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[Sony Cross-Device General] autobanned:
[MENTION=4695495]moly82[/MENTION] , it works on z1c, thanks

but is there anyone know what app that control backup&sync in xperia keyboard? (i cant find menu backup&sync, learning form gmail/messenger etc), tried to restore all app in system/app and priv-app using serajr script, but no luck...
[Sony Cross-Device General] sgiannouris:
They were probably updated through play store and now they exist as user apps since their /system versions are gone. You should be able to uninstall them normally now.
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
here you can find both flashable zip and APK to install... but next time please search....!! ;)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3034811

thanks mate glad you like it! :o

yes actually I find this very slim and fast and almost complete of features with xposed so with this kind of modded stock don't feel the need to unlock and use a custom kernel, really dunno what it could give me more and really noticeable... also I find it pretty smooth everywhere already apart from just the apps settings maybe but can live with that! I've always used AOSP based and I am sure with that it would be blazing fast, but I feel both AOSP and CM right now are not so stable and plus I am afraid in loosing camera quality so will surely keep this for some time at least until AOSP will be 100% stable then will see so don't feel like unlocking bootloader and loosing camera features just for installing a custom kernel! :)

the only sony app related to backup stuff I deleted should be:

"/system/app/Backup-Restore",

did you restore this first of all and can see it in drawer?
[Sony Cross-Device General] vcdwelt:
Found one Problem. Throw didn't work. It shows up in settings, but does not find any compatible device.

Package "/system/priv-app/SomcPlayAnywhere" was not deleted during debloat (Changed in Script) and is still present.

Any Idea which Paket could make Throw to find devices?
[Sony Cross-Device General] ondrejvaroscak:
It can be Devices apk and any package that has something to do with DLNA
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
and touch block maybe? :confused:
[Sony Cross-Device General] vcdwelt:
Yes DLNA sounds good :) Will test this when i'm at home.

Maybe a stupid question :angel:

But if i take a package from backup and move it back to /system/app and make a reboot, the app should be fine after boot?

EDIT

Oh, seems to be a bad idea, now i have a bootloop :( And no Recovery in place.
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
if you do that you need to fix permissions before rebooting or you will get bootloops! ;)

use the automated script for restoring things in /system, much easier ;)

at this point btw don't worry, you can restore the situation. just go in twrp > advanced > file manager

and delete from /system what you added without fixing permissions, this way you will be able to correctly boot the phone again ;)
[Sony Cross-Device General] vcdwelt:
I have flashed a pre rooted Zip with Nut's Dual 2.8.3 and did not flash a newer one until now.

So no recovery possible for me :( Just bootloops pressing vol. up did not show Recovery

Think i have to reinstall the complete thing

Or is there any chance to enter recovery (TWRP)?
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
did you try pressing VOL DOWN? usually with that you enter TWRP... but do you see green light at boot or only red?
[Sony Cross-Device General] scoobydu:
Would you have your debloat script for 4.4.4 by any chance?

Had to go back due to lost functionality in Lollipop.
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
PS: OP edited: the debloat script changed a little (added in the list RemoteFileAccess, chrome, velvet aka google search, and civil alerts) and updated deleted stuff list/descriptions/suggestions and added new deleted folders in g drive ;)

also uploaded the new all-in-one FW for z3c users too :o updated with:

- new deletions as mentioned above

- chrome replaced by AOSP browser

- ES installed the correct way this time (so you can uninstall it without any problems)

- integrated again flashable zip for Xposed, but this time already integreated also xposed APK, so you will need to install only the xposed modules you want and that's all

- gravity box

you will see ES, xposed APK and GB installed as normal applications so they will be inside settings > applications > downloaded (so if you want to get rid of them, you can just uninstall them from there, easy ;) )

for people using debloating script, chrome of course can be reinstalled easily, but I suggest AOSP browser instead ;) much faster and lighter :o

AOSP browser - reference thread
[Sony Cross-Device General] vcdwelt:
Tested in both ways, up and down. Only red light.

