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[Xperia Arc Android Development] xssx88:
Could you help me out with the error i get when trying to update the older versions worked perfect at the moment i'm on 12 can't update any further.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Bin4ry:
Workaround:

From recovery do this:

Mount System

Then connect via adb and type:

adb pull /system/build.prop C:\build.prop

Now open C:\build.prop and edit (please use a unix confor editor like Notepad++) the values device, board, product change the LT15i to anzu ...... save the file!

now:

adb push C:\build.prop /system/build.prop

After that Unmount system in recovery and try again the update.zip

Regards
[Xperia Arc Android Development] xssx88:
Worked perfectly !!!
[Xperia Arc Android Development] DooMLoRD:
Bin4ry dude why not make a update.zip with a shell script for that?

#!/sbin/sh
busybox mount -o remount,rw /system
busybox sed -i 's/LT15i/anzu/g' /system/build.prop
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Bin4ry:
No this will remove LT15i from fingerprint aswell ;) If you do this you really need a backup BEFORE ! :)

Regards
[Xperia Arc Android Development] jacpinksteren:
How about fixing the original update.zip, I think Jerpelea already thought of this concidering his skills :-) Instead of just checking for 'anzu', check for both 'anzu' || 'LT15i' in the updater script. This way, the problem is solved / gone for everybody.

For now, you can do this manually for yourself right now by unpacking update.zip, editing \META-INF\com\google\android\update-script and change just the first instance of 'anzu' (first line) to 'LT15i'. Repack update.zip and flash it.

Problems remaining:

- missing apps in android market (whatsapp, facebook, swiftkey, ...)

- video not playing at all for me (sd card mpeg's / youtube)

- camera (is it not possible to rip the driver module from the original SE kernel?)
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Bin4ry:
Ofc, this will be in next update. But we dont want to upload another update 14! Thats why i give you this workaround. From next update.zip there will be no problem because LT15i and anzu get both checked and result true.

- missing apps: No one missing for me, can you give me example please? I will look for solution

- video: yes still problem, please patience here

- camera: ARC camera is most annoying camera on all devices i've seen before! this camera is pretty much custom, never seen something like this before.

Maybe you noticed that in /system/lib/ we already included semc camera libs, but thats not enough to get it working! Still working on it, but thats the hardest part of all problems we have!

Regards
[Xperia Arc Android Development] jacpinksteren:
Thanks for the quick response ;-)

Missing apps, for example: whatsapp (messenger), facebook, swiftkey (swiftkey x beta) and others.. I think it has to do with certain unknown requirements that my phone does not claim have anymore with this custom rom. Is there such a thing as a "hacked" android market, skipping these kind of checks? Or, is there a required file missing (for example one saying: Hey, I have a camera with autoflash) in the rom maybe?

And thanks for the heads up on video playback and camera driver!
[Xperia Arc Android Development] tRippinthehead:
previously several people have already spoken about this issue. As well I have it too.

and i tried hacked market and edit build.prop but no luck for me.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Bin4ry:
Well okay i spoke with J he knows about that. for me i havent noticed because i not used one of this apps ;) So maybe just lucky me that i don't noticed any missing apps =)

This is just some missing stuff, will be fixed.

Regards
[Xperia Arc Android Development] DooMLoRD:
@Bin4ry

Dude the fingerprint in build.prop needs to be changed... ;)
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Bin4ry:
Fingerprint is already stock fingerpringt from SE Rom ;)

Regards
[Xperia Arc Android Development] DooMLoRD:
woops didnt read the later post that you talked to J about it....

may be till the next major update, if possible/feasible, u guys can release a small hotfix update?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] jacpinksteren:
Hehe.. I already tried changing it, didn't help ;) (makes sense, because the original fingerprint works fine with SE stock rom)
[Xperia Arc Android Development] cinereous:
Maybe of incompatible or some other missing libs somewhere? missing symbols or something similar? In many other custom projects we had to try to keep both library sets to make things work.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] nierainbow:
i'am waiting for you dev the cm7 Rom for xperia ARC
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Nhialor:
Mate...where do you think you are?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] jacpinksteren:
Woops found another problem. Wasn't sure but bug keeps coming back last few days.

