[Android General] 7awliet:
It's Fun And Not So Fun

Hahahaha no worries, it's cool :laugh:

I wish you the best in them... Yagami Scout-kun :cool:

What's all this hype with Exodus ROM about? Is it the same bugless one Ajit posted in January or something else?

http://www.mtkroms.com/2016/01/bugless-lollipop-exodus-for-mt6582.html

She gave me the phone today so I had some time to play with it some more. I got a basic working RR 5.7.0 with GPS working and a 50/50 VPN. There seems to be no other bug in it, either that or I didn't manage to test everything fully. That was the one I ported a few days ago and used CM 12.1 files to do so.

Now, though, this A5000 is starting to screw with me. First, trying to port with S030 and S124 is near impossible simply because THERE IS NO RILD IN S124. Ajit says get it from a working CM 12.1 (???) - well why wouldn't you just get it from stock (S030)???

Secondly, his instructions are all over the place. In fact, nearly everyone's are. If we actually compiled a set of instructions about how to do stuff, we'd save ourselves HALF of the time we would usually take. You know why we don't though? It's because NO ONE knows the actual instructions LMAO.

hwcomposer.mt6582.so is in /system/lib/hw/ not /system/lib/. As mentioned earlier, there is no rild in Lollipop.

Sometimes we wipe this and that before flashing, sometimes we wipe this and that after flashing, sometimes we don't know what to wipe except for our arse and try to wing it :eek:

I swear, the instructions one the first page are not written in English either X'D

Getting into recovery is a joke. I've tried about every combination and sometimes they work, sometimes they don't, I've tried so many times - I can't seem to remember which methods work. Once you're in recovery, no one talks about mounting the system, in fact no one even talks about when editing updater-script located in /META-INF/com/google/android/ to change

mmcblk0pX

mmcblk0pX

mmcblk0pX

mmcblk0pX

to:

mmcblk0p6

mmcblk0p6

mmcblk0p8

mmcblk0p6

that the Data partition should be set too. Let alone the fact that TWRP only picks up the first two occurrences of System partition but doesn't see to Data nor the third occurrence of System partition :fingers-crossed:

Currently, with the latest set of fixes (which by looking at with WinMerge simply look like a bunch of permission changes), my RR 5.7.0 ported with S030 ONLY doesn't even boot.

The current set up I'm trying is TWRP 3.0.0.0, RR 5.7.0 (by S030 only), Danger-LuckAs-A5000-kernel-3.4.67-20160514-02-08-boot.zip, no GAPPs, and no fixes.

Wiped System, Data, Cache, and Dalvik Cache; then flashed RR 5.7.0; then wiped Cache, and Dalvik Cache; then Rebooted. Result? First Lenovo logo for about 15 seconds then the screen goes off (no pixels are lit, phone is not on). Sat 30 minutes - nothing. Multiple times. I can't even get to recovery, and pressing the power button only repeats that but you have to press it down for 15 seconds. Now, I managed to get the Lenovo logo to stay on longer than 15 seconds and I've waited over a hour :silly:

As of writing this I managed to get to recovery again simply by restarting the phone instantly by press the Vol+ key and Vol- key together. It's almost like they work as a sleep button now..... I can power the phone on at that time by simply pressing them 2 keys..... Now, back to the frozen screen.

I don't understand the fascination with this phone, I really don't hahahaha. I would never buy a non-removable battery phone myself. At this point, I'm just contemplating getting her a LG - the support for it is so much easier and the hastle is so much less. Good Lord...

I'm so close to giving up, it's just that when I start something, I'm always determined to see it through to the end.