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[TouchPad Development] nevertells2:
Installing Evervolv Marshmallow Installment #1

Since I did not get any volunteers to do a clean(TPTB Complete Data Reset) install of this Rom, I downloaded all the necessary files to do it the way I had suggested. First thing I ran into was TPTB v.42 did not like any of the TWRP zips from the OP, so I downloaded update-TWRP-jcs-dm-tenderloin-20140612b which worked. I installed that along with the 0309 Test Rom and the MM Delta Gapps from the here: http://xdaforums.com/android/software/app-minimal-gapps-gapps-lp-20150107-1-t2997368. I changed the size of /system when asked if I wanted to. The flash went perfectly. I went through the setup without a hitch. First thing I discovered is there does not seem to be a way to put the TP to sleep except with the power button. Kitkat and Jellybean could be put to sleep by double tapping the notification area. Next problem I though I had discovered was I was unable to transfer files between my PC and the TP. I stumbled on to the fix for that in settings/developer options/Select USB Configuration. You have to change it from "Charging" to "MTP". Then when you are done, you have to change it back to be able to charge the TP. Don't know who decided to set it up that way, but what was wrong with the way all the previous builds did it???? Next thing there does not seem to be a way to add any options to the power menu like reboot, screen capture and the like. All you get is power off and airplane mode. I've looked and I cannot find a way to add options like was possible with KK and JB. BTW, where do you turn on the quick settings menu, or is that gone too? Well, the answer is you can install this Rom using TPTB v.42 as long as you using the proper files. Once you have it installed you can change to the recovery you want to use and install a different Gapps.

So, that is where I am now. OH, I did use TWRP to install Philz CWM DM and I am preparing to do a data only restore from the last CWM backup I made just before starting all of this. If that goes smoothly, I'll keep this on for a while to evaluate it. So far it seems snappy with no reboots, double taps or lagginess while launching apps or changing screens. I did download the YouTube app and played a video in 720P and incurred no problems. I am not a big video user on the TP, so I probably won't be able to evaluate this Rom's video playing ability with a video player. I'll be back when I have more to report.

NT
[TouchPad Development] jerryatherton:
This is on all MM roms, same on all my phones. Google did it,.
[TouchPad Development] Globaltraveler5565:
Tablet changed to daylight savings time properly during the early morning on Sunday. ?
[TouchPad Development] nevertells2:
Installing Evervolv Marshmallow Installment #2

So, I did a data only restore using CWM and it worked, but I'm incurring a com.android.phone stopped working problem. Can't figure out how to fix it. I want to try something with TWRP version 3.0.0.0 but I'm not sure about the steps. I've restored my CM11 backup and flashed TWRP 3.0.0.0 and made a data only backup. I've seen a couple of you talk about flashing an old Evervolv LP Rom and then flashing Marshmallow over it. I remember someone saying to wipe cache, dalvik, system and leave data, internal and external storage alone. Would someone confirm this or explain the required steps please. I believe that doing this would also allow you to flash a different Rom like Evervolv over CM. Thanks

NT
[TouchPad Development] jerryatherton:
With TWRP 3.0 I have been wiping system, dalvik, cache, and data. Then I flash rom and Gapps. I reboot into recovery. Then I restore data from Nandroid. I would suggest using TWRP to create that NANDROID. I have been doing it this way on ask L and MM roms. It's the fastest restore available.
[TouchPad Development] nevertells2:
Just to be sure I am ready you correctly, you are making a full Nandroid backup and then only restoring the data portion of it after you have flashed the the Rom and Gapps? Thabks

NT
[TouchPad Development] jerryatherton:
Clean flash the rom and Gapps. Reboot into recovery, I don't even boot into Moboot. Once I'm back into recovery I restore "data" only. Works great.

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on phones it even restores all mad and SMS messages.
[TouchPad Development] nevertells2:
I understand that you are restoring data only, but are you doing it from a full nandroid back or a data only Nandroid backup you have made. Just want to stay as close to the way you have done it to hopefully have success.

