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[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madmajd:
man i'm wishing i lived in the US right now lol. Is there some kind of OEM parts website that sells it? I dont want to send it back to Sony because I know they'll charge me a mind boggling price. also BTW, when i plug in my headphones no sound comes from them, but the sound keeps coming out of the speakers. does anyone know anything about that?

thanks for the help
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madmajd:
I tried but ebay wont let me message him, saying that he cannot reply
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madmajd:
guys please bump this thread so that people who know about this can give us info.

bump:)
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ozzmanj1:
bumpe....bump....bump
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blingham:
I've got the same issue. Some dumba$$ duped me into trading a brand-new mint condition Blackberry 9810 for a VG condition Xperia Play - which at the time seemed like a perfect trade to me because I wanted an Android device... and the gaming aspect was intriguing. Little did I know that the SD card was fubar, and this guy didn't bother to tell me. So of course, I test everything except the card slot, and when I try to contact him again after the deal was made - he's vanished. His last reply to me? "Move on, sorry"...

I need to find a way to fix this, or find someone who can fix this (I'm not overly good with my hands, especially not on smaller parts).

Any help anyone can give me, or if the OP found a solution, and could post it here, that would be great.

I'm in the Toronto, Ontario, Canada area (which I believe the OP was as well - what does that say about the quality of the people trading phones around here?)

Thanks in advance.

Jay
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madmajd:
Hi

The weird thing is that almost exactly the same thing happened to me, except that I paid cash. Anyways, after about two months of searching on the net, I managed to fix the phone up. I kept looking online for just the SD Card Reader itself, but couldnt find anything at all. So, I had to go hunting for a damaged xperia so I can use parts out of it. After a lot of searching on kijiji, ebay, etc, I found one with a broken screen on kijiji in Niagara Falls, so I contacted the seller and had him ship it to me (I got lucky on that lol), and paid him via paypal. Then, I swapped the motherboards between my phone and the broken one because the sd card reader is sort of soldered onto the motherboard, and I have very twitchy hands, so I decided not to mess with anything and just swap the whole thing. After that, I sold the broken one (which has my old broken motherboard in it) on Ebay for parts. Anyways, the point is to buy another xperia with a broken screen or something and swap motherboards, and for that you need alot of patience because you can barely find any parts for the xperia play on the net. Or, just deal with what happened and sell your phone on ebay as is for parts. Good luck

Lol I actually live in Ottawa but I bought the device while I was visiting some relatives in Toronto, says a lot about the quality of people selling phones in toronto.

one last thing, if you're going to buy a broken phone for parts, make sure its GSM , not CDMA.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jcmejia:
I wanted to know if its easy to repair the sd card module on the xperia play the one i have is a at&t model 4g yeah the sd slot doesnt detect my micro sd i have a bunch of working micro sd cards thats why i was asking does it clip off or does it require soldering
[Captivate General] DraglineDrummer:
So, I had installed a custom ROM on my Captivate but it died several months ago and since they replaced it I never bothered. Now, I am looking for a new one and there are so many options I don't even know where to start. Any that you might recommend?
[Captivate General] TRusselo:
any of the ones on the first 2 pages of dev section.or mine. effin eh! (link in sig)

make sure you have gingerbread bootloaders if you are doing a gingerbread update.
[Captivate General] zelendel:
No one will be able to tell you what you would like. Please search before opening a new thread it would have saved alot of time and a now dead thread.

Thread closed
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inthepit:
ok... so before i root my xperia play i wanted to get a couple answers in line to keep me at ease with my phone and the ability to upgrade...

i know that i have to have all the stock bloat/crapware installed in order to upgrade (if ATT ever puts one out for it)... anyway can i backup the system apps with titanium backup and reinstall them with it, or just download the ones in the other post and reinstall them with root explorer...

or can i just use flashtool to reinstall a stock firmware (is this possible with a locked bootloader) or do i have to have bootloader unlocked to do this?

thanks for any and all help on this. just want to make sure all my ducks are in a row before i root this phone.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] inthepit:
i guess the main question i really need answering is if flashtool is useable with a locked bootloader. i want to remove some system apps, and then be able to just reflash the stock firmware when ICS or 2.3.4 comes out. is this doable with flashtool on a att play that is still locked?
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dannejanne:
Yes you can use flashtool with a locked bootloader My bootloader is locked but I have flashed 2.3.4.

