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[Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact Questions & Answers] squid2:
I understand your concern [MENTION=3142060]old.splatterhand[/MENTION]. I mainly just wanted to gauge how many people are seriously interested, and I’m not really in great need of the money.

Here’s another offer that’s better for everyone involved: I will buy the phone and put in a best effort to bring charter-compliant (fully functional) LineageOS and recovery if 25 or more people pledge to donate something (any amount) once I meet the goal. You don’t have to specify an actual amount - just say you’d donate.

This is better for you because you have no risk of losing money, and you maintain an incentive for me to complete the project. This is better for me because I would not feel compelled or guilty if I fail to meet my goal for unforeseen reasons (technical or personal), and I don't want to be in a situation where I feel morally obligated to do a lot of work for not much money.

[MENTION=4695495]FcukBloat[/MENTION] Regarding camera - hopefully Sony will sort that out soon, since the camera is supposed to continue working (without fancy noise reduction) when the bootloader is unlocked. If Sony fail to live up to their own standards, we’ll see. The first step would be to just build Sony's own AOSP, and since nobody has done that yet, we don't know if AOSP camera does or does not work.
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact Questions & Answers] FcukBloat:
to be honest i am enjoying my new non-flashaolic life with this phone, what i really miss is just root but keeping working camera, nevertheless i promise to donate if you'll bring some development for this phone that, even if not me, some other could enjoy. I've always donated for dev work i used with my phones so it won't be a problem at all to do that also in this case even if in the end i won't use your roms :o

you could maybe unify the quest for this section and regular xz2 also? this would bring more willing donators i think, and shouldn't be too much additional work for you?(i think to support regular xz2 also you'd just need to make two kernels with small differences from each other?)
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact Questions & Answers] old.splatterhand:
Thats a fair deal! So, count on me, i'm in and donate :good:
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact Questions & Answers] squid2:
I’d use the same kernel for both, and would probably use a commonized device tree structure (Sony already does that in their AOSP trees on GitHub). Thus, supporting the regular XZ2 shouldn’t be difficult, and it would certainly increase the number of people interested. I can’t justify buying a second high end phone myself, but I can make builds for users to test.
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact Questions & Answers] old.splatterhand:
I'm sure thats true

I think i'll leave the 2 most interesting threads from xz2 here for people who are interested in:

https://xdaforums.com/xperia-xz2/development/recovery-twrp-3-2-2-0-touch-recovery-t3821597

https://xdaforums.com/xperia-xz2/help/happen-unlock-bootloader-t3769726
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact Questions & Answers] FcukBloat:
for who is willing to help, why don't making a new thread about this "donators hunt" in this phone's discussion section, and then making another thread also in xz2's discussion section, linking to original one? ;) there we could collect donators also for other xz2(c) devs like [MENTION=6031898]MartinX3[/MENTION] [MENTION=3989065]serajr[/MENTION] etc ;)
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact Questions & Answers] squid2:
That sounds like a good idea. I’m personally debating between them XZ2 compact and the (upcoming) Pixel 3. Assuming rumours are correct and the Pixel 3 is similar in dimensions to the Pixel 2, the device wouldn’t be too huge, though still a bit larger than I’d prefer. However, the Pixel would have several benefits over the XZ2 compact: OLED display, better camera, no infuriating camera DRM, better developer support from the OEM, android verified boot (allows locking BL to your own keys), and a much larger community of developers and custom ROM users. For the Pixel 3, I could also just sit back and have others with more time and enthusiasm do all the development for me ;) If the Pixel 3 (non-XL) is indeed reasonably sized, I’ll probably buy one of those when they come out.

With that said, if enough people pledge interest in me doing work on the XZ2 compact, I’d buy one too. If 25+ XZ2 compact users pledge support, I’ll buy an XZ2 compact and bring LineageOS to it, regardless of whether or not I buy a Pixel. If 40+ users of XZ2 and XZ2 compact combined pledge support, I’ll try to bring LineageOS to both. If someone else wants to help, I’d appreciate that too.
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact Questions & Answers] MartinX3:
[MENTION=4695495]FcukBloat[/MENTION] [MENTION=3989065]serajr[/MENTION] [MENTION=6485916]squid2[/MENTION] [MENTION=3142060]old.splatterhand[/MENTION]

I am also interessted in LineageOS for this device and making a donation. Could you mention me, when you start developing LineageOS?

