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[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] char101:
Market FC can be fixed by deleting

/system/etc/permissions/android.hardware.nfc.xml

And then restart the phone.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Loccy:
Interesting - but what IS that?

Edit: it seems to be something to do with NFC - ie the Oyster card style payment system thingy - which we don't have. So no qualms about deleting it.

Meanwhile, those who have deleted the bloatware from the ROM - any chance you can give a quick guide as to what you deleted, and what is safe?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] char101:
It's a permission that should not exist in a device that does not have NFC capability. If we delete it, then Play Store will not be granted the permission and will not try to use NFC.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Redeque:
Did the trick! Happy camper
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] char101:
Here are my list of deleted files

http://pastebin.com/t8dGiXMM
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Loccy:
Yes, I found that out - must have been editing my post while you were posting this :D

So it seems that Google added NFC functionality to the Market app somewhere in the latest release, interesting. Irrelevant for us, but interesting.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Riyal:
Cool! You saved me hours of looking for the problem this weekend :D Thanks guys! But 1 thing that's weird is play store was working on my device even with nfc permission. Does that mean my device has nfc feature? lol just joking :p

Sorry guys was not aware of nfc technology and didn't know it was integrated with google play.

Anyways will update the ROM this weekend and will strip of the nfc module and playstation store.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] char101:
Hi,

Just a little info. I have tried deleting /system/libs/*nfc* and that resulted in bootloop. The kernel boot message does not help either, it just said module error in memory address somewhere. But the bootloop does not happen if I restore the nfc libraries.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Riyal:
system/etc/permissions/android.hardware.nfc.xml

system/etc/permissions/com.sonyericsson.nfc.handover.xml

system/framework/com.sonyericsson.nfc.handover_impl.jar

system/lib/libnfc_jni.so

system/lib/libnfc_ndef.so

system/lib/libnfc.so

Delete these :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] char101:
Hi,

I did. I have tried deleting all files with nfc in its name and it resulted in a bootloop.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] cLeAv0:
I am also having bootloops when i deleted these :(
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] khodos:
Thanks to the user that posted a list of removable apps etc.

But it's a little bit extreme for me, I use gmail, gmaps, etc.

Anyone want to build a list of Sony bloatware, etc.? Like "play on device", "data counter", etc. These apps are always opening at the system boot, etc...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Loccy:
Bloody hell, that's hardcore.

Any interdependencies I should be aware of? I probably won't go quite this far. I do actually want the basic Gapps (ie. GMail, Market, Maps) and basic stock replacements ie. Music, email etc. Facebook, TimeWastingScape and all of the social networking cruft can however kiss my big fat hairy one.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] MoridinBG:
I have a weird problem. With the stock international keyboard all the symbols are OK, but with a different one (Bulgarian Keyboard 2) only numbers, "." and "-" are OK, the others are totally different.

This is strange, because with this keyboard I have never had any problem on any ROM, where the stock keyboard is correct.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Silverstarjigar:
can u port this rom or atleast that status bar for true ancestor rom in xperia play..?

and also the home!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Loccy:
Right, so I bit the bullet and here's what I removed. This is partly based on char101's list, partly based on the list of ****eware in this thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1089470

..that list is out of date, but gave me a good indicator of what most of the things on char1010's list was. Anyway, I am now running a ROM that has all of the following removed. It booted and isn't giving me any grief - yet - but is a brand new install, so I make no guarantees it won't explode, cause thermonuclear war, etc:

dop.iso (system/etc)

android.hardware.nfc.xml (system/etc/permissions)

com.sonyericsson.nfc.handover.xml (system/etc/permissions)

