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[Xperia Play General] sdlaurin:
This sounds so familiar. I wonder who the first person to suggest dean build multiman for sexplay will be
[Xperia Play General] Blagus:
are these games working after BL unlock? if yes, then it doesn't use DRM...
[Xperia Play General] zerojay:
Bootloader unlock has absolutely nothing to do with whether DRM is in use for the games or not, nor would there be any reason for that. Games come encrypted, emulator decrypts them on the fly. No need for anything else.
[Xperia Play General] Nhialor:
i would love to see this happen :-)
[Xperia Play General] DeadlyDazza:
Well the bounty's up to a fair price.

I'm surprised some braniac hasn't crawled all over this.
[Xperia Play General] Logseman:
That brings another question: I assume that most Android-market games have some form of copy protection based on DRM. Were I to unlock the the bootloaders, would that prevent me from playing those games?
[Xperia Play General] tr00st:
Bored at the moment, so I'm putting in my pre-work hour per day on this...

libjava-activity.so's probably where a good portion of the action's at - PsCrypt_GetPS1RomData's probably a place to start... My asm's a bit rusty though...
[Xperia Play General] Logseman:
Good luck!
[Xperia Play General] Blagus:
Then you didn't read what's happening during bootloader unlock process - DRM keys are wiped from the phone.
[Xperia Play General] maxiiiamsta:
Ill put up 20 eur
[Xperia Play General] Nhialor:
someone needs to update this thread title, it's currently at about 120!
[Xperia Play General] Kippui:
Good luck to you guys

When sony released ps1 games on the playstation store and hackers found a way to convert ps1 games into eboots for the psp, ps1 emulators practically became obsolete instantly because the sony one is just to good. Same concept is trying to be done here I see.

I hope they port the EMU to all android devices for everyone can take advantage of the official sony emulator.
[Xperia Play General] AriStar:
Current Status:

$20 CAD - Levistras

$10 CAD - illuminerdi

$10 EUR - Logseman

$20 CAD - Clyzm

$05 GBP - DeadlyDazza

$10 CAD - Xplay

$10 CAD - bardiel13

$20 USD - johnsongrantr

$10 AUD - watever

$05 GBP - blickmanic

$20 EUR - maxiiiamsta

$71.67 (70 CAD) + $42.19 (30 EUR) + 16.11 (10 GBP) + 10.54 (10 AUD) + $20 (20 USD) =

USD$160.51

Used XE-Converter at 12:50AM EST on May 24. Someone check calcs please.
[Xperia Play General] Tornlogic:
Alright, count me in. 10usd, and that will go up when the play is released here in the states and I actually own one. Ill keep you posted.
[Xperia Play General] AriStar:
New total : $170.51 USD
[Xperia Play General] illuminerdi:
Heh, I tried to boot Wild Arms in FPSE to take comparative screenshots but I can't even get past the title screen. FPSE keeps crashing/locking after the title screen. More proof that FPSE still has a ways to go.
[Xperia Play General] admiralnorman:
I'll add $20 if I can side load it to my evo and nook color.
[Xperia Play General] maxiiiamsta:
Im offering a free xperia x1 in box additional to my 20 euro
[Xperia Play General] AriStar:
thats alot.
[Xperia Play General] liaoip:
Heck ya...I was playing the original Final Fantasy VI on the Snes9X EX emulator and decided I'd make an ISO of the FF VI for PSX that I had and run it on FPSE for comparison's sake...guess which looked better? Surprisingly the original one on the SNES. I wonder if it has something to do with HLE mode...
[Xperia Play General] lofang:
FPSE has to emulate a more sophisticated console, so it will run slower than snes9x
[Xperia Play General] maxiiiamsta:
Is there any dev working on this? I havent seen any posts about status so far etc
[Xperia Play General] Xplay:
ill up my ante from 10 to 20$CAD :D
[Xperia Play General] Tornlogic:
I recommend someone move this to a new thread, and change the title. Someone who will keep it updated. Hopefully it will catch the eye of a Dev outside of the Play community. I've noticed the Play community is very, very small compared to other devices, and has no Devs for the most part.

Also if you can, Tweet this thread...get the word out!