There shouldn't be much difference between the XZ2 compact, XZ2 and XZ2 Premium expect the driver (vendor/oem) partition and maybe some parts of the kernel.

And the LineageOS Treble image and the Sony Xperia AOSP Project is very helpful, if you want to get a LineageOS maintainer.

After the bootloader update for the XZ2 compact, XZ2 and XZ2 Premium, I will update my device files and compile TWRP again.

First for the XZ2 and if that works, for the XZ2 compact and XZ2 Premium, too.

They are very similiar. As example, the XZ2 and the XZ2 Compact sharing the same fstab file.

So there is a high chance, that the XZ2 Premium is similiar, too.

:)

You can view the progress here!

https://xdaforums.com/xperia-xz2/development/recovery-twrp-3-2-2-0-touch-recovery-t3821597/
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact Questions & Answers] FcukBloat:
I was evaluating pixel 3 also, it is 1cm taller than xz2c, so bigger but not that much (and still smaller than all other damned huge phones released nowadays) plus luckily it won't have that awful notch... so will see and if it will be really better than xz2c (not easy as this is a great phone!) I may get one and sell the sony.. from pixel 3 I like always on display, flat back, probably reduced weight, and yes as you say probable easy root wihout loosing (cam) performances... but I have to carefully check P3 battery life which I care a lot...

I personally don't care about the display, I find this IPS very good and even better than some OLED panels I tried (S7) and also camera is great for me in this phone (even in low light) but yes probably because of the SW alghoritms in pixel 3 will be better...
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact Questions & Answers] niaboc79:
To be honest you will never reach 25 people ready to donate.

The Sony community is used to get everything for free, they nearly never thanks and even less give donations.

Even if you build a few rom like lineage or carbon, the camera will always give bad results and low quality which is a deal breaker for many.

That's why I'm working only on stock rom and add all custom features and interesting commits from custom rom like lineage, resurrection remix, slim... I can have a fully working rom without any bugs without hundreds of new options.

Just my 2 cent but you shouldn't buy a Sony phone at all.
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact Questions & Answers] MartinX3:
I understand you.

But I did choose the XZ2, because I get regular updates, Sony pay and support the AOSP development for their devices and the XZ2 has a high durability and is water proofed.

Like a high-speed outdoor smartphone.

Is the cam quality really as worse as you say, when you use the DRM fix, camera API 2 and a gcam port for your chipset?
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact Questions & Answers] FcukBloat:
are you going to prepare a stock based rom also for xz2c maybe? I'd only need few features from custom ROMs :fingers-crossed:
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact Questions & Answers] niaboc79:
I choose the xz2 because I like it, that's all. For me it's a great device, great look and fast.

For me Sony doesn't really support developers, they allow a small amount of devs to share source of AOSP that's all, Sony doesn't share what's needed to build perfect AOSP. If the camera works since Oreo it's only because AOSP devs and some guys here on xda worked hard.

Also if they support developers why so much things linked to drm. Why so much issues when unlocking bootloader. They should allow us to unlock bootloader without loosing anything and like that we could come back to stock rom without issue or stupid message at boot.

I like Sony, all I buy is made by them. But the main developers, not the aosp one doesn't like us and are doing all they can to discourage us to go ahead in development. I can understand them, they loose also many things with years, all what they are allowed to do is build stock with 5 Sony options, they lost what made Sony's stock rom amazing, the difference, the innovation.

Finally, since the Xperia Z I've never seen a good camera on aosp or custom rom, neither than a fully functional phone, I mean fingerprint reader, battery charging, automatic brightness, camera, noise canceling, battery life.

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[Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact Questions & Answers] niaboc79:
As soon as a working recovery, drm fix on official Android P will be available, I will build my eXistenZ rom on XZ2 and XZ2 compact family [emoji6]

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[Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact Questions & Answers] MartinX3:
In the theory the DRM fix is finished.

But we need twrp to test it.

And to get a working twrp, Sony need to release the next bootloader update and to announce the XZ2 as part of the open source program.