NT
[TouchPad Development] nevertells2:
Failure

:( Well, try as I might, I cannot get a restoration of data only to an Evervolv Rom. So I'm packing it in and returning to my old faithful CM11. I've tried from every conceivable angle with no luck. Trying this was just an experiment anyway. I did prove that you can install Evervolv Marshmallow with TPTB v.42, I am just not interested in manually rebuilding from the start. I've been using CM too long and have it configured the way I like. If I could get that ported over to this MM build, I probably continue to play with it. Aside from my initial observations, it looks damned good. I did monitor battery usage for a day or so and Battery Monitor Widget reported an average of -34mA while the TP was asleep. Not as good as a 3.0 kernel, but it is definitely not a deal breaker. Hats off to you Flintman, nice looking Rom.

NT
[TouchPad Development] jerryatherton:
I rebuilt a TP this morning, I did it twice, with the 3.1 and the 3.3 build. Are you using the same TWRP that made the Nandroid? Where did it go wrong?
[TouchPad Development] nevertells2:
Here is where I am at. Like I stated previously, I am really a fan of CM builds. I've played with Evervolv builds previously, but really like the feature set of CM over the more spartan AOSP builds. Where I am stuck at is not being able to restore a data only backup made with Philz CWM from my CM install to a clean install of Evervolv KK or JB. I could swear I've done this before, but can't get it to work now. Once I got that to work, I would then use TWRP 3.0.0.0 to make a data only backup from the Evervolv install, clean install MM and restore that like you have done. I've lost count how many times I've done this between CM builds and could swear i have done this when changing to an Evervolv or Pacrom build. I tried restoring my CM based data only backup directly to MM which would boot, but kept getting that com.android.phone problem. So I though, OK, install an old Evervolv KK build, restore the CM based data only backup and then use TWRP to make a data only backup from that. But that gets me an Evevolv KK install that won't go past the boot animation. So that's where I am stuck at and have spent quite a few hours trying to get something to work. Evervolv MM looks great, I just don't feel like investing the time to install and configure all the apps I Iike to use as well as the settings and data I'll loose. I was running Sullin's latest CM12.1 and to start out, was very happy with it. I was able to restore data only to it. But after a few weeks, it started getting sluggish when launching apps and loading screens. It was like the longer I ran it, the worse it got. I was not having any of the double tap or random reboots like others were reporting. WiFi connected almost instantly on boot up or after wake up.

I really appreciate your help, but I've invested really more time than I intended to when I started this little venture. I can say that sleep battery life was better than expected, no lagginess, random reboots, WiFi connected perfectly and YouTube played back in 720p correctly. Only the things that I reported earlier in post #897. Why can't one add a reboot option or screen capture to the power screen? Why isn't there an alternative way(like double tapping the notification area) to put the TP to sleep besides using the power button? Google sure screwed up by forcing you to have to go into settings to switch the function of the USB port from charging to MTP and back. And what happened to the quick settings menu? Or did that never exist in AOSP builds? I also miss CM's Privacy Guard feature.

OK, I'll stop rambling now. See you around the forums.

NT
[TouchPad Development] nevertells2:
I think I may have discovered a bug. I find dictating the text in emails and the like much easier and faster. Normally when you launch the keyboard to type your text, there is a small mic icon among the bottom keys. Taping on the icon brings up a box with a pulsing mic icon and instructions to tap on the icon to pausing speaking. Same thing with the Google search widget that comes pre-installed. Tap on the mic icon and speak what you want to search for. But, after taping on the icon nothing happens. The fact that the icon is there says that Android sees the hardware. To troubleshoot, I installed Easy Voice Recorder and guess what, I can record audio files. So the hardware is working. Will a few of you please test your Touchpads and see if you get the same symptom please.

Flintman, has anyone reported anything like this to you?

Thanks all, NT

P.S. I found a neat feature that kind of answers one of my previous reports. To be able to transfer files, you have to go to settings and switch the USB port function from charging to MTP mode. I luckily stumbled onto a shortcut. After connecting your TP to the PC, pull down the notifications bar. You will see a note saying "USB for Charging". Tap on that and you will get a menu for changing the USB port function from charging to MTP mode. Here is the neat part, when you unplug the TP, it automatically switches back the the charging function. Cool, huh?
[TouchPad Development] nevertells2:
Hi Flintman, no one seems to have heard from you lately. Everything OK? You are always very helpful and responsive to us.

