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[Xperia Play Android Development] HearthC0re:
ROMing newbie is gonna flash for the first time.

Will update. >_<

Update01: Allright..

Flashed the Kernel

Booted into Recovery

- Odd thing. NEXT or OK is the HOME button now?

Applied update.zip (install update from sdcard)

Applied googleapps.zip (install zip from sdcard)

Phone's Booting..

- Is it supposed to have the Sony Ericsson Logo with that orb thingy after the kernel logo?

Update02: fail No1

Device didn't boot. Stopped at the 'usual' SE Logo (the 2nd one)

Reflashing original Firmware now, looking if it boots then.. and repeat?

Advice would be great. =)

Update03: Haha.. my bad!

It seems the recovery expected an actual 'update.zip' file on board.. i renamed it. FAIL. :)

Installation complete..

installing Gapps..

Rebooting..

Update04: SkateDroid on Board!

Seems this time it was a success.

Letting the system boot for the 'first time' and will update with what bothers me.. or what doesn't soon!

Update05: Skatedroid.. fail?

Well the bootscreen of CM7 coming... and going.

Like the animation is completely restarting all over again.

The arrow does one round, and it all starts from the 'beginning' of the animation.

has been 7 minutes now.. will wait another 3.. and reflash the system it seems =)

Update06: nope. Reflash it is..

Nothing changed, still the same process over and over again.. reflashing and this time booting before adding googleapps!

Update07: Continous Biking and Hiking!

Kay, booted up and done.

Rebooting for googleapps.. <3

Update08: CM7+GApps up and running.

Great. I would probably never wanna touch this thing again now, that it is finally running.. (oh noes! 1 Hour of my life wasted to learn!)

.. but the missing data connection on GSM is bugging me.. BIGTIME! :D

Other than that everything seems to be running smooth!

BTW on Stock i have the option to force my mobile to use WCDA (or smth like that?).. i can't do that with CM7, why is that?

(i usually never drop to 3G then, and barely to EDGE if at all.. so better network speed in general for me)

So until that get's done, i'll flash either Stock/root and get rid of everything that's bothering me there.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Mills00013:
Where is the source for this being worked on? I'd love to play with it myself, but don't want to reinvent the wheel that you guys have already painstakingly built.

The FreeXperia github doesnt seem to exist anymore (not that it had been updated in weeks anyway) and I didn't know if we were making these builds from the official CM7 tree yet or not.

Edit: Looks like there are a lot of changes going into the Cyanogen tree for this device so for the time now, I'll repo that tree and play jazz from there.
[Xperia Play Android Development] jerpelea:
hy my friend

freexperia has grown from 1 repo to 22 repos

old one was deleted

updated link on first page
[Xperia Play Android Development] ncaissie:
One of the Devs should creat a CDMA bounty to get one for dev work. :)

Never mind. I see the thread fo this.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1126367
[Xperia Play Android Development] JelloFreak:
Where is the link for the CDMA download
[Xperia Play Android Development] Mills00013:
Its been pulled because it doesn't work any better than the GSM version.
[Xperia Play Android Development] zero_1_2:
Im skeptical about trying this with the CDMA patch used for FTS. I dont know if the stock 4.0 ftf will brick radio XD
[Xperia Play Android Development] mac_d4di:
are psxperia games compatible with cm7 ?
[Xperia Play Android Development] aDigitalPhantom:
I was trying FXP021b a while ago and forgot to post what i found. So this may not be accurate.

after clearing contacts databases rild stops at this line

[1] + Stopped (signal) rild

then after replacing phone.apk with the cdma one, I tired to dial *#06# out of curiosity and it was blank.
[Xperia Play Android Development] jerpelea:
another small fix

hotspot is working
[Xperia Play Android Development] jerpelea:
FXP023 released

please post all found bugs

after fixing all repoted bugs this rom will get RC2 tag
[Xperia Play Android Development] zerojay:
Just a question. I'm planning on installing FXP023 tonight, my first CM7 install on my Rogers X800i Play. I'm a little concerned when I see "GSM data conection not possible after 4.x update" in the list of bugs. Does this mean that if I install CM7, I won't have mobile data at all?

