[Q] Whats the best Android on PC build now? - Android Software Development

Hey been awhile since 2009 I think when I 1st started tracking the live android OS builds. Have any progress been really done with them since? Seems all the searches I did have stalled. Was wondering if its still a active project or did it kinda die out? Thanks.

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Samsung Saga 6.5??

No love for the Saga??
I love it... and check for news about once every two weeks. Haven't heard anything.
hello fellow IL person... im hoping for a 6.5 cooked rom
note... I posted a message over on PDAPhoneHome.com and everythingwm.com and then found this thread... since it is similar in nature to my questions, I thought I would reply to this one instead of starting a new thread.
Greetings fellow frustrated Saga owners!
Wish I hadn't updated…
I, like many of you, now wish that I had not installed the update on my Saga.
It worked great before!... But now I am experiencing many of the same bugs that have already been mentioned on this forum.
I am pretty tolerant of bugs in general and I don't mind trying to find workarounds for them. Often, the workarounds add more functionality then would normally be there anyway… Plus I enjoy learning how things work.
Biggest problem…
The one thing that I can't stand is the loss of signal strength I have seen since updating! My data connection dies several times per day and I have to soft reset to get it back. Sometimes it is hours before I realize this has happened so I am not always getting my email right away. (Who has time to check their phone every few minutes to see if it has stopped synching or not?)
Other times it seems like it just stops synching for no reason. I use both an exchange server (MailStreet) and Windows Live and they both have this problem. Sometimes I check my phone when I go on break at Noon and I will notice that it hasn't synched since 9:30 AM or sometimes longer than that, yet there is no error message (like it tried to synch and couldn't) and I open the browser and can get on the internet. It is like it doesn't even try to synch. I have both of them set to synch every 15 minutes (greatly increases battery life btw) 24 hours a day. Then there are other times, it synchs more often than every 15 minutes… so I don't know what is going on!
Getting worse?…
Is it just me or do the signal issues seem to be getting worse? Or maybe it is just in my area? This past week I have actually started getting errors saying that it couldn't connect (whereas before, it just wouldn't connect... no errors)... and it seems to be happening more frequently.
Finally… my question…
What I would like to know is if anyone is working on a "cooked" ROM for the Saga. Either 6.1 or 6.5 would work for me. I have heard some good things about 6.5 (like dramatically increased performance), but I haven't heard about anyone working on this for the Saga. Waiting for Verizon to come out with another update is just a lesson in frustration and honestly I am not sure I would trust it if they did release one.
I consider myself to be a pretty tech savvy person and even enjoy some light programming on occasion (the .net framework is awesome… Something Microsoft got right!!), yet I am reasonably certain that cooking up my own ROM is beyond my skills (though I am willing to give it a shot if someone can point me to a clear guide)
Follow-up question…
If no one is working on this and no helpful guide is available, then I am wondering if a ROM from a similar phone can be used (maybe with a few modifications required?). For instance, is the Epix similar enough that we could use a ROM designed for it on the Saga? (There is a 6.5 ROM for the Epix that can be found here) Or does the fact that its hardware is GSM only make it out of the question?
More questions…
If using a ROM from a similar phone is possible is there a way to backup the current ROM so that it could be restored if the other ROM doesn't work? If so then I would probably be willing to use my phone as a guinea pig. Yes, I understand that there is a possibility that it could brick my phone and I am willing to accept the risk if there is a good chance that it will work. I have an old blackberry that I can use if something goes really wrong.
So I guess the real question is… How similar do the phones have to be? Or does it have to be identical hardware?
Any insight would be appreciated...
Steven
Id like to know the same answers! The Omnia, which came out at the same time will be upgradable to 6.5, so why did samsung release a phone that wont be at the same time as one that could?
i wonder if an omnia rom could be altered for the samsung?
Lets see some love for the Saga with 6.5, also any news on the Sags 2?
Revisiting old thread
I've still got a brand new Saga that I'd love to use if I could get a stable build of 6.1 or 6.5. The "update" from Verizon made the Saga useless with its instability and constant lock-ups.
I would really appreciate some of the experts here building a clean ROM for the Saga.
Thanks.