It's concerning when we don't hear from one of our more chatty developers. :(

Hope all is well,

NT
[TouchPad Development] charleypick:
There was a new nightly last week. I assume he's just very busy with real life.
[TouchPad Development] nevertells2:
You know what they say about assuming. :D

NT

Installed the nightly, did not fix the mic problem.
[TouchPad Development] jerryatherton:
He is around, just a heavy workload at his real job. He will get back on it when he can. I cant get the mic to work with any app either. I haven't tried the last nightly, how is the WiFi drops?
[TouchPad Development] Nomad1600:
I get wifi drops upon sleep every once in a while. Also a do not disturb icon started to appear on the status bar.
[TouchPad Development] Battlestorm:
still on ev_tenderloin-6.0.1-testing-2016.03.09, wireless drops a bit, but normally when sleeping, overall fast and stable

video / sounds works well, youtube, play music, plex.

crunchyroll (anime app) doesn't work for me, video fails to start

side note, has anyone worked out how to get Word and excel to install from the play store rather than having to side load each time i reflash or update
[TouchPad Development] jerryatherton:
How do you get them to side load? I have never been able to get them working.
[TouchPad Development] Nomad1600:
re: Word and other Office apps. Seemed when Msft announced the tester of it they didn't include Tenderloin (HP Touchpad) as one of the supported platforms. Since there are other apps that can create and edit Word documents I never felt the need... seems to me the Office apps are all pretty large.
[TouchPad Development] Nomad1600:
Nightly? :) Just had the 3/19 nightly notification appear (icon with notification). And the Do Not Disturb icon disappeared. I like surprises... need to charge up the TP and run the update.
[TouchPad Development] AlwaysLucky:
WiFi Issues

Love the ROM dev! Only having one issue so far. Occasionally I will go outside of the range of my WiFi AP at home, but when I re-enter range of it, the WiFi is not reconnecting. I can manually reconnect just fine, but it doesn't seem to reconnect on it's own.
[TouchPad Development] nevertells2:
Try Easy Voice Recorder. The mic works with it. I just can't get it to work to dictate text for things like email or in a browser for these posts. So far I am not incurring any WiFi drop outs with this new nightly or the latest testing build either.

NT

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I am on the 3/19 nightly and do not see a do not disturb icon I don't remember seeing one in the testing build either. What does it look like or can you attach a screen shot? I am not even aware of a do not disturb function in Evervolv.

NT
[TouchPad Development] Daistaar:
DND

Taken from my BA TouchPad. Thanks Flintman and JCSullins!
[TouchPad Development] Nomad1600:
The icon no longer shows on status bar (on right side to left of WiFi signal). Looked like a solid white circle with vertical line down center.
[TouchPad Development] Globaltraveler5565:
3/19 flash observations

I flashed the 3/19 release when it came out to two TP devices. One was done as ota auto update successfully. This first device exhibited the same issues as previously seen/reported (network drop, Bluetooth operation). The back button works properly now when the soft keyboard activates now. I've seen very few occurrences of double tap. The jittery/rapid flashing of the screen hasn't been seen yet. Otherwise, this device runs smoothly and seems to be easy on battery drain when sleeping (on charger or not).

The second TP is another story. I first tried to dirty flash the rom + gapps kit manually, wiping cache, dalvik and system first. It booted successfully, but didn't automatically connect the WiFi network. After manually starting the WiFi connection and letting it stabilize for awhile, I started testing apps. About half could not see the Internet, the others ran normally on the Internet. The WiFi icon in the top right corner showed an exclamation mark right next to the WiFi icon, and indicating the device could not see the Internet, even though some apps could still work. I stopped the firewall in case it was imposing some fault, with no improvements. So... I reflashed the device clean, wiping data, system, dalvik and cache. After installing the 3/19 rom and 1/20 gapps, I tried to reload the data volume. This is where I found the TWRP backup files were only a 100 bytes in size or less. So nothing could be restored by this method. I proceeded to reboot, let the device download and install all of my apps from the Google Play Store (long process and ate up a huge chunk of my network plan), followed by an even longer period to manually reconfigure each app with login details and personalization. But it got done and is working nicely now. This device seems to like to automatically connect the WiFi properly and holds the link longer, even overnight. I haven't seen it drop the connection yet. {knock wood} ?

I can't explain why these two otherwise identical devices behave differently. Still testing...
[TouchPad Development] flintman:
Sorry all been busy with work. Hopefully the nightly script is fixed we will know in a few hours as there should be a new nightly out today. With some updates. I still need to figure out wifi i havent experience and i starting to think its router related maybe a setting. Im trying to pin it down. Im getting into my busy time at work but i still playing around with the tp just not as much.
[TouchPad Development] EricBlade:
*pokes Flintman to look at his PM box :) *

I don't know exactly what version my friend installed on this 64GB TouchPad that I've got here, but I noticed something interesting about Bluetooth -- I tried to pair the Bluetooth to my phone, and the communication seems to work fine, the TouchPad can see my phone, and it sends a pairing request, but once I hit "Pair" on both sides, the TouchPad seems to just go out to lunch. The phone will successfully pair on it's end, if I then shut off Bluetooth on the TouchPad. The TouchPad never recognizes the pairing as successful. Seems that maybe something is getting locked up somewhere in there :-S OTOH, I can't get Play Store to work on this release, so I'm going to be nuking it, and restarting I think.
[TouchPad Development] Nomad1600:
I was able to pair hp bluetooth keyboard with last experimental but haven't tried with the current nightly.
[TouchPad Development] nevertells2:
Looking in settings/about device should tell you what is installed. It might not even be an Evervolv Rom.

NT
[TouchPad Development] EricBlade:
It's definitely Evervolv 6.0.1 but I'm not sure which build the guy installed on it. I may look before I nuke it. Anyway, I'm not sure if that helps provide any details that might help Flint fix Bluetooth or no.
[TouchPad Development] nevertells2:
Well, I have the latest nightly and that is exactly what the about tablet section says. I'm pretty sure if you have a testing build installed, you will see that. Anyone with a testing build want to confirm that?

NT
[TouchPad Development] drecu:
I'm having a problem with all of my storage saying it is corrupt. The message is telling me I have 1.45gb of internal storage and "USB drive" is corrupt. I tried formatting it as internal storage from the ROM but it just stays stuck at 20%. I then tried to toolbox to resize android volumes and it fails, tried rebuilding the volumes but it did not seem to fix anything either. I'm stumped about what to do because i cannot even make a nandroid and I really need to increase my internal storage space. Thanks
[TouchPad Development] nevertells2:
You need to explain in detail what you were doing at the time you found out your storage was corrupt. Have you tried doing a complete data reset from TPTB? Had you already done a complete data reset successfully? Had you ever had a data media Rom installed previously? How did you install that? Have you ever used TPTB before now?

NT
[TouchPad Development] Daistaar:
Almost sounds like it's encrypted. Did you try to encrypt? You won't be able to do anything including wiping those partitions until you decrypt if so.
[TouchPad Development] drecu:
I don't believe I encrypted anything, wiped everything in tptb and flashed the everything through there
[TouchPad Development] Daistaar:
Nice! As long as it's working. I had a similar issue with a Nexus 7 but it was encrypted. Wouldn't allow me to write to any partitions because of it. Wouldn't even let me wipe, resize or recreate any partitions. Thank goodness for TPTB.
[TouchPad Development] nevertells2:
Just for clarity, you now have Evervolv Marshmallow installed and it's working OK?

NT
[TouchPad Development] drecu:
I have had evervolv mm installed and that is when I noticed my storage was messed up. I tried to fix it by formatting within the ROM under storage and it is now corrupted. I don't want to reset everything because the ROM is working good, I just can't seem to fix my storage and the resize volumes is tptb fails every time. I can't make a nandroid either because I'm all out of space. Let me know if you guys know of a tool i can use to fix the volume so that I can resize it.
[TouchPad Development] jerryatherton:
I think this happened to me once and i ended up doing a TP Toolbox clean install, basically starting all over.
[TouchPad Development] drecu:
Ok was hoping for a better solution but starting over should work. Only problem I'm having with the toolbox is trying to install mm directly it fails with wrong gapps even though they are right so I end up having to flash an older ROM and older gapps and then in recovery I install mm and the correct gapps. Is there a solution to flash mm directly though the toolbox without failure? Thanks so much for all the help.
[TouchPad Development] nevertells2:
So, if I get your drift, you installed an older Evervolv and Gapps and then used recovery to upgrade to Marshmallow and it's gapps. At this point you discovered your internal memory problem, is this correct? At any point before flashing MM, did you use TPTB to increase the /system volume to 1gb? When you run the volume resize function of TPTB, you will get a report on all the volumes. It should show the internal memory volume at 26gb or so. BTW, how did you figure out you had corrupted memory? What did you do to find that out? I am beginning to think that after almost five years, the Touchpad's flash memory is starting to wear out just like the flash memory in a SSD will eventually do. That's all the 16 or 32 gb of storage is, a small SSD.

A few pages back I went into a lot of detail on how to use TPTB to do a clean install of Evervolv MM in post #897. Once I was successful, I flashed TWRP 3.0.0.0. I don't know why you ran into internal memory corruption issues, but you have to try a complete data reset to wipe out everything, reset the tablets memory and try an install again. I have noticed lately of others running into similar issues to the point that a compete data reset failed, fixing Android volumes failed, running TP Debrick failed and as far as I know, they have not had any luck resolving their problem. I hope you are successful. Let us know how it goes. The fact that you can boot the Rom makes me think that you should be able to recover from this. Just make sure if the complete data reset succeeds that you carefully follow Sullin's TPTB v.42 instructions. In particular, when prompted, increase the /system volume to 1gb before proceeding with the install or it will fail.

NT
[TouchPad Development] chocopuff1:
Thanks!!
[TouchPad Development] Globaltraveler5565:
Wiping /data volume question

I recently did a clean rom install by using TWRP and wiping all volumes except /boot and /media. After the full wipe of /system, /data, /cache, /dalvik , I noticed that /data still contained lots of material. All (or almost all) of the original directories were there and so were my files. I don't know what was actually wiped. I didn't recognize any missing files. Can anyone confirm just what is wiped by TWRP in the /data volume? Thanks in advance.
[TouchPad Development] Hikikomorikruge:
Wiping the data partition wipes everything but /data/media where user files are stored instead of the old /sdcard. I believe formatting /data will wipe the whole partition if that is what you desire.
[TouchPad Development] nevertells2:
Someone can correct me if I am wrong, but it is my understanding that when you wipe data, it does not touch the data media portion of the build. This protects the internal SD card and what is on it. That should be why you see your files as they are on the internal SD card.

NT
[TouchPad Development] Globaltraveler5565:
Have you actually tried it recently? I'm using twrp 3.0.0 and after wiping /data, I still find all my known files available (music, books, apk files, pictures, documents, backups, app data,...). These are not in the /media volume. What does the wipe really remove? I didn't see anything removed.

Next time you do a clean rom flash, stop after wiping /data to inspect the volume with the file manager feature. Let us know what you observe.

I haven't tried to reformat the /date volume to see the difference.
[TouchPad Development] nevertells2:
I don't think you understand the difference between data/media and media volumes. The media volume is where Android and WebOS shared the SD card or external SD card as it is known now. When the data/media Roms came along, all but a small portion of the memory was allocated to internal memory. The small amount was given to the old media volume as TPTB uses it to be able to install Android from the ttinstall folder. From TWRP, wiping data does not touch the internal SD card. Formatting data will remove everything. Have you noticed that when you "Install Android" from TPTB, the media volume is created along with the ttinstall folder. The media volume is mounted so you can copy the Rom, Gapps and recovery you want to install. TPTB looks at the files to determine the sizes of the other volumes and then proceeds to install Android.

NT