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[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] noMercy1337:
my SIM Cards stopped working 3 times so i had trust issues :D well, that backup on my PC seems incomplete (dunno why, i tested it before on 5.1.1, maybe incompatibility(?)) and when i tried to restore it my phone went crazy.. Whatever, I'll do everything manually.. and when i installed Marshmallow first time, i had that Setup window. Now it wont pop up after flashing, which is kinda strange and i think i can start syncing my contacts and apps with it. Dunno.. and i noticed that my install finishes at -

serving: 'C:\Users\Addic7ed\Desktop\oneofakind_nozomi-27-Jan-2016.zip' (~44%)

serving: 'C:\Users\Addic7ed\Desktop\oneofakind_nozomi-27-Jan-2016.zip' (~45%)

Total xfer: 0.97x

Is that normal?

// I have contacts, but i guess it wont let me restore apps from Google acc, because i logged many times without any app so i guess im ****ed and i have to do everything manually, right?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] appollokillers1:
what i can say is that something u do when u do it it's the wrong way,or u skiped something on the way,to play with this is not an option,u do it right or u just break something,if u do fallow exactly the steps that ppl tell u to do,like most of us,those problems wont be an issue,for a simple fact,there wont be those issues as they r not for the rest of us,but i guess that it is a simplier way to just say that maybe something in the flash or in the rom might broken something,i did told that to many and many did said in the end when they make it worked that it was true,their fault only,we r to many in here that we don't face some issues like just a few that comes,or maybe is just a faulty phone and is not ur fault,or something happened on the way with the last firmware update,i mean the stock firmware and again is not ur fault,butsaying that u have trust issuescoz ur sim stoped working 3 times,is just saying that something went wrong,i do have like all in here using the marshmallow and as far as i can see in here,some have minor issues,things that can help in making the rom better,but i didn't saw any saying that have problems with syncing the phone numbers,this is new and even more with that end,but anyway,maybe it is hard to fallow something written coz u might skip a step,reading past it,so i do say for the good of all,search in youtube,r many videos with all the steps,with everything that u have to do and when,to make it work nice and smooth,exept for 1 small part that is only for this particular rom,it is different android and needs different way of doing things to make it work,is not easy and not for every1 or every1 would be around here thanking,for this awsome job that this few r giving us what the maker of the phone is not and we will be always gratful to them to exist and do this for the rest of us too
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] noMercy1337:
Nono.. SIM has nothing to do with that.. I just lost SIM datas 3 times because they just died (not phone fault) and I have contacts already! :) I have Marshmallow now and it looks fine. I just wanna know if there is any option to get my apps back, because the option 'app data' is on but no apps. I guess they wont download, when I logged without any app installed before, right? And then.. i dont really understand the point of having Titanium Backup for apps, if Google does the same thing. FML this is annoying :D Okay, so if I'll have to install every single app again, what should i do next time for proper and smooth backup? Thanks!

// Okay... I wanna know if it should end on 45% (adb sideload installing rom) - is that okay? And I wanna know if there is any chance to sync my apps back from GOOGLE, which after every reinstall would pop up and install (without settings i think). And if not, what should i do next time to keep SYSTEM settings + APPS with Settings. I'm really tired of this :(

I've probably find out the problem with softrebooting!! Its the lightbar 5 sec mode!! [MENTION=4887164]ipromeh[/MENTION]
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] appollokillers1:
that it should have been done right after u flashed the rom and when asked for google connection,there it should have been asking u that,seen that u have same name,but not sure if it will work when the old apps backup was made in an older android version,not sure about that,but is not so much hassle to just install all ur apps once again :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] GjorgiDxc:
[MENTION=6172000]noMercy1337[/MENTION] Google's "Apps Backup" option has to be supported by the apps you install (which atm are very few apps). Also it only backups 25MB of those apps. You are better off using Titanium Backup because with it's batch backup/restore option it's far superior than any other option out there.

You don't have to clean flash every build (if the dev doesn't say so), you can dirty flash them and obtain all your apps and data :)

I don't fully understand the gapps issues you have, but if you're using A-GAPPS note that "Setup Wizard" is not included in those gapps, so you won't get the normal setup on startup screen you'd get with other gapps packages (example being Open Gapps). Just go to the Play Store or any other Google app and it will prompt you to sign in. :)

Also if you have contacts synced in Google Contacts just go to Settings>Apps click the gear icon in the upper right corner and select App permissions. After that go to Contacts permissions and select show system apps from the 3dot menu. Grant the contacts permission for every app in there. Now do the same with Storage permission and you should have all your contacts synced.

