yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] wolfchild333:
Amazing update btw tested it a bit so far working great haven't found issues with it. I don't have any sound streaming subscription to test out dolby atmos but tested a few flac audio files and have to say speaker sound has improved quite a bit and wired sound pretty amazing both much clearer at higher volume than before !!! pretty impressive dare to say as good if not better than stock!!! keep up the amazing work 🍻
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] majorwedgy:
Glad I checked back here on the off chance !!! :) great work will look too flash tomorrow, hoping battery life may improve. Phone seems to go through fits and farts about whether it wants to drain fast or not , can't see any apps that are particularly draining.
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] Nezhdan:
The system font still can't be changed :(
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] Captain_cookie_200:
still old source. wait for qpr2 if they fix it :(
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] wolfchild333:
battery life for me has been consistently good but I also use "blocker" app from F-droid and use the intent firewall under rules tab to disable all analytics and tracking in any apps that I have to use that doesn't have a Foss alternative that saves me quite a bit of juice on my battery also make sure you don't have variable refresh rate enabled I keep it at constant 60 going to 120 on the occasional game play. also on same app use the disable option to disable all apps you don't need on a regular basis. Hope this helps
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] Captain_cookie_200:
hey there would you switch to crdroid if you had the chance? 🤔

i want to ditch evo for a launcher3 based non pixel rom

and im already working on crd
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] wolfchild333:
if it had kernelSU and the button framework for the camera and assistant I wouldn't mind switching , a built In FP spoof like evoX to pass play integrity would be also a bonus as play integrity fix module never seem to work properly even when I disable the built in one. I don't use wallet often but RCS I use quite a bit and if I can't pass integrity messages are not being delivered without error message (thanks google...NOT). however I won't be able to switch until June/July at the earliest as this is my main driver and have it all set for work need also to get hold of another temp phone to transfer all my stuff and work config policies remote access keys certificates etc.
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] Canon124:
I was worried about the series of disturbances regarding EvoX, but I am glad to hear that the pdx06 ROM has been successfully restored!

During the temporary end of development, I moved to Project Elixir, which is also maintained by captain_cookie, but I still think EvoX is better in terms of overall completeness and stability.

If I could, I would go back to EvoX right now, but I think I would have to initialize the device, so I can't take the plunge... Is there any way to migrate from Elixir to EvoX while keeping my data?
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] Captain_cookie_200:
you could use something like data backup app which i use from here (needs root)
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] Canon124:
Also, I have one more question.

I tried several times to install Magisk on EvoX before EvoX was temporarily discontinued, but to no avail as it just kept getting stuck in a boot loop. Is there any way to install Magisk on EvoX?
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] Captain_cookie_200:
kernelsu and magisk wont work together so no. Use kernelsu. it is preincluded
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] 2faraway2:
Sure, go for it :)

What would be fantastic: with a ksu kernel, stock cam (photo pro) and a 'PI hardened' FP
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] Captain_cookie_200:
well the evolutionX isnt bad and i really love it. its seamless and everything works. I am currently a college student and i dont have too much time to do roms. The lead evolution-X dev has beef with the whole android community and bro gets attacked for honestly idk what. But it caused him to archive evolution-X once. Thats why I started maintaining elixir. But its back. Just dont want to end up ina. situation where the rom dies and i have to do bringup for another rom

building an update is easy unless ite for a new android version. Bringing up for a new rom requires adapting and stuff
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] wolfchild333:
quick question EvoX has a built in function to also remap the voice assistant button but I tested it and doesn't work I have a feeling that it is built to remap maybe Bixby button or something else any way you can look at the code and see if it can be modified to remap our assistant button?

ours is key 457 VOICE_ASSIST inside the gpio-keys.kl file under the system/usr/keylayout path.

currently I can only edit that file manually by remounting the partition in RW mode... would be neat if we can use the built in evo x already implemented framework to do that for us. Thanks 🙂
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] Captain_cookie_200:
hmm i'll have a look
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] wolfchild333:
awesome thank you !!! I can edit the file manually and it works it's just a PITA to have to do it manually every time I want to switch function.
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] Abivel:
Hi i recently bought xperia 5 ii - sog02 does this variant supports this rom if not suggest some roms which my model supports

Thanks in Advance..!
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] Captain_cookie_200:
yes it does
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] Captain_cookie_200:
Hey there everyone,

I hope this posts find you well. I have a sad announcement to make that i have also made in the past. I have been searching for an alternative to Evolution-X. I have never really liked the idea of pixel gapps running on my phone chugging the battery up. Hence i wanted to look for a launcher3 rom. I have settled upon VoltageOS.

