In desperate need of some recent news! - Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi XDA XSP!
I've been away from this community for around 2-3 months and it's unbelievable what happened thus far! So many new thingies and updates!
However, I'm completely lost now and I was wondering if someone could give me a detailed, but a TL;DR summary of all the things that happened in the past months.
All the help is appreciated!
Kind Regards,
Deleunes254

Well, in lollipop panorama just some update here an there (slim rom, temasek and xenon) and also the updates to the device source and Cm12.1 by Adrian. In mm.... Camera fixed ). And now are popping up some marshmallow roms: resurrection remix, aicp and cm13 for now but more to come .
Adrian is still working in mm and xsp will have probably soon official cm13 nightlies.
And I think that's all.
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Good to have u back man ...flash cm13 and use it ..u will know what happened ? ..everything so smooth even facebook now works flawlessly
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I say that;
CM13:
No lag.
No issue.
No battery drain (I think that in battery and performance, CM13 beats all roms.)
flash it.

Camera.

So.... Have you flashed anything yet?

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About Lolipop ROMs...

Hello,
I´ve been thinking about that: Which one is better: Ressurection or NightOwn? And why?
I did a try and both seems like same! (same bugs, same layout - material design, etc...)
Maybe LL Roms could make custom roms a little bit hard to do core/visual changes, or it is just a my mistake?
You should try it first , then you can compare which is better ! Btw i prefer using nightowl for battery life [emoji106]
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mtmello said:
Hello,
I´ve been thinking about that: Which one is better: Ressurection or NightOwn? And why?
I did a try and both seems like same! (same bugs, same layout - material design, etc...)
Maybe LL Roms could make custom roms a little bit hard to do core/visual changes, or it is just a my mistake?
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I have the same confusion! What bugs did you face?
They have similar issues. In latest versions there are proximity sensor issues during call, also users complain about 1080p recording not working, overheating, battery drain, etc. All bugs and solutions are in the original threads. You guys should try both of them and compare. It all depends of what you expect. Both are beta versions so bugs are expected. I have used both and I like Bauner's version a bit more, for no specific reason. I had to return to more stable rom, because I'm currently using N7000 as main phone and I need it to be stable as much is possible.
i tried both and smilar. but nightowl better battery life and smoothness. but you must try and see which one.
super_operater said:
I had to return to more stable rom, because I'm currently using N7000 as main phone and I need it to be stable as much is possible.
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/OT What rom did you return to? Tx
backstreetboy said:
/OT What rom did you return to? Tx
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Currently I'm on SlimKat (4.4.4), after using NightOwl beta 9.0.1. Still facing some bugs on Lollipop roms and I find this one quite stable for now.
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I sugest you go and get lanchon's kernel with the trimfix and the FP bug fix, it's the only truly stable kernel avaliable for the n7000.
Aldo, it supots trim, that helps a lot with the phone's responsiveness
blackomegatm said:
I sugest you go and get lanchon's kernel with the trimfix and the FP bug fix, it's the only truly stable kernel avaliable for the n7000.
Aldo, it supots trim, that helps a lot with the phone's responsiveness
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I used B9.0.1 from the beginning no one reboot yet.. very stable, good battery drain.
I was try NightOwl 12.1 beta2, a little lag, now i flash Ressurection with Nightowl 12.1 kernel and gapps in nightowl 12.1 now my note running smooth, i will test battery life!
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[Q] Stable Kitkat vs Unstable Lollipop