Every once in a while, facebook and / or twitter are logged off, so I have to sign in again. Happens during the day, sometimes after a reboot of the phone, sometimes just while screen is off.

Sorry :eek:
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Bin4ry:
Use Google+

SCNR :D

Seriously, i have to test it myself. Will reactivate my account on FB or twitter to test.

Regards
[Xperia Arc Android Development] jacpinksteren:
Heheh nice :D
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Larsiano:
Exactly the same goes for me too. But unlike you, I'm not using CM7 at all. I guess its in fact more a Opera problem or rather a Facebook internal issue.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] jacpinksteren:
Hi Larsiano,

I'm afraid that's a whole different issue :-) I'm not talking about using a browser (for example opera) where it's quite normal for session cookies to expire (hence: logoff facebook or other websites).

I was talking about the facebook and twitter apps from the android market. Problem did not occur on original rom.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] jacpinksteren:
New android market is out: http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/12/google-updating-android-market-app-on-phones-adding-movies-and/

Gonna check if I can find my apps now ;-) (guess not..)
[Xperia Arc Android Development] jacpinksteren:
Didn't help, but lookin' good :p
[Xperia Arc Android Development] mani0608:
Can anyone please tell me when we can expect the next update...

I am planning to revert back to stock ROM as we are not able to find few applications in the Market. But, before that i am very eager to test the next version as well :)
[Xperia Arc Android Development] jerpelea:
next update will be released when we have something new fixed

for now we are working on touch pads and camera on play

and camera on arc
[Xperia Arc Android Development] funkyblue04:
Did you have any luck with getting camera drivers? :)
[Xperia Arc Android Development] dondavis007:
Love your work, I wish I could help. Coming fron Nexus One and O2X and can't help loving the vanilla road...

(I wish SE was a bit more strategic and plowed away plenty of more phones to different developers to create a wider community. It would helped them to sell more phones, state of the art hardware is another way :-)

Have a good weekend!
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Vintiem:
I can't install version 014. Each time when I select in recovery apply/sdcard/update.zip I got the message:

Installing update...

assert failed: getprop

...

E: Error in /sdcard/update.zip

(status 7)

installation aborted

What do I wrong?

First wipe data etc don't bring any effort

Please help

Thank you

Vintiem
[Xperia Arc Android Development] jacpinksteren:
Please take a moment to look a little bit back in this thread. Problem already solved, you have to edit a file manually yourself for the time being until next update.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Vintiem:
Stupid from my side, looked over it. Thank you.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Desarth:
Did you guys work with Cyanogen official? I mean, is there a chance this will grow to nightlies? And what does it require to get to the nightlies?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] jamaljmys:
thank you for all efforts guys

could give more details about where to find the values exactly? because there is a lot of LT15i for product and there is no board value

i tried to change

ro.product.device and ro.build.product and ro.product.board from ''LT15i" to "anzu" and pushed the file successfully and tried again but got same error and installation aborted again.

any help

thanks
[Xperia Arc Android Development] bmwbasti:
Quiet silent in here for a while now :(
[Xperia Arc Android Development] mani0608:
Any update on the progress?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] jacpinksteren:
Ssshhh, those guys are coding ;-)
[Xperia Arc Android Development] jerpelea:
we are working on fixing wlan and wlanap

this will bring fully working device to x8,arc and neo devices

when we will be ready we will release
[Xperia Arc Android Development] waanz:
Fully functional Arc ?

Wouldn't the Camera still be missing once you've fixed WLAN and WLANAPP ?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] jerpelea:
why do you put the same question again and again

arc,neo have an special camera that we dont even have any clue howto port and use

if you heed camera stay on stack rom and stop asking stupid questions

camera will be fixed first for X8,X10,play (in any oder!) then we will consider workking on this special camera for arc,neo,etc....
[Xperia Arc Android Development] NeoCream:
I beg your pardon but does this mean that we most likely wont see ANY ROMs (incl. MIUI) that have a fully functioning camera included because of the android 2.3. problematic and the complexity of the Arc' s camera modul? I mean if you have a functioning ROM can other developers be able to use the CM7 based ROM to make an own ROM that has a functioning camera by mixing modules/libs?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] djice000:
I see both points....on one hand developers will get round to fixing issues in ROMS asap and on the other hand....notice that only Cyanogenmod and Miui have attempted to be ported and even their not fully functional YET because of the complex camera module, I'm not criticizing their work, they do amazing work, but I do see both points buds :-)
[Xperia Arc Android Development] mani0608:
Hi Jerpelea,

Really sorry to interrupt you. But i mean to say that i have even experienced some issues while playing Youtube videos in CM7 B014.

Also, as mentioned already we have an open issue with Android Market (Missing Applications).

If possible, please consider the above mentioned issues as well for the next release.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] NeoCream:
Well I'm not trying to criticize their work either... I mean kudos to the great work of the dev-team. But in a way I'm just curious (from an aspect of a non-android-dev) how Xperia Arc might evolve and what I can expect to see .... what kind of ROMs (if any -> like the wolfpack rom for x10) and Mods (better camera-app/lower compression) this great handset might receive in the near future.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] jerpelea:
take it like this

you buy an new dslr from market

you spedn on it 1000+ euro and it can not connect to your computer to download pictures

this new sensor from semc has never been implemented in any other device and there is no documentation or source for it

so will take months maybe years if se will not release sources for camera to start this new camera

other than this you will have an fully functional cm7 rom with all features and fixes that can be used as daily phone if you don't want camera

if you want camera stay to stock rom and please don't bother us "when will be camera ready "

we can not answer this because we dont know
[Xperia Arc Android Development] maharz:
hello @J, do you think it's possible to ask @Kalle in the SE official thread ?

i'd like to ask but i don't know how to ask him in detail regarding cam issue :D
[Xperia Arc Android Development] djice000:
I know bud :-) but making a rom is far more complex than anyone could imagine because of the issues they have to resolve before initial release hence betas, but I'm sure once they have the module and correct drivers etc and implement them into their work, they will release another beta :-) just need to be a little more patient :-)
[Xperia Arc Android Development] funkyblue04:
Sony do not seem to care RE Camera Drivers. So if they do not release them soon, I'll give up on my Neo.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] jamaljmys:
J my dear ... i don't want camera but please help me by this to get test release 14, i am absent since release 7 so i got my arc sick for CM rom.:D

thank you
[Xperia Arc Android Development] shatteredlike:
just a question

is video working for anybody running 0014? i saw it a previous post but i don't think anybody responded to the poster. mine crashes when playing mp4 video. thanks :)
[Xperia Arc Android Development] djice000:
Sony Ericsson tried to make the arc as customzable as possible, I guess they didn't think to release drivers etc though :p
[Xperia Arc Android Development] waanz:
Please mind your language and don't try to be rude:

- where did you see me asking the same question (again and again)?

- if you read properly, I am not asking if the camera works, I am replying to a post saying that the ROM would be fully functional by recalling that without the camera, it would not be fully functional. I very much know that SE has not released the drivers for the camera and that this feature will remain missing until they do so.

- developing custom roms as your hobby might bring some level of fame to a small community of admirers but it does not justify you being condescending with others.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] jerpelea:
sorry for missundestending

in all freexperia projects everybody asks for camera over and over again

this is why we said that we dont want to hear this question

br

J
[Xperia Arc Android Development] DooMLoRD:
jerpelea did u get my p.m. regarding the recovery (fstab) issue?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] jerpelea:
yes and i have replied to it
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Nathalex27:
Can't wait for camera fix!

Then I'll flash and donate!!!

Hate the stock arc.....
[Xperia Arc Android Development] SimonZ:
I've send a small donation for your big project!
[Xperia Arc Android Development] mani0608:
I am very eager to get a brief update on the fixes. I am very interested in Market and Youtube videos fixes...
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Larsiano:
Just a question by the way:

Say guys, who the hell is Diogo Ferreira, who is currently working under the import of CM 7 for the Xperia family? Just saw it here at pocketnow.com….

Is that jerpelea?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] dondavis007:
http://r.cyanogenmod.com/#change,7127

If arc/cm7 goes officially thats really nice!
[Xperia Arc Android Development] jerpelea:
diego is not jerpelea :p

is another FreeXperia team member and we are working on merging all freexperia devics to cm official tree
[Xperia Arc Android Development] xtacy!:
Hey jerpelea,

How is this different from what you guys are doing here?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Bin4ry:
No difference.