Hope I cleared some things up for you :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] noMercy1337:
Thanks, guys! I think i started the new 'set' by logging in to app data sync without letting it restore, nevermind .. Contacts are working okay now and I will install every single app again manually + as I mentioned - the bug with softrebooting could be - Device specific - Lightbar, when you change default settings to 5 sec, thats why we had problems with that, because we probably both changed it to 5 sec :) also I'm not sure about the installation, although it works fine, it ends on 45% (adb sideload romblabla.zip thing), is that normal? it would be lovely if [MENTION=4887164]ipromeh[/MENTION] could fix that lightbar thing :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] rowny:
A little help, please? I think I bricked the phone. I did the partitioning as described. This is the partition table now:

The phone boots into TWRP, but cannot mount or format /data and /sdcard (it says 0MB on /data and it cannot see /sdcard at all)

Can you tell me what to do?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] appollokillers1:
hmm,the phone is not bricked at all,gosh,some of u use that like saying : i'm hungry,well,if u can still use ur phone,and u do,get again in twrp as usual and start the thing again,but as far as i can tell,u didn't included ur sdcard exactly in ur process,coz i see it as still fat32,u really and all have to really pay attention to the forum,read carefuly all and be sure of the steps that u have to take,be very sure that what is in the example is exactly what have u typed too,so,no worries,is not bricked,just start again and anyway,at the end,is kinda normal to show u that sdcard is 0 Mb and to tell u that it can't mount it
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] rowny:
Well, I *think* I followed the instructions carefully. I tried 3 times. The instructions are very unclear by the way.

And I mean, I can't mount /data and format it (because it's 0 mb), and /sdcard is not shown at all.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] guruAhtasham:
0MB is shown because your data is not formated to current file system format the data.

there is an option to format in TWRP use that.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] rowny:
I lost my thoughts here.

>>>>>>I can't mount /data and format it (because it's 0 mb)<<<<<<

Can someone please explain what to do?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] anth0nymDROID:
Ehen you open twrp go to wipe select repair, choose data and Format to f2fs , reboot twrp and data should be Wirkung again
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] juanza:
Are you using TWRP 2.8.7.0?

In TWRP 2.8.5.0 storage show 0Mb and can't mount /data
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] rowny:
No, it's 2.8.7.0. I flashed the image from the provided .zip. It's all red error messages when I try to format for f2fs, it says "unable to mount".

I'm rebooting "system" from TWRP once the partition table is written (-w). Is that correct?

Can you tell is I messed up the partitions somehow?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] appollokillers1:
ok,try this video and add the last part from this forum at the end of the video,u will be fine,is how i did it and it worked https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9u_0iSWwGo

oh,and did u got the twrp for m android ? and did u flashed it to fota partition ?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] rowny:
I extracted recovery.img from the ROM and I flashed it in fastboot. Ok, I'll try following the video later.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] appollokillers1:
remember,just to install the twrp into the phone is not going to have it yet,after u flash the twrp u have to move it into the FOTA partition or the twrp that u flashed is not going to remain there,it will revert to the oldest twrp that u had be4 the new 1
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] rendiiwalkera:
how long to first boot?

:confused:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] appollokillers1:
if it takes more than half hour,then u missed something,take a look again of the steps and be sure u did all of them,but normally it takes less than 15 min
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] rowny:
Ok, how can I revert the phone to its original state? Nothing works, I can't mount, restore, repair or format /data anyhow.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] pazavaza:
just flash stock fw with flashtool
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] rowny:
Ok, I managed. After the partition is made, it has to be formatted into ext4 and assigned (number_of_blocks - 16384)/4 blocks. Then, format into f2fs from TWRP, push ROM and flash. I could not figure out how to make 2 partitions visible (one for data and one for storage). Also, TWRP does not see /data now. It's all messed up...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] appollokillers1:
well,if u would have read the forum carefuly and apply the steps exactly as it is said,u wouldn't be in that mess in the first place,and why u want 2 partitions for ? is much better in my opinion that just 1 partition for all data,30 ish gb for u to fill up with all u want,games,apps,music etc,and yes,the TWRP if u didn't moved it (the right 1) in the fota partition it will be the same 1 that u installed the first time and it wont see the partition right,i think u better start with doing just 1 partition and after that to figure out how to make a second from that 1,but as far as i read in the forum till now,it is almost impossible to have a second storage as actually the so called sdcard from this phone is still as internal memory as usb storage,is not actual sdcard,so i guess that is hard to make android M to work with that so better do all step by step and be sure that no step has being skipped and if u can,take a pic of what u see on that moment that u say that r 4 blocks only,it seems very strange to meto hear just that...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] gamesky:
help...? I flashed the recovery from the zip file
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] rowny:
The problems are solved now, and the ROM is awesome!

I followed this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6IU2-QcVD8

I had to use mke2fs and format into ext4 through adb, otherwise I could not mount the partition. Once mounted, I changed the file system to f2fs, pushed the rom and everything is fine now.

Thanks for the help!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] subin.joe:
in next update add screen shot option and more power shortcut option

add speed indicator in status bar

every thing is perfect .. smooth rom

thnXs :good:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xxkoncyxx:
The problem was that the repair guy didnt even understand what i've said. Didnt know what is he doing. So he failed to be a repair guy.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] appollokillers1:
did u fix it then ?

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well,i am glad u managed to make it work in the end :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] gameputra:
Works like a charm!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Misiegk:
What i need to do when i deleted too much but rest is followed good? I mean i deleted 14 and 15 and now have only 13 with 29161472 blocks
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] appollokillers1:
well,it seems that many come and read just a bit and thing that know what to do and how,did u read closely the forum ? no ? i guess not ... here a video so u can see if what u did is right and what u missed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9u_0iSWwGo ,after this video,u apply the part in here, push the TWRP that is in the zip of the rom,move it to FOTA,and after format into f2fs and so on,the rest is in the forum,so take a time and read it,for that is the forum,many asked same questions for the same reason,no1 read,in the future,we shouldn't asnwer for a question already asked...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Misiegk:
So, i done the video but (dont know if thats important) with 13 partition becouse i deleted 14 and 15 as i said previously, pushed all roms, and now cant mount data/cache, but done next steps, turned on my phone and it says "encryption unsuccessful" and shows "reset phone" button, after clicking it nothing changes.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Fir3lordZuk0:
i would recommend you to flash stock again and then try the procedure from the beginning.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] appollokillers1:
u had to delete and make the partition 14 again and after that to just reboot and make the steps with push and flash,that space is there so just get back in the adb and in the fdisk part,u forgot 1 step in there,to make the partition 14 again,and imerge the 15 in 14,is in the video,around the end of it

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is exactly after u put the d 15 and d 14 and n ,i think here is where u stoped,u should have the 14 again with the space of the 14 and 15 together as 1,u don't have to flash the stock again for that
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Misiegk:
So, i added back 14 and 15, and deleted 15 , done some random stuff and its working good now, sometimes google is crashing but rest is ok. Thanks for help :D
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] appollokillers1:
well,if google crashes...well,not sure why,but anyway,i did downloaded the google play cracked and i have that last version,and i can tell,no crash at all,dunno about the normal google play works as normal,actually i never did since i have a custom rom haha,but i am glad u figure it out and all works well as it should be :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] rowny:
How's the battery for you guys? Skype drains 10% per hour.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] appollokillers1:
well,i don't use skype on my phone,just coz of that,draining the battery dry to dam fast for the amount of tdata that is always downloading when is connected and even when not,trying to connect,but without it,i do use greenify and i can tel,i just lose 2% over night and it does look gd even when i play a game,it is a pretty hard on graphics,star wars:uprising,and i do play around 30-45 min til the battery gets into the red line,but without playing,i still use whatsapp and for me,it does take longer to shout at me to recharge it again :)

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@ipromeh ,i have a question,when i had the lollipop (ur rom) and i was installing cracked games,or modded,i could put the obb files in the /sdcard/Android/OBB/ directory and the games worked fine,now i do have to ask,where i can pass the obbs files if is no sdcard ? can i pass them on the Android directory as normal and make the OBB directory and so on ? it will work like that or i have to make a different way ?

now another question,i saw something in the new naosp rom,that he added a ota update thing taking in acount an cloud storage,can that be made in this rom and that that ota update to just work that simple as any other ota ?i mean u put there ur new rom and our device just download it and install it ? i'm just curious if that can be done
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] GeorgeTsak:
Reboot issue

I installed the rom and I am very satisfied however there is an issue that makes the ROM very bad. Whenever I turn of the screen (Either by pressing the power button or let the screen close by it self) the phone soft-reboots. When the reboot completes, if the screen closes again it will reboot again. In other words it has a soft-boot loop problem. Is there any way to fix this?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] noMercy1337:
I've talked about this few pages back. You have to set back the default setting - 5 sec. It's annoying, tho.

"Oneofakind Tweaks - device specific - lightbar"
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] GeorgeTsak:
It works perfectly! Thank you for your answer! :good:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] noMercy1337:
No problemo. Now i have problems with rebooting while charging device. It shouldnt be marked as stable, tbh.

EDIT - You can't use stable beta in the same sentence :D That's why stable/beta/alpha/dev etc. exists :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] appollokillers1:
well,it is a stable rom,but it is still a beta so expect bugs and not to mention that even if is the same xperia s that we all have,each 1 is different,so on some can appear some problems that others wont have and so on,well,if u have that problem i sugest u don't do it again f u know about it,on my xperia s,i don't have that problem,and i reboot it lot of times with the charger on,the wall charger and the pc usb plugged in,so more than this i can't help u with,or maybe try to install again the rom might fix it,not sure
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] asjackson03:
Problem

Thanks for the tutorial, I have a question regarding a flaw that I see, the phone is restarted only when this happens the last we WhatsApp messages and conversations are deleted alone, you know that it can be happening? thanks
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] appollokillers1:
well,is not the rom problem with the whatsapp,u should check more often the internet,whatsapp have that bug with messages desappearing without deleting tthem,that is something that the whatsapp devs it seems that don't care about and after so many updates after the bug being issued,never been fixed,so u will have to wait like all of us to be fixed by the whatsapp devs,u can check it in internet
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] anth0nymDROID:
It was happening in all the mm Roms its been fixed in nAosp Rom now. So you can check that one.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] appollokillers1:
i hope u r right,especially that r forums with hundreds of ppl not on mm and keep talking about this dam bug from whatsapp,don't make the poor man try that rom just for try it and is going to have same fate with whatsapp...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] anth0nymDROID:
You are right there.

IT was fixed since mmb04 Naosp i use IT now till the changes are implemented here.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] marios3000:
I tried all your steps but I cannot mount /data at the end of the reformatting to f2fs. Is there anything I can do? I also tried following the procedure to the end but I could get the rom to install.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] topnumber7:
hi

your base rom is nozomi

my Xperia S is LT26i

my question is...

what's different between LT26i and nozomi model?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] nageswarswain:
First flash the recovery. IMG to fota partition...then try the method
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] A6ekAK:
LT26i = Nozomi

Nozomi is our Xperia S codename :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] appollokillers1:
actually is the same model,the only difference is that lt26i is the 1 u buy it on market with stock rom,the nozomi version is what u apply on the stock to make all this custom rom work,there is no nozomi model,nozomi is a dev,not something else

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did u reboot ur device right after formating and did u moved the last TWRP into FOTA ? and all the parts with push ? it will show u like is impossible to mount data and that can't mount sdcard,but go on with the steps of pushing and installing,if it works,no matter the error mounting,i tell to all,try to look at a video of the process,it is in youtube :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] 111alan:
I have some problems during flashing. Everything is fine until I tried to save the partition table. Warning shows up like this:

fdisk: WARNING: rereading partition table failed, kernel still uses old table: D evice or resource busy

I decided to ignore the warning because the partition table shows correctly after reboot. But then TWRP told me that it can't mount /data and /cache, SD card 0MB, even after I changed their FS to F2FS and rebooted.:(

I tried to create 2 partitions(p14 p15 like the original with changed capacity) and only 1 partition(only p14 as said in flashing procedure). Both options can't mount the partitions.

I tried to force flash the ROM, 1 partition option is not usable(shows multiple error after entering os). 2 partitions option can make the os function normally for now, but those partitions still can't be mounted.:crying:

I'm quite familiar with PC hardware, os and fs, but completely a noob at linux/android things.So help me out plz...Thx.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] appollokillers1:
try to do it exactly as in this video and continue from that end with the next steps in this forum,maybe will help u better and make u get to the end with success :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9u_0iSWwGo
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] appollokillers1:
the pic u posted is exactly the thing as it is be4 starting the operation,take a pic of that after the operation when u say that is only 2048 Mb,something u did wrong,and i guess that u didn't deleted the partition 15 and get it in the 14 as instructed,if u don't want to fallow the instructions as they r,don't even start with it,those instructions r for a reason and that is coz the android mm is not dealing with 2 internal memories as the others android versions,so see what is different in that partition table and the 1 that it should be normal,without partition 15
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] marios3000:
Thanks for all your responses. I flashed the recovery to the FOTA partition first and then changed the partitions and installed the rom. I have two more questions, and I'm honestly sorry to bother. There was an issue with google play services not responding but that seems to have stopped for now. Should I do something about it? Is there a way to fix it if it occurs again? And secondly, when I connect the phone to my computer I cannot see any drive to put my files in (photos, music, etc.). Do I have to reflash the rom or something?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] appollokillers1:
u don't bother at all,we all r in here to talk about issues and to find a solution for them,at first thing,did u give all the permitions to google ? if yes and it still did happened,well...can't help u in there,i am using a cracked google play v6.1.12 and had no problem at all of any kind,for the second problem,well,u have to pull down the menu and click on the usb conection for charging and change to files transfer,is that easy :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] marios3000:
It hasn't bothered me since I gave the permissions. WoW! I didn't see that :P

I did that and my storage is down to 8gb. Is it a system setting or something or I messed up the partitions?

Thanks for the kind reply and your time. Much appreciated.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] appollokillers1:
hmmm,that is strange that ur partition shows now only 8 Gb,it should say total capacity 27,3 Gb,it is hard to understand how u manage to fill that much,if not,then u did something wrong at partitioning,maybe u did only an 8 Gb partitioning and not the whole...