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[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] schmolch:
Then you should get a 4" phone and a rubber-case.

The Active is too small for texting and horrible for games.

I love my Active, but my primary uses are cycling under all weather conditions, running and listening to music/audiobooks.

That's where the Active shines.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] davidzam:
Actualy this phone is great. Is not fast as a Mini, but performance is good for games, ant the fact that it can support the most hard conditions... :-D only complaint, battery life I fell is to short compared to a mini or a mini pro, anyone think the same? Any thoughts?

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[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Markus-SonyXperiaSupport:
LiveView syncs with the phone meaning it will loose the time if it drops the connection with the phone.

Xperia active is a very good phone for outdoor use. I've tried it in water and it works fine. It's not marketed to be more durable than other phones but looking at these videos it's pretty clear it can endure pretty much force.

http://www.xperiablog.net/2011/12/2...gainst-a-stanley-knife-hammer-and-jeep-video/

Since the phone's warranty does not mention this I would be more careful than the guy in these videos though. :)

I'm currently using Xperia arc but I've tried active for about a week. I play a lot of games and for that arc is much better in comparison.

-Markus

Sony Ericsson Answers Team
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] davidzam:
I stand corrected. This smartphone is awesome.

Using the stok Rom and rooted, no more tweaks, games like nova 2 hd or FIFA 2012 run smoothly, of course, the screen is small, but, the fact that can run those games, it means that this is a very powerful phone, a Mini that is water resistant. Great phone, worth every penny, very happy with it. I hope that Sony release a devise that upgrade this one, (like x10 mini to an Xperia Mini) something like "Active Plus" I'll buy it in a second...

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[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] dumraden:
You should see what it can do with OC...

;-)

I was actually feeling the pain when he was hitting it with the hammer. Does this phone run on Chuck Norris? :-P
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] davidzam:
How can we do an oc? :-S

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[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Soulfly1976:
you can overclock by unlocking the bootloader (use with precaution, and truly do read how to), root and install custom kernel and Spartan Rom from dumraden B-) ;-) recommended.

this thing is fast. it plays anything. took me some time to get used to it. first android phone actually. hope to reach 3000 score in the quadrant benchmark.

without overclock it runs like a charm.

+1 for active.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] davidzam:
I'll wait for a safest method to unlock the bootloader. And using supercharger alone and my score is great. Indeed a great smartphone.

:)

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[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] schmolch:
It doesn't matter how fast it is, if your primary purpose is texting/gaming it's just f*cking retarded to use a 3" phone for that.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] davidzam:
Jajajaja. You make of laugh my friend. :-D keep your insults and resentment to yourself. Don't contaminate our forum with your bull.....

:-D

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[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] dumraden:
Well he's right. Coming from a 3.7" phone, the active is way too small for gaming... And texting.... well lets say i do loads of typos due to my fat fingers :P

BUT... Its the best rugged smartphone out there. Apart from the Casio GZone Commando. That thing is a beast. But i dont think its got an unlocked bootloader. Thats also why i backed off from getting the Defy+... Moronic Motorola...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] davidzam:
Not only that... The hardware is great. Is a great smartphone. And I like the fact that is small.

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[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] davidzam:
Firmware .62 is aviable now for the Xperia Active? Thanks

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[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] davidzam:
Yes it is... :-D

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[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] arses:
Hey guys

I finally found : Use .m4a , .wma , .wav and .mp3 formats as Alarm, Alert, Ringtone ((without size and length limitations))

without changing the audio name for example: Alert-01.wma or .....

first copy/paste your favorite(s) music(s) to \windows folder.

ok go [HKCU/ControlPanel/Sounds/

OEMNotifications <------------<< for Alerts

OEMAlarms <------------------<< for Alarms

OEMRingtones] <--------------<< for ringtones and Alarms

in these 3 folders add "new value" and then :

Value Name: name.mp3 or name.wav or name.wma << name=name of your audio file that pasted in WINDOWS folder.

Value Data: enter a name for your audio that you want be shown.

Value Type: String

then click "ok" to set it and go to Setting>ringtones+sounds and see

I tested with .aac , .amr , .m4a , .ac3 , .aiff , .flac , .mka , .mp2 and .ogg formats but just .m4a worked as SMS Alert.

I try it to add a small .mp4 video as ringtone but did not work.

I think if we can add more formats for Ringtones Category it will be possible to have video as ringtone.

IMPORTANT: If you use a long music as sms alert you would not be able to stop playing it, so you must shutdown your phone.

do not forget THANKS
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] magdan83:
Great!

A big-big thank you for this!

I don't know how did you find this out, but this is great!

I always had to rewrite the notification sounds in the registry after changing the ringtone, they somehow it got resetted to none after, but now this problem is gone.

I can change notification sounds and ringtones like it was factory implanted.

Thank a lot!

cheers and Happy New Year to you! :)

PS.: If you could find the reg key to stop converting down the resolution of pictures attached to an e-mail, you'll be a HERO.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Snake.:
wait, FLAC?
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
Obviously, the phone can't magically transcode every format. The advantage of this approach (over the official way to install ringtones) is that you can use any format that the phone supports, instead of just a subset of them.

So no, you probably can't use FLAC. I honestly don't know why you'd want to, given the speaker quality of the phone, but you can use any file that the phone could play through its media player, for example (includes AAC/M4A, for example, which I don't think is normally allowed for ringtones).
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Ttblondey:
FLAC

Free Lossless Audio Codec.The highest quality in music/sound.

I think using mp3 as a ringtone is more than enough.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] arses:
Hey guys

Thanks.

I'm not expert. I just tried all formats to see is it possible or not to complete my theory.

I have an audio converter and I tried this method for all formats that was known as audio ,but with these 4 formats and even with the most popular format .mp3 we got it.

It was one of main favorites that all of us needed and now it is possible.

I am so happy.

I wish everyone enjoy.

Sorry for my bad english.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] arses:
yes .flac was an audio format that I saw yesterday for first time in an audio converter.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] arses:
yes really, mp3 is enough.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Ttblondey:
wait till you hear the sound quality.I prefer FLAC or atleast Lossless but it consumes alot of mb for each song.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Vintage144:
Im gonna try adding some other stuff using this method ,just adding files to the windows folder and proting to the corresponding path in the registry ,should be interesting!
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] neptunex3:
i am new to registry editor i dont know how to copy paste songs to Windows folder

can someone explain from which folder i can find the songs...

i am noob here please help me.

thanks
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] arses:
Hi

I tried to add a folder containing alerts using WPDM to windows folder but did not work.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] arses:
Hi

You can copy and paste your audio files using Windows Phone Device Manager or File Explorer installed on your device.

For these actions your device must be full unlocked.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] arses:
Important and Useful

Hi

l deleted this post because it was a stupid mistake.

I want say excuse me for this mistake.

All audio files must be in windows folder.

Sorry and sorry and sorry.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] poloche:
Works with Alarm ?? .. or i must copy my mp3 file in Windows folder if i want change my alarm ?
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] arses:
Hi

Yes it works but you know well that when you want to add audio files as ringtone via zune it must be smaller than 1MB.

Therefore if you want to use a fav music az alarm you can sync it as music and move it to Windows folder by FileExplorer.

If somebody could change the Zune limitations for ringtones via registry on PC all of our problem would be solved.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] kweis87:
Still not working for me. Anyone else having issues with the alert tones not showing up?
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] arses:
Hi

Please send some shots of your work exactly like the photos I uploaded in the first post.

I solve your problem.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] arses:
Hi

If you have sms alerts please upload here.

I will make a pack and I'll put them in first post.

Thanks
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] znial:
dendenmushi

here is a link from box.net with two sms alert based on denden mushi by One Piece anime

i love this as sms tone, so please add one of these to the pack

thanks in advance

ps

i have edited the registry but still cannot view the new sms tones on the list (and on custom ringtones values i cannot see any m4a, only mp3)
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] arses:
thanks for link.

In customringtones all are mp3 I just tested my theory with all formats to see which one works but you do not need use m4a, you need mp3 because it is more smaller than other formats in size and you can find it every where.

you can not find even 1 file with m4a format in windows phone.

please tell step by step what you did or take some shots like the shots I uploaded in first post and send here.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] arses:
It's not fair, 1,881 views and just 12 thanks for this thread.!!!!! :(
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] jeanek:
Thank you, thank inordinately, very, very useful option for me!
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] arses:
Hi

I gathered and normalized 31 sms alerts and I will upload in 6 hours.

Sorry because I'm too busy with my study.

Everyone find and upload good sms alerts here please.

Sorry I have problem with my PC but soon I will upload.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] kweis87:
So I attached a few screenshots. One of the CustomRingtones reg key, OEMNotifications reg key, and the options I have for setting the text alert tone. b8.mp3 is the one I'm trying to use for new texts and it's not showing up in my options. I have a second b8 key in there (without .mp3) but I wouldn't think that'd stop the other one from showing up. But I also can't delete that key, now. Any ideas, arses?
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] arses:
Hi

see the next post

Sorry
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] arses:
Hi everybody

I confirm my mistake and I edited related post.

All audio files must be in Windows folder.

I said its possible if you sync with zune and be in customeringtones but its not true and they must be copied in Windows folder.

Sorry sorry sorry
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] arses:
Hi

this .rar file includes 41 .mp3 high quality normalized SMS ALERTS.

enjoy
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] rbrsddn:
Thanks Arses!!!! I've been looking for a way to customise SMS tones!!! Sweet.:)
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] kweis87:
Confirmed this. I finally managed to get the MP3 copied to the right place and I can now select it. Windows Phone Device Manager would not copy the files to the Windows folder for some reason, but the newest version of WP7 Root Tools by HeathCliff was released and I could use that.

For anyone wondering...if you add a file as a Ringtone type, it's location on your phone in Explorer is "Device\My Documents\Ringtones\<Zune-formatted filename (ie b8.mp3)>." That's where I copied it to the Windows folder from.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] znial:
i get my den den mushi notification!

thank to all

with the wp7 root tool the job is easy and fast
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] arses:
good news

I'm happy of your success.

WPDM works with htc 7 pro.

Enjoy friend.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] derausgewanderte:
am I understanding this correctly that it is required to have write access rights to the windows folder? Therefore it will not simply work on any phone but only on fully unlocked (custom roms) phones. I have a dev unlocked, interop unlocked LG with Mango 7740 but there is no access to the windows folder.

Maybe it's just a limitation for LG devices....

thanks
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] arses:
Hi friend

I do not know exactly if there is File Explorer for your device you have access to Windows folder and other parts of your device.

But i saw that WPDM is compatible with LG devices. Try it.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] derausgewanderte:
thanks. I do have WPDM installed for a while now. No access to the windows folder.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] arses:
isn't there any file explorer for LG???

also DiagPrvXML can do it.

Go here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1238519
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] derausgewanderte:
thank you for trying to help. I actually tested some iterations of Marvin's app to find a way for LGs with no luck. It always failed at permissions to the windows folder. Maybe sometime in the future..
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
The LG driver for provxml seems to not have filesystem permissions (there are many different types of provxml, and the LG one has been found to support registry but not file-operation). You can still deploy files (though not to \Windows) using XAPs/ZIPs, but that's about it as far as I know.

Heathcliff74 says he's founda way to make WP7 Root Tools (which includes a filesystem browser/editor) work on LG, but it's taking a long time to implement.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] arses:
soon Root Tool will release and you will have access.

I hope everyone can use this method.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Fabri181818:
hi funny your sms tones :D can you try this???

ehm... arses thank you so much for this works great on my HD 7 ;)
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] arses:
upload your SMS Alerts here.

please collect them and upload as .ZIP or .RAR .

Thanks
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Fabri181818:
If you want here there are old sms alert of HTC Diamond

http://www.mediafire.com/?2mjfwywzymz
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] infrag:
Hello and thanks for your information. (I'll press the thanks button after posting :) )

I have install the Nextgen+ Rom for HTC Mozart but the instruction you give dont work with it for some reason. The main problem I am having is that the registry entries I add dont show up in the settings sound and notifications like they should. Also there is no HTC (OEM) section in the ringtones listing either which leads me to believe there is something missing regarding OEM notifications in this rom. I dont know if there is a registry setting to maybe change to enable or disable OEM ringtones to show up?

Have any ideas on what I can try? I'm happy to try anything at this moment since I'd really like to get this sorted.

Thanks!
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Garockt:
This works pretty good!

It's an great alternative to Ringtone2SMS since it's hard to identify the ringtones in advanced config when they are just called 67836487236473.mp3 ..

With the knowledge of this thread, I'd love to make an improved version of Ringtone2SMS, where you can rename the files.

I'm studying informatics and have some experience in C# / WP7 Programming, but i'm new to programming for unlocked devices, So I have no clue of how to add Registry entries.. I tried Google, but I just found links to Registry Editors.. :/

Anyone can give me a link?

Thanks!

[EDIT] Just found that Root Tools SDK, and as soon I get some free time I'll start programming! Cheers
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] :
Dang! I wish my HTC AT&T Titan was unlocked! All the cool stuff just waits!
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] BB.Marius:
what i do wrong... i put the file into the windows file, than i make a new value file with the name of the file, but when i press the refresh button the value file it's disappear. so i need a little help here ... :(
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] BB.Marius:
It worked ... using WP7 Root tools :X :rolleyes:
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] manganoid:
awesome :-D I gotta admit, at first I couldn't find What HKCU meant (LOL @ myself) mostly because i thought that Heathcliff's tool could edit the registry. Then I installed registry editor and voila :-) It works like a charm on my Omnia 7 on mi7rom. Thanks again for this post
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] yacineph:
Great !!!!! Work perfectly !!!!! Thakx !!!
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] MrAnonymus009:
Great !!!!! Perfect!!! Simple!! Functional!!

THX!!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] codyisnottanner:
I rooted my brothers phone for him about a year ago and I usually don't have a problem maintaining his "rootness'; except for this time.