This wouldn't happen me again :eek: Reinstalling right now from scratch...
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
what a pity you couldn't access TWRP, with that you can fix such things very easily ;)

I suggest you 2.8.7 this time, never had such problems with that ;) (haven't tried yet latest versions, as I feel very good with 2.8.7 :p )
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
no sorry I did debloat that too of course but on the fly, didn't write down anything as there were no booloops problems with xposed in KK... :o

btw many apps are similar/same name, so you can already debloat it a lot looking at the deleted stuff in OP I guess! ;)
[Sony Cross-Device General] vcdwelt:
Thanks for the tipp, was just before installing the latest 2.8.11 R4 :) Now i will take the 2.8.7 ;)
[Sony Cross-Device General] ogunja:
Always liked the very top AOSP browser, thank you friend.
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
well very probably newer rels are working just fine too or even better, I'm just staying with 2.8.7 as it works great here and I don't have time right now to test other things :p
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
well actually this version has some nice addons compared to aosp pure one! (incognito mode, history, progress bar etc :) )
[Sony Cross-Device General] chawlasrijan:
[MENTION=4695495]moly82[/MENTION] Can someone tell me which app to restore to get "timeshift video" working. It is some video editor or something similar i can't find it in your deleted_stuff folder.

Please someone guide me, i need timeshift video badly

Thanks

P.S. Timeshift video opens up normally in Camera app, but you cant put the slow motion effects because video editor.apk (might not be the correct name) is missing.
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
mhm, what do you mean exactly? I have never used that, but now I tried it, and I can start and stop the video, and then also see it in gallery.....

what the exact problem you get?

the only apps I found that could be related to video editor btw are the following, maybe try restoring them?

/system/app/SomcMovieCreatorRmm

/system/priv-app/SomcMovieCreator
[Sony Cross-Device General] chawlasrijan:
Yes exactly, we can start>record>stop & view it in the album

Whereas it should be start>record>edit>stop & view it in the album

I guess SomcMovieCreator is a Sony App not the video editor
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
don't know what to tell you so, all the things I removed are in the list in OP.. ;)
[Sony Cross-Device General] chawlasrijan:
Very well, I'll do some further research & let u noe

Thank you :)
[Sony Cross-Device General] chawlasrijan:
[MENTION=4695495]moly82[/MENTION] Got it mate, it was this one

/system/priv-app/SomcMovieCreator

Check the screenshots
[Sony Cross-Device General] dane_xperia:
Can anyone pls check if there is an SMS-MMS conversion happening once you're reached more than 4 pages of sms.?
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
told you ;) [emoji14]

thanks for the feedback!
[Sony Cross-Device General] alinghi100:
The Script works on both z2 and z3 on 5.0.2 But sometimes both got random reboots..this is very annoying.. How can I fix this..? Coming from a clean install With prerooted flashable and latest twrp (lb). Thanks in advantage :)
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
never had a reboot here.. and nobody else reported that.. so considering that's happening for you in two different phones, i would say you do something wrong in both, some strange operations or some apps maybe?
[Sony Cross-Device General] luminoso:
I also have reboots. I'm still testing but it looks like it is related to one (or both) cases:

A) having xposed installed

B) Setting dr.keep.byeselinux to true
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
xposed here has also worked fine applying procedure in OP. but never played with SELinux actually or whatever.. just using dual recovery 2.8.7 included in my prerooted fw and never updated it so far as it is working perfectly...?
[Sony Cross-Device General] blk_jack:
To chime in on some potential issues -- I installed your FW when I didn't have an SDcard inserted and after inserting an SDcard a few days later had everything go to hell. Recovery was totally broken, even after I removed the sdcard and when I tried re-installing XZDualRecovery it failed. Couldn't reboot into it no matter what I did, was really strange.

I ended up installing the newest release (Z3C-lockeddualrecovery2.8.11-RELEASE.installer.zip) and manually setting dr.keep.byeselinux=true in /sdcard1/XZDualRecovery/XZDR.prop. I hope this helps at least someone who may stumble into a weird broken recovery situation :)
[Sony Cross-Device General] alinghi100:
If you discover the cause of reboots please write it here or pm me :)
[Sony Cross-Device General] ondrejvaroscak:
My research on xposed bootloops

http://xdaforums.com/z3/development/xposed-bootloops-lollipop-t3085627
[Sony Cross-Device General] azoth980:
Big THX for your amazing work moly82 :)

