yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kast:
Cheers mate!

I went back to work on 1.7 as 1.6, even by adding the patch for the battery bug that works in 1.7, keeps having battery weirdness. Some other code in 1.6 needs to be changed, makes more sense then to keep working on 1.7 and leave the hybrid part for some other time.

I also fixed the init.d scripts execution. I'll soon release a test version of this new 1.7, hopefully the last.

Status on hybrid boot? The patches I added to make JB boot give strange display issues when booting ICS... Still need to work on this to figure out how to make the kernel really working well with both OS. So, for the time being, 1.7 will boot ICS only.

Let me iron out a few couple things more before we label this 1.7 a final. But now it's only a matter of a few days. Once 1.7 is "really" out, I might go back to "sleep" for a while till I get the needed time for the JB boot.

There's still this video playback thing which struggles me... I understand that divx videos need codecs... But this is not a kernel prob.

MXPlayer, as already said, when configured for HW decoding or SW decoding, plays divx perfectly well and every time, no black screen or anything. When I use a "standard" player to watch a divx, logcat shows a "MarlinMediator" error with getting TrustedTime and that's pretty much the only noticeable error in the logs. I might label this problem a "non-problem" unless I get proper insights on the thing.

Take care and thanks!

Ka.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] djborek:
i have battery bug 100% on kappa 1.6 how to resolve this problem? beefor instal nAa KERNEL.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kast:
Which device are you using?

Ka.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] karandpr:
[MENTION=373657]kast[/MENTION]

Some users reported ,that they get 100% battery bug if they flash 3.x kernels and reverted to Stock ICS ...Check the FXP CM10 thread for details (It also has me losing temper ....) and [MENTION=5056792]dato02[/MENTION] reported on doppler thread about similar findings

We might actually be dealing with two separate 100% bugs ...Hurray for misery !!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] djborek:
LwW. Any solution Kast?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] job.bousix:
Hi ,

You have made a good decision when you get back to work on 1.7 version , because it's a lot more faster and smoother than 1.6 version eventhough it is not fully bugless .

I will be here to test new builds and give feedbacks for fixing bugs if there is any.

Thank you .
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Siddheshmr83:
What are the advantages of enabling HFS+ or NTFS or FUSE......can you please explain these concepts ??????

and great job with the kernel.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] karandpr:
Fuse is required for hfs+ and ntfs...or for any custom file system ...

Hfs+ is mac OS's partition,ntfs is window's partition...

These Modules are required if you plan to use USB OTg and the disk/drive is formatted in hfs+ or ntfs...

Else it's useless...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kast:
Are you willing to test a 1.7 version that solves the battery bug?

Ka.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kast:
'cause an image is worth a thousands words...

Yep, that's right, I'm back at JB boot again.

Got rid of that infamous battery bug, fixed the init.d execution issue... Now it's time for some proper JB booting.

While the first attempt made ICS booting to have issues, the patches I applied now seem to work better.

The previous attempt made ICS to have weird display issues. I checked Mesa patchlog and went the same route for the Video Drivers. Now video is not a problem anymore and both boot and display stuff properly.

ICS and JB do boot fine and speed is satisfactory. The only issue left, at least that I noticed so far, is that Wifi isn't working in JB. I must check how the modules need to be loaded and hack my way through like I did previously for ICS, so that at first boot, even in JB, wifi works right away. Hopefully there is a way to do so.

Now... My question is... Or my questions are:

There are bugs in 1.6 / 1.7 Betas? Please make sure all are listed in the "Bugs" section of this XDA project or Github repo. I don't want to miss any before the final 1.7 is released.

You have features request? Again, this is why a XDA project is there for, please list them in the appropriate section. Forums posts are easily "lost".

I'm not sure this Kernel will support anything higher than JB 4.1.2... Do you really want / need anything more than that? Any of you using a JB version higher than that? Don't tell me you're running Kitkat ;)

Ah... Another thing... Got a suggestion to use the same partitioning as kernel Doppler by Master karandpr. Any of you looking into that option?

In case karandpr is willing to do so, I might ask him if he wish to help me out in that direction.

Take care you all, beware, winter is coming.

Ka.

P.S. Yep, I'm watching Game of Thrones ;)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] job.bousix:
Hi ,

If you will make a modified partition kerrnel please make another one with stock partition layout so then we can restore our old bakups without issues .

