[POLL]unofficial cm14 alpha for desire 816 [NO CELL SERVICE]

bigsupersquid · Sep 16, 2016

UPDATED:
released.
ROM thread

so, I've built a buggy cm14 that's good enough to look at and play a little with the features that do work, and watch the eye candy and all.
it has wifi and bluetooth and SMS messaging.
Otherwise broken telephony.
only some of the sound works. no camera, nfc, location.
the idea is a poll.
I figure people like to click buttons, so the poll suits that.

Ed128 · Sep 16, 2016

I'm amazed at your skills. And I have learned a lot from reading this thread. More importantly, my VM 816 is still functional.

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frank9184 · Sep 17, 2016

I think you can release it whatever people use or not , but 816 is my only 4G phone.I will test it till the Calling Services worked

bigsupersquid · Sep 17, 2016

Ed128 said:
I'm amazed at your skills. And I have learned a lot from reading this thread. More importantly, my VM 816 is still functional.

Sent from my 710C using Tapatalk

A lot of what I do is googling errors, borrowing commits from other cm devices with similar chipsets, (and commenting out lines that throw errors in the build until I figure out workarounds... not the most kosher of methods.)
It's fun, but I often lean heavily on stuff that's already been done by others. Grarak put up really nice device trees to work from on this device for example, and my first tweaks at it were just after it had faded from cm nightlies. Made it comparatively easy next to my Optimus or Evo3d.

frank9184 said:
I think you can release it whatever people use or not , but 816 is my only 4G phone.I will test it till the Calling Services worked

Odds are the basic call services will be online way before 4G. Especially since my 4G service is still broken and has ben for quite a while. I'll hassle Virgin Mobile about a replacement sim card soon; research and talking with a Ting rep both imply that would fix my issue.

Tim Cook · Sep 17, 2016

bigsupersquid said:
so, I've built a buggy cm14 that's good enough to look at and play a little with the features that do work, and watch the eye candy and all.
it has wifi and bluetooth, possibly nfc, probably no location, totally broken telephony.
only some of the sound works. no camera.
the idea is a poll.
I figure people like to click buttons, so the poll suits that.
Read this post and you see that clicking the thanks button counts more than voting...

I think you should upload the zip. Legacy devices are getting cm 14. Why we are late?

bigsupersquid · Sep 18, 2016

Tim Cook said:
I think you should upload the zip. Legacy devices are getting cm 14. Why we are late?

Well, htc certainly won't be releasing N for my a5_chl (Virgin Mobile variant) since they wouldn't even let M out the door for it.
you can partly name lack of manufacturer support.
And I get tired of complaints about nonworking items from people who don't read the OP, so I'm waiting for adequate interest to post it (big upload on poor isp, couple hours.)
Plus there's inability to test dug/dwg and that's twice the upload bandwidth. But few source changes to build for them, and some dual sim owners would enjoy buggy N too.
Several reasons that N isn't out in the wild yet for the a5. But I'll probably set it free to roam soon.

Ed128 · Sep 23, 2016

Question about CM14

When you let it roam, I'm ready to try it out. But I have two questions. First, I am delighted with CM13. It was the first time I ever flashed a phone and it is working nearly perfect. A hiccup or two but nothing I cannot handle. It has extended the useful life of my VM 816 A5 and saved me from buying another phone. Here's two questions for CM14 whenever it becomes available. Can I just backup my existing files with TWRP, Wipe and flash CM14? Then, the real question is if I don't like it, can I completely restore what I have now with RESTORE? The last thing I want is to ruin CM13. Thanks for helping this newby.

bigsupersquid · Sep 23, 2016

Ed128 said:
When you let it roam, I'm ready to try it out. But I have two questions. First, I am delighted with CM13. It was the first time I ever flashed a phone and it is working nearly perfect. A hiccup or two but nothing I cannot handle. It has extended the useful life of my VM 816 A5 and saved me from buying another phone. Here's two questions for CM14 whenever it becomes available. Can I just backup my existing files with TWRP, Wipe and flash CM14? Then, the real question is if I don't like it, can I completely restore what I have now with RESTORE? The last thing I want is to ruin CM13. Thanks for helping this newby.

yes, and yes. I restore cm13 over messed up cm14 regularly.
Still fighting with ril. location not working at all in spite of the switch working. and nfc probably will work once I get the firmware moved to wherever it's looking. but all the sound seems to be working now.

ajones23 · Sep 23, 2016

Ed128 said:
When you let it roam, I'm ready to try it out. But I have two questions. First, I am delighted with CM13. It was the first time I ever flashed a phone and it is working nearly perfect. A hiccup or two but nothing I cannot handle. It has extended the useful life of my VM 816 A5 and saved me from buying another phone. Here's two questions for CM14 whenever it becomes available. Can I just backup my existing files with TWRP, Wipe and flash CM14? Then, the real question is if I don't like it, can I completely restore what I have now with RESTORE? The last thing I want is to ruin CM13. Thanks for helping this newby.