Our work is getting official CM ;-)

Regards
[Xperia Arc Android Development] funkyblue04:
As in it would (eventually) be a supported device on the CM website and avaliable for download there?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] veimus:
Open source download for Xperia™ ray, Xperia™ mini pro, Xperia™ mini (ROW), Xperia™ arc, Xperia™ PLAY, Xperia™ neo

http://developer.sonyericsson.com/wportal/devworld/downloads/download/40a2368tarbz2?cc=gb&lc=en

Is the source code useful in CM7? :) meybe camera fix its inside ? ;)
[Xperia Arc Android Development] deovferreira:
That's exactly it with all the attached perks, such as automated nightly builds.

I am Diogo Ferreira btw, I think I didn't properly introduce myself to the Xperia community here but I've done quite a bit of Android stuff and am the maintainer of the HTC Desire on cyanogenmod. For the past few weeks I've been working with jerpelea and Bin4ry fix all remaining bugs and integrate this into official releases.

I'll probably post here more often from now on.

Regards
[Xperia Arc Android Development] deovferreira:
This may be useful, indeed. Not for camera though, it is not a kernel problem.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] funkyblue04:
Thanks for your hard work! I did post in the other thread that has an SE Rep. If they are really interested in having custom rom's they need to provide the drivers etc.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] deovferreira:
Please refrain from heavily criticizing the Sony Ericsson liaison here in XDA, they have been more than supportive. The thing is, in these matters there are intricate intellectual property issues that pertain to several different companies and a supposed camera source would not be theirs to give.

Please understand that this camera issues are a complicated matter and we will get to it given enough time.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] funkyblue04:
I do not mean to criticise SE at all. Just they can be supportive with the development community if they chose.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] boober78:
I have a huge problem. I wanted to flash this rROM to my unlocked arc. I followed three steps from the second post of this thread, and there was an error in the recovery: can't mount sd card. So I wanted to revert to original ROM, but still even after flashing with fastboot, the phone doesn't start. It stucked on the sonyericsson logo and nothing. Before the splash screen, still Free Xperia project appears. Any ideas?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] deovferreira:
You didn't flash the stock boot image.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] DooMLoRD:
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[Xperia Arc Android Development] boober78:
Can you be more clear? I have flashed the stock ROM. What should I do?

In addition to that I would say that the flashtool doesn't see the device when it's connected in flash mode, but the fastboot flashed the device.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] jerpelea:
hy all

GREAT NEWS

WE GAVE MERGED ARC,NEO and PLAY devices into CyanogenMod

we will prepare new releases soon
[Xperia Arc Android Development] DooMLoRD:
congratulations FreeXperia team!
[Xperia Arc Android Development] l3mm:
Fantastic news and well done guys!
[Xperia Arc Android Development] kistigun:
Great news!!! Can't wait for a new release :D
[Xperia Arc Android Development] boober78:
Could you please help me solve the issue?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Raoa:
Someone fire the cannons in honor of this news. Yarr! :D
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Nimche:
Congratulation to you and the rest of the team. You have dedicated your lives to Xperia Android famly since X10 came out last year and with your development kept ""HOPE" for all of us that one day we will have better user experience and openness on our beloved Xperia devices.

I hope this is a big moment for you as it is for all of us, Xperian folks on XDA.

Thank you for your hard work and dedication.

Cheers,
[Xperia Arc Android Development] veimus:
Something for neo, can't wait :) good job guys :)
[Xperia Arc Android Development] foolmoron:
I just put this on my Arc.

WOW, this is amazing, best CM yet by far. So much faster than the stock. The hard work is definitely appreciated.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] jerpelea:
FXP018 is released

please test and report all bugs
[Xperia Arc Android Development] KuklinS:
Great work guys.=)

Just one qustion..

Why was original WiFi Mac changed to fake mac after update to cm7 fxp014?

And it'd be great if you can post changelog to the topik .