Thank you very much for your great work :D
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] djborek:
Pls send me this kernel for ICS.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kast:
I'm still not too sure if I'll go the extended partition way... Maybe packing hybrid boot and extended partitioning would be a bit too much.

After all, my original aim was to make a decent ICS kernel. JB booting is already a plus.

BTW... Tested 4.2 and it boots too. Need to fix the Wifi issue and 4.2 has also a SDCARD mount issue, I'm checking the init.semc.rc script.

Ka.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] djborek:
Kast send me your beta version of the screenshot, it may help me to get rid of the problem with the battery:(
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] karandpr:
[MENTION=373657]kast[/MENTION]

ICS and JB are two different OS .....Partitioning handling is different for both OS ...It would only lead to chaos IMO :)

ICS ROMs average 320 MB - 340MB ,at most 60MB can be transferred from system ... but all of /cache can be easily transferred to /data since /cache on ICS ROMs is pointless ...

In contrast JB ROMs average 220MB-230MB ....and I can easily transfer a whooping 160MB from /system without any sweat .However the dalvik cache of system is generated in /cache and almost negligible cache can be transferred to /data ...

You can use build.prop edit to use /data for dalvik but that will have to do for all ROMs on every flash....Without the edit ,ROM will just go in infinite bootloop ...

So on a hybrid kernel ,max 60MB can be transferred from /data .../cache is out of question ...Too much hassles for 60MB of data ,IMO :) ...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kast:
Got some issues uploading it to Mediafire... Bear with me, by end of today at most you'll have it.

You have to know though that I can't test Coconut builds, can't even tell if it actually boots or not.

Ka.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kast:
Precious info!

Ka.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] djborek:
try this http://d-h.st/ to uploud
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kast:
Better!

Try http://d-h.st/xAu but can't tell you if it boots or not. (Coconut only!)

Take care,

Ka.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] djborek:
Kast u are the best on the world its working :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kast:
I'm really glad it does!

The beta I sent you already boots JB (4.1)... But don't be yet too happy about it, wifi doesn't work. Still working on it.

Ka.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kingozzo:
Is video playing ok?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kast:
With the right player I guess it does...

Ka.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kingozzo:
Can you try to play a video taken by the camera with Xperia Film or simply with gallery player please?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kast:
Recorded a short movie (15s) of me walking (my feet only) and played it back with quickpic. It works.

Ka.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kingozzo:
Ok bro, so the video playback problem of kappa 1.7 beta is fixed.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kast:
From time to time, I happen also to fix stuff instead of just breaking it ;)

Cheers,

Ka.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] job.bousix:
Hi ,

sir [MENTION=373657]kast[/MENTION] , can you share with us the new kernel ( even it haven't a working wifi on jb but HEY it is working properly on ics ) , most of the bugs has been fixed , so PLEASE upload them to your loyal users for now , till the final version is ready PLEASE :( :D
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kast:
Let me fix a couple things more before I release it... Now ROW seems to act funny with when copying in USB Storage mode. Had to revert to SIO to copy a rom via CWM... I want to fix these "annoyances" before I release a final version.

This doesn't mean I won't release other betas in the meantime

Ka.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kast:
So, for example, here is the latest Mango / Mini Pro Beta of 1.7

http://d-h.st/F7t

Ka.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] a|\|droid_user:
Hey kast!...can you release a beta for lww ? pls upload to google drive..

I was wondering if you could add exFAT support for our devices...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kast:
Lww coming soon. I'll look into that fat

Sent via mobile
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] optiplus:
Hi Kast,

Don´t forget the Active (satsuma)

Regards
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kast:
Latest builds of 1.7 Beta 12.

Working

ICS boot (of course) and all the previous stuff in 1.6, but hopefully faster

Fixed video playback (please confirm this)

Fixed battery 100% bug

Fixed init.d scripts execution

Work in progress

JB 4.1 boots, wifi works a first boot, not yet tested deeply.

JB 4.2.2 boots, wifi works, SD Card doesn't work properly.

JB 4.3 not tested yet

JB 4.4 hangs at boot animation (Ok, ok, maybe 4.4 is a bit too much but, why not trying at least?)

Yet to start

These are points I yet to have a look into. They might be included or not in final 1.7. On my todo list.

ExtFAT support

Different partition schemas

Update Linaro toolchain

And now the builds (Remember, these are test versions!)

