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unfortunately, the process com.android.phone has stopped

I have a TF300T with the latest bootloader and twrp 2.6.3.1. I had been installing nightlies for CM11 and using Grimlock kernel and had zero problems until the first nightly after Snapshot M4. Ever since then, after flashing a kernel on any CM11 as soon as it reboots into android I get the message in the title line.
I have tried wiping everything and it still happens after installing a kernel. If I just install any copy of CM11 and GAPPS everything works perfectly fine. It's only when installing any of the aftermarket kernels. I even tried using the latest Philz Touch 6 and still get the same problems. I have searched on Google and find plenty of people asking for help on the same error message for different devices but nothing on how to fix it. Does anyone know what this can be?
Any help will be greatly appreciated. I like our tablet with CM11, but it is SO much better being able to overclock.
Thanks,
Rick

rickpref said:
I have a TF300T with the latest bootloader and twrp 2.6.3.1. I had been installing nightlies for CM11 and using Grimlock kernel and had zero problems until the first nightly after Snapshot M4. Ever since then, after flashing a kernel on any CM11 as soon as it reboots into android I get the message in the title line.
I have tried wiping everything and it still happens after installing a kernel. If I just install any copy of CM11 and GAPPS everything works perfectly fine. It's only when installing any of the aftermarket kernels. I even tried using the latest Philz Touch 6 and still get the same problems. I have searched on Google and find plenty of people asking for help on the same error message for different devices but nothing on how to fix it. Does anyone know what this can be?
Any help will be greatly appreciated. I like our tablet with CM11, but it is SO much better being able to overclock.
Thanks,
Rick
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Have you tried deleting the telephone system app?

rickpref said:
I have a TF300T with the latest bootloader and twrp 2.6.3.1. I had been installing nightlies for CM11 and using Grimlock kernel and had zero problems until the first nightly after Snapshot M4. Ever since then, after flashing a kernel on any CM11 as soon as it reboots into android I get the message in the title line.
I have tried wiping everything and it still happens after installing a kernel. If I just install any copy of CM11 and GAPPS everything works perfectly fine. It's only when installing any of the aftermarket kernels. I even tried using the latest Philz Touch 6 and still get the same problems. I have searched on Google and find plenty of people asking for help on the same error message for different devices but nothing on how to fix it. Does anyone know what this can be?
Any help will be greatly appreciated. I like our tablet with CM11, but it is SO much better being able to overclock.
Thanks,
Rick
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Free gift from Grimlock. It's the kernel that restarts 3 times before fully booting, right? As soon as I took it off my system, the problem vanished. Comes with the package. You like Grimlock, must learn to live with it. I don't like it That much.

rickpref said:
I have a TF300T with the latest bootloader and twrp 2.6.3.1. I had been installing nightlies for CM11 and using Grimlock kernel and had zero problems until the first nightly after Snapshot M4. Ever since then, after flashing a kernel on any CM11 as soon as it reboots into android I get the message in the title line.
I have tried wiping everything and it still happens after installing a kernel. If I just install any copy of CM11 and GAPPS everything works perfectly fine. It's only when installing any of the aftermarket kernels. I even tried using the latest Philz Touch 6 and still get the same problems. I have searched on Google and find plenty of people asking for help on the same error message for different devices but nothing on how to fix it. Does anyone know what this can be?
Any help will be greatly appreciated. I like our tablet with CM11, but it is SO much better being able to overclock.
Thanks,
Rick
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Updates have come that fix that problem. Same with Geass, if it's not fixed yet it will be VERY soon.
graphdarnell said:
Free gift from Grimlock. It's the kernel that restarts 3 times before fully booting, right? As soon as I took it off my system, the problem vanished. Comes with the package. You like Grimlock, must learn to live with it. I don't like it That much.
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Or you could file bug reports with the devs, and guess what? They found the problem and fixed it! Instead of slagging people who are trying to improve our tablets, you could help them by letting them know about the issues you have.
The "free gift" is the kernel that's posted for a community. If you don't like it and don't want to help, and would rather tell others bad things about it, then take your nonsense somewhere else.

hardslog said:
Updates have come that fix that problem. Same with Geass, if it's not fixed yet it will be VERY soon.
Or you could file bug reports with the devs, and guess what? They found the problem and fixed it! Instead of slagging people who are trying to improve our tablets, you could help them by letting them know about the issues you have.
The "free gift" is the kernel that's posted for a community. If you don't like it and don't want to help, and would rather tell others bad things about it, then take your nonsense somewhere else.
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I upgraded to the latest TWRP 2.7.0.1, deleted everything and started from scratch. Everything works great now and using new kernel that clocks to 1.8 is flying.

cm13 setup STUCK AT 'JUST A SEC' SCREEN (URGENT!!!)

