yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Adam Hui:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2kf007gn7z695zg/AAD9PzH3v7H8LIzC7bZv3w3ha/MicroG-N-211116-signed.zip?dl=0

Or www.microg.org , but u'll need to push the playstore manually to /system/priv-app

how could u think so...haha..speed is speed m8, our /system partition (including phone, modem, libs) located in the card, so when calls incoming, they're working hard to load from it.

Just give it to ur lil bro & change it to Class 10 UHS

Create a file, name it as 01_init (without extension) then push it to /etc/init.d , change its permission to 0755. Then modify its to just contains :

#!/system/bin/sh

echo cfq > /sys/block/mmcblk0/queue/scheduler
echo 256 > /sys/block/mmcblk0/queue/read_ahead_kb
echo 0 > /sys/block/mmcblk0/queue/add_random
echo 0 > /sys/block/mmcblk0/queue/iostats
[Xperia Arc Android Development] surajak:
can anyone help, getting following error :

C:\adb>adb sideload cm-13.0-20161109-UNOFFICIAL-LegacyXperia-urushi.zip

loading: 'cm-13.0-20161109-UNOFFICIAL-LegacyXperia-urushi.zip'* daemon not runni

ng. starting it now on port 5037 *

* daemon started successfully *

error: device '(null)' not found

C:\adb>
[Xperia Arc Android Development] DeadXperiance:
Update your adb driver
[Xperia Arc Android Development] surajak:
thanks for reply.

I install ADB Driver Installer (Universal) (http://adbdriver.com/downloads).

now error while flashing zip in sideload gone. tried with cm11. but now after flashing boot.img of cm13/cm14

phone does not boot into recovery, it shows 'NO COMMAND'

before update it was booting into recovery after flashing cm13/cm14 boot.img.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] DeadXperiance:
For CM 11 installation steps required

1: Flash boot.img in fastboot & reboot into recovery

2 (optional): If the device is not booting, reboot to bootloader again and run:

fastboot erase system

3: Enter recovery

4: Format /system, then /data and then /cache (Important step!)

5: Flash update zip

6: Flash gapps

For CM 13 or 14 installation step required

Partitioning and Formatting sdcard to ext4 or F2FS

1. Insert the formatted sdcard to your device and power off

2. Connect to PC in fastboot mode (hold menu button and connect USB cable)

3. Launch cmd from your fastboot/adb folder

4. Type in these commands:

fastboot flash boot boot.img

fastboot reboot

5. While the device is booting up, disconnect from pc and press the Volume down button repeatedly to boot into recovery mode.

Once in recovery, perform the following

� Factory reset > full factory reset

� Wipe cache

� Advanced > wipe system partition

6. Now select Apply Update > Apply from ADB

7. Connect the device back to PC via USB cable and type the following commands:

adb sideload [COLOR="Magenta"]update[/COLOR].zip

(here update is your zip name)

8.Wait for the loading process to complete. If it stops at 47% don�t panic, just go ahead with the remaining step for installing gapps

adb sideload gapps.zip
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Jbazt_katuforzs:
So the MicroG Dropbox link got it all sorted out and put all necessary files in placed? I'm running a bit shtty card as well. I'm running now with gapps, imma try microG and reflash
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Gillivray:
I have good experience with "smartassV2",

I test the same, but maybe it was also 2 hours ^^
[Xperia Arc Android Development] DeadXperiance:
I have also feel 4-5 rings to wake up with smartassV2 in Xperia Ray. testing more will report
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Adam Hui:
Yes, but better replace with a clasd10 one.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] chelise:
Sorry, my technology knowledge is quite limited, but I did not think calls and texts were processed via an SD card, I made this assumption based on ye olden days when phones did not have SD cards but were still able to received calls and texts at a reasonable speed. Plus prior the upgrade to cm13, (prior to the slow incoming call issues) I thought calls and texts were processed via the phones RAM, not the SD card. As it is the same class 4 SD card I have had in my phone since day 1 and I never had issues of slow incoming calls. Thus I assumed it was the same and that calls and texts were still being processed via the phone itself/RAM, not the SD card, since RAM would be faster than the SD card.

