yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cvegreen:
The Reboot problem is a problem that i dont have. freezing and closing apps i do. Camera app is much better than the original app, the counting problem that i had is solved. I was indeed forgoten to delete foto's . battery drain is indeed a huge problem. One day a live and kicking is hard to get. Fingerprint works good, But not all the time at the same level. Somme times i do have unlock my phone wiith the code, but mostly works the fingerprint scan fine. The new buld? What Android version do you use? Again android 7.1..2? And will there a update to Android 8 iff Android 8 is availeble?

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I dit not found it yet. So i dont think so

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I dit not found it yet. So i dont think so
[Miscellaneous Android Development] The21Calvo:
I use an app named "Nougat Quick settings" that add some featurrs to the quick settings inside the notification bar (very usefull), one is Immersive mode that hide this bars very easy.

Another option is setting the size of nav bar to 0 and putting PIE in MAD extras but status bar is still there
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gbl08ma:
If the beta builds have no bugs, then I guess we're waiting... for the final release of Android O? ?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] RalphMalph:
Android O is not even out. When its out the guys need to adjust it to the VAL and make it a real MadOS version.

So I think we will see first a nice 7.1.2. But i can be wrong of course
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gbl08ma:
Yeah, and I'd much prefer a stable Nougat build than having a less stable/rushed O build which wouldn't really be good for anything but bragging rights.

But I guess there was still some work left to do, or people who commented here did not find all bugs :p

Did Google already release the security patch for this month?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] RalphMalph:
Exactly.

Let the mad-guys do their job good, better wait for a stable rom than a rushed O that is not working good.

And yes, security patch is already out. Its always around the 5th-7th day of the month.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] caliban07:
I have always had signal problems but thought they hardware related since they also happened with the stock rom. I'm glad about the price/quality relation in this phone but I have to admit that it has the worst signal I've ever suffered.

On the other hand, I don't have spontaneous reboots only lots of fcs
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gbl08ma:
In my experience, based on three or four devices I have laying around which are based on different Mediatek SoCs, most/all of their chips have problems dealing with some of the bands/protocols used by my network operator (MEO/TMN) for the superset of what people generally call "3G". This means that these phones, the VAL included, often get stuck in a mode where they apparently have a 3G connection, and data can be uploaded, but no data is downloaded at all. I should mention this occurs in areas where traditional 3G modems and non-Mediatek phones have no problem getting a stable, albeit slow (because it's UMTS after all) connection.

After a while, if one is lucky, the connection either upgrades to HSPA or downgrades to WCDMA/EDGE or GMTS, and one can finally use the internet again.

This leads to "interesting" situations. For example, when using Discord, which apparently has little protection against duplicate messages, if I send a message while the phone is in this "send-but-no-receive" problematic mode, Discord will not get a confirmation from the server that the message has been received, and will keep retrying to send it. Once the connection finally fully recovers, Discord reconnects only for me to find out my last messages have been sent four or five times...

Apart from all this, there are some problems that appear to be specific to the VAL. For example, I suspect the LTE modem often runs into thermal or power limits, and sometimes the phone doesn't switch to LTE in areas with good LTE reception where other modems have no problems, going for minutes without using LTE. I don't think it's a band problem, as IIRC this phone supports all the LTE bands used in Portugal. It might be related to the phone's antenna not allowing for good reception, though.

I'm on a road trip and just an hour ago, I had to reboot my VAL because after coming out of a zone with no data reception (but phone service), mobile data wouldn't work at all no matter how many times I switched it on and off and switched the whole modem on and off from the SIM card settings. After rebooting, data worked perfectly.

One thing I've noticed is that when the phone is in these strange states, going into airplane mode takes much longer than usual.