And don't ask for an ETA.

They only know the words soon and ASAP. :silly:

But they added the tama akari apollo defconfigs and a kernel build script to the asop sources this week.

Maybe the release is now really soon.
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact Questions & Answers] hlawani:
count on me, i'm in and donate
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact Questions & Answers] parruc@gmail.com:
+1 on the donation list
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact Questions & Answers] drrogern:
Im sorry for asking about something that people have asked and gotten answers to before, but im not sure if I understand them correctly. Is it possible to root this device with no negatives yet? Just pure root and nothing else.

Thanks.
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact Questions & Answers] FcukBloat:
NO
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact Questions & Answers] Pierfranc:
Sony is losing a lot of market in mobile and also they add these DRM to give limitations... Probably they don't need new customers and they are going to delete mobile department. Also my Xz2 Compact is Rev 1 (so first version produced) and it has many issue like hot temperature doing basic things as browser, if recharging even more, touch is really bad! Sometimes I have to press 2-3 times a point of screen to work. So I want send it for warranty but not having a receipt or invoice, since I bought it in eBay, assistance centers don't accept the phone and I am waiting for an answer from Sony support for weeks.

The phone gets really hot, if I play for example PUBG after some minutes I have to leave my phone on table because it burns my hands.

Also I want root the phone because I need it for backup, freeze applications avoiding restart and many other things, but Sony made it hard to get.

No jack, unjustified since there was enough space, and navigation keys on the screen while they could have been easily on the bottom of the phone instead of the "Sony" Mark which is useless.

There are so many negative sides here which you realize only having it in your hands for a while, infact I would sell it, but I also appreciate many other features so I'm staying positive, waiting for a right fix for it...until I will sell it.

(I did many errors writing these because of the touch issue and I had to edit it)
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact Questions & Answers] MartinX3:
I released a aosp build in the twrp thread.

Feel free to test.

If it is bugfree, I will build twrp with its kernel.

You need to match the firmware version which is named on the first.page of the twrp thread.
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact Questions & Answers] Pierfranc:
Thanks a lot Martin, I will send the phone for assistance in any case, but I want try this AOSP. Do I need to do something before installing it? Apply some drm fix?
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact Questions & Answers] MartinX3:
It is still work in progress, the bugs are listed in the thread

Ghe next build will have camera support.

But I need to wait for critical devices fixes.

At the moment the code has a hardware damaging bug.

So I will not make a new build this week/(month?)
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact Questions & Answers] Pierfranc:
Ok ok, what I have got till now is that this phone is very locked like an Apple one. I just need root for many things like backup and freeze application which makes you result online, so I want block them but it's impossibile. Sony makes things very hard.
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact Questions & Answers] MartinX3:
If you don't need the camera, you can unlock it and root it with magisk or wait for a proper asop build with only a 17mp camera and maybe not so good iso values.

Twrp for DRM fix is still under testing/construction
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact Questions & Answers] Pierfranc:
No man, camera is a must also because pics taken are very high quality. But probably I will send it now in assistance to fix some issues I am having with touch and high temperature, maybe two weeks and then safe root could be available when it returns. But is it possible to come back from this temporary DRM fix to the previous state like it was in the beginning?
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact Questions & Answers] MartinX3:
Syou will only get 90% of the quality back

Maybe better, if we get a proper gcam port
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact Questions & Answers] Pierfranc:
So it's very risky! I will wait new updates.
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact Questions & Answers] MartinX3:
Yes, stay tuned in the twrp thread! :)
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact Questions & Answers] Pierfranc:
Is it the same version both for XZ2 and Compact?
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact Questions & Answers] MartinX3:
After the XZ2 Version worked, I will make a Compact Version, if there is no one who did it.

And a premium version.

The DRM **** is preventing me unlocking my phone, so I can't test it myself and I rely on my few testers, if they got time.

This slow things down. But I am optimistic, that we will get success at the end. :)
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact Questions & Answers] bungadudu:
This would be a great alternative to the smaller Pixel 3!

The XZ2 line could be a great "poor man's" replacement for the Pixels.

[MENTION=359497]jerpelea[/MENTION] Where is Sony's support after it's commitment to the open source community?
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact Questions & Answers] MartinX3:
I build a AOSP rom

and I made TWRP for xz2 xz2c xz2p
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact Questions & Answers] skolas35:
Am I late to the party? I'm willing to support XZ2c dev too. What is the current status?
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact Questions & Answers] zarbix:
I also am very interested in a working rooted xz2c for the same reasons everybody else listed: its literally the only compact phone available on the market that doesnt have crazy outdated hardware, wtf is up with that??!

Also am I correct in deducting from this thread that while I could unlock bootloader and install TWRP from Martin's thread and then put his AOSP build on it but even with xperifix I wont have (close to) normal camera function? Because if thats the case I could save myself a lot of time of rooting and whatnot and wait for the full LinageOS port mentioned here before investing any more time and just suck it up and use the sucky stock firmware without being able to use AdAway/Xprivacy/microG
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact Questions & Answers] MartinX3:
I would wait for the aosp build become stable :)

BTW the next one will be 9.0 Pie :)

Yes, the camera may be not as good as the stock one.

I hope there will be a Google camera port in the future .

But the Open Camera App is nice, too.
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact Questions & Answers] theuchi:
count me in on the donate
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact Questions & Answers] juanito003:
Hi, I'm willing to buy the XZ2 compact, but my main concern is to make sure I can install LineageOS without gapps on it.

Is there any progress or unofficial ROM somewhere that I can download?

squid2: How much donation did you get until now? I'd like to participate as well. You can PM me the info.
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact Questions & Answers] tijoro:
I pledge 10EUR, once you get both LineageOS with all official features and backed-up original DRM keys on the XZ2 compact. My pledge is valid as long new XZ2c devices are sold.

You have to send me an email to redeem the pledge. Paste the following into Bash to see my address: echo xz2c-xda_ei_tjr__nieiirbox_com | sed -Ee 's/__/@/' -e 's/_/./g' -e 's/ei/v/g' -e 's/i/e/g'
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact Questions & Answers] FcukBloat:
lol
[Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact Questions & Answers] MartinX3:
My tama aosp and omnirom builds are stable

You could use the sources of the xz2 lineageos build to make a xz2c build or ask the maintainer if he wants to add the xz2c.
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] sovanr7059:
Hey guys I'm sovan, lately I have been having some issues after installing a custom 8.1 rom on my device (pixel experience rom to be precise), I lost my VOLTE and couldn't get it back(my 4g lte connection was ok so I can use internet but couldn't call anyone) so I searched on some forum's regarding that issue, and I got some fixes but all of them required me to use a PC , 2 month ago I damaged my pc's motherboard so I couldn't use it fix my issue. Few days ago I downloaded magisk v16 zip and flashed that on my device after flashing it i rebooted my phone and saw I still didn't had my VOLTE back(not surprised coz thats rooting app). After that that I opened magisk app and gone to download section and looked for VOLTE disable module, after downloading and installing that module I restarted my phone and again there was no VOLTE, so I go to magisk again and uninstalled that VOLTE disable module and rebooted my phone and what u know I got my VOLTE back now I can call using VOLTE... after that happened I was a little sceptic so I power off my device and go to my bootloader using volume down plus power key and start my device and again I lost my VOLTE so I did everything what I did before installing VOLTE disable module and reboot then uninstalling that module and reboot after that I again got my VOLTE back...:fingers-crossed:

This is a temporary fix everytime u power off ur device u may lose ur VOLTE again if that happens just follow the same process....hope this helps:)
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] Prince153:
http://telegra.ph/Volte-Fix-For-Moto-G5-Plus-06-14-2
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] fuzzydorito:
I suggest resolving VoLTE to create a back of EFS+Partition in a 7.0/7.1.2 custom rom (I personally stuck with 7.1.2 for my backups). Works like a charm when using the guide Prince153 has so generously shared.
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] sovanr7059:
I followed all steps that u mentioned above and did got my volte back so I restored my custom rom like u said and it works but Everytime I power off my device my volte gone,for getting it back I had to install a module or use kernal auditor and power off/on my device.(I don't have any backup of my stock rom or my efs folder).this issue keep coming back:(
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] Prince153:
Wait for 1-2 minutes for showing volte if it doesn't then you can turn on/off airplane mode or try enabling/disabling volte also take a backup of EFS on extsdcard
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] sovanr7059:
Ok I'll try it next time I power off my phone...:):good::fingers-crossed:
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] NZedPred:
No no no no no!!!! Gosh why are people still posting this and other similar "fixes"! Do not ever flash another device's persist.

