yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tilator:
Well, it's not big deal at all, because there is plenty of power anyways. It's just not correct to sell a product with specs that are not what buyer migh expect it to be. You might have noticed, that Nvidia has taken core count off the selling material too. Maybe they have "second thoughts about it too". But - it's fine anyways.

B.T.W unfortunately there might be an other not so good thing. The Ubuntu they offer might be 32-bit version. Not 64-bit as processor arcitecture allows. Someone told there might be something still wrong with 64-bit graphics drivers.
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nVidia Shield TV:
Precisely not because nvidia claimed to use a custom design which enables to work with all 8 COREs simultaneously, all 8 COREs should be visible/accessible to programms.

That it is now not the case means nvidia lied or something went wrong and they disabled the weak cores or it would bust the tdp limit and a bigger cooler were necessary.

The big lack of CPU power in comparision to the "mighty" GPU is a big problem but on the other hand not because this devices lacks of appropriate software for more than one year already and that's the reason why its sellings are a lead balloon.
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gasaraki-:
WTF. The proof is in the pudding. The X1 is the fastest ARM processor out right now, faster than the Snapdragon 820, Samsung Exynos, Apple A6, etc.

SO yeah, it is amazing.
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] firefly6240:
Its hard to say without confirmation from Nvidia themselves but I think there may have been a small error in that particular article.

every other article I've seen shows big.LITTLE:

techreport

Greenbot

System on a chip specout

Notebookcheck

The older K1 (Denver) processor (Used in the shield tablet) was an Nvidia custom job based on ARM, its likely that they assumed the X1 was the same.

but with the X1 chip Nvidia went completely with ARM spec with the processors set up in big.LITTLE configuration.

that being said even big.LITTLE chips can be run in tandem to utilise all 8 cores, it just depends on the processor, some are designed to handle it and some arent, and some actually can do it but dont have the software to make it happen (Its a pretty new process).

I'm trying to confirm with nvidia and I'll post the results.

this is completely my speculation but I'm thinking the chip may not be set to process in tandem so locking it to the more powerful cores makes some sense for the shield TV as enabling the lower power cores on a device with no power constraints would give unneeded power improvements and no performance improvements (in fact the opposite is possible, imagine putting your game on pause for long enough that it drops to the lower power cores and then starting it up again, if the game didnt have a wake-lock built in keeping it on the higher cores there would likely be a bit of a hiccup while it swapped back to the main cores).

in a tablet format enabling the lower power cores makes sense to save battery so I suspect in a tablet form it would be enabled (someone with a Pixel C would have to confirm)
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nVidia Shield TV:
Not in terms of CPU power, in this apple's ones are king.

Apple's CPU + Tegra X1 in one device :highfive:
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Steel01:
A couple notes for the OP.

1. Yes, the pro does have the 16 GB emmc, but it is blank, like literally all zeroes. I haven't tried yet, but I presume if it was partitioned out correctly, it would work as you want. One thing to keep in mind: the different models are hardcoded to load fastboot and consequently the boot partition from their respective places. Specifically, the emmc model from the 16 GB emmc and the pro from the 8gb ssd of the hybrid drive. So, you would have to tweak the init files to mount the emmc partitions for the _hdd edition and reflash the boot image. Now also keep in mind, like mentioned before, you wouldn't be gaining space on the HDD by doing this. The 8gb ssd part of the HDD is what the /system, /cache, etc are on, while /data is on the spinny disk.

2. Multirom is coming. I've got the hard part working finally. Just need to do some tedious work to finish it up. Unfortunately, that might take a while, I'm crazy busy the next couple weeks.
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tilator:
That's what I thought too.

I still would like to have a "bit by bit" copy of 16GB device EMMC to test what it takes to do it. Can you help me here?
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Steel01:
Unfortunately I cannot. I also have the pro. What I may end up doing with mine is formating the emmc as a single partition to use as a Linux root partition.
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tilator:
OK, we are in the same boat here. I would like to put root on EMMC partition too, but also I would like to try partitioning EMMC exactly same way Nvidia does it. Bit to bit copy of a working device would do exactly that.

