleyes:
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
hi. read better OP, nowhere is written to restore all the removed apps if you need one or a few of them back!

you can restore single apps with restore script, if you tried and the app crashes, you have done something wrong ;) see last couple of pages for a zip i made for another guy, you can use that as example and adapt it to restore white balance app only ;)

bye!
[Sony Cross-Device General] Tracy1988:
hi Moly82, it's been a while, how are you?

I've been running V1 since and it had been great until today - the phone rebooted by itself right in front of my eyes. After it loaded, the battery was down to 6%. It had more than 80% before. So I rebooted again and the battery got back to 82%. Weird.

I got back on here looking for you ;) and glad to see you have a new V5 now. I'm downloading it now and try it out soon after. Thank you very much.

BTW the ES fileexplorer in V1 keeps showing up in PlayStore for update even I had updated many times. They were mostly the same version of ES that already installed. Is it necessary to include ES in the firmware when we can easily get it from Playstore after installing the system? And for this new V5_IT firmware, is it an Italy version? I'm in the US and bought mine here, I'm wondering is there a different between the US and Italy versions?

Again, thank you for your support.
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
hi! :o

first of all you can use v5 (IT) without any problems in US, in the past I used US version in Italy so... ;) :)

i can't live without file manager, and i want it available immediately to do my stuff after clean flashes, without the need to login into my Google account first to download apps from the play store ;)

yes in v1 es installation was buggy, i fixed it later, in v5 surely it is working fine ;)

never had sudden reboots here, but well that can happen I'd say, and don't think it is because of debloat.. after all these phones are more like computers now [emoji14]

btw i suggest you to flash v5 ;)

just wipe system, cache and dalvik first (don't wipe data if you want to keep your data) and then flash v5.

after boot, try to delete es file manager from /data/apps if you still see it and don't want it. and if the app will keep appearing after every reboot it will be a little more difficult to get rid of it.... for sure wiping also data before or immediately after flashing v5 will fix all the problems.. you can maybe do that if you use titanium backup and have backups for all your apps?

bye! ;)
[Sony Cross-Device General] Tracy1988:
Thank you moly82. I'm sure sudden reboot wasn't because of the firmware being debloated. I think Lollipop is still buggy and I had bad experience with all Xperias. Sony design concepts are good but their hardwares and quality control are poor. I wish the Alpha has bigger battery. Oh well...

Just updated to V5. ES still crashes when open settings before themes ;) I just thought it might have had something to do with the phone being rebooted by itself. I love ES tho. It's the best and a must have app for me.
[Sony Cross-Device General] :
Question

Any idea what to do when i'm on deodexed ? :)
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
deodexed is confirmed to generate problems, at least with play store, so you should avoid deodex for now... ;)
[Sony Cross-Device General] munkustrap:
So bad news. Seems it'll take time before someone find a more scientific way to kill boot loops. How other phones' LP ROM free of this problem?
[Sony Cross-Device General] FSRBIKER:
No I'm up and running perfectly now, something had to be messed up from trying everything the last few days.

Below is from this thread: http://xdaforums.com/z3-compact/development/z3c-usa-variant-lollipop-pre-rooted-nut-t3071069

I wiped Dalvik/Cache/System and restored my original backup(no data though) of your .690 that I first made(went through set up wizard, signed into Google), debloated everything that Moly has in this thread then ran Ciccio's fixed Dual recovery(with the patch) from my pc. I then flash Xposed in recovery(then wiped Dalvik/Cache) and install the Xposed apk. No issues adding Gmail or other apps back, boots to recovery, no bootloops etc.
[Sony Cross-Device General] jerflash:
hey [MENTION=4695495]moly82[/MENTION] thanks for the shout!

I love to get xposed up and running again after upgrading from kitkat. If i have some time this weekend i will mess with it and post my results
[Sony Cross-Device General] :
Odexed or deodexed

Flashed your pre-rooted rom but in system/app i can't see any .odex files. It's ok or i have still deodexed rom ? :) How can i find out the difference between odex and deodex in LP ?
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
mhm.. i didn't upload any pre-rooted rom made by me yet ;)

btw this is stock ODEXED.

.odex files can be found inside each subfolders you have in system/app and system/priv-app, in arm sub-subfolders :p this is how they are organized in lollipop! ;)
[Sony Cross-Device General] ondrejvaroscak:
Tested your debloat

Tested your debloat list + installed Xposed + 20MP SuperiorAuto module and everything works.

Created new debloating zip that can be run from windows, provided you are on .690 or compatible ROM, have root and busybox (is included in XZDualRecovery anyway). Connect, run, reboot. It creates /system/_backup directory and moves apps there so they dont run, but you can move them back later in case you need them. Moving them on SD would be also possible, but for sake of testing is it to /system/_backup easier, faster and retains permissions..

EDIT. 20MP SuperiorAuto doesn't work with selinux on.
[Sony Cross-Device General] ogunja:
thank you friend, your list fell like a charm for fw my country.
[Sony Cross-Device General] FabianLaRose:
[MENTION=4695495]moly82[/MENTION] Can you download games like Clash of Clans, Fifa15 and dungeon hunter?

I used an other method for xposed, but after that Play Store said "This app is incompatible with your device", and I also had r/w issues so I had to go all the way back and restart at 4.4.2
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
yes play store works fine, see OP for proof screenshots!! ;)
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
OP updated: things will be much easier now! :) got the bloatware removal script to work for my list of apps, this way it will be very easy procedure: flash pre-rooted stock fw, do first boot, automatic debloat from recovery, flash xposed, done :) :victory:

good night guys! :good:
[Sony Cross-Device General] espaciosalter20:
First, where's the script?