Concerning bootloops: i unsuccessfully tried to install Xprivacy, but i knew about this problem. I figured out - to remove the bootloop - that starting the team win recovery and its file-browser, choose the specivic folder of the problematic app under data/app/[specivic app] (in this case xprivacy) and delete it finally, helped me to eliminated the bootloop.
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
yes twrp is great, cwm can't really compare for me :o ;)

it is very useful also when you move things to /system with wrong permissions as you can delete them and get rid of bootloops because of that :)
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
so, when you say 329 packages in your FW, you mean total packages including ones in both system/app and system/priv-app, and also ones in /data/app right? and odex files don't include in that count right?

ps. btw thanks for your research, will surely comes in handy for all people who want to get rid of bootloops but is afraid in deleting so many stuff from /system :o :good: ;)
[Sony Cross-Device General] Train2104:
I ran into this same problem, but the script installed without error and the phone works fine.
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
that error is normal with some old recovery version from nut or new version of twrp don't worry
[Sony Cross-Device General] chawlasrijan:
Hey mate

I've got a new issue to report

SD card is not being detected after a reboot,

Refer the screenshots below

Is there any fix for it?

Thanks :)

PS I'm on Xperia Z2 (.726)
[Sony Cross-Device General] Jtspence18:
Just a shout out to moly82 for making this possible, looked all over for a .zip like this! Thank you, it was much appreciated! :good:
[Sony Cross-Device General] Howlbeck:
Can only confirm - great work, no reboots if you stick to the 1st post and take your time to fully read this thread. Almost all traps are mentioned, for the first time I didn't even bother to install Titanium as I got bootloops even when restoring app data only.

Started from scratch, downloading every app from the store, setting up, reboot, backing up via twrp everytime and so far I'm golden :) It's a pain, but restoring just one app via Titanium causes the bootloop for me.

Edit: just flashed Nuts 2.8.11 when .12 was available, but still no trouble so far.
[Sony Cross-Device General] InsanoKyller:
found a bug, do not know if it was reported in the email application, when put to attach any files it gives error and closes. By Gmail inbox synchronized application when it blocks about an inch of the top of the screen, making it impossible to see the notifications. Summary: Gmail from infinite loop, Gmail inbox blocks 1cm from the top, not attached native email application files. excuse the bad English.
[Sony Cross-Device General] Depump:
may be release fix xposed only so junk app remove myself because someone must use std app exam. email , vpn ...
[Sony Cross-Device General] infinitylook:
So after reading on all the pages here, I haven't found a suitable solution for me. The debloating solution is great but as much as possible i don't want to remove much stuff. My LP is working great fast and smooth except for the bootloops every restart. So I want to ask, did anyone here found what specific apps to remove/uninstall inorder to avoid that restart bootloops. I want to do it manually, i hope someone can already confirm and point to specific answer :)
[Sony Cross-Device General] neol23:
One more time - AWESOME ROM. No problems at all, snappy, no reboots, xposed works great - no issues at all! :)

Not sure if it's lollipop or debloat, but I get better battery life than on kitkat.

Then I had best about 50h standby and ~5h SOT.

Now I get 60+ h standby and 6+ h SOT.

My daily usage is the same mostly. Most of the time on wifi, browsing, chat, calls, 2-3h music, some pics...

Have active Facebook+messenger, whatsapp, viber, Gmail with with mail/contact/calendar sync. Low batt mode activ below 25%.

Is there any way to see the standby time in precise hours, not as graphics only?
[Sony Cross-Device General] SpiritBreak3r:
[MENTION=4695495]moly82[/MENTION]

When enabling navigation bar tweaks on GB, recent key goes invisible, how did you get yours back?
[Sony Cross-Device General] Mosquito79:
I executed the debloat Script. How can I restore the Live wallpaper picker? Apk from deleted folder couldn't be installed.
[Sony Cross-Device General] ovizii:
[MENTION=733255]Infinite[/MENTION]look: I'm on mobile so can't search the thread for you but there is one here on the xda forums saying it's not a specific app but rather a specific number of apps, meaning that if you install more than a certain number of apps, your bootloops start.
[Sony Cross-Device General] infinitylook:
Okay i will try looking for that thread. Thanks
[Sony Cross-Device General] kanej2006:
I can confirm this works 100%

There is however one issue which was never previously present. I'm unable to use ANY VPN service.

They do not connect despite trying several different ones...

Anyone else issues trying to connect to VPV?

Using Xperia Z Ultra.
[Sony Cross-Device General] alinghi100:
Look the op Man, you have to restore some file in order to make vpn work!
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
no problems with my sd card here, sure your sd is working fine? and sure it stopped working after using my script? it would sound strange to me!

can't understand the problem you have in gmail, can you attach a screenshot? everything seems good with gmail here.. about attachments in stock email app you could maybe try restoring stock for manager app?

you can restore whatever you want with restore script, very easy, read better OP ;)

also I've already created a zip for standard email app, look the pages back if you want it!

it seems the problem is the number of apps installed, not some specific app ;)

see here.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3085627

so right now to get xposed working fine only solution is to remove some apps, or maybe try a different kernel from that thread? but you would need unlocked bootloader fot that

known bug as gravity box is intended for pure aosp roms... i didn't get back mine, but in homescreen, i modified the wallpaper so i have the recents button integrated in the wallpaper! [emoji14] :D

read better OP, it is explained very well how to restore apps in system, you will need to run another script ;)
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
restore vpndialogs app and try again! as suggested already, see op for instructions on how to restore apps in system ;)
[Sony Cross-Device General] kanej2006:
I've been trying for the last couple of hours and it keeps giving me the same message.

I copied the vpndialogs app to system/data, rebooted and the same message appears.

I will try again, however, any suggestion on this?
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
system/data ????

wrong path.. use the restore apps script it will be much easier than manually copying files! (also, manually copying you risk to have wrong permissions and then bootloops!!)
[Sony Cross-Device General] kanej2006:
I'm getting ''unfortunately, VpnDialogs has stopped '' .
[Sony Cross-Device General] gundam_warlock:
you have to move vpndialog folder to /system/priv-app,

make sure you put both apk file and odex file (put odex file inside arm folder), and the most important set permission right
[Sony Cross-Device General] Mosquito79:
Yes, I customized the restore zip inside es filemanager and got errors during flashing. With 7zip on Windows it works. Is there an zip operating app for Android to on-the-fly edit and paste the apps in the restore zip?

Next question: which System Apps do I need to make screen mirroring work again? The 3 mirrorlink system apps in priv_app seem not to make it at all.
[Sony Cross-Device General] kanej2006:
Could you please provide step by step instructions of how to do this?

Thank you so much.
[Sony Cross-Device General] SpiritBreak3r:
Hmm, I worked around and replaced recents key with menu key. And at GB, menu is the Recents and long press goes to Launcher.
[Sony Cross-Device General] gundam_warlock:
i'm sure you already know how to push apk to system, right? and it's kinda same way

what you have to do are, download vpndialog.apk and vpndialog.odex

create new folder and name it vpndialog

put vpndialog.apk into vpndialog folder

create new folder inside vpndialog folder and name it arm

put vpndialog.odex into arm folder

move vpndialog folder into /system/priv-app

set permission for each folder and file

reboot
[Sony Cross-Device General] kanej2006:
Finally it worked, thank you so much for the help!

---------- Post added at 03:13 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:11 PM ----------

It worked, thanks bro.
[Sony Cross-Device General] gundam_warlock:
glad that you made it :highfive:
[Sony Cross-Device General] Stave:
Thank you moly82 for your tutorial, I just installed and it worked perfectly.

Just one thing, I don't know how to install the Xposed Framework !

I tried to install the framework from the app, doesn't work and after I tried to flash the Zip but there is no change !

I still have the message "Framework not installed" when I try to enable xprivacy !

Don't know what to do next ! If someone can help me :D

EDIT :I have a locked bootloader, maybe this is why it doesn't work ?
[Sony Cross-Device General] alinghi100:
You have to flash a file before install the xposed app! Have a look in the original thread, bye ;)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3034811
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
locked bootloader is not a problem. did you flash my fw? if so xposed flashable is already included, just install the xposed apk! don't worry about the message framework not installed etc, that's a known bug. just install a module, activate it, and reboot, it will work
[Sony Cross-Device General] gundam_warlock:
I'm sorry for asking this here, but i'm just a bit curious

As we know, 20mp superior auto doesn't work in this fw, unless we use recovery ver 2.8.3 and apply byeselinux. I've tried it, and it work.

So my question, is there no other way to make 20mp superior auto work except downgrade recovery?

Thx in advance:)
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
interesting! :) but how did you replace recents button with menu button?
[Sony Cross-Device General] Stave:
Damn, I have bootloops now !

Tried to wipe dalvik + cache and doesn't work !

Think I'll have to reflash the ROM !
[Sony Cross-Device General] jarayn:
Whats the point of upgrading the recovery?

I mean what have you gained that you don't want to lose
[Sony Cross-Device General] gundam_warlock:
Maybe because every update comes with better feature? But i don't know, it depend to each user want to update or not,

And my point is not about upgrading recovery, just asking is there another way to make 20mp superior auto work without downgrade recovery

Because it's kindda bugging me when all other modules work, except that 20mp just because selinux

Thx for your response anyway :)
[Sony Cross-Device General] hery.chemo:
Have you tried this?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=52568494#post52568494
[Sony Cross-Device General] gundam_warlock:
Not yet, is it basicly same with 20mp superior auto?
[Sony Cross-Device General] hery.chemo:
Yep
[Sony Cross-Device General] gundam_warlock:
It doesn't work unfortunately

Have you also tried it? Is it work?
[Sony Cross-Device General] Tracy1988:
Thanks a ton moly82. You've saved me lot of time debloating all the Sony craps. There's a few bugs I think I should tell you.

I had KK 4.4.4 rooted with dualrecovery bootloader locked on firmware .77, debloated with xposed gravitybox, youtube adaway, adaway, xposed Gel, google launcher and es filemanager. Everything worked great except time and date in dualrecovery kept resetting back to 1970.

I flashed your firmware .726 with cache, dalvik, system wiped before flashing in dualrecovery:

- No xposed (but I could install xposed alpha apk after)

- No recent button after gravitybox installed (I use pie control anyway and had navbar height set to zero. Recent button is on pie)

- In ES filemanager, open settings crashes ES. Update didn't solve issue but if I open themes first, go back and open settings, it works fine.

Everything else works fine. No boot loops. Gravitybox, adaway, youtube adaway and xposed GEL are working. I'm happy with this for now until a better root method.

once again thank you moly82. You rock :good:
[Sony Cross-Device General] PerPer2:
Thanks

Thanks moly82

Your script worked perfectly on my D6603 Z3, now I have so much more space and finally able to install Xposed!
[Sony Cross-Device General] azoth980:
Hello moly82!

I had two times the problem, that i couldn't reinstall the wallpaper-picker: once i accidentially deleted it via TitaniumBackup (at my old system), and secondly concerning your ROM, where it isn't integrated by default. I tried two hours to reinstall it with the "flash_removed_apps"-script and several other ways - and also found out while searching for a solution that some other people in web desperately searched for an solution... xD.

Finally i found out that's very easy to reinstall it - just put the wallpaper-picker manually in the right folder and restart the phone - nothing else worked.

So i think - first please try to reinstall wallpaper-picker on your own system with the sript, could be a problem of my system - you should ether reintegrate it in future releases of your Rom or you could mention the way to reinstall the wallpaper-picker at your start-post - especially of beginners with less experience. And also especially because no other system-app (except 2-3 other in my past) had made such problems to reinstall, and i think several people will try to reinstall wallpaper picker because... well, live wallpapers a some kind of cool... xD
[Sony Cross-Device General] FcukBloat:
thanks mate!

1. yes xposed flashable is included, xposed apk not. btw in V2 i included also xposed apk :) waited good connection to upload it, will try again today...

2. known problem because xposed is intended to work with pure aosp. btw you don't see the button, but button is working fine anyway.. for an alternate navbar mod, you can also try "Xperia/AOSP NavBar Buttons" module

3. yes happend here too, and couldn't fix it even reinstalling the app from play store, dunno why. but as you said, after playing a little with the app (dunno exactly what I did), settings could be opened again correctly.. very strange! if it happens again will try opening them first as you said :o