[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] aneez.m:
Reducing the brightness to 0

Based on my observation over the last 12 hours, these are the bugs I've encountered. It could just be my phone:

1. Swyping on the Android keyboard does not work, but we can click on each key and that gets registered

2. The red rectangular windows appears from time to time. This has already been acknowledged by the developer as the ROM currently does not have hardware acceleration.

3. The battery does seem to run out a lot faster. I suspect that is because the ROM is not fully optimized yet, and I believe that will improve with each release.

4. When the brightness of the screen is reduced to zero, the screen goes completely blank. And a restart of the phone was needed to get it working again.

5. I am able to hear sound when I play games and in-call volume. But the phone does not ring [Hence I am using vibration to know my phone is ringing] , videos do not have sound and mp3 songs can't play. This has also been acknowledged by the developer as the ROM has some issues with specific formats.

What I have tested to work fine for my phone :

1. Vibration during incoming calls works

2. Camera works

3. Data works (mobile and wifi)

4. Am able to play games, videos (without sound)

5. Accessing my data from SDCARD

6. Installing & Updating both Google and 3rd party applications

7. GPS works

I am very happy with the ROM, and am confident that the team will resolve these minor issues in time to come. Kudos to the team and great work guys! :good:

How I went about installing this ROM :

Previous setup:

Cyanogenmod 10 : FX202 Kernel: Nova Kernel 1.3

Current setup:

Cyanogenmod 10.1 (Dirty build)

Assumption:

You have already unlocked boot loader, rooted the phone, installed recovery, you're using a rom < Cyanogenmod 10.1, you have the correct Xperia drivers installed, and have prior experience using fastboot.

Please go through the other forum articles if any of the terms you see below is not familiar with you. Its not worth taking a risk without understanding what you're getting yourself into. If you understand the risk and are confident, here goes...

Steps to install :

1. Download the dirty build (CM10.1) and gapp.zip [Google apps] (Ensure that you have the correct version suitable for CM10.1 . Date of gapp greater than 2012-12-12 worked for me)

2. Copy both zip files into the phone sdcard via USB. Unplug the phone from USB cord

[if you're coming from another Kernel, perform steps 2a to 2e. Otherwise, skip to Step 3]

2a. Extract a copy of the boot.img from the ROM zip and place it in the same folder where fastboot is installed

2b. power off the phone

2c. hold vol+ and plug usb to boot into fastboot (blue led)

2d. Execute command in windows command prompt: fastboot flash boot boot.img (the file that you copied into the fastboot folder earlier)

2e. Execute command in windows command prompt: fastboot reboot

3. Enter recovery [Either by rebooting into recovery or when booting the phone and the led light will be violet for 3'', press & hold vol+]

4. Mount System and format System

5. Do a Wipe [User Data & Cache]

6. Flash CM10.1 zip

[You can technically reboot and use your phone now itself, but you will not have Google Play to install other applications. You can always reboot to recovery and continue from Step 7 later]

7. Flash gapps zip

8. Do a Wipe [User Data & Cache]

9. Reboot the phone

f you have installed the correct gapp zip, you will be promoted with the setup wizard. Otherwise, you will see an error message saying process failed. Do note that this error is not due to the ROM, but due to the wrong gapp zip file. In case you encounter this issue, hold the power & vol+ button, which will restart the phone. Enter into Recovery as per Step 3 and repeat the steps until step 6.

Please note that these instructions were extracted from other forum contributors, particularly FXP Team and many others who have been kind enough to guide the newcomers.

If you want to say Thanks, give it to the Team that brought us CM 10.1 and the FXP Team! We owe them our gratitude.