yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Mirhawk:
1. Music player does cause problem, but Video player doesn't cause any problem. I use the MX Player. Which player do You use?

2. No. You see camera app is as provided in AOSP or the google app, the developer can't do anything about it for now. Also, camera will never be good on AOSP and CM ROM's. Do look for some camera apps in Market. I don't use any, else would have suggested one.

3. Which gapps did You flash? Explain how it lags.

4. Yeah, that is a problem for now.

5. Again, which gapps did You flash?

6. That is new. Such bug has not yet been reported yet.

7. Even I face that lock screen problem. The Dev is looking into it.

8. Yes, that is also a bug and Dev is looking into it.

9. Weird, it works fine for Me.

10. What do You mean by crash? Does it redraw?

Stock is anytime better, as these ROM's are not even in Beta stage.

Micybart is the Dev of this ROM, he is building it. You can try the Pure AOSP, it doesn't have 1,3,4,5,6,7,9 problems in it. Although flashing it has different steps.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] gsmith413:
1- i too use mx player only i was talking about stock came with this rom

2-ya i sometimes camera v-5lite experimenting more..

3-i used the latest update 14-12-2014 for lolipop 5.0( http://xdaforums.com/show....php?t=2397942)

6-it takes quite sometime to lock

9-for me still a prob.

10-yes quite a lot it redraws.can you suggest a stable good and stable one?

ya i have notified mickybart the same thread.he said to do a clean install but i already did that.

and have you tried pure aosp urself?..pls direct me to the thread head.

one new issue is that every app starts crashing if any one app crashes...like for upto 5 mins...then it either go back to normal or reboots system(occurrence is quite low though)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Iamapotato:
I've lost Bravia Engine due to unlocking my bootloader :( I'm extremely sad and I didn't know I would lose it and now I'm destroyed.

Could anyone please give me an absolute noob-friendly (unlike this guide) guide on how I can get Bravia Engine (or something similar like X-Reality) back?

I would be extremely grateful! :(
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] raffraff13:
guys help please, i am trying to root my phone. i have PC companion installed, (w/c means my ADB driver is already installed) i also have the kernels for .211 and .96. i also have downloaded Flash Tool Downloadflashtool-0.9.11.0-windows,. i tried to follow the instructions, on how to root it but i am always stuck with flashing, my problem is everytime i turn off my phone to debugging mode, the flashtool doesnt read it, it says to install the driver on the drivers folder (w/c i did). but still it goes the same way. i tried to unplug and re-plug the usb cable to see if it will go through, but i tried it 6 times still does nothing.. i dunno what to do anymore please help me root this

btw i have the updated kernel w/c is .96
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] gsmith413:
hey dude,

you are mistaken you dont have adb installed yet...this is a myth which i faced my self.

you need to install it manually if you are windows 8 or 7

follow my post on this same page (3rd post-link-http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=57561075&postcount=3353)

hope this helps

for rooting your phone use this app its automated process got to -http://www.kingoapp.com/
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] raffraff13:
but it says here that it is but ill try the automated one :D thanks ill give you a heads up once i tried it
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] raffraff13:
whoa! the app helped alot! so now all i have to do is to choose ROMs, do you have something in mind? i need a light ROM coz my RAM is always congested. :D
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] raffraff13:
by the way bro is it already has CWM built in? or i should install it manually..
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] gsmith413:
the app only roots your phone,so if your doing it first time you have no recovery installed yet.

you can install it thru an automated process the cwm 6.0.3 version go to this link-(http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/f77...ia-s-sl-jelly-bean-locked-bootloader-1682163/)

and the roms i have suggested above should come with a "boot.img" file,which have built in recoveries.

before you begin pls read everything carefully..here are some useful links..which will help you even if you are stuck somewhere.

