yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Boywunda44:
I'm currently running the official ICS Beta with the Advanced kernel on my LT15a. Would I be able to flash this ROM without wiping data/cache? I know its suggested to wipe, but wondering if anyone has done it without?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Bushmaster78FS:
Cool, renamed it as .rar, unzipped, dropped the file and re zipped, renamed it as .apk, dropped it back into system/app with root explorer, reboot... lost the status bar and wallpaper...

Although, GPS related UI crashes stopped. I probably jacked something in the zipping process losing status bar.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] kizsleg:
Try using 7zip. rename it as .zip, double click the file, open the directory and drag the replacement file and overwrite it then rename it back to .apk and push it back and dont forget to set permission.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Bushmaster78FS:
Hang on let me try quick..

Edit: Good to go, didn't set the permissions the first time...

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Yea, unfortunately, systemUI has stopped. it continues...
[Xperia Arc Android Development] iridaki:
Please grab some logs, works perfect for me (see screenshots).
[Xperia Arc Android Development] matee89:
Great zdzihu!

I will definitely try it out while I'm waiting for the stable CM9 release (currently on CM7). Thanks!

P.S Harnaś, dobre piwko :)
[Xperia Arc Android Development] skiba:
Is there any way I can tune down bringing up the task manager when holding the home key. It seems to take a really long time (around 3 secs).

Thanks
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Istvan_86:
Hello, with disabling dormancy process I improve a bit my battery life, but I can´t get your amazing battery lifes like other ussers of this ROM.

My Arc lasts 12 hours with the next setup and usage:

100% display brightness

3G ON

2 gmail accounts sincronized

whatsapp

15 min of phone calls

45 min of playing mp3 with poweramp full

5 min of GoogleMaps

10 min of browsing some web pages

Rest of the time screen off with some screen wake up for battery % and hour checks.

Also I have many videos of 9mb to 13mb that I can´t play properly with mobo player, these are videos downloaded from youtube with tubemate. Now the sound and video are desfased and I always can play it without problems.

Also I attached to this post the log for BetterBatteryStats since I freeze the dormancy process. The log starts at 100% battery and it was made when I have 15% battery left.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Jonster111:
mediaserver

Can somebody tell me what the first prozess is for and how to disable it?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] punkmonkey1984:
^^^^

Try turning your screen down, might help extend the battery by a lot mines on 35%

Sent from my Arc to your eyes.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Bushmaster78FS:
OK iridaki... I grabbed a couple logs according to those instructions ...
[Xperia Arc Android Development] brian85:
Hey guys could you help me with my questions above?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] rashid.fairus:
no,just follow the usual instruction and you'll be fine..

edit:im saying "fine",but not taking responsible if anything turn bad,think 1st
[Xperia Arc Android Development] brian85:
At what point do I wipe data/cache in clockwork though? that's mainly the part I don't understand?

After flashing the boot.img, do I wipe data in clockwork, and then flash the update.zip through clockwork?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] adrianom:
zdzihu,

Yours ROM is the best ICS that I test on Arc, is fast, clean and everything work. Thanks.

However I had a problem. I'm from Brazil and when I change the language to Portuguese of Brazil (or another without being English), the interface crash, is repeatedly giving the message that the interface was closed.

Do you have any idea what might be?

Thank you.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] brezzz:
i noticed that the sound is really quiet, is there any way of increasing this?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] sminki:
On my LT18i ---

quadrant standard

[B][FONT="Courier New"][COLOR="Navy"]ICELite BETA1[/COLOR] [COLOR="Navy"] SE ICS BETA[/COLOR]

[COLOR="Indigo"]Total:[/COLOR] 1135 [COLOR="Indigo"]Total:[/COLOR] 1283
[COLOR="Indigo"]CPU: [/COLOR]1972 [COLOR="Indigo"]CPU:[/COLOR] 2695
[COLOR="Indigo"]Mem:[/COLOR] 1199 [COLOR="Indigo"]Mem:[/COLOR] 1326
[COLOR="Indigo"]I/O: [/COLOR]807 [COLOR="Indigo"]I/O:[/COLOR] 823
[COLOR="Indigo"]2D:[/COLOR] 278 [COLOR="Indigo"]2D:[/COLOR] 327
[COLOR="Indigo"]3D:[/COLOR] 1420 [COLOR="Indigo"]3D: [/COLOR]1246[/FONT][/B]

---

NenaMark2

25.2fps 26.3fps

Thanks zdzihu - over all it is working well. For some reason the first boot hung on your boot-splash screen. I re installed exactly the same zip and then everything worked, looking good mate! :D
[Xperia Arc Android Development] brian85:
When you flash boot.img, does that automatically wipe your data and any rom you were running previously?

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Great rom! Only thing I've noticed is the camera doesn't focus properly. When you touch to focus, it will focus only on the bottom half of the image.

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Also getting very slow data speeds. And wifi won't connect, says "authentication failed."

Love this rom though. Great job.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] rashid.fairus:
wipe data,wipe cache,go "advance",wipe dalvik
[Xperia Arc Android Development] somedude67:
what doesnt work?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] brian85:
Everything works from what I've seen...now that I've wiped data properly.

My wifi works now too!

Oh! Google Chrome doesn't work for some reason. Installs just fine, but then an error message pops up and says "google chrome only supports android 4.0 and above." We are running 4.0.3 with this rom though, so I don't get it.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] *boy*racer*:
Yes don't update google chrome to the latest update. It ****s it up. Luckily enough, I was able to un install the update
[Xperia Arc Android Development] brian85:
I never even had the older version of chrome. Do you happen to have the apk that works?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] maliceomalice:
Can i flash on arc s?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] brian85:
I have an arc s. Flashed just fine. Just changed my model number, as you can see below lol.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] brian85:
Is hardware acceleration in this rom? Reason I ask is because some apps don't scroll smooth like they did in the Sony ics beta.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] pushtostop:
http://db.tt/C7J86ZQH

Here ya go
[Xperia Arc Android Development] DemonicHawk:
I posted this in the official ICS thread, but I'll post it here again for those of you that want the latest chrome beta:

Also, scrolling in chrome is noticeably faster in this ROM compared to the official beta.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Nimche:
zdzihu,

Thanks for coming back, after selling my X10 i thought you will be missed since you dis-appeared but now happy to find you again.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] doomed151:
It's good to see you here, zdzihu. You were awesome back during my X10 times.

Anyways, I'm currently downloading it and will report once I've tested it. Let's hope this one doesn't have the WiFi problem I get with the official beta.

EDIT: WiFi is still kinda buggy. It stays connected fine but times out too often (doesn't respond; net stays idle).
[Xperia Arc Android Development] pradeepvizz:
Woooooooot :)
[Xperia Arc Android Development] iridaki:
OK, thanks!

Can you try this APK and report back?

https://www.box.com/shared/1dxaz695aubupca6ldlr

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[Xperia Arc Android Development] Bushmaster78FS:
No luck, iridaki, same UI crash still happens...
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Mycorrhiza:
My Sim card does not get recognized.

Tried both BB36 and BB64, but nothing works :(
[Xperia Arc Android Development] aimcr7:
Try to wipe cache and dalvik cache, and wipe google maps data. :)
[Xperia Arc Android Development] qetuR:
I believe that is you streaming music/video through some kind of application. Like soundcloud, google music whatever.

However, this rom rocks. I think that 3G takes more battery than with FreeXperia 7.2 but that has been optimized for almost a year. I have 3G data turned off and my battery is almost two days. Wi-Fi is much more battery friendly.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] emanuele95:
Wow amazing work zdzihu, very very smooth and fast! the best one...by the way i'm using it with doomkernel for stock ics beta and i have no bugs!
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Petter88:
Isn't the gps crash fixed in the "hotfix 2a" attached to first post?

I noticed that hotfix after I fixed it on mine following your instructions (thank you) for me it worked a soon as I remembered to set the right permissions.

Was just thinking flashing a hotfix might be easier for a novice
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Kyraa:
With hotfix 2a GPS works just fine.

I did find something interesting on the battery drain issue: After flashing ROM and hotfix 2a again I still encountered heavy battery drain. It was, once again, the Dormancy Service. I deleted the service, rebooted my phone and everything was fine (14 % battery drain in about 5 hours with light to medium usage).

I always charge my phone overnight and when I leave for work, unplug it, turn on the Music Player (Google Music 4.5.12) and listen to music on my way to work and read some news oder emails. What I did discover is that even if I had killed every active app my phone still would'nt sleep correctly after I unplugged my headphones and put it in my pocket. But, and now it gets really interesting, today I discovered that if I reboot my phone when I get to work, it DOES sleep correctly.

Long story short: Everytime after I charged my phone I need to reboot it to make it sleep correctly. It's nice to know that it is possible for me to have good battery life but it still is quite annoying to be honest. Maybe you can look into it and figure out, whats preventing the phone from sleeping. I discovered this only now. Maybe I could provide you with a logcat log by monday evening so you can have a closer look.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Mycorrhiza:
Its the hotfix that messes up the sim card

If i dont install that all is fine

On normal Arc that is with German O2 carrier.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] slo2lah:
Hi all, I wonder if it is possible to get or revert to the aosp lock screen music control UI?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] jjdoctor:
can someone be kind enough to send me Radio.apk and FmrxService.apk from his rom? plzzzzzz...
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Kiko_1272:
Battery DRAINN! XD

I though getting some Battery Stats would be useful to zdzihu.

I get around 18hrs with this ROM which is actually quite surprising considering ive gotten more from the stock one. Ive been looking at these stats and can't really put my finger on whats the real cause. :S

If anyone can help me out here by having a quick look though the stats to see if anything seems unusual and maybe how it could be tackled not only to help me but to help everyone else on here. :)
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Kiko_1272:
Uploaded the apks you need. Hope it helps.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] aakaash:
Fix the permissions and it will work.....
[Xperia Arc Android Development] aakaash:
Music Player Crashing

My Music player is crashing...any tips
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Bhambya:
Force stop music and clear its data. I had the same problem, this fixed it.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Bushmaster78FS:
Ok, let me try with Rom manager and recovery ...

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I will try this as well, I had applied hotfix2a though, I don't know why GPS was having problems still...

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SystemUI still crashes when I start apps like GPS Status... what the... how do I fix this?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Mecyjek:
I can't add facebook to synchronize in settings menu.

Call settings looks like in GB FW.

ATM i don't see other bugs.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Nimche:
zdzihu,

I should admit that this version is the most battery surviving ROM I have ever tried on any smart phones to this day. After some phone calls and web browsing yesterday for 18 darn hours my battery was still at 76%.

It looks like it doesn't use any battery at all. Great job as usual.

Thanks for being here.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] shtreber:
Hello,

I haven't seen if anyone posted, alarm is missing.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] gueszman:
I can't see the subtitles using HDMI out.... How can i fix it? Exist any way?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] jtc42:
Finally got some time to test this again and I have some screenshots of the framework scrolling bug, if anyone can help?

In the attached images notice the fast scroll bar is the huge old style and in the case of music, actually crushes the list content to one side.

It's supposed to be the thin blue style bar seen here, and the weird thing is all the image resources are in the framework as they should be.

The Arcronium ROM has this working fine and the image resources are virtually identical, so it must be an XML file that needs changing.

Does anyone know which XML element controls this?

Cheers :)

Update: I have spent the best part of 2 hours working on fixing this now and I keep drawing blanks. Nothing I do seems to get this back to how it should be, so if anyone at all has any idea, it's be great to have a go :)
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Petter88:
Alarm is working fine, you get to it by opening clock and clicking the alarm text below the clock
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Petter88:
This is not a rom issue but rather a compatibility issue between the facebook app and ics afaik. You will have to make due with third party sync software, personally I use haxsync, but while doing its job fine it does cost a little bit of money, might be a good free alternative around.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] iridaki:
First of all, you sound demanding and that is unreasonable.

Second of all, this is *big neon lights*

BETA *big neon lights*.

It means that there bound to be issues and the developer bears no responsibility whatsoever.

What you do with your phone and why concerns nobody but you.

Just FYI.

Also I'm sorry but I don't get WiFi disconnections, bring me a Bible, I'll put my hand on it and swear. :p

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[Xperia Arc Android Development] mineralvann:
wifi works great for me too, but it did before the first hotfix too. Also get great battery life. Got 2 days and 14 hours before i had to charge, with average use, when all other roms ive tried except stock and arconium with one of dooms test kernels have left me with less then 30% at the end of a day, deepsleeps working great with 3-4% lost after 8 hours of sleep. But this thread is filled with bugs ive never had, making me think some took shortcuts when installing this room. I just flashed a ftf file with just bb 64 then wiped data, cache and dalvik before i installed.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] jjdoctor:
True... his tone is not good... Did the same on my thread ...lol

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=23225909&postcount=158
[Xperia Arc Android Development] kormatoes:
Wow 2 hours is that all , lol ,quick way rename .zip open unzip find that png the gray one open with paint or fireworks replace with img with the correct one rezip rename .apk in rootxplorer

Push to framework

I might get time tomorrow night
[Xperia Arc Android Development] jjdoctor:
I think the aosp framework is not resized to our Xperia phones... remember gb framework or even stock one is small in icons text etc...

Anyway, i managed to resize it to our screen and added ICS color ticks and on/off switch .. They suit ICS theme more.. Hope someone likes this way...:)

Flash in recovery...

http://db.tt/4nBYvJ83

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Interestingly it doesn't change even if you change it... It still remains gray... This blue slider works in some places but not all...
[Xperia Arc Android Development] jtc42:
Cheers for that. I'll try it out asap.

Also yeah, as you said, it's not as easy as replacing the image (that was the first thing I tried), it's some XML deeper down that's causing the issues
[Xperia Arc Android Development] kormatoes:
What -I do it every day only if you decompile and recomplile the PNG info is different that why I said. ! unzip !

If it didn't work then its something your doing wrong

Its done everyday on most themes so I know this will work nothing deeper only PNG id
[Xperia Arc Android Development] kormatoes:
Then u done wrong because mine is done

It took 2 mins just replace PNG set transparency save
[Xperia Arc Android Development] jtc42:
Do you mind sharing your fixed framework then?

As I said I'm not very experienced with this so I'm interested to know what I was doing wrong. All I got by replacing the images was a huge inflated blue bar.

I'm interested to see what you did :)
[Xperia Arc Android Development] S L A Y E R:
update the kernel support AD2SDX thanks
[Xperia Arc Android Development] jjdoctor:
hehe... Actually you not getting my point... It works in SOME places where i see that blue bar ... i don't remember the file exactly but it had 'Scroll' in its name... You check my framework i uploaded in previous post, it has it changed already.....

Anyway, share your framework then...;)
[Xperia Arc Android Development] jtc42:
The files you changed in the framework you posted are a different scrollbar effect to the one I'm referring to. Please see the screenshots I attached in the post. The problem isn't in the normal scroll thumb, its in the fastscroll thumb you get in long lists such as music and contacts.

I think there's something in the framework telling it to use the scrollbar_handle_accelerated resources instead of the fastscroll_default_thumb_holo files.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] iridaki:
Download a Windows program called DiffMerge (it's free). Decompile both the stock ICS framework and Z's framework. Now DiffMerge between the 2 res folders. Put stock on the left and Z's on the right. Ignore the different png files and look closely in the XML files. You'll find the culprit. ;)

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[Xperia Arc Android Development] jtc42:
I think I have a new favourite application. That program is amazing!

I THINK I've tracked it down to a block in res/values/attrs.xml that appears in the IceLite FW but not in the stock framework. Just tried to modify and recompile but got an error and a bootloop so I'm gonna try again in a bit.

I think it's this block of XML. It appears in this ROM but not in stock ICS.

<attr name="fastScrollOverlay" format="reference" />
<attr name="fastScrollOverlaySize" format="dimension" />
<attr name="fastScrollThumb" format="reference" />
<attr name="fastScrollThumbWidth" format="dimension" />
<attr name="fastScrollThumbHeight" format="dimension" />
</attr>

Update: Yeah every time I change any resources I have to edit loads of other files to compensate and I just keep getting bootloops. I'm not very good at this kind of stuff but it still seems a bit complicated for such a seemingly trivial problem O.o
[Xperia Arc Android Development] iridaki:
And that goes to show how much hard work people are putting into things shared here, even if it is just a theme (let alone a whole ROM). ;)

It's the way it is, everything is connected and structured, you want to change something, you need to accomodate the change into all related aspects of the framework.

As far as your issue is concerned, it's about the "legacy" theme. Since Honeycomb and now ICS, holo theme is the default theme. Some applications however still use the old Android theme resources, including the old scrollbar which looks a bit odd when mixed with the holo theme. This ROM is a combination of stock Sony ICS beta (aka Sony skinned) and AOSP Android. Most probably this is the reason why you are seeing this glitch.

While I am the one to always look for perfection, I feel that Z should not be bothered with the scrollbar at the moment. So, I suggest that you open a new thread about it in Themes & Apps or Q&A section, so many more people, even those not using this ROM atm, can help you.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] jjdoctor:
I have one Serious issue with my Xperia Ray port of this Rom..

When i play videos, the seek bars are laggy... Slider lags even on YouTube videos... video playback is not laggy and video moves fine but slider doesn't move with finger drag... It remains stuck for 3 to 4 secs and then moves... This happens universally with all media players i tried from market and even default Google video player...

Also there is a blue circle at top of videos... I attached pic of that... You can see it on top border of video... This appears with Google video player

Someone knows where can the fault lie? That's the only bug my Rom is facing....
[Xperia Arc Android Development] jtc42:
I completely agree. It's definitely not worth worrying about. It was just interesting to see if it could be fixed without a huge amount of work. Having seen the issues it causes trying to fix it, there's a million more important things people could do.

Great point for learning though I guess :)
[Xperia Arc Android Development] ragdoll20:
Amazing rom, thank you so much!! One small thing, i cant end phone calls!! the diconnect button doesnt react.. I already installed the hot fixes. Can anyone help?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] rafu997:
This kind of problems peaople are having when they are on baseband 36. With 64 everything is fine. All this was previously explained in this thread.
[Xperia Arc Android Development] aakaash:
It is in the clock...from there you can set alarms...

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It is there....atleast it works for me....
[Xperia Arc Android Development] mineralvann:
Does anyone else get fc message when opening shaazam? It still works just just have to press ok on the message saying "System interface has stopped"
[Xperia Arc Android Development] kormatoes:
Thanks z ya rom rocks love ya lockscreen ,iradaki for her fixes :thumbup:

I'm happy with what my phones now

I'm leaving it like this till official ics

Am taking my ass back to Neo

Thanks z

Fast scroll quick fix

Only pngs

http://db.tt/s12cDfGc

http://db.tt/s12cDfGc

Replace these will do properly in morning
[Xperia Arc Android Development] iceofhavik:
Would be perfect if we could have timescape and the new widgets working
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Petter88:
Not having the heavy Sony stuff is kind of the point of a stripped rom like this
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Mecyjek:
zdzihu my arc s sometimes reboot when i use home button to open menu runing apps.

I just rapport bugs :)

regarts
[Xperia Arc Android Development] Jonster111:
Did anyone have restored a backup with this rom?

Cause with the rom i've used before, after restoring a backup, music and dsm sound manager didn't work...

THX
[Xperia Arc Android Development] wayne850:
great rom. Been testing this on my lt18i for a while. But somehow it is not booting by 1,4 GhZ?!? CPU Spy and Antutu only shows max. 1 GhZ...can someone help?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] kormatoes:
u have oc kernel

Ar booting right
[Xperia Arc Android Development] wayne850:
sometimes the answer is right in front of you :D thanks korma
[Xperia Arc Android Development] kormatoes:
I think he taking the mic :)
[Xperia Arc Android Development] wayne850:
german people and english language haha bad combination xD
[Xperia Arc Android Development] jjdoctor:
Here a Few ICELite Battery % Mods I made...

Warning: It will remove your Mods you made to Framework and systemui.apk

Visit HERE

Have fun...:)
[Xperia Arc Android Development] ArmorD:
Another annoying noob question: is this faster than Arconium ics?
[Xperia Arc Android Development] kormatoes:
Hahaha mint
[Xperia Arc Android Development] wayne850:
Yes it is imo