I can and will happily change my SD card for a class 10 if it will definitely improve the incoming call speed, but is it possible for the calls and texts to be processed via RAM instead of the SD card? Is there a way of doing this?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] vikusz:
Up to CM11, the /data partition (including all app data such as settings, contacts, messages, etc.) was on the fast internal flash storage. Since CM12 the /data partition is on the SD card which is very slow compared to internal storage. Even a Class 10 SD card is much slower than internal storage. This is one of the reasons why CM13 is so much slower on these phones than CM11. The other big reason is that newer operating systems do much more background CPU processing and take up larger portions of RAM thus leaving fewer resources to apps.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] chelise:
So will changing my SD card to a class 10 will not help much in terms of incoming call speed?

Is there any possible way of enabling calls and texts to be processed via RAM rather than the SD card for cm13?

Could code be written in to enable this?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Gillivray:
I tested from landline to smartphone and you?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] vikusz:
Don't get me wrong, a fast SD card (e.g. Samsung EVO) will help tremendously with general app speed. It's just that it will never be as fast as CM11 because of the mentioned reasons.

All apps reside in and are processed via the RAM when they are running, it's a question of where they're stored. In CM11 app data is stored on the fast internal storage (not RAM) while in CM13 it's stored on the SD card. There is not much one can do about this. Except maybe trying to keep the phone app running in the background all the time. This can be done with the App Settings Xposed module for instance, but I haven't seen any improvement with this on CM11. Haven't tested it on newer CM versions. Then again, storage access speed is only part of the issue; there are other factors which slow the phone down.

Are you sure you don't want to go back to CM11 if you rely on your phone? Some clever people will definitely figure out to improve this issue on CM13 but it will always be worse than CM11.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] villus:
is it possible that differences in hardware makes this lag?

I feel NO lag in normal use with my urushi and an sandisk extreme Pro 32gb.

i use the phone only for testing, used Ram is always at 400mb or so, but telephone call is ok for me.

My cam app crashes every time, and load Musik via USB dont work ... :confused:
[Xperia Arc Android Development] chelise:
The majority of apps are ok speed wise, currently, even with my class 4 SD. It is a little slow from initial wake up, (though, so am I! lol) but once it has woken up, the speed is reasonable on most apps. Some of the larger ones like facebook, ebay are a little slow, I have over come this a bit by downloading older versions of each, google maps/navigate is super slow, but I do not use these apps often on my phone any way.

I understand downgrading and reverting back to cm11 will help, but one of the reasons for going to cm13 was due to some apps that I wanted, are not compatible with lower versions of android, thus cm13 was needed in order to download/use some certain apps (for example, an app which enables my phone to be used as a wireless viewer and shutter remote for my camera, which comes in very handy. So apps like this will not work on cm11).

To start with, I initially was just looking into rooting my phone to remove bloatware/improve memory space. It was researching rooting which lead me to this forum and being able to upgrade android too. So figured I would go full whack with cm13 to enable use of certain apps. On another plus side for cm13, I am liking some of the features of it, which I do not know if cm11 has.

But if it is going to have to be a compromise of incoming calls versus the use of some certain apps and features, then calls wins hands down.

So should there be no alternative/no way of improving incoming call speed or no way of processing calls and texts via RAM rather than SD. (Now or in the near future, I understand these things take time and appreciate the time which is put into it all, with huge thanks to all those that do)

I will try anything and everything in order to over come the calls and texts issues, but if nothing at all, ever, can be done then I will to revert down to cm11 and live without the apps and features instead. (I have lived without them for 5 years, I am sure I can continue to do so)

Can you tell me, with cm11, is it possible to put

all

apps onto the SD card (even apps which were unmovable on stock)? As this was my main issue with stock gingerbread. Lack of space and my phone being filled with useless immovable/undeletable bloatware. I had no memory left to do anything.

Also, do you know what features are the same or different between cm11 and cm13? For example, these are some of the features I am liking on cm13:

Adding text/a message to the lock screen.

Little folders of apps on the main screens.

The non-moving apps down the bottom of the screen.

Having a status bar with wifi, bluetooth, data toggle on/off options.

Being able to change the colours of the notifications lights.

Notifications showing on the lock screen.

Being able to change volumes without unlocking the phone (Admittedly you could do this on gingerbread, with the "slide right to unlock, or slide left to mute", which is not on cm13 and it took me a while to find out that I could do it via the volume buttons instead)

Are these features available on cm11?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] k ahangar:
hi guys

i tested cm 11 , cm 12 and cm13 and i had a Common problem in all CMs about browser. when i was trying to zoom, Page was clean for a few seconds and I'd have to wait till again reload of texts and pictures and others. what's the solution for this problem?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] meet.chan:
You could use 'link2sd' pro version to link all your apps to the external SD card. There might be other free apps as well that serve the same purpose. In my experience, link2sd works flawlessly.

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Most features you mentioned, you can find in cm11. For the ones you don't, you can try installing the 'exposed module'. It'll help you customise your phone to your needs.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] wilsonhlacerda:
If you want it fast CM11 with just few apps is the way. Move some to SD and stay with main ones in internal memory. All Android standard. Fast.

If you want more apps install Link2sd or apps2sd on cm11. Linking everything enable tons of apps, but system will get slower. Acceptable.

If you want it really updated and standard CM13 or CM14 is the choice, but it will will be slow. Occasional use.

Skip CM12.

For everything real class 10 sdcard is mandatory. A fast random read one is better (original Samsung evo seems to be the best option). SanDisk for instance are good but not on random, what is the main demand.

And always prefer "lite" app options when available, like Facebook and Messenger lite versions, naked browser or xbrowser, and so.

A plus can be reached with kernel adiutor cpu, io and mem tuning, xposed with modules like bootmanager, greenify.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] DeadXperiance:
I have tested from landline and from mobile phone I get wake up my phone 3 to 6 rings.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] chelise:
The speed of almost all, apps is not a problem for me on cm13, in fact most of them are fairly quick and certainly no slower than original stock gingerbread when I had it, some are even quicker, and that's even with my class 4 SD card. And the odd 1 or 2 apps which are a little sluggish, I can live with.

It's just the incoming calls not waking up the phone which is the major issue.

It seems a little odd that the primary functions of a mobile phone, such as phone calls and texts are processed via the SD rather than the RAM. I would have thought calls and texts would be prioritised.

Don't get me wrong, I think the work which the developers do is amazing and I could never be able to do it. They have my praise and I bow to their knowledge on how to do such things. Especially doing it and offering it to everyone for free, makes it even more amazing, I could not speak highly enough.

I understand that the cm's are a work in progress and there may be room for improvement and since I am not the only one having these issues with calls, if the developers and creators do read/see this, maybe it can be taken as info to help improve cm13, cm14 and any other future cm's.

Get calls and texts processing via RAM instead of the SD card, so that calls and texts are fast and manage to wake up the phone, then cm13 would be absolutely perfect for me and I imagine a number of other people too.

I would also happily give a reasonable donation for this. ;)

P.S I have just bought a Sandisk extreme plus, after reading reviews that its random read and write speeds were measured at 85.9MB/s and 43.8MB/s.

Is this sufficient/a suitable card?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] TomTomcrafter001:
Your fastest sd card wont help if the phone cannot use the extra speed because of an ancient card reader (only up to 32gb).

But it's worth a try :)
[Xperia Arc Android Development] vikusz:
While the phone won't fully utilize the sequential reads/writes, it will still help. And the fast random access of the Extreme Plus will help A LOT.

You pretty much bought the best option (along with the Samsung EVO).
[Xperia Arc Android Development] chelise:
Yes, I figured the read/write speeds are going to be key elements here, from reviews it seemed the Sandisk extreme pro trumped all others in terms of both normal transfer r/w speeds and random r/w speeds, so went for that one.

My slight worry was that my lil' ol' phone may not be able to hack it/won't be compatible, but I guess it may be trial and error.

Is my old mini pro up to the task of such a card, I shall soon find out... worst case I guess is: I just wasted £20 and still have slow phone calls. :p

There is also the fun of attempting to clone my current card to my new one.

So now to wait on a "woohoo" or a "d'oh"

:fingers-crossed:
[Xperia Arc Android Development] nussbaum:
There is no 32GB barrier, LX can use any size (tested up to 128GB). You have to format it using Linux or in the phone (which IS Linux:) ), because Windows will use exFAT above 32GB.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] TomTomcrafter001:
Oh nice ;)

Didnt know

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Wait then if this is possible, my S7 could support higher than 200GB?

They always said up to 200GB but HTC said on the HTC 10 you could get up to 2TB.

Do card readers have limits?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] nussbaum:
200GB was the largest microSD available when S7 was developed, AFAIK its 256GB today. 2TB is the space SDHC/SDXC standard can address.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Strigae:
In context of the Play. The higher density cards (200/256 SanDisk) are labeled Ultra which perform terrible for random read/write. Extreme Pro is definitely the way to go right now. And they recently announced App labelling for SD cards. So we might get higher focus on usable cards for our Play in the future. That is if the controller can follow suit.

And I have a question about the evo cards. From my testing with crystalmark they don't perform as people advertise/praise in this thread. I have the 128GB version of evo cards. What kind of 4k random read/write do you get?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] chelise:
Good to know.

Though I got a 32GB anyway. I currently have 16GB and only used up 7GB of it so far. Was looking at another 16GB as the replacement but it was only £3 more for the 32GB, so figured I would pay the little extra for some "just in case" space. ;)
[Xperia Arc Android Development] TomTomcrafter001:
I recently saw a 256 GB card but they are so expensive :(

I got my 128 GB card for 40€. I chose toshiba over Samsung because it had better speeds (on the Samsung one speed wasn't there)

It's impressive to see, just look at the photo
[Xperia Arc Android Development] wilsonhlacerda:
Concerning sdcards a huge point is if it is original or not. There are tons of fake worldwide and needless to say that beside data corruption risk the speed is not like the original ones.

Google for counterfeit sdcard and thumb drives.

Before buying I suggest to see manufacturers site the list of official resellers.

After buying test it with app SD Insight AND windows program h2testw.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] chelise:
Yep, I have had a couple of dodgy cards over the years. I try and buy from reputable sellers when it comes to things like this. I certainly agree to your recommendation of testing them.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] blutor:
This is exactly my experience. Except that I have class 10 SD card. OsmAnd starts and renders a vector map in 20s, Firefox starts and renders a (simple) web page in 25s. I consider those as pretty heavy weight apps. But it take 90s for the phone to wake up on incoming call (with default 'interactive' governor). The phone app itself -- when started manually -- takes 1-2 seconds to start.

This led me to the conclusion that problem is somewhere else. I do not think that SD card speed is the one to blame here. My gut feeling is that CPU is not woken up or frequency is set to lowest one upon an incoming call when the phone is sleeping. Therefore I've started experimenting with governors.

I have yet to test 'smartassV2' as suggested by Gillivray. It looks quite promising.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] k ahangar:
hi guys

i have a 32GB elite sdcard of silicon power brand. i want go to cm14. what sizes of linux ,EXt4 and fat32 partitions you suggest to me?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] vikusz:
Here are my tests of a 32 GB Samsung EVO (74% full) and a 32 GB Sandisk Ultra (also 74% full). I am not really sure if these numbers are good or if there are better cards in the same price range.