(link for cynogenmod 11-http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=48830154#post48830154)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1526866

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1527159

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2172060

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1849170

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2308493
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] raffraff13:
thanks so much for all the help, i was actually trying to install the CWM i got from the TUT i checked and its not working too. lemme try the link you gave me.. again thanks for the help
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] raffraff13:
the links you gave me are for sony xperia S, mine is Acro S, would that matter? and the CMW you gave me is the same as what i downloaded from the TUT. and its also not working promp shows busy box is not installed. i tried un rooting and re - rooting and then installing it again, still it didnt work
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] gsmith413:
thats a normal error,you have to install busybox from playstore .no need for rooting again and again.once rooted its okay

i did tell you to read before u begin..but u didnt...now how do i know dis is...dat the image you attached shows wat is needed for cwm installation .so read carefully otherwise you might brick you phone.

and ya the steps wud work on arco s for cwm install.and if not head here(http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1756346)

for roms search specifically .
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] raffraff13:
sorry i didnt noticed that on other TUT's. i checked on the file folder of CWM and its there. i thought thats the file. thanks again for clarifying everything
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] prakharkmr27:
My friend recently told me that his Xperia Ion is giving a lot of problems on stock 4.1.2, since several months. I want to help him.

I don't have any track of Android Development for Ion, as its not my phone, but, I have a lot of experience with custom ROMs and mods.

I cannot try each and every good ROM out there in the forum due to time and bandwidth constraints. I've gone through several threads, and even checked Sony's FXP, but can't find anything meeting my criteria. Still, its quite possible that I might have missed something.

Therefore, I want to know which custom ROM for Ion is-

1.) Most stable (no random reboots or app crashes)

2.) Most functional (network, data, camera, video recording, Bluetooth, WiFi, and everything else works). Doesn't matter if "not so important" stuffs like micro HDMI, USB OTG, NFC, etc. are broken, we're okay with it.

3.) Runs games like Subway Surfers, Beach Buggy Blitz, Temple Run 2. (We don't care about N.O.V.A., MC4, Real Racing 3, GTA SA/VC, etc.)

4.) Has no lags. (in general, daily tasks)

P.S.- Android version should be anywhere between 4.1.1 to 4.4.4 (No ICS or Lollipop)

Please quote or tag me when you reply.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Chewrax:
Hello, I'm having some troubles with an Xperia S.

I installed all drivers unlocked my bootloader, rooted, and then I wanted to install nAOSP ROM 5.0 for Xperia S.

Phone was working on stock with root (verified it with root checker and some apps) I needed to install a custom recovery so I used this one teamw.in/project/twrp2/144

And I think here's where I screwed it up, I selected the first one where it says "Download - Stock Kernel:" flashed this techerrata.com/file/twrp2/nozomi/stock-6.1.A.0.452-twrp-2.4.0.0.elf

Now I can enter TWRP pressing volume up on start up when the purple led lights up it turns blue and TWRP shows up. However when I reboot the phone and want it to start normally it enters a bootloop. So I can only enter TWRP.

What's the next step? Since I can't boot normally I cannot copy files to the internal SD to flash from TWRP. How can I recover from this? I can put my phone in fastboot so I think I should be able to flash from my PC but I'm not sure how to proceed.

This is my 2nd phone, I sucesfully flashed my Moto G but the steps where really different and this phone doesn't have an sd card so... IDK how to proceed now. Thanks in advance
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] MobiDroid™:
question about theme

Hello everyone,

i have a Sony Xperia S, with CM11 installed running just fine.

But i have never managed to get a new CM11 theme working.

i downloaded 3 CM11 themes, but none of them show up in the theme's option in the settings menu.

The only theme visible there is "system" .

Cyanogenmod: 11-20140202-unofficial-nozomi

anyone have an idea what is wrong?