Hi guys
I was trying to install the official cm13 nightly with gapps on twrp
and at the end of the setup, I am stuck at the last step which is Just a Sec screen
Any help would be appreciated thanks.

hjrry said:
Hi guys
I was trying to install the official cm13 nightly with gapps on twrp
and at the end of the setup, I am stuck at the last step which is Just a Sec screen
Any help would be appreciated thanks.
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try a different gapps package? did you clear cache and dalvik, plus do a factory reset before installing?

Nitefire77 said:
try a different gapps package? did you clear cache and dalvik, plus do a factory reset before installing?
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Yes did everything you mentioned and latest 6.0 gapps pico package
any idea what that screen is about?

hjrry said:
Yes did everything you mentioned and latest 6.0 gapps pico package
any idea what that screen is about?
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Try a different GAPPS package, maybe a larger one. Just to see. For one, some people complained of missing features like notification bar pulldown with the very smallest GAPPS package. Now this isn't a reason it shouldn't install, but try a different package to see if it make a difference in completing the installation.

hjrry said:
and at the end of the setup, I am stuck at the last step which is Just a Sec screen
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Same thing here, using a 2014811 (Wt88047, Redmi 2 WCDMA).
Tried ""nightly" 20160512, 20160517 and 20160519. Did the usual Wipes, tried also with no wifi and no SIM card.
Nothing seems to help, I am stuck at "Just a Sec..."
The SKIP option does not work.
The back button works and let me get back until the Language selector.
D.

plasticdoc said:
Same thing here, using a 2014811 (Wt88047, Redmi 2 WCDMA).
Tried ""nightly" 20160512, 20160517 and 20160519. Did the usual Wipes, tried also with no wifi and no SIM card.
Nothing seems to help, I am stuck at "Just a Sec..."
The SKIP option does not work.
The back button works and let me get back until the Language selector.
D.
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First, restore your backup. You did make a backup, right?
Then re-flash after you download a different GAPPs package. Some say Open Gapps works great for them, while others say Slim GAPPS is best. We don't know why some don't work for some people but work for others.
If that doesn't fix your issue, then try this:
Download the unofficial CM13 found here in this forum and try it.
Also, download Resurrection Remix (Marshmallow) and try it.
Both are variants of CM13 anyways. Just trying to see if something is wrong with your phone and you can't flash any ROM whatsoever or if it's something your phone doesn't like about official CM13.
The unofficial CM13 is CM13 with just a few of the Resurrection Remix tweaks thrown in, like permissions to download Moto apps from the Google Store, etc. It's 90% CM13, 10% RR.
If none of those CM13 variants work, you can alway try AOSP Mokee (Marshmallow).
IF NONE of those work, either your phone is severely messed up or you are doing something wrong.

ChazzMatt said:
Download the unofficial CM13 found here in this forum and try it.
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Right. This one installed without any problems.
Still, I would like to be able to install the "official" one.
I wonder, what may be the bug in that keeps it "freezing" at the "Just a Sec..." message.
D.

plasticdoc said:
Right. This one installed without any problems.
Still, I would like to be able to install the "official" one.
I wonder, what may be the bug in that keeps it "freezing" at the "Just a Sec..." message.
D.
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I don't know. Not everything with our phones is completely logical. Occasionally more of an art than science. Same reason one GAPPs package works well for someone but won't install for another person. Open GAPPS vs Slim Gapps.
Here's a personal example... My wife and I both have XT1225 with CM12.1 and yet hers can't run BHB27 kernel. Occasionally I'll get it to install, and run OK for a day or two but then next time I reboot it it does endless bootloops. I even tried different governors and I/O schedulers. Nada.
Mine is a Puerto Rico (unlocked Claro) XT1225 I flashed to India 5.0.2 before flashing to CM.
Her's is a Mexico direct-from-China-Motorola factory XT1225 I flashed to India 5.0.2 before flashing to CM.
Later I flashed Puerto Rico XT1225 radio over both.
There's just some difference there in her XT1225 which does not like BHB27 kernel.
Maybe if I did an exhaustive formatting of the entire internal memory and reinstallation of everything on her phone, it would work. But instead I take the easy way out and she's just running CM12.1 with default CM kernel, and that's running well. So, I go with what works.

