yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Mrkblo:
My Samsung EVO Class 10 card was detected on minitool as a bad disk after I've tried to downgrade to the february version (after installing march build and getting fcs on google services). After several connects/disconnects it showed up as unformatted, and minitool was able to format it as FAT32. Looks like it's working now, but I am sure some sectors got damaged as CWM can't even see it. Good for you that you can try to RMA (although you're not being very honest).

There really should be a huge warning about this procedure being harmful to the sd cards, as many people have already reported problems. This is certainly not the first time I've flashed something, and still managed to break mine.

Looks like my Wt19i is going to die in CM11, and out of use as the free memory available is a joke and I'm not willing to play around with partitioning the sd card anymore.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] legolas340:
oh man thanks bro
[Xperia Arc Android Development] cagali:
Is it 8-10K with antutu ver. 6.0.1? The calculation of benchmark changed a lot from v5 to v6.

Could you post the breakdown of result (ux, ram, io) if you have captured it?

Also the result of "basemark es 2.0" please.

Thanks.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Ptamigi:
Thank my brother for answering but I build a fat 32 partition and my phone don't know that. And I put the usb setting on MTP and when I connect that the pc, pc don't know sd card and just know internal memory

What do I do now??

I need multimedia
[Xperia Arc Android Development] xperon:
But why 720p doesn't work only at Marshmallow and Lollipop?

How come it does work at KitKat, for example (which is not a stock version from Sony)?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] AdrianDC:
For LX devices Antutu shouldn't be really looked at,

it's more about usability, smoothness and stability.

Especially since the 3D part of the bench can't even run

on low RAM devices > score 0.

Here's a screenshot of the test I ran just to check for stability

and to have an average idea.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] xetnic:
thanks a lot for this ROM

can directly upgrade from cm12.1?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] TomTomcrafter001:
the sdcard is displayed as internal Memory. just copy the files to "internal Memory", this is the sdcard.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Ptamigi:
I know my friend

My sd card is 16 GB

but pc show 500 Mb internal memory.

What's problem?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Vortelf:
I'm getting "E: signature verification failed" trying to install on Xperia Play. Any ideas why it says that the package isn't signed?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] bykidi:
Really wierdestestest bug i've ever got using LX.

For me, formatting /system solve this problem
[Xperia Arc Android Development] cagali:
Thanks.

You are right I agree with your idea.

If one use 2011 xperia for general purposes, then smoothness and stability should be the priorities.

As it is an Arc S, I suppose the cpu clock in this benchmark is 1.4ghz?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Vortelf:
Just tried it, didn't work :(
[Xperia Arc Android Development] afah_me:
cm13 already support theme engine? please give me the "settings" screenshots

Thank's...
[Xperia Arc Android Development] TomTomcrafter001:
themes are working. cannot send a screenshot but trust me, they work.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] filjusz:
Xposed is working?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] ftaios:
Wow! Unbelievable rom. So smooth on haida--a lot smoother than cm12.1.

Themes work except many boot animations cause system ui to FC a couple of times after bootup; after that all is fine.

Enabling 180o screen rotation freezes the phone. Snap camera is very good.

Thanks mike!
[Xperia Arc Android Development] DeadXperiance:
adb sideload

I have Smultron

C:\Users\Patel\Desktop\ADB-Fastboot-Tools-master>fastboot flash boot boot.img
sending 'boot' (9216 KB)...
(bootloader) USB download speed was 9362kB/s
OKAY [ 1.023s]
writing 'boot'...
(bootloader) Download buffer format: boot IMG
(bootloader) Flash of partition 'boot' requested
(bootloader) S1 partID 0x00000003, block 0x00000148-0x00000179
(bootloader) Erase operation complete, 0 bad blocks encountered
(bootloader) Flashing...
(bootloader) Flash operation complete
OKAY [ 1.698s]
finished. total time: 2.724s

After in recovery Full wipe go to apply update sideload

C:\Users\Patel\Desktop\ADB-Fastboot-Tools-master>adb sideload cm-13.0-20160227-UNOFFICIAL-LegacyXperia-smultron.zip
error: protocol fault (no status)
error: protocol fault (no status)

I get this error, Can't install Cm13. Please help me friends.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] intruder16:
Try to go through the instructions thoroughly before attempting anything.