If Nvidia has done first stage boot loader "nice", it would first try to boot from HDD and if it does not work it would try EMMC. I suppose we all know what possibilities this would give us.

But, I'm still waiting to get my hands on a whole EMMC copy.
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tilator:
So - some update to previous discussion.

Thanks to an other user here I got the EMMC copy and it has been succesfully flashed. It's not a brick yet and I can confirm Pro version EMMC can be flashed with non-PRO versions EMMC copy. I have not had enough time to try to make somethin usefull with it yet. Next thing will be taking HDD out to find out if it boots from EMMC while it does not find OS from HDD or flashing non-PRO version boot loader to replace present one on HDD to see if it then loads root from EMMC. Bit by bit copy of first 4GB has been taken from HDD already just in case ...
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mogster2K:
Well, if /system and such are already on flash and the eMMC is unused, you might be able to just move /data to the eMMC. It may be an easier solution than trying to move everything.
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tilator:
I find moving data to EMMC quite pointless.

"Ultimate" solution were if everything else is on EMMC and data on HDD. Even better, if HDD uses a common non-encrypted format where it might be read and written by a computer "plugNplay" and HDD could be changed to another when ever needed.
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mogster2K:
But that's basically what you have now, with apps running on the slow HDD.

If you moved /data to the eMMC, the apps would be running there instead. Then you could mount the HDD in place of the emulated /sdcard.
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tilator:
OK. I have not examined it. I expected data partition to be for user data (movies etc.) only, but of cource apps should be there too.

What we really might gain of is ability to freely deside where they all are.
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tilator:
Next step.

I have an extra 500GB. I took the original HDD from Sield out and cloned it with DD on the extra HDD. Then put the new drive in Shield to find out if everything works.

Of cource the expectations were that it should work while DD makes exact copy. Now it's just tested it works. It gives a bit more freedom to make changes while there is a second HDD for resque if something goes wrong.

Next thing would be shrinking data partition. Goal is to get out such an image that can be put on 240GB SSD.

B.T.W there are no screws to hold HDD. So it's relatively easy to remove/replace it.
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tilator:
Next step now done. It's swapping HDD. It seems to be it works just all right with a conventional HDD. It needs not to be a SSHD.
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BMEEKS:
Are you saying that pro users can clone their drive and install an ssd and you got it to work???
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tilator:
Cloning is definitely possible. I have already done that.

Cloning to different size HDD (or SSD) is something I have not yet had time to do. I did clone the SSHD to same size normal HDD.
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hallydamaster:
I have got to ask! Can you make your Pro Shield boot from the EMMC without the HDD?

You have to try that and see if its possible. Everyone is trying to replace their SSHD with new ones or SSDs. That might just work if you can make it boot from the EMMC independant of the HDD.
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tilator:
I did not manage to make it boot from EMMC. It seems to be useless in pro version. It works with cloned 500GB HDD just fine, but I try to make it boot from 320GB drive now.
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hallydamaster:
I see... I find it strange though that you got it working with another hdd. I know from the GeForce forums that others have tried making DD copies with an exact hdd, without success.

If the device is really hard coded to boot either from hdd or EMMC, we probably can't do anything anyway.

But what if we could convert the device into a 16GB version? Then the hdd slot could be used for just anything, wouldn't that be the ultimate goal?
[Shield Android TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tilator:
Well - what I'm trying todo now is finding some solution to use smaller disk. It would be nice if it works with 120GB or 240GB disk. Then there will be plenty of diffrent SSD drives available.

This is very slow to try to find out how it works, because it takes hours to write whole 500GB disk again bit by bit.

B.T.W. The 500GB HDD I use has product code Hitachi HN-M101MBB/JP2 in case somebody is interested in thisinformation. It's an old and slow HDD from some laptop.
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] _LLJY:
thanks to [MENTION=3037651]zacharias.maladroit[/MENTION] for the kernel and system.img in this aosp build and [MENTION=3253248]celderic[/MENTION] for for letting me use his rom as a base for this. this can be dirty flashed over the stock firmware but it is recommended that you disable any form of lock screen security when you do so.

link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1GT7O5RajNnSE9HT1RWU3N3MzA/view?usp=sharing

DISCLAIMER: I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOUR HOUSE CATCHES FIRE OR YOUR PHONE BLOWS UP BECAUSE OF THIS YOU ARE CHOOSING TO DO THIS MODIFICATION TO YOUR DEVICE THUS,YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONSEQUENCES
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] zacharias.maladroit:
Nice :good:

Haha - that disclaimer is somewhat large,

the "relevant" part almost goes unnoticed ;)
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] Dockyy:
failed to mount '/system' (invalid argument)
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] _LLJY:
i have fixed that issue will reupload once zip has finished signing
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] Dockyy:
nice
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] _LLJY:
new version: use the one in the first post instead
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] Dockyy:
same issues

run under twrp 3.0.1-0 from androplus
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] _LLJY:
reupload: edit use the one in the first post instead
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] _LLJY:
hmm seems wierd, try mounting system before flash?
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] Dockyy:
indeed i can't mount system partition :confused: idea ?
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] _LLJY:
that might be a problem caused by the first zip, try installing system.img from the zip via fastboot, then boot into recovery and try again
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] celderic:
I don't think we've ever spoken before, it would be polite to ask instead of making things up saying i let you when we had no conversation about that.

i'm not going to report you as this could be a misunderstanding, but please ask next time and say what you are using from my rom.
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] _LLJY:
I am sorry but this is a misunderstanding, we have talked before via PM and (although for a separate project) you did let me use your update script from your ROM
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] celderic:
You're right that was a few months ago! Just looked through my messages, can't seem to find what I replied to you though.

Strange as I don't remember at all haha, maybe I misunderstood your question at the time. Sorry my previous post seems rather rude now.

Do you need any help? I see you're having issues flashing the system image, what base of mine are you using? The simple one from my first 5.1.1 rom, or my aroma one from the latest 6.0?

Edit-

You where right, made a fool out of myself now haha sorry.
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] _LLJY:
Yes you are most welcome to help, I am having issues getting the system partition to mount and flash properly, I am using your simple 5.1.1 update script.
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] celderic:
ifelse(is_mounted("/system") == "/system", unmount("/system"));

format("ext4", "EMMC", "/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/system", "0", "/system");

mount("ext4", "EMMC", "/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/system", "/system");

package_extract_file("system.img", "/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/system");

From what I remember, that is the script I used in that version of my rom.

Try this -

ifelse(is_mounted("/system") == "/system", unmount("/system"));

format("ext4", "EMMC", "/dev/block/mmcblk0p43", "0", "/system");

mount("ext4", "EMMC", "/dev/block/mmcblk0p43", "/system");

package_extract_file("system.img", "/dev/block/mmcblk0p43");
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] superalin98:
Actually I've tried the patched flashable and got into the same problem, but resolved by extracting the system.img from zip and manually flashing it, but now i have another problem, i forgot about the pin lock and now I'm stuck at the lockscreen, tips?:confused:
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] udbhav.vy:
Will I run into problems if I flash this on E6683?
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] superalin98:
I factory reseted the phone to bypass the pin, the rom is very laggy and unusable from my experience, but looking forward to use it as a daily driver as soon as the problems are fixed
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] zacharias.maladroit:
yeah, it might not working properly,

[MENTION=985241]erikcas[/MENTION] is the expert on dsds (dual sim) devices - he has written a single sim, dual sim detection script and kernel changes that got included upstream in the kernel,

there might be some additional changes needed,

I thought that full support was in AOSP itself but apparently it needs some modifications still

never EVER call an AOSP ROM laggy unless you haven't locked and unlocked the phone after the boot at least once, lol :D

Did that help ?
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] superalin98:
I rebooted several times when i tried to pass the lock screen and after a factory reset also, I found a kind of dirty solution because of the manually flashed the system.img, maybe it's because that, it also had some weird screen issues that I can't find the words to explain, some parts of the screen just looked like the old tv without a channel randomly
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] Dockyy:
got the same issues only on the bottom of the screen when i scroll or i move something...

its look like this:
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] zacharias.maladroit:
yeah there's some "glitch" with the video driver that shows some horizontal lines at the bottom of the screen during bootup on the splash screen,

must be something about the graphics driver and/or framebuffer ...
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] _LLJY:
Go to twrp and press format data, it will wipe /data /cache and /dalvik-cache
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] _LLJY:
Lock the screen for 5 seconds then unlock it, do this every time you reboot to fix this issue
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] _LLJY:
yes you will, this is for E6653 only however they are working on one for the dsds on the other thread, will make a zip for when they finish building
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] _LLJY:
signed and uploaded a new version link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1GT7O5RajNnSE9HT1RWU3N3MzA/view?usp=sharing

change log:

fixed system flashing issue

thanks to [MENTION=3253248]celderic[/MENTION] for helping me fix the /system flash issue

future changes:

6.0.1 r22

seperate rom with WIP kernel
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] zacharias.maladroit:
Please double-check that custom kernels work with newer or other releases than the one they were built for

I strangely ran into trouble yesterday when combining the kernel built for 6.0.1 r17 with 6.0.1 r22 ROM and dirty-flashing both,

might be that things have to be wiped before using and switching builds ...
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] Dockyy:
For camera color issues you can do something or you have to wait Sony's driver update?

Same thing for finger sensor...?
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] _LLJY:
i dont think theres fingerprint in marshmallow aosp, the support is there but there are no files for it to actually work, as for the camera we need to wait
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] korom42:
Could you provide more infos about your ROM , is it stable and smooth for daily use ?
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] JerryLaiHMmmmmm:
You can try it out yourself?

DO A FULL BACKUP BEFORE FLASHING
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] albertobom:
Screens?

Enviado desde mi E6653 mediante Tapatalk
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] hadec:
and phone doesnt boot hurray..now i need to fix this somehow
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] _LLJY:
What's the issue?
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] _LLJY:
U can try fixing by flashing system.IMG separately
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] hadec:
I got abig adventure fixing my phone...so if I ever gonna do it again I need to wipe system before I flash this one right? Cuz it fkd me hard xD
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] _LLJY:
No u don't have to, wipe user data, then flash the ROM, before that extract the system.img to your computer, then flash it separately via fastboot if your phone does not boot
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] hadec:
Can u explain a little more how can i have the system.img?

Or its via the backup ill make?and if yes i type what?

Thx in advance!
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] _LLJY:
Extract the system.img from the zip file(make sure u have an extra copy of the zip)Make a nandroid backup in twrp, press backup, flash the zip, then press zip on the bottom right corner of twrp and it should change to image, flash system.IMG from there
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] Xdevillived666:
Im guessing i need to be unlocked and have twrp?
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] zacharias.maladroit:
you don't really need TWRP (you can flash the img files via fastboot),

but flashing the zip-file via TWRP is more convenient :)

So: yes to both
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] Xdevillived666:
Do I need root and to be unlocked, or can I do it over stock?
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] zacharias.maladroit:
A pre-rooted ROM is not really necessary, unlocked (like mentioned in my last post: yes) bootloader is needed,

you can flash it via fastboot over stock (the partitions are wiped beforehand or similar),

but it would be batter to have TWRP

to be able to make backups, selectively format partitions

and other tasks

Thanks
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] _LLJY:
Update: im not really able to update the rom for the next few weeks as 1. My Z5 is broken (picking it up today :D ) 2. I have upcoming examinations

i will update this rom to latest sony source asap after my examinations
[Xperia Z5 Android Development] JerryLaiHMmmmmm:
Any new builds?
[Motorola Droid 4] mapal123:
Hello,

Have any of you installed and tested the CM 13 snapshot?

Found any problems? Battery ? things not working?

As the title may suggest I have tried various CM Rom on my Droid 4.

I used for some time a 12 Nightly, but having various problems, including on google play services

Also a big problems seemed to come when restoring apps and or databases with titanium backup.