[Q] Auto Reboot/Restart Issue/problem on android boot

Hi there! after googling a lot, and looking here and there around the forum's threads, i found no solution to this one....
I'm quite new at all this so i might not make myself clear enough.
I am using stock winmo HD2 Rom (the october 2010 ROM Update for EU) with 2.15 radio version.
So far have tried only Mdeejay's roms yet still i will try the rest to confirm the problem exists.
So on the first load of any of the version's i've tried (even after swapping kernels and trying different sizes of data.img file) android boots perfectly, runs amazingly smooth, fast, battery long lasting and so on (thanks to MDJ for all this), yet! i've seen many people have the same problem: After some random time (maximum of a few minutes) the phone reboots automatically thus taking you back to winmo.
It's not that i don't like winmo, it's just that i thought someone had found a solution to that.
So.... any clues?
mine is more of, turns off automatically. I thought the battery is dead (or the batt meter/notification is inaccurate) only to find out that it just turned off automatically.
have you tried checking the Q and A section rather than the Development thread???
2 solutions = Format sd card. if problem still persists than you need a custom winmo rom. I suggest elegancia. My setup in my signature runs without a hitch
iv never expierience this, i do get the coma bug, but iv heard a newer radio fixes that so im about to update mine
jose makalolot said:
have you tried checking the Q and A section rather than the Development thread???
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Sorry, was in a rather hurry and mistakenly posed it here, please admins could you move this?
I have the same problem.
At first the reboot was performed afeter a while, from 30 to 15min, and then it quickly began to reboot after a short time, around 5min. Now, the reboot is performing during the loading process of Android.
My winmo ROM is an Energy 23699 from 24th Nov, but the problem was present while I was in Energy ROM 21xxx from October one month ago.
My Radio is 2.07.50_27.2 flashed 5months ago, no issue with it.
My Android ROM is the llast Froyo with Sense from Darkstone (17th october).
I didn't formatted my SD Card because I wanted to know if there was some boot log somewhere in order to check the problem.
I can't use Android on my HD2 I am sad..
xnnc said:
I have the same problem.
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I can't use Android on my HD2 I am sad..
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I am satisfyingly using android on my HD2 using a stock ROM.
I guess that the problem exists on using some of Android Kernels on some HD2s
I found my solution by using "evo carbon remix" currently using v.0.3.1 with Hastarin r8.2
I have not updated nor nothing, having a great battery life and all looking more or less the same as Mdeejay's rom.
I hope this works for you too!
@jsacp : Thank you for the advice, I will try later when I will 100% switch to android.
Well I think I have found the problem. My data.img was 256Mo and I have installed a lot of applications lately, maybe I ran over memory. I replaced the 256Mo data.img with the 1Go data.img which was present in the archive of my Android ROM, and Android didn't have reboot since then. But, of course, I lost all my setup, preferences and applications, I knew it before doing the jump, but glad to see Android back on my HD2
Hope it can help.
Did you notice if your phone feels hot at all? Last time I had a reboot I was downloading stuff with the phone plugged in and it got really hot and restarted. Was an older kernel tho and I think it happened when ppp connection got stuck.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
When I undervolt my phone too much, it starts randomly rebooting as well.
My guess is that mdeejay's undervolt is too much for your phone.
Try a ROM with hastarin's kernel, it will probably end the random reboots.
How to fix Android phone automatic rebooting problem
Recently my phone got into trouble, it kept restarting. I had to get out of the boot loop error. My phone was HTC Desire 1818 runs on Android Bravo. I was really frustrated because I had many valuable phone contacts in my phone. I searched everywhere on the, I couldn't find any solution at that time, so the only solution in front of me was to format my phone!. Oh.!.. Error fixed by formatting, but my all data on the phone including my valuable phone numbers lost. After 7 or 8 months my phone again got in to the same auto restarting trouble when I installed WhatsApp in my phone. It was really irritating me to encounter these sorts of wretched errors on Android. But at this time I found a good solution. This solution is available and applicable for all Android phones, and Tablets regardless of models and companies.
The solution is simple, Simply Switch on your Android device in 'Safe Mode'
See the Explained Tutorial on How to fix Android auto-rebooting problem going below link
mobihackman.in/2014/02/fixing-android-automatic-repeated-booting.html

[Q] rom overheating

so after yukis zune updatable mango mod came out i flashed it ( thanks yuki &xb) but was having terrible heating issues ( with heavy wifi use or even charging long periods) and was wondering a. has anyone else had this issue b.has it been resolved in their new release
ive since went to hyperdroid (a GREAT simplistic android rom) but i miss the ease and flow of WP7. BUT as i dont wanna fry my baby i need input.
oh, and i hadnt had the heating problem with ANY other WP7 MOD so ive deduced its not a simple uncorrectable driver issue. again thanks for any input guys ... and girls.
come on guys :'( (edit)161 views and not even one smart answer. im just trying to save my nand from the horrendously hard process of going from Android back to WP.
please a simple yes or no is all im looking for