:eek:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] florato:
lockscreen does not appear

so my problem is that randomly my lockscreen not appear and i have to restart... i press the power button and my xperia s is locked... so i pressed again on the power button and will type in the pin to unlock the lockscreen but the fields where i would enter the pin not appears... there i see just my background image and can restart my smartphone... so is there maybe any fix or i am the onliest person who have this problem?

i use 9.1 cyanogenmod on my xperia s... and sorry for my english :D

regards,

florato
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] rattlesnake200591:
System process not responding

Hi guys, i'm having some troubles with my Xperia S

I'll try to be the clearest i can

i was mounting the miui custom rom but as i was facing some tedious isuues i decided to try a lollipop custom rom.... it's not the first time i flash a custom rom, but this time something went wrong.... i've tried to install the last nAOSP b15 version. I think that the point is something related to the installation of twrp 2.8.0.1 recovery... basically i didn't know what i was doing i was only trying to follow the guide... first of all i've tried to install the twrp manager from the play store, but having no success...so reading some post here i've downloaded the terminal emulator and wrote this command

su
dd if=/sdcard/openrecovery-twrp-2.8.0.1-nozomi.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p11
sync

apparently no results, so i've tried to install the b15 kernel from the mega folder linked to the naosp topic

no point (that was what i was thinking because i wasn't able to have twrp in my recovery)

this point i gave up...in my sd card i still had the dirty unicorn (and other roms) so i decided to install that one... well after the installation ....surprise ! dirty unicorn provided exactly the twrp 2.8.0.1 recovery....so i've installed nAOSP ROM but i was having continuous process crash (somthing like 1 crash per second)... well from this point forward i haven't been able to restore my phoneanymore... every rom that was working before now simply doesn't work anymore... those one that doesn't freeze at the kernel logo freeze when system loads the launcher giving me the error system process not responding and sometimes even media storage not found or something similar.... i've tried to flash with flashtool JB stock rom but after system boot logo screen goes black and reboots itself....

i know it's my fault, but if someone could help me to restore my phone would be great .....and sorry for my poor english, i don't practice it very often :)

P.S: damn it i don't know why i don't have anymore my nandroid backups.... i must have erase them sometime, how idiot i am :(

Thank yoy very much for your help !
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Mirhawk:
Hi, lets sort out this first.

So You flashed MiUI and You didn't like it. Then You went for nAOSP vb15 and something went wrong on TWRP and You were not able to install it. Then how did You install terminal emulator app and use that procedure? Also, that procedure would work only if the ROM You are using supports fotakernel recovery.

Also, the procedure will install a TWRP on Your phone(that's why Dirty Unicorn showed twrp version 2.8.0.1), You just need a kernel that will boot.

Since You have experience in flashing ROM's, I hope You have been erasing data, system, cache and dalvik cache each time before flashing any ROM. And formatting cache after flashing a ROM.

What I would suggest is, use the nAOSP vb14b (vb14b, not b14). I have been using it and it is most stable as of now. Flash it using the procedure here. Then flash the kernel from boot-multi-b14d.zip, which ever one You prefer. Try this once, and let Me know if it works.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] rattlesnake200591:
Hi thanks for the answer :)

the funny thing is that if other times i used to forget formatting cache, dalvik etc this time i've paid attention, so many wipes LOL !

anyway i'll immediately give it a try !

only one question, were can i download the version b14b? in the mega folder there are only nAOSP rom 5.0 b14c and kernel version b14d as you said.

otherwise in hubic folder there are only b11/12/15, not b14... am i missing some links or it has been deleted ? can i use b14c or d ?

anyway to reply to your first post line, i flashed naosp after having messed around with terminal and i supposed that twrp recovery was not installed because when i tried to boot into recovery mode i was still with CWM recovery, so i supposed that something went wrong and twrp was not installed :rolleyes: so after installing DU from CWM i found out that with DU it came TWRP. At this point i flashed naosp and ... farewell, my phone became useless and i started flashing lots of roms etc etc... the problems i've encountered after are those i wrote in the previous post

anyway this time i'll don't move a finger by myself or my phone will soon explode :eek: sad reality is that i didn't really knew what i was doing while entering those command line from terminal....
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Mirhawk:
Hmm.. We can never predict how phones react so might be some other issue!

That is weird thoug, even Ic an't find the vb14b. Try the vb14c as vb14d is only kernel.

