yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonoathome:
No root ? How to Disable certain apps and enable features usually found with many root devices..

Disable Storage Checker

Via adb (nag when under 25% storage left, this disables that nag)

adb shell pm hide com.sonymobile.storagechecker

Disable Whats New

adb shell pm hide com.sonymobile.entrance

Other apps I disable, these can be disabled via the App Manager in system settings

File Commander (ES Explorer is much better imho)

Playstation Video

Xperia Japanese Keyboard

Xperia Chinese Keyboard

Xperia Lounge

Xperia Lounge Pass

Sony Sketch (this app can be fully un-installed, rather than disabled)

Have more suggestions ?.. I will add them to the list...

Enable Immersive mode

Download All in one gestures from the Google Play Store.. Enable All in one gestures in Accessibility settings and assign soft key (i use back) to Toggle Immersive full screen mode, there is a whitelist as certain apps function better with the NAV bar enabled, these are;

Any Keyboards & Launchers

Album

Camera

Contacts

Messaging

Phone

Settings

Chomp SMS

How to use keyboards in Immersive Mode?

Via Adb enter the following command..

adb shell pm grant com.phoenixstudios.aiogestures android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS; pm grant com.phoenixstudios.aiogestures android.permission.SET_ANIMATION_SCALE

Screen off by double tapping Status bar

This option can be enablled in All in one Gestures, under the Status Bar heading... Tip set lock sound to none if system wide screen lock sound is set..

Audio Profiles via Status Bar

Download Audio Profiles from the Google play Store. Launch app and Enable Audio Profiles in Accessibility settings when prompted

Back in the App, define the profiles you require. I have Normal, Calls Only, Silent, Vibrate, Headphones.

Disable any notification preference in settings and Enable close Main Screen on Profile selection

Launch All in One Gestures, under Swipe, select upper Left hand corner, Swipe right and choose Audio Profiles under Applications

Now when you swipe upper left, you can choose the relevant audio profile you desire

Volume Control via Status Bar

Launch All in One Gestures, under Swipe, select upper Right hand corner, under Action choose Volume then Volume Bar

Now when you swipe upper right, you can control the relevant volume bar you desire

Volume Rocker Mods

Launch All in one Gestures and under Volume + / Long Press, Select Next Track from the Media Controls in the Action menu..

Do the same for Volume - selecting Previous Track from the Media Controls in the Action menu

Ad BLock ?

Use Adguard. this create a local vpn passthrough which works efficiently as most ad blocks for rooted devices

Advanced Clipboard

Download Native Clipboard for the Google Play Store and enable Native Clipboard in Accessibility settings and configure to your requirements. Can be activated by double pressing in any text field.

Pie Control

Download either PIe Control or Simple control from the Google Play Store. Enable the desired choice via Accessibility Settings and configure to your requirements
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coleburns:
Thank you very much. Ticked off a few things that had been driving me crazt
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonoathome:
Glad it helped, very frustrating that root Kills drm.. So like you say this kinda ticks a few boxes till a safe root is developed.. This is my first non rooted device..

Together with Nova Launcher this has restored some 'root' style functionality and disabled some bug bears at least..
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coleburns:
Same here, my first non nexus phone and i am very happy with it. The whatsnew app had been driving me crazy
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonoathome:
Updated with Audio Profiles and Volume Rocker Mod solutions
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Funkmasterchilla:
I didn't know about Adguard and am very glad you mentionned it as ad blocking was the main reason I wanted root (I used to use MOAAB) ! I bought a year license. Regarding All in one gestures I was very interested in the double-tap to screen off but it happens to be too much sensitive: every time I want to tear down the control panel, screen goes off so I removed the app. Thank you anyway for all these bright tips mate !
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonoathome:
Works fine for me, no issues.. you sure you have not enabled swipe down to do something??

Pull down click bottom of Status bar.. Not once did I manage to get the screen to turn off..

Regards adguard, it does the job really well, I'm impressed with it.
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Funkmasterchilla:
The problem is that I touch the status bar twice in order to drop down the tool panel completely which, done rapidly, switches off the screen! Do you know what I mean?
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonoathome:
I wasnt aware you could do that tbh.. [emoji33]

I just pull down then tap the status bar to get the control panel...

That works for me as the double tap on status bar is an absolute must have for me..
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Funkmasterchilla:
By doing that quick screen doesn't go off?

I totally agree with you besides the turn off button seems quite fragile on this device !
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonoathome:
Yep..

I've just been fiddling about with it.. Not once did the screen go off..

Pull down then tap..
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alex Goo:
I agree, very thin plastic
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coleburns:
I am trying to find an app the lock volumes to a profile. So for example it it's set to vibrate, clicking the volume button will not change it.

Any thoughts?

thanks
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Snaqejack:
Are there any free alternatives to Adguard?

Sent from my Sony Xperia Z5
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonoathome:
It is free... Subscription though does offers more protection

Adblock plus is completely free and requires a slight proxy configuration for Wifi Connections however this has to be configured for each wifi connection, I'm not entirely sure if it works, not tested yet.. But will report back..
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VincentTZ:
Seems all in one Gestures consumes lots of power and ram, are there any solution or alternate apps?
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonoathome:
It's a false positive for the battery use, from what I understand it's taking it from where it would usually appear without it from elsewhere. Same scenario as Adguard..

I'm not having issues with the ram side of things
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonoathome:
Re Adguard.. If peeps can afford the subscription, it's well worth it. Seems to be by far the best around. 7 day trial out of the box..

The did a Black Friday deal recently.. 50% off..
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonoathome:
Nothing

That's where you need All in one and Audio Profiles to be in the same package!!
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coleburns:
not sure what you mean but i found this app which locks volumes/profiles

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cz.directservices.SmartVolumeControl&hl=en
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LitoNi:
Just to point out: The method proposed is not disabling the app, it is just hiding it.

Anyway, for all you people that wants a quick method to lock the screen just download this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.katecca.screenofflock activate it and then swipe up from the home button and replace the Google now. Now you can lock your screen anywhere you want from just one swipe.
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jelbo:
I'm on a Sony Xperia Z4 Tablet (Android 5.0.2), but All in one Gestures stops working after a while, even though the app has all the needed notification/accesibility access. I have also executed the adb command for the keyboard fix.

I have assigned Volume Up as Home and Volume Down as Back. And Swipe Left as Back. At first, Volume Down stopped functioning as Back; it adjusted the volume again. Then, Volume Up as Home stopped working too. A reboot does't help; the keys are back to their original function. Same-ish with Swipe Left. It worked fine for a while, but it now stopped working too.

Does anyone have a clue? It feels as if some aggressive system-level Sony thing is taking back over.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] yzmaster:
I was trying to install android 6 over the fastboot. When system.img was writing to device, transfer was stop by error. Now device is not visible at ADB DEVICES. When i enter device manager it show Android Bootloader Device. I was trying universal driver (Google nexus 7 universal bootloader) but it still the same. I was trying on other computer also with linux but with the same result. When i power on nexus with volume down bootloader shows up with this log:

FASTBOOT MODE

PRODUCT NAME - GROUPER

VARIANT - GROUPER

HW VERSION - ER3

BOOTLOADER VERSION - 4.23

BASEBAND VERSION - N/A

SERIAL NUMBER - 105D...

SINGNING - NOT DEFINED YET

LOCK STATE - UNLOCKED

When i try to start or enter recovery mode, i get: booting failed.

Is there any hope yet?
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] jamescable:
Sigh, adb and fastboot are 2 completely different things....if you are in bootloader....adb devices will show nothing...type fastboot devices
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] yzmaster:
I solved this problem. It turns out that fastboot worked. ADB don`t show device but fastboot command works. I had problems with flash system.img because i downloaded soft for 2013, not for 2012 and not for gruper.
[Android Apps and Games] ACKMANIAC:
Hello

i want to present you my app and hope that you have some feedback for me.

Timelapse

Timelapse is an app which allows you to make trendy and interesting time-lapse videos.

Features:

- Shows the current settings and the resulting expected recording time.

- Change the video storage path and play them via your preferred media player.