Second, can you make it flashable? Or at least, a way to install it with terminal /smanager...

Thanks!
[Sony Cross-Device General] ogunja:
Congrats Bro [MENTION=4695495]moly82[/MENTION] [emoji2] [emoji111] [emoji112] [emoji115]
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
wow that's really advanced compared to "my" script (that took me forever :p )

many thanks for your contribution! didn't see immediately you shared it.. will surely come in handy and now people will have two choices and it is very good because of the backup thing... :) (and if I saw it before, probably I wouldn't have spent hours for mine!) well will update OP with your debloater too tomorrow if you don't mind, now it is 4:00AM and defintely need some sleep! :)

cheers good night guys!!
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
added in OP!

yes it is flashable! :o

good night all!!!!
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
thanks mate! tomorrow I will celebrate with a capirinha :D (bad luck we don't have good churrascaria here... love them!! :D )
[Sony Cross-Device General] ogunja:
Haha greetings of my country full of corruption, high interest rates and many expenses kk. Good night dear friend.

Edit...

Bro [MENTION=4695495]moly82[/MENTION] looked inside your script r ok. If I want to go back with some app, just take another flash using zip or manually move using root explorer?
[Sony Cross-Device General] ondrejvaroscak:
I want to later make it better and give ability for people to import own list of debloated apps so it can be more flexible. But on weekends I have not much time and also it was my first ever script that's why it took so long. Other than that I found it didn't remove some apps like fileman so have to investigate...
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
My friend here it is the same... ;( thanks to all our corrupted politicians that completely ruin such a nice country and to us also that let them to do that... :(

About the backup, my script just delete stuff, you can't use it do restore things. To backup stuff, as written above you need to manually copy first all apps in a temp folder before deleting them with my script, and in case of need restore them, again manually, with a root explorer (mind carefully the permissions before rebooting!!) otherwise you can use other script provided by [MENTION=6351145]ondrejvaroscak[/MENTION] that is more automated about the backup part ;)

Don't know if you noticed it, but in latest. 726 fw they added two entries for the same app (file manager), don't know why! Maybe you didn't see i updated the list of apps yesterday. If you check in priv-app folder, you have now:

com.mobisystems.fileman

and

filecommander

And if you don't delete them both probably you are not really deleting it, let me know!
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
yes that FC is still there but it is out of my control I'd say, in fact even when I tried a 100% stock FW and installed it from Play Store, had the same problems...

at least it is now installed the proper way (you see it in downloaded apps etc), so anyone who want to uninstall it can do that without any problems (in v1 it kept appearing all the times after rebooting after uninstalling it or even deleting it manually from /data/apps...! :p )
[Sony Cross-Device General] quarrymanpaul:
Installed v5 last night and mostly working.

I needed to restore all the USB apks in priv-app to get it working with Sony Companion though. I needed Sony Companion to restore all my SMS and phone call history.

Love the option of putting apks back manually.
[Sony Cross-Device General] ondrejvaroscak:
I am wondering why so many guys are having problems... I took a bit different approach because I have Z3 D6603 so can't use [MENTION=4695495]moly82[/MENTION] ROM. And i prefer to get my hands bit dirty.. Generally i flashed clean stock prerooted ROM. Before first boot, I used ADB to remove unwanted bloat. I generally follow [MENTION=4695495]moly82[/MENTION] script, with that difference that I don't delete the folders but move them to /system/_backup/ directory I created. It allows me to restore anything I missed with correct version and permissions. I also removed some more apps I don't need and corresponding overlays in /system/vendor directory.

Then I installed xposed and modules and apps I want. Now my mobile is not only rock stable but also fast (31 sec. boot time) and last real two to three days on battery.
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
I may change the script to follow your approach and don't delete anymore the apps but move them somewhere as you did in system, this way restoring them will be much easier and I can also stop keeping the removed stuff in drive and update them everytime I add/remove something from the list... :o

will try later... I wonder if, after creating a new folder in system for this purpose as you did, I can just change the "delete_recursive" lines in the script to "move_recursive" and just this will make the trick... and how should be the exact syntax.. will investigate! :)
[Sony Cross-Device General] krugu:
Nice job! But I would like to remove even the browser, if I do I get an error of Google play service. No possible to remove it?
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
yes you can remove it, just delete /system/app/browser folder, /system/app/ChromeBookmarksSyncAdapter folder and also /system/lib/plugins/com.adobe.flashplayer folder just to be sure with any root file manager!

if you still get google services errors just clean Google play services app data and reboot!

bye!
[Sony Cross-Device General] Yverson:
Akku Lifetime changed v4 to v5 ?

Hey there,

i flashed v4 after a full wipe (data, system, cache, dalvik - anything i could wipe) and then had battery life ~4 Days

Now i dirty flashed v5 (system, cache, dalvik) and it's back to 1,x Days :/

Anyone noticed this too?
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
so strange! v5 is very similar to v4 can't explain that battery thing ;) you updated from v4-IT? if so, it is even the same base FW! for me is not rom related, are you sure you didn't install something else? also, i see Google play services/play store got updated recently.. maybe there is again battery drop bug in new services like in a recent old release? nothing strange here about battery btw even with new services..!
[Sony Cross-Device General] calinro:
I got this Debloated ROM, but I didn't like the customized browser, so I installed Chrome from Google Play.

The thing is, now, that I cannot run it because it always starts with "Unfortunately, com.android.chrome has stopped".

I guess I don't need to mention that is no uninstall/reinstall, because Chrome app does NOT appear anywhere! I just have a icon in apps drawer which gets me to that error.

Any solution?