[Z Ultra GPe][KitKat]OmniROM 4.4 Unofficial Builds - Sony Xperia Z Ultra

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Omni is a community-based project for the Android community which is Free: Free to Use, Free to Modify, Free to Share. It's also about options, which is the beauty of Android.​
Regular Z Ultra variant owners: Please see http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-z-ultra/orig-development/z-ultra-omnirom-4-4-unofficial-builds-t2808107
Homepage:
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http://omnirom.org/
Wiki:
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http://docs.omnirom.org/Main_Page
Sources:
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http://github.com/omnirom
Gerrit:
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https://gerrit.omnirom.org/
Bugtracker:
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http://jira.omnirom.org
IRC:
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irc.freenode.net #omnirom
Be Advised:
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- Root access is not included by default as of yet. Please flash SuperSU for root (See below).
- Feel free to leave your bug reports in this thread or on the bugtracker.
- This is not an official build, but will become official if deemed stable enough.
Installation Instructions:
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- Copy the OmniROM zip (and GApps should you choose to install it) to your internal SDCard
- Make sure you're running a proper and working custom recovery WITH SELINUX SUPPORT such as CWM or TWRP.
- Boot into Recovery
- Flash OmniROM zip from internal SDCard
- Flash GApps zip from internal SDCard
- DO A DATA WIPE / FACTORY RESET (otherwise your device will be stuck at boot)
- Reboot
Downloads:
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20140906 build: omni-4.4.4-20140906-togari_gpe-HOMEMADE.zip - 225.52 MB
20140807 build: omni-4.4.4-20140807-togari_gpe-HOMEMADE.zip - 225.22 MB
20140717 build: omni-4.4.4-20140717-togari_gpe-HOMEMADE.zip - 225.29 MB
20140710 build: omni-4.4.4-20140710-togari_gpe-HOMEMADE.zip - 224.88 MB
20140703 build: omni-4.4.4-20140703-togari_gpe-HOMEMADE.zip - 224.87 MB
Gapps: http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23501681358544845
SuperSU: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1538053
Source code:
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OmniROM source: https://github.com/omnirom/ and https://gerrit.omnirom.org/
My sources: http://pastebin.com/KR9ycQL1
SPECIAL THANKS:
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Special thanks goes out to the CyanogenMod and FreeXperia teams for their excellent work on Sony devices!
XDA:DevDB Information
OmniROM, ROM for the Sony Xperia Z Ultra
Contributors
Jiangyi, pulser
ROM OS Version: 4.4.x KitKat
ROM Kernel: Linux 3.4.x
Based On: AOSP
Version Information
Status: Testing
Created 2014-07-04
Last Updated 2014-09-06

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Reserved
If you wish to build it for yourself, simply follow: http://pastebin.com/KR9ycQL1 (My internet's having some issues, so not everything is on Gerrit yet)
And if you encounter bugs, please do not hesitate to report them here until the device becomes official, at which point you may report it on our Jira instance.
20140717 Build:
- Fixed video playback. Sorry about that.
20140716 Build:
- Changed power HALs
- Mainline changes
- More of a preparation build as we are about to switch into nightly mode
20140710 Build:
- Enabled low-latency audio and gapless playback on the Z Ultra
- Fixed up some mic props that weren’t being set properly
- Enabled some Krait optimizations
- Experimenting a bit with the Wi-Fi; Trying to figure out why battery's draining when not connected to a network
- Fixed the camera preview stopping after one shot
- Did some device tree cleanup, but you don't really notice a difference as a user heh

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Jiangyi said:
If you wish to build it for yourself, simply follow: http://pastebin.com/KR9ycQL1 (My internet's having some issues, so not everything is on Gerrit yet)
And if you encounter bugs, please do not hesitate to report them here until the device becomes official, at which point you may report it on our Jira instance.
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Will be intrested in see if it is in a working state, if it is I'll have an updated carbon build up sometime tomorrow or the next day (carbon failed to boot on my wednesday build)

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Well, I have to say... whatever you did, camera works. The preview works as soon as you open the camera, but it freezes upon taking a picture. However, if you press focus and the shutter, it does both actions despite you not being able to see it on your screen.
Wifi works
Cell (LTE) works
BT turns on but I have not been able to test it.
Good job on being the first 4.4.4 build to have a working camera

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egzthunder1 said:
Well, I have to say... whatever you did, camera works. The preview works as soon as you open the camera, but it freezes upon taking a picture. However, if you press focus and the shutter, it does both actions despite you not being able to see it on your screen.
Wifi works
Cell (LTE) works
BT turns on but I have not been able to test it.
Good job on being the first 4.4.4 build to have a working camera
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Huh, how did I miss that one. Camera is perfectly fine on Google camera though, so I'm guessing we're missing something in the Omni camera app. I'll look into it. Doesn't camera work fine on CM too? At least that's what I heard.
Sent from my C6806_GPe using XDA Free mobile app

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Ooh will test asap
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Jiangyi said:
Huh, how did I miss that one. Camera is perfectly fine on Google camera though, so I'm guessing we're missing something in the Omni camera app. I'll look into it. Doesn't camera work fine on CM too? At least that's what I heard.
Sent from my C6806_GPe using XDA Free mobile app
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I tried cm 11 a couple of days ago and the Candia is broken or at least it was in mine....
You want me to put the hammer down?

