I'm top posting again, but with a differently named subject so I can say this. My first experience in seeing the joy of hacking in someone else's eyes, was at a Tlug meeting. At this time I'm pretty much a newbie to the group and Drew Sullivan turns to me and says, hey Russ, what does dump - blah blah grep bla pipe more blah do? I said I haven't the foggiest idea. His eyes lit up in pure joy as he explained that, it retrieved the data from the tape device and wrote it back to the fixed disk. So I learned that there is more than one way to do things in *nix and that position, form and function all count and once the unifying concepts are understood, the process seems to get easier from there. Not so much a how do I do this? but why do I do it this way? russ@HECTOR:~$ adb shell shell@ghost:/ $ ls acct <snip the file system> So for this project, it now seems I may able to blunt force UN-cruft some of the problems. Likely there is an issue with the surface flinger (sort of compositor and quite like a packer for TCL/TK, rolled into one) and HAL. Disabling HW overlay forces everything to OpenGL, (GLES) It looks like the VZW carrier hooks into the notification bar are abusing something. My feelings at this point are, there was a reason only the notification bar was showing up (fuzzy) at first and you couldn't swipe up a new screen with out it blacking out. That is until you gave it the good old masons handshake, some people call it percussive maintenance, I tend to call it blunt force hacking. Whatever it is, I think the overlay's for any VZW implemented animations and icons on the notice bar are bogus and I might be able to pull those hooks out manually. In any case I know know this device runs Android 5.1 and that I may be able to regress to kit kat 4.4 which is what a MOTO XT1058 runs on. Sorry can't resist the pun, looks like lots of diff - occult practices needed now. Russell On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 4:51 PM, Russell Reiter <rreiter91@gmail.com> wrote:
Top posting this as it may be of some general interest.
As I related in my earlier post, gaining access to apps on this phone was near impossible at first. In addition to finally enabling developer mode and those other changes I related below, I turned off all animations and chose simulated monochrome as color correction.
I didn't really think a monochrome simulation would ease processor stress's, as simulating monochrome might be just like making brown sugar; you know, just adding the molasses back into the refined sugar, so to speak. - It worked tho.
While waking the thing up still takes a lot of finger tapping and power button screen redrawing, it seems once NAND is fully energized and unsuspended, it behaves normally. No unexpected screen outs during use, the back of the unit is noticably cooler and no Row Access Strobe lines on the display.
So while I still have to shake hands like a mason to get it going - it's going and I am, as always, having fun with a Linux kernel - even if it is cross compiled on a broken platform.
So now I confess, I bought, for the first time in my life, a M$ Windows operating system. I've done some work on it and had copies donated to me by Dell for a volunteer project but I never bought it.
Well I didn't specifically buy the OS, it came on the HP mini 110 I purchased, but I did activate it. I did that just to see Windows 10 before I check out Linux on Atom.
As for this phone, not a screen flicker, blackout or other glitch in the entire time it took me to one finger compose this post. 20 min+-
Russell Sent from a semi-resurrected Moto XT1060 Almost ready to mod.
On Feb 13, 2017 11:32 AM, "Russell Reiter" <rreiter91@gmail.com> wrote:
I like to tinker with stuff and this is also a kind of semi-long, maybe even funny story.
I am asked quite often to help people with Android problems so I fool around with phones, usually theirs not mine. I did get to like Motorola enough to buy a Moto G and use it. A couple of months ago I was looking through ebay and saw an ad for an Unlocked Moto X and assuming they meant carrier unlocked, I ordered it.
When it arrived after the estimated delivery date, I charged it and inserted my sim and no joy, it was locked to Verizon. I opened a trouble ticket and tried to get the seller to provide me with an unlock code but they couldn't. I guess because there isn't one. Ebay has refunded me and I guess the seller settled with them for false advertising because I am now in possession of a semi-borked Moto XT1060. (Looking at CRdroid at this point)
I say semi-borked because after I rebooted without the sim, all sorts of gremlins showed up. Most especially what I believe is a Verizon "ghost" carrier induced BSOD. After a couple of intermittent hours of booting and fuzzing, I got enough of a screen to be able to navigate to settings, enable developer mode and force GPU rendering and disable HW overlays. Now I can actually use the thing on wifi. It still takes a lot of keypresses and screen taps to fuzz the thing on, but once I got the screen on, I was able to generate a bug report and mail it to myself.
It also sent me a screen-shot of the screen I couldn't see at the time. At first foray I was operating in the very narrow space at the top of the screen, which I kept alive by dragging my finger down from the top and pressing the power button repeatedly to force a redraw of the screen.