Please, this thread below is a sticky in this forum and explains why.

https://xdaforums.com/g5-plus/how-to/fix-persist-resolve-imei0-explanation-t3825147
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] Prince153:
When i first flashed custom rom i lost volte then i restored with this method

What's wrong with this method
[Moto G5 Plus Guides, News, & Discussion] NZedPred:
Read the link I posted. Section 5a talks about the false impression of success.
[Moto G5 Plus Questions & Answers] etique57:
Hello all,

My gf's G5 Plus suddenly went into a bootloop while she was uninstalling some apps to make some space for our newborn daughter pictues.

The G5 Plus was never rooted or tampered with in any way. Now it just won't boot and loop through the animation.

I've cleared the cache partition to no avail. I don't want to do a factory reset as I think it will completely erase the internal memory, and Google Photo only did compressed pictures backups (I don't want to lose the originals!)

Do you have any hints? I've read about a "safe mode" but it seems it can only be triggered from a running phone (power menu). Is there anyway to mount the user partition through USB on a computer?

Thanks a lot for any hint!
[Moto G5 Plus Questions & Answers] psychopac:
If it was unlocked, you could've tried to temp boot a TWRP recovery image and through that, you would've been able to mount user partition and copied the files. But as you said it's completely stock, I doubt that'd be possible. Are you able to access the stock recovery? I checked my recovery and there's nothing that might help you access internal storage from stock recovery.

If only you had enabled debugging and at least one computer would've been authorized ADB access by the phone, you could try to unlock it and temp boot TWRP but I'm not sure it's gonna happen in your case as most of the people who don't mess with their phones even open Developer Options in the Settings let alone enable USB Debugging.

Hopefully someone with more knowledge into this will help you out but at the moment, I can't think of anything else.
[Moto G5 Plus Questions & Answers] acejavelin:
Honestly, assuming the device is purely stock and the bootloader is locked, your next option is to perform a factory default.

You will OK to just use Google Photo backup... All photos that are above 16MP are compressed to 16MP size, and the camera in the Moto G5 Plus is only 12MP. Photos that are equal to or less than 16MP in size are stored as is, so basically all photos taken by this device are stored on Google Photo are uncompressed. - Source
[Moto G5 Plus Questions & Answers] M1810:
That sucks, same happened to me so i went for a custom rom, i believe they are doing this on purpose for G6 sales
[Moto G5 Plus Questions & Answers] acejavelin:
No, they are not... You can remove your tin foil hat anytime.
[Moto G5 Plus Questions & Answers] blazyy_:
Same happened to me, twice. I was on LineageOS. I had to wipe the phone and start anew, which isn' t so bad. Google made the entire process so easy.
[Moto G5 Plus Questions & Answers] ssoni0097:
My device is not rooted, it is showing oem locked. How to perform these actions then? It results into remote error while executing those commands
[LeEco Le 2 Questions & Answers] mirchichamu:
Hi all,

i have bought this phone Le x526 Qualcomm version 3/32 GB. I noted that the internal memory was just 7.xx GB remaining. So I decided to Install TWRP and format Data partition. I successfully installed TWRP. My remaining internal storage is 14 GB plus.

Now I want to install a 3rd Party ROM which is best in performance and battery life.

Will anybody guide me to the best 3rd party ROM in this regard? PLEASE DON'T TELL TO EXPERIMENT BY MYSELF AS I HAVE NO TIME AND EXPERTISE TO INSTALL DAILY ONE ROM. I WANT A SINGLE TIME INSTALL. I SHALL BE MUCH THANKFUL TO YOU FOR THIS KINDNESS.
[LeEco Le 2 Questions & Answers] macbroom:
I just recently got this phone also. I installed Lineage 14.1 last week and find it great. The oreo roms are fancy but Lineage 14.1 just works. Ota update worked good for me last night with no problems. Not planning to change roms anytime soon. Hope this helps.