[Android Software Development] ephexxis:
i have good news and bad news:

the good news is that yes there's nothing about the files (in general, im talking about the test builds that work) themselves that don't work with our phones and in fact, v4a technically works a bit better, in the sense of power:capability (e.g. utilizing a fully optimized driver without the sort of increased battery drain associated with the highest quality driver available for ARM, our chip handles power really well especially with a custom kernel utilizing the Intel power clamp drivers like VenoM).

the bad news is that since we moved from ViPER|Audio packages to ARISE, there's been thusfar no easy way to get them to flash at all without erroring out. no swapping in plain x86 updaterbinarys to get the coupled shell script to work, even swapping in cm13 x86 style binaries where the binary itself is the script works like before, and copying the files themselves into a package that does flash is a broken install if it works, since the script is trying to install other files.

supposedly there will be a universal script written as there was with V4A 4.7, (no, using that one won't get all the current files setup right I've tried) but considering RC1 is something i think only me and like one other guy have recommended versions for, 1.0 is not clearly within range and GH is going to wait for the ubercompatible, stable 1.0 release before he writes the script which i totally agree with. there is a universal installer package meant to be like anykernel for mod packs like this being worked on outside of this project but I'm not sure of it's status.

so, if you wanna test the mod you have to do what i do and manually install it. unzip it, copy the relevant folders (excluding METAINF, extras, the superfluous stuff like that) over your existing matching folders in your rootfs, merging / overwriting the contents. if you don't have root Explorer the next part takes 45 minutes and you'll have carpal tunnel when its over. navigate within each of the /system/ and /vendor/ folders and long press each of the folders that were just affected (you can tell by the fact that rootexplorer just set all their permissions to 0777, which looks like "rwxrwxrwx" underneath the folders names rather than the "rwxr-xr-x" under all the other ones)and click Permissions. set the folders to 0755 (3 reads, a write and 3 executes from left to right, top to bottom if you use the check boxes like a peasant). before hitting accept, make sure at the bottom you have "Set for all child folders and files" and "don't set execute on child files" both ticked, as seen in my screenshot. DO NOT DO THIS WITH THE /SYSTEM/BIN FOLDER. just leave it. the permissions auto set by root Explorer are sufficient and won't cause any weird issues and if you set all the files within /bin/ to 0644, as this method does, well my friend you've sure fixed yourself a great big bowl of BootLoops™. enjoy it.

keep in mind this method of install is only going to be clean after a fresh dirty flash of your rom and works better with some roms than others. Temasek (build by [MENTION=6777525]Nyks45[/MENTION], everything he builds is top quality and stable as hell) is what I'm using mainly now as I've had the best luck with it, whereas recently XOSP has not wanted to cooperate with replacing the included viper package (which is actually MaterialDarkv4a.apk)with the mods viper, which is a very important step because it's 2.3 which uses a significantly higher quality driver than the one preinstalled.

temasek has viper pre-installed as well (also 2.4 the **** version) but replacing it is as simple as navigating to /system/priv-app/Viper4Android, deleting the apk inside, replacing it with the apk from Arise (and whatever other contents you find with it, sometimes there's a library included within a folder called arm or x86 next to the v4a apk), and reboot. when you're back up and running, install or "update" the install by activating the apk. be sure to always launch v4a from either the app drawer or the notification from now on, this will ensure you have access to all your IRS files. if you activate it from the settings menu there's a chance some of them won't work, in my experience.

as a w3lc0m3 gift to a fellow Zenfone2 audio enthusiast diving A.S.S first into a world you've never known before, im linking directly to the x86 driver which you should drop into arisepackagename/system/lib/soundfx before copying the mod folders into your system files because it's much better than the one included.

cheers

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