phone app not working
unfortunately telephone has stopped working.

wajid1213 said:
unfortunately telephone has stopped working.
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What does that have to do with this thread? > cm13 setup STUCK AT 'JUST A SEC' SCREEN (URGENT!!!)
I don't even think you are using this phone, to be honest. So, why did you post here? You posted same thing in another thread, for ANOTHER PHONE, not even related to Quark.
You seem to be using this phone: Xiaomi Redmi 2 -- since all your other posts before this and after this are over there.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/search.php?searchid=422491957

[DEV] I extracted the updated touchscreen firmware from MIUI Nougat kernel

Haven't managed to test if it fixes the bug because I had to sleep lol.
https://github.com/Demon000/libra/commit/b5067833797cd1eb207cd976bf2419c58ca8c7ed
If anyone can test if it works, I would be very thankful.
How I did it?
Get a hex file editor.
Compile kernel with old touchscreen firmware.
Open the synaptics_biel_sharp_update.fw or synaptic_biel_auo_update.fw that have been generated in firmware/ folder in the hex editor.
Get the MIUI kernel, split it, uncompress it.
In the .fw files, the first four hex groups are magic numbers(a hex group looks like "3F"), and after that there are some common hex groups in sharp and auo firmware.
Use the hex editor to search for the common groups in the MIUI kernel, and also find the magic number before the common groups.
Use the "csplitb" program to split the the kernel binary at the newly found magic number + common groups, and strip the result to 12661 lines.
Repeat this for every common group found.
Then use the objcopy program inside the toolchain to convert the binary files to .ihex, and replace the ihex files in the firmware folder.
Done.
It is complicated, but once you get the first steps it will be easy to understand.
Although I don't know if I did a good job at explaining.

Cozmy, you are magic. Lot of thanx, Man.

Many thanks. :good:

How does one flash this?

danbrown162 said:
How does one flash this?
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You cannot, devs that make custom roms can use it to build rom with fixed display firmware.

danbrown162 said:
How does one flash this?
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I can post a kernel build with it later, not tested as currently I'm working on lineage os using all the vendor binaries and blobs from the nougat release.

Harrynowl said:
I can post a kernel build with it later, not tested as currently I'm working on lineage os using all the vendor binaries and blobs from the nougat release.
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I couldn't get it to update the firmware because I was not using Xiaomi touchscreen drivers in my kernel, but the firmware itself should be working fine.
I don't want to bloat my CAF touchscreen driver so it will take me longer until I find where it fails.
Please keep us updated.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9WMSJf5LSatdG5WM24zNnJPaEk
Kernel image which fixes the touchscreen problem.
PS. This kernel may use more battery, just because I didn't spend time optimizing the kernel, but rather optimizing the source-code quality, lol.
You can try flashing your original kernel to see if the fix remains.
Tested on Resurrection Remix Nougat.
EDIT: I haven't tested it on any AUO panels, as my phone has a Sharp one.
EDIT2: Flashed back the Resurrection Remix kernel and touchscreen is still fixed. Success!
Guide: backup your kernel, flash the kernel I provided, restore your old kernel.
Proof as attachment.

Cozzmy13 said:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9WMSJf5LSatdG5WM24zNnJPaEk
Kernel image which fixes the touchscreen problem.
PS. This kernel may use more battery, just because I didn't spend time optimizing the kernel, but rather optimizing the source-code quality, lol.
You can try flashing your original kernel to see if the fix remains.
Tested on Resurrection Remix Nougat.
EDIT: I haven't tested it on any AUO panels, as my phone has a Sharp one.
EDIT2: Flashed back the Resurrection Remix kernel and touchscreen is still fixed. Success!
Guide: backup your kernel, flash the kernel I provided, restore your old kernel.
Proof as attachment.
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I hope this gets implemented on next releases of our roms

solis_f said:
I hope this gets implemented on next releases of our roms
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Just give the ROM maintainers a link to this, they will surely add it to the ROM.

Holy **** You're a hero Cozzmy13, thank you!
I just tried the image on my AUO Mi4c, and I couldn't boot TS CM13 with the kernel. The fix didn't stick after restoring the original boot partition, but I have a feeling we're very close here
I'll try flashing RR later and see what I get, I have a Nandroid backup somewhere.

Phlogistol said:
Holy **** You're a hero Cozzmy13, thank you!
I just tried the image on my AUO Mi4c, and I couldn't boot TS CM13 with the kernel. The fix didn't stick after restoring the original boot partition, but I have a feeling we're very close here
I'll try flashing RR later and see what I get, I have a Nandroid backup somewhere.
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It's my fault, I compiled the image with RR ramdisk. It definitely works on RR Nougat, that's for sure. I have since switched to Lineage OS and the fix sticked.

I have problem . Ive installed the fix on AICP 12.1 the phone doesent boot. Returned the old kernel from backup. My phone boots but now i have problem with my hardware buttons, sometimes take 3-4 to respond to the touch. I also deleted and flashed system partititon but problem stil presist.

bankov said:
I have problem . Ive installed the fix on AICP 12.1 the phone doesent boot. Returned the old kernel from backup. My phone boots but now i have problem with my hardware buttons, sometimes take 3-4 to respond to the touch. I also deleted and flashed system partititon but problem stil presist.
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Is the touchscreen problem fixed? If it's not then this is not my fault. If it is fixed then it's XIAOMI's fault. I will test on my device and report back. Use on-screen buttons until I do some research.

The problem was not in your update. It was from the last AICP update 23.01.2017 i installed 19.01.2017 and buttons are fine now. The touchscreen seems to be fixed iven with full wipe, going back to miui and restoring 19.01.2017 AICP.

Well, I just installed RR on my AUO mi4c, and it doesn't work. The touchscreen is broken and registers touches consistently but strangely. It even does it in recovery. I'm trying to restore my backup now.
EDIT: backup restored. Still don't know why the firmware didn't work
bankov, which flavor of mi4c do you have? Sharp or AUO?

Phlogistol said:
Well, I just installed RR on my AUO mi4c, and it doesn't work. The touchscreen is broken and registers touches consistently but strangely. It even does it in recovery. I'm trying to restore my backup now.
EDIT: backup restored. Still don't know why the firmware didn't work
bankov, which flavor of mi4c do you have? Sharp or AUO?
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Can you explain the problem a bit more?
Did it get fixed after restoring?

Phlogistol said:
Well, I just installed RR on my AUO mi4c, and it doesn't work. The touchscreen is broken and registers touches consistently but strangely. It even does it in recovery. I'm trying to restore my backup now.
EDIT: backup restored. Still don't know why the firmware didn't work
bankov, which flavor of mi4c do you have? Sharp or AUO?
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Mine is AUO. My touchscreen was like yours but it was from AICP update.
Basicly im not 100% shure it is fixed but i remember it couldnt register touch on the left bezel if somhere else is toched on the screen. And now is fine.

For anyone applying this from now on, the process is not reversible, because of the way the driver checks if firmware can be updated, it only wants to do upgrades, not downgrades.
Also, for anyone having problems that go away after a clean flash, they are probably not because of my fix.
If they don't go away, there is probably an updated firmware version somewhere that fixes it. I'll extract them again from the newest Nougat version.

Cozzmy13 said:
Can you explain the problem a bit more?
Did it get fixed after restoring?
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Sure, I was a bit pressed for time yesterday
The touchscreen was inconsistent, for lack of a better word. Touches on a specific point on the screen didn't register on that location, but on some other one. It wasn't random because I could reliably reproduce this. There were also some points on the screen I couldn't reach at all. The capacitive buttons also didn't work. I'd have taken logs, but I couldn't get into developer options
I don't know exactly how this works, but the touchscreen got reversed to its original state when I managed to restore a backup of my earlier TS CM13.1 system from TWRP (I restored all available partitions). It took a few tries because of the weirdness though When I say original state, I mean it still suffers from the multitouch bug, so nothing got fixed.
Hope this is useful, but I'm stumped. Could we have different digitizers?