GooglePlus.apk

JapaneseIME.apk

Facebook.apk

textinput-chn.apk

TrackID.apk

WhatsApp.apk

LiveWallpaperEarth.apk

usersupport.apk

VoiceSearch.apk

FileExplorer.apk

SemcVideoEdit.apk

CosmicFlow.apk

FBMusicLike.apk

PlayStationPocket.apk

FBIAppShare.apk

SemcTvLauncher.apk

InfiniteView.apk

NeoReader.apk

POBoxSknWood.apk

com.sonyericsson.androidapp.linkedintsext.apk

POBoxSknMono.apk

TwitterPostViewer.apk

StatusSwitch.apk

SyncWizard.apk

SEMCFacebookProxy.apk

VoiceDialer.apk

GoogleFeedback.apk

FBSetupwizard.apk

YouTubeKaraokePlugin.apk

GoogleLyricsPlugin.apk

POBoxSknSelector.apk

POBoxSknPink.apk

FBNotificationPublisher.apk

SocialPane-FriendsWidget.apk

SocialPane-FeedWidget.apk

SocialPane-Apps.apk

SocialPane-StatusWidget.apk

TimescapeSpline.apk

TimescapeRSSPlugin.apk

TimescapeWidget.apk

TimeScapeFourSquare.apk

EventStream.apk

EventStreamPluginFacebook.apk

EventStreamPluginTwitter.apk

EventStreamPluginTelephony.apk

EventStreamPluginCallLog.apk

Plugin_music.apk

SemcDlna.apk

SemcDlnaHandover.apk

LiveWare.apk

datamonitor.apk

MediaUploader.apk

SemcCrashMonitor.apk

SecureClockJava.apk

powersavemode.apk

PostViewer.apk

playnowclientarvato.apk

ZeusTranslator.apk

CdfInfoAccessor.apk

com.sony.seconddisplay.view.apk

RemoteControlService.apk

DefaultThemes.apk

ThemeManager.apk

ReadyToRun.apk

preinstalledservice.apk

semcsuite.apk

extensionsearch.apk

The last two stop the irritiating Playstation behaviour.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Riyal:
Seems like NFC feature was really hard coded inside Xperia S' android core. So I guess the only solution to that is by removing the permission so that way your like taking off its identity and as if it wasn't there :p

Or downgrade back to Xperia 2011 ROM files like on 1.0-1 which is made from gingerbread 2.3.4. Just so everybody knows all files in system/framework, /system/etc/, /system/lib are all from Xperia S except the keyboard driver, framework.jar, framework-res.apk. system/app are a combination of Xperia Pro and S apps.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Riyal:
It's the semcsuite.apk that's causing the autolaunch.

This one is some major stripped version :p You just converted a smartphone into a cellphone haha! Could you tell me how many megabytes available after stripping of those?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] char101:
I unpack and resign the ROM before flashing it. The resulting zip size after deleting those files is 76 MB :D

My method is to install what I need later as user apps, for example I reinstall SemcDeskClock.apk as user app. Later if I want to use another alarm app, I can uninstall it. I also remove the conversations.apk because I use GoSMS.

By the way, you have SemcClock.apk and SemcDeskClock.apk which are the same application in the ROM.

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I think it's better if you install gmail, maps, as user app. That way you can update it easily. I don't remove market from the ROM. Music and email can be installed as user app.

There are dependencies in the removed files, like GoogleBackupTransport is required if you want to back up phone data to Google, the removed files from /system/lib are required for japanese language. Removing SecureClockJava.apk will give you a lot of error message "secure clock service not available" in logcat, but I do not see and problem with the phone functionality. It is probably required for syncing the phone time with ntp server for fast GPS accuracy, but since I do not use GPS a lot and I do not turn on the phone data connection, I can't really say whether it affects those functionality or not.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] mansy_gupta:
Man what did you do to get this sort of battery life.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Riyal:
Hi! If you don't mind could you point out to me which keyboard version you have here?

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

Sorry don't have the device to be able to develop this to play. I need something to test on in order for me to work on a specific device. Anyways if you want the Home just download the ROM and extract home.apk on it then try installing on your device.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Riyal:
Please tell the problem with battery life so I could check :o
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] mansy_gupta:
No. There's no problem. I never imagined to get such a battery life.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Riyal:
Misunderstood you :p
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] char101:
Hi riyal,

Attached is a bootanimation.zip where the image size has been scaled to 480x854 (the current bootanimation.zip has 720x1280 image size). Maybe you would like to use it when creating the next update.

This bootanimation.zip is smaller (1.06 MB vs 2.24 MB) and probably faster since it doesn't require scaling.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] mansy_gupta:
Did you include any extra scripts or something to improve the battery life
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] mansy_gupta:
Can this be used with other ROMs too?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] char101:
Sure, just put it in /system/media/bootanimation.zip or /sdcard/bootanimation.zip
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Riyal:
Thanks! Will do :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] kaaniz:
I have stripped the rom a bit.. just taking out a few things that I dont use and the nfc related items and not to mention the PS thingy.

Using another FB client not the official one (always thought it to be a battery hog)

OC at 1.5 with different profile for battery low and screen off.

