[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gertman:
WOW paxChristos I am so impressed with how nice and helpful you have been! Even following up!! Are you shore I am in the right forum LOL :D I really do appreciate all the help!!

Okay lets see......so I am going to try and explain this out as simple as possible for the next guy that may run into this:

I used Alejandrissimo's guides to download these fast boot and root files I posted in my previous post. I was able to follow it and get into ClockWorkMod Recovery. Now the guide also said if you have another kernel for another ROM you can drop it into the fastboot folder on your PC and use some batch file to install it. So this is where I originally got tripped up and starting asking you for help!! The only batch files in this folder were labeled:

-DoomlordKernel (which u mentioned BUT is not a kernal file but a batch file)

-Drop_here_boot.img (maybe this one is not a batch file?)

-Root-Xperia-Play

Now I already knew from this help guide that in order to get into the recovery I needed to run Root-Xperia-Play. BUT I thought that this would just re-install the original kernel I started with. Please, correct me if I am wrong, but my understanding is that the kernel has the recovery built in?

So, anyway I put the kernel aka boot.img file in this folder on the PC for installing fxp. I ended up trying all three of the img files because I didn't know which one would work. In Alejandrissimo's help guide he mentions a file called:

Install_Kernel_boot.img.bat

This is the file that you are supposed to use BUT it did not come with the set of Fast Boot files for the R800X. So, I tried to post in that thread but, stupid me, being a noobie and all doesn't have the "privilege". So in another words, thank G-d for you!!!

Okay so, I didn't know if I was successful until I saw the boot screen with FreeXperia and also that I could turn the CPU speed way up :D

This is also when I posted that my Wifi was not working. Okay so now that you are all caught up with my saga here is what I did next.

I already had the fxp files on my phone, now please keep in mind it was running GREAT and it was running FAST!!! Only Wifi and GTAIII didn't work, that I knew of. After reading your posts I realized that my issue was an incompatible kernel with the stock ROM.

So today I tried to get into recovery without the fastboot trick remembering that Alejandrissimo's post said something about toggling the volume buttons to get into the recovery when the FreeXperia screen is being shown. So amazingly this worked and now the recovery was called Cryogen recovery instead of ClockWork Mod so I knew I was on the right track!!! I went ahead and installed fxp and the google apps AND my WiFi WORKS!!! Now here are a list of things that I have found that don't work. Please let me know if any of these are NOT common:

-Flash light doesn't work from the power control pull down menu. If you long press it, the notification bar will actually crash

-In the Dolphin web browser flash player plug-in for videos like youtube is spotty at best. Usually black with working sound. Seems to still work in the stock browser.

-GTAIII - on-screen controls will NOT go away and triangle circle etc. do not work :( Also the analog pads do not work in this game.

-Phone seems slow. It was much faster when I had the modded kernel with the stock ROM LOL. I have turned up the CPU speed some but my launcher which is Go Launcher does not seem to be too smooth. How fast do you run? I haven't really tried out any games that used to chug yet to see if they smoothed out. GTAIII didn't seem to run particularly well for the 2min I tried it out.

That is all I have seen or noticed so far. Also, should I be using the internal speed governor inside of Crynogen for CPU or SetCPU? Can I use both? Should I uninstall SetCPU.

Thanks again for all your help!!