[ROM][XC][N][7.1][WEEKLY]OmniROM

XC/KUGO/F5321 OmniROM BUILDS
NOUGAT 7.1
DOWNLOAD WEEKLY
CURRENT ISSUES ON OFFICIAL:
1. Encryption is broken
KERNEL SOURCE: https://github.com/omnirom/android_kernel_sony_msm8952/tree/android-7.1
BUGS REPORT
REPORT BUGS ONLY:
- AFTER A CLEAN INSTALL
- USING STOCK OMNI KERNEL
- NO MODS OF ANY SORT
OMNI GERRIT REVIEW
https://gerrit.omnirom.org/
CHANGELOG:
https://changelog.omnirom.org/
DISCLAIMER:
No one is responsible for any damage done to your device but YOU. You've been warned.
[/CENTER]
XDA:DevDB Information
[ROM][XC][N][7.1][WEEKLY]OmniROM, ROM for the Sony Xperia X Compact
Contributors
oshmoun
Source Code: https://github.com/omnirom
ROM OS Version: 7.x Nougat
ROM Kernel: Linux 3.10.x
Version Information
Status: Stable
Created 2017-03-06
Last Updated 2017-06-11

reserved

New WEEKLY build released. This build contains rootless theme support through substratum (downloadable from the playstore)

The issues posted in op are still present?

yes they are, those issues mainly relate to sonyxperiadev project, which is the base of the bring-up of Xperia X Compact on omni.
The issues need to be resolved there, then they will also be resolved for omni

oshmoun said:
XC/KUGO/F5321 OmniROM BUILDS
NOUGAT 7.1
DOWNLOAD WEEKLY
CURRENT ISSUES ON OFFICIAL:
1. Incall speaker volume is not controllable
2. Slight incall echo on receiving side
3. Double tap to wake doesn't work
KERNEL SOURCE: https://github.com/omnirom/android_kernel_sony_msm/tree/android-7.1
BUGS REPORT
REPORT BUGS ONLY:
- AFTER A CLEAN INSTALL
- USING STOCK OMNI KERNEL
- NO MODS OF ANY SORT
OMNI GERRIT REVIEW
https://gerrit.omnirom.org/
CHANGELOG:
https://changelog.omnirom.org/
DISCLAIMER:
No one is responsible for any damage done to your device but YOU. You've been warned.
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[ROM][XC][N][7.1][WEEKLY]OmniROM, ROM for the Sony Xperia X Compact
Contributors
oshmoun
Source Code: https://github.com/omnirom
ROM OS Version: 7.x Nougat
ROM Kernel: Linux 3.10.x
Version Information
Status: Stable
Created 2017-03-06
Last Updated 2017-03-06
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screenshot Please

eymentuna said:
screenshot Please
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Ok i will add some screenshots when possible, but please don't quote the first post next time

Flashed your rom yesterday. I got the same problem as with the aosp rom, my x compact frequently loses mobile network connection. Today I had no connection for several hours. Had to reboot 4 times to gain network connection. Though I don't know if the restarts fixed it. Plus I often only have hspa or 3g connection, this is strange. This doesn't happen on 7.0 or earlier ROMs.

Micka84 said:
Flashed your rom yesterday. I got the same problem as with the aosp rom, my x compact frequently loses mobile network connection. Today I had no connection for several hours. Had to reboot 4 times to gain network connection. Though I don't know if the restarts fixed it. Plus I often only have hspa or 3g connection, this is strange. This doesn't happen on 7.0 or earlier ROMs.
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Maybe you have your APN settings setup incorrectly?
Other than that, this rom does not replace the modem partition so that should be the same as on stock. Not sure where your issue would come from if not from APN

Thank you I will take a look at the apn settings (didn't ever change anything there though)

flashed your ROM but i find that the two big cores frequently turned off which is causing lags
it might be something wrong with the interactive governor I guess

jeremy.wang said:
flashed your ROM but i find that the two big cores frequently turned off which is causing lags
it might be something wrong with the interactive governor I guess
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That doesn't seem wrong. The big cores will only go online if they're needed. They stay offline most of the time. That still shouldn't cause stuttering though.
Just checked here and big cores go online on high cpu loads as expected.

