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[Xperia Z1 Compact General] bananabytes:
Hi. Has anyone had problems receiving MMS and short code texts on Marshmallow builds? Actually the latest AICP was not too bad for me, other than crashing audio binary and camera wasn't great. I don't even use MMS that much but the short code thing is a dealbreaker for me because I use my number as a two factor machine. I may even be locked out of my account now.

One thing about my device is that the USB port is messed up. I have been using the magnetic charger and transferring everything over the network while the device is up and running. If worse came to worse at least this phone has a microsd unlike most modern phones (I almost forgot!).

Anyway can someone recommend builds that do not require a flash outside of recovery using like an img file? Because as far as I know the only way to do that is using USB.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] levone1:
New fxp build 9/5. Downloading now.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] levone1:
If camera is not important, I would recommend Vanir latest build. It's smooth and solid, but suffers from CM camera lacks, (slow and not dependable - sometimes pictures are good and sometimes not). Otherwise try AOSP build by CLINTZ9, update 3, not update 4, (link in op). RR is great for customization, but same camera issues as Vanir. Haven't done much more than boot up the others.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] bananabytes:
USE EXTREME CAUTION WITH THE AOSPA BUILD! I don't have access to USB on my device since the port is broken, and this build wiped out root and recovery. I am basically locked out of my device. Other than that it is a nice rom but I can't help but feel frustrated when many users have been reporting this. In most cases you could use Flashboot but I think I am screwed. If anyone can help me out, or if this can be fixed by the next PA update, please let me know.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] levone1:
It's not uncommon that a custom rom would overwrite root and recovery. It's the same with other AOSP roms. You're definitely living on the edge with no working USB port. Personally, I can't think of any way to get recovery or root on a custom rom with no access to USB. The only thing that comes to mind is to try Kingroot, which does work to root stock Sony LP, but I'm kind of skeptical that it will work with AOSP MM.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] bananabytes:
Yeah, I know, I have a spare phone ready since the USB port started to go. But I have been flashing roms for years and they have never come without recovery or root, locking me out like that. You can see a lot of threads about it on the PA board and reddit. I don't think it's normal or meant to happen at all, perhaps they got a bad build. At the very least it should be in the instructions that there's no recovery. I wouldn't have flashed if I didn't know, at least it does boot, just without root and recovery.

When I force it to go into recovery from developer options it hangs at the Sony logo with an orange led. Would PA pushing an update fix this or does that not touch TWRP?
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] Turbopuschel:
Got your battery / phone working again? Good to hear, I'm relieved.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] levone1:
I tricked it into charging somehow, but I have to keep it near full. I think if I get the big battery crash again, the same thing will happen.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] levone1:
9/5 fxp - same camera issue. Security settings work fine
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] CmDaRkShAdOw:
You have tried so many marshmallow roms, tell me, which is best (except aosp, because there is low customization..you know)?
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] levone1:
I don't know about low customization... For ui, Substratum is pretty nice - much better than CM themer in my opinion, (screenshot shows example - Bluewood Flamingo theme). For kernel, [MENTION=6927050]maz-1[/MENTION] has created this - http://xdaforums.com/sony-xperia-z1...kernel-exfat-support-mtkcamera-dirty-t3388396 And there's many good ports by Pexoid and others... But maybe there's some other customization you're thinking of... Honestly for MM, AOSP has been my main keeper so far. If someone can do something about CM camera lacks, I would be way into Vanir or RR. Other MM ROMs are very nice, but still working out bugs. I'm watching AICP and PA as they develop. So far, 7/17 AOSP build by freexperia is my only MM backup..
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] CmDaRkShAdOw:
Substratum is mm rom for amami? I haven't seen it yet.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] levone1:
Substratum is Layers theme manager update for MM+
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] levone1:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...vEtVQGqgFqbw8ZY5Q&sig2=ApUdTqtkX66s98GcFi5aLQ
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] levone1:
Good news - fxp has gone to afh for downloads. Anyone tried 9/6 build?