Now VoltageOS does not have the "most request feature" (lauch camera with camera key) but there is something known as launching camera with double press of power button which does the job just as well. Every rom comes with it.

VoltageOS also does not have a lot of customization. No additional battery icons etc. Its just plain and simple. But it does have just the bare minimum to get you daily driving, which is what i was looking for.

It will come with the same Dolby and camera apps. I have just come to stop loving evolution-X. Meanwhile it being perfect it has become too customizable and just jank. I dont like having extra toggles I won't ever use. and this is not about me. You know about the rom drama that keeps going on. I might just say goodbye to it forever.

Hence why i might release voltageos with either march patch or etc. I will move the builds to either a sourceforge or another GitHub page. Since i would have the new trees up on my github.

Im really sorry i know you guys loved evolution-X but voltageos is also good.

It also has something known as "sanboxed gapps" Basically gapps with minimum permissions. Everything works except play integrity. (just flash full gapps if you want)

Yes it does not come with gapps. and there will only be a vanilla variant.

Once its fully stable i'll push it.

Thankyou for sticking with evolution-X and supporting me and this rom while it lasted.

See you on voltageos (I would still maintain elixir)

Only the last build has been uploaded to sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ahnet-legacy-builds/files/20240310/

I am sorry if my actions come across as if im build botting but i am not. Just looking for a good rom to maintain. Please bear with me. again sorry.
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] wolfchild333:
that is sad news but understandable I'm also not a fan of gapps and I do enjoy vanilla Roms with microG and sandbox. Sadly I need full Gapps and play integrity on this phone( also have tons of paid apps linked to google play) and the framework for the camera button is just the icing on the cake so I will stick with EvoX for n the foreseable future. As far as Google apps sucking up battery juice & resources and being overall a PITA with their constant tracking I Nuked most of the un-needed gapps (replaced with better/equivalent FOSS alternative, I use "app manager / warden / blocker " apps to disable unnecessary trackers services and permissions, replaced google connectivity checks , NTP server and captive portal and put all unwanted sites in the loopback interface along with not using google DNS servers. I have to say my battery life has been spectacular so far even with heavy usage. It's not a hard thing to do and if anyone needs a simple guide just let me know 👍🏻.

Good luck with the new Rom and all the best 🍻
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] wolfchild333:
P.S. I see you already took down source and latest build/recovery image for Evo X can you post here the link for SourceForge / Github when you transfer them so I can back them up 🙏 Thank you so much 🍻
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] Captain_cookie_200:
edited OP and the big message
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] wolfchild333:
awesome got it could you upload the source too thanks
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] Captain_cookie_200:
Im using the same trees for voltage. You just need to rename stuff to evolutionX and should be fine
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] Nezhdan:
That would be very good
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] 2faraway2:
Just for (my) information: Why voltage and not crdroid ? Any specific reason ?
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] wolfchild333:
I will write one out as soon as I get some free time , in meantime you can always ping me on telegram if needed my username is the same as the one here cheers 🍻
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] wolfchild333:
for those interested I found a awesome magisk/kernelSU module that allows sony music app to install with all plugins and update directly from the playstore.

Xperia Music Magisk Module

Described here: https://github.com/reiryuki/Xperia-Music-Magisk-Module

www.pling.com

I tested it out installed via kernelsu and works perfect so far even updated to the new version from the playstore.
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] wolfchild333:
Google free rom with minimal gapps support and sandbox for it = less strain on battery and resources and, to a certain degree, less invasion from google & CO as it won't be controlling and running the show in the back-end. You will still able to install and run full Google suite if you chose so... but ROM will be a vanilla version without big G.
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] 2faraway2:
Well yes, plenty of very good reasons ... but all also valid for crdroid ;)
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] Captain_cookie_200:
crDroid was having issues with the current source. I dont have too much time to wait for them to properly merge qpr2.

not sanboxed gapps tho. I encountered so many issues with sanboxed gapps. Crdroid also update kinda slow. VoltageOS does updates at a reasonable rate. I'll apply for official after two months. Hopefully not dealing with the same stuff as evo again
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] KramerJohn:
The issue is that DingTalk shows a white screen and can't work properly.
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] Captain_cookie_200:
more context please?
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] majorwedgy:
unfortunately this file seems to have been removed?
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] Captain_cookie_200:
please check the op. The last final build has been moved to sourceforge
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] majorwedgy:
apols didnt think to look at the original post - doh. thanks for the quick response!
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] Captain_cookie_200:
Hi guys another announcement.