Oh, and I preordered my Play, so bump me up to $20usd please.
[Xperia Play General] maxiiiamsta:
Ive been posting replys on xda forums seems no1 is picking it up
[Xperia Play General] DeadlyDazza:
Someone send GeoHot a link to this thread!
[Xperia Play General] zerojay:
Geohot said he was going to pick up an Xperia Play originally but since his settlement with Sony, he is no longer allowed to hack on Sony stuff and also stated he'll never buy another Sony product again.
[Xperia Play General] illuminerdi:
It looks to me like FPSE is not scaling correctly. When I boot Wild Arms in FPSE the Media Vision logo has jaggies in the M and V - they look a LOT like improperly scaled resolution, so I think there are some math problems with the FPSE scaling code, as the Xperia should be able to doublesize PSX resolution no problem.

Hence why FFIV would look better in the SNES emu than FPSE. The Snes emu is a bit more solid, and plus it supports smoothing, so it will ultimately look better as smoothing is necessary to achieve a look closer to the original, as you're doubling the resolution, so you need to smooth out all the oversharp edges that were never meant to be there.
[Xperia Play General] Nhialor:
Wonder if anyone's going to look into this...?
[Xperia Play General] maxiiiamsta:
I laugh at ppl who think geohot is the only one who can hack this. Tons of ppl are skilled at this but no1 seems to be picking this up.
[Xperia Play General] Logseman:
Possibly they may be afraid to end up like him, battered by lawsuits and fined with sums that donations can't cover. Sony is definitely hostile against having its software cracked.

Enviado desde mi R800i usando Tapatalk
[Xperia Play General] Red_Kop:
Being able to use your own games revolutionised my PSP playing experience.

Hoping for the same here, would be sweet.
[Xperia Play General] zerojay:
He wasn't fined. He had more than enough donations. He had so many donations that he gave over $10k to the EFF.
[Xperia Play General] sdlaurin:
In the end he came out on top. Big time
[Xperia Play General] gwaine:
Hi All...I'll definitely throw in $20 to the bounty
[Xperia Play General] DeareN:
Put me down for 20€ for starters :) and P.M me if we have any news
[Xperia Play General] Gonzo__:
I hope somebody takes this on , and figures it out!

FF7/8/9 and RE1/2/3 Nativly would be awesome !
[Xperia Play General] AriStar:
I reposted this in the developers section. I'm going to be updating that one since I'm not the op of this thread.
[Xperia Play General] Blagus:
OK, I'm not afraid of lawsuits, but I need some info about these games loaded on SD. In which format, and can it's content be opened with some archiver.
[Xperia Play General] AndroHero:
they look like PSP Eboots.
[Xperia Play General] yifanlu:
I would love to post this on the developer section, but it seems like I'm a noob and don't have access :(

Anyways, I've been decompiling and disassembling the Crash Bandicoot APK for a day or so and I would like to post my findings because information should be free. I wrote everything down on my site (yifan.lu with http colon slash-slash before it) but if you don't want to go to my site, I'll post here too.

Basically, the last part is the most important. If someone can provide me with a memory dump of the phone running Crash bandicoot (before I get a R800i, which should be in a week or so), it would speed things up. I'm pretty close to having this thing figured out, but not being able to root my phone is a big pain. Thanks.
[Xperia Play General] Logseman:
I have Crash Bandicoot installed, how can I do a memory dump? I'm familiar with debugging and using ADB, so I hope I can be of help.

Also, do you mind if I translate your post and bring it to my own Xperia Play blog, http://sexperiaplay.blogspot.com?
[Xperia Play General] yifanlu:
Just run

adb -d shell dd if=/dev/mem > memdump.bin;adb -d shell dd if=/dev/kmem >> memdump.bin;

If it works, great (it will take a LONG time to run)! Upload it to somewhere and PM me the link. If it doesn't, tell me the error and I'll see what to do. You can use my post if you link to the original from my site. The forums won't allow me to post links, so I guess you can google "yifanlu" and click the first link.
[Xperia Play General] DeadlyDazza:
Very happy to see this important but regretfully overlooked issue being addressed, and rest assured I'm still good for my contribution to this bounty.
[Xperia Play General] Logseman:
These dumps come out empty...
[Xperia Play General] yifanlu:
Hmm, I knew that would be too easy. Can you do "adb -d shell" to get into shell and then try "cat /dev/mem" and see if it either gives a bunch of gibberish, or nothing at all?

Also, could you try this: biowallet.blogspot.com/2009/04/analyze-android-memory-dump-with.html
[Xperia Play General] Logseman:
cat /dev/mem > /sdcard/memdump.bin
cat: read error: Bad address

cat /dev/kmem > /sdcard/kmemdump.bin

Phone reboots, empty file produced.