I have made it 7 hours at the battery is still on 87 %!

Auto sync and background data are on. Data is always on.

Ty riyal for this smooth smooth rom!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Loccy:
How much sync'ing are you doing? I'm getting decent-ish battery life but not epic, although I do work in a major 3G deadspot so it's probably flip-flopping between 2 and 3G all day long.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] kaaniz:
Well I think the unavailability of 3G in our country would also contribute to the battery timing. I do however use wifi a lot. 4 mail accounts and FBinside set on autosync and background data enabled ofcourse.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] kaaniz:
Guys.. I have a sort of a bug. I cant remove the Media folder that I had on the bottom left of the dock. Its just not selectable anymore. I can even put in another app where the folder was. Any help would be appreciated.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] cLeAv0:
I have noticed that the other governors (smartass,lagfree) etc doesn't work. When i change it other than ondemand i get rebooted. I remember before that this doesn't happen. Before 1.1 i think.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] khodos:
My list of removed apps (the reason why I removed apps like gmail or gmaps is because of binaries duplicity. When you update a '/system/app' app, the new apk is stored in '/data/app' so it's a waste of space.), sorted alphabetically:

system/app/AntHalService.apk
system/app/antradioservice.apk
system/app/antstatenotifier.apk
system/app/Calculator.apk
system/app/CdfInfoAccessor.apk
system/app/ClockWidgets.apk
system/app/com.sony.seconddisplay.view.apk
system/app/com.sonyericsson.androidapp.linkedintsext.apk
system/app/CosmicFlow.apk
system/app/datamonitor.apk
system/app/datatrafficswitch.apk
system/app/DefaultThemes.apk
system/app/DigitalClockWidget.apk
system/app/EventStream.apk
system/app/EventStreamPluginCallLog.apk
system/app/EventStreamPluginFacebook.apk
system/app/EventStreamPluginTelephony.apk
system/app/EventStreamPluginTwitter.apk
system/app/extensionsearch.apk
system/app/Facebook.apk
system/app/FBCalendarSync.apk
system/app/FBIAppShare.apk
system/app/FBMusicLike.apk
system/app/FBNotificationPublisher.apk
system/app/FBSetupwizard.apk
system/app/FlashPlayer.apk
system/app/GMail.apk
system/app/GoogleLyricsPlugin.apk
system/app/GoogleMaps.apk
system/app/GooglePartnerSetup.apk
system/app/GooglePlus.apk
system/app/InfiniteView.apk
system/app/JapaneseIME.apk
system/app/LearningClient.apk
system/app/LiveWallpaperEarth.apk
system/app/LiveWallpapers.apk
system/app/LiveWallpapersPicker.apk
system/app/LiveWare.apk
system/app/MagicSmokeWallpapers.apk
system/app/MediaWidget.apk
system/app/MusicWidget.apk
system/app/NeoReader.apk
system/app/OnOffTools.apk
system/app/playnowclientarvato.apk
system/app/PlayStationPocket.apk
system/app/Plugin_music.apk
system/app/PostViewer.apk
system/app/powersavemode.apk
system/app/ReadyToRun.apk
system/app/RemoteControlService.apk
system/app/SemcEmail.apk
system/app/SEMCFacebookProxy.apk
system/app/SemcGallery3D.apk
system/app/SemcMusic.apk
system/app/SemcSnpVideoPlayer.apk
system/app/SemcTvLauncher.apk
system/app/SemcVideoEdit.apk
system/app/signedYouTubev355_black_3G.apk
system/app/SocialPane-Apps.apk
system/app/SocialPane-FeedWidget.apk
system/app/SocialPane-FriendsWidget.apk
system/app/SocialPane-StatusWidget.apk
system/app/StatusSwitch.apk
system/app/Sync.apk
system/app/SyncWizard.apk
system/app/t2a-widget.apk
system/app/Tag.apk
system/app/Talk2.apk
system/app/textinput-chn.apk
system/app/ThemeManager.apk
system/app/TimeScapeFourSquare.apk
system/app/TimescapeRSSPlugin.apk
system/app/TimescapeSpline.apk
system/app/TimescapeWidget.apk
system/app/TrackID.apk
system/app/TwitterPostViewer.apk
system/app/VisualizationWallpapers.apk
system/app/VoiceDialer.apk
system/app/VoiceSearch.apk
system/app/WallpaperPicker.apk
system/app/WeatherWidget.apk
system/app/WhatsApp.apk
system/app/widgetanalogclock.apk
system/app/widgetdigitalclock.apk
system/app/WidgetFavouritePeople.apk
system/app/widgetonoff.apk
system/app/WidgetTimer.apk
system/app/WidgetWorldClock.apk
system/app/WikipediaPlugin.apk
system/app/Youtube.apk
system/app/YouTubeKaraokePlugin.apk
system/app/YouTubePlugin.apk
system/app/ZeusTranslator.apk
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] char101:
My phone is stable using 1.5 GHz frequency, smartass2 governor and sio scheduler. If I increase it to 1.6 Ghz, the phone rebooted. Maybe it's not the governor but the CPU frequency.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Redeque:
I did not know that one yet. Time to start skining this rom :)

Thanks!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Pmakaasrul:
Up To 2.0Ghz CPU freq

you can get up to 2.0Ghz but volt up the CPU voltage :)

Try and Error the suitable one
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Daxomega007:
well yeah but this one works better only problem i have is the Z and The Y are swapped on the hardware keyboard, on 1.1 my keyboard was all messed up, google playstore wasn't working and such but with 1.0-1 the SYM button On My keyboard brings ups icons to use in chat where it never did anything before and the world button below the enter button brings up a list of keyboards, if i could get a hardware keyboard layout that fixes my Z And Y button i would be extremely happy.

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did you get your google store issue fixed ?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Barleyman:
Wouldn't it be easier and more user friendly to put those apps into data/app instead? Meaning gmail etc you want to use, just not take double space..
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] brocnical:
Sounds like you are using a German QWERTZ key layout. I believe there is already a "device configuration" setting in an app in the ROM for changing such things, but if not you can download the XML file for standard QWERTY at:

https://rapidshare.com/files/264483768/qwerty_keyboard.zip
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Daxomega007:
hi i can't seem to delete the file that will stop my google playstore from force closing how did you manage to do it ?

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ok i switched back to the original 1.1 i had form before and my keyboard seems to be working fine now i just need to know what program to use to fix the force close issue i can't seem to get to the file to delete it
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Daxomega007:
hi can you tell me how to fix the force close issue with Goole Playstore How Do I delete The File that's Causing The Issue ?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] kaaniz:
Please read few pages back.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Barleyman:
What about fixed rom version?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] vibrantoparanto:
See the thread - the bug is mainly related to nfc related things, but since the phone is not capable of nfc you have to delete this:

/system/etc/permissions/android.hardware.nfc.xml

I installed root explorer with the html version of the market, you can just surf the market without google play app installed. hope that helps. another version without the nfc stuff would be helpful - unfortunatly i don´t know how to create roms. if someone tells me how to do it i can upload a backup of mine.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] kaaniz:
You can also get apps from the google play store in your browser (I am talking about the PC browser here). They will be installed on your device whether there is a FC issue or not. You can also install Es explorer and give it root privileges to delete that file.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Riyal:
A small update will be uploaded later :p this is just to address the NFC issue.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] rexstor:
Im abit confused.

Can i flash it if i just have a cwm only without unlocked bootloader?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] xbeda:
No, unlocked bootloader is required for kernel flash.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] erlern:
Guys, I am a bit confused...

I just unlocked the bootloader, Rooted it and installed CWM.

To install Ultima's ROM, what should I do?

Do I need to install Ultima 1.0.1 ROM first and then flash 1.1 kernel?

OR

Do I just flash 1.1 straight away, without the ROM (1.0.1)?

Thank you for helping me :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] vibrantoparanto:
see the first post, you have to install the 1.1 kernel and AFTER that the ROM. i forgot the kernel first and got bootloops, just flash the kernel first
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] BeNiSh:
I dont see link to ROM file of 1.1 version, where I can download latest version? I just see latest kernel and localization
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] xbeda:
It's still there, ROM is called "Generic version"
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] cLeAv0:
But it doesn't reboot when on ondemand governor? Tried 1.5ghz still reboots. I keep having really odd problems :confused:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] kaaniz:
Hmm. I have tried different IO schedulers and governors from 1.2 to 1.5. Was stable.

I have currently three profiles set. Power, Saver and Default. Mostly I am using my device at Power with 1.5 Ghz, Minmax Governor and VR IO scheduler. Stable as hell for me.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Riyal:
Hi guys! New version is up! With some minor fixes to kernel :D

To all those who have manage to fix the google play issue manually you could just download & flash the latest kernel

http://www.sendspace.com/file/ojujbg - Kernel New

http://www.sendspace.com/file/fte14f - ROM Arabic

http://www.sendspace.com/file/3zn9f2 - ROM Generic

http://www.sendspace.com/file/bkkd0f - ROM German

On the changelogs. Will put it later on I need to go :p Same goes with updating the thread.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] erlern:
Hi Riyal,

Thanks for the updates. Just a few questions:

1) I have flashed the kernel and then the ROM... the Builder number is Xperia Pro Ultima v.1.0. Is that okay? Or must it read v1.1?

2) Will we be able to get the official updates any longer? Does that mean that we need to re-lock it in order to receive official updates?

Thanks a lot! :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Riyal:
Sorry because I was really in a hurry I forgot to update the build # lol! Gonna reupload a new one later. But no need to worry it's just a number. It's nothing major :p
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] cLeAv0:
Well i tried it even on 1ghz. Odd thing is it doesn't reboot right away. Maybe after some seconds then it reboots. Sometimes the governor doesn't stick. When it does boot sometimes it sticks. I have tried different apps, same thing happens. Tried wiping, reinstalling rom and kernel. Still the same. :( This is so random -__-

Really looking forward to that changelog if it fixes my problem or i am really just unlucky :confused:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] kaaniz:
Have you tried SetXperia? I find that app for OC real good. Hope you get this sorted. Do install the Chainfire 3D and the drivers. Turns it buttery smooth.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] BeNiSh:
no jo, dik, uplne sem to prehlid :D
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Loccy:
@riyal - what have you changed in the kernel? Mine is running sweet enough now that I'm loathe to change it, but am curious what has been altered.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] BeNiSh:
is it possible integrate support for OTG mass storage? I dont know, how its difficult, so I just ask :) it should be great function I think
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Riyal:
Governor configs. Cause some users reported that they get reboots if changing governors. I adjusted it to be a little bit less aggressive.

I'm not sure if it's in the current kernel but could you try it out? On earlier builds(not posted here) I tend to intergrate all sort of features I could find until one day it doesn't work anymore :p So I started again from scratch and reapplied any features I could remember that I find neccessary.

So just test it please. And tell me if there's no OTG support.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] cLeAv0:
Yes but there was a time that it got an update and the app got a lot of bugs then i stopped using it. And that i have found that IncrediControl can undervolt better. 25mv steppings vs 50 on setxperia. Gonna try the new kernel posted.

*edit*

Tested it. Looks stable on changing governors now. Thanks for the good work :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Redeque:
I think I have a bug.

When I try to send a photo thrue mms I get a crash:

process.com.sonyerricson.converstations

The photo is to large for mms but I don't get the downsize option and stuff.

Just gives that error and closes.

Using the latest rom version and latest kernel (same problem with previous kernel).

Though it might be worth mentioning.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] zephyr83:
Can I to delete any app about NFC???

I tried to change theme but it canghes only wallpaper, no color on menu!!!

Play Store works but I can't to buy app, when I try show message error:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] 1stichiban:
the ability to OC is cool,.

but caution is highly recommended :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Barleyman:
By the way.. Are you omitting steps on the installation guide pn purpose to weed out people who shouldn't be messing with custom roms? ;)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Barleyman:
Nordic keyboard is also SOL. I wonder why it's not possible to use the stock keyboard overlays..

Anyways, keys which are wrong include

, = nothing

. = nothing

ö = .

ä = ?

! = :

? = /

( = ,

) = ;

etc

Would it be possible to fix this with "update.zip" instead of having separate >250MB rom file for every layout?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Barleyman:
I made small update file you can flash from cwm to change the "keyprint.xml" to use qwerty-se-fi.xml layout. For some reason the "generic" rom actually uses arabic!!

Now the weird part: Smart keyboard pro refuses to use the finnish layout. On STOCK rom it worked fine no problem. With ultima 1.1.1 it uses english layout no matter what. Any ideas?

I Should have made a nandroid backup of the stock firmware, I just couldn't figure out how to install CWM without messing with the kernel.. (I was unlocked/rooted)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Barleyman:
On second thought.. It's not weird at all. Since this is based on arc s, it's probaly missing proper definitions for hardware keyboard (layout) and possibly the KCM files themselves. Here's some info on it.

I wonder where the associated system properties are defined. I didn't find anything on build.prop at least.