Hello there,
I recently moved to cyanogenmod 11 on my xperia ZR, and found it extremely good and stable.
Although we still dont have a stable CM12 for ZR, but ported ones are available, and giving in for the love for lollipop, i did try them too, but there are quite a few bugs.
So, Just wanted to ask, what everyone of you prefers,
A stable CM11 or a buggy but newer CM12.
saggiboy231 said:
Hello there,
I recently moved to cyanogenmod 11 on my xperia ZR, and found it extremely good and stable.
Although we still dont have a stable CM12 for ZR, but ported ones are available, and giving in for the love for lollipop, i did try them too, but there are quite a few bugs.
So, Just wanted to ask, what everyone of you prefers,
A stable CM11 or a buggy but newer CM12.
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I am on CM11. I don't prefer cm12 and use it for testing if any one asks!
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saggiboy231 said:
Hello there,
I recently moved to cyanogenmod 11 on my xperia ZR, and found it extremely good and stable.
Although we still dont have a stable CM12 for ZR, but ported ones are available, and giving in for the love for lollipop, i did try them too, but there are quite a few bugs.
So, Just wanted to ask, what everyone of you prefers,
A stable CM11 or a buggy but newer CM12.
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the latest CM12 build of xenius9 seems stable for me. I prefer CM12. Little bugs don't bother me. The sheer smoothness and fresh-look of the whole user interface make me use CM12.:good:
adize said:
the latest CM12 build of xenius9 seems stable for me. I prefer CM12. Little bugs don't bother me. The sheer smoothness and fresh-look of the whole user interface make me use CM12.:good:
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I am too using that build, and i second ur opinion, CM12 does give a fresh look to the device.
stable cm12 will come soon
I bought this ZR a year or so ago and the phone has been on non-stock ROM's ever since day 1 inc a unlocked boot-loader since the same time. I've tried every ROM posted in the ZR section from the Xperienz onwards inc the CM11..
The CM11 nightlies were also "unstable" depending on the nightly chosen and I often had to flash back to a stable CM11 because of bugs in that particular CM11 nightly.
All the CM builds are constantly evolving and it's kind of the charm about flashing a new CM11 or 12 because we never quite know what we're going to get.
I used to be involved in the Nokia scene, modding etc, for the last few years and i like messing around, trying new things on the phone and im currently on the CM12 02-02-2015 Validus port (have been since it was ported by uncomment because it is stable with good features) and there are some amazing work being done by xenius9, Deadroza, uncomment and others giving us ZR users a choice..
The nice thing about CM12 is the interface but the development within CM12 is awesome and I for one would take a dirty, "unstable" CM12 anytime over a stable anything, inc stock ROM..
Hi
I have the same feeling about new LP ROMs...
We have only some ported LP ROMs with bugs. And the KK ROM are all discontinued.
I tried a LP ROM (don't remember which one) and finally I'm back to KK. The design of LP is very refreshing and it's a great sensation when your ZR seems to have reborn.
There is some problems that bother me like :
- The notification LED don't works in silent mode. On Z, the LED still work when we disable the vibrator.
- The data switch is crappy. We have to press a least 3 times to activate or desactivate the data instead of just 1 time on quick settings of KK. It's the same problem for localisation switch. On KK we can choose the localisation mode quickly by pressing the same button again.
- The bluetooth audio. It works great but after some connections the sound is not play in the peripheral. We have to restart the phone to have a fonctional bluetooth back.
Due to this little but boring things I'm on a MokeeKK ROM since the begin of febuary...
Do you know if some of this things are solved? I don't have the courage to try a LP ROM just to find out if there is some evolutions. And if there is some evolutions, which ROM did you advise me? CM12, CM12.1, Resurrection Remix?
Thanks in advance
Thibou said:
Hi
I have the same feeling about new LP ROMs...
We have only some ported LP ROMs with bugs. And the KK ROM are all discontinued.
I tried a LP ROM (don't remember which one) and finally I'm back to KK. The design of LP is very refreshing and it's a great sensation when your ZR seems to have reborn.
There is some problems that bother me like :
- The notification LED don't works in silent mode. On Z, the LED still work when we disable the vibrator.
- The data switch is crappy. We have to press a least 3 times to activate or desactivate the data instead of just 1 time on quick settings of KK. It's the same problem for localisation switch. On KK we can choose the localisation mode quickly by pressing the same button again.
- The bluetooth audio. It works great but after some connections the sound is not play in the peripheral. We have to restart the phone to have a fonctional bluetooth back.
Due to this little but boring things I'm on a MokeeKK ROM since the begin of febuary...
Do you know if some of this things are solved? I don't have the courage to try a LP ROM just to find out if there is some evolutions. And if there is some evolutions, which ROM did you advise me? CM12, CM12.1, Resurrection Remix?
Thanks in advance
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Oh! I think the best answer is try it for your self for some day. You can backup your full rom to restore if you dont like it
Cheer
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uncomment said:
Oh! I think the best answer is try it for your self for some day. You can backup your full rom to restore if you dont like it
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Hummm
If I ask people about this things it's because it's easy for LP users to check it and tell me if there is an evolution since january LP builds.
It's easy to check the problem of LED and tell me if there is and evolution concerning the switches of data and localisation.
I know that I can make a full backup of my KK ROM but I'm busy.
If somebody can help me, it will be nice.
Thibou said:
Hummm
If I ask people about this things it's because it's easy for LP users to check it and tell me if there is an evolution since january LP builds.
It's easy to check the problem of LED and tell me if there is and evolution concerning the switches of data and localisation.
I know that I can make a full backup of my KK ROM but I'm busy.
If somebody can help me, it will be nice.
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I'm on the latest Resurrection port by uncomment (5.4.0) and i can confirm the led works in silent mode and the switches are all working.. as for bluetooth, no comment as i don't use it but the build/port is smooth and accurate with good settings additions and very few bugs... In fact i personally have found none..
Thibou said:
Hummm
If I ask people about this things it's because it's easy for LP users to check it and tell me if there is an evolution since january LP builds.
It's easy to check the problem of LED and tell me if there is and evolution concerning the switches of data and localisation.
I know that I can make a full backup of my KK ROM but I'm busy.
If somebody can help me, it will be nice.
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I am using the Xenius 4th march LP build, and it is close to perfect. No issues uptil now.
You could try that one.
saggiboy231 said:
I am using the Xenius 4th march LP build, and it is close to perfect. No issues uptil now.
You could try that one.
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Have you tried the latest cm12.1 build of xenius ??
ariftwister said:
Have you tried the latest cm12.1 build of xenius ??
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I moved to 12.1 build of xenius today, and uptil now, it runs smooth, no issues encountered.
Would update if i find any bugs.

Best ROM for Xiaomi MI3

Which is for you the best ROM at this moment? I have just flashed SlimLP with Layers and seems cool! D2TW working!!
Official miui, it has no bugs at all. but i have tried different roms here, maybe the best non official is unofficial omnirom.
i wonder if the dt2w is really working, and its not eating your battery.
josedb said:
Official miui, it has no bugs at all. but i have tried different roms here, maybe the best non official is unofficial omnirom.
i wonder if the dt2w is really working, and its not eating your battery.
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Did you try SlimLP?
Nitter78 said:
Did you try SlimLP?
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no, i didnt
i didnt try all the ROMs, there are so many. There are a lot with a lot a bugs. ive only tried the ones that are expected to work as daily driver.
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Which is for you the best ROM at this moment? I have just flashed SlimLP with Layers and seems cool! D2TW working!!
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Hows the rom?? Can i flash it with stock partition ?
For me its AICP release 08/07 version with no sim bug fix.
patelumangv said:
For me its AICP release 08/07 version with no sim bug fix.
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How about latest version?
Currently I use Official CM 12.1 and working good so far, the problem I got is, Photosphere and Panorama didn't work on Google Camera.. any clue how to fix it?
I want try PA (Paranoid Android) and still need more reference... do you have experience on it?
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How about latest version?
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I saw some post regarding SOD in latest release , so i didnt tried.
My Daily Driver: AICP v10 20150809 nightly + No SIM bug fix + FM fix.
Except for the unresolved HDR bug everything works fine on this build, no issues at all.
Absolutely smooth and stable. Battery life is very good as well :thumbup:
SlimBit
Nitter78 said:
Which is for you the best ROM at this moment? I have just flashed SlimLP with Layers and seems cool! D2TW working!!
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I completely agree.
SlimBit is lean, stable and fast, my daily driver. So far everything works fine (expect the snapdragon camera in HDR mode, but which does???)
After using a couple of others:
MIUI6 - gorgeous design, stable, but slow, resource hungry and full of features - which I hardly need.
Ivan's AOSP 5.1.1 - fast, lean, functional. no updates and regular call drops.
MinimalOS (Bitti's) - fast, lean, functional. no updates and random reboots.
Latest official cm 12.1 is fast, stable and has amazing battery. Omnirom was my previous daily driver - also superstable. Would use miui7 just for the camera, but I cant stand the notification system...
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Hows the rom?? Can i flash it with stock partition ?
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No idea. I just flashed in extended partition. I planning to flash Alexret v6 kernel
I'm using unofficial CM by kundancool, the battery life and performance are great.
EOS is the Greatest!
For rom cook I prefer EOS, love the slide navigation.
But I am using miui7 08.28 now. Its quite stable, no lag, good battery. May be this time Xiaomi did listen to us
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Mokee or Bitti's Omnirom - rock solid stable and reliable performance. Install the ColorOS camera (search xda forums) and enjoy the awesome camera.
Metallium OS R1, using for last 2 weeks without any issues. Stable, fast, smooth... Very much like Ivan's AOSP. My reliable daily driver. Love the extra number row on the default AOSP keyboard, makes typing so much easier. Only bug is the known HDR bug. One of the few ROMs which doesn't have the bottom touch bug. Exceptional battery life (both standby and SOT are great).
nguyenquang1985 said:
For rom cook I prefer EOS, love the slide navigation.
But I am using miui7 08.28 now. Its quite stable, no lag, good battery. May be this time Xiaomi did listen to us
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Totally agree.
I used miui v7 for the first time since its release. Before I was using different custom roms based on lollipop for past 6-7 months.
About MIUI 7 16.09.
I must tell you that its the best refined experience I am having since I bought this phone.
No performance lag ( not as fast as lollipop , but still its great.), No heating at all, Best bettery life ever, Best camera, Best sound.
Its not powerful in multitasking as compared to lollipop roms,, but still I couldnt find any problem on my side.
So if you are like me using custom roms for past 6 months,,, I recommend you to just try it..
You will feel good.
which :/ custom rom has good battery life more then miui7???
, as it is KitKat based it sucks isn't that smooth as lollipop xiaomi is cheating on us

Stable Kitkat rom

Please port a kitkat rom for our device.. or pls make a stable with stable kernel.. pls i rqst devs :crying:
sidhg said:
Please port a kitkat rom for our device.. or pls make a stable with stable kernel.. pls i rqst devs :crying:
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there isnt Ivan aosp?
yes there is one... But it doesn't have any customisatons option.. And my mobile gets easily even in moderate use..
How about Miui V7. Did you try?
I want stock like nexus.. miui lags
There were a lot of stable cm and aosp+ builds of KitKat. Download 1 of them and flash a modern kernel for lp or one of them that has KitKat support and it should work just fine. I flashed carbon rom then flashed xcelerate build 65 kernel without any issues booting or functioning. I never used it long enough to confirm random reboot was gone but as that was related to kernel issue the odds are it wasn't going to ever happen
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sidhg said:
I want stock like nexus.. miui lags
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Me too. I don't really like MIUI. Why don't you try Lollipop ROM like Blisspop. It's quite stable, no bugs, no SOD, customizable, you can use as daily ROM. I used Extended Partition, TWRP and TK Gapps.
It is better than MIUI, I think.
lollipop don't have good battery backup
this is not entirely true ... the difference is about 10 or up to 20% in favor of miui (stable) ... the latest china developer MIUI rom also suffers from poor battery life... sacrifice 1h (sot) use of the phone is quite profitable ... in my eyes.
Sot may not see a huge difference but with standby time KitKat blew lp out of the water unless you didn't flash gapps in lp. That's my opinion and experience anyway. Gapps in lollipop is always a huge battery drain I've never been able to fully control even by turning everything off in app ops and etc.
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u can use xposed(gravity box) in Ivan's aosp for customizations
i snort flour said:
There were a lot of stable cm and aosp+ builds of KitKat. Download 1 of them and flash a modern kernel for lp or one of them that has KitKat support and it should work just fine. I flashed carbon rom then flashed xcelerate build 65 kernel without any issues booting or functioning. I never used it long enough to confirm random reboot was gone but as that was related to kernel issue the odds are it wasn't going to ever happen
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There are any issues with your configuration ?
Only real problem I seen was a slower charge and the back camera didn't work and the front camera quality was crap. If it had a working camera I would honestly still be using carbon KitKat or even pa aosp+ KitKat which didn't have the slow charging issue but didn't look as nice though either.
Sorry my quotes no longer work Tapatalk has to keep screwing up a good thing and turning it into crap
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out of all the custom roms i tried, Ivan's aosp kitkat was the most stable and I had no problems with it except the capacitive button light issue which wasn't a major concern for me, for customizations xposed was my way to go. I highly recommend you to try it if stability is your concern ✌
hope this helped you
i snort flour said:
There were a lot of stable cm and aosp+ builds of KitKat. Download 1 of them and flash a modern kernel for lp or one of them that has KitKat support and it should work just fine. I flashed carbon rom then flashed xcelerate build 65 kernel without any issues booting or functioning. I never used it long enough to confirm random reboot was gone but as that was related to kernel issue the odds are it wasn't going to ever happen
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Wi-Fi worked with Xcelerate kernel on KitKat?
Me_Ashish_ said:
Wi-Fi worked with Xcelerate kernel on KitKat?
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I wouldn't recommend it because the only good KitKat rom for this phone was Ivan's. Pa wasn't bad but you won't have a camera anymore. I never tested it on Ivan's but I did test it on carbon and WiFi worked fine on it if I remember correctly. The slow charging (which is fixable flashing a boot.img from a rom with faster charging) and not having a working camera kept me from keeping it. I still wouldn't recommending going to KitKat unless you can persuade a Dev to make a fully functional KitKat rom. I seen a couple devs say they would but never followed through and with all the real devs working on marshmallow your not going to see any help there.
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i snort flour said:
I wouldn't recommend it because the only good KitKat rom for this phone was Ivan's. Pa wasn't bad but you won't have a camera anymore. I never tested it on Ivan's but I did test it on carbon and WiFi worked fine on it if I remember correctly. The slow charging (which is fixable flashing a boot.img from a rom with faster charging) and not having a working camera kept me from keeping it. I still wouldn't recommending going to KitKat unless you can persuade a Dev to make a fully functional KitKat rom. I seen a couple devs say they would but never followed through and with all the real devs working on marshmallow your not going to see any help there.
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On PA with Xcelerate, Wi-Fi didn't work and also there was frequent android.media force closes. Not with other kernels though. Camera of course doesn't work.
I didn't stayed long on the ROM. But I did got a random reboot type once (in PA the phone simply dies and u have to hard reboot). Camera doesn't work of course.
Ivan's ROM is laggy af. The scrolling is laggy everywhere and etc. I don't like the custom kernels as the phone heats (little bit less with Xcelerate). And not quite sure whether the upcoming Xcelerate build will be compatible with MIUI.
Only MIUI is the usable Kitsap ROM quite actually. Would have been cool if Xiaomi upgraded the Android version, which is not gonna happen at all IMO

Need bug free 7.1.1 rom

Hello frnds i want a stable 7.1.1 rom for my brother's moto g2
Actually i didn't connected with g2 forum from long time so i dnt knw which rom is good for this time
I dnt want to falsh again n again to try different rom so plz tell me best rom till now.
Thanks in advance
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be careful when posting this kind of questions...not really allowed.
all i can say is i'm on lineageOS 20160208 build, which is 7.1.1, and so far everything is so fine.
Try xosp
inaroom said:
be careful when posting this kind of questions...not really allowed.
all i can say is i'm on lineageOS 20160208 build, which is 7.1.1, and so far everything is so fine.
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What about camera n video recording n does camera save image direct to sd card?
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yes pal, lineageos is bug free even if it´s a nightly, just flash and see for yourself. don´t expect a blazing fast device, as it´s a 3 years old phone, but its totally daily usable (my current daily driver, just waiting to get used to the huawei p9 size i bought a couple weeks ago). head over the LOS thread here and see for yourself. plus you get OTA, wich is kinda nice...
Try Mokee Latest Nightly. U can Try Tesla and Validus too.
Thankyou so much all of u guys
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Guys I need better rom for using parallel space
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For using more accounts in my xt1068 machine...
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I am now using CM 12.1
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But it sticks when using parallel space app
mansoornhp said:
Guys I need better rom for using parallel space
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For using more accounts in my xt1068 machine...
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I am now using CM 12.1
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But it sticks when using parallel space app
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That's because there's only a mere 886MB usable RAM out of which 450-500MB is always in use and parallel space needs about 150-200MB RAM so you can't do anything about that.
I have tried LOS and AOSP in my wife's phone..But FM not working in LOS after I did some tweaks with custom kernel and pixel mode..
In AOSP, FM stops working after 2 weeks.
Can anyone suggest a workaround or noughat custom ROM without issue in FM
Thanks in Advance....
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I have tried LOS and AOSP in my wife's phone..But FM not working in LOS after I did some tweaks with custom kernel and pixel mode..
In AOSP, FM stops working after 2 weeks.
Can anyone suggest a workaround or noughat custom ROM without issue in FM
Thanks in Advance....
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I have flashed xperince ROM..And flashed Elemental Kernel...No issues with Radio so far....

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