Or is that just referring to CDMA problems?
[Xperia Play Android Development] Logseman:
I'd say it means that you can't go into 3G... not an issue for me as I've reached my monthly cap :p
[Xperia Play Android Development] zerojay:
Are you using CM7 on your Xperia Play? Is that what you're seeing?
[Xperia Play Android Development] Nhialor:
Data working? Touchpads? Any ETA for nightlies?
[Xperia Play Android Development] loismustdie555:
would also like to know if the cdma patch would work without bricking :confused:
[Xperia Play Android Development] Logseman:
I'm going to do so now. I don't speak from 1st hand experience. However, it's the normal thing to understand.

*Edit 1* I've just flashed CM7. No data connection means no 3G. It gives an error while bricking it even doesn't save the APN if you feed it manually).

Home button broken (not even showing in Logcat when pressed)!! Thankfully there's a setting in Applications where long-pressing Back allows to kill the current app. As well, it works when the screen is off, waking it up.

*Edit 2* Touchpads are registered as part of the touch screen (white in svenk's calibrator app) and not as the separate touchpad (yellow). The touches are registered quite correctly, but they're axis-inverted: this means, horizontal swipes are registered as vertical ones and the other way around. As it stands, e.g swiping to the left equals swiping downwards, which brings the notification bar as if you had pressed the touch screens. Swiping upwards is registered as swiping from left to right.
[Xperia Play Android Development] zerojay:
Yeah, I'm getting pretty much the same behavior.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Logseman:
Do you have wifi?
[Xperia Play Android Development] zerojay:
Yeah, Wifi appears to be working fine for me.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Logseman:
My computer is giving me grief (BSODs and so on), seemingly some driver ran amok. I'll have to restore Windows 7...
[Xperia Play Android Development] xanderharris86:
Have many other people had an issue with receiving double text messages? Since I flashed this rom every text I receive comes in twice. I'm on an r800x using the nandroid backup that zero_1_2 made.
[Xperia Play Android Development] zero_1_2:
That was from FTS. I have posted a fix for double text messages in the right thread my friend XD.

Fix for Double Texts:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=16933489&postcount=167
[Xperia Play Android Development] xanderharris86:
So there's no way to use that awesome messaging app without it double sending? That's a shame!

And haha woops, don't I feel stupid!
[Xperia Play Android Development] aDigitalPhantom:
i appear to have the cdma version working with some changes, but don't know if i am allowed to upload the zip file i made changes to. i used fxp021b to start with.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Nhialor:
What changes have you made out of interest?
[Xperia Play Android Development] Logseman:
Home button works again! After flashing Google Apps, it works as it should.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Logseman:
Stock Mail app Force Closes while adding an email address...
[Xperia Play Android Development] das7771:
Upload it dammit....LOL...your contributing, thats what these forums are all about...I definitely look forward to trying when possible. Hopefully these guys want have a problem with that.
[Xperia Play Android Development] NeoandGeo:
I second the upload gesture. I don't see any reason anyone would disallow something so helpful. :D
[Xperia Play Android Development] das7771:
I am assuming you took the files from a /system dump and merged them into the rom. What would the command be in adb so that I can do it myself. I imagin it would be just taking some .apk's that are specific to our model and just adding them in. Am I correct? I know the /system folder is posted and I could just copy the files from my phone using root explorer but I would like to know what the adb command would be as well.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Blagus:
you should contact jerpelea about uploading because they don't want mirrors in order to keep download count.
[Xperia Play Android Development] das7771:
This also should be tested by a couple of users with the R800x before uploading for the public just to make sure the results are the same.
[Xperia Play Android Development] sdlaurin:
Since r800a is getting its bootloader unlocked do you foresee any compatibility issues?
[Xperia Play Android Development] aDigitalPhantom:
I had made a nandroid backup immediately after unlocking the bootloader so I unyaffsed the system.img the extracted the system folder from the cyanogen update. Then merged the bin folder without overwriting anything and copying any of the *.lnk files. with lib i merged the *.so files and did not overwrite. and added 01_qcomm_omx.cfg to etc. and for the last step copy the update to a new file, then in 7zip delete the system folder from the update.zip and re-add the modded one.

i know i am forgetting something but don't know what right now.

edit: link deleted
[Xperia Play Android Development] Logseman:
Phone functionality not working... android.process.acore Force Closing constantly after installing Gapps.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Cat_On_Droid:
Had the same problem, try super factory reset data. Including SD card white wash, settings and of course whatever FRD does.

Fixed everything for me.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Logseman:
Reflashing fixed the force closes. Phone functionality is still down.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Mills00013:
Build looks to be working okay so far. Time to fine tune the system and see whats up. I'm gonna try to duplicate your method, chevy, and see if i can pinpoint exactly where we went wrong.
[Xperia Play Android Development] NeoandGeo:
How workable is Chevy's upload? I will be able to flash tomorrow afternoon and do testing throughout the weekend.
[Xperia Play Android Development] das7771:
after flashing the boot.img I have been trying to get into the recovery during the first 5 seconds of bootup to flash the .zip file but no matter what combination of presses I do to the volume buttons I cant get to recovery. Can I just fastboot into recovery and flash like that. Also I was able to flash the kernel successfully.

edit: ya I would say you can not fastboot into recovery and flash like that as I get a status 7 and installation is aborted.

edit: I just let the phone boot up normally and then use the command: adb reboot recovery and that worked fine, im installing the .zip file now

edit: Ok so I was able to flash chevy's modded zip. Home button does not work, but every thing else seems ok so far, gonna do some testing and install gapps and see how this fairs.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Mills00013:
I dont use the CM7 kernel recovery unless I absolutely have to. I flashed chevy's CM7 using the standalone fastboot bootable recovery without issues.
[Xperia Play Android Development] loismustdie555:
any possibility of cdma kernel?
[Xperia Play Android Development] das7771:
I tried using the recoveryPlay.img but I was not able to flash chevy's modded .zip file I kept getting a status 7 error with lots of talk about the build.prop. So I just let the phone boot up and used adb to get into the recovery.

Flashing roms on the play is way different from my DX or Charge with this whole fastboot. So I still doing the whole trial and error thing, but I learnin.
[Xperia Play Android Development] das7771:
I beleive the reason there is no kernel specific for cdma devices is because there has been no source released.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Mills00013:
The prop errors will occur wherever you flash it. Chevy rebuilt the rom using the only base we had, which has incorrect prop identification. So you need to remove it from the zip before you do it.

I'll make it even easier for anyone who wants it (and as chevy before me, I will pull in a hearbeat if Jerpelea or anyone has an issue with this. And I dont see why they would since there is no official build even posted to try to track). Here is a straight nandroid backup of CM7 working with google apps preloaded from the r800x. This should boot you right into a workable slate. Remember to flash the kernel first.

Download the nandroid backup right here.
[Xperia Play Android Development] das7771:
Im straight now. I just booted into recovery that came with the boot.img by using the adb command and every thing flashed fine. Installed gapps and wiped data and cache and now my home button works as well. Every thing seems to be working great so far.
[Xperia Play Android Development] NeoandGeo:
With the good news that it mostly works, I went ahead and flashed it. Restored my Titanium backup, and everything so far seems good so far. I do notice, however that I can't hit the extreme edges of the touchscreen. I guess this is the bug talked about with only partial resolution is touchable.
[Xperia Play Android Development] das7771:
That's odd because I am not having that issue. I would try rebooting into recovery and wipe data and cache and see it that helps. Fixed my issues. Every thing is working great now, it's nice to be able to finally overclock.
[Xperia Play Android Development] zero_1_2:
would this cm7 allow overclocking? If so, i might switch.
[Xperia Play Android Development] loismustdie555:
does it work, have you encountered any problems?
[Xperia Play Android Development] antispiral:
Can someone try wireless tether to see if it works on the verizon play?
[Xperia Play Android Development] das7771:
Yes I am using no frills cpu control and got it overclocked to 1.517ghz and it is very stable no reboots as of yet. It's not CM7 that is allowing overclocking but its the kernel itself, you have to flash the kernel before you flash CM7
[Xperia Play Android Development] zero_1_2:
Wireless Tether on CDMA Xperia Plays:

on any rom or kernel. you have to be rooted though.