[Q][5.0][Lollipop] Lollipop = cannot pick up calls

I have lollipop on my phone, and since I installed it am unable to actually pick UP a call. Usually when a call comes in the watch shows the number/picture and a little red sign peeking in from the left and a little green thing peeking in from the right. But with 5.0 the green thing is missing and swiping from the right does nothing at all. Any other kind of swiping and tapping either does nothing or disconnects the call.
Does anyone else have L and Wear, any help on this?
Same here
Hello guys
I can confirm what TjPhysicist said, I started experiencing the same thing when I updated to Lollipop on my Nexus 5, the Green button is missing, only the red one is there and sort of glitchy, besides, the quick replies when you swipe from the bottom are not the ones I have set on my phone.
I hope somebody knows what's happening here, there's a rumor that Google will be releasing Android wear 5.0 Lollipop in the first half of December, the issue might disappear then, you never know
And "TjPhysicist", I just wanted you to know that you're not the only one, it feels a little better when you know
Cheers
MetalSnake said:
Hello guys
I can confirm what TjPhysicist said, I started experiencing the same thing when I updated to Lollipop on my Nexus 5, the Green button is missing, only the red one is there and sort of glitchy, besides, the quick replies when you swipe from the bottom are not the ones I have set on my phone.
I hope somebody knows what's happening here, there's a rumor that Google will be releasing Android wear 5.0 Lollipop in the first half of December, the issue might disappear then, you never know
And "TjPhysicist", I just wanted you to know that you're not the only one, it feels a little better when you know
Cheers
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As far as I know, Android Wear is just not updated for Lollipop yet. So just be patient and wait Google to release an update. Wasn't the same thing with non working music controls on Lollipop devices?
Same here
Spere said:
As far as I know, Android Wear is just not updated for Lollipop yet. So just be patient and wait Google to release an update. Wasn't the same thing with non working music controls on Lollipop devices?
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Assuming it happens at all, no one's heard anything about any sort of expected eta....
Well, "Some of these changes won’t be ready until we migrate Android Wear to the Android L release later this year, but don’t fret: they’re coming!". That was 3 months ago. So, I hope we will see wear lollipop soon, or at least in this year
Source: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+WaynePiekarski/posts/2bzJJxG2CAX
"As for a time frame, we’re hearing sometime in early December, which is about a month away."
Nothing's for sure yet but I like to keep my hopes up
Check the article, it's worth a read
http://phandroid.com/2014/11/11/android-wear-5-0-lollipop-features-revealed-smartwatch/
There's a bigger issue at work here. Tasker tasks that could "pick up calls" cannot do so anymore either (however denying a call and so on works fine). Can someone who knows better enlighten us as to why this is the case? Is there some change in the way you need to pick up calls using API or something?
P.S: Everyone please star this: Issue 79683: unable to answer calls with android wear

