[FreeXperia Project] AOSP Android 5.1.x

[freexperia]

Hi all,

We are starting today daily AOSP builds for all 2014 Sony devices so that you can enjoy a NEXUS like experience

Thanks
SONY for publishing AOSP base gits
All AOSP developers and testers

Sources
https://github.com/fxpdev

Download
http://fxpblog.co/

 

[freexperia]

howto flash

download Android SDK
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html#Other
in adt-bundle-windows-x86_64-xxxxxxxx/sdk/platform-tools folder you have the required files

copy the following files in same folder where your AOSP image files are
adb.exe
AdbWinApi.dll
AdbWinUsbApi.dll
fastboot.exe

fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash userdata userdata.img

disconnect device, press power and enjoy!

 

[AnGrY sCoTsMaN]

What an excellent Xmas gift from the fxp team. Will try later today, thanks
???

 

[someone755]

For the newbies:
You don't need the entire SDK. Just download a small ADB and Fastboot package from XDA, it'll make your life much easier.

Builds are building and/or uploading, will be available on: http://fxpblog.co/aosp/aosp-5-0/

 

[lirondeespaña]

Bootloader locked or unlocked only?

 

[someone755]

Bootloader locked or unlocked only?

I'll be quick here:
Until root for a locked bootloader has been found for the Z3 series, no ROM can be flashed.
And even after (or if) you get a recovery and root working on a phone with a locked bootloader, there's still something you have to consider: you cannot flash boot images others than completely stock ones onto a device with a locked bootloader.
This ROM's functionality is completely different than that of any stock ROM, meaning it requires its own boot image (so, one that is not stock).

 

[Sean09]

Is there a list of what doesn't work?

 

[someone755]

Is there a list of what doesn't work?

There are no builds yet so nobody can report back, but camera is said to be broken right now (as with any other AOSP ROM).

 

[jsscx]

Maybe no builds today, they should announce this after at least one build is uploaded.

 

[dillalade]

Maybe no builds today, they should announce this after at least one build is uploaded.

That would have made sense.
Effort is underway nevertheless.

Be interested to see how long it takes to achieve Daily Driver status. I suspect that's far away... Be surprised if DD aosp for z3c arrives before the z4c hits shelves.

Anyway thanks for working on the z3c. Look forward to peoples experiences with this.

 

[jsscx]

Lol...trust in them,they are nearly the only ones who work a lot on our device.And I just couldn't keep patience,z3c is not popular ,which causes it so slow to see any booting builds on it
edit:
finally found it,http://uploaded.net/f/dv4mt9
sry for previous words.
will test
edit2:
Flashed.
1.no modem band,while wifi works
2.nfc dosen't work
3.no sound,no camera
There may be more issues,but these ones make it not a daily drive...
but at least it boots,and works smoothly!Thank you.

 

[g0ldenchild562]

Nothing works? Sony has the code for them I don't understand why they're not releasing them.

 

[dillalade]

Lol...trust in them,they are nearly the only ones who work a lot on our device.And I just couldn't keep patience,z3c is not popular ,which causes it so slow to see any booting builds on it
edit:
finally found it,http://uploaded.net/f/dv4mt9
sry for previous words.
will test
edit2:
Flashed.
1.no modem band,while wifi works
2.nfc dosen't work
3.no sound,no camera
There may be more issues,but these ones make it not a daily drive...
but at least it boots,and works smoothly!Thank you.

Thanks for posting your exoerinece for others to know what's what.

Given this is the first build.... We can only expect improvements which is a good thing. Now they have the build trees and nightlies in order. So let's hope for good progress to follow.

Either way this is good news.. We all have itchy feet for aosp, but at least the devs are now beginning to make strides. So thanks to them for that alone.

 

[someone755]

There's a 29/12 build. I wonder if it's anything new or just a daily build.

Also, @freexperia what are the sources you're using? I tried looking through your GitHub account but didn't find an aries device tree -- or are you just using the sonyxperiadev branches?

EDIT: Would you guys mind if I mirrored a build every once in a while? DepositFiles and Uploaded cap their download speeds at 50kB/s, way below what most of the planet has.

EDIT2: Here's the mirror I made (hope it's alright with you guys). Took me over 2 hours to get 300MB of data downloaded lol don't want anyone else to feel my pain.https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzcBVe17cfU-eFp1WnZ3VDRtbUE
I'll be compressing everything I upload with LZMA/LZMA2 and at least a 256MB dictionary -- I'd advise you to have at least 300MB of RAM free when extracting these archives.
Anything RIL-related isn't working (at least not as I can see) -- I have a logcat attached of me fooling around, opening a few apps and such. Perhaps it'll help somebody.

 

[freexperia]

hi
we use sony ones
mirroring is useless since new build comes every day
br

There's a 29/12 build. I wonder if it's anything new or just a daily build.

Also, @freexperia what are the sources you're using? I tried looking through your GitHub account but didn't find an aries device tree -- or are you just using the sonyxperiadev branches?

EDIT: Would you guys mind if I mirrored a build every once in a while? DepositFiles and Uploaded cap their download speeds at 50kB/s, way below what most of the planet has.

EDIT2: Here's the mirror I made (hope it's alright with you guys). Took me over 2 hours to get 300MB of data downloaded lol don't want anyone else to feel my pain.https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzcBVe17cfU-eFp1WnZ3VDRtbUE
I'll be compressing everything I upload with LZMA/LZMA2 and at least a 256MB dictionary -- I'd advise you to have at least 300MB of RAM free when extracting these archives.
Anything RIL-related isn't working (at least not as I can see) -- I have a logcat attached of me fooling around, opening a few apps and such. Perhaps it'll help somebody.

 

[someone755]

hi
we use sony ones
mirroring is useless since new build comes every day
br

Thanks for that!
But does each build improve on the previous one? A lot of the daily builds are in essence just copies of the older builds with the only difference being the time at which they were built. At least that's the situation with daily CM builds for this and some other devices.

 

[jug6ernaut]

Thanks for that!
But does each build improve on the previous one? A lot of the daily builds are in essence just copies of the older builds with the only difference being the time at which they were built. At least that's the situation with daily CM builds for this and some other devices.

Dailies are a development tool, not a consumer tool. They are built with what is in the repo's at that time, every day.

If you want builds that are consumer focused with constant improvements over previous you should only flash release builds. Not only will dailies not always be better then the previous, its very likely that they will be worse at time.

 

[someone755]

Dailies are a development tool, not a consumer tool. They are built with what is in the repo's at that time, every day.

If you want builds that are consumer focused with constant improvements over previous you should only flash release builds. Not only will dailies not always be better then the previous, its very likely that they will be worse at time.

I am aware of that, but I was merely pointing out that not every build brings changes as many builds' only difference than the rest is the date on which it was built -- often, the repo stays the same for several days.
I am in no way blaming them or requesting anything from them, just wanted to point out why I believe mirrors aren't pointless.

 

[dillalade]

Is there a changelog for this rom guys? or am I looking in the wrong place. Cheers

 

[jsscx]

I am aware of that, but I was merely pointing out that not every build brings changes as many builds' only difference than the rest is the date on which it was built -- often, the repo stays the same for several days.
I am in no way blaming them or requesting anything from them, just wanted to point out why I believe mirrors aren't pointless.

Maybe what we need is changelog