Important things to consider:

On the download links mike posted, i couldn't help but notice the difference of download counts in the ROM zip & md5 files. It is always a good practice to check the md5sum of zip file you downloaded with the md5 file provided. That can verify the integrity of your ROM zip.

Also, i believe everyone installing CM13 should first try using ADB if don't know what it is. That will save many useless posts yet to come.

Anyway, can anybody tell me how much time does it take for the first boot? Its been more than 3 hours here and still the same CM logo.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] TomTomcrafter001:
Your adb Version is outdated. update your adb version.

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for me it takes not Long (5min.) and it only had to optimize 22 apps (clean install + gapps)

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Some Information about Bluetooth in the release on urushi:

-BT turning on on the second turn-on-attempt

-BT speakers or headphones need to be paired again after Bluetooth off and on

---this increases the volume to the loud Standard Level

-A2DP works

-i didnt test filetransfer

-on other devices i can adjust phone-media volume independently from headphone volume (on urushi the headphone controls the phone-media volume)
[Xperia Arc Android Development] DeadXperiance:
Thanks for replay. I can apply sideload but now it stuck on 47%. since 15 minutes

C:\Users\Patel\Desktop\Adb>adb sideload cm-13.0-20160227-UNOFFICIAL-LegacyXperia-smultron.zip
serving: 'cm-13.0-20160227-UNOFFICIAL-LegacyXperia-smultron.zip' (~47%)
[Xperia Arc Android Development] RomanLarkin:
I cant install a march-rom without wipes.

I did every thing with your instruction, but when i trying to flash march rom, I got error with status 0
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Adam Hui:
+1

In my case everything in card stuck back to first time before these actions while read from win explorer.

But worst news i'm failed to clean revert to cm12.1: "symlink errors in source sd cards" while installing.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] hertell:
I have to add here some thoughs about the sd-card problems people are reporting. I have difficult to believe that the rom damages the card. What i have stumbled upon with sd-cards, usb-sticks etc is that the "disk"-layout or it's parameters are screwed up. Windows then believes it's damaged, and tries to solve it with a checkup that throws errors and in the same go marks the areas of the "disk" as broken. Usually i have not managed to get the cards/sticks fixed in Windows, and in a Mac i have fixed this only via command-line. The best way to "restore" the cards/sticks has been via linux and it's various disk-tools, and naturally via command-line..
[Xperia Arc Android Development] CrazyPisec:
CM 13.0 february? Because i know last cm-13.0-20160327-UNOFFICIAL-LegacyXperia-mango have problem with gapps(
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Kong2000:
No, the latest build 20160327 and MDPI_miniGAPPS-6.0-20160323-tb-signed.zip
[Xperia Arc Android Development] alexcramer:
Me too have problems with cm-13.0-20160327-UNOFFICIAL-LegacyXperia-mango with gapps :/
[Xperia Arc Android Development] CrazyPisec:
Originally Posted by CrazyPisec

How can fix this? Have this on cm 13 sony sk17 i(mango)
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Kong2000:
Link is the first post.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] CrazyPisec:
So on the last cm13 gapps don't work and Mardon know this problem and write answer wait cm13 update:
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Kong2000:
I don't know why it doesn't work for others, but it works for me. I have no FCs. My main issue is that WLAN needs to be connected manually from time to time. (latest CM13, latest mini GAPPS by mardon and mango)
[Xperia Arc Android Development] tobi24:
I also don't know if it's really caused by the ROM or just a very strange coincidence - but I can't remember seeing that many reports about broken cards at once with the cm12 ROM...

I directly tried to delete / create a new partition / format in GParted (linux), after my ROM-installation did not succeed. It was not able to change anything on the card at all - as well as all the other methods I tried and listed on page 78 (including parted, fdisk and fsck.f2fs in ADB shell as well as the "AParted" app, so all linux). Really nothing was able to change anything on the card, it's like "write protected"...
[Xperia Arc Android Development] CrazyPisec:
How you install last cm13 can write?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Kong2000:
I can't help you because I did nothing special. I just updated from february release. First I flashed kernel via adb sideload, then the rom. After I had an error while flashing rom, I had to wipe system partition. Then I installed the rom again and then mini gapps. That's all.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] CrazyPisec:
Mb you don't have problems with gapps because you just update february release for last cm13.