I can't install Eclipse right now, but I'll try and see.
[Xperia Play General] yifanlu:
Thanks, but you don't need eclipse. Use "ps" to find the pid.
[Xperia Play General] yifanlu:
Finally got my R800i phone. Successfully extracted the emulator binary from memory.

file: libdefault.so

md5: 9a0c88d3b5bba8b6b7238ed8f626eb1b

EDIT: image.ps is NOT encrypted!!! It's just an ISO compressed using zlib's compress() function with an added 0x14 byte header. Currently writing a tool to compress/decompress images.
[Xperia Play General] Nhialor:
When can we expect to see said tool? What does this mean to us?
[Xperia Play General] ozzmanj1:
Getting an Xperia Play. FF7 is good, but for me......Grandia......snap
[Xperia Play General] yifanlu:
It'll take me a few days to test everything, and at least a week for me to code the tool. I'll party regular updates .
[Xperia Play General] Nhialor:
Good man, keep us up to date!
[Xperia Play General] gojoechris:
Will these install like apk's Or will we have to manually install?
[Xperia Play General] Nhialor:
I'm assuming it will all run on your computer as a tool, injecting the ISO in, and then compiling as an APK, which you can install on your phone!
[Xperia Play General] yifanlu:
If all goes well, I will release a GUI and command prompt tool that will take in an ISO, an icon, some metadata and output an APK.

I wasn't 100% right about the PS format, but now I'm more sure. The actual ISO is split into 38kb parts, which are individually compressed using compress() in zlib, which is an implementation of deflate. My tool is going to read these sections back into an image, and do the opposite.
[Xperia Play General] DeadlyDazza:
Very excited about this, can't wait to have a Hogs of War icon sat in my XPlay games launcher!
[Xperia Play General] Logseman:
This means that yifanlu will claim the bounty, if everything runs well.
[Xperia Play General] persain:
I sure hope so.....and i never put down a set amount but if its as nice as it sounds i may just have to add some money in.

also as an fyi

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1097428

Is the most up-to-date thread for donations. total is around 400+ Xperia X1 (if everyone who posted is still checking)
[Xperia Play General] Logseman:
Since AriStar is not present, I'll make a Google Docs spreadsheet and present it to you people.

*Edit* That is unnecessary, as no new amounts have been pledged. You're still in time to put money on that thread though.

*Edit 2* I knew the name rung some bells. Yifanlu has been tinkering heavily with the Kindle: aside of his site http://yifan.lu , you can go to the Mobileread (a huge eBook forum) and check his posts. This means: he's serious about it, we've been blessed with a great tinkerer :D
[Xperia Play General] yifanlu:
How many posts do I need before being able to post in the dev section?

Anyways, the image extractor/packer is almost done. I HOPE that there are no license checks or whatever because I tried putting an Crash bandicoot europe image with the USA apk and it ran, so maybe there isn't any licensing. But if there is, it'll take some more time to break that. So I can't make any promises, but currently, my to-do list is: 1) finish image extractor/packer, 2) make patch for licensing if needed, 3) write generator for metadata.xml and icons, 4) GUI wrapper. If all goes well, you still need a copy of crash bandicoot to extract emulator data because I can't provide it for legal reasons.
[Xperia Play General] Logseman:
You need 10 posts. Just one more and you're set :D
[Xperia Play General] gojoechris:
Its 10 but if you need to just send a message to the forum admin explaining your situation. And they'll raise your post count for you.
[Xperia Play General] yifanlu:
Good news:

+Image compressor/decompressor pretty much done, can input->output is coming out the same (which means my algo is pretty much right)

+I ripped my own copy of Crash Bandicoot into an ISO and converted it into an image. The size is exactly the same, but the data isn't. However, it DOES RUN.

Bad news:

-Using another game still crashes. Since I don't have a memory debugger for the android, I have to do this blind, or by looking in the binary code for the problem. It may be a simple bug.

EDIT: Strike that. The image I generated is the SAME byte by byte the same as sony's image. This means the image generator tool is now done. It's useless by itself, but if you would like to see a copy of the source, PM me or something.