Is F2FS supported? I didn't see it listed anywhere and the changelog link in the op just loads the Omni homepage.

TadMSTR said:
Is F2FS supported? I didn't see it listed anywhere and the changelog link in the op just loads the Omni homepage.
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F2fs is not supported, because fstab is explicitly requiring ext4 partitions.

oshmoun said:
F2fs is not supported, because fstab is explicitly requiring ext4 partitions.
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Is F2FS something you could add without too much difficulty? I use it with some Nexus 7 2012 and Asus TF201 tablets and it appears to make a difference. Not sure how noticeable it would be on the XC though. I completely understand if adding F2FS support is not something you want to focus your time on.
Thanks for your work on this rom. I get my XC in the mail tomorrow and I'll be loading Omni pretty soon after.

TadMSTR said:
Is F2FS something you could add without too much difficulty? I use it with some Nexus 7 2012 and Asus TF201 tablets and it appears to make a difference. Not sure how noticeable it would be on the XC though. I completely understand if adding F2FS support is not something you want to focus your time on.
Thanks for your work on this rom. I get my XC in the mail tomorrow and I'll be loading Omni pretty soon after.
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Honestly i haven't checked if it's feasible or not. Main issue is that this is my daily driver so i can't experiment with it to such levels.
I'd suggest you setup your device on omni, then maybe i can upload a custom build with f2fs support for you to build. Assuming f2fs is possible on XC of course, which is something I'll check soon

Got Omni loaded and was trying out encryption. It kept boot looping. On one of the loops I briefly saw the Omni logo. All the other times just the Sony boot screen, the LED would light blue/purple then turn red as the phone restarted. I know setting up encryption will cause several reboots but this didn't seem to be working correctly. Does Omni on the XC support encryption currently?

TadMSTR said:
Got Omni loaded and was trying out encryption. It kept boot looping. On one of the loops I briefly saw the Omni logo. All the other times just the Sony boot screen, the LED would light blue/purple then turn red as the phone restarted. I know setting up encryption will cause several reboots but this didn't seem to be working correctly. Does Omni on the XC support encryption currently?
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Hmmm, haven't tested encryption.
Can you try booting to twrp to see if that at least works? That way we know the issue does not lie in the kernel

oshmoun said:
Hmmm, haven't tested encryption.
Can you try booting to twrp to see if that at least works? That way we know the issue does not lie in the kernel
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Yea twrp works. Had to go into recovery to restore my backup. It appears the encryption process did start as the first restore had the boot loops. It was only after I formatted the data partition that the restore worked and I could boot back into Omni without issue. I do have Magisk installed for systemless root so not sure if that is part of the problem. The next time I try I'll remove Magisk first.
Update: Did some searching and it looks like Magisk might be the cause. Some people have reported that encrypting the device before putting Magisk on works.
Update 2: Did a clean install of Omni after formatting all partitions. Still getting the boot loops so Magisk wasn't the cause. Some boots only have the Sony logo. Other timers the Omni logo does appear but then it restarts.

TadMSTR said:
Yea twrp works. Had to go into recovery to restore my backup. It appears the encryption process did start as the first restore had the boot loops. It was only after I formatted the data partition that the restore worked and I could boot back into Omni without issue. I do have Magisk installed for systemless root so not sure if that is part of the problem. The next time I try I'll remove Magisk first.
Update: Did some searching and it looks like Magisk might be the cause. Some people have reported that encrypting the device before putting Magisk on works.
Update 2: Did a clean install of Omni after formatting all partitions. Still getting the boot loops so Magisk wasn't the cause. Some boots only have the Sony logo. Other timers the Omni logo does appear but then it restarts.
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Please do the following:
1. Boot up device after trying to encrypt
2. After device crashes at start and reboots, directly boot up twrp with volume buttons
3. Using adb, get all files under/sys/fs/pstore and upload
I hope they was understandable, and thanks for investing time in this

New StatiXOS OFFICIAL 4.2 build for Essential PH-1

StatiXOS
Download StatiXOS for free. StatiXOS is a homebrew distribution of Android. StatiXOS is a custom ROM based on the Android Open Source Project aiming to be minimal and clean, while providing quality of life improvements and up to date security patches. This page is to provide downloads for...
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4.2 has been release
"Introduce our OTA Updater!"