Thanks
[Xperia Arc Android Development] jamaljmys:
very great waited work, thank you team from deep of heart.

still have same error when flash from recovery:

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

assert failed: getprop (''ro.product.device'')==''anzu'' // getprop (''ro.build.product'')==''anzu'' // getprop(''ro.product.board'')==''anzu''

E:Error in /sdcard/update-cm-7.1.0-RC1-LT15i-kang-signed.zip

(status 7)

Installation aborted

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

-i formated aystem/data/cash

-erased userdata

-wiped completly

-flashed the new kernal provided with downloaded file.

solution please

iam staked on recovery and will not go back for stock rom.

thanks again
[Xperia Arc Android Development] boober78:
Ok, I came back to stock rooted rom. I've tried to flash the latest version from the beginning - flashing boot.img first and then in the recovery still had the same errors as previously. I really wanted to apply this CM7, cause it's the best thing that can happen to my Arc :) Does anybody has any idea what am I doing wrong?

\the error \i am receiving in recovery is:

E: Error: cannot mount SD Card
[Xperia Arc Android Development] jerpelea:
open .zip

extract updater-script and delete first line

then repack updater-script overwriting existing one

copy zip ti sdcard

then flash normaly

QUOTE=jamaljmys;16369683]very great waited work, thank you team from deep of heart.

still have same error when flash from recovery:

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

assert failed: getprop (''ro.product.device'')==''anzu'' // getprop (''ro.build.product'')==''anzu'' // getprop(''ro.product.board'')==''anzu''

E:Error in /sdcard/update-cm-7.1.0-RC1-LT15i-kang-signed.zip

(status 7)

Installation aborted

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

-i formated aystem/data/cash

-erased userdata

-wiped completly

-flashed the new kernal provided with downloaded file.

solution please

iam staked on recovery and will not go back for stock rom.

thanks again[/QUOTE]
[Xperia Arc Android Development] tRippinthehead:
@jarpelea

Hey, I had the same error and your solution helped. But I had to reboot RECOVERY to successfully flash.

GSM - not work

Statusbar - It is very difficult to expand it almost impossible
[Xperia Arc Android Development] jerpelea:
gsm works

flash latest 3.x official rom
[Xperia Arc Android Development] DooMLoRD:
@jerpelea

since a few FW (& associated basebands) are available, i think it would be a good idea to put up "Requirements" in 1st post... OR to add compatible baseband package within the ROM package (like u did for X10)...
[Xperia Arc Android Development] jamaljmys:
[/QUOTE]

its working....

thank you J ....
[Xperia Arc Android Development] jamaljmys:
same problem here

GSM - not work

Statusbar - It is very difficult to expand it almost impossible

no lock screen

came from last 3.x official build
[Xperia Arc Android Development] jamaljmys:
dear J

serious error on GSM here, not working fully. and when inter the Mobile Network setting >Network operator showing "Error when searching for networks"

i returned to official non rooted 4.0.A2.368 and then flashed CM7 everything working except GSM.

i tried to return to build 145 but no success to boot int system.

any fixes?

it seems cant downgrade to 145 also

thanks
[Xperia Arc Android Development] jerpelea:
we will update sources soon to latest 4.x.x.x semc rom
[Xperia Arc Android Development] jamaljmys:
thank you J

but why i cant go back to official 145 even from CM?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] jerpelea:
you should be able to get back
[Xperia Arc Android Development] jamaljmys:
i tried several times, device boot but not inter system, stak on SE log. but i could back to 368 very easy.

may give me a link for rooted 145 flash by flash-tool?

thanks

update

found one, downloading now. i will try go back 145 then flash FX CM. is this will be workable to solve GSM issue?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] jamaljmys:
ok

final i got GSM working on FX CM7...:D

if you coming from 368 new released rom maybe will not get GSM work on FX, so you need to downgrade to build 145 by flashtool. then flash CM kernal and rom and enjoy everything working.

thanks for J and xperia team
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Darth Glacious:
What could possibly be the use of a yet another half baked incomplete and unstable rom when the stock comes with Android 2.3.3 and reasonable performance?

What is the gain?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] SKaTaNtje:
Great release. Haven't found any bugs so far. Had some trouble installing it, but after some good reading I've succeeded in updating from 014 to 018.

Thanks and keep up the great work!