So, I switched to a CM 11 snapshot and only installed Pico opengapps to avoid problems.

Anyway, my CM11 worked fast and flawless in the beginning, but then I started having problems with Messaging apps / contacts and phone itself.

Symptoms:

- Messaging apps often crashes

- Contacts apps does not crash but often contacts are reloaded (and this is very slow), this impacts Messaging i am guessing, Contacts itself, and Caller

- Caller often need 1 second to light up the display (when a call is incoming), and often does not show Caller's name (as i guess contacts is reloading

So basically, I have problems making calls and sending texts (all the basics)....all other apps work very well, even fast enough and never crash.

Any ideas? Think I should restart again, wiping, installing a new ROM (CM13 eventually?)

Could my problems come from conflicting apps (I uninstalled skype but kept whatsapp..) ?? I also use Nova launcher.

I wiped dalvik/cache and seemed to help for a couple of days, but now I am back upset...

I do not know how to log all this (the reasons of crashes or reloads), so I don't know what makes contacts reload, messaging crash and so on (sometime they work well..)

Thanks anyone for advices on this!
[Motorola Droid 4] mapal123:
Anybody tried CM 13?

Anybody had problems with contacts / messaging / caller ids ??
[Wing, P4350 General] gbzbz:
Does Wing work with Stereo Bluetooth Headset _ONLY_? One bluetooth headset I have works with Dell X51v, but has no luck with the Wing. Seems Wing requires A2DP(??).

Any ideas?
[Wing, P4350 General] psyop1:
No, stereo is not required. I have two very cheap bluetooth headsets that both work with my Wing. The wing doesn't require A2DP, but does support it (supposedly).

On that note, is your headset visible in the Wing when you go and search for bluetooth devices (add new) in the bluetooth applet?
[Wing, P4350 General] gbzbz:
The headset works fine with X51v PDA so I know it is functional.

Yes, the headset is visible in the Wing's BT management interface. It can pair the partnership without any problem, when I tried to connect, sometimes I saw the microphone icon appear in the top bar of the screen, but it disappeared in seconds.

When I adjusted the volume, sometimes I heard clicks from the headset, but when I played music/sound, they always came out from the speaker.

What am I missing here? Thanks!!
[Wing, P4350 General] gbzbz:
update:

I got the bluetooth headset to work in the phone mode. but not with mp3/movie.

everything from the mp3 players (pocket music and media player) still come out of Wing's speaker...
[Wing, P4350 General] #13:
any solution for listenning to music!?!?!?!?
[Wing, P4350 General] Abbens:
bt audio is a cab where the music will play on bluetooth
[Wing, P4350 General] #13:
my headset is not stereo, and after i tried bt audio nothing happened.

Am I doing something wrong?

Please help!

Thanks!
[Wing, P4350 General] #13:
Also havng trouble rerouting calls to headset...

Any advise???
[LG G5 Questions & Answers] umbrokhan:
LG G5 painted in plastic coating?

Jerry rig everything video shows alot of proof.

Most of the professional reviewers are scared to speak the truth. Why? Are you scared of LG?
[LG G5 Questions & Answers] alexp999:
It is a die-cast aluminium body which then has the antennas placed on the outside (because the signals wouldn't get through the metal) there is then a primer to help the paint bond to the aluminium and cover up the antennas. They then use a microdised finish over the top which is effectively a metallic paint.

It's not plastic it's just not been machined and anodised. They were going for a different take on the metal body that could allow them to hide the antennas.
[LG G5 Questions & Answers] FalconFX:
A diffrent take lol. That plastic coating pretty much negates the need of having metal in a phone. Just make it out plastic if ythats all ill feel when holding it !
[LG G5 Questions & Answers] chaki-:
Most concerning part is the display assembly. So thin that you can see the pressure points when you select something. Maybe i am to demanding idk, but all the different phones over the years i have never experienced such thing.
[LG G5 Questions & Answers] alexp999:
You get the benefit of heat dissipation and rigidity/strength of the metal body instead of a plastic body.