Wireless Tether

Change your Device Profile in the application settings to Google NexusOne

You should be good to go after that :)

-All credit goes to frostthejack for finding this workaround :)
[Xperia Play Android Development] crono141:
I just tried that on stock rooted, and I still got redirected to the verizon hotspot signup page.
[Xperia Play Android Development] loismustdie555:
is your wifi working because mine just says "turning on" then "error"

on a side note i used chevyowners version. should i use mills version?
[Xperia Play Android Development] zero_1_2:
Reboot the phone, then try the tether again. It should be fine
[Xperia Play Android Development] NeoandGeo:
I can confirm that fix works. I was able to connect my 3DS to the internet.

As for the extreme edge bug I can definitely live with this ROM. I love the customization options CM offers!
[Xperia Play Android Development] loismustdie555:
thanks, but i'm not trying to tether i'm just trying to connect to wifi (because i have no bars in my area) one more question, how do i overclock because on nofrills cpu control it give me a max of 1 ghz (the default) and if i try to change it in cyanogenmod settings and i touch "set max cpu frequency" it opens a menu with no options
[Xperia Play Android Development] loismustdie555:
really, i got a 3ds too but i didn't know you could tether it to your phone! (then again i haven't turned it on in a while because i'm waiting for a couple games to come out {they were the only reasons i bought it})
[Xperia Play Android Development] loismustdie555:
CRAP i forgot to flash chevyowners kernel! (for some reason 2 hours ago it lead to mills rom link! trying to flash kernel now

EDIT: noobish question. what command in fastboot do i use to flash boot.img, is it fastboot.exe flash boot.img?
[Xperia Play Android Development] antispiral:
It still redirects to verizon page and the built in hotspot logo appears in the notification bar.
[Xperia Play Android Development] loismustdie555:
Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just flashed kernel and restored from mills nandroid backup, and it works perfectly even wifi!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EDIT: that was ALL caps why did it change it? oh well i'm still rockin
[Xperia Play Android Development] loismustdie555:
it still won't work, how did you get it?

EDIT: it works just rebooted and retried and it works
[Xperia Play Android Development] aDigitalPhantom:
It's not my kernel, or ROM i downloaded the original from a link jerpelea posted and added/changed some files in the update.zip but did nothing to the kernel.
[Xperia Play Android Development] loismustdie555:
yeah, i just went through my history and figured out that the original link i got was a different one than your custom kernel. must have clicked the wrong link
[Xperia Play Android Development] bladestonez:
where can i find the kernel am i just blind or is it really gone? wanting CM7 on my R800x and downloaded the nandroid mills posted
[Xperia Play Android Development] JelloFreak:
I seem to be having trouble with Widgets. They stop loading and then are gone from the menu so I can't readd them. I did swap ADW launcher for Launched Pro if that matters.

Chevy posted his changes the kernal should be there.
[Xperia Play Android Development] loismustdie555:
Right here http://hotfile.com/dl/127891003/9160317/FXP021B-MODDED.zip.html

Don't thank me, thank chevyowner
[Xperia Play Android Development] NeoandGeo:
This rom is definitely the one to watch. Using it without one single problem except for lower than expected quadrant scores at 1.5ghz. Other than that its pretty much perfect as everything seems to work as it should. :)
[Xperia Play Android Development] neil_swann80:
Rom is lovely, fun to play with.

I don't seem to have any kind of screen lock/slider as default, with no apparent way on enabling one. Everything I try fails.

Also, one of the widgets fails to load. Whatever widget runs along the top.
[Xperia Play Android Development] das7771:
Hey Mills,

Can I just extract the build.prop from your nandroid and overwrite my existing one. I am having no issues with chevy's modified zip but I did notice that some apps that should show up in the market are not there, so I am assuming the build.prop is the issue. I think I might just backup my existing build.prop anyways and overwrite it, but I wanted your thoughts on that first.
[Xperia Play Android Development] NeoandGeo:
Also to note, after doing a factory reset, and wiping cache again, I still cannot touch the extreme edges of the screen for some reason. Like mentioned earlier my touchscreen can't register touches over 460x800 it seems. Only noticeable when I try and bring the taskbar up after sliding it down, and hitting spaces/periods on my keyboard.

This is very easy to live with, as everything else works, and better than any other custom rom/stock rom
[Xperia Play Android Development] neil_swann80:
Do you have a 'slide to unlock' lock screen? If so, was it there by default? If not, how the smeg did you enable it? Do you have a 3G connection (I think this may be a know bug)?
[Xperia Play Android Development] crono141:
Ok, got it working, but only in ad-hoc mode. Access Point still redirects to verizon.
[Xperia Play Android Development] NeoandGeo:
I have the rotary screen that was on there by default. It's rotary advanced I think.
[Xperia Play Android Development] aDigitalPhantom:
neil have you flashed added google apps?

and as for the extreme edges as far as i can tell i don't have that issue, did anyone flash the stock file in post 4? I did at one point
[Xperia Play Android Development] NeoandGeo:
I just installed over a rooted factory reset stock rom. Do you think it would make a difference if I flashed the stock file in post 4?
[Xperia Play Android Development] aDigitalPhantom:
That is the only thing i can think of that i did different, so it might be worth a try.
[Xperia Play Android Development] neil_swann80:
All I've installed is the stock rom, kernel then the update.zip from the SD card (GSM). Where/how do I install the Google apps? Didn't see mention of this on the install instructions?

I take it 3G is a no-go?

Thanks in advance.
[Xperia Play Android Development] das7771:
You can get gapps from here:

http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Latest_Version/Google_Apps

make sure to download for CM7 only.

Flash the zip through the recovery.
[Xperia Play Android Development] NeoandGeo:
I'm making a backup, and will flash the stock rom, then see how CM7 goes after that. :D

Issue is still there after a fresh flash of the stock in post 4. Restoring my backup, and for the hell of it I will reinstall the gapps package to see if that helps.

But, it's a very small issue, and one I can certainly live with.
[Xperia Play Android Development] neil_swann80:
That fixed the lockscreen, many thanks!

My new issues are that 3G doesn't work... which is a known issue... BUT also WIFI is not finding any hotspots when I'm next to the router. Back to stock for the time being methinks!
[Xperia Play Android Development] NeoandGeo:
The more I play with my phone, I am starting to think that I can touch all edges of the screen, but bringing the taskbar back up I have to be very specific where I touch it, and how much pressure I put. Very odd.
[Xperia Play Android Development] loismustdie555:
I am also having this issue of not being able to touch the extreme edges of my screen. I do NOT have a slide to unlock screen but I saw it somewhere in cyanogenmod settings (menu, settings, cyanogenmod settings) like Neil said it is most noticeable when I slide down the status bar and when trying to slide back up can take a couple of tries, and when typing keyboard keys on the edge of the screen. I would very much like this fixed because it is interfering with a couple of other apps as well.

And I have a 3g connection (don't know about Neil though.

Also I can see if I can locate the slide to unlock option for you and take some screenshots if you need proof.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Mills00013:
I don't see why this wouldn't work. Although I have personally not had any problems finding apps that should be there but aren't. Which apps are you looking for?

And to everyone talking about the screen dimensions, I'm personally not feeling that on my phone. I've been trying really hard to figure out what everyone is going on about, but i just don't think mine is doing it. Are people experiencing this issue after they restored from my nandroid?
[Xperia Play Android Development] loismustdie555:
Yes I flashed chevyowners boot.img (after wiping all user data/factory reset) then restored your nandroid (not the one in chevyowners post) through recovery (before booting for first time) then booted phone and did setup and I have the issue.
[Xperia Play Android Development] NeoandGeo:
I haven't tried your nandroid, only installing Chevy's zip. Once installing over the current stock rom I had setup, and once after flashing the fresh stock VZW rom. Both times I wiped data/cache. I also curiously tried after wiping data twice, and not doing a separate wipe of the cache. All times I have come up with the same problem. I actually don't think my screen dimensions are really that messed up moreso than the taskbar is hard to get back up.
[Xperia Play Android Development] loismustdie555:
another question, could you post the exact steps you took when installing the rom