He's running MIui and wants to switch to cyanogenmod. When he goes into titanium backup, he's getting a message that says "sorry, I can not acquire root privelages. This application *not* work. Please verify that your rom is rooted and includes busy box and try again".

I went to the superuser app and made sure he had root privelages, which he does, and also downloaded a busybox installler from the market and it is said he already had a busybox installed but i reinstalled it and the application said it has successfully installled. Yet, titanium backup continues to show the same message.

The weird part is, is that titanium backup works without a problem on sense roms.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LyndenP:
Try hitting the problems button within TB. It will install a good version of busybox for it. It might help. Idk

Boo
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] codyisnottanner:
Under preferences, it only offers a superuser update not a busybox
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bobarune:
Try updating the su. Some of the first 3.0.? versions make you lose root. In the new version 3.0.? that problem has been fixed.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LyndenP:
You know I just realized I still use a really old version of TB. It's probably diff now. On mine there is a button on the main Page that just says problems? which dl a compatible version of busybox. They must have changed it. Sorry man

Boo
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] codyisnottanner:
Its updated
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] codyisnottanner:
Problem solved: I went into titanium backup preferences and hit" force system busybox". I will give thanks to everyone who tried to help.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LyndenP:
I knew they wouldn't have ditched that feature. They just changed the name. Glad you figured it out. I'd be lost without TB.

Boo
[HTC EVO 3D] lrrowley:
I'm looking for something I can flash through recovery, not the ruu that you have to change to pmg.zip whatever. I've tried doing this and i can't seem to ever get it to work.
[HTC EVO 3D] KB112:
When you renamed the zip are you positive you renamed it to just .zip and not .zip.zip? So many people have a problem with this, as windows will not show the file type and they add .zip to the end. In reality the file was already named .zip at the end to begin with.

That being said there are some pretty clean stock-ish ROMS you can flash. Most just have been cleaned up a bit and a few minor tweaks added. I know lots of people like Fresh as his ROM is a cleaned up Stock type ROM.
[HTC EVO 3D] gk1984:
If I remember in the morning, I'll link to something for you. Go back several pages in the cdma dev section if you're on CDMA. There's a thread for it.
[HTC EVO 3D] lrrowley:
Yeah I'm pretty sure I've never done the .zip.zip thing. I have a Mac and I've changed it with Astro and its never worked. Is there something I'm missing?

I always go into recovery, wipe everything, and then boot back into hboot, wait for the pmg.zip to load, it says it was successful, and then when I reboot it gets stuck at the HTC screen. I have to pull the battery and go back into recovery to flash something.
[HTC EVO 3D] z50king:
did you not make a stock nandroid?
[HTC EVO 3D] Karl:
maybe these

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/htc-evo-3...ck-rooted-htc-evo-3d-shooter-odex-deodex.html
[HTC EVO 3D] lrrowley:
Thanks that's perfect!
[HTC EVO 3D] lrrowley:
I did.... but I wanted to try starting from scratch again.
[HTC EVO 3D] jamesjeter1:
go to scottsroms.com and he has all the stock roms like the ruu and zip.

I started over a week ago and I had to relock phone then run the ruu and all went well. I then rerooted to a stock rooted rom. Remember you have to relock before running the .zip stock rom.

i have my unlock code stored on my cpu so all i had to do is half the steps on HTC DEV. There is a walk thru on here somewhere to walk you thru unrooting the htc way.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veladem:
Hey guys, I'm helping a friend out with his bricked captivate, just wondering, is there a Odin .tar I can use to get him; 1 back to good health on any ROM; 2 have a stable custom recovery. Ty. Happy new years!
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] viny2cool:
Read before posting...read the stickies....and you didnt mention what kind of brick....is it soft brick or hard brick...what kind of rom? Froyo or GB?

For all the odins for Stock roms and kernels
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veladem:
I decided to Odin a few of those, but, for whatever reason cwm recovery doesn't start up, goes to the 3e I try to reinstall packages, sends back signature errors.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prbassplayer:
Flash a kernel with CWM or find the modded 3e recovery fix.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] veladem:
Tried, both froyo and gingerbread with and without bootloader, with and without cwm also.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prbassplayer:
You are doing something wrong. If you use a kernel that has cwm baked it there is no 3e it goes to cwm.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] blackdragon79:
All I want to do is be able to pick what Facebook contacts I want to sync to my phone. I tried using the app and sns neither one giving me the option to pick the contact I want to sync. All I get is a list that's greyed out but says select all but I can't select anything. Someone please help with this small issue
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mattykinsx:
Unfortunately I don't believe there is anyway to pick and choose.

You can set it to sync with existing contacts but that's about it.

Part of why google was talking about dropping support
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] mattykinsx:
Yeah so really the only way is to have it sync with existing, at least that limits what syncs