I update cm11 for cm13 last release and have problems with gapps (
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Kong2000:
Well, you can try out and first update to february release.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] hertell:
Did you try to use gdisk instead of fdisk? Also did you try with

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=1M

where /dev/sdX is the sd-card?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] tobi24:
Didn't try gdisk, as far as I know cm13 uses MBR, and gdisk just is for GPT partition format. And if really no tool or command can delete the partition on my card, this wouldn't be able to write anything as well.

I tried "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/mmcblk0# bs=1M" however, the output was:

dd: writing '/dev/block/mmcblk0#': No space left on device

221+0 records in

219+1 records out

229867520 bytes (219.2MB) copied, 1.149749 seconds, 190.7MB/s
[Xperia Arc Android Development] umaturman:
I just realised that it should be "mmcblk0" instead of "mmcblk0#".
[Xperia Arc Android Development] tobi24:
The output looks better:

dd: writing '/dev/block/mmcblk0': No space left on device

30192+0 records in

30191+0 records out

31657558016 bytes (29.5GB) copied, 1521.064515 seconds, 19.8MB/s

But GParted still shows f2fs partition, and is not able to delete or format it to anything else - although saying "all operations successfully completed". The systems always seem to think they could write to the card - but actually they don't. Also trying to record a video in cm11 didn't show any error - but there was no video-file stored afterwards. Or AParted (app) thinking it did delete and create a new partition, but actually did nothing at all...
[Xperia Arc Android Development] umaturman:
I think you need to RMA it. If low level format didn't help then the sd card is done.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] tobi24:
Yes, I'll try to get it replaced...

But I still think it really could be that the ROM is responsible for the corrupted cards...

If you read things like that: http://forum.cyanogenmod.org/topic/120362-sd-card-not-usable-as-internal-storage/

Or in the description of another ROM based on CM13, "Known issues: Using sdcard as an internal storage extension is not a good idea. This function is broken. Use your micro-sd as a portable storage instead."

Source: https://www.androidpit.de/forum/633...ix-v5-6-5-marshmallow-6-0-1-diskussionsthread

Or http://forum.cyanogenmod.org/topic/121383-cm13-for-n5100-corrupts-microsd-32gb/ (although this just is about larger cards, mine is exactly 32GB)

CM13 at least has been known to cause those problems - maybe they "should" been fixed now, but aren't 100% or some old and faulty code-parts have found a way back into the recent release?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] TomTomcrafter001:
Hope it won't happen to my card. This is my only 32GB UHS 1 micro SD. Want to use it in my next phone, too.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] alexcramer:
I install yesterday in my xperia mini pro (mango) the rom of february and now i don't have problems with gapps :)
[Xperia Arc Android Development] umaturman:
Doze feature

Does Doze work in LX13? I checked the overnight battery drain via BBS and didn't see Doze Idle mode in stats. It works with "Aggressive Doze" turned on using either Naptime or Greenify but not with the stock settings.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] joezsweet:
what changed?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Kaito_kid:
February there is no problem. . March update has a problem. .

[emoji5]
[Xperia Arc Android Development] alexcramer:
The last week i install the rom of march and i have problems with gapps so yesterday i install the rom of february and now i don't have problems jeje

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Yes i know, because of that i do this. The last week i install the rom of march and i have problems with gapps so yesterday i install the rom of february and now i don't have problems jeje
[Xperia Arc Android Development] zaworka:
Just a thought from a "noobie". I GUESS in order to make the SD work as internal storage for CM13 the devs had to set the MM (marshmallow) option for the SD to internal (kinda logic). It has been often reported that you wont be able to use that SD for anything else then, as for internal storage. In general, if you want to use your SD card "normally" again, you will have to change the use of the card in MM as portable storage. This will delete the whole card of course, and as it is the system partition, I am not sure if MM will do that. But I could imagine that the problem is related to the fact, that MM used it as internal storage.

So I would suggest to reinstall CM13 look for the option, whether you can change to portable style (if you can you also erased system so the phone will crash I suppose). If you can not do that, I think you or some programming-skilled person (definietly not me xD ) should look if he / she can extract the "programm" MM uses for transforming the SD-card to reverse the changes outside of android...