Not good news - seems like Amami got dropped from Commotio. Not included in last 2 builds. I'm going to check in on G+ about it.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] trinancrat:
No changes. Camera still busted on the N build, and the call echo problem is present in both the MM and N ROMs.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] levone1:
Quote from Commotio dev about current state if Amami builds -

"I am working on this now. It's not clear to me yet but something big happened downstream a few weeks ago that is messing with this device.

I think it was changes in our custom recovery. But no other devices were affected by this."
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] trinancrat:
[MENTION=6283426]levone1[/MENTION], I have a new CM 13 build up for this device.

Edit: And might it be useful to catalog the 7.0 ROMs that are starting to proliferate?
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] levone1:
Sorry I haven't added it yet. I was away from the phone for 2 days, but saw your thread yesterday, and keep putting it off. I'll add it tonight. As far as N goes, it seems like we can wait it out at this point. My main stimulus for this thread was the realization of a few roms that were available, but not anywhere on XDA. AFAIK that's not yet happening with N. I can't really say I've searched a whole lot, though. Let me know if you find any, or feel free to start a new thread. Thanks for the build, (I hit thanks already).
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] trinancrat:
No problem! Feel free to wait until you've actually tried it out, too.

FXP as you know has some AOSP N builds up. I'm not aware of anything besides those.

Edit: Totally forgot, CLINTZ9 has a N build in his AOSP thread. Haven't tried it myself.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] levone1:
I guess it's probably time to jump in to N... Seems like it happened so fast. I'm downloading fxp N build now.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] Turbopuschel:
Is there any ROM ATM that does not have random reboots? If so which ones and what are their quirks? I think I remember reading that CM based ROMs have bad camera.

Regarding fxp N: I tried it a little bit and can say that camera is strange (half green, think it was posted here before) and it doesn't seem to work with Magisk (installing Magisk causes SIM to not function anymore; also toggling root off via Magisk Manager jumps right back on - with the result that root is still there but not working correctly until reboot Toggling root on and off works after all. Followed these instructions when installing Magisk).

As I am trying to find a ROM that is usable with Magisk (for playing Pokemon Go while rooted and without random reboots or serious quirks) I dropped the idea of using fxp N for the time being.

Edit: Toggling root on and off works with Magisk, see above. Still no SIM though until it is uninstalled.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] levone1:
How about 9/9 build?
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] trinancrat:
Haven't had time to try it, but looking through the sonyxperiadev Github, I don't see any recent changes pertaining to camera or amami.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] Turbopuschel:
Camera half green. Didn't check echo.

But dealbreaker: Can't get mobile data to work. Not quite sure if it is the build's fault, though.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] levone1:
New fxp build 9/16
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] bananabytes:
Freexperia now has a scary message that says the roms are for development only, and not to use GAPSS, a sim card, etc. This seems to be a new message. It links to an open ticket on the Sony github but I don't understand what it means for me security. Are they just trying to cover their ass? Can I install an old version that's safer?
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] bananabytes:
I also wanted to write a little bit about more about the PA Build. I had some trouble with bluetooth and see that someone on the Google+ page did too. You can take the libbt-vendor.so from another rom (for example freexperia), put in /vendor/lib, chmod to 0644 and then bluetooth works.

I have had some problems with mobile data in general on marshmallow. if you have issues try deleting all APNs and manually entering in a new one.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] levone1:
[MENTION=4120742]munjeni[/MENTION] [MENTION=5075064]optimumpro[/MENTION] - did you see this - http://fxpblog.co/warning/ ? Is that just talking about selinux, or is it something more?
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] optimumpro:
I bet it is more than just Selinux. Don't they say their roms can fry your hard disk? And by the way, everything they say fully applies to Sony AOSP. Almost the same crowd.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] munjeni:
I think its more secure than stock rom :)
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] GNUDroid:
since first marshmallow builds are available, i tried DU and AICP. on both the whatsapp barcode scan function (needed for coulpling to pc, ak whatsapp-web) is NOT working (since months) (suggest it is because of faulty video/camera api).