EDIT 2: Ok, it's very highly likely that there is no DRM or license checks. This is because I purposely modified almost every file and it still ran. Even a modified Crash Bandicoot iso ran. However, using another image still doesn't work. This leads me to believe that there may be something to the 0x14 byte header in image.ps that I can't figure out what it does. Does anyone have any other PSX game on their Play, bought from Sony or something? If so, PM me.
[Xperia Play General] Nhialor:
Just to keep your interest up mate, I wanna up my input to 50 euro! Keep up the good work! I unfortunatly don't have any other games bought from them, sorry!
[Xperia Play General] yifanlu:
Let's move the party here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=16304632
[Atrix 4G General] zen kun:
hi i make some battery "meters" to compare with others and see if we have a bad battery or something its draining our battery. after several test freezing apps, motoblur services and so on i get some interesting stuff like freezing sometimes motoblur service will not help on battery in fact could cause some FC, and not sure if some apps are "calling" the freezing services that make drain faster.

i make a "chart" using gingerblur with apps, fresh sbf test, sbf with apps and so on.

i was using live wallpapers and without LWP, i noticed an maybe "obvious" if you arent in home screen LWP will not drain your battery. maybe only when you wake and stay too much in homescreen, perhaps its not to much IMO yes you can save Battery using a normal wallpaper i can say 5% max.

in my test i use NO DATA, since data will drain a lot the battery and its kind "unestable" to check because bad signal data transfer and so on, i will research more later, in all my test i leave the screen doing nothing i didint execute any process and FULL BRIGHT, and i use Battery Monitor widget to chech 1% by 1%

Using GingerBlur 2.5 in .57 version and all my apps drops from 99% to 63% ( 36%) in 2 hours using LWP in homescreen (secret LWP from SGSII)

After a fresh sbf .83 no apps installed,NO LWP after 1 hr drop from 99% to 88%, after 1:30 from 99% to 81% then i start using the phone and after 2 hr drops to 76%

then i install all my apps,using LWP drop from 99% to 70% then 2 hours later and one phone call drop to 61%

i use this .83 with all my apps 13 min phone call and 2 hours playing a movie in through my tv and drops 30%

and last using a LWP but i was in settings screen for 2 hours and i drop from 99% to 75% again using FULL Bright in all cases

(in airplane mode i get for 9 hour just 6% decrement using setCpu screen off 425)

i will compare this with my 2200mah anida battery (when arrive ¬¬ )

so im wondering who else can try "compare" this results so we can check averages and see if we have a good battery and then a rogue app.

And last i found 1 app that make me drain pretty fast

Enhanced Email (it drops in airplane mode like 7 hours like 16%)

lighflow seems drain a little no to much
[Atrix 4G General] stewartsoda:
My battery drains like 1% per minute on voice calls. I don't know how Moto thinks it gets 300 mins of 3g talk.

I hard reset last night and I'm getting ~3% per hour drain, which is typical for me. Screen time kills this thing no matter what brightness level I have it set at.

Here's my setup:

Blur doing FB and Twitter sync

Gmail set to push

Corporate Sync email, calendar, contacts set to push (setting this to 15 min or 30 min makes no difference in my experiance)

Docs and Voice apps, but not auto-syncing

Astrid tasks syncing with Google

A bunch of other apps that don't sync and aren't running by default (I just installed them, haven't run them yet)

I did a factory reset because something was trashing my battery usage. I burned through a full charge in 6-7 hours yesterday and my phone was quite warm. :eek:
[Atrix 4G General] zen kun:
yea seems the atrix get pretty warm a lot, in my "heavy" usage playing or watching a video can get 40+ degrees.

i get 1% per hour with no data and like 4% with data.

i was reading heavy usage and get like 24 hrs and i say no way my battery sucks lol.

i usually get like 12-14 hour with medium usage all day data on (maybe 1 or 2 off) posting on fb some browsing msn and like 4 hours playing music

i have 10% bright its enought for me. at least the atrix let me last a little more than my nexus one battery isnt amazing FOR ME perhaps isnt bad at all with "heavy" usage i guess i will get like 9 hours or little less
[Atrix 4G General] stewartsoda:
I wasn't using it at all. I had just power-cycled it so nothing was running (games/movies/etc.).
[Atrix 4G General] lfventura:
Lol. I came from Milestone and I am finding Atrix cold :).

My Milestone in hardcore use was easily reaching 50 celsius degrees .

My atrix while I am in hard use usually stays in 42 degrees too.
[Atrix 4G General] Andrew149:
Guys i get a full day out of this phone without even trying etheir you guys are not flashing the phone properly or your phones are corrupted this phone has better battery life than my iphone 4 did
[Atrix 4G General] airprakken:
I get at least 2 days. Now that I am not playing with it constantly, I normally get 3 days (and 2 inactive nights) to about 20-30%.

Not rooted.

Do fairly regular email, fb, maps, /. , etc.

No movies

Virtually all data is via WiFi

BUT

It is not my primary computer. I program days and do most of my work on a real computer. Tonight in my chair with a glass of wine, I am using an Eee netbook -- a real keyboard is dramatically faster for me.

And I have developed the following important habit: I always put it to sleep with the slanted key at the top whenever I am done, so my screen time is fairly low. I think this helps a lot.

I expected battery life to be a problem before I bought it and that's why I like the back cover -- easy to change the battery. However, this has even better battery life than my last Blackberry and I thought that was excellent. I won't be buying another battery until I have a year or so on this one.

I believe the essence of all of these power conversations is that if you use it as your primary computer, you will use up the battery fast. If you use it primarily as a phone and as a portable secondary computer, the battery is excellent.
[Atrix 4G General] minooch:
FYI

I'm currently running 1.5.7 & a couple of days ago i froze updater 2.2.1 because i was sick of getting reminders to update (using gladiatrix). Since then (although it only just clicked) my battery drain has been horrid (10% per hour in standby), after thawing updater 2.2.1, my battery drain has gone back to normal (1% every 2 hours in standby)
[Atrix 4G General] zen kun:
Mmmmm I will freeze as well to se improvements perhaps there is no updates atm and maybe will not get better

.......................................................

Sent from my loved atrix ;D
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Argentinakidd:
Is there a way to make this rom vibrate on incoming calls and text? I tried every different setting, nothing works .. :confused:
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] zach.antre:
Settings > Sounds > Vibrate > choose "always"

If you did that and is not working, I don't know whats wrong... You can ask in the ROM thread.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Argentinakidd:
Yep, tried that.

I installed an app that makes the phone vibrate on calls and texts, but i don't know any other solution.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] greenro89:
So I transferred music using Doubletwist, but the files that have accented characters or letters aren't able to be played, it says error and skips to next song. I noticed that I am not able to edit those files or folders in Root Explorer. Anyone else have this issue or know how to solve it?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Q&A, Help & Troublesh] masmddr:
Hello.

I have a Motorola Milestone running CM7.

My problem is that I need to use another language other than English with it but can't change the typing language when using the physical QWERTY keyboard.

In the language settings both English and the other language are selected and I can switch between them when using the virtual keyboard.

The physical keyboard has a lang changing button but after flashing CM7 it turned into "menu".

Trying to change that using an option in OpenRecovery made the whole keyboard stop working.

However if I install AnySoftKeyboard from the market and use it, I can use Shift+Alt on the physical keyboard to change layouts.

Anyone knows how to change the language on the physical keyboard while using "Android Keyboard" as an input method?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Q&A, Help & Troublesh] maijungza:
want to know too.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Q&A, Help & Troublesh] fsoly:
I have same this issue ..

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1352426

and waiting for the developer to solve it..!!!!:(
[Motorola Droid and Milestone Q&A, Help & Troublesh] masmddr:
Hello.

I am not familiar with your device(XT702) but in CM7 for milestone ( http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=941346 ) by kabldan starting with version 7.1.0.3, the language key can be used to change between languages as it was intended.

He managed to make it work so it might be a good idea to address him with this subject.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] funnycreature:
Howdy!

On the weekend I copied the sound files from the Xoom to the Asus using adb. The files transferred just fine but initially did not show up in the selection menu for sounds. After a reboot they made it to the menu, however, they all appear twice.

SOLUTION: Instead of copying the files to system/media/audio/(Notifications, Alarms, Ringtones) I copied the files to sdcard/(Notifications, Alarms, Ringtones) and after a reboot everything is as it is supposed to be!

Since I had some trouble getting the files onto the TF I checked if maybe the files appeared twice as well but they are only there as single copy.

Does anyone have an idea of how to remove the duplicate entries?

Thanks!
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gbroon:
Don't have my transformer to check, picking up replacement tomorrow, but its possible the duplicated ones are the default ones that come with the transformer and you have added them again. I'm guessing both tabs have the same honeycomb stock notifications.

Another possibility is that as well as /media/audio/notifications that you have them duplicated in /notifications which does the same job and would give 2 entries.