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Finally, thank you, but...non-gpe builds? Or could this be flashed on normal retail?

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S.D.Richards said:
Finally, thank you, but...non-gpe builds? Or could this be flashed on normal retail?
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None of us at Omni have a regular Z Ultra heh. Even though I'm fairly sure that it'd work fine too, but it's better to be safe than sorry. If you'd like to be a lab rat and flash a test build, feel free to PM me.

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Jiangyi said:
Huh, how did I miss that one. Camera is perfectly fine on Google camera though, so I'm guessing we're missing something in the Omni camera app. I'll look into it. Doesn't camera work fine on CM too? At least that's what I heard.
Sent from my C6806_GPe using XDA Free mobile app
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Some thing changed in the 4.4.3 and 4.4.4 CM tree/vender files that broke the camera on GPe ZU, then my carbon builds failed to have a working radio on 4.4.4
I see that there has been a lot of changes in the kernel/camera and vender files for CM in the past week so I hope that it has fixed all the GPe issues - I don't have a GPe ZU so haven't been able to test my builds and have been relying on the good folks here to run untested builds.
I'm uploading a Carbon build now for someone to test...

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Jiangyi said:
None of us at Omni have a regular Z Ultra heh. Even though I'm fairly sure that it'd work fine too, but it's better to be safe than sorry. If you'd like to be a lab rat and flash a test build, feel free to PM me.
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Different partition sizes afaik. There are GPE ports to non-gpe variants so I am pretty sure that with the right sizes, etc... it should be perfectly bootable.

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egzthunder1 said:
I tried cm 11 a couple of days ago and the Candia is broken or at least it was in mine....
You want me to put the hammer down?
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Ah, found it. It was just a simple conflicting overlay. Push the attached camera2 APK to system/app and it should work fine.

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[Farnsworth]Good news everyone[/Farnsworth], the build @Jiangyi gave me flashed and booted without problems on my non-GPe XZU. No hickups so far, all the major things (wlan, bt, mobile data, nfc, camera, sound) are working as expected. Only for GPS I can't say anything yet as I'm currently in a building without a signal.

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egzthunder1 said:
Different partition sizes afaik. There are GPE ports to non-gpe variants so I am pretty sure that with the right sizes, etc... it should be perfectly bootable.
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For a while they needed fairly different blobsets too, but cdesai might have resolved that since then.
I haven't had the time to do the bringup of my ZU GPe, but now that jiangyi has done the hard work I'll try and take a stab at offloading some of the debugging from him.

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I think they are still using different blobs in CM's tree / themuppets

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New build is up. Changelog is in the second post.

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egzthunder1 said:
I tried cm 11 a couple of days ago and the Candia is broken or at least it was in mine....
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Mind giving some more info / trying the latest build or the milestone release (M8)?
We had a few across the board changes recently but I did make sure they worked on GPe too, so it _should_ be fine.
Entropy512 said:
For a while they needed fairly different blobsets too, but cdesai might have resolved that since then.
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They still do, modem is busted without the correct firmware (i.e. firmware from other rhine devices)

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cdesai said:
Mind giving some more info / trying the latest build or the milestone release (M8)?
We had a few across the board changes recently but I did make sure they worked on GPe too, so it _should_ be fine.
They still do, modem is busted without the correct firmware (i.e. firmware from other rhine devices)
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@cdesai I think you guys fixed it as both omni and Carbon both have working camera in 4.4.4 GPe builds as of this week. I'm using CM's tree and TheMuppets vendor files to build unofficial carbon for both togari and _gpe

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cdesai said:
Mind giving some more info / trying the latest build or the milestone release (M8)?
We had a few across the board changes recently but I did make sure they worked on GPe too, so it _should_ be fine.
They still do, modem is busted without the correct firmware (i.e. firmware from other rhine devices)
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I will look for the build that I tried and let you know. I do know it was a nighty as there were no other release types when I tried it.
You want me to put the hammer down?

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egzthunder1 said:
I will look for the build that I tried and let you know. I do know it was a nighty as there were no other release types when I tried it.
You want me to put the hammer down?
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Alright, AFAIK camera shouldn't ever have been broken recently, so it would be good to know, thanks.