Does somebody know a MM rom, on which this function of whatsapp is working?
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] Joline:
Wrong post.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] M!tch:
did someone regularly flash aosp from fxp? was there any build without major bugs since 7/17?
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] levone1:
No. All of the builds have been tested and reported on. All have at least the green camera bug or security settings fc
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] levone1:
New CM13, ( [MENTION=5314293]SouthernPacific[/MENTION] ), build 9/25.

BTW SouthernPacific - anything special changelog-wise?
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] jankovics1000:
?

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[Xperia Z1 Compact General] trinancrat:
Nope - just synced up my sources and rebuilt. From what I can tell, nothing new related to the kernel and/or camera. That's why I didn't really advertise the new build.

In a couple weeks I'll rebuild for the new security patch level.

I've been trying to build against the upstream FreeXperia kernel, but while I can compile it successfully, I can't get it to boot.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] levone1:
I'm curious about something - Having read the general negative commentary from [MENTION=4120742]munjeni[/MENTION] and [MENTION=5075064]optimumpro[/MENTION],(both very credible sources), about MM, and the impossibility of a good non-stock camera, and having experienced the poor camera functionality and quality of CM-based MM ROMs, I've wondered how or why the AICP team has managed to overcome it, at least somewhat, (the AICP camera is not the greatest and has it's weaknesses, but is at least twice as good as any other CM ROM's camera). I asked [MENTION=6425591]SpiritCroc[/MENTION] about it at one point, and he said this -

"CM have a device tree that requires a CM-specific structure of the binary files, which differs from the one provided by sony; that's why ROMs that are based on CM often have outdated binaries (speaking for sony devices) while AOSP-based ROMs haven't (actually, CM binaries are created from the ones by sony using a script, but some updates of the structure of the sony binary files breaks the functionality of the script and nobody seems to feel like fixing it (I actually tried, but failed)).

Generally speaking, you can use any (marshmallow) device tree with every (marshmallow) ROM after doing some minor changes to the device tree; so I used the device tree from sony (well, actually the modified one that I took from DU that I took from Omni) that was made for pure AOSP, for building AICP with a more up-to-date device tree and current binaries.

CM doesn't seem to care as much about our device as sony does, there's much more development from sonyxperiadev than from CM for amami/sony devices at the moment.

So the difference of my latest AICP to Vanir and AOKP (all three CM-based if I'm not wrong, not sure about Vanir, haven't tried it for a long time) is not using the official CM device tree but rather one derived from the official sony AOSP one.

Judging from this repo I have the suspicion that Resurrection Remix already did the same thing, using a CM-based ROM with a sony-AOSP-based device tree.

As DU is not CM based, it made more sense to not use the CM device tree if there is a device tree specially for AOSP; so it could benefit from a more active developer team and of course the latest binaries from sony since the first release."

It sounds like he's saying AICP is not CM-based, but not sure, (I'm not a dev so it's kind of over my head). Anyway, I guess what I'm wondering is why CM builders wouldn't be able to do the same thing. Any ideas?
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] SpiritCroc:
AICP is CM based, only the device tree (for amami) is AOSP based.

My current thoughts about why the camera could be better on AICP than on other MM ROMs is that it has both:

- A device tree that is actively being worked on by AOSP developers with MM binaries from sony (CM seem to have abandoned our device quite some time ago)

- Some CAF hardware stuff from CM
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] optimumpro:
The only thing Sony works on is to make sure no device will get more than 2 versions of Android. Z1 got 3, so, it was a mistake.

The reason CM isn't doing nightly builds is simple: no camera, no builds. I don't know about AICP, but I doubt they did something original.

You should stop drinking koolaid: a year ago I predicted MM would never be stable for rhine devices. Today mm is abandoned without getting out of bad alpha. Z2/Z3 got stable mm, but they won't see Nougat...
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] levone1:
I totally believe you and I'm sure you know your stuff. I alsoknow without a doubt that AICP camera is way better in picture quality and functionality than other CM ROMs. I've been trying them since day one and have tested every build of every ROM I've come across. Typical CM camera takes blurry, dim pictures 8 out of 10 times, and takes 3-10 seconds to capture, and will regularly freeze and fc - essentially unusable. AICP camera focuses consistently, and shoots much quicker, (however the built-in camera app is not so great). If other CM ROMs, like RR and Vanir, had the camera of AICP, they'd be much more well-received.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] trinancrat:
I caution that I'm not very familiar with Android development either (I just slap together XML files and type in stuff), but if I understand the conversation correctly, AICP uses AOSP device trees directly from Sony and FreeXperia instead of the CM 13 repository, which has been updated very infrequently as of late.

That's why my current goal is to build pure CM 13 against the FreeXperia kernel. Just not sure why it's not booting...
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] Azuritko:
I have done a lot of searching, but can not figure out what is actually the best MM ROM version for Z1C? What do you think is most stable version? And has any ROM fully working camera with same quality as on stock rom?
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] levone1:
Camera as good as stock - no. Decent usable camera and stable ROM - AOSP by freexperia. Any build after 7/17 has significant bugs. 1 problem is no GPS fix. Google services can still find your location for Maps app, using other methods, but other gps-dependant apps and services will not get a fix. Besides that, AICP is very good, but camera might not be quite as stable. I don't use the camera a whole lot, so can't say for sure. Some camera apps seem to do better than others.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] munjeni:
The same thing happened to me but I can tell you that you need to compile with arm-eabi- toolchan version 4.8 and it will boot! Do not use arm-linuxandroid-eabi, it will not boot
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] trinancrat:
I'm building inline with the Cyanogenmod toolchain and GCC 4.8, so I don't think this is the problem.

I actually got it (almost) booting last night. It was a kernel config issue, specifically CPU_BOOST had to be turned off. I guess that caused the kernel to do something the hardware didn't like. Now it gets to the boot animation and it optimizes apps successfully, but the UI won't actually start. :-/ I plan to work on this during the week. I can share logcats if you're interested.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] trinancrat:
Got it working. The AOSP kernel was missing a vibration control in sysfs that Cyanogenmod was looking for, so it would crash during the boot process. I patched it in and it's now working just fine. Build's up in my other thread.

Unfortunately, this is the best I can do as far as the camera is concerned, as the sonyxperiadev kernel is the one under active development.

I managed to build and boot the new 1.3.3 (Nougat) kernel too, but without a working camera, there's no point in using it on Marshmallow.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] levone1:
New fxp build. Dated 10/1, but just went up today.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] levone1:
Camera still half green in new build.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] BagOfLemon:
So any chance the camera will be fix in the future?
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] levone1:
[MENTION=5314293]SouthernPacific[/MENTION] says it's a Sony update that broke it - http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=68959253&postcount=18 - so Sony will probable have to fix it.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] BagOfLemon:
It's been months. Is it a normal time for the update to come? Also is it their job to make things less blurry with their camera binary or is it a problem that custom ROM developers have to fix themselves?

I'm glad these ROMs works really well but the camera is a huge deal breaker for this phone :(
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] jankovics1000:
New Rom link? :D

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[Xperia Z1 Compact General] trinancrat:
Sony has to do it, it's their binaries. The developers can't touch them.

Basically the camera's not going to get fixed until Sony updates the binaries on their AOSP page. Last update was June 29, which is what FXP are now building with - hence the green rectangle bug.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] BagOfLemon:
Alright, so let's play the waiting game and let's hope Sony will fix it as soon as they can ! After that Marshamallow will have a future on our phones !
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] levone1:
AICP nightlies back 10/10, after stopping since 9/26. Not sure about changes, etc..
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] foresto:
Do the sonymobile people know their most recent binaries are broken? Is there a discussion thread or bug report that they watch where we could show them our interest in this?
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] EDV-Oellinger:
What about Paranoid?

get.aospa.co/official/amami
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] levone1:
I believe latest PA is 8/23. Works great though..
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] GNUDroid:
what's about camera? not working, quite working (as most mm roms) or better as e.g. DU, AICP?
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] levone1:
I remember it being pretty good - AOSP level - but can't check right now, messing around with Jaguar atm... I have it on a backup, so I can check later...
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] levone1:
Not too bad, quality - wise, (taken with camera fv-5), but a little unstable. Had a couple of fc..
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] Megani:
Tag

Hello

Thank you for this post. Please, can you tell us which one will work with locked bootloader or all of these are made for UL ?
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] CmDaRkShAdOw:
Only UB...on locked you can install only stock / stock based roms.

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[Xperia Z1 Compact General] thesims2customs:
Which one(s) is(are) your fav the most?

I am looking for most stable ROM and working stuff (camera, Bluetooth, wifi, SIM, nfc, etc)
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] CmDaRkShAdOw:
I think that aicp is the best (don't know how with aosp)

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[Xperia Z1 Compact General] levone1:
AOSPA might be the best overall. Haven't tested thoroughly, but I think everything is working and solid. AOSP by fxp, (7/17 build), has been very good for me, but no GPS, (Google services can still find your location, though), and you have to add the NFC files, (first post of this thread). AICP is also very good, but stability varies from build to build, and not sure which is the best.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] maruthi M.B:
Sony xperia z1 compact marshmallow

I tried some custom roms in sony xperia z1 compact and here my reviews are:

1) cyanogenmod13:

> performance is good and stable

> camera resolution is very less not even greater than 5MP, if i switch camera to video mode then app closes automatically.

> after installing xposed frameworks , sometimes phone automatically reboots (multiwindow feature)

> thirt party camera will not work

> jio sim is not working even though all the settings were correct.

> ghost touch problem on heavy usage

2)AOSP:

> This rom is very very slow it take 3 seconds to open menus

> performace is very slow compared to all the roms

> I experienced ghost touch problem

> jio sim not working.

> i haven't tried this much on camera i move on to resurrection remix

3)Resurrection remix:

> very good for customization and my favorite

> phone reboots on heavy usage

> some options in configuration settings like changing colours of status icons will not work.

>camera problem and resolution is same as cyanogenmod 13

> jio sim is not woring

>Ghost touch problem ( After changing cpu frequencies only )

4) i feel cm11 is the best , it will run smoothly even after installing xposed frameworks ..

well, i am not satisfied with any of the custom rom so i switched to official .368 firmware ..

can anybody help me how to root my phone now ? i have got problem to find specific twrp/cwm recovery .img file to flash
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] Megani:
Thank you.

Please, someone can tell me if there is a rom asop based for locked bootloader on Android 5.1.1 ?
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] CmDaRkShAdOw:
No. Try to install kryptonian..it has some cm features

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[Xperia Z1 Compact General] levone1:
New fxp 10/15. Anyone tried it yet, or can check and see if they're still using same sources with green camera?
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] levone1:
I checked - still the same...
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] thesims2customs:
Wow, well gonna check the AOSPA thread (if there's any or community). Or should I wait for more stable ones?

Does the camera work? :o
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] CmDaRkShAdOw:
Camera and was the best in mm roms but don't know how with this now.

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[Xperia Z1 Compact General] levone1:
They're not on Xda for this build. Check G+ link in first post of this thread.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] GNUDroid:
Oh man, so sorry that development on z1c seems to settle down. Lollipop camera was good, marshmallow some roms ok (but bad quality, unstable), now nougat is coming. ..... does someone of your beloved devs's and builders for z1c has any recent news, if we ever will see any working camera?

I'm just wondering if I have to go even back to a MM 5.1 rom to have a working phone (but I don't want do do this, also because of security fixes).

So can we still hope in autumn or winter? Or does the forecast look bad? Did Sony announced any fixes to their binary blobs?
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] brickhayabusa:
The devs are fixing the camera, and today releassed new blobs, only remain "i think" calibrate the new blobs and fix some bugs, but .....the things finaly goes a little "stable"
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] GNUDroid:
do you have some direct links to the relevant dev mailing list? i want to follow quietly.
[Xperia Z1 Compact General] brickhayabusa:
http://xdaforums.com/crossdevice-dev/sony/discussion-development-custom-rom-t3479108

comment the thread ONLY IF YOU ARE A DEV.