I believe these are mainly hardware problems, or baseband problems (which as far as we're concerned is just as bad) but different ROMs might be better or worse at working around them. Personally I'd like to have a way to disable 3G for data connection and allow only the use of 2G technologies or LTE. Here's hope things will be better with the next release, but I suppose a big part of this is unfixable. The lesson I took away from all this is to not buy Mediatek if one wants stable telephony and data service, at least on my carrier.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cvegreen:
I asked if there comes a ROM based on Android 8, it was not meant on my side to ask comes it quick or so. Just a simple yes or no is good for me. I dont need a date yet.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gbl08ma:
How are they supposed to know? It would surely depend on how much free time and motivation they can get, and on how difficult it would be to build Android O for this device and get it to actually work. Even just saying if it will come or not can be impossible, they can't guarantee anything until they actually get their hands on it and see if it's doable or not. In that sense, it's not very different from asking for an ETA...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Plumplum88:
The hope come from their Facebook page...

You can see a screen capture of "Phone Status" with Apollo Lite under Android O ;)

I guess that's why some people talk about Android O here

I think we can say that they work on it for sure...

And that's crazy! No! That's M.A.D! :)

Will it work...we will see later
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cvegreen:
Thank you for this posting. My knowledge is minimal. It was a litle mirakle that i could root my device and install a other ROM. but now i am glad that i did it. My phone has root acces and better 3G and 4G connection than with the original ROM, The MAD camera app is also much better than the original Vernee camera app. So for me are the 2 biggest minus now solved. Only the battery drain keeps a problem. But i can keep my phone alive for the day, so that al sommething. Before was that near 2 days, but now seems that imposseble with Doze and greenify.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gbl08ma:
Yeah, I think it's likely that we'll see Android O for the VAL as brought by team M.A.D., I was just pointing out that until an official release announcement happens, asking if it will be released is akin to asking for ETAs.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] fire855:
New build - madOS v1.2 - 20170819

ATTENTION: This update needs to be flashed as firmware upgrade with the SP Flash Tool. The flashing of this ROM will format the internal storage of the phone. Please backup your data before flashing. (Future updates will be as normal zip package for TWRP again)

More infos: https://www.facebook.com/notes/mad/...-v12-android-712-2017-08-19/1435413009875801/

Download: https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=745425885120756586
[Miscellaneous Android Development] superdragonpt:
Build madOS [7.1.2] 20170819 ( Stable 5)

ATTENTION:

This update needs to be flashed as firmware upgrade with the SP Flash Tool. The flashing of this ROM will format the internal storage of the phone.

Please backup your data before flashing.

(Future updates will be as normal zip package for TWRP again)

Changelog:

Patch Level: August 2017

Kernel version 3.18.64

Fixed deepsleep/wakeup problem

Fixed random app crashes

Fixed 4k video recording

Fixed HDR

Fixed bluetooth disconnects

Fixed nightlight

Fixed sdcard issues

Fixed screen recording

Removed processor settings

Enabled force encryption

Fixed substratum issues

New feature for showing charging current & voltage on lockscreen

Added & enabled F2FS

Reworked MTK RIL implementation

Some more improvements

edit: ROM will be uploded to XDA DevDB as soon as i can ...

done

Cheers :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] honzyn25:
Do I need to back up the whole SD card when I use it as internal?

Edit: It must be backed up, deleted.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] stefg:
One more beer by me (00242363KP997960R). Thank you M.A.D. team! :good:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Xorianator:
Installation Instructions

Installation Instruction

1. Download SP Flash Tools for the OS you are on from here (official site)

2. Download the newest MAD ROM

3. Unzip the Flash Tool and Unzip the new ROM

Now you should have 2 folders (or however you organized it) which are looking like this:

[IMG="Folders"]https://image.prntscr.com/image/LWoBmWyLQ52HyPh-tDcUog.png[/IMG]

To the left you can see the SP_FlashTool folder, start the executable as admin (or root [MENTION=268479]Linux[/MENTION]), to the right you see the unpacked ROM

After you started the SP Flash Tool it should look somewhat like this:

[IMG="SPFlash"]https://image.prntscr.com/image/yQ-CuwJNTgSjlsK9hT376A.png[/IMG]

You have to change:

1. "Download Only" to "Firmware Upgrade" (click on it, select the suggested option).

2. Also you have to load the scatter file. Therefore navigate to the folder you unpacked the ROM. It should look like this when navigating to it:

[IMG="ScatterFile"]https://image.prntscr.com/image/0aSd6gxqSF_BE4RkG4ttHQ.png[/IMG]

Select the file and confirm.

Now comes the easiest part: Turn off your phone.

After it's off you can plug it into your PC. It should boot into the charging animation.

Be sure that your phone is connected properly and the drivers are installed (Windows 10 users don't have any driver problems, so this is just in case you are running an older OS, Linux users also shouldn't have any).

You can now press "Download" in the screen, your entire flash tool should look like this:

[IMG="Final"]https://image.prntscr.com/image/KuBclhcOTiGaEb3BnuP23A.png[/IMG]

Now turn your phone off again. Hold the power button for approx 5-10 seconds and then release it. As soon as it will "reboot", SP Flash Tool will start flashing it's stuff. Just wait until you see the "OK" message., I don't have a screenshot of this one because I forgot to make, but the proof this works is right here in your hands.

It can be that your phone won't reboot on it's own, so after seeing the okay message just force it to reboot.

[IMG="OK"]http://s.lowendshare.com/7/1503267909.893.Untitled.png[/IMG]

[IMG="Finally"]https://image.prntscr.com/image/4ewqzo-gQciOAw60qVqeCw.png[/IMG]

€: Is there any possibility to make the images kind of preview and getting bigger when clicking on it? I'm sorry for consuming that much space.

€2: Put images into spoiler.

€3: Added the "OK" Image (thanks to [MENTION=2150610]gbl08ma[/MENTION])
[Miscellaneous Android Development] superdragonpt:
@ Xorianator

helpfull for new users, thanks
[Miscellaneous Android Development] hilde0407:
For me is the reason for the poorer battery life of the fingerprint sensor. If I activate it, the battery will last only one day (The smartphone vibrates again and again for no reason, as if you touch the fingerprint sensor.) When I turn the fingerprint sensor off, the smartphone runs 2 days!

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[Miscellaneous Android Development] Xorianator:
No problem, I have to thank you guys! As always an amazing job. Hopefully this gave something back to anyone :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Irish_Dude:
Firstly....... THANK YOU to all of the M.A.D team for all their hard work, much appreciated :)

Just about to flash and have 3 quick questions:

1) Do we have to do a full wipe via TWRP before we flash the new ROM via SP Flashtool?

2) If I backup my apps via Titanium backup, can we restore apps once we do the MAD OS upgrade or is it not recommended?

3) Do we also have to flash GAPPS after we upgrade via SP Flash tools?

thank you guys :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] DerTeufel1980:
You don't need to wipe. Flashtool is doing this.

You can try restoring apps with titanium backup, but it's not recommended. Also, you need to save the backup to external SD card, because internal storage gets formatted.

Yes, you need to install gapps afterwards

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[Miscellaneous Android Development] Lagavulin1972:
IMEI

Help me.

Installed new MAD rom.

I've lost my IMEI.

the *#6813# from dialer does not work.

What can I do?

thanks
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Plumplum88:
Hello,

1) It's Flashtool, all will be erased, it doesn't need wipe

2) If I remember well, Titanium backup need root access

3) after installing MAD OS, you need download gapps, then reboot into recovery and flash gapps

You're welcome....

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Thanks to MAD for these work!

Install for the first time MAD OS.

I'm a little lost with this new rom :)

It seems to run very well.

I see low Multicore results on geekbench (2800 instead of 4500)

And CPU monitoring always show all core stopped
[Miscellaneous Android Development] almajnoun:
install stock rom enter your IMEI whit *#6813# and install mados in spflash chose download only
[Miscellaneous Android Development] curtisy:
Soo, first impression is great, thanks for the update. However, I think I found the first bug: Weather Settings are glitching. Reproducable behaviour described below (I know it's stupid what I did, but oh well).

1. Go into MAD Extras

2. Choose any of the Options that has the option to display Weather (e.g. Lockscreen, Statusbar) and switch it on (to something of your choice, I chose the 2nd option)

3. Another Settings window will appear, plus a popup asking for your location, this is the important part!

4. Deny location (to my understanding it shuld infinitely pop up, so choose "Do not show again")

5. After a few seconds the screen should begin to move (hard to describe, it's basically flickering)

6. Back button doesn't work anymore, closing the settings menu via overview window (don't know what it's called, the square-ish rightmost button) works though.

Don't forget to set the weather setting back to off afterwards. I can't send logs for now because I just went on vacation, but I hope the description helps you reproduce this issue so someone could get some logs.

Cheers

-curtisy
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Irish_Dude:
tried to flash the new ROM via flash tool.

The progress bar in SP Flash tool does the formatting but "Download Flash" in the progress bar stays at 0%

Any idea whats wrong guys?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gbl08ma:
This looks really nice :good:

I'll try to download this later today and install tomorrow.

But first, I have some questions:

Does this mean the contents of the internal memory are now encrypted whether we want it or not? Doesn't this have an impact on performance and battery life?

And one other thing. I have a few apps installed for which I must not lose their data, or I'm in big trouble. For example, one of these apps is FreeOTP (open source implementation of Google Authenticator; if I can't restore the data I'll lose the second authentication factor on a lot of websites). For previous upgrades, I have been backing up these apps with Titanium Backup and then restoring on the new version. Will this still work on the new version? (yes, I'm aware that I'll need to backup to the external SD as the internal memory will be wiped; I'm just asking if once I have the backups, they can be restored)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cedricboquiren:
Can someone please verify if their charging time is now slower compared to the previous ROM?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Plumplum88:
Does MMS work?

I can't send any, no matter the simcard I choose

I verify my APN, they're ok
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Black Manta:
Yes, because of Geekbench 4.1. Think Geekbench now only use the Helio X20 hardcore-cluster! ;D
[Miscellaneous Android Development] 0312Penner:
Bug: I can't install any APK. When clicking on "install" nothing happens. I tried different APKs and rebooting.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gbl08ma:
Make sure you don't have any apps with screen overlays. I find it a bit hard to believe this is really a bug in the ROM that wasn't caught earlier...

See the "How to Access the “Draw Over Other Apps” Menu" section:

https://www.howtogeek.com/271519/how-to-fix-the-screen-overlay-detected-error-on-android/
[Miscellaneous Android Development] 0312Penner:
Thanks, your advice helped :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] daitalos:
Very nice work...Rom works fast & stable on my device without problems until now (substratum works correctly without errors)... Thanks! & sry for english
[Miscellaneous Android Development] joaopguima91:
please im getting error on sp flash tools only with this rom

brom error of sorts , i can install everything but this rom always fails midway . isnt there any other way to install it? do i need to have latest mad os build installed to install it?

brOM ERROR: STATUS_MMC_ERR (0xC0040030)

Edit : Problem solved : for some reason for me tha facebook version didnt work while the one on xda db worked at first try . thanks for the great work again :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] brunoalex00:
Hey everyone, i kwon i´m new to this tread but i would like to say that from what i red about this rom it is very good and bugless so i´m going to try it and then i will live a reply saying what i think . Thxs for the great rom M.A.D team.

:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

1:- flashed the rom yesterday at midnight and begun testing it, so far no bugs, only with messenger that when you are writing on the horizontal you cant see what you are writing because it stays transparent until you turn phone vertically again and see what you wrote , and another bug that i saw was when i putted volume up the bar didnt showed up, again in landscape mode. Txs for the great rom !
[Miscellaneous Android Development] moshe_lm:
Hi. My phone was gone. I tried to do Firmware upgrade, and then the device did not powered on. with or without USB or chager.

what I can do ?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Black Manta:
Is it possible to decrypt the phone? :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gbl08ma:
Does this mean full device encryption is really forcefully enabled? :(
[Miscellaneous Android Development] moshe_lm:
update: connected to power, connected to other PC, reconnect to the SP Tool, Format + Download, works.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Black Manta:
I don't know if it's the whole device, but read the Changelog:

;D
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gbl08ma:
I guess I need to think twice, then. I have some reservations about the way system-level encryption is implemented in Android, not so much on the crypto side which is obviously solid, but on how it is integrated and how the secrets (encryption keys) are held. Read the following articles to get an idea of what I'm talking about:

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2016/11/24/android-n-encryption/

https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2017/05/android-encryption-demystified/

I would like to see Android move towards a more iOS-like approach to device encryption before starting to use it in Android. Don't get me wrong, generally more encryption is better than none, but at this point I'm not convinced the benefits are worth it. Right now it's pretty much a **** show where if a determined attacker can get to your device while it's on (that's usually how I keep my phones...), it could as well not be encrypted. And as I walk around with USB debugging enabled and probably many other security "issues" due to being rooted, etc. , I'm pretty much suffering the performance hit without much security benefits, as the encryption can easily be worked around anyway.

Furthermore, being able to dump the memory and look for remnants of deleted files with an hex editor has saved my ass before on another Mediatek device :)

So yeah, while FDE wouldn't hurt me, it also would not benefit me that greatly and there might be a performance hit, plus if the encryption system craps out (I would not trust Mediatek's Trustzone...), I'm toast. That's why I need to think...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] :
Antutu score 82072.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] :
Proximity Sensor issue but will post if I work a way round it

So - upgraded to the new rom without any issue. Then I realised the proximity sensor had stopped working. Had this issue before on older roms but a factory reset usually fixes the issue. Tried to factory reset but this is disabled in the new ROM. Tried to flash the old rom and got stuck in a boot loop.

Trying a twrp backup to see if I can get back in.

Will keep you posted if anyone else has the proximity issue.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] :
IIRC on the original stock ROM it was between 90K and 95K. 82K is close enough for it to be a non-issue. As I mentioned earlier, MTK appears to have made it really easy to cheat on benchmarks, basically they have a tool that you can just add package names and the number of cores to keep enabled at all times when these apps are running, and I don't think we have proof they didn't use that on the stock ROMs.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] :
Hello guys,

Thanks for the new rom, but is there any way to flash it without SP Flash Tool ? It seems that my USB port isn't recognized anymore, I can charge the phone, but can't transfer any data nor use SP Flash tool...

Thank you in advance
[Miscellaneous Android Development] :
I think there's no cheating...

You can try javascript test...

For exemple Mozilla Kraken...

Try it nearly on all browser include Chrome Beta/Dev/Canary, you will achieve it in 3600 or 3800ms

The only one that give bad result is Chrome (final), it achieve it in 10000ms (for any reason, big core doesn't run on it)...why cheating on "secondary" browsers and not on the most used one?

This Rom achieve it in 4800ms.

It's far better than RR...CPU monitoring is Ok on RR (not on MAD OS), we can see the big core go up and down (javascript runs on single core)

I'm not a dev, but, it's probably not easy to drive the 3 clusters...

This Rom is great, smoother than stock, but maybe there's still something to improve.

As I can't solve my MMS problem (despite 2 install), I go back to stock (the very first one as old OTA seem to not work anymore) , I must work with the phone...:)

I probably try a new version later...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] :
Well, at least that's a sign Mediatek (I doubt Vernee had the knowledge to do it right) really optimized the CPU scheduler on the stock ROM. The hard part is bringing those optimizations to this ROM without also bringing the whole MTK "framework", not that it would be compatible with Nougat anyway.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] :
Thanks MAD TEAM for this new release! I'm very happy to see you are still supporting our device.

So, I did some tests and everything seems to be ok… except:

1. You announced "4K video recording fixed". But… where is it? Stock camera doesn't allow that setting, and third party camera (OpenCamera) allow it, but it's a fake (still recording at 1080). Can anyone confirm it?

2. I have had strange bug when battery was at 1% (battery saver enabled). I waited for automatic shutdown but… it just made abrupt power off. Then, I tried to power on many times and, when entering PIN, again it powered off. Three times. I connected to the charger, waited two minutes, and I tried to power on… It showed almost 50% of charge! So, maybe it's a bad battery calibration. Just I post here to see if anyone had that problem too.

Thanks again for that ROM!