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[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] CiscoX:
This custom ICS Rom is much better than stock ICS. Good work munjeni :)

My battery was around 50% - 52% before i went to sleep, and when i wake up it was on 48% after 7 hours sleep.

But it fall down very fast after i start use it for allmost 2 hours ago, the battery is now 43%.

But remember that i also did install all my 30 apps i have and that take some power, wifi, Antivirus Scan also use some more power.

To test this ROM, i need to charge my phone again to 100% then use it like i always do. Then we can see how the battery is :)

With Stock GB + munjeni kernel v6, i can have the battery for over 3 days with normal use for me.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] CiscoX:
Time for an update :)

Well after 22 hours, my phone show now 41% on battery. The phone is laggy in the menu, when you scroll through all the list at home. It's because i have change the governor to "ondemand" and the IO Scheduler to "deadline" the same as GB Rom have. To see how that are, and it's not so very good. SmartAssv2 is good on governor, but it seems to me that one use more battery.

I use SetCPU to change the governor and IO Scheduler since Rom ToolBox not can keep my settings saved after reboot. Must be an bug on that program since it works with SetCPU.

I also have changed the Sysctl Config to tweak little bit. So the AnTuTu Benchmark v.2.9.4 test give me 5590 from 5345. The performance are little bit better, but not so good as GB Rom.

But overall, this Custom ICS ROM + kernel from munjeni is much better than stock ICS from Sony.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] OverdiveKill:
So are you staying on gingerbread?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] CiscoX:
Well i don't know yet what i'm gonna do. I'm gonna try out this custom ROM little bit more.

But i don't like that my phone is so laggy :( So this is a bad update from Sony, i don't understand why they release a update that is "much" more laggy than the original Rom that comes with the phone, GB.

The phone is not laggy if i change governor to "performance", but then you can kiss your battery good bye!

But again, munjeni's custom ICS Rom + kernel is much better than stock ICS.

But is not perform so good as GB did. But this is not munjeni's fault. Munjeni have been working his butt off to make this ICS work better than stock ICS. All credits to to him :)

Sony should never release ICS for Xperia GO. Not this build version. They are gonna release a new version soon now, so let's hope they have learn from us customers and fix all the problems with ICS and Xperia GO.

Maybe next release is more like GB :)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] munjeni:
I don't know but on HTC Aria some guys reported "slow motion" when zram is activated... so you can experiment, for example to delete "/system/bin/zram_start.sh", reboot and see if android is faster! I will attach here some things that I used on "low memory" HTC Aria just for ICS performance... will make these in flashable zip (just for your experiments) if you want? I not belive that HTC Aria (600mhz single core armv6 250mb ram...etc) is faster than our dual core Xperia Go that have more ram memory too... realy strange :)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] CiscoX:
Hi munjeni.

Yes it would be nice to try out some tweak you may have and see if it helps. Yes, that is strange if the HTC Aria is faster than Xperia GO. :confused:

If you have time, you can post some tweaks :)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] TomNilson:
how should i plug my xperia go into the computer.

normally, or shut down, or fastbootmode??

because when i plug in normally, the install.bat says "error: device not found"???
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] munjeni:
Boot android, go into settings, enable usb debuging mode (its in development menu), do not reboot, connect usb cable, than run "install.bat".

If not working than install Sony PC Companion software.

If not working than install usb drivers provided in my archive.

Hope it helps :)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] munjeni:
removed... need to fix tweak script
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Limitless83:
Got a problem

when i tried to flash, i ot an erro that the copying failed due to lack of space,, and now i'm stuck in CWM

EDIT: Panicked to soon, flashed over another rom, can boot again, wil try it later after i free up my internal space
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] CiscoX:
Hi. Seems to me that you have not much free space on your sdcard. Try to connect the USB cable when you are in CWM. Then go to mount&restore in them menu I think that is the name. Them go to last line mount USB or something. Them you have access to your sdcard via your computer. Try to make more free space on it and try again to flash it.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Limitless83:
Got it allready,

flashed over another ftf and now on Munjeni's Rom... looks good still going through installs right now
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] CiscoX:
That's good, enjoy :)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] kore44110:
thank you

very smooth :)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] munjeni:
Memory tweak fail to run from crontab on every minute (only manualy) because busybox (Stericson), latest from market, have problem with "uids" so I need to update busybox... please give me busybox elite, I want to try but can not find these binary
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] CiscoX:
Hi.

What kind of files are you looking for in BusyBox Pro?

I don't know if this is any help, but take a look: https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=4502
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] munjeni:
No need, got it fixed, I recomend installing memory tweak!!! Busybox is included so please do not install another busybox, android is very smooth now! Let me know opinions ;)

Procedure for installing memory tweak:

download memory tweak -> http://d-h.st/0tG

reboot to recovery

mount usb storage

copy memory_tweaks.zip to sdcard

unmount sdcard

back to main menu and "install zip from sdcard"

reboot
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] OverdiveKill:
And how bout the battery? Is the battery consumption better?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] munjeni:
Everything is better!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] OverdiveKill:
But not like gb?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Limitless83:
No, and that's just because ICS uses more power, it's almost impossible to make a full ICS rom that uses less power than GB

For me the power consumption is very good now (1,5 day without charging on normal use calling/texting/surfing)

thanks Munjeni for the very smooth rom and the kernel !!

But can you please update your OP

and sum up the features you have implemented in kernel/rom

so others can easily see what's different... now they have to scroll all the way through your changelogs to see

thanks !!!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Reck1993:
I didn't use ur Rom, so is it ok for me to install this tweak? Will there be any problem?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] munjeni:
Tweak zip include kernel+kernel_modules+ramdisk+tweak+cwm+busybox so I think there will not be problem! You can try!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Reck1993:
Flashed it already. I found no problem. Also, I got new kernel too. :thumbup:
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] eoghan2t7:
maybe you could add this gov in the kernel i added it to the marvel and the performace boost was amazing for it so it might work better on a dual core phone

https://github.com/MarvellousAndroi...a2175510/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_smartassH3.c
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] ukunilus:
AnTuTu score with installed tweaks and governor set to performance - 5912, governor set to ondemand -5630
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] munjeni:
Hmm its good score? ...let me know which score is for GB rom...
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] munjeni:
Thanks for info! Instead of governors I will play with "low memory killer", we have now very good performance and more free ram using "memory tweak" but its not ideal solution, its temporary solution, instad of these tweak I must to play with kernel things to get these tweak by kernel side instead of using script... in any way I must to say our temporary solution working very good, testing rom with these tweak 24h, still I can not see any freze and my memory all time have ~80mb available free memory (without tweak android use whole memory and available memory was only ~3kb so it was reason for frezes)... will try to locate/debug reason why memory is full without using tweak, its realy strange in ICS build, I am sure its kernel side, I think we need to tweak kernel module for memory things to get these permormanse more better in ICS
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] ukunilus:
Yes it is good, best 4.0.4 is 6013 and mine is second best.

Best GB 2.3.7 is on list with 5633.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] wbgenetic:
hey guys - just installed the rom - all seems to work fine except for :

phone is very laggy - i can make it work OK when i change the governor to performance but battery life is dying fast.

additionally camera takes forever to take focus (maybe a patch for that) - if the camera gets fixed I might live with it - but now it's a disaster and I am looking towards downgrading to GB :(
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] calvin_ng:
funny... when I install my WIFI MAC address has change....
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] munjeni:
You have installed rom v13 from first page? You have installed tweak afted installed rom v13?

Yes, its only remain bad thing that I need to fix!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] wbgenetic:
hey ya - yeap - v13 and then the memory tweak ... still doesn't work smooth ... I was on GB .184 before that and it seemed to work much better.

if the camera will be fixed it might be fine in general ... what might be the cause here?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] munjeni:
You can not compare ICS and GB because GB is for sure faster but not better than ICS. ICS is better! What you mean "very lagy"? Maybe you mean "sometimes" laggy? Yes, ICS is "sometimes" laggy, but I'm not sure if it is "very" laggy, instead its "good" smooth in comparation with unmodified stock ICS. :)

About camera, still I have no problems in camera, but whats problem with camera focus? Please more detail about problem! Any one have problem with camera?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] wbgenetic:
hello munjeni,

yes I highly appreciate the improvement over stock ICS. It is jus that GB is faster. ICS has more improvements indeed - speed is not among them however.

the camera - takes like 2-3 seconds to take focus of each image. I was able to click click click and take a row of pictures in under a second with GB ... also taking a picture in a dark room seems to take forever -where it could shoot straight away in GB. not to mention a LOT of noise in the pictures.

regards

Vlado
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] munjeni:
Camera I think can not be fixed because its stock rom and we have no source code for camera, allso I think no one will play with fixing camera.... simple camera working ok for my needs and I think to other users too, allso I can not see any problem in camera.

Wifi mac adress is fixed and fix will be in v14! Will add sio scheduler and smartass3 governor
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] eoghan2t7:
God i cant wait to get this phone munjeni your doing a great job on the tweaks etc. And also i cant wait to raid the kernel and add more features for those how love more to tweak ;)

only two weeks to go and this phone will be mine. Also munjeni could you upload your current kernel source code to github or something so i can work on it at the same stage as you once i get the phone ;)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Reck1993:
Does anyone have problem with usb storage? I really couldn't mount it. Also, I couldn't find option to unmount external sd card. Could u tell me where it is?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] munjeni:
github munjeni ;)

Its in xperia menu/sub menu conectivity... you can switch mtp or msc
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] eoghan2t7:
thanks mate i see theres a sh script to build the kernel and convert it to sony format ;)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Reck1993:
It doesnt exist... :confused:
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] munjeni:
Are you installed v13 + tweak? Are you modified something?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] munjeni:
Yes but there mising some python scripts so its not usable
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] eoghan2t7:
ok once i get the phone i might fix that script or just do it the old fashioned way ;)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Reck1993:
I used Official and ur tweak. :confused:
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] munjeni:
Sorry I can not help you because you not have installed v13... if you have problem with these things you can request help in forum thread where you have downloaded these rom. I done instructions on first page but seems you not followed these instructions.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Limitless83:
check under storage, all the way to the bottom

unmounting and erasing sd is there...

and usb connection mode is available in my phone under connectivity settings
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] angelerikz:
Sd card fix remount sdcard as internal

Is it safe to use the sdcard fix remount card as internal on v13+memory tweaks?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] joaomac7:
Very good job!!

I installed 3 days ago. Batery life is OK, GPS (with fasterfix app) is quick, no problems with disable/eable Wifi like i have with official rom.

I have only facing 2 issues:

- process learning client 2.1 is consuming a lot of battery (i forced to stop)

- And the battery is showing the wrong percentage. For example it shows 1% and then i restart the phone. After reboot i have 17% of battery.

Joao

Portugal
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] ukunilus:
Have you done battery calibration after flashing? If not then for me this has worked well:

Battery Calibration
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Limitless83:
Hi,

I flashed your rom a couple of days ago and i'm very happy with it

But since a day or 2, when i try to make a call, "

Ifinite views" FC's and i'm unable to make the call...

I've flashed the rom+ the tweaks and Xperia Home launcher (from here)

anybody any idea?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] chuchao:
flash the offical rom by the flashtool,then run the v13 install.bat.again.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] rizki cimenks:
Try using OTG helper a new one
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] joaomac7:
No I didn't.

I will try. Thanks:good:
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] ukunilus:
Advise would be that re-flash v13 and dont install Xperia Home launcher separately.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] rizki cimenks:
So, what launcher suitable with that?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] StratOS_HTC:
logo.rle

Having problems locating logo.rle / encoding image from v12 bootimage (initrd.gz)

Found start @ offset 164706 and end @181788, found some converters 4 it, guess is the start/end different or image size different.

What is the size of original image / encoding ?

Thx in advance ...
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] munjeni:
I not understand what you are doing?! You trying to convert rle to png? If yes than you need tool for it... tool is http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=convert_image_to_rle.bat&meta=
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] sidnoit22:
Can anyone give me the link to Root this phone?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Limitless83:
Use flashtool. Search for it on this forum. Instal - connect phone - klick root. Done. :)

Sent from my ST27i
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] xperia_88:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1886460
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] StratOS_HTC:
OK, here is the deal :

If cwm skin pack the new ramdisk and create new boot image :

Have changed the logo.rle files successfully, packed again with mkbootfs.exe, gzipped and changed the sec1.bin of cwm skin pack transfered to sdcard, apply 2 part :

packing new skin
copying ...
unpacking ramdisk ...
copying new res folder ...
created new ramdisk.

Sony dual kernel flasher v 0.1by LeTama
Sony dual kernel flasher v 0.1 modified by munjeni

Fail to create new boot.img
fail 6!

Error 6 ?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] munjeni:
Error 6 mean your newly created ramdisk is not ok! You can not unpack ramdisk inside windows machine to windows folder and pack it again because for these structure you need linux enviroment (yes you can, but you need for example "Minimalist GNU for Windows"...etc) !!! Did your ramdisk is cpio gzipped? :)

You no need linux machine, you can use recovery for these things, for example you can unpack ramdisk using recovery + adb by rebooting to recovery and connecting adb to recovery:

adb shell
cp /sdcard/blablabla/part1.bin /initrd.gz
cd /
mkdir initr
cd initr
gunzip < ../initrd.gz | cpio -i --make-directories
cd ..
/sbin/mkbootfs ./initr | gzip > new_initrd.gz
mv new_initrd.gz part1.bin

Do you have error 6 without modifying part bins? Or you have error 6 only after your work on ramdisk?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] StratOS_HTC:
Have created it with adb in recovery,cpio-ed,but some errors with simlink,will post the resoults later on.But when done 1 part in recovery and pack with 2 part no errors with creating/replacing boot image.Got errors only with changed ramdisk (logo.rle) and cpio simlink errors.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] munjeni:
Maybe I am wrong but I am sure you doing something wrong? Please give me detailed steps of your work, I will try to resolve your problem!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] StratOS_HTC:
Error 6 again

First dumped the boot.img throught cwm touch 5.5.0.4. rc13

tools/sony cwm skin tool / step 1 (extract skin)

created files on /sdcard/skin

Unpacked the files - sec1.bin (initrd.gz)

adb shell
cd sdcard
cd skin

/sdcard/skin # ls
ls
res sec0.bin sec1.bin sec2.bin sec3.bin

copy files sec1.bin (initrd.gz)

cp sec1.bin /initrd.gz
/sdcard/skin # cd /
cd /
mkdir initrd
cd initrd

unpack :

/initrd # gunzip < ../initrd.gz | cpio -i --make-directories
gunzip < ../initrd.gz | cpio -i --make-directories
unknown option -- make-directories
BusyBox v1.20.2-cm9 static (2012-07-14 01:52 +0200) multi-call binary.

Usage: cpio [-dmvu] [-F FILE] [-H newc] [-tio] [EXTR_FILE]...

Extract or list files from a cpio archive, or
create an archive using file list on stdin

Main operation mode:
-t List
-i Extract EXTR_FILEs (or all)
-o Create (requires -H newc)
-d Make leading directories
-m Preserve mtime
-v Verbose
-u Overwrite
-F FILE Input (-t,-i,-p) or output (-o) file
-H newc Archive format

well since unknown option -- make-directories assume -d switch :

/initrd # gunzip < ../initrd.gz | cpio -i -d
gunzip < ../initrd.gz | cpio -i -d
15855 blocks
/initrd # ls
ls
crashtag init.goldfish.rc res
data init.rc sbin
default.prop init.st-ericsson.rc sys
dev init.ste.rc system
fstab init.usbmode.sh ueventd.goldfish.rc
icon_error.png logo.rle ueventd.rc
init proc ueventd.st-ericsson.rc
init.clrdex.sh recovery.fstab
/initrd #

Replace logo.rle

~ # cp logo.rle initrd/logo.rle

pack :

~ # /sbin/mkbootfs ./initrd | gzip > new_initrd.gz
/sbin/mkbootfs ./initrd | gzip > new_initrd.gz

copy

~ # mv new_initrd.gz /sdcard/skin/sec1.bin
mv new_initrd.gz /sdcard/skin/sec1.bin

in cwm select tools and step 2 - apply skin !

Error 6 again ?

Guess it has to do with encoding/decoding again.

Sony logo is 480x320 px

Added my tested logo in png and encoded to rle
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] kala123:
Right now I'm using V10, is there some way to update my phone to v13 whitout loos my settings/apps ?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] ehsan_yany:
Hi everyone. I am new with xperia go. so i have some question about this rom:

1- is everything works perfect? ( like the stock and official 2.3.7)

2- is this rom rootable easily? ( if yes, how? )

3- is there realy differences between this rom and the stock 2.3.7? (like battery life , camera quality , new options and etc.)

4- what are the problems of this rom?

thanks for helping. :)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] xperia_88:
1- Yes. (like the stock and official 4.04)

2- Yes. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1886460

3- Better than the stock 4.04.

4- the regular ICS problems.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] munjeni:
You no need to root rom because its rooted. Camera is better in Gingerbread rom! Everything other is better in ICS. Battery life is the same. Everything working. Performance is better in ICS (antutu score is 7700)...
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] munjeni:
You are wrong in step (pack)! You need to go out from initrd folder (cd ..) and than do: mkbootfs!

What is size of your new initrd.gz ?

You have no error 6 without modifying sec1.bin ?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] xperia_88:
interesting, didn't get root till running Bin4ry Root batch:confused:
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] munjeni:
Do not use bin4ry because you no need to do it for rom posted in this thread! Only you need to install superuser.apk (not superSu !!!) Read twice instructions on first page and everything will be ok! Please do not post your instructions because will confuse other users, please remove your post about rooting with bin4ry method because its not needed! Instead of these link you can post link to first post and instructions from these post, thanks
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] xperia_88:
Sorry, my negligence... anyway, bin4ry made the job too on your excellent work here ;)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] munjeni:
I aggre but yout post with direct links will confuse users (users will think that v13 need rooting but v13 is allready rooted, and these root tools is not needed!)... so your instructions is not needed because installing rom from this thread is very simple (simple run install.bat) and rom is installed, but posting another instructions instead of instructions from first page will realy confuse other users!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] ehsan_yany:
thanks for your valuable informations. so I'm gonna use this rom, but I need a step by step guide to flash this rom, is there any useful links or FAQ for this rom? I bought this phone yesterday so I'm not so familiar with it yet.

first, how can i unlock the bootloader?

thanks :good:
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] xperia_88:
I am sure you can find a lot of a good explanation for it. I used this link and unlock the bootloader easily!

http://techdraginfo.blogspot.com/2012/09/how-to-unlock-bootloader-of-sony.html
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] ehsan_yany:
thanks again, finally i installed this rom. its good but i feel a little lag in this, for example when i change the homescreens or when i open menu i feel it, and its a little anoying, because my stock 2.3.7 was really smoother than this. my antutu behcnmark score is 5760 while with the former rom(2.3.7) was about 5900!

Is there any solution to make this rom smoother?

i tryed the memory tweaks.zip from the first page, but after that i didnt see any improvements.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] munjeni:
Wait a minute after booting android because tweak runing on every minute and freeing your memory, so after every execution you have ~90 mb memory free and android is really smooth in comparation with stock android! You will see diference when after trying stock rom and after truing v13 + tweak!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] StratOS_HTC:
Error 6 again

I'm on the root folder when doing this.

the cat of new_initrd.gz shows, it's >0 :)

I have no error 6 without modifiying the resource from stem 1 extract skin from cwm recovery :)

Can any1 prepack or test it with test image (latest rom ---> boot.img) :

http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1516328&d=1354038000

Still think it's the conversion method ???

Looking forward for more infos ...

Thx in advance ...

/EDIT

Got same error 6 if packed logo from FXP throught cwm step 2 :(
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] munjeni:
Will make new tool in recovery tools menu especially for changing boot logo!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] OverdiveKill:
could you make one for the gb version too,please?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] munjeni:
New vrsion is out!

memory tweak V14 ; Changelog 30.Nov.2012.:

wifi mac (real mac from now)

enabled kernel same page merging aka KSM (enabled by init script on boot)

SIO and VR iosched (SIO set as a default)

some improvement in memcpy and memmove

new recovery v14 - new tools submenu (you can change boot logo easilly)

See result about perfomance from now! http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/549/device20121130173315.png
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] kore44110:
Wow 7775 is very good. :laugh:
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Limitless83:
Do we have to whipe data before/after flashing?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] munjeni:
No. Simple install trought recovery!

Next version:

overclock 1.15ghz (curently in testing stage):silly: