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[Xperia Play Android Development] xRegrets:
Hmm, If you did not know, you can choose which menu options you want, also, it is faster than Trebuchet or Nova launcher for me. It can also hide the useless apps I don't wanna see. Just check out the apex settings. Quite customisable :)

BTW you can also use droidwall to block internet access if you're that paranoid about that.

Just go to Apex settings and click about option and you can set never check for update.
[Xperia Play Android Development] ttiimm:
good luck, im going back to gingerbread for now, this rom was and still is great, but its too fiddly for me:) hopefully i can play minecraft on jokawild v3 without lag:D

i think atarii put apex in the rom because without it we would be using the stock sony launcher
[Xperia Play Android Development] Dark_AJ9:
Apex works better than Nova and Trebuchet.

But it has lag by default, i fixed this downloading No-frills CPU Control, then Gov: SmartassV2 and max OC 1,4 ghz. Now works much better!
[Xperia Play Android Development] faisaldante:
I super charged it myself and I gotta say big improvement from before option 7 also oc to 1.4 with setcpu smart ass also to fix super user use the super user fix on the icx forum T's there in addons
[Xperia Play Android Development] solomon4400:
Another tip would be to use option 18 engine flush. Put it on a schedule every few hrs. Or just make a quick widget for it. It frees up more ram.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Magnumutz:
Ok, this is starting to be tiresome...

The phone keeps freezing and i have to pull out the battery.

And i also get instant reboots when i quit apps or games.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Atarii:
Thanks for this, it's still on the list, but we wanted to get the 1.2 features out first. Added new features is way more fun than fixing bugs :p But I'll make sure this is addressed :)

Did you guys with reboots install the full 1.2 ROM or the 1.2 Update zip?

It's weird that some people are not getting su working. The 1.0 ROM has the latest SuperUser integrated in and I seem to get the SuperUser prompt when apps need root. However, I do remember this was something I encountered when testing early versions of 1.0, so will need to see what's causing it. Can anyone with su issues tell me a specific app or events that don't give root please? Also a logcat when this happens would be ideal :)

It's brilliant to see so many people experimenting with different SuperCharger settings, hopefully we can find the right option that will give the best performance. :) For me, the 1000BHP setting gave the most free RAM (both in Settings -> Apps and in the SuperCharger script output), I also tried option 7 and 3. So it may be different for individual devices too.

Thanks to all for your contributions to this thread! :)
[Xperia Play Android Development] ShahinTehShiz:
How much RAM is considered good enough RAM? I currently get around 100mb free RAM and don't know whether this is good or not
[Xperia Play Android Development] arian009:
guys temple run keeps crashing and not opening. the screen comes i wait and the closes the window and the whole thing. when i try too many time the phone reboots. can someone help????????????
[Xperia Play Android Development] solomon4400:
ya just tried MC3 and kept crashing till the point where i had to pull out the battery. if im correct the game fully worked in 1.1.
[Xperia Play Android Development] zero1600:
can someone tell me what i am doing wrong! im used flashtool to flash the kernel then i booted into recovery and flashed the rom and everytime it boots up everything works except for the signal. The baseband says unknown.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Aesed:
I cant get SU working at all on v1.2 update version, not fresh version.
[Xperia Play Android Development] aaron187:
Did you flash baseband 62?
[Xperia Play Android Development] fma965:
shud i flash the update to 1.2 zip or the full 1.2.zip? as seems a lot of people are having issues.

EDIT: i am also having issues with superuser so seems clearly there is a issue here. does this happen on the full 1.2 update aswell?
[Xperia Play Android Development] ttiimm:
ive always have better experiences flashing the official sony ics beta then this rom, i would flash the full update to not come into any issues.

try running the ics su binary from here with script manager: http://xdaforums.com/atta...4&d=1330905661, it should fix superuser issues
[Xperia Play Android Development] fma965:
tried that it didnt work though. just wiped data and cache and then flashed the 1.2 fill zip and superuser works fine.
[Xperia Play Android Development] shion420:
Use the web browser and you'll see.
[Xperia Play Android Development] xRegrets:
Lol. I'm using dolphin browser
[Xperia Play Android Development] GetPatriotized:
On Gingerbread I get around 150+mb,sometimes go up to 210mb. Going back to ICS now and going to find out.

How do I install this rom? I want to start fresh. Right now I'm on 2.3.4 .58 baseband :S
[Xperia Play Android Development] vemoxy:
I've tested both the 1.2 update and the fresh install.

The fresh install of 1.2 doest seem to have any problems, I tested no frills and it works (hence I'm assuming that the other root access apps work as well), and there is a noticeable improvement in speed. Great job there! :)

The 1.1-1.2 update breaks my SU in the sense that I couldn't change my clock speeds at all (error: did you enable su permissions?), and any new apps that require root access will be denied immediately without su prompting (setting in su is set to prompt), and the denied program also doesn't show up in the su app list.

Also, it breaks my wifi too for some unknown reason (can't connect to my home mac-filtered ap).

I would recommend everyone do a wipe and install 1.2 if you can't wait, otherwise stay on 1.1 till the issues are fixed :)
[Xperia Play Android Development] zero1600:
i got it to work finally. i was using the r800at stock 3.........firmware and flashing ontop of that. I used the r800i firmware then flashed on top of that and now everything works.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Magnumutz:
I installed the full 1.2 ROM, after wiping data, cache, everything.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Spizzy01:
Hmm.. SU has completely snuffed it for me now. I removed current permissions from apps to try and get it to promt again, but instead it just denies everything now... So that went well! xD

To add to that, every wireless access point seems to have extremely low signal and i am unable to connect to any. Even if I'm right next to my own! Didn't have this problem before, strange that I'm the only one...

Also, I don't know if anyone else uses Netflix here of FPSe (Being the only two apps I have used a bit), but they both lag after the update. Netflix litterally grinds to a halt for about 2 minutes and then springs back into action again, and that's just when selecting a movie. I've never had issues over 3G before but it seemed to have to buffer quite a bit yesterday after the update. Also, when trying to enable my wireless connection, the settings app itself seemed to also snuff it too for about 5 mins, displaying only the header. Also - FPSe has a lower FPS now. :|

I've tried restarts (takes forever to boot now too), killing apps and all sorts of things. (Nothing too special of course) But to no avail.

I'm tempted to install 1.2 from scratch. People seem to have had better luck that way... Really could've done without having to reinstall everything again though.

EDIT: Holy cow it takes over 10 seconds just to turn the frickin' flashlight on and off. Lmfao. XD
[Xperia Play Android Development] danieljamie:
The app DrawSomething crashes, tried reinstalling but phone just reboots when trying to run app.

SetCPU seems to take a while to start up.

Can't provide logcat right now but maybe someone else could? Its the paid version though.

Everything else seems fine
[Xperia Play Android Development] ttiimm:
ahh.... back to ics after gingerbread
[Xperia Play Android Development] vemoxy:
You're having exactly the same issues as I had after I flashed the update package. I think it's best to stick to 1.1 (hope you did a nandroid backup!) and wait for a fix. :)
[Xperia Play Android Development] solomon4400:
Wow my experience with both 1.1 & 1.2 forced to go back to gb. Im not knocking this beautiful rom but if it takes almost 5 seconds for dialer to open, multiple games dont work, and most important the ram issue. Afya all these thingz are fixed then im back on ics. No rush though devs you guys are doing an amazing job!:)
[Xperia Play Android Development] Spizzy01:
I haven't anything against the ROM whatsoever, and appreciate all the time the devs are putting into it.

I'll live with the lag for a bit, I'm not using my phone much at the moment so I guess its not much of a problem!

Unfortunately I didn't do a backup. xD One of the very few times I didn't, and it went wrong lol. I had intended to do one, but it slipped my mind when I went to flash the update. :(

@vemoxy: To fix the WiFi issue, i turned off WiFi, restarted the phone, turned on the WiFi Hotspot (which turns on the wifi itself), turned off the Hotspot and then was able to connect the phone to my ap. No idea why that way worked or if it was just a fluke, but it seemed to work on WiFi after that. (It's died again now though since restarting my phone again)
[Xperia Play Android Development] vemoxy:
I think you can try overclocking the phone a little to improve responsiveness, I definitely see a speed increase after getting my phone up to 1.4GHz. I'm on the extended battery so I have no issues with battery life.

As for games, I can't help you much there as I've had bad experiences with games in Gingerbread already, and hence the only games I play currently are GBA/SNES games which works well.

That's unfortunate :( You can try the SU fix that somebody suggested a few pages ago (by updating the SU binaries to the latest), but I'm not sure whether it works. Anyway, I'm back to v1.1 so I'll wait :)

And to the devs, the reason I'm sticking to this rom instead of all the others is because you guys are patient and would listen to us no matter how many queries/bugs we post on this thread, on top of rude/unappreciative people. Take your time to develop, we support you all the way! :D
[Xperia Play Android Development] devi59:
Mine I had 1.1 but I did a full wipe and then installed the full new version. I was on just advanced stock before but since you had said to use DarkRom high which may or may not cause some of the issues. I ran the supercharger script like shown above doing number 7, rebooting, then number 6 and i am not having quite as many reboots. I was also using a different launcher which may or may not have caused issues as well. I have since ditched the other launcher (makes me sad to have to do it) and I have regained some stability, but it isn't quite what I would like, but its usable at least.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Atarii:
So it seems the su issues may be related to CPU speeds. Thanks for all the reports, this definitely narrows it down, so I know where to look now.

Thanks for the wifi issue with 1.1 -> 1.2 too, that's also added to the list. I'll check out CPUSpy too.

The v1.2 clean install is the recommended installation method at the moment. If you have upgraded (and are experiencing issues) I'd recommend to perform a nandroid backup and install the fresh 1.2 ROM.

We've also been looking into RAM tweaks, got a list of things to try out (one seems to have increased RAM, but broke the keyboard, so some more tweaking is needed)!

Also, the apex we used has a customised default layout, which is why the upgrade currently doesn't work.

Thanks again to all for the feedback :)
[Xperia Play Android Development] Aesed:
My phone is not connecting or charging on my computer. Will do some more troubleshooting though...
[Xperia Play Android Development] allandacruz:
Tested

Installed on the phone from my friend, and do not like it very much. The ROM is very beautiful, but even with the Doom Kernel set to 1.4 GHz sometimes it lags. Most games have not worked well, some not even opened correctly, GTA 3 for example.

So I created my opinion for the moment:

1) Do you like games? Use the GB.

2) Like beauty? Apply the interface of the Xperia S on GB.

3) Do you like music? Use the libs (soundfx) of Xperia S.

Perfect partners for the Xperia Play so far for me:

GB 2.3.4 + Some Xperia S stuffs + Doom Kernel v14 + Some Mods (reboot, notifications toggles, etc)

All respect to devs, you are doing a great work here, but I could not swallow the ICS so far...
[Xperia Play Android Development] Spizzy01:
I think that because the most common superuser action people perform is overclocking, it makes it seem like clock speeds are related to the SU issue.

That being said however, SU denies any application superuser permissions if it doesn't already have permissions set. For example, I just installed Titanium Backup however SU denied it SU permissions because it has never been set before.

From what I can see, it looks like if it's cpu/clock-related it will simply automatically deny SU requests whether permissions are already set or not. And for anything else, it will be allowed unless it is a new application in which it is automatically denied without prompt.

Not sure whether that helps...

I'll leave mine as it is at the moment anyway, if you have any fixes you wish to test I'll be happy to give them a shot.

To my knowledge, GTA3 doesn't work with any ICS ROM. Which would mean that the developers of the app will need to release a fix instead.

I'll agree that ICS does indeed look more appealing that GB. If you are still interested in getting ICS to work I would consider trying out different combinations of specific things. Such as the stock Adreno drivers/Stock Kernel/DoomKernel. After a lot of messing around, i have managed to get several games working that originally did not work. However it was usually the case that if one thing started working, another thing would break. :) That's on all ICS ROMs thus far though, nothing specific to ICS++
[Xperia Play Android Development] allandacruz:
Agree with you. ICS++ is the best ICS Rom available. But in general ICS is too heavy, hope Sony can do a miracle and give us a good compilation of ICS. I see many people in trouble with ICS on phones with newer hardware... Samsung didn't update first Galaxy S and it has similar specs to XP.
[Xperia Play Android Development] TessarVarim:
Help plz my keyboard doesnt come out :I
[Xperia Play Android Development] Atarii:
Click on Settings -> Language & Input -> Default :)
[Xperia Play Android Development] TessarVarim:
thx you atari , but games loading become slower than usual , hmm
[Xperia Play Android Development] Magnumutz:
Guys, what is causing these random freezes and reboots?

It's getting me frustrated that such a beautiful ROM gets frozen and needs reboots...
[Xperia Play Android Development] TessarVarim:
hmm mc3 , contract zombie killer , frontline commando crashes and reboot everytime i want to play it , i use doom advanced stock kernel.
[Xperia Play Android Development] ttiimm:
try using doomlord ics beta kernel v02 http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1573184
[Xperia Play Android Development] TessarVarim:
I already tried this kernel , same result , is this rom realy stable ?? Sry dint meant to hurt anyone , just want to know
[Xperia Play Android Development] Atarii:
Could you please do:

adb logcat

when starting one of the apps and paste the output into http://pastie.org/, then we can have a look into the issues :)
[Xperia Play Android Development] TessarVarim:
Urm sory atarii , im very noob with android , how to do this adb logcat?
[Xperia Play Android Development] paxChristos:
Download Android SDK

Update Android SDK so you have Platform-Tools folder

Open up command prompt

Navigate to your Platform-Tools folder within command prompt

Type in adb logcat > game_crash.txt

Plug in phone.

Start game & crash system.

After phone boots again, unplug phone.

Now you have a logcat dump in platform-tools folder.

Sent from my phone, please excuse any Swypos.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Schmoldt:
Is it normal that wifi Not work.?

And superuser works when you flash The binary directly.

Only Download it From the Homepage of superuser and flash it via recovery.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Atarii:
Did you flash the 1.2 update? Try 1.2 Full instead. Remember to nandroid backup first
[Xperia Play Android Development] Schmoldt:
Yeah i only flash the update.

I'll try it when i have faster Internet.!
[Xperia Play Android Development] thomassafca:
What kernel are you using?
[Xperia Play Android Development] Schmoldt:
The advanced Stock v1.
[Xperia Play Android Development] thomassafca:
It's recommended to use this kernel: http://j.mp/play_icsb_dk_2_h

It will also fix your wifi problem :)
[Xperia Play Android Development] TessarVarim:
Ok i will report tomorrow , im not at home now , thx atarii :D
[Xperia Play Android Development] stevecrox:
No Memory

I know this is the "light" version but I am constantly running out of memory causing the phone to lock up and for applications to simply disappear. I am currently using a Vodafone supplied R800i, which has been rooted and is running the suggested DoomLord kernel and was flashed from the latest baseband. When flashing the rom I also reset to factory settingsand wiped all user data, the SD card was wiped after install as well. My currently running applications are (taken for Settings - > Apps -> Running):

BT Fon (3.7 MB)

Simple Calender Widget (4.0MB)

3g Watchdog Pro (5.1 MB)

Facebook (Disable updating but it insists) (13MB)*

Maps (6.3MB)

Google+ (7.2MB)

This leaves me with 70MB of free memory (264MB is used), when the free memory reaches 50MB the current active application will simply close (not force crash and no error thrown).

So for example if I open the browser search for the nearest B&Q in google and then open the results in Google Maps the Google Maps application will open, lock up and then 30-40 seconds later crash putting me back in to the Browser.

* I have disabled notifications and set the updates to manual, I have also turned off Facebook inside Xperia but the Facebook Media Upload service continues to run.

I much prefer this rom but with the memory issue I am going to have to move back to Cyanogen 9.0
[Xperia Play Android Development] ttiimm:
did you flash the full update?
[Xperia Play Android Development] fuuma:
Hi all,

with DooMkernel ICSBETA V2 my phone freeze and reboot, with the Advanced stock kernel it's ok but no wifi, and finally i have try it the DarkForest kernel for ICS and my phone works very very smooth and great ;)
[Xperia Play Android Development] Zerobarat1:
Is the ICS doomkernel really no good?

LE: Can XperiaFacebook implementations be flashed? Can timescape be flashed?
[Xperia Play Android Development] Atarii:
Updated post #1 with download link. Can't believe I missed that out lol
[Xperia Play Android Development] XperiaPlayer:
Excellent :) Downloading and installing now.
[Xperia Play Android Development] Random.Guy:
I just love the fact that you have Apex Launcher as default,gonna test it for a few days!
[Xperia Play Android Development] Xperia4life:
Fantastic When I get me xperia play back il try it looks brilliant thanks guys!
[Xperia Play Android Development] :
Same here ! :)
[Xperia Play Android Development] JayGB2011:
Ok This now looks pretty much fully baked for my liking.

I've not tried any of the ICS beta's though... I recently flashed the .62 baseband FTF and have been using this for the past month or so.

What would I need to do to get this working? I really don't want to brick my only phone.

1, Do I download this put on the SD card.

2, Use Flashtool to install DooMLoRD's ICS Kernel

3, Install the ROM via CWM.

Then I'm pretty much good to go?

After the Above I then use the FTF to increase system partition to 420Mb?

Please can someone advise me on the above. As I mentioned this is my only device I aim to use this as my daily driver.

Also does WiFi Hotspot work? As I use my Xperia Play to Tether my HP Touchpad daily.

Thanks in advance. Good work everyone involved I've been following these threads for weeks tracking progress. Kudos!
[Xperia Play Android Development] Atarii:
Any ICS boot.img that's not based on stock kernel is going to have battery issues. There are some possible fixes for this, but they haven't been implemented yet, so we currently recommend using DooMLoRD's Advanced Stock kernel :)

Should be possible to make a mod to re-install XperiaFacebook and Timescape. Will upload soon

Thanks, let us know how it goes :)

Thanks, it's a modified version of Apex too, so it should be set up just how we use it, as default.

Yes, those steps should be fine. Although I would do the 420MB partition resize before flashing the ROM. Wifi hotsport works fine :)
[Xperia Play Android Development] will8578:
Im flashing this as soon as my kids go to bed in 15 mins :-D
[Xperia Play Android Development] will8578:
Holy smokes !!! I just read the stuff you both done, thats some going, well done
[Xperia Play Android Development] Motawa88:
overall the rom feels great. But it feels slow sometimes. OC would sold the problem?
[Xperia Play Android Development] Zerobarat1:
Ok thx and I'll be installing this shortly and will be your guinea pig using custom Doomkernel and I'll tell you how battery and stability are.

But please kindly upload facebook integration and timescape, those are the only two addons I've grown fond of from Sony erricson

---------- Post added at 07:49 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:19 PM ----------

Just installed and it feels good. And lol Facebook integration already seems to me be in Settings. Gonna insert a SIM with Data and really start testing :D
[Xperia Play Android Development] cygnus56:
I can install this rom with bootloader locked? by cwm?
[Xperia Play Android Development] Zerobarat1:
What's that setting Pointer click? Is the pointer click mod installed?
[Xperia Play Android Development] sharpz811:
flashing right now kid is sleeping;)
[Xperia Play Android Development] NeWCuLTKiNG:
Great to see you finally made a rom I'll try it tonight thanks so much. Wish sony would give us a fix for gta 3

Would it be possible to include more notification toggles? In ka12 there are 15 one is a 2g/3g toggle that only seems to work on his rom but he isn't going to develope his rom for play anymore
[Xperia Play Android Development] Motawa88:
Video in Asphalt doesnt work.
[Xperia Play Android Development] faisaldante:
Video doesn't work anywhere dice player freezez
[Xperia Play Android Development] Motawa88:
I See. Can it be fixed?
[Xperia Play Android Development] Zerobarat1:
Yeah 1 bug : with videos. Mp4 codecs are not present. Videos run with SW decoding but really slow

2nd a possible bug. With default configs Ondemand + no-op device does not use the 1ghz freq

1ghz freq is used when trying out different governors
[Xperia Play Android Development] Magnumutz:
Would the "Remap Search button to Recent Apps" work on other ICS roms for our Xperia PLAY?
[Xperia Play Android Development] Atarii:
Probably not, as it needs framework changes too. You could try it though, just nandroid backup first in case it goes wrong :)
[Xperia Play Android Development] Christian6809:
So fumma you recommend the darkforest kernel for ics over the doomkernel for the ics.

I haven't tried any yet.

Do others agree on this for this Rom?
[Xperia Play Android Development] TessarVarim:
Maybe we should tried with darkforest kernel , who know it will fixes the bug and crash
[Xperia Play Android Development] ttiimm:
poweramp is buggy with the 30 steps volume mod, it goes softer after about 3/4 way of the volume bar.

fixed: settings-audio engine-advanced tweaks- direct volume control off
[Xperia Play Android Development] Magnumutz:
Okay, what if i were to take the framework-res.apk from your ROM and put it on my phone?

Would that do the trick?
[Xperia Play Android Development] stevecrox:
I installed version 1.2, I believe the update which doesn't appear there is for 1.1 users to migrate to 1.2.

I haven't installed any of the modifications either.