Nvidia shield portable chat

Hey guys I know things have been slow af for this device lately but trust me all is not dead for any of those interested I have made a users chat on telegram via private link let me know if you are interested
Update : PINNED LINK
https://t.me/joinchat/AAAAAFKqmg-vnsRY3zJ-Gw
Interested here. Looking for any android 6+ updates to test out xcloud.
50up3r9uy said:
Interested here. Looking for any android 6+ updates to test out xcloud.
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I'm tinkering with my Portable as well . I currently have Linage OS on it and am able to install NVIDIA Games on it . Geforce Now will not stream however and I get an "error code 11". I also was not able to download Xcloud game streaming .
Let me ask you about your portable . If you are on stock firmware ( Lollipop) , do you randomly lose volume -like if the headphones where plugged in ? This happens on mine . If I'm on Kit Kat it's fine but I can't use Geforce Now or anything .
I've been racking my brain over this for awhile - there is still some life in this device and would like to resolve this issue.
I need to get a stock OTA zip currently I can't find it in any of my archives I've also been pretty busy lately as for any issues pertaining to the stock OTA I can't take a look until later on I will be setting up a build environment to see if I can build stock again from source (not sure how likely it will be) I have been hearing a lot of issues with stock OTA now I am honestly not sure if that is due to issues with it or if some of these devices aren't aging well
Also any of you looking to reach me with any questions I don't check XDA much so here's a telegram link to the chat pinned to first post
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I need to get a stock OTA zip currently I can't find it in any of my archives I've also been pretty busy lately as for any issues pertaining to the stock OTA I can't take a look until later on I will be setting up a build environment to see if I can build stock again from source (not sure how likely it will be) I have been hearing a lot of issues with stock OTA now I am honestly not sure if that is due to issues with it or if some of these devices aren't aging well
Also any of you looking to reach me with any questions I don't check XDA much so here's a telegram link to the chat pinned to first post
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Here's every recovery image from NVIDIA official complete with flashing instructions .:good:
https://developer.nvidia.com/shield-open-source
moonhop7 said:
Here's every recovery image from NVIDIA official complete with flashing instructions .:good:
https://developer.nvidia.com/shield-open-source
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I was hoping for a flashable zip but I can work with this I'll have to set up Ubuntu 14.04 (for some reason I've had issues building on up to date Linux mint distros) I'll update you guys with what I can find hopefully I can release a modded stock with custom kernel I had some success updating the kernel with RR but I don't have a new kernel out yet as it was just for ****s and giggles anyway I gotta jet to work I'll update as I can
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I was hoping for a flashable zip but I can work with this I'll have to set up Ubuntu 14.04 (for some reason I've had issues building on up to date Linux mint distros) I'll update you guys with what I can find hopefully I can release a modded stock with custom kernel I had some success updating the kernel with RR but I don't have a new kernel out yet as it was just for ****s and giggles anyway I gotta jet to work I'll update as I can
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lol - This device !! I've decided I'm not giving up yet ! I've tried stock L ( 103, 106, 110 ) All have this weird sound issue where the speakers will either make heart attack inducing high pitches ( capacitor noises ? ) or the volume will force itself into "silent mode" . You can restart the portable and the sound will come back , calm down ect. This is really bothering me though because game streaming is still really good on this device . Also when on official Kit Kat or Linage OS none of these sound problems occur. I've even tried rooting it and basically removing all Google apps possible and the sound issue still happens .
Currently I have the portable rooted with Magisk on Linage OS 6.1 ( the last nightly build) I've tried hiding the NVIDIA apps , Sony PS4 Remote Play and have had "no luck ". Geforce Now will install perfectly start to load the game , then right before it starts there is a error code 11 that pops up .
Something Google did in the lollipop update to the portable messed up the speakers . ( I thought it might be the "memory leak issue" - but the last update OFW was 5.1 not 5.0
Haaaalllppp !!!
moonhop7 said:
lol - This device !! I've decided I'm not giving up yet ! I've tried stock L ( 103, 106, 110 ) All have this weird sound issue where the speakers will either make heart attack inducing high pitches ( capacitor noises ? ) or the volume will force itself into "silent mode" . You can restart the portable and the sound will come back , calm down ect. This is really bothering me though because game streaming is still really good on this device . Also when on official Kit Kat or Linage OS none of these sound problems occur. I've even tried rooting it and basically removing all Google apps possible and the sound issue still happens .
Currently I have the portable rooted with Magisk on Linage OS 6.1 ( the last nightly build) I've tried hiding the NVIDIA apps , Sony PS4 Remote Play and have had "no luck ". Geforce Now will install perfectly start to load the game , then right before it starts there is a error code 11 that pops up .
Something Google did in the lollipop update to the portable messed up the speakers . ( I thought it might be the "memory leak issue" - but the last update OFW was 5.1 not 5.0
Haaaalllppp !!!
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Can you pull some logcats for me on stock and I'll try to see if something if off also are you over clocking or anything or using a kernel tuner?
Also when you pull the logs send em to me either via telegram or via PM but please put it in pastebin and just send me the link
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Can you pull some logcats for me on stock and I'll try to see if something if off also are you over clocking or anything or using a kernel tuner?
Also when you pull the logs send em to me either via telegram or via PM but please put it in pastebin and just send me the link
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Okay will do. I'm not using over clocking or even root when on stock . I wanted a pure as experience as possible to see what was causing the issue .
moonhop7 said:
Okay will do. I'm not using over clocking or even root when on stock . I wanted a pure as experience as possible to see what was causing the issue .
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I am not sure tbh what the issue could be and I'm not going to be able to look for a bit kinda had some issues with my roommate and Im currently looking for a new place so don't worry im still going to look at it but priorities
Shiftydogit said:
I am not sure tbh what the issue could be and I'm not going to be able to look for a bit kinda had some issues with my roommate and Im currently looking for a new place so don't worry im still going to look at it but priorities
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No worries . I did read on some old NVIDIA forums around the time of the Lollipop update , some people did talk about sound loss issues .
Hey, question to anyone who can answer - I just got my hands on a couple of Shield Portable 2 prototypes. They seem a bit less complete than the famous one that showed up at a pawn shop a couple of years ago, but one of them turns on and can connect to the internet. I want to see if I can get it up and running - it's still quite buggy, will crash if any videos are opened and obviously doesn't have any google services involved - but I just want to do what I can to make it as usable as possible. . I'm a complete noob when it comes to all this, just someone who was a big fan of the original portable and wanted to try and get this prototype to run some games. If anyone can help me out, or point me in the right direction, it would be much appreciated. Thank you!
Shieldboy said:
Hey, question to anyone who can answer - I just got my hands on a couple of Shield Portable 2 prototypes. They seem a bit less complete than the famous one that showed up at a pawn shop a couple of years ago, but one of them turns on and can connect to the internet. I want to see if I can get it up and running - it's still quite buggy, will crash if any videos are opened and obviously doesn't have any google services involved - but I just want to do what I can to make it as usable as possible. . I'm a complete noob when it comes to all this, just someone who was a big fan of the original portable and wanted to try and get this prototype to run some games. If anyone can help me out, or point me in the right direction, it would be much appreciated. Thank you!
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I'm wondering if you could dump the system info , if someone could make a custom rom that could be flashed ?
I'm interested in anything that people manage with streaming.
I got lineage android 6.1 installed on it yesterday and managed to get the xbox game streaming app installed via the apk (the latest one boots then crashes, but the one before loads), however it still requires a bluetooth controller to connect, wish we could get the integrated controller to work with this and would make it so perfect for streaming xbox remotely.
If anyone is wondering yes I am still working on the device as we all know this year has been a real doozy for us all also I am moving across the US this coming week so please just work with all the devs here and we shall see what happens
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If anyone is wondering yes I am still working on the device as we all know this year has been a real doozy for us all also I am moving across the US this coming week so please just work with all the devs here and we shall see what happens
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Awesome glad to hear it. Just revived mine.
I am working on gathering all Shield portable files and putting them up on our website AFH. Let me know when you have something ready and I will make sure it gets put on every server possible and doesn't get deleted.
Here is what I have gathered so far
https://androidfilehost.com/f/shield
Thanks
Alex with AFH
Oddly enough guys I've been having issues pulling the manifest from RR I've told them about the issue we'll see if it gets fixed it looks like I am not having any issues pulling aosp manifest keep in mind I am not saying that I will have a aosp rom out because I am unsure if that will even work but we will see what happens
Update: no issues with AOSP now I'm just waiting for lineage to finish again no promises of a rom guys I know we've been having issues since 7.x android quite frankly I'd be surprised myself if lineage 17.1 will even work
Also on some personal notes this is 100% a back burner project as it looks as tho I'll be having to move again as I haven't been able to find work where I am currently at I know that the whole covid-19 situation has made it hard on everyone especially here in the US among other things in the country right now but I am still hopeful things will turn around and work out and hopefully I can get some kind of build out even if it's not great
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Hey, question to anyone who can answer - I just got my hands on a couple of Shield Portable 2 prototypes. They seem a bit less complete than the famous one that showed up at a pawn shop a couple of years ago, but one of them turns on and can connect to the internet. I want to see if I can get it up and running - it's still quite buggy, will crash if any videos are opened and obviously doesn't have any google services involved - but I just want to do what I can to make it as usable as possible. . I'm a complete noob when it comes to all this, just someone who was a big fan of the original portable and wanted to try and get this prototype to run some games. If anyone can help me out, or point me in the right direction, it would be much appreciated. Thank you!
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PM me Im not really sure about the prototypes but I'd be willing to help
little oz2 said:
I'm interested in anything that people manage with streaming.
I got lineage android 6.1 installed on it yesterday and managed to get the xbox game streaming app installed via the apk (the latest one boots then crashes, but the one before loads), however it still requires a bluetooth controller to connect, wish we could get the integrated controller to work with this and would make it so perfect for streaming xbox remotely.
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Not sure I know RR 6.0.1 had quite a few bugs but due to how outdated 6.x is I can't really do much with it
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Not sure I know RR 6.0.1 had quite a few bugs but due to how outdated 6.x is I can't really do much with it
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What are you working on currently on this device?

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