Not sure if it is helpful at all, just thinking ;)
[Xperia Arc Android Development] tobi24:
Probably your thought of the 1st paragraph is right, but if our card is damaged - we can't reinstall cm13 ;) Actually because the installation

failed

I tried to get my card back somehow - with absolutely all ideas and suggestions I got :laugh: An external tool would be needed for sure...
[Xperia Arc Android Development] zaworka:
Oh ok, i didnt read the whole thread, just jumped right into your discussion about how to reformat the SD, so sorry for that ;)

I am not sure how another ROM (so another phone/tablet) would handle the SD because its storing the system but I could try if you could redo the changes CM (no, actually M did ^^) did to the card as I am running CM13 on my personal phone (S5 mini).

I installed this ROM to my friend's phone (thats how I got here btw :angel:) and formatted the SD to f2fs. I had to change to LX11 because of the gapps bugs for the time being. Anyways, I will try to get his phone asap so I can extract the SD (untouched since switching from LX13) and try reformatting it as portable storage with my phone and keep you guys updated. :fingers-crossed:
[Xperia Arc Android Development] TomTomcrafter001:
Yeah we should try that. :good:

Mike wrote that you can't access the filesystem with an external card reader. Only with the phone set to "Data Transfer".
[Xperia Arc Android Development] u.b.o.o.t:
can't update

I once installed cm13.0 build 20160227 and gapps on my iyokan - exactly as described in the wiki - and it went fine. I also used proposed Mardon's hdpi mini gapps package based on toybox.

Now, I wanted to update to cm13.0 build 20160326 but install always fails - no matter if I use sideload or upgrade from emulated storage.

The logs in /cache/recovery don't tell much. They all look like

[ 968.115170] Finding update package...
[ 968.118801] I:Update location: /sideload/package.zip
[ 968.118832] Opening update package...
[ 968.120602] I:read key e=3 hash=20
[ 968.120632] I:read key e=65537 hash=20
[ 968.120632] I:read key e=65537 hash=20
[ 968.120663] I:3 key(s) loaded from /res/keys
[ 968.123562] Verifying update package...
[ 968.143643] I:comment is 1738 bytes; signature 1720 bytes from end
[ 1043.951138] I:whole-file signature verified against RSA key 0
[ 1043.951229] I:verify_file returned 0
[ 1044.390103] Installing update...
[ 1046.161373] Target: SEMC/MK16i_1254-2184/MK16i:4.0.4/4.1.B.0.587/tL1_3w:user/
release-keysabout to run program [/tmp/install/bin/backuptool.sh] with 2 args
[ 1058.066097] detected filesystem f2fs for /dev/block/mmcblk0p1E:Installation e
rror in /sideload/package.zip
[ 1058.066159] (Status 0)

I also tried re-flashing build 20160227 -> same result!

To me it seems to be related to backup stage, i.e. something goes wrong when /system/addon.d scripts are executed, but I could be wrong...

Has anyone of you guys successfully upgraded from a previous cm13 build?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] azakosath:
Wipe system, reboot and install from recovery rom and gapps again.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] u.b.o.o.t:
Thanks! It worked. Basically that means that regular upgrade is broken for now...
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Raixer:
Network mode

anyone know how to force the network to use WCDMA only?

In Legacy xperia cm12.1 i can change to WCDMA only from service menu *#*#4636#*#*, but now in LX-CM13 when i change to WCDMA only in service menu it immediately changed back to wcdma prefered.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] mikeioannina:
I replied some pages earlier, if you use non-minimal gapps there is not enough space in ram to temporarily backup gapps during CM installation. Either use minimal gapps or wipe system and reinstall gapps on each update.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] zaworka:
Sooo, I have managed to get that SD back and have put in my phone (S5 mini, CM13). It said that it was broken but I could reformat it as portable storage and it was succesful. Android formatted it FAT32 and my windows system does recognize it and it seems to work as it should :good:

It should add the fact that my ROM does support F2FS, so I am not sure whether that is necessary as the card is formatted F2FS. Also I am not sure whether you will be able to get your hands on a Marshmallow device with (or without) F2FS support and a slot for a micro SD. Good luck on that, but at least you know there is still hope for your SDs :cool::good:
[Xperia Arc Android Development] bassbox:
I don't even come close to installing this rom.. MK16i

I were on legacy with android 4.4.4.. I could flash to stock 2.3.4 with flashtool. MK16_4.0.2.A.0.42_GenericDE