Okay. Let's hope the procedure I linked helps You out. Will upload the vb14b too if You need, but it will take ages due to slow internet.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] rattlesnake200591:
i'm reading the guide you linked me, at this point it says

Connect Your phone to PC switched on, unlocked(from lock screen) and Developer options enabled.

Then use these commands in command prompt to flash the boot.img to the phone:

Code:

adb reboot bootloader

fastboot flash boot boot.img

i think that hardly i'll be able to switch the phone on and activate debug usb option

in that case i should connect the phone in fastboot mode and flash the boot.img file ?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Mirhawk:
Ah yes, many people cannot connect phone in fastboot mode so it is for that. You can simply connect the phone in fastboot mode and proceed with second command.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] rattlesnake200591:
ok i almost got it, now i've put in charge th phone so i'll have to wait

as i have to wait, i'd like to clear another couple of points if i'm not annoying you:)

to push the rom .zip into the internal sd card there's a command line that i could use ?

second point, in your tutorial you talk about flashing boot_carbon_3-11-14.img , instead of this i have to flash boot.img fom boot-multi-b14d.zip b14d right? after that according tutorial i'll lose my recovery and i'll have to reinstall twrp

EDIT: ok some news

i've followed step by step the tutorial

first i've flashed by fastboot boot_carbon_3-11-14.img entered in recovery mode and found twrp 2.8.0.0 then i've managed to push the naosp b14c rom entering the command line

adb push nAOSProm-5.0-b14c.zip /sdcard/Rom (that's the folder were i put my custom rom)

then i've wiped data cache and system and installed from recovery and tried to install the zip file but i receive as error

mount:failed to mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p12 at /system : Device or resource busy

symlink: some symlink failed

EDIT2: seems i've lost root access, cause twrp asked me to install supersu when i've rebooted the phone from recovery, and actually before writing here i've tried even to flash stock rom as last attempt so that might be the cause of the previous error
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Mirhawk:
Apologies for late reply. Okay, good that You got ROM to phone now. The carbon boot.img was needed to be flashed earlier as the previous versions of nAOSP didn't have TWRP by default. I guess the boot.img have recovery now so Yo can directly flash the b14d boot.img to get recovery.

Yes, sometimes that error is displayed ("Device or resource busy"). Correct Me if I'm wrong, but this error occurred right after You erased system, data and cache, right? I have faced this problem too. You just need to reboot into TWRP, and then straight proceed to flash ROM. Note, do this only after You erased system, data and cache first and then got that error.

Now about the step where TWRP asks You to install SuperSU, this is supposed to happen if You erase system and data but do not flash a ROM and hence the TWRP detects that SuperSU doesn't exist since You have erased system partition and essentially there is no SuperSU at all then. So it is not caused by trying to flash stock ROM, it is simply due to erasing the SuperSU.

So to get out of this mess, if You have already erased system, data and cache , then simply boot into TWRP and flash the ROM. If not, then boot into TWRP, flash the 3 partitions and then reboot into TWRP. It will ask You to install SuperSU, swipe to say yes, and then after You reboot into TWRP, flash the ROM.

If this all fails, then download DoomKernel from here. Then flash it via fastboot. It will give You CWM as recovery. Then boot into recovery, erase the 3 partitions and flash the ROM directly. If all else fails, the CWM method is guaranteed to work.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] rattlesnake200591:
Hi, don't worry for timing in replies, i can only thank you for your help :D

anyway, yes i've erased data cahe and partition before doing everything as you suggested me i've flashed all of the three versions of b14d boot.img but i can't get into recovery cause i have only sony boot logo without any led notification. It seems that recovery still is not included, should i try with doomlord kernel or again with carbon boot.img?

