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[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] metmettem:
Re: [ROM][JB][Ray] Super Jelly Bean 1.1 [11/2/2013]

Hi,

Can the dev look at a bug in the radio as after a message or call comes in the radio wont restart playing and wont play again until you exit and force close the app.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] sarangkunte05:
Re: [ROM][JB][Ray] Super Jelly Bean 1.1 [11/2/2013]

Recently am facing a weird problem with the camera app. Never faced this on any fxp nor on sjb. When I zoom during clicking a picture, the picture fails to be clicked. Totally weird.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] piyush95:
+1
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] dreezz:
hi, i cannot go to flashmode in Flashtool

error: make sure you are not in mtp mode

i flashed the option to use mass storage in post #3

usb connection is working, but i cannot enter flashmode.

how can i flash a different kernel (or return to a ics rom)? :eek:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] rob rich:
AW: [ROM][JB][Ray] Super Jelly Bean 1.1 [11/2/2013]

does it really care in which mode you are when your phone is turned off? i never had such an error by flashing with flashtool

---------- Post added at 09:13 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:10 AM ----------

btw to flash a kernel you have to select "fastboot mode" in flashtool and then "select kernel to flash"
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Csacsifiu:
Delete. rob rich was quicker. :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] piyush95:
This is the only rom that runs MC4 smoothly on full graphics...

well others also do.....but they take a lot of time at the loading screens....abot 10 mins...:/

I LOVE YOU......SJB........<3
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] dreezz:
hi rob and Csacsifiu,

i meant i couldn't get into fastboot mode to flash the kernel.

(i was about to return to ics, but after a day use i think i'll keep this one for a while :good:)

i tried flashtool/fastboot mode once more, and now it works directly.

no changes are made during the day, so... :eek::confused:

(but glad it works)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] varignet:
I've just installed this, awesome rom!

I found however a small issue with the camera, previously shot videos cannot be played from within the camera application, it says video cannot be played.

the gallery however plays them fine. Is it normal?

xperia ray,

baseband ...-72

kernet superfusion-kk 2.6.32.60

superjellybean 8.0
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Borg Drone:
What has gone wrong with G Maps and Navigation?

First time I'v tried a custom ROM, and this is of course leagues ahead of the stock ICS ROM, but with issues.

The biggest issue I encountered yesterday is with Google Maps and Navigation. The pointer seems to be haywire! Keeps jumping around, and also the the screen is unstable! In short, maps and navigation is almost unusable on this ROM! And this is one of the most important functions for me. Without these working normally, it makes this well performing ROM almost unusable for me. :(

Any fixes/solutions?

Another major issue is that there seems to be no way to toggle the photolight on while taking pictures/vids. This was of course possible in the stock ROM/app. Why has this been left out? :( If not automatic flash, at least there should be a toggle to turn on the photolight while taking a pic.

Vignette enabled automatic flash in the stock ROM, but the free version only takes VGA pics, when I last checked.

And a relatively minor issue - the screen does not dim before timing off. So you need to keep jabbing a hardware button much more frequently, as you don't get any notification that its going to go off. Any way to enable/toggle this?

Launcher is a RAM hog so replaced with Nova prime which consumed about 13 MB when I was on the stock ROM. But now it takes up some 20 - 15 MB! :( Don't know if this is because of the ROM or if the new update has bloated Nova this much.

Really good ROM and has given a new lease of life to my Ray, if these (esp. maps/navigation) issues can be addressed.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Web_E:
Navigation is CM issue with new GMap and most probably it will not be fixed.

Pointer will point correctly if you start moving.

Screen flicker issue on GMaps & above compass issue - use older Gmaps (preferable v6)

Camera driver not released by Sony. So camera will never work to full potential above ICS.

Play with automatic brightness (look through pages in this thread) to get a good settings.

RAM no idea. I am not using my ray anymore. So can't tell. But I used nova as well.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Borg Drone:
Gosh those are some serious shortcomings... and if they aren't going to be fixed, then maybe its back to the stock ROM for me. But after using this one, its going to be unbearable. Maybe its time for me to dump the phone... :(

You have said the camera will not work to its full potential - flash aside, will the pics be inferior when compared to the stock ROM (and stock app?)? Haven't had the chance or time to compare yet, hence asking.

Thanks a heap for the response.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kavb1986:
Each and every cm10 and 11 based Roms have their own features.

SJB is the fastest jellybean Rom.

There are kk Roms which give you good camera support (not much when compared to stock rom). They provide more ram and art mode.

So if you want all the options available then you shud stay with stock or custom ics Roms.

And owning 2011 xperia mobiles help you doing a lot of tests on various Roms. I am using a neo v which I have been using for the past 2 years without any problem and I have tested a lot of Roms in this.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Borg Drone:
Thanks kavb1986. Maybe I should try another ROM. What I'd really like to know is if the picture quality will be generally lower than that from the stock ROM.

Another major issue - seems my phone isn't going in deep sleep most of the times - tonight the battery dropped from 71% to 55% during the night, while it was in Airplane Mode. Settings>Battery clearly shows that the phone hasn't slept all night. In 10h 27m, it shows Android System has consumed 55%! Earlier, during the day I noticed that the phone even when it was in deep sleep, was waking up periodically. Observed none of this with the stock ROM. Very few apps installed on my phone right now... and the ones installed were also the most necessary ones that were also installed when I was using the stock ROM. So I'd really doubt if its any app that I have installed that is doing this.

Any inputs on how I could deal with this insomniac phone please? :eek:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kavb1986:
Can i know which kernel are you using?

Be sure u have Fusion 5.4 kernel or Superfusion KK kernel for Jellybean.

Reflash the ROM from the scratch and check again.

If the problem persists, go to any ICS based rom.. My choice would be Lupus V8 ICS Kernel with UHD 5.0.1 Rom.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Borg Drone:
Using SuperFusionRay-kk

I rebooted once again. Now its going to sleep, but still intermittently wake up. Not good. :mad: Dunno whats causing it. As of now, I have only some most essential stuff installed, like Whatsapp, Evernote, Nova, link2SD and such...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kavb1986:
Did you try a fresh install again?

If the problem persists even now I suggest you to move to some other rom based on ics or kk.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ramakrishnanjk:
did you tried GREENIFY to hibernate apps?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Borg Drone:
[MENTION=5419259]kavb1986[/MENTION] - Haven't tried a fresh install again. Need to find time for that. I'd rather not move back to an ICS ROM as I guess I'll loose the smoothness, improved voice recognition, Google Now, etc. But then if these issues are not resolved, I may have to. :( Unless I get fed up and get a new phone before that...

BTW, isn't a Kitkat upgrade coming? Any idea if that may address the compass issues in maps/navigation at least? Camera issue won't be addressed I guess?

Just installed BetterBatteryStats. Lets see what turns up.

[MENTION=4460446]ramakrishnanjk[/MENTION] - Not tried it on this ROM. Was using it when I was on the stock ROM, and next to weeding out the bloat, it was the most important thing that kept the phone phone performance still usable. I should try it on this ROM too I guess? But it seems its not a app that is keeping the phone awake. Last time I checked the Android System consumed about 50% and screen just 20%, something which I'v never seen on the stock ROM. Or maybe a app is making the Android System consume so much juice?

Because of the severely limited internal memory, I removed the Gmail app and reinstalled as a user app, and linked it with Link2sd. Besides this even the Youtube app is on the SD. Is it remotely possible that these apps may cause issues if entirely installed on the SD card? Wakelocks and such aside, I found last night that Youtube isn't running properly (plays for few secs, then just stops). Though I wouldn't know if its because its on the SD. Need to install it on internal memory and see, but there isn't much space there, even for these bare basic apps, esp. when I need to keep at least about 100 MB free.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ramakrishnanjk:
Some where i read apps like Whatsapp, facebook, twitter etc. Juice the battery. Hibernate or close those apps if any runs in background.

Shall you tried Juice Defender?

SJB 8.0 is one of the awesome ROM for our 2011 devices!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Borg Drone:
I don't have the FB or Twitter apps installed. Stopped using the FB app ever since I got my 1st Android. Was (still is?) one of the worst apps ever. For Twitter, I just use the browser. Whatsapp I guess takes up very li'l juice in standby. I had it all the time on the stock ROM too. No issues with sleeping. Can vouch for that. Huge internal memory requirement (and RAM) is the only issue with WA... besides being bit sluggish on our slower single cores with low RAM. Though it does feel noticeably faster on this rom compared to the stock.

Juice Defender is a task killer right? I wouldn't want to use that...

After installing BetterBatteryStats, I'v observed this - the phone does go into deep sleep, but the ratio between screen on and wake time is not good. The CPU seems to stay at the lowest speed (about 135 MHz) significantly longer than the screen on time. Like in an hour, its awake for some 12 - 15 minutes, while the screen on time is only about 40 seconds. Question is why is it staying awake so much longer? No partial or kernel wakelocks seem to be causing the issue (as per their durations). Or is it "normal" behavior for this ROM? But then Androids internal battery diagram shows that the phone is waking at regular intervals... gawd knows for that. I have removed much of the most essential apps also for now, have turned off sync in Evernote. And I'v installed Greenify.

Also, I always keep the WiFi wake policy to "Never (increases data usage). Android's internal battery graph/diagram shows innumerable gaps in the WiFi bar. Which means it seems to keep going on and off while phone is sleeping. Could the WiFi be the cause? How to detect it? :confused:

SJB8 is really good wrt performance, but the various issues in the most important functions I need don't make it the most viable option for me at least. :( Is there any other JB/Kitkat ROM that anybody could suggest that does not have the issues I'v mentioned (compass/maps/navigation, camera, camera flash, etc)?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kavb1986:
You can use kitKat from AORP. I have installed it on my friends ray for the past 20 days without any problems or fc's.

Gapps is not included in that Rom. You shud flash that separately.

But you won't need gapps unless you use gmail, playstore etc.

One of the best kitKat Roms with all the features working as it is.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ramakrishnanjk:
good luck for your new ROM.:cool:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] thedemon786:
ek number rom harsh bhai ek number :P
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Borg Drone:
Thanks, I will look at it. "ALL" features working properly? Including compass/maps/navigation? Photolight/flash in camera app, etc? How does it compare wrt performance with SJB8? Playstore, I'd of course need to update Google apps like mail, maps, etc, right?

Anyway, flashed the ROM all over again. Since then, the batt stats/diags are looking good - it seems to be sleeping as it should. WiFi is also turning off, as visible in the Android battery diagram. But again, last night, the phone was awake the whole night and I lost about 12 - 15% juice overnight! Totally unexplained, as I could see no user apps in the Running Apps column! But after a reboot, its again sleeping as it should. This is really pissing off and unreliable. Now I need to keep checking if the goddamn thing sleeps well, instead of worrying about my own sleep...:eek:

After the re-flash, I'v installed almost no other app, other than Whatsapp, And have not even updated the system apps. like Google search. However, Google search now FCs every time I attempt to use it by typing or thru voice. So can't even use Google Now. Whats the issue? Can I just uninstall it and reinstall the latest version from G Play as a user app? This will vacate some internal memory too.

Whenever that happens... Thanks anyway. :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ahmadsamhann:
have you flashed Ray Patch for SJB 8?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Borg Drone:
I had exactly the same issue, 1st time I flashed. You need to flash the patch file right after the main ROM file.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Web_E:
You need to look in kernel wakelock & partial waklock option of better battery stat to know what is keeping your device awake.

One issue was GPS. Once turned on, sometime it require to reboot to off the GPS completely.

Yes, google voice search doesn't work. Delete the systems apps and data folder under /data/ partition. Then install from playstore.

There is a post in detail, just within 2-3 pages after SJB 8 was released. Search that.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Borg Drone:
Thanks a heap for the response. :)

BBS didn't show any wakelocks, thats the strangest thing! :confused:

As for the GPS, how can I know for sure that its off? I mean, does it stay on even when I turn it off with the status bar widget or thru Settings? I usually keep it on only when I need navigation, which is not often. So I doubt thats an issue, since on most days its never turned on.

As for deleting Google Search, will the folder be in /data/data? Didn't exactly comprehend what you ment by "/data partition". What I'd like to do is delete Google Search (and maybe couple other system apps) completely (ie. without any orphan files) and reinstall latest version from the market and convert to a system app. Since just deleting the system apps is not getting me any extra user memory (which is really precious when you have so little on the Ray), I guess the best thing to do is install the latest app thru Google Play and then convert it to system app. Since Google search itself seems to take almost 30 - 40 mb, it will be give me that much extra internal user memory. Found this on XD:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=41277007&postcount=1

But I'm unclear on what exactly to move to /system/lib. Installed as a user app, Google Search has 2 files in

/data/data/com.google.android.googlequickserachbox/lib/

What are: libvcdecoder_jni.so & libgoogle_recognizer_jni_i.so

Do I move just these 2 files OR the entire lib/ folder into /system/lib? :confused:

Please help, as its not clear from the post in the link above.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Web_E:
You need to give root permission to BBS to get paritial waklocks.

The GPS may remain turned on after using settings, widgets. BBS is the key to detect that.However I never faced this problem.

This is the solution, I talked about - http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=7889437&postcount=503 (Some folder may not be there)

I am highly doubtful that after converting to system app, google search will work. You can use "systemcleanup" / titenium backup to convert to system app rather that doing manually.

For the little space in data partiton (the user space as reffered by you), you can parition in sd card and use link2sd. I used to have around 70-80 apps in my ray. Of course games were moved to sdcard (link2sd is also helpful in moving). For details search xda, google.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Borg Drone:
Encountered what you said about the GPS bug yesterday. This is really, really frustrating!

Don't recall Better Battery Stats asking for root privileges. Selected some tick box inside which seemed to be realted to root, and later it did ask. Strange...'

Anyway, I tested for duration 1hr, 8min.

Following partial wake lock was revealed:

gpsLocationProvider 1h8m

PowerManagerService 1h6m

Screen on time 46 s.

The phone did not sleep for a minute!! Toggling GPS did not have any effect, just like you said. Now I'v turned off location access for G apps. But thats hardly the solution. I need the location access to work right, else Google Now, Maps, functionality will be affected. Googled some and it seems its Google Now that seems to be the primary suspect. But there does not seem to be a way to turn off location only for Google Now. Anyway, doing so its going to make it a lot less useful. Also, I would need the GPS once a while. Isn't there any fix for this issue?

Why wouldn't Google search work after converting to system app, if the lib is also moved? Any ideas? But my question is weather to move the whole folder or the files within it! :confused:

I already have Link2sd installed. The phone would be almost useless without it... at least while using SJB; as there is just not enough memory to install even the most important apps. App sizes seem to be growing out of control, with just Swiftkey taking up a humongous 61 MB of precious internal memory! Removed it with great disappointment, and installed Kii. This amazing thing takes up just about 8 MB and is leagues faster and more responsive than the now grotesquely bloated Swiftkey! Prediction also hasn't disappointed... yet! But its too early to tell as it hasn't gotten a chance to learn much.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Borg Drone:
Almost every single app in the Gapps package I flashed is outdated. Is there a package for the Xperia Ray that contains the very latest gapps, so that I needn't bother with updates for sometime after flashing, at lease?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Boss.bhavesh2:
Hey its not working properly. During the setup screen I can select only dailer and I am unable to complete the setup process...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] desaturated:
waiting for the next update,,, :good:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Borg Drone:
No sleep!

And the problems continue -

Battery drain is really erratic. As can be seen from the diagram, phone keeps waking up for no reason and Wifi is fluctuating like hell. Wifi is set to go off in 5 minutes (thru Wifi policy which is set to "Never, increases data usage"), which is does, but comes right back on, and keeps fluctuating. Alos, once in a while the phone never sleeps and then the battery drains like crazy. Even when it behaves like in the screenshot, battery drains considerably. This NEVER happened when on the Stock ROM with the same very few apps sync and stuff turned off wherever applicable) I have installed.

I have discovered that turning off location access to Google apps usually solves this issue. And I have to turn off everything, which includes Access Location, Location Reporting, Location History. Turning off either one or two of these does not solve the issue. But this means Google Now and Maps too loose their functionality, which is really frustrating. And I guess it may affect other Google apps that I may want to use in future. Alternatively, turning off Google Now and keeping "Access Location" (but not history or reporting) on also seems to solve the issue. But again, thats not a solution!

No other user app. seems to be the culprit. Not able to detect any wakelocks using BetterBatteryStats either.

Don't know if this is an issue with the ROM or with Google apps (or Google Now specifically). Really frustrating!! :mad:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] jambriz:
Make sure you're using the latest baseband. I had the same problem with phone always stuck awake. Then I installed baseband 86 and it fixed the battery life completely. Now phone stays in deep sleep even with wifi enabled.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Borg Drone:
Err... any pointers on how to do that? Any other advantages/disadvantages of doing that, which I should know about? How to revert back if required? Sorry, this is the first time I'm doing this custom ROM thingy. :(
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Gabrech:
Search.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] jambriz:
Here's a link to just about all the basebands for our phone. The latest version is 86 or ST18i_8x55A-AAABQOAZM-203028D-86_baseband.ftf

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6jw50wesizsa42t/UhcDO2rYED

Install it with flashtool via flashmode.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Borg Drone:
Thanks a lot. Downloaded Flash tool from Sony. So I assume its the latest version. Could not find any version info in the software though. And the download links I found on some xda threads aren't working.

However, the interface does not look at all like what I saw in some screenshots/instructions on Googling. So stuck again. :( How do I get it in Flashmode, and how do I get the baseband (.ftf) file to be visible in Flashtool? No options for that seem to be visible anywhere.

I'v attached a screenshot of the Flashtool interface that I see after connecting the phone (phone off, volume down pressed while connecting, green LED lights up on phone).

BTW, will flashing the baseband wipe out everything on the phone, or will it remain as is? And if I revert back to the stock ICS, will this baseband 86 work fine or do I have to get the existing 77 back on the phone?

Please help!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Gabrech:
Again, this is completly off topic. There is a section called Q&A for such inquiries. Please stop asking questions that are not directly related to the rom.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Borg Drone:
Figured out the flashing part myself. It seems Sony has something different on their site. Successfully flashed BB 86 just now. Now it remains to be seen if it solves these frustrating sleep issues. Hopefully it improves stand-by time as well (over BB 77)?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] novercy:
Well, I've just flashed baseband 86 yesterday instead of the old one of 77, and it seemingly saves some battery, continue to experience :fingers-crossed: