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[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] MoonBlade:
i find Kernel Panic better than Mesa (no offense to developers just personal opinion :) ). only problem is with CWM 6.0 ! better revert back to CWM 5.0 !
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] rullean:
i am getting conflicting answers with Kernel Panic doing a CWM back-up... does Panic really erase your whole SD card if you hit back-up through the CWM 6?

some say yes, others say no.. so which is which? :confused:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] sandy7:
its a cwm 6 bug...dont do backup
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] MoonBlade:
I dint have that problem when i did backup. Anyways better backup sd card contents before u backup lol:D
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] rullean:
hahaha.. and this is the type of conflicting answers i see... anyway, you are right.. need to back-up sd card first before backing up through cwm..

i give thanks to both for replying..
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] djbijoy:
I also have tested the rom.but I'm sorry to say that its not that fast.

Many lags and uses a lot more ram,always 200mb+.

The only problem I face with the rom is lag and slow and uses more battery.

But the rom is A good one to try and thanks the developer for his hardwork towards it.:D
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] samajid:
Which ROM?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] hprodigy:
Trying to find suitable rom and kernel for my lww , it has to be speed , low memory usage, good battery and bug less ...

i was searching for it on forum and found 3-4 solutions ..--- > (ExMIUIv4-2929 , RealICS_r6 , HASA v5 and Hasa MUIU 2.10.12)...

(didnt even look for kernel yet couse i didnt chose rom...)

Please can you share your opinions with me?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Spex:
hope you will be ready for UNLIMITED™_v6

It will have new build.prop tweaks and bug fixes :)

hope you will find time to review it

it will be uploaded in sunday or monday
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] hprodigy:
aj dobro provat ću i to kralju,, kad izađe...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] samajid:
Read the reviews bro ... Hope theyll help u decide.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] pastillero:
That's excellent news!! Your ROM rocks!

---------- Post added at 06:21 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:20 PM ----------

Try Unlimited. Is awesome
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Saqib Nazm:
Just tried Delicious Sandwich & got 3811 on Antutu with kernel panic @ 1200mhz..Anothet thing, i found kernel panic gives better wifi coverage.could it be?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] samajid:
Octane v2 Reviewed

I coudnt resist testing this ROM coz its one the first with ‘small apps’ from xperia T. and they work really well! There also a change in the recent apps list, looks quite different now, and I like it. the lock screen is really good and u can swipe right to get music controls or swipe left to a list of app which u can directly access from ur lock screen. I wish the notification that we can see on the lockscreen extended to facbook and whatsapp etc (hope someone works on that. Also the lockscreen is usless in landscape mode, which is irritating sometimes coz I have to close the hardware keyboard just to unlock. Didn’t find any major bugs on the ROM. the themes on the ROM are amazing. The transperancy in the menus is lovely. Xperia home is as beautiful as ever. Overall the rom looks really nice and the good news is that its fast too. Multitasking is quite fast and apps open really fast too. But as you keep opening more apps u can easily notice how much more time apps take to open. I hadn’t noticed this soo much in the other ROMs. Also if I had many recent apps open, scrolling in the browser got a little choppy, as soon as I closed em all everything was smooth again. So this isn’t for heavy multitaskers. But for light tasks this ROM is really good.

I charged the fone to 100 % at 12:30 am And at around 5 30 the battery was down to 95%. That’s about 1% per hour. The battery was completely empty by 8 30. The battery life is really good and id definitely recommend this ROM for light users.

Temple run ran smoothly when no apps were running in the background. But with a few apps it became very laggy.

Benchmarks :

Quadrant : 1001

Antutu : 3342

So go to the thread and check out the ROM yourselves and thank stanlin salu for his excellent first attempt!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1925608
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ssanjay19:
What kernel did you use for this? Mesa? Coz with kernel panic I get more scores...

And for lagging when opening apps, I supercharged my phone 100% and the phone was flying out with colours...

Damn fast multitasking:D no lags when opening
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] samajid:
Mesa...

Yea , m sure supercharging will make this ROM very fast ..but m testing the ROM withou modifiying it. Hope the dev adds it in his next release
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kaustubhatzenith:
Hey. can you share what UV settings are you using... I'm a bit new to UV..

Sent from my ST15i
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ssanjay19:
Using system tuner go to uv section and reduce each voltage by 25mv..

See for 30-50 mins that system doesn't gets heated:p or goes into bootloop..

Follow this procedure twice or thrice not more than that.. Else Prob only

Try not to reduce more voltage or ur system goes into bootloop:p..

Also there is a high possiblity that screen flickers:eek:

UV is easy and nice to experiment but be careful;)

Stock voltage are the best always.

Good Luck
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] scorpion 13:
anyone tested serenity Rom??

how is it performance?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1936672
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Defhawk:
Im using panic kernel on my ST17i, and as far as i got 4389 score for benchmark.

its the best for me..
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kaustubhatzenith:
How far have you gone? just curious

and which device are you using

Sent from my ST15i
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ssanjay19:
Mine is MINI St15I hope same as urs:laugh:

I reduced 25mv for all frequencies first... Was stable enough..

And then consequently reduced by 25mv twice and thus got into bootloop after home screen......

So reducing by 75mV for all frequency ended into bootloop for me:crying:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] WandererX:
does battery performance improves?

thx :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] KhemaraS.:
Hi if possible you can test my DeliciousSandwich ROM :)

im very thankfull for your work,your reviews are very great abd gives a good explanation for people who cant decide between ROMs
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] andrasandhi:
really??

i can lower it to 800mV from 900mV on 134Mhz safely and stable.

each freq reduced 100mV.

min 134Mhz - max 1,2Ghz. get bootloop when set max on 1,6Ghz.

set on System Tuner app, powered by KRsH v3 kernel.

sent from my XMP
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] izzuddinfz:
Using Real ICS :) Work nicely with MESA kernel :) :good:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ssanjay19:
Haven't noticed a lot.. May be by a hour u can extend... Thats all....

Now am testing with different voltages for diff. frequency instead of reducing all by 75mv...

So when am done i ll get u the results!!!

Ya it differs from diif. Processors... All are 1GHz processors but all wont be the same :eek:

by reducing each to 75mV i got bootloop.....

Since i din't have a flashable recovery... everything messed up!!

Are you sure by reducing each voltage to 100mV on every frequency its stable???:confused:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] andrasandhi:
here ss
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ssanjay19:
Fine:good:

Am trying again!!!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Spex:
XperiaSandwich almost finished :)

it will be released on 28. October

i need to do some mods and things :)

hope you will have time to test it :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] WandererX:
so why reducing voltage if battery doesn't bnefit so much?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] andrasandhi:
ya, i agree with u.

just curious that how much the effect of undervolting on my phone.

i know UV things from X8 forum, my first android phone, n it works.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] pastillero:
Would it be ICS? I hope you can make a GB ROM, cause your roms are awesome
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Spex:
it will be ics

as u could see from name XperiaSandwich :)

i wont be making gb roms cause when i got to ics i only got back to gb to root xD

p.s. dont post here in matter of this rom so we keep this thread clean

there will be time and place for it :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] dhallbhoo:
wish fully

i hope will be a good rom with batt life, smooth perform, and cool ui interface.

ofcourse with light use able.

in the other word... suitable for daily user like me :D

cant wait to download :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] samajid:
Happy ICS V2 Review

The first thing I noticed on this launcher was the transparency on the notification panel and status bar. It’s a little bit higher than I should’ve been but it still does look good though. The notification has 3 panels – notification, toggles, and recent apps. I was excited to finally use this but I was disappointed and I’ll tell you why. Even though an entire panel is dedicated for toggles, we still have just one row of toggles on that panel, which we have to scroll through horizontally. All the toggles spread out on the entire panel would’ve been much more practical. I know it not the devs fault but it’s part of the ROM and I’m not a fan. I’ve the same complaint about the recent apps panel too. It simply opens the recent apps list that you get by long pressing the home button, and you have to scroll again. What I was expecting was a gingerbead style list of recent app that I can “quickly” select. But many people still seem to like this so those who do all I can say is it does what it’s supposed to. The rest of the UI is the xperia gx we all know very well. Nothing to complain about here. We can also choose holo launcher btw.

Coming to the performance of the ROM, I’ve mention that the launcher keeps reloading almost every time I press the home button. Moving through the UI feels zippy as if the animations have been sped up. But sometimes scrolling between screens got a little laggy and widgets took a sec or two to load up. Opening apps and multitasking are really quick at times and take around 2 -3 seconds sometimes. Basically the performance is not constant. The scrolling in the browser was really smooth even though I had loads of apps running in the background. I do not know much about all this, but im assuming that all the ram is dedicated to the task at hand, so the app that you are using at the time runs really well, but that means the other apps will be closed to accommodate. Many people might prefer this kinda performance (it might prove to be good for gaming I think), but I’m more into fast multi tasking. Because of this I’ve noticed smooth game play in temple run. But a couple of times it did get choppy, but I told you earlier the performance varies sometimes.

I charged the phone to a 100% at 12 am and it came down to 94% at 6 am. That’s 1% / hour. With moderate usage throughout the day the battery gave up at 7:30 pm. Battery life is not bad at all!

Benchmarks

Quadrant: 1020

Antutu : 3397

So head over to the link below to test the ROM yourself and thank the dev happyayush.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1921705
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] samajid:
please press thanks on the individual review post if you think it accurately describes the ROM, that way we can judge the accuracy of the reviews. if your experience with the ROM was any different, please write about it and i will be more careful while testing any future updates. Thank You for your feedback

I am planning on adding atleast one review per week. i will also be testing the updates of every ROM asap. so press thanks on the first post as well if i helped u .
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] sandy7:
Y dont u add pureness v3.1 and octane v4 to the list

sent straight from hell
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] samajid:
Bro, ill b reviewing the updates as soon as Im done reviewing the new ROMs... :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Nek0x90:
Octane v4.0 and Kernel Panic is a great combination. Right now I'm using them and my mini PRO works awesome. You should do a review of them!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] samajid:
Ive heard lots of good things about kernel panic but im testong all the ROMs using the same kernel , mesa 1.8 for comparing them...

In the next round of updates ill use either kernel panic or mesa 1.9
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] samajid:
Serenity V1.2 Review

This Rom is JellySandwichs’ little brother in terms of costumization, u can choose which launcher ( stock xperia with corners or xperia gx) , lockscreen (wave or xperia), statusbar (stock or with quicktoggles) and many other things in Aroma. It seems we can get maximum performance by staying as close to stock as possible. I chose xperia gx with wave lockscreen and quick toggles. And the UI looks good as usual. The apps and widgets are as few as possible. The notification bar has an AOSP feel, and theres a brightness slider under the toggles too ! one bug that I found is pressing the 3g/2g network mode toggle dosent do anything at all. The settings menu is also AOSP styled. All the latest xperia media apps are present. The costumization bit is really good.

The performance of the ROM is really consistent. Multitasking is quite fast, going back and forth between two to three apps is instantaneous. But starting an app takes about 3 seconds to load up or even more if it is a heavy program. Moving through the UI is smooth and quick. If u hit home after running many apps the home screen take around 2 3 seconds. Another bug I found is that while temple run the accelerometer dosent respond for about 30 seconds and t suddenly starts working. But otherwise the gameplay is quite smooth. Ram management is excellent no matter how many apps I had opened the performance didn’t vary much. With a few more optimizations this ROM will really be very very fast.

Charged till 100% at 12 30 am and at 6 30 am the battery came down to 94%. That’s 1% per hr. the battery completely died at 7 30pm n i have to admit i used the Rom a lil more than usual so i like the battery life here!

Benchmarks :

Quadrant: 1430

Antutu: 3564

Amazing effort by rachit.rc6 and check this ROM out on

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1936672
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] dhallbhoo:
Which Kernel

Excuse me dear Samajid..

which kernel u used for the review with this wonderful Rom?

is it still in Mesa 1.8 or the new one?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] samajid:
1.8 mesa
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] MoonBlade:
i have a question..

How long do you run the phone before doing benchmarks and do you have external apps installed while doing it ??

Thanks.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] samajid:
1 day at least... and yea I have about 30 apps installed , I don't force close them but I do swipe them off the recent apps list before running the benchmark tests.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] MoonBlade:
i asked because i am using Serenity v 1.2 and benchmark results were 3283 without overclocking after 2 days use... but i used kernel panic.

i think mesa 1.8 is better than kernel panic for this ROM
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] samajid:
I guess so.. even I was shocked at the score.. but for me real life performance is more important...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] samajid:
DeliciousSandwich v1.0

This is indeed one Delicious Sandwich! This ROM is completely AOSP styled with ROM control and all. I admit I prefer the look of the xperia home but I can definitely live with AOSP, especially when the performance is soo good. Also, Nova launcher is very customizable, fast and light. A few needed xperia apps are present. The contents of the ROM are bare minimum, and that does show in the ROM performance. Even the keyboard is ICS keyboard. Quick toggles are available and brightness slider too. The ICS camera app is boring but it works really fast. One very very irritating bug is the apn dosent work. And the fix wasn’t provided, n I couldn’t find it anywhere. Also receiving call in landscape is not proper, cant see the ring completely.

Coming to the performanceof the ROM, It’s amazing. Scrolling is super smooth. Multitasking is really quick, and opening apps is one of the fastest ive seen. I don’t know why this ROM isn’t being talked about much. The ROM manages RAM really realy well. I never felt like I had to close apps and free ram to make things move faster. Playing Temple Run was very very smooth. I achieved a new highscore in this ROM now. Gaming is really amazing here. For now I have no complaints about the ROM. staying away for any kinds of mods has really helped this ROM. there are a couple of bugs but when they are fixed this ROM is definitely promising.

I couldn’t test the ROM for its battery life coz of the apn problem and when I did find a fix I couldn’t do it coz of another bug. I had kept the phone on stand by with wifi connected but when the router got switched off and back on again the phone did not connect to the same network again automatically. Also during this time the battery drain was more than usual. hope the dev has fixed this issue in the next verison which is coming out soon. Ill b testing it along with battery life asap.

Benchmarks

Quadrant : 1001

Antutu : 3528

Try out this ROM and thank khemara s. !

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1935239
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] antr34:
in my experience MESA is the most battery friendly but its performance is a little behind kernel panic, so i vote for MESA
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Duckie92:
You should get around 3600 without any oc. Mesa is the slowest kernel to use on this rom. Kernelpanic is way the fastest coupled with this rom. It's weird our get that low numbers.

I tested mesa 2.0 with it and it dropped from 4800 to 4300 on antutu.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Kir3:
Can you test with stock kernel :) for us with locked bootloaders (after testing with panic)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] samajid:
M sorry bro but that would take too long... u can compare the performance of the ROMs ... I think it would vary proprtionally for each kernel
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Spex:
just test the way you did till now.

your making big contribution to new users :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] leo4b:
well, you tested several roms, what do you recommend at the moment? Good performance and battery life?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] samajid:
Pls read the reviews n decide. It can't get easier than this. Also depends on the type of look and features u want...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] leo4b:
what kernel you're using with the real ics lite? My battery with this rom can not take one day ... And this rom is really cool :/
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] samajid:
I didn't get one day too! Read d review, the battery life is not more than approx 18 hrs and that's including like 6 hrs of standby!

Btw I used mesa... with smartassv2 and noop.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] sandy7:
U can add optimax. To ur list :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] samajid:
UNLIMITED tm V6 with UNLIMITEDtm v6 boost Short Review

The look and feel of the UNLIMITED Rom hasnt changed at all. you can read the review of v5 to know more about that

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=32501061&postcount=62

All the tiny bugs from the last version have been fixed (the irritating pop up is gone and wifi connects well). that leaves us with an amazing experience. the UNLIMITED boost is getting better and better. multitasking is now blazing fast, apps take 1 sec to load. playing temple run was a pleasant experience again ! the difference between this rom and deliciousSandwich is that a few extra features are present in this ROM like xperia keyboard and google now ( which ofcourse can be easily flashed) but even with these the performance hasnt dropped. but there are a few times that things might get slowed down for a couple of seconds but then everything is speedy again. ive also felt that there have been a few more app crashes than before. but can also b because of the new kernel.

I tested the ROM with MESA 2.0. i havent done a complete battery test but the battery life which was already very good jus got better.now the battery life is amazing! im actually waiting for v7 which has many new features to make a more detailed review. also ive been bz ... sorry guys :silly:

Benchmarks

Quadrant : 1354

Antutu :3328

Check the ROM out and thank mv_style here

http://xdaforums.com/show....php?t=1834448

also check out the really good UNLIMITED boost and try it out

http://xdaforums.com/show....php?t=1873234

Press thanks if ur experience was similar and pls share your battery life info ! thanks :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Allen Hu:
Your phone must be barely alive after flashing all these things.....:p
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] samajid:
Lol :D. As long as it helps ppl.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] lilww96:
Thanks for ur amazing reviews I will choose a rom depending on ur reviews :D... but 1 important rom u missed MiniCMSandwich lite which is AOSP Rom based.. I see most of people say it's awesome.. So why u don't test it please :D one last question stock sony kernel work with all these roms right ( locked bootloader ones)?? Thanks again :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] pastillero:
I agree with you, he should make a review of MiniCMSandwich too.

Every ROM is different, so if you wanna know if Stock Kernel works with any of them, just enter the thread(usually the title say if it works on Locked and Unlocked bootloader, if it doesn't say just enter the thread and read)

Regards
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Kir3:
+1 for MiniCMSandwich. And If ROM thread says 'Locked Bootloader' it's working on stock kernel
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] samajid:
I might test it but there are soo many new ROMs coming out almost every day! Dont have the time :(.... But ill try
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] pastillero:
Don't worry. Take your time bro. You are being very helpful! Thanks
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Spex:
just take your time mate.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] dhallbhoo:
Just take ur time and relax.

I always waiting for ur new review with patient, no need to hurry :) bcz we all want best review from u.

Ur thread are so helping me how to choose some custom rom.

Btw, u should be named with " Recognized Tester " :thumbup:

send from my mango
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] samajid:
Thanks guys...:)

Needed a little motovation lol

Btw from now on the reviews will be a little better... Hope u ppl like it