Now i want to make myself clear that i acknowledge i am like a rollercoaster having mood swings but i will now maintain all 3 roms altogether. I am very sorry for this unusual behaviour. My life is a bit busy and i just thought i wont be able to. It feels bad to drop a project like this and because I myself depend on it.

I am very sorry to all the users that switched to other roms because of my "mood swings" and me randomly "eolling" this projecti promise to maintain evo until something serious happens.

Their source is almost ready for qpr2 so there could be a beta/alpha build if i am succesful. :)
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] wolfchild333:
that's awesome news🍻 glad I stuck with EvoX this ROM has pretty much all I need and I can nuke out/disable whatever google stuff I don't need been fairly solid so far 👍🏻 only thing missing is a working remap of the google/voice assistant button to make it perfect but can't complain android 14 as opposed to android 12 and plenty customization for those that want it keep up the good work 👍🏻
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] majorwedgy:
well that is great news, quite honestly so long as the %£"%£$"%£" at google dont break google pay, I have been more than happy with this ROM thank you
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] wolfchild333:
yeah that need to stop f.ing that up one solution would be for them to certify custom ROM with a unique ID and certificate tied to your google account that already has all your info anyway if you're on gpay.
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] Captain_cookie_200:
Hey everyone.. I am very sorry to make yet another announcement. I tried to be as clear as possible.

Please view it from here.

Or see the attached image

I have renamed the thread to EOL instead of discontinued for a reason. I dont plan coming back and its permanent. Sorry again everyone to whom i made a promise
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] wolfchild333:
weird I haven't seen the announcement on that collaboration anywhere...but I did see the dev post on discord that he was stepping down indefinitely from the project and handing it over to akito until he resolved his financial situation ( he seemed genuinely honest about it in his post) I doubt he would go ahead and do something shady in the back-end . Either way I understand you for putting an end to this ROM and appreciate the work you have done on this one 👍🏻 hopefully in the future elixir rom gets the buttons framework done and kernelSU support (even unofficial flashable kernel would do) if that happens I might just switch over when I get some downtime. Cheers 🍻
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] Captain_cookie_200:
Well you might wana chrck out apatch. Considering your willing to flash on every update. I specifically enabled overlayfs support in kernel for that and I use it myself. quite nice
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] wolfchild333:
yeah I tested it out on a friend phone I honestly can't find myself liking it that much it's just like magisk in a way... which I used for a long while...I much prefer kernelSU approach, when it's built in the Rom and don't have to flash a different kernel, where I don't need to deal with patching and flashing new boot image on each update and possible bootloops headaches from buggy modules. (yeah I know about anti boot loop mod as well as disabling all modules but those are buggy solutions at best). everything just works right in the way kernelSU deals with modules. To me it's simplicity at is best.... not sure why Elixir Makers are so much against including it in their ROM would also make their updates to the os smoother as user wouldn't have to deal with patching boot images and potentially messing up their phones.... they miss out on a lot of users making the switch to their ROM IMHO....
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] Captain_cookie_200:
its so much different than magisk. and about the modules i think your wrong mostly. Because it doesnt matter most modules woek tbe same way on kernelsu/apatch/magisk
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] Jbrimb:
How can we download the latest build of this rom ? link leads to VoltageOS

Thanks in advance
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] Captain_cookie_200:
check op. I uploaded evo there, it links to sourceforge
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] wolfchild333:
looks like evoX has switched to LOS as a base with their customization on top of it I haven't seen anything about any shady deals and looks like with the switch to LOS as a base they will also have a vanilla version without GAPPS would be nice to have again a evo rom with a vanilla variant but all the nice things like camera button framework and both kernelSU/apatch option already built in
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] Captain_cookie_200:
hmmm.. if you say so i'll see when its ready 😉
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] Paaris Sohail:
Will work on A002SO?
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] wolfchild333:
is that the Japanese variant? it should work but not sure nfc/wallet will work on it
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] Captain_cookie_200:
nfc will work too. had a fix for that
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] Captain_cookie_200:
I might have a 8.5 build for yall. Its gonna need a clean flash if i push it
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] wolfchild333:
that would be awesome can you include the camera with the packages not renamed the ones with the packages renamed with x are not supporting google lens plus they have some weird issues like they keep the camera hanging quite often requiring a reboot to fix it XDA Post has both versions of all 3 apk with and without renamed package 👍🏻. is the new version the one based on LOS ?
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] wolfchild333:
where you able to check this out by any Chance 🙃 ? maybe it's not working because it's mounted read only or because it remaps the wrong key ours it's key 457 that should be remapped 🍻
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] Captain_cookie_200:
I havent had luck getting jt to boot properly. Keeps rebooting and logs say nothing.

I'll be delaying evo aosp for a while because of my academics. so expect the build randomly in the span of 2 months
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] wolfchild333:
sounds good 👍🏻 good luck with your academics !
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] Captain_cookie_200:
An update on this. joey has announced that evo aosp will be deprecated. Hence i'll be building it as the last evo update for this phone. I wont consider evo los based as it has serious booting issues with this phone. And im just bad at debugging. Anyone is free to try themselves as trees are public. Goodluck!

The update will be posted in 2-4 days
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] wolfchild333:
that's cool and too bad for LOS booting issues would have been nice to have LoS with evoX on top... I wonder if regular LOS has same booting issues . Hope you can include the camera apps with the original package name on the last build of evoX. Cheers and thanks again 🍻
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] Captain_cookie_200:
hmm.. about that.. i m not sure. i tried before but it didnt work. i'll try again later. Its weird considering even with renamed apps i renamed the prop so it uses the renamed package for google lens. its still broken somehow.
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] wolfchild333:
yeah I ended up installing the non renamed packages disabled the renamed ones and once given su rights they work good no more camera issues getting locked and requiring a reboots.
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] oceanKnox:
作者这里叫developer.不过20.0很久都没更新了。

Los20.0 is long time no update
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] Captain_cookie_200:
NEW UPDATE!

Evolution-X 8.2 UNOFFICIAL 20240114

Change logs on Github

Instructions: Follow Dirty flash Instructions on OP

Note: Sorry for so many frequent builds, I had to fix issues with these to make sure everyone has a stable experience. Most issues are fixed now so it should be a 1-2 builds for every new Evolution-X release.
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] 剑落千秋:
Thank you for your continuous development and maintenance, and I sincerely respect you.
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] GT500s:
APatch working great. Took me sōme time to flash. Miui Core and Miui Gallery works fine. Safety net is also working.
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] xulin.chi:
Great work!

And could you give me some help in building this 4.19-297 kernel from the source you given?

I tried many times but always got the error:call to ' _bad_copy_to' declared with attribute error: copy destination size is too small
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] Captain_cookie_200:
i have never tried building it individually but if you could tell me the steps you are doing maybe i could figure out and see whats wrong. Make sure you use the right version of clang and toolchain
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] xulin.chi:
Thanks for reply!

There's my environment and steps:

ubuntu 18.04-LTS

clang version 6.0.0-1ubuntu2 (tags/RELEASE_600/final)

toolchain: gcc-linaro-5.5.0-2017.10-x86_64_aarch64-linux-gnu

export CROSS_COMPILE=XXXXXX/bin/aarch64-linux-gnu-

export ARCH=arm64

make pdx206_defconfig

make

Error:

./include/linux/kern_levels.h:11:18: note: in expansion of macro ‘KERN_SOH’

#define KERN_ERR KERN_SOH "3" /* error conditions */

error: call to ‘__bad_copy_to’ declared with attribute error: copy destination size is too small
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] Captain_cookie_200:
you should be using clang r487747c. you can grab this at lineage os's repo. then export the revelant paths and it should work
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] xulin.chi:
Got it, I'll try again later ☺️
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] BerBery4:
hi. I updated according to the instructions to the latest version of evolution X, but now KernelSU does not work
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] Captain_cookie_200:
i nuked kernelsu in the latest build becus it was archived. its back ig but i added overlay fs support for apatch. check apatch out. it's similar to kernelsu
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] BerBery4:
thanks for the reply. I installed Apatch, for it to work, it is necessary to patch the boot.img image, I was never able to extract the boot.img image from my firmware, I think this requires more time and knowledge, which is unnecessary gestures compared to KernelSu, which worked immediately after installing the firmware. You'll have to switch back to the previous version. I hope in the future you will be able to return KernelSU to your firmware
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] Captain_cookie_200:
follow the instructions under flashing magisk/apatch section. It uses payload dumper go to extract boot.img from the rom zip file (you need to use the one from rom and not stock firmware). It may need a reflash on every ota update
[Sony Xperia 5 II ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Othe] wanwije:
Thanks for an excellent rom. After updating using dirty flash, to the latest update all sony camera apps crashed. Will clean flash resolve this issue? FYI, I have managed install APatch and rooted the device following your instructions. BTW, APatch breaks the Google Play Protect certification.