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[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] MrMmmkay:
Not sure if that helps you, i comming from xperia play, and for the play there are some great kernels with very good battery life ;).

Look here (its for GB, dont know if NFS/CIFS is relevant for ICS):

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1176502

And here is a quit good ICS Kernel:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1573184

If that dont help ignore that post :D
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Riyal:
I don't believe that disabling CIFS/NFS enhances battery life. That was proven already on my Ultima kernel gingerbread. Anyhow could you provide screenshots of the battery view window on the settings? I would like to see which process eats the most. That should narrow down my lookup on the problem.

Regarding Jellybean update haven't downloaded it yet but I will take a look when I have the time. Although I doubt it would work with sony kernel.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] MrMmmkay:
Screenshot is bad at the moment, but here are the programs:

- K-9 Mail 20%

- Display 16%

- Cell Standby 16%

- Standby 14%

- Android OS 10%

- Bluetooth 8%

- Android System 7%

- Google Calendar Sync 6%

- WLAN 3%

And here the Kernel Wakelocks:

- "usb_bus_active" 9h 46m 59s 29,5%

- "bq24185_watchdog_lock" 9h 46m 57s 29,5%

- "PowerManagerService" 3h 44m 51s 11,3%

- "DATA5" 1h 28m 37s 4,5%

.

.

.

EDIT:

By the way, on the Xperia Mini Pro with stock rom Wifi deactivates in stanby mode, testet it right now...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] MrMmmkay:
I have another question. There is no Auto brightness function on my pro with stock ics, how can i turn on auto brightness? Is that Kernel relatet, or rom related?

EDIT:

Umm, could anybody upload the stock wifi modules for mk16i? Was trying to look if wifi deactivate in standby on stock kernel (after i have seen that it works on mini pro), but cant test without the modules :D
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] hazzik:
me too im having battery drain issues

im using v1.4 kernel on stock ics rom.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] michalurban:
ICS kernel

Hi, Im getting my Xperia Pro this week and as a flasher (:D) Im curious about one thing - do you think it would be possible in the future to use 3.x kernel instead of 2.6.x currently present in Sony ICS update?

And another thing - how come theres no pure android AOSP available for this phone. Seems weird ...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Riyal:
I couldn't really determine the battery problem :/ Here's my screenshot with constant usage of SMS + using live wallpaper which are known battery eaters

If I don't use live wallpaper and put the phone on standby then I only get like 6% battery reduction in 10 hours.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Riyal:
I am planning to do that. But kernel 3.0 sources from Sony is still not out.

http://developer.sonymobile.com/wportal/devworld/search-downloads/opensource

if somebody sees sources there with 6.1.**** then report it to me and I'll start porting 3.0 to pro. ;)

Regarding AOSP roms I am not a fan of that type of ROM as I am very2x happy with sony ROMs. So that depends actually on the developers taste I guess if they're interested in porting a specific type of ROM.

@All

I am asking your support to please convince qwerty in resuming his project of Paranoid ROM for Pro.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1731586

That's because some ...... mod locked his thread and moved it to a wrong sub forum and I think the developer has already lost motivation in resuming the project.

*Sigh* I am really annoyed on this case as I can't really imagine a development thread was moved to general section just because there was no download link.

Duh..... This was a development section not a download section so I don't see the point of it being moved to somewhere else and locked out.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Dexxmor:
The Pro has no dev community, we have two dev's (Riyal and FXP) and some Porters, thats all :crying: (My thanks to the dev's and porters)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] MrMmmkay:
I would dream of such a battery graph :)

How can i make Screenshots with ICS Stock ROM? No Menu point for that when i press the power button long like under gb.

The Battery consumation today is quite the same as yesterday, 66% after 7 hours of very little use :(.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Dexxmor:
Power button and Volume - = Screenshot
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] MrMmmkay:
Hmmm, wont work here, just reduces the volume

EDIT:

OK, after many tries it worked :), Screenshots are following soon
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] MrMmmkay:
Here are the Screenshotsfrom today Battery use, First Android application, than betterbattery for deeper Information.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] 1stichiban:
hi, before anything else please allow me to thank you for your work.

Right now, i reverted to GB Ultima 1.1.1 kernel. i am unable to get similar battery performance for ICS :(

The best i got was about 25 hours, not bad (i think) but with GB Ultima 1.1.1 i can get more than 36 hours ;))

Right now i'm trying out GB Arconium 8.2.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Riyal:
On kernel wakelock all seems fine. Powermanager service is just normal to have so many wakes since it handle power management. Same goes for alarm since secureclockservice process uses this. DATA5 is the 3g connection you have.

On Partial wakelock seems like k-9 mail is the only one causing process polling. So it's one of the main causes of battery drain. And seeing your mobile signal connection seems like it's not stable enough which might also cause battery drain. By the way if you don't mind could you also make screenshots of stock kernel?

If you're using Ultima ROM on GB then no doubt it should have better battery life indeed. It has tweaks which handles better IO performance. Also GB is way obviously more battery efficient compared to ICS. ICS has alot more background proccesses compared to GB. So unless you disable those proccesses/remove them GB is the obvious winner here.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] MrMmmkay:
Hmm, I run K-9 with same settings on my Play, and on the Mini Pro of my girlfriend without having battery issues, but i can test with k-9 deaktivatet to see if thats the Problem.

When you can Upload the Stock Wifi Modules i can start to test with stock Kernel :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Riyal:
Stock modules

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/56328232/Kernel/wifi-modules-stock.zip

Stock kernel

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/56328232/Kernel/kernel.sin
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] MrMmmkay:
Thanks! I have the Kernel already out of the .ftf, want to trie it last week but cant because of missing wifi modules ;).
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Riyal:
Thanks and please give feedback on the results! :)

Cause we should have the same kernel running on your screenshot and my screenshot so I really have no idea what causes the battery drain since it's super ok on my device. Checked logcat and no errors whatsoever which would cause any battery drain.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] hazzik:
Riyal please use cm 9 on ultima ics.

Sent from my MK16i
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] RamEsRock:
You can't. ICS stock Kernel is different to the one used on CM9.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Riyal:
I don't see any advantages of using CM kernel on a stock ROM :/

Could you enlighten me with the advantages? Other than being able to use CM ROMs.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] hazzik:
I mean make a rom based on cm 9 for ultima ics.

Sent from my MK16i
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] RamEsRock:
I think he means an AOSP Rom for Ultima (or at least that's why I understand).

And to be honest, I'd really like an AOSP kind of ROM for a Stock Kernel rather than CM9. And that's mostly why I want someone to port JJ's ROM to the Pro.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] M Junaid:
Sorry for the newbie qestion...

can i get Xperia S features on Xperia Pro 4.0.4?

its rooted with unlocked bootloader

Mj
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] erlern:
Hi, anyone tested the new Camera Lib for the Xperia from http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=28195759&postcount=54 yet?

Any reviews? Does it work? Thanks :) Thought of mentioning it here... not sure whether it's a placebo effect or not.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] MrMmmkay:
Hi!

So here are the results with Stock Kernel. Exactly the same use and the same places visited as the ones with Kernel 1.4, looks like there is a drain Problem in your Kernel :(. I think when i turn off Push Mail I can get even more time out of the battery, so that it should be possible to get ~10% in 7 hours with stock Kernel.

Next test will be Kernel 1.4 without Pushmail.

EDIT:

Also tested if Wifi turns off in Standby, its true that this function wont work, even with Stock kernel, its strange because it works on Xperia Mini Pro with same ICS Version.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] xtremepredador:
Friends I'm on 2.3.4 Gb stock rom Cwm functional bootload and locked when the room I was in boot loop, any help?

sorry my bad english
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Riyal:
Hi! Thanks for the result! Ok I did some comparison on both of your screenshots from the custom kernel and the stock one. 1st thing I noticed is the network signal.

The network coverage plays a big part on battery consumption. Having a green bar on the stats means that you have a decent signal and the phone doesn't give much effort on trying to sniff some network dbms.

The yellow bar means that it's exerting alot more power to get network signal which means it eats alot more juice on the battery.

Having grey colored bar means it's exerting power plus trying to look up alternative cell tower coverage so that's even more consumption on battery.

Comparing the 2 pictures the other should have a big difference on battery life compared to the other.

2nd is the display. looking at the process stats. On the older screenshot display tops the most used process by 21% while on the newer screenshot display ranks just on the 6th place. Meaning phone was on sleep mode most of the time on the newer screenshot compared to the 1st one. So that's a big effect on battery difference again.

On the wakelocks part seems like ultima kernel wins on partial and kernel wakelocks. As you can see on both screenshots ultima has less number of wakes on everything compared to stock one.

That's my comparison :)

As a good example look at how display take it's toll on battery life :)

Display there tops the processes at 49%. And that's even with a lot more decent network signal.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] MrMmmkay:
Thats realy interesting. Never thought about GSM signal. But what i dont understand is that the signal on the first try is not as good as on the last one, i visited exactly the same places (my bed, the bathroom and know i am on work). Strange thing.

When you compare the first two screenshots you see that the Display was ~same used till i tried to make screenshots (what not worked at first try :D), that makes ~3% off the Battery life (had 67% when started to take screenshots), so thats not realy a great difference for the comparing.

BUT i just remeber that i turned off "automatic network search" yesterday, so thats different to the first test. I will try again and see if that has such a great effect.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] MrMmmkay:
So here are the results of today, Kernel 1.4 WITHOUT pushmail. Battery is lower then yesterday with pushmail, but the gsm signal is also lower (crazy, phone laid the whole day at my desk but gsm signal gets lower). Tomorrow i test 1.4 with pushmail again to get final results ;).
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] arcascomp:
Hi, not sure if what I want is possible. Just upgraded my Xperia Pro to official ICS 4.0.4 and there is not ICS encryption included which I need for work, however I am not allowed to root the phone either!

Can I unlock the bootloader, flash v1.4 kernel here and leave the stock ICS 4.0.4 on so I get encryption, overclock, and no rooting required?

Thanks
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Barleyman:
Change push email to poll every 30min or whatever frequency works best for you. Polling too often may drain more battery if you have a busy mailbox! I'm on 1hour schedule myself, takes about a minute to update.

Nb, if you have data always on, stay on push email. I'm using juicedefender which closes data when screen is off..
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Iqbal Ansari:
I have tested those libs on my pro and camera became inverted, i have informed the dev about this and he is working on it.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] mohanparvatham:
Its not working on locked bootloaders.....
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] anamul.quader:
@riyal

http://developer.sonymobile.com/wp/...ent-xperia-pro-and-xperia-mini-pro-keyboards/

Hey.in that link.theres a arabic layout keyboard...the 1st keyboard is arabic..my hardware keyboard layout is that..so could u fix it?

And a bug in the rom ?:p when i open any app..the status bar becomes grey.so its annoying.i cant see the battery properly..and i dont know if others have this prob? Opeing 'sms' ya 'phone' app takes alot time..other apps work fine.but this two takes alot..thnx
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] krish225:
FC means Force closing when user opens an app.. coming to my problem google play weirdly force closed today and its not opening...:confused:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] xdodox:
Hey. Here ist the picture with the symbol keys. For understanding, you push the button and the symbols comes, but you can move it by cursor or else.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] xdodox:
All of this ROM works fine. Good work what you have done. PERFEKT. But sometimes my ChompSMS dont start. I erase all data-information and start it again and it works. I not sure why. I will delete it and install it again.

Not important, i want to tell it only.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] fdebef:
SIMPLY: ABSOLUTMEGASPECIALEXCELLENTSUPERROM!!!!

THANKS!!!

I use it since yesterday's evening without any, really ANY bug, hang, or any other malfunction.

What is great: power toggles on status bar, status bar itself, phone!!! - finally T9 searching even within EASTER EUROPEAN characters, overclocking (I ran 1.3 - 1.4 MHz with no problems)

What I miss: maybe voltage controll, but battery life is average even with 1.3 MHz, so no special need.

Once again: THANK YOU!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] biker1988:
Very good rom,fast and nice,but i have some problem.

1.The compass is unreliable,it shows the wrong direction.

2.The root rights is not always available.Sometimes runs not the prgoram titanium backup,root explorer etc.It's not error message,simply run and says "no root rights" after reboot is OK.

3.The acclerometer is sometimes buggy.

Has somebody these problems?

Sorry for my bad english.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] anamul.quader:
@ riyal

hy..just saw u have put 3 keyboard "xperia keyboard" , "chinese keyboard" and "japanese keyboard"..japanese keyboard is what i need..the hardware layout is perfect evn the onscreen...umm..like can u make 1 like that without the japanese layout on onscreen keyboard n add swipe ? :D:D:D:D..

thnxx
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Riyal:
Thanks for the bug reports guys. Will try to update the ROM later after work if I manage to have some time. Will try to address some issues I noticed and some on the battery management and the FC on google play. On the symbols layout I'll try to look into it later. Same goes with the sensors although I'm not sure yet since I tried the compass and accelerometer yesterday and it seems ok to me. Even played temple run with no problems :p

Undervolting means reducing the voltage output the device takes on the battery. Reducing it too much would naturally cause a reboot loop as the device would have insufficient voltage input and wouldn't have enough voltage to run the entire device. So guys don't undervolt too much as it would make the device unstable same goes with clocking :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Riyal:
On the arabic layout could you tell me which keys have wrong symbols?

Example

Just tell me the wrong ones so I could address it. :)

I only need at least 2 - 4 wrong keys and their symbols so I could find out which keylayout needs fixing.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] anamul.quader:
k (

L )

' "

Z nothing

X nothing

C _

V /

B $

N £

M €

? !

. :

I gave most:p...did u get it?:p
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Riyal:
Thanks! Found your keyconfig now :p Expect a fix on the next update.

@All

Guys I need your feedback. As you can see the statusbar is transparent and whenever there's an app which is not full screen it looks messed up because of it's transparancy look. Now my question is... Would you prefer the default opaque statusbar as default or stick with the transparent one?

The preferred look will be the default on the ROM and I'll just provide a flashable zip for the other one. So which is it? Non-Transparent or Transparent status bar?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] cccs1:
Transparent One, the grey statusbar is not Bad if the Symbols, like battery clock ets. Would change to black or white ( could be a nice ) if you Open a app.

The keyboardsymbols of the Hardware Keyboard this would be nice if you correct them if you can but the Rom works perfekt for me.

I changed the Home app to the stock One with autorotation but as i said the Rest is perfect

Thx
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] biker1988:
Transparent is better for me.On grey can't see the battery,Clock etc.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] DokaponKingdom:
can anyone post an apk of the original xperia s home - the ones without the corners and 4x4 app drawer. the one provided was to crowded and some of my apps didn't even show up. anyhow, this is the BEST rom for MK16i / Xperia Pro i've used in my life.:D:D
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] xdodox:
I like the transparent one more as the grey. It looks better. Grey is not Bad, but the contrast with the clock an Battery is a little bit to strong. Transparent, yes!!!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] anamul.quader:
transparent !!!!

aand thnx riyal..will be waiting for next update :D:D:D

and my apps open up abit slow :(..why is that ?:S
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Riyal:
Here you go :)

http://108.166.90.15/.rom/sys/app/Home.apk

@All

Sorry I guess the update would come tomorrow. :( I got a homework today so don't have time to compile all the updates.

The slow response rate of some apps are not in the ROM but on the app itself. Somehow Xperia S phone app and some other apps loads slowly compared to stock ones.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] krish225:
Google Play FC

As my Google Play FC, plz provide me a solution.. yeah i know u working on another version, but plzzzz
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] pogo8303:
great work!

Great Work!

HW Keyboard works in Czech layout normal - fn keys and specific symbols such as "č, ř, ž" works fine.

P.S.: transparent status bar isn´t so practic - for example in facebook or other applications the color change to grey and there´s nothing to see - I hope you understand, my english is very bad
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Riyal:
Hi! What type of encryption do you have in mind? I have enabled a couple of encryption features on the kernel but not all. I excluded some old encryption hashes. Also the kernel has a ramdisk which performs autorooting by default upon flashing. I don't understand why you are not allowed to root your phone but allowed to unlock its bootloader. Warranty and safety wise flashing a kernel is a much more X than just rooting a phone. Anyways I'll try to upload the kernel with stock ramdisk later so you'll have a custom kernel with a non rooted phone.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Dexxmor:
Can anyone upload a PDroid patch update zip for Xperia Ultima GB? My Tool can only handle cm9 and cm7... :(
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] arcascomp:
Riyal, your the man!:good::laugh: Thanks a million.

My work has security software that amongst other things insists on the device to be non rooted and encrypted by ICS standard encryption. I convinced my boss that I could get the Sony Xperia Pro as it could get ICS and had a physical keyboard as I really hate touch screen keyboards when I have to enter server passwords etc. all the time.

I know that an unlocked boot loader is not great, but that's not what the compliance software is looking for :D I guess I could always relock it if required too.

Cheers again!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] MrMmmkay:
So, the final screenshots ;). Looks like the "automatic network search" setting was the biggest battery customer.

But the drain with your kernel is slightly higher as on stock, but i think thats just because the tweaks inside, and its not soo much.

Its interessting that pushmail semms to be not such an big battery eater than i thought.

Compare the screenshots of post 573 with this, there are the same settings, in 573 with stock kernel, here with 1.4. Your Kernel has 6% less battery, but the gsm signal was not so good, so i think thats the fault for the 6%.

Now i fine adjust the Settings of pushmail and Wifi switching to get a little more time out of the battery, i think that will be ok.

If there only were a extendet battery for the mk16i that dont costs 90$, for my play i only paid 17€ for one.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] michalurban:
Xperia Pro Ultima ICS kernel 1.4, how can I have it installed in Stock 4.0.4? Do I just reboot into fastboot mode, then run (on my PC) command "fastboot flash boot <kernel name>" and thats it? Or should I also reboot into CWM and format dalvik? And when wifi stops working, I go to CWM do this?

1. Unpack the zip modules using PC

2. copy sdio.ko, tiap_drv.ko & tiwlan_drv.ko at /system/lib/modules/ replacing the existing ones using a file manager.

3. chmod it to 755.

Thanks!

PS: Where is the stock kernel (in case Id like to revert back)? Can I just use flashtool to flash the kernel from MK16i 4.1.B.0.431 file?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Riyal:
You do fastboot flash boot <kernel name>

then restart the device.

then flash the wifi modules zip file using CWM.

stock modules here

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/56328232/Kernel/wifi-modules-stock.zip

stock kernel here

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/56328232/Kernel/kernel.sin

to flash stock kernel just fastboot flash boot kernel.sin

Take note that you need to flash stock wifi modules first before flashing back stock kernel. Because CWM will be gone when you flash stock kernel as CWM is integrated in the kernel.

On wiping dalvik/formatting device. Just do it when you flash a ROM. Flashing a kernel doesn't require you to wipe your device clean. :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] arcascomp:
Riyal,

Did you have any luck putting a 1.4 kernel with the stock ramdisk? Or I guess, is there a way to unroot after applying the kernel and rom?

Thanks again.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] michalurban:
Thank you very much! Just one more question - how do I get into the CWM recovery after flashing your kernel? Im used to enter CWM through hotboot ...

PS: What app do you use for changing frequency/governor/scheduler/voltage ... etc ... ?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] RamEsRock:
Power off and power on again the device (or reboot it).

When the boot logo appears, spam the Vol - button.

It should take you to CWM.

The other question I dunno, he will answer you later.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] michalurban:
Is it really volume down? I just tried it three times (logo appears, I push and hold VOL DOWN) but no CWM. When I use Rebootmenu app to reboot into recovery, everything goes fine.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] MrMmmkay:
Nope, its the back button. Wait until screen gets brighter and the staus led turns blue, then trigger back button.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] michalurban:
Interesting thing, Im used from Nexus S that kernel is saved inside the CWM backup file. But here, when I make a CWM backup, install Riyals kernel and then restore my backup, the Riyals kernel is stil on place ... Can anyone confirm that? Or am I just missing something?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] MrMmmkay:
On Xperia Devices you can flash Kernel ONLY via fastboot, not via CWM, so the Kernel cant change with installing a backup ;)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] michalurban:
Arrrr, so thats the reason! Sick! :mad: Thanks for the information! :laugh: