yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Wechy77:
I added some tips to FAQ tread #20 post for battery saving. It's a known thing by most android users, but maybe not all of us know this.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Andrev01:
Maybe szl.kiev should add some tweaks and features to our kernel, such as they are in FlyKernel? The specification of it sounds really good, but I don't want to change the kernel to another one, I want to stay with stock PACmans :) GPU OC, UV, tweaked governors etc. will be nice to see :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] dreezz:
good info Wechy77.

i also used the pimp my rom-app, and enabled the battery saving options (don't know if it helps though).

i always remove (with root explorer) a lot of basic apps i'm sure i never use.

i froze (with titanium backup) google maps, hardly ever use it, but can find it when i need it.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] frenzyboi:
Be careful with Pimp-my-rom. I used it and after I remove all the tweaks, it lags the hell out of my phone and have to reflash the whole PAC rom again. Maybe it's just me..but yeah.

Anyway, I hope for the next version OP can just make a base for us, with awesome kernal and rom tweaks, and we can add in application ourselves. Maybe apps like those live wallpapers, ANT, Torch can be seperated into another zip instead of all in the rom's zip. Aroma probably?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Karcha:
I don't know why some of you guys are having problems with PMR, I've been using it for months and I didn't have any so far.

I use an app to clear cache, I use it like 6-7 times per day, always after using multiple apps, and helps considerably reducing the lag. With that and the long press home button to remove recent apps my phone almost never lags or freezes.

The main problems for me are WiFi turning off randomly ( I have to try the flashable .zip thanks to Daniel_GT ) and the random signal loss too.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Daniel_GT:
The first flashable zip didn't seem to work, so I've updated it. If you've already installed it, delete 66WiFiFixCM10 from your /system/etc/init.d folder with a root explorer and try and flash the new one... see the original post
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Karcha:
Yeah I just saw that, thanks.

I flashed it but it doesn't seem to work, WiFi keeps turning off when the phone is locked.

What I noticed is that my phone lagged like crazy, even after removing the script, and I went from 90-100 RAM at start to 40-50...I wiped cache to see if it helps.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Daniel_GT:
Funny, seems like it's working well for me. Very early though, it'd be good for a few more people to try it and report. Make sure WiFi is set to always on and avoid poor connections is un-ticked
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Karcha:
Well, right now it's lagging really bad, I reflashed the ROM 6-7 times and still working awful ( without tweaks or anything )

I'm going to try to restore a previous backup from a few days ago and if it doesn't work I'll just change ROMs for a while.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] JTK-Power:
This rom is awsome. But i dont like the paranoid thing in this. Cant you made one rom without pa ? If you have time. I can quess that you dont have time or want but i wanted to ask anyway. Best regard Juha
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Wechy77:
Go to this post: #1519 thank to pluGinSz download zip an flash via cwm. :D

And if you are a new PAC user please read FAQ thread (link is in my or Langes signature) :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Langes:
Flash this from pluGinSz
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] szl.kiev:
Sorry for abandoning you guys for couple days & no v19 for this week,

just busy with 4.2 bring up for our ray.

Go to page 1 for a little treat from me :D
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Langes:
I'm very patient, will wait for the regular PAC version :D

Thanks for your efforts szl.kiev, I knew we could count on you to give us 4.2JB! :good:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] frenzyboi:
Woot! Time for my sleep, yet this post pops up and.. I shall not sleep first and flash this :P

MD5 of szl-cm_urushi-jb4.2_test-121126.zip

DFED3A04A5390EC28D5C6DDCA82B37F8

Can't wait for v19 too!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] YeoZy96:
Oh god, even words can't describe how grateful I'm, but THANKS!!! A TON!!!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] JTK-Power:
Ah sry i did look in forum but i must mhave missed that sry again, best regards juha
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] deemanthax:
waiting for stable version of android 4.2

tanx a lot for porting this to xperia ray........................
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] bulook00:
Lol.. porting from what.. szl made fresh build from source
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Langes:
So, I had a sudden battery drain again today, luckily I have betterbatterystats (thanks justmpm for the hint :D). Can anybody shed some light on what "rx_wake" is and why it drained my battery so fast?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] daniel.eriksson:
maybe wifi keepalive?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] immerblind:
maybe that helps, alltime open wifi?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1726145

http://www.top-roms.com/wip-rx_wakewifi-drain-problem-on-aospaokp-roms-htc-one-x/
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Langes:
wifi was off at the time, so too bt

EDIT: I did have the wifi ap (tether) on before that, maybe it did not switch off properly?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] deemanthax:
sorry 4 mistake..........
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Andrev01:
I've got problem with battery too. The battery drain is good until I run wifi. When I turn the wifi off I guess that the battery falls down very quick. Battery settings menu show a lot of activity (not full) during the screen is off... What's going on? I didn't use any apps, except Google Play or AirDroid... :/

EDIT: Thx szl.kiev for this 4.2 preparing :) but I think I'll wait for stable, to have everything working ;)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] funiewski:
I had same issue,szl. told me to switch on and off Wi-Fi after switching off Wi-Fi tether, it helps. Cpu is on 100 speed either.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] mesitisg:
I know it's off topic but I need help.