Why not flash 2.3.4 straight away with flashtool?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] creepinm3:
Does anyone get applications that they used to use on their G2x before that get the "your device is not compatible" error in the market? I get it for the XDA premium app and I always ran it on CM7 now I cannot any ideas what to do?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] ckien6:
Me too weird.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Waldano:
Try to clean the cache
[T-Mobile LG G2x] servbotx:
Yeah, I started getting it on a game called Sprinkle.. if I flash back to stock it works fine but it doesn't on the new version of CM7 (2.3.7). If I flash an older version, it still works.

Maybe the developers don't have the newest version flagged since the only phone that "should" have it is the Nexus S 4G.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Waldano:
In most cases cleaning cache solves the problem. If u played with ur screen resolution just back to 240
[T-Mobile LG G2x] kesara:
Had the same issue and cleaning the cache solved it. Ideally if you have CWM installed 'wipe the /cache partition"
[T-Mobile LG G2x] creepinm3:
H'm I will try that, even with 240 I still get it so..
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yglup:
I have a few apps i developed and would like to put free versions on the market. I would like to incorporate ads, but am having a hard time setting them up. Does anyone know of a simple tutorial that details step by step in easy to understand language? I am a freshman majoring in Software dev and has been fiddling with android for awhile, but is having difficulty with these ads. Also i am using eclipse helios with the latest sdk. Thank you.
[Android Software Development] smadger:
WiMi

Basic Wireless Mirroring for Android​

Intro

There have been times when it would have been useful to output an email, website and other file on my phone to a public monitor or display. There have been various ways of doing this over the years, the TV Out function on the old Touch Pro devices, DLNA streaming, and HDMI ports. But, so far I have not found a way to directly replicate the screen, (mirroring) without the use of wires.

I have seen many threads from people who have asked this same question, and each time they have been told it's not possible, for various reasons. This project is to explore ways in which, however crudely to begin with, we can make this happen, and I have written a short brief below of why I believe it may now be possible. I am asking for help from anybody who thinks this may be achievable, or has something to offer that may help us in any way.

Theory

To create basic DLNA mirroring of your Android device for low frame-rate applications such as mail, browsing, and others. It is important to realize that it is highly unlikely to be able to create full DLNA mirroring for applications such as games using the proposed method, but who knows what can happen?

The basic mechanism would be to take continuous screen captures, between 1 and 30 per second, compress the screen captures into a suitable file format that can then be transmitted via DLNA.

I believe this should be possible - I have read that the new Sensation Camera App can record natively in MP4, in HD, in real time, which is fantastic, because as I understand it, MP4 works perfectly with DLNA. I have also noticed that in recent versions of Android, (I think FoYo+) there are parameters for ScreenCapture.

There may be a large lag using this method, but it is a start, and for showing a web page, text conversation, book, or text message, wirelessly on another display, it shouldn't be too much of a problem.

From what I understand, not all Kernels would be able to do this but I am unsure, so if anybody has any theories, let me know!

Suggested Basic Features

These are features that I think should be included as standard

1) Be able to predefine video bit-rate and frame rate via user controlled variable integers.

2) View the temp folder

3) Disable auto-orientation settings to prevent screen tearing.

Suggested Advanced Features

These suggested features are a kind of wish-list once we can get a basic app running well enough.

1) Direct camera monitoring - sending the image directly from the camera to the external display. (Probably resulting in BIG lag!)

2) Custom external screen resolution, possibly by upscaling to 720/1080 equivalent via screen density.

3) Ability to kill screen backlight, but keep capacitive control for scrolling web pages etc.

4) Output file to SD card for archiving.

5) Switch audio between device and external screen.

6) A "Start / Stop" widget.

7) Enable notification bar settings access.

If you want this concept to work, think you can help in any way, have an opinion or have anything to contribute at all, get involved!
[Android Software Development] smadger:
News

I have made a blank app with the essential UI components.

IT DOES NOT HAVE ANY FUNCTIONALITY YET, IT IS JUST A DUMMY!!!!!!

Download it HERE and tell me what you think so far.

If anybody thinks they can help with the core of the app, please get in touch!
[Android Software Development] andslide:
I love the idea
[Android Software Development] Cl8rs:
Same here.
[Xperia Play Android Development] thatsupnow:
Here you go guys north amaerica generic 2.3.4 ready to download everything works as it should I flashed it myself before uploading. Enjoy :D New link since megaupload is no more!

http://www.mediafire.com/?as5pa6ayo4gamw4
[Xperia Play Android Development] antispiral:
Will this work on r800x Verizon play?
[Xperia Play Android Development] thatsupnow:
I doubt it this is for gsm phones
[Xperia Play Android Development] Garner:
Any noticeable difference between this and the uk generic 2.3.4?
[Xperia Play Android Development] Flava0ne:
Thanks man!
[Xperia Play Android Development] Cat_On_Droid:
apart from extra bloatware ,and a potential '0% battery' problem , i dont think there should be any differences. (if ur phone is natively R8OOi )
[Xperia Play Android Development] Garner:
Lol
[Xperia Play Android Development] MechaBouncer:
Whoops, looks like I missed this topic and replied to another one instead. I'll repost here because it's more appropriate to this thread.

This release is the second release of the 2.3.4 firmware, right? I ask because I installed the Generic UK 2.3.3 firmware to my Google I/O R800a months ago and received the second 2.3.3 OTA update bringing it up to 4.0.A.2.368 about a month before the version for the North American R800a dropped. By all indications at the time, the UK firmware was getting updates out way faster.

But now this has been released and I still haven't seen anything come up for OTA or through PC Companion or SEUS. It makes me wonder if I should just flash back to the Generic North American R800a ROM with this.

Any suggestions/recommendations? Thanks!
[Xperia Play Android Development] dannejanne:
Weird. When I plug my phone into my computer PC Companion tells me there is an update for my phone (the version that this thread is about). If I search for software update in the phone it says I am up to date. I'm on 2.3.4 now (4.0.1.A.0.283) which I believe is the UK generic version.
[Xperia Play Android Development] thatsupnow:
The .283 is the Nordic 2.3.4
[Xperia Play Android Development] razor813:
hey guys is this for r800a? can i flash on r800i?
[Xperia Play Android Development] TLRtheory:
Sir OP... you are my hero.
[Xperia Play Android Development] thatsupnow:
Yea man this is for r800a
[Xperia Play Android Development] razor813:
what i means is that what is the different with r800i, can i flash this a fw on my r800i? thanks
[Xperia Play Android Development] thatsupnow:
There are no real differences except some different bloat apps and it will just say r800a in your about phone settings
[Xperia Play Android Development] TLRtheory:
So I've been loving this FW to death... except for one aspect.

BLOATWARE IS OFF THE ****ING CHARTS!

As if all the other expected stuff wasn't enough, now they're forcing Google Books, Video Unlimited, like 3 different "Get Games" things, LiveWare, a bunch of Facebook integrated stuff, OfficeSuite and PlayNow... and versions of Flash/Facebook/Youtube that can't be removed or moved to SD... holy ****.

Madden, Star Batallion, FIFA and Bruce Lee are also being forced... but I don't mind that much. I like all those games (still wouldn't mind having the option to move that stuff to SD).

The most annoying part is that if I uncheck Automatic Updates, it'll just re-check themselves and slam all those updates on my phone storage when I'm sleeping or something. That's pretty high up there on the "**** move"-o-meter.

Even still though... this ROM has been amazing... like 250MB free natively... 720p recording, xLoud... screen caps... but if someone could modify this ROM and kill off all that crap, I'd be in heaven.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Cat_On_Droid:
you can , with root ^
[Xperia Play Android Development] TLRtheory:
lol I found out about the zergRush method roughly two minutes after I posted that bloatware rant.

Happily rooted, and about to tweak some things to perfection. I don't necessarily want to kill off all the bloatware... I just want it off my goddamn phone storage :D

IIRC, I can just go straight into the system/app folder and every apk I delete from there uninstalls the app, right? I've been on stock 2.3.3 so long I've forgotten.
[Xperia Play Android Development] tgh0wnz:
Do you need an unlocked bootloader for this, or can you use it if the bootloader is still locked?
[Xperia Play Android Development] Spectre51:
I'd like to know that as well. Trying to learn what I can/can't do with this phone compared to the other android phones I've had. Gotta figure out how to use built in tether without a tethering plan next.