I now know, after getting the report, my phone thinks it is 10.24PM, Monday February 13th. Actually it looks like the bloatware deliberatly overheats the cpu and so far, as long as I keep the phone in the cold space between my windows, it seems to function almost normally, except it won't accept the sim card.
So it seems the boot loader is locked at NAND: 0x30BE. Has anyone on the list had success in flashing an open source boot loader to a Motorola device?
I've looked around a bit and the ghost rom is available but I can't seem to find a comparable stock motorola rom for this model.
Any advice is appreciated and here's a couple hundred lines of debug code for anyone who is interested.
Thanks in advance Russell
======================================================== == dumpstate: 2017-02-13 22:24:05 ========================================================
Build: LPAS23.12-39.7-1 Build fingerprint: 'motorola/ghost_verizon/ghost: 5.1/LPAS23.12-39.7-1/1:user/release-keys' Bootloader: 0x30BE Radio: msm Network: (unknown) Kernel: Linux version 3.4.42-gf151976 (hudsoncm@ilclbld86) (gcc version 4.8 (GCC) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Mar 24 13:07:11 CDT 2016 Command line: console=null androidboot.hardware=qcom user_debug=31 msm_rtb.filter=0x3F ehci-hcd.park=3 maxcpus=2 vmalloc=400M androidboot.emmc=true androidboot.serialno=T062808WJT androidboot.baseband=msm androidboot.mode=normal androidboot.bootloader=0x30BE androidboot.cid=0x2 androidboot.hwrev=0x8300 androidboot.radio=0x2 battery= mot_sst=1 androidboot.modelno="Moto X" androidboot.carrier=vzw product=ghost androidboot.device=ghost androidboot.secure_hardware=1 androidboot.write_protect=1 restart.download_mode=1
------ UPTIME (uptime) ------ up time: 05:22:57, idle time: 00:23:57, sleep time: 04:51:47 [uptime: 0.100s elapsed]
------ MMC PERF (/sys/block/mmcblk0/stat) ------ 28364 8048 2870460 156850 15886 4451 783348 94420 0 90690 251070
------ MEMORY INFO (/proc/meminfo) ------ MemTotal: 1836564 kB MemFree: 332876 kB Buffers: 6452 kB Cached: 853692 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 870116 kB Inactive: 468376 kB Active(anon): 479560 kB Inactive(anon): 1692 kB Active(file): 390556 kB Inactive(file): 466684 kB Unevictable: 1092 kB Mlocked: 0 kB HighTotal: 1316860 kB HighFree: 101020 kB LowTotal: 519704 kB LowFree: 231856 kB SwapTotal: 0 kB SwapFree: 0 kB Dirty: 76 kB Writeback: 20 kB AnonPages: 479596 kB Mapped: 263488 kB Shmem: 1772 kB Slab: 41212 kB SReclaimable: 14572 kB SUnreclaim: 26640 kB KernelStack: 10296 kB PageTables: 24060 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB WritebackTmp: 0 kB CommitLimit: 918280 kB Committed_AS: 36379564 kB VmallocTotal: 401408 kB VmallocUsed: 91272 kB VmallocChunk: 150532 kB
------ CPU INFO (top -n 1 -d 1 -m 30 -t) ------
User 66%, System 26%, IOW 1%, IRQ 0% User 115 + Nice 51 + Sys 66 + Idle 14 + IOW 4 + IRQ 0 + SIRQ 0 = 250
PID TID PR CPU% S VSS RSS PCY UID Thread Proc 3263 3526 1 21% R 962764K 59040K fg u0_a46 MotoCareBgThrea com.motorola.motocare 12895 12895 0 8% R 19124K 1608K shell top top 1195 2116 1 8% S 1078640K 106124K fg u0_a12 RenderThread com.android.systemui 282 282 1 6% S 86956K 11388K fg system surfaceflinger /system/bin/surfaceflinger 1195 1195 1 4% R 1078640K 106124K fg u0_a12 ndroid.systemui com.android.systemui 981 1011 1 2% S 1161192K 115372K fg system PowerManagerSer system_server 981 998 1 1% S 1161192K 115372K fg system Binder_2 system_server 981 1129 0 1% S 1161192K 115372K fg system WifiStateMachin