When I try to install GoogleMaps from Playstore I get a message that the app is not available for my country although I had it on the original xperia ROM.

Is there a way to install GoogleMaps from .apk file? If so where can I get it?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Wechy77:
Search in xda or in Google for Google maps apk. I had this problem with my pad. I'm on phone so I can't give you a link.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Langes:
Enjoy :)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1569562
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] :
This rom rocks:)

I just want to turn off the tablet interface;).
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Wechy77:
Read FAQ (in my signature) Post #1 6. Or try this flashable zip: see post 1519 don't forget to thank pluGinSz
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Andrev01:
I'm almost certain, that on v18 after turning wifi off the battery drain is much higher than normally...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Langes:
How do you switch off WiFi? I suspect that the AOKP toggle does not do it properly (notably from the locked screen). Try to switch on and then off again in the settings menu and see what happens ...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Wechy77:
I use the AOKP toggles, and i don't have problems with on/off...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Langes:
My torch does not switch off from AOKP toggle when the screen is locked, therefore it is easy to assume some other toggles will also not switch off. When I switch off the torch via AOKP toggle while the screen is locked, the toggle goes off, but not the torch...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] dreezz:
did anyone try the vXX (4.2) edition?

i don't have time now, maybe tomorrow, but like to know if it's worth to give it a try.

edit: couldn't resist :). tried it for a couple of minutes...

and read about the differences from 4.1 to 4.2 here

notification area looks nice, but i don't use multi-user, and like the toggle that aokp/cm give me, so am curious what szl makes of it!

overall not much difference that i will use i guess.

fast responding, that's for sure, but no data and lots of apps, so it's hard to tell if that stays this way.

good luck Szl!

(lot of people seem to have problems with v18 at the moment, for me it's the best pac sofar!)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] sjondenon:
anyone else who encounters a certain lag while opening the settings menu? the framework around it loads pretty quickly but it takes some time before all the options appear..
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] justmpm:
I think this is pretty normal...it will depend a lot on how you set up you 3g/2g settings. Syncing, location tracking, and google maps can all really burn up the battery. If you don't want to fiddle around optimizing every little network app....you can use something like Green Power from the play store. You can set this up to turn off the wifi and data network when the screen goes off....the good thing about Green Power is that you can set it up to wake up every so often to sync your emails, facebook, and whatever else you want. When I have it installed, I usually have it off for 15 minutes and then turn on to sync for 1 minute (it will keep the network open until all the traffic is done, so it won't cut things off if they take > 1 minute to download). I think the default setting for this is off for 5 minutes, on for 1. Even these settings can really extend your battery if your wifi or 3g/2g networks are causing a lot of battery drain.

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I tried 4.2 for a while. I am so glad that szl got it to boot up! Thanks szl!

Also, it is possible to get the wifi to work on 4.2 by installing the modules (/system/lib/modules) from the v18 ROM. It should also work for flykernel and irijo's kernel, just flash the modules for those kernels.....
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Wechy77:
I add this tho FAQ battery saving tips :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] frenzyboi:
Successfully flash 4.2. And I can tell you the it's BEAST. Freaking smooth scrolling with no lag. Awesome lockscreen and lockscreen animation. Never tried multiuser support, and didn't go much into details/settings but is already impressed. Imagine the first release :eek: :P

Anyway, here are some screenshots of the multi-paging lockscreen. (Sorry. Don't know what is it called).
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Kafka Datura:
Ho come on now it's just mean teasing :crying:

Please get it working fast lol :D
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Langes:
Will you share your cookies and ice-cream with us? :silly:

Anyway, this is getting more and more exiting! Thanks for the feedback.

PS how did you get the screenshot to work? My SD card was not available when I tried 4.2
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] frenzyboi:
I shall. Oh, here's szl.kiev's butter from 4.2 too --> . Smooth butter to make it run so damn smoothly :P

You're welcome! Yeah! SD card wasn't working. I took screenshots using Android Debug Moniter.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] justmpm:
I think the mounts for the sdcard are messed up...I think that you need to make sure that you have /sdcard/0 and then the sdcard "might" work. I think that this is part of the multi-user functionality of 4.2 (1st user gets sdcard/0, 2nd user gets sdcard/1 and so on). I am not sure if the mounts were purposefully "broken" by szl or if it was just an oversight....other initial 4.2 builds also reportedly had problems with the new mounting scheme.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] abkokalo:
Setup Wizard and com.google.process.gapps FC al the time, can't do anything :'(
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] abkokalo:
But I have 4.2 gapps...

EDIT: Erased everything by flashing 2.3.4 with flashtool and then flashing kernel and installing.

REALLY SMOOTH!

Messaging FC?! :D
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] sjondenon:
yes, but you probably have the old 4.1 gapps on your sd card. remove them and it wil work fine ;)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Andrev01:
So it is wise to wipe data and caches before flashing 4.2? :) Waiting for stable version, hope it will come soon.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] abkokalo:
Yep.

Can't wait!

Really, really smooth.

Can't believe szl ported it to our beautiful ray!

Thanks szl.kiev!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Andrev01:
Ok, I've installed BetterBatteryStats, pluged and unpluged fully charged device, and here's what I see (screenshot in atachments). What is wakelock? And why is my phone almost all the day active? I don't have any app that should do this.. even after reboot and don't opening apps it looks the same. The wifi and data connection were off.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Langes:
In your second screengrab, press on "other" then select "Kernel Wakelock" to see what is keeping your phone awake...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Andrev01:
Ok, done. New attachments. Now what does it mean? What is PowerManagerService and why is it consuming so much power? :eek:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Langes:
Dunno Buddy :(

Maybe you should head over to the BetterBatteryStats forum and see if they cannot help you.

EDIT: I must say, 3% an hour is kinda OK for 3G mode. It's what I get, thats why I'm permanent on 2G mode
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] xzeiP:
Press the yellow/orange questionmark :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Andrev01:
PowerManagerService:

Still don't know what does it mean...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Langes:
Means you now have to select "Partial Wakelock" to see what is the highest drain
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Wechy77:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1637218

Try to remove battery for a minute or two, put back and start the phone. I don't know why but it helps sometimes...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] justmpm:
A wakelock is something that either keeps your phone from going to sleep or wakes your phone up from sleep....so a music player and the alarm clock are examples of each of these wakelocks. A kernel wakelock is usually something that is happening between the kernel and the hardware...for example AudioOut_1 would keep your phone awake if you had the sounds (keyboard, touch, camera etc) turned on in ICS. A partial wakelock is when the phone is awake but the screen is off (a full wakelock is when the phone is awake and the screen is on...and nobody cares about these....:D) The partial wakelocks can be caused by misbehaving apps. The PowerManagerService wakelock is kind of strange...it is a general category so that the partial wakelocks can also be reported as kernel wakelocks when necessary...so it can look really large because it is the sum of bunch of smaller wakelocks and the only way to figure out what is going on is to look at the partial wakes. If you want to know about a particular wakelock just google the name of the wakelock + wakelock and you should get plenty of info....
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] szl.kiev:
yes, because i removed phone.apk, it's a main issue since ril not working yet, and it gave bunch off error.

the mount point for sdcard is change in 4.2, but i solved it now by updating it with the proper 4.2 syntax, so can browse the sdcard, apollo & gallery can show the media.

audio is ok too now.

theme manager, ok

ril not yet,

and the rest of the bug :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] yonzz:
Been testing 4.2 for a while and it's very awesome besides of the bugs :D

It's very smooth and i like the new notification system and the recent apps transition :D

Good job szl.kiev :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] dreezz:
sounds great :good:

question: will there be a v19, or are you exlusively working on 4.2-based now?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Andrev01:
Wechy: After removing battery and puting it in again the situation is the same - BetterBatteryStats shows activity - BUT! - normall battery settings doesn't show that - no activity. Also phone get -3% battery overnight - it's not bad. Weird :D
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] justmpm:
BetterBatteryStats almost always shows activity...it is one of the few battery apps that actually checks the logs for wakes so it reports stuff that other apps miss. This is one reason why kernel jocks often ask for a betterbatterystats report if you complain about battery drain. It is hard to imagine some one setting up their device so there are no wake ups...other than turning it off. Even in airplane mode something will probably wake the phone up for one reason or another. Remember that deep sleep is running the cpu at a really low clock speed and voltage...it is more or less just staying active enough to keep stuff in memory so that it can restart fast. Anything much more than that will require the cpu to wake up and it will show up in your battery stats log, which is where betterbatterystats gets it from. I typically only look at betterbatterystats when I see some battery drain. If I am getting <2% per hour in stand by, I typically don't worry about it. But if you notice that your battery is draining much faster than this when the screen is off then you can check betterbatterystats to see what is up. You are looking for things that are taking a lot of time...in the settings you can have the wakes expressed as awake time - screen on time. Don't get so hung up on the raw counts, some things wake the device up a lot, but for really really short periods of time so they don't matter so much.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] szl.kiev:
Urushi JB 4.2 Unofficial Release of Unofficial CM :D

some thing still not working yet.

But now it's time to bug hunting :)

PAC version will be continued after we get a fully working 4.2,

Known bug / not working:

1. BT, cause by BT headset config, affecting DSP manager

2. Setting>storage FC, but storage function is fine

3. JB Camera (still like 4.1.2)

4. Dancing CWM

Working:

- The rest
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] dreezz:
i tried green power (standard settings) for half a day, and got the idea that battery life got worse.

in the betterbatterystats topic on xda i read this (and uninstalled green power afterwards ;)):

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Great!

can we use the 4.2 gapps from this page? http://www.teamandroid.com/gapps/
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] sajjaad1:
how about wifi?any one tested it?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Kafka Datura:
What gapps package are we supposed to use with 4.2 ?

Anyway, great work you did there guys.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Abyssmal:
OMG! 4.2! Just need the BT badly. :( I drive for like 2-3hrs a day.

Make BT work and I flash 4.2 instantly!

Hard to resist, though. Might flash to test this for a couple a days. :D
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] abkokalo:
Tested, working fine without dropping connection

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4.2 Gapps here: http://www.mediafire.com/?vqfma34pexqia3v

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Hey szl.kiev!

If I click the "Donate To Me" Button, look what happens
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] justmpm:
Yes, it can make it worse...it all depends on your starting point. If you want to fiddle about you should be able to get down to 1-2% battery loss per hour with out doing green power. If you have >4% per hour battery drain and you want a simple solution, then green power will take care of it for you (if it is network related). If you already have 1-2% battery drain then green power probably isn't going to help and if it is installed correctly it shouldn't really hurt you that much either. If something isn't set up correctly in green power you can end up with a wifi wakelock that can make things worse....if you look at the wifi graph in system settings->battery it should be turning off and then on with the given period you have set up in green power. If it is turning on and off all the time then you need to mess with the green power settings. As with everything else, it will always be better if you can get your phone to behave properly with out resorting to apps or other extra services that are running all the time....but sometimes a shortcut is the best solution at hand......
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Kafka Datura:
Thanks for the link.

Overall seems fine, lockscreen a bit laggy. The switches in the notification panel are pretty useless, CM ones are by far superior. Luminosity seems pretty weak, even with auto turned off (or on and off).

Other than that, pretty much perfect, even though i don't really see how it's superior to 4.1.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Karcha:
It's less or more laggier than v18 4.1? Oh, and where can I find the gapps on the SD card to erase them?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Kafka Datura:
The 4.2 gapp package gives me a installation assitant force close at boot :/
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] abkokalo:
Android Phone FC all the time
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Kafka Datura:
Yup, we're missing a working 4.2 gapps package.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] szl.kiev:
haha, you're genius :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] superwoosh:
Hmm, in 4.2 it freezes a lot, especially Trebuchet.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] frenzyboi:
To those using 4.2 and facing lots of problems, I think you guys should move back to v18 for stability, especially those who uses their phone for work etc. Like what szl.kiev said, it's for preview purposes. and ain't stable at this point in time. If it's lagging for you and that's the reason you moved to 4.2, trying using "swap" method, or cleaning unused system/user applications, especially those which have services running in the background.

Those having extra Xperia Ray phones or don't really use their phone for work etc, can try it out and hunt bugs for szl.kiev to fix.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Kafka Datura:
K guyz dont download the gapp link above : once on your SD card, it auto install with the rom, and since you cant boot the phone you can't remove it.

Any solution for this ? I'm pretty stuck now.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Langes:
+1

This might sound silly, but I have to ask. Those with many FC's on 4.2, did you do a full wipe before flashing it? Including Factory Reset and Format Cache?

I would also suggest you leave gapps for now, just load the ROM (remember to flash the included kernel) and report bugs not mentioned before.

Happy Hunting :D