Sent from my iPhone 4s
[Xperia Play Android Development] Clienterror:
You can flash it because it's signed, you just can't flash custom roms without an unlocked bootloader.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Spectre51:
sweet just use FlashTool?

whats the main differences between this and the stock ATT rom?
[Xperia Play Android Development] Clienterror:
Yep, just load the .tft in flashtool and let it do it's thing. It's different in that it lacks the AT&T bloat and preinstalled crap. I think the preinstalled games might be different also but you can always restore the ones you had before.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Spectre51:
Nice. Might have to give it a whirl. Can I do wireless tether on the generic rom? Haven't seen how I can enable the built in tether on the AT&T one yet.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Clienterror:
I don't think so without modding or using an app, it's not a stock option at least.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Spectre51:
Well its built in to android just disabled by AT&T. I know for the Atrix there was an entitlement check setting which could be disabled in the build.prop that would allow you to use it. I take it there is nothing like that on the xperia play?
[Xperia Play Android Development] trueg:
Spectre51, do you mean Portable Wi-Fi hotspot? I have that as an option, just below USB tethering under Tethering & portable hotspot in Wireless & network settings. (Rogers stock 2.3.2 ROM)

TrueG
[Xperia Play Android Development] cyrusalmighty:
Hell yeah it has wifi hotspot/tether options in settings>wireless & networks>Tethering & portable hotspot.U cant miss it. & u wont get stupid AT&T message to dial 611 to fork over more cash for something devices were built to do anyways.lol. Oh & would u like the camera on your camera phone option, sir??:(Sorry for anti-att rant.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Spectre51:
Yeh works great. Anyone with an AT&T play needs to flash this rom instead. So much better.

Sent from my iPhone 4s
[Xperia Play Android Development] Tikerz:
EDIT: Nevermind
[Xperia Play Android Development] loismustdie555:
Will this work on my verizon xperia play r800x.

Or will it only work on gsm phones
[Xperia Play Android Development] thatsupnow:
Its for gsm phones, but maybe there is a patch to be able to use it on r800x? Cause someone else did get the r800i firmware running on an r800x so maybe just give that thread a look see might be some useful info in there that could be applied to this firmware
[Xperia Play Android Development] loismustdie555:
would chevyowners cdma patch work with this? or not?
[Xperia Play Android Development] loismustdie555:
alright, so i did a nandroid and flashed the system.sin from this rom, then installed both of the zips from chevyowners cdma patch, then flash doomlords v08 kernel plus wifi modules, and it boots fine but it says "no service" and it does not automatically mount my sd card when it turns on. :/

any ideas

btw i have an r800x from verizon
[Xperia Play Android Development] antispiral:
This is for gsm phones :(
[Xperia Play Android Development] loismustdie555:
yes i know, that is why i tried chevyowners gsm to cdma patch from here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1140540 (should be on page 2)

and thought it would work but sadly it did not. but it DID say in sim settings of root tools that my phone was usa, verizon.

anyway i just wanted the new home app from this and i got it by extracting from the system.sin inside the ftf. so im happy :) .
[Xperia Play Android Development] Spectre51:
Is this build supposed to have 720p video recording cause I'm not seeing it.
[Xperia Play Android Development] cyrusalmighty:
I think I read that the (High 30m)option in camcorder is the 720p/HD. Theres no options to change it to 720. Its probably 720 when you view video on something other than the phone(PC or TV) where you can see the difference of the resolution properties.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Spectre51:
Ah okay. I'll have to try it out and see.

Sent from my iPhone 4s
[Xperia Play Android Development] netizenmt:
Yeah

it didn't work. :D
[Xperia Play Android Development] CZroe:
OK, this worked fine at first but I flashed back and forth between it and the AT&T firmware and now it can't get mobile data. It fails to download setting during setup, even on WiFi. You can see the H logo for a moment when it attempts to download settings and if you load a webpage at that particular moment it will load successfully, but when it fails the phone goes back offline even though I can still make calls and the AT&T FW works fine. I did notice that one of the widgets that's enabled by default was not working correctly when I restored to it but it can still get online with AT&T 2.3.3. The only way I can get online with this 2.3.4 NA Generic is by loading the AT&T 2.3.3 FW first and then flashing 2.3.4 without wiping user data.
[Xperia Play Android Development] cyrusalmighty:
Thats strange that you should have to downgrade to AT&T 2.33 FW and it doesnt find your network automatically.Can you try to change your APN manually? Its more inconvenient then the "find network" option but you might find that you put an APN that gives you better connectivity then what your phone is given by automatically downloading settings.
[Xperia Play Android Development] matthewwing:
I also lost my APN settings, had to put them in manually, and now everything works fine. I've also lost the carrier billing option in the Android Market, but I'm not sure if that's firmware related or not. I've used non-stock* firmware on other phones and not had that problem.

*Should have said non AT&T branded.
[Xperia Play Android Development] CZroe:
I guess the AT&T FW includes the APN settings hard-coded and the SE generic FW relies on some kind of server to DL them from, so perhaps it was having an outage? I don't want to undo everything again to test. :)
[Xperia Play Android Development] matthewwing:
The settings I used were from this post:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1149523

And as I said before, everything works fine for me, with the exception of the carrier billing option in the Android Market, but I don't think that's related to the APN settings, nor I am convinced it's the firmware.
[Xperia Play Android Development] CZroe:
Thanks. I still wonder why it worked before and not now.

Anyway, you seem like the person to ask: Can I route tethering data over the standard APN like TetherMe did on iOS? I want to tether other mobile devices and I think that may be enough to fly under their radar (TouchPad, other phones, iPhone 4 with no SIM, etc). I own PdaNet for iOS but I don't want to buy that battery-hog for Android if I can help it, especially because it doesn't support WiFi hotspot and my TouchPad has no wired mode. :)
[Xperia Play Android Development] matthewwing:
I don't normally use my phone for tethering, but I tried it last night and it worked fine. I am not an expert on the subject, but I would guess that as long as you stay within your data limit, you won't have a problem.
[Xperia Play Android Development] CZroe:
I'm grandfathered in on unlimited. My understanding is that they want to force all Unlimited plan users off the plan and onto a tiered data usage plan so they aggressively police it. :(

Anyway, even with the settings copied over from the AT&T FW that work, I often get prompted by the browser that I have no Internet connection even as it loads just fine (basically, it says it before even trying and then finishes before I can even dismiss the dialog). Very strange.
[Xperia Play Android Development] thatsupnow:
new link up and running:)
[Xperia Play Android Development] CZroe:
Awesome! Thanks.
[Xperia Play Android Development] cp_kirkley:
Thank you so much for reposting this - Now I can get my data back!

Definitely a lifesaver.
[Xperia Play Android Development] bahamut201:
Excelent this FW is better than the AT&T crap the battery is better working.

Thanks guys
[Xperia Play Android Development] =Dynamic=:
For the italian is bettet this firmware or .62 ?
[Xperia Play Android Development] pikul:
I've just killed my 2.3.3 version removing stuff :p sooo time for a re-install im goin' to try this one, thank you for the new link :D

EDIT: installed it and try to get it rooted with superoneclick but fail, i google a little and someone recomend doing it with ZergRush method and it worked perfectly :)
[Xperia Play Android Development] jamesc760:
I tried to flash it on my xplay (att, currently running the 270 firmware), flashtool says flash cancelled as soon as I click on the ok button. Also, when the 0.42 firmware is highlighted, nothing shows up, no S1 file, no nothing. I'm going to try downloading it again. Any other suggestions?
[Xperia Play Android Development] jamesc760:
Got it working, had to use my Linux desktop to do it, seems like flashtool works better in Linux than Windows, go figure.

You guys are absolutely right! This rom runs better than the ATT .270 firmware on my R800at.
[Xperia Play Android Development] drinkypoo:
download missing

download is AWOL
[Xperia Play Android Development] CosmicDan:
Don't necro-post. Go here for FTF's - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1589399