Yes you can just Backup and Restore your previous ROM. Just be careful, wipe system and dalvik cache and cache. CM13 has some problems but mostly everything works on 816.

bigsupersquid · Sep 23, 2016

ajones23 said:
Yes you can just Backup and Restore your previous ROM. Just be careful, wipe system and dalvik cache and cache. CM13 has some problems but mostly everything works on 816.

ninja'd you this time.
I've been able to dirty flash 14 over 13, but previously installed apps get denied permissions and stuff like that.

ajones23 · Sep 23, 2016

bigsupersquid said:
ninja'd you this time.
I've been able to dirty flash 14 over 13, but previously installed apps get denied permissions and stuff like that.

Yup you got me, I usually don't dirty flash always clean flash. Since I use Root Essentials as partition of sdcard. When ever you get it to work,I'll be a tester. Let me know.

Ed128 · Sep 23, 2016

That's something I can deal with. Just don't want to go too far past my limited "expertise". And, not trying to hurry things. I'm a happy CM13 customer.

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ajones23 · Sep 23, 2016

Ed128 said:
That's something I can deal with. Just don't want to go too far past my limited "expertise". And, not trying to hurry things. I'm a happy CM13 customer.

If you need help,just ask,I'm always on and off.

Huzin · Sep 23, 2016

bigsupersquid said:
so, I've built a buggy cm14 that's good enough to look at and play a little with the features that do work, and watch the eye candy and all.
it has wifi and bluetooth, possibly nfc, probably no location, totally broken telephony.
only some of the sound works. no camera.
the idea is a poll.
I figure people like to click buttons, so the poll suits that.
Read this post and you see that clicking the thanks button counts more than voting...

Love your work!!!

Naxym · Sep 24, 2016

D816w

what could be the estimated date for the first beta? hunger to flash this CM14.....

ajones23 · Sep 24, 2016

Naxym said:
what could be the estimated date for the first beta? hunger to flash this CM14.....

Its really not a good idea to ask for ETAs. Specially when not many things work.

bigsupersquid · Sep 24, 2016

Naxym said:
what could be the estimated date for the first beta? hunger to flash this CM14.....

ajones23 said:
Its really not a good idea to ask for ETAs. Specially when not many things work.

It's ok in this thread, since that's kind of what it's about.

If I can stabilize the radio glitches enough that all the telephony stops force-closing constantly I'll release an alpha, there isn't tons of interest but there seems to be enough.

After all, if I were in your shoes I'd want a release to check out.

ajones23 · Sep 24, 2016

bigsupersquid said:
It's ok in this thread, since that's kind of what it's about.

If I can stabilize the radio glitches enough that all the telephony stops force-closing constantly I'll release an alpha, there isn't tons of interest but there seems to be enough.

After all, if I were in your shoes I'd want a release to check out.

I sorta may get a flashing bug if you put up a alpha. I just thought I would put my 2 cents in about ETAs. Not a good thing sometimes.

bigsupersquid · Sep 24, 2016

ajones23 said:
I sorta may get a flashing bug if you put up a alpha. I just thought I would put my 2 cents in about ETAs. Not a good thing sometimes.

A lot of developers get uppity about ETAs.
I imagine with hot new devices and hundreds of posts a week it would get really old.
I usually just warn people that I have too much on my 'real-world' plate for my own taste and that my hobby work (this) ends up on the bottom of my get-er-done list.
Plus I like to put up it's-almost-ready posts and then take forever to upload:angel: and similar annoying delayed releases. Like I rebuilt for the OV a little while ago, posted about it, and never debugged or released it at all.
Bad dev :cyclops:
I put this thread out in general 816 to encourage comments and questions.
Once the alpha is out I'll open a thread in Original Dev (and post a link to it here) since cm14 is definitely original right now.
About to flash another test build!

bigsupersquid · Sep 24, 2016

Test has sms but no phone.
No Bluetooth.
Close to being uploadable.
assuming the next build isn't in any worse shape than this one (should have working BT, and I'm really hoping for at least 3g data and maybe phone service) then I'll try pushing the zip to AFH. If my landline internet stays connected long enough to get it upstream...

[POLL]unofficial cm14 alpha for desire 816 [NO CELL SERVICE]

should I release a very early alpha of cm14 that only partly works?

Of course, I'll flash anything new!

maybe when it's a beta with working cell radio.

only once everything works.

don't bother, it's not interesting at all.

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