system_server 981 1566 1 1% S 1161192K 115372K fg system Binder_E system_server 981 981 1 1% S 1161192K 115372K fg system system_server system_server 981 1363 1 0% S 1161192K 115372K fg system Binder_5 system_server 981 1008 1 0% S 1161192K 115372K fg system android.display system_server 282 607 1 0% S 86956K 11388K fg system EventThread /system/bin/surfaceflinger 3263 3525 1 0% S 962764K 59040K fg u0_a46 MotoCareSvcThre com.motorola.motocare 16 16 0 0% S 0K 0K root kworker/u:1 1452 1477 0 0% S 960692K 48180K fg system GCDaemon com.motorola.process.system 1352 1373 1 0% S 961936K 50780K fg u0_a39 GCDaemon com.motorola.motodisplay 1579 1950 1 0% R 1009952K 66604K fg u0_a58 RenderThread com.android.launcher 1352 3814 1 0% S 961936K 50780K fg u0_a39 breathing drawe com.motorola.motodisplay 282 1587 1 0% S 86956K 11388K fg system Binder_4 /system/bin/surfaceflinger 282 2545 1 0% S 86956K 11388K fg system Binder_5 /system/bin/surfaceflinger 149 149 0 0% S 0K 0K root mmcqd/0 1195 1615 1 0% S 1078640K 106124K fg u0_a12 Binder_3 com.android.systemui 981 1092 1 0% S 1161192K 115372K fg system Binder_3 system_server 1579 1579 1 0% R 1009952K 66604K fg u0_a58 ndroid.launcher com.android.launcher 1263 1284 1 0% S 945312K 34852K fg u0_a61 Binder_1 com.motorola.slpc 1195 12432 1 0% S 1078640K 106124K fg u0_a12 hwuiTask1 com.android.systemui 981 1465 1 0% S 1161192K 115372K fg system Binder_8 system_server 2429 2602 1 0% R 1113684K 100784K fg u0_a4 GoogleLocationS com.google.android.gms.persistent 2429 2603 1 0% S 1113684K 100784K fg u0_a4 Binder_5 com.google.android.gms.persistent [top: 1.502s elapsed]
------ PROCRANK (procrank) ------ *** exec(procrank): Permission denied *** procrank: Exit code 255 [procrank: 0.100s elapsed]
------ VIRTUAL MEMORY STATS (/proc/vmstat) ------ nr_free_pages 83681 nr_inactive_anon 424 nr_active_anon 119775 nr_inactive_file 116690 nr_active_file 97650 nr_unevictable 273 nr_mlock 0 nr_anon_pages 119749 nr_mapped 65894 nr_file_pages 215057 nr_dirty 30 nr_writeback 0 nr_slab_reclaimable 4067 nr_slab_unreclaimable 6700 nr_page_table_pages 6014 nr_kernel_stack 1290 nr_unstable 0 nr_bounce 0 nr_vmscan_write 0 nr_vmscan_immediate_reclaim 7 nr_writeback_temp 0 nr_isolated_anon 0 nr_isolated_file 0 nr_shmem 444 nr_dirtied 78103 nr_written 66652 nr_anon_transparent_hugepages 0 nr_free_cma 0 nr_dirty_threshold 15874 nr_dirty_background_threshold 3968 pgpgin 1435230 pgpgout 266750 pswpin 0 pswpout 0 pgalloc_normal 2409175 pgalloc_high 2727696 pgalloc_movable 0 pgfree 5348019 pgactivate 155050 pgdeactivate 46 pgfault 7022719 pgmajfault 9302 pgrefill_normal 0 pgrefill_high 0 pgrefill_movable 0 pgsteal_kswapd_normal 27457 pgsteal_kswapd_high 127101 pgsteal_kswapd_movable 0 pgsteal_direct_normal 290 pgsteal_direct_high 1393 pgsteal_direct_movable 0 pgscan_kswapd_normal 31501 pgscan_kswapd_high 163346 pgscan_kswapd_movable 0 pgscan_direct_normal 290 pgscan_direct_high 2118 pgscan_direct_movable 0 pginodesteal 0 slabs_scanned 48256 kswapd_inodesteal 11 kswapd_low_wmark_hit_quickly 74 kswapd_high_wmark_hit_quickly 142 kswapd_skip_congestion_wait 3 pageoutrun 2831 allocstall 31 pgrotated 263 compact_blocks_moved 5547 compact_pages_moved 113444 compact_pagemigrate_failed 1389 compact_stall 0 compact_fail 0 compact_success 0 compact_retry_success 0 unevictable_pgs_culled 273 unevictable_pgs_scanned 0 unevictable_pgs_rescued 0 unevictable_pgs_mlocked 0 unevictable_pgs_munlocked 0 unevictable_pgs_cleared 0 unevictable_pgs_stranded 0 unevictable_pgs_mlockfreed 0