For those with the Chrome issue of freezing I have a fix that another user in another ROM thread accidentally found!
If you download
PH1-OTA-PQ1A.190105.090.zip
and then reboot into recovery (TWRP, be sure to disable pin on phone before hand and backup everything) then flash the above (I wiped everything first but DON'T wipe internal storage) then I did a second wipe of everything but internal storage and then I flashed 4.2 of StatiXOS and then I flashed TWRP, then I rebooted phone and set it up from new and restored everything from Cloud backup and I can confirm that I no longer have the Chrome freezing issue.
You can thank seungbaekm over in the Evolution-X 5.4 thread for this fix as he is the one that accidentally flashed the older PH-1 factory image and discovered Chrome then worked again! This should fix the issue for all the new Android 11 ROM 's out there for us folks that have the Chrome browser locking issues.
I did not even test the new 4.2 ROM on its own to see if it happens to fix the Chrome issue but I doubt that it does since it is not mentioned in the release notes. Also I have no idea if any of the other original factory images will also fix the issue, I only downloaded the one they he said he accidentally flashed and used it.
Hope this helps everyone with this issue as I know how frustrating it has been. Sure, there is the Bromite/Brave/Firefox work around, and I have been using and enjoying Bromite since 4.1 but I like having things working the way they are supposed to work.

Thanks you very much
I will test

Following this great insight about the fix of the Chromium issue, I only flashed mata PQ1A.190105.090 NOVENDOR firmware from this old thread, without wiping anything of my current StatiXOS 4.2 installation, and after booting Brave is working perfectly.
So, it seems the issue was caused not by the ROM system or vendor, but the mata QQ1A.200105.007 firmware.
As a consequence of flashing this old no system nor vendor firmware, my device baseband was downgraded, but mobile data seems to be working just fine. I guess it's possible to test newer firmware available at the referenced thread, like PQ1A.190105.112, QP1A.190711.107 or QP1A.190711.148, to identify the latest firmware free of the Chromium issue.
More good news: now Netflix is working fine, also.
UPDATE: I tried all the these firmwares and Netflix worked fine only with the Pie ones. So, PQ1A.190105.112 is the more recent mata firmware that I can use on my PH-1 with StatiXOS 4.2 in order to keep Chromium browsers and Netflix working.

aamadorj said:
Following this great insight about the fix of the Chromium issue, I only flashed mata PQ1A.190105.090 NOVENDOR firmware from this old thread, without wiping anything of my current StatiXOS 4.2 installation, and after booting Brave is working perfectly.
So, it seems the issue was caused not by the ROM system or vendor, but the mata QQ1A.200105.007 firmware.
As a consequence of flashing this old no system nor vendor firmware, my device baseband was downgraded, but mobile data seems to be working just fine. I guess it's possible to test newer firmware available at the referenced thread, like PQ1A.190105.112, QP1A.190711.107 or QP1A.190711.148, to identify the latest firmware free of the Chromium issue.
More good news: now Netflix is working fine, also.
UPDATE: I tried all the these firmwares and Netflix worked fine only with the Pie ones. So, PQ1A.190105.112 is the more recent mata firmware that I can use on my PH-1 with StatiXOS 4.2 in order to keep Chromium browsers and Netflix working.
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This is some great news, thank you and SirDigitalKnight for the research! I haven't tried this fix yet, but I'm planning to when I flash this week if I do run into the chrome freeze problem. You mentioned this downgrades the device baseband version. I'm not too familiar with that, you did say it's working fine so far, but do you think that could cause issues in the future?

Just a question, does StatiXOS have slim recents included?

Mous3kteer said:
This is some great news, thank you and SirDigitalKnight for the research! I haven't tried this fix yet, but I'm planning to when I flash this week if I do run into the chrome freeze problem. You mentioned this downgrades the device baseband version. I'm not too familiar with that, you did say it's working fine so far, but do you think that could cause issues in the future?
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I have no idea if using a.Pie firmware could have side effects in the future. So far, I haven't seen any.
Using the StatiXOS Telegram support group, I shared the information about the different firmwares to the devs, so I think they'll tell us if something can go wrong in the future.

Is anyone else having issues with sending a text message with this rom?

vineetbhatia said:
Is anyone else having issues with sending a text message with this rom?
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If you have VoLTE on, turn it off

vineetbhatia said:
Is anyone else having issues with sending a text message with this rom?
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If you have VoLTE on, turn it off

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Just reporting that I did a clean install - "Fastboot -w" on the latest working firmware (JAN20 FW, FEB20 Vendor iirc) and I'm very impressed.
Plus replaced the screen, battery, and buttons cable and now the phone is "essentially" new. Parts are actually quite cheap.
Chrome is working without issues.
360 Camera is working without issues
Haven't tried sending SMS with VoLTE On yet.
Amazing that we still a maintainer.

chanh2018 said:
If you have VoLTE on, turn it off
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Yup, that worked. Thanks mate..

The March 10th update they pushed out through the OTA updater worked perfectly. It is nice to see we still have good support on this great phone.

SirDigitalKnight said:
For those with the Chrome issue of freezing I have a fix that another user in another ROM thread accidentally found!
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Thank you for this! And also thanks to @aamadorj for the further investigation!
It's too much of a hassle for me to do this fix right now, and I admit I have adapted to using Bromite and Firefox, but I'll definitely keep this in mind for some other time when I feel more like it... BTW, I did check, and Chrome stil freezes on the latest 4.2 update, no surprise here.
This ROM has been working great for me, very stable, no issues, and the updates are a breeze, especially with the latest OTA updater.

kt-Froggy said:
Thank you for this! And also thanks to @aamadorj for the further investigation!
It's too much of a hassle for me to do this fix right now, and I admit I have adapted to using Bromite and Firefox, but I'll definitely keep this in mind for some other time when I feel more like it... BTW, I did check, and Chrome stil freezes on the latest 4.2 update, no surprise here.
This ROM has been working great for me, very stable, no issues, and the updates are a breeze, especially with the latest OTA updater.
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You should be able to flash the older Pie firmware without wiping from what I have read but I have not tried that yet. I might try it with the very latest firmware of Pie, PQ1A.190105.112 and see if it screws anything up without wiping the phone. Anyway I always to a backup of the phone to the cloud and also of Whatsapp before I start messing around just in case I have to wipe and so far all my restores have worked perfectly, but yes it is a pain to have to setup wifi's and add back in BT devices and setup security and any double authentication apps you use. Getting used to it now though.

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You should be able to flash the older Pie firmware without wiping from what I have read but I have not tried that yet. I might try it with the very latest firmware of Pie, PQ1A.190105.112 and see if it screws anything up without wiping the phone. Anyway I always to a backup of the phone to the cloud and also of Whatsapp before I start messing around just in case I have to wipe and so far all my restores have worked perfectly, but yes it is a pain to have to setup wifi's and add back in BT devices and setup security and any double authentication apps you use. Getting used to it now though.
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Flashing the contents of the attached files using fastboot should make your device to use last firmware for Android Pie, without losing your current ROM installation.

aamadorj said:
Flashing the contents of the attached files using fastboot should make your device to use last firmware for Android Pie, without losing your current ROM installation.
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OK, here is my update... Noting your comment in the other post about the downgraded baseband, I decided to exclude the modem from flashing. Flashed everything else from PQ1A.190105.112-NOVENDOR via fastboot, rebooted, and... Chrome froze again. Ugh... :\ OK. I went back to fastboot and flashed the modem - this time after the reboot the problem was fixed.
So, I'd say it's safe to conclude that the modem (baseband) is the actual component that was screwing up the Chromium-based browsers. Go figure...

This ROM is great on the PH-1. At the moment I can't get the LED to blink when notifications arrive. The setting is toggled on.
I've installed magisk, nanodroid and microg (not tried that sort of thing before!). Could that have anything to do with it?

chrisrg said:
This ROM is great on the PH-1. At the moment I can't get the LED to blink when notifications arrive. The setting is toggled on.
I've installed magisk, nanodroid and microg (not tried that sort of thing before!). Could that have anything to do with it?
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Even with stock rom LED is not blink if you're using stock messages, try Textra and see if it works for you.