EDIT: i've made another attempt with carbon boot.img but this time after having erased those three partitions i've rebooted into recovery and flashed the rom...... and i've managed to flash it ! by now it seems ok, THANKS MAN !!!! should i change kernel now ? cause flashing naosp rom i've lost recovery. At the end of your tutorial you linked a post in wich you explain how install twrp using terminal emulator, should I proceed in that way ? :)

since i don't have the permission to link you the specific post i'll quote it here

since i can't install terminal emulator and i can't install play store apps (cause i can't install gapps without recovery) i should do it by adb command i think but i don't know how ....

please excuse me for being so annoying but i don't want to mess everything up again
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Mirhawk:
Ah no worries, it is good to get completely sure before doing anything like this.

So finally the problem gets solved! No need to change kernel, it was flashed when You flashed the ROM itself.

Ah okay, I have recovery in My phone's fotakernel so I thought the latest nAOSP had it.

Yes, You will have to install the Terminal Emulator apk via adb, the command for it:

adb install file.apk

Unfortunately I can't give You apk as it would go against the developer. You can easily find it on Google. Then follow the procedure of Mine You linked to flash the recovery.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] rattlesnake200591:
ok i've installed terminal emulator

i've put openrecovery-twrp-2.8.0.1-nozomi.img and i've managed finally to install twrp :D :D

now i've even gapps and everything seems to be working !!!

man i'don't know where i would be now at the moment without your help !!!:D:D:D:D

only one more thing but that's not related to the previous issue :)

i'm trying to restore app and data with titanium backup and when i open it, it asks me super user access

but then i get an error message that is not possible to gain root access

then it says this attempt has been made using command "/system/xbin/su

obviously i have root access and i've even installed supersu app :confused:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] neectron:
There is script/app to mod the home.apk for rooted phones

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=28314133&postcount=1

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1774534
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Gribych:
Hi!

I bought SOLA 2 weeks ago. Android 4.0.4. I've problem with GPS signal and SONY support can't help.

The phone can catch signal GPS but after 2-3 minuts the signal of GPS is lost and isn't caught any more.

I've installed GPS test. In view 13-22 satellits with crey color but everytime in use "0" satellites.

Lately I noticed that GPS hangs, the GPS test shows color columns and my last speed without movement. Also when a switch on bluetooth together with GPS and bluetooh hangs.

Is it a hardware or software problem? How can i solve these problems?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] neectron:
Many sola users have GPS problems,I am guessing it is software bug.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Gribych:
neectron

Has somebody solvet this problem? Maybe new version of a radio module.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] werty89:
Hello!

Does this phone support exFAT formatted microsds?

Any other way of overcoming 4GB size limit without using custom ROM?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] masterio7490:
need help in rooting XPERIA SOLA

can u guide me step by step how do root xperia sola.

i tried http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1916702

but i am a bit new to this i connected my phone via usb debug mode and mass storage mode .

earlier tried with usb debug and media transfer mode but unsuccessful.

i am attaching an image file of the bin4ry when i run it

i am on stock ics

no bootlocker unlocked

stock kernel
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] neectron:
I don't think so.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1953351
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] masterio7490:
but i dont see the root me option in restore what to do
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] neectron:
Try to root again.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] blackmatrix64:
Hi,

I own a Sony Xperia U ST25i since one week, unrooted and locked bootloader. I tried to upgrade to ICS stock ROM through Flashtool, but I encountered some problems:

1. Flashmode doesn't stay on for more than 45 seconds. I didn't try to start the flashing process because I was not sure if the process would be interrupted after 45 seconds resulting in any brick. I tried in two different computers, two different cables, and four different USB ports BUT the problem still persist. In the other hand fastboot works fine, the blue light remains turned on forever. What might be the problem that green light turns off and the phone shows the battery icon after around 45 seconds in flashmode?

24/036/2012 19:36:40 - INFO - Device connected in flash mode

24/037/2012 19:37:24 - INFO - Device disconnected

2. Since fastboot works fines, can I flash a custom ROM using fastboot from Gingerbread, or it's necessary to upgrade to stock ICS first?

Thank you in advance.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] neectron:
1.It is normal that green led changes to red during flashing,but it shouldn't battery.Maybe driver problem?

2.No.You need CWM and ICS kernel,not possible for locked bootloader.If unlocked it is possible.