Settings:

- All video formats of the camera are supported:

2160p (4K), 1080P (HD), 720P (HD) and 480P (SD)

- Focus

- Video Length

- Filter effects such as sepia, black/white, negative

- Recording rate is configurable

- Frames per second

- White Balance - can be locked

- Exposure compensation - can be locked

- Zoom

- Flash

- Self-timer

- Power-saving mode by turning off the display during recording. By simply tapping the screen, the display can be activated again.

- Recording with front or rear camera

[IMG="Main"]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ghRgpqv-4bQuazEF_cTg5fD4oHIpo25A8NkkxtE0M3gYwcgu2PpiJwlLmRPocA31Vk4=h310[/IMG] [IMG="Menu"]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/BDwNios3qgMYme05vxq8qY-Z7LHJQ7EXdqh6mkPs7ouif5XFA4Lf8IPPd7zwoje5cyk=h310[/IMG] [IMG="Grid"]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/QpcZmQSwlhowOWFmHpXDm06EefJ9DKmcYa1UeHgt0-BhIBqui65iPc2t-2z4qOn5Ag=h310[/IMG] [IMG="Settings"]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/kysVFBcJH_JbeabOo_k3As6EIPN2hGo5ng9Xzjc90B5yCVkv0wccy4scv476L654pw=h310[/IMG]
[Android Apps and Games] adek89:
fc :-\

Wysyłane z Compacta za pomocą Tapatalk 2
[Android Apps and Games] ACKMANIAC:
Fixed a couple of bigs on some devices.

If you still have an trouble please let me know.
[Android Apps and Games] RmX86:
I'll download it

I looking for this app.
[Android Apps and Games] amitgudwill:
Hey buddy, i used ur app on my xperia zr! Very nice, some settings didn't worked though!
[General Questions and Answers] d3m0n114:
I have accidentally deleted downloads system app(hve backup) and cant download app using playstore

tried restoring using rom toolbox but cannot restore plz help
[General Questions and Answers] bweN diorD:
place app in system app with a root file explorer, change permissions to match other apps there, reboot.
[General Questions and Answers] d3m0n114:
It doesn't work
[General Questions and Answers] d3m0n114:
Tried it in /system/app and /system/priv-app
[General Questions and Answers] bweN diorD:
you may have to re-flash your rom. perhaps there are other apps of files that need to be restored along with the app you removed.

the procedure i listed, is accurate for replacing a system app.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] ggow:
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/*
* I am not responsible for bricked devices, dead SD cards, thermonuclear war,
* or you getting fired because the alarm app failed.
* Please do some research if you have any concerns about features included
* in the products you find here before flashing it!
* YOU are choosing to make these modifications.
*/
[/COLOR]

Prerequisites for Installation

- Backup your existing ROM in case you want to go back

- Must have the 4.5.3 bootloaders loaded

- Must have TWRP access

Fresh Installation

- From your recovery perform a Factory Reset

- Flash the ROM File

- Flash SuperSU if you want root access

- Flash Open Gapps of your choice.

- Reboot and enjoy!

Downloads

*** Please do NOT create any mirrors ***

- lineage-11.0 for Amazon Fire HD6 and HD7 2014 Tablet

Source Code

- Kernel Source: Ariel stock kernel, build number update-kindle-20.4.5.5_user_455002120

XDA:DevDB Information

Lineage-11.0 Fire HD6&7, ROM for the Amazon Fire HD 6 and 7

Contributors

ggow

ROM OS Version: 4.4.x KitKat

ROM Kernel: Linux 3.10.x

Based On: Cyanogenmod

Version Information

Status: Testing

Created 2015-12-13

Last Updated 2019-10-18
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] ggow:
Release Notes / Changelog

14 Oct 2019

- Security patches up to and including February 2019

- Bluetooth works

17 Oct 2016

- Ported Google's October 2016 security patches.

18 Sep 2016

- Security Patches Up to and including September 2016

- Some OMX features fixed

- Youtube Fixed

- VLC now plays HD video

12 May 2016

- Security Patches Up to and including May 2016

- Updated CM-11 Code

11 Jan 2016

- Set DPI to 252

- Add launcher rotation setting to build.prop (enabled by default)

- Add lock screen rotation setting to build.prop (enabled by default)

- 01 January 2016 AOSP security patches included

- Updated CM-11 Code

13 Dec 2015

- Initial Release
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] ggow:
Reserved
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] ggow:
New Build is Up

- Dated 13 Dec 2015

- Initial Release

- Links are now up
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] Remolten:
I will be trying this out as soon as I can.

Just a quick question: why CM11 and not CM12+? Was it because of kernel limitations?

Regardless, thanks immensely for your time. Hopefully it works. Cheers mate :)
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] ggow:
- Yes you're right, went for CM-11 it's easier due to having a working recovery

- I thought about CM-12 but the risk is high of producing a bricked device

- If you flash a non-working 5.1.1 system and haven't got a recovery which you can reflash with then instant brick
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] Remolten:
Cool! Trying it out later today.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] paz4491:
nice work,thanks:good:
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] powerpoint45:
Very awesome to see the first ROM. Great job!
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] Remolten:
Installed successfully! Thanks mate! Much faster than the Amazon Lollipop, and more storage free!

Worth noting that xposed does not work, as well as videos, camera, and bluetooth. Lots of issues with Google Now crashing as well. Seems pretty buggy atm, but definitely feels great—a speedy upgrade over the amazon stock.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] Gimzie:
Nice! I hope it becomes official. (If that's how it works :P)
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] Gimzie:
BTW I can confirm that Stock GApps have enough space to install, compared to the stock Amazon system. :D

EDIT: REALIZED I SHOULD HAVE EDITED MY LAST POST INSTEAD
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] ggow:
- I'll fix xposed for the next release

- I'm preparing to take a run at the next release shortly
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] Remolten:
Sounds good! Looking forward to testing it!
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] powerpoint45:
Can't wait (:
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] davigar:
Wow It's amazing I flash it in a Fire HD7 and change dpi to 213 and it's perfect!

I can try CM12 on a tablet that I have to return. Nothing happens if it bricks

Enviado desde mi SM-N910F mediante Tapatalk
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] davigar:
ggow, you can flash cm12 with 4.5.3 bootloader and twrp and next flash 5.1.1 bootloader and Amazon stock recovery in case of brick you can flash a original rom by sideload the brick risk is null.

Sorry for my english
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] Diesen_Dev:
3 Days Testing Report

Firstly, i really appreciate for your work, ggow! That's the best first build what i'd ever tested, so smooth, didn't expected such a nice performance. Successfully installed SuperSU and GApps (pico). Picked up flash drive to OTG, worked perfectly, not worse then in Fire OS. With disabled lockscreen, my Fire wakes up and locks impressively fast. Made a proper wifi speedtests and very satisfied - speed is increased, compared to Fire OSes (4.x and 5.x) - from 43 mbps (max) to 51 mbps (max) with my cheap 741nd home router. All's ok with Spotify. As described, Youtube isn't working, Bluetooth service is crashing after boot. Tried few camera apps and it still cannot take photo. There is an areas, what you may look to focus on. Audio output is extremely low with headphones, tried different ones, from speaker volume is normal. Audio recording seems not working. In MXPlayer, HW video decoding isn't working. Also, there are rebooting problems - it performs not every time, rebooting to recovery isn't performs for me at all (Fire is just shuts down), interface rebooting is ok. I'm exited for the next builds. I think it's good that you develop CM11 Rom, because higher versions are not that good on low memory devices like this, and yes, 872 mb is not a big amount in 2015. Would be good to see newer versions in the future, but i'm still very happy with KitKat!
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] Gimzie:
Just to let you know, even though the Youtube app doesn't work, the website does, and it works pretty well. (Using Chrome here)
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] morbos:
Thank you for doing this. I actually use your Apollo ROMs for myself. FireOS is garbage, but I wasn't willing to destroy one of the kid's devices while I muddled around. This gives me hope! ;)
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] aj4u:
please can you fix netflix :)
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] aj4u:
Just downloaded and installed. Got Kodi all working great! I have a small problem with udemy, for some weird reason video works in the browser just fine, doesn't work in the app. I guess it should be an easy fix, if you could have a look

Thanks Arjun
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] ngtom:
I installed it success, it fast than fire os alot. But I found that the screen is quite blur compare with fire os. Can you fix it because I just use it to read newspaper. Thanks.

edit: I'm using HD6.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] mrthtung:
Pls fix facebook video and headphone
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] Jacobwitt:
What do you mean by "Flash 4.5.3 Stock Bootloaders"? Do you mean flash 4.5.3?
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] jpr9845:
Bluetooth

I successfully got CM11 running, updated SU and have GAPPS working fine. Bluetooth will not turn on though, is there a fix for this?
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] gascomm:
known bugs are bluetooth, earphone out, and a lump of code that handles streaming video for the likes of iPlayer, Netflix & similar. there is growing desire for these known bug fixes but it's looking as though we may have to show a little patience as there is only a few devs working on this device. which is a shame as it's a lovely bit of hardware just asking for a little t.l.c.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] jpr9845:
Thanx, so I used TWRP to backup my CM11 and went back to the 4.5.3. Now just to get GAPPS working on that build.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] cRaZy-bisCuiT:
Can we expect Cyanogenmod 13 or 14 any time soon? I don't see a reason to get a device only capable of too old OS nowadays. Even as a remote control you're quite limited if you want to extend it's use case any time in the future.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] mrthtung:
Now i wanna go back to fire os, how to do it?
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] parrotgeek1:
Have you considered making a FlashFire based cm12.1 with Amazon lollipop blobs?
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] ggow:
Yes, I have considered this. AFAIK FlashFire isn't compatible with HD6 at the moment.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] ggow:
For later versions of android we really need an unlocked bootloader or a way to run unsigned boot.img.

I agree that with you fully. For the device only having kitkat and lollipop, that's just how Amazon rolls.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] Hariiiii:
Flashfire works fine from your CM11 build. Flashfire is compatible with the HD6, but it is not compatible with FireOS. It is very unlikely that there will ever be a fix to make flashfire compatible with FireOS. It should be simple enough to flash the 5.0 bootloaders and recovery plus CM12 from your CM11 build. If it fails, the stock recovery can be used to sideload stock 5.0 and the process can be restarted.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] ggow:
Whether FlashFire works or not on CM-11 is not relevant because we have working TWRP with the vulnerable 4.5.x bootloaders.

I understand it could be done in the fashion you outline above. However imagine having to do a large number of iterations of the above process?

The number of iterations for a working rom on these amazon devices can be quite a large number.

It would be an extremely time consuming process and experience to sideload FireOS each time a build fails. Forgetting to load the correct bootloaders may also mean a nice paperweight too.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] Hariiiii:
Wouldn't you run in to the very same issue coming from flashfire on FireOS 5 though? If CM12 failed to boot, you'd have nothing left but stock recovery and sideloading as your options. It definitely seems tedious, sure...though you would just need a build of CM12 that boots more or less to be able to run flashfire from it. I would be willing to try flashing some builds but that probably would make it less convenient for you, not more.
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] aj4u:
how do I get back to stock firmware from the ROM?

Thanks Aj
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] Zwitterion:
God damn it. Headphone out not working? :( :( :(
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] PRInCEI7:
Please fix Facebook video and Headphone
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] jpr9845:
BT fix

Is there a way to get Bluetooth working on my Fire HD 6 running CM11?
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] ggow:
Not at the moment
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] hoon2002:
Just flash this ROM on my Fire HD 6.

My Youtube is working fine but not in live streaming.

Doesn't work for Twitch too :(

But speaker is working fine. And my camera is working fine too.

Thanks for the development, hopefully other bugs will be fixed :)
[Fire HD 6 and 7 Original Android Development] misutogan123:
Zygote64 asks for root

Hi,

first of all great ROM. Keep up the good work with it. I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but I hope someone can help me or say where I can find help. Recently Zygote64 has been asking for root permission. I denied because I did not know what this process does. I started to Google for it, but there were only 3 threads with a similar problem. Almost all of them assumed it would be malware since the original Android Zygote process would not ask for root permission. So if anyone could give some advice on what to do, I would be very happy. Thank you for your help.