View attachment 3967953View attachment 3967954
[Xperia Arc Android Development] DeadXperiance:
Call wake up problem

I have Samsung Evo 16 gb class 10 and installed CM14.1 in Xperia Ray I have tested cpu smartass v2, on demand and performance but nothing can help sometime when phone in deep sleep don't wake up even all rings of incoming call finished. and don't see any miss call on it
[Xperia Arc Android Development] meet.chan:
I use the same card and same rom and faced the same issues exactly as you've mentioned. But, after changing the governor to on demand and I/O scheduler to sio and disabling all battery optimisation under the battery setting, and unchecking all the 'look up' settings in phone settings, the phone registers an incoming call after around 5-6 rings even when it's sleeping for around +3 hrs. I had faced no such issues in cm11. Ever.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] redhotiron2004:
I think the issue have something to do with sqlite database optimization. Ringing works fine with gingerbread. But things worsons above that. One cure I found was by using a 3rd party calling app that had the option to always keep the dialer in memory. That way my ringing became faster. I had used that 1-2 yrs back. Dont kniw whats the current status if this problem. Just Thought of providing my little insight.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] DeadXperiance:
I will try and report.....
[Xperia Arc Android Development] chelise:
Others have reported that cm11 seems to be ok for incoming calls, but cm11 still has some features running via RAM, which is going to be much faster at processing. Its the builds, like cm13 and cm14 which have EVERYTHING running from the SD card, which I believe to be the issue.

I recently tried a 3rd party dialer app, and although the app itself was quicker to load/open than the normal phone app, it still made no difference to incoming calls.

So unsure if there are any other apps out there which may help.

If anyone finds one, please do spread the word.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] blutor:
Hmm maybe it is SD card as you saying but how do you explain that the phone starts ringing fast when it was recently awake? Or that Phone app starts within 1-2 seconds when started manually? SD card have the same speed when the phone is sleeping and when it is awake so there should be no difference if the phone slept for a long or short time.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] chelise:
I understand and see your point, but surely if the phone is asleep, then it is not doing anything/not using the SD card and does not need to process anything. Then when a call comes in, demanding the phone to suddenly and immediately process it, it is slow to respond (just as I would be if someone woke me up from a deep sleep, demanding I do some work, I would be pretty slow too. lol)

I imagine that when in deep sleep the phone effectively shuts off/puts to bed the things it is not using, ie. the phone app and it has to go searching for it to wake it up upon an incoming call. Where as, if it is already awake, then potentially so is the phone app and if the app is already awake, then it should be quicker to process. hence slightly faster when its already awake.

That's my theory anyway, but I am not hugely technically minded, so this theory could very well just be my mind making up rubbish. Plus as I said, I am unsure as to whether periodically waking up the phone manually actually helps or not, or whether its just a coincidence, I don't know. I just found after days of testing that just when I thought the issue had improved and I got it down to 5 rings, I leave my phone alone for the day and it is right back to square one with 11+ rings or not ringing at all.

But I do know that RAM is going to be much faster than the SD card at processing calls. Which explains why no one seems to have had this issue on cm11, as the calls are processed via the RAM on cm11.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Mardon:
Phone app is on System (internal storage) on all that roms and loaded into ram also on all roms. Only data partition is on sdcard now which means apps installed after flashing the rom are on sdcard and the dalvik cache.

Dont mix RAM, internal system partition and data partition.

Gesendet von meinem Pixel mit Tapatalk
[Xperia Arc Android Development] chelise:
Apologies if I got it mixed up/wrong.

So is there a way to return the phone app and some other apps (such as sms and calendar) back to the internal for cm13?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Mardon:
Its already on internal system partition.

Gesendet von meinem Pixel mit Tapatalk
[Xperia Arc Android Development] chelise:
Is it? then do you know why it does not wake up the phone on incoming calls?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] nussbaum:
Well, as i understand android, apps start from dalvik-cache, which is on sdcard in LX13/14...?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Strigae:
[MENTION=5588219]vikusz[/MENTION]

I just tested my 128GB Samsung EVO+ and 200GB Sandisk Ultra. Both empty
[Xperia Arc Android Development] thinhx2:
edit: booted, first time is lag but i try reboot,very fast than first time boot. Can use daily,thank dev bring niugat to sony neo l
[Xperia Arc Android Development] vikusz:
You're getting pretty low write speeds, I wonder why that is...

Can you actually use those big cards in these old phones? I always thought there is a 32 GB limit or something like that.