But I can't update to stock android 4.0.4 neither with flashtool (MK16i_4.1.B.0.431_Baltic, best i could find, should at least flash??) nor pc companion (modified device it says after downloading the firmware)
[Xperia Arc Android Development] joezsweet:
Hi Mike,

do you mean Mardon miniGapps? ..cause i got update crash with miniGapps installed on xperia pro.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] tobi24:
Sounds promising :) You also haven't been able to re-format it to anything else before, using tools like SDFormatter or GParted?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] zaworka:
I honestly didnt try too hard but at least I can say that linux didnt recognize the card anymore. So I hadnt been able to use Gparted..
[Xperia Arc Android Development] nussbaum:
Maybe your linux distributition just had no f2fs support installed. I can access my cm13 legacyxperia card in a cardreader using archlinux. You just have to install f2fs tools, modprobe f2fs and use root to access, because most directories on the card are owned by root user.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] bassbox:
07/051/2016 10:51:23 - INFO - Opening TA partition 2
07/051/2016 10:51:23 - INFO - Processing system.sin
07/051/2016 10:51:23 - INFO - Checking header
07/051/2016 10:51:24 - ERROR - Processing of system.sin finished with errors.
07/051/2016 10:51:24 - INFO - Ending flash session
07/051/2016 10:51:24 - ERROR -
07/051/2016 10:51:24 - ERROR - Error flashing. Aborted
07/051/2016 10:51:24 - INFO - Flashing finished.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] umaturman:
[MENTION=1602550]bassbox[/MENTION]

Did you try to use the restore option? Update then to latest stock ICS and proceed with LX13 :beer:
[Xperia Arc Android Development] bassbox:
Yep. :( It gives me the "modified device" error.... I flashed stock 2.3.4 with flashtool before trying this...

I relocked my bootloader now.... Now PC Companion says "No Software available for your device" WTF? (in repair routine ofc, not update or so)

I tried the exact same on another computer now.. there at least it really recognizes the phone without any problems.. then it shows (when connected running 2.3.4) that there is an update to 4.0.4 ready...

but after rebooting the phone it just says "No Software available for your device"... I guess they really have just deleted the firmwares from their servers...

But why the hell does flashtool flash 2.3.4 just fine but not 4.0.4...

MK16_4.0.2.A.0.42_GenericDE.ftf OK

MK16i_4.1.B.0.587_Central_Europe.ftf ERROR

MK16i_4.1.B.0.431_Baltic.ftf ERROR
[Xperia Arc Android Development] umaturman:
[MENTION=1602550]bassbox[/MENTION]

You can flash .77 baseband only.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Machiavelli III:
i'm stuck with my phone with the "boot.img" flashed formatted system,data and cache , but the adb isn't working, so i couldn't flash the "update.zip" through recovery .

all i can do beside recovery is to go fastboot, i tried "fastboot update update.zip" but the console replayed that there's no "android info.txt"...

far more to mention i was on SlimLP and formatted the SD to 1 partition "Primary- Unformatted"

what should i do to flash the ROM....
[Xperia Arc Android Development] azakosath:
What do you mean? Which version do you have? It should be the latest 1.0.32. If not, download it and try again.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] tobi24:
If you don't get ADB working with the latest version (as written by azakosath), you can also try to flash the ROM using an USB-stick and an OTG-adapter. But I got the information from EugenStanis that you need to format it to ext4 file-system, so you will also have to copy the ZIP on a linux-system, since Windows does not support ext4.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] urushi_hd:
If you have SD card problems, try different card readers. I am able to reformat a f2fs formatted card back to fat32 using an USB 2.0 microSD card reader under WinXP without any special tools. But if I put the card in a microSD to SD adapter, it says: Card is write protected, but the switch is indeed unlocked.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] tobi24:
I guess it's no problem in general to re-format the card to anything else, as long as you didn't have any problems with the cards before. But for several people here the card died during or directly after the installation of cm13, we haven't been able to do anything at all with it anymore, not able to install cm13 on it, not able to just store something on it, also not on another rooted cm-device, not able to re-format within recovery, adb, windows or linux. I also tried within the phone, an external card reader and an internal one in a notebook, also with and without an adapter to regular sd-size. For me nothing worked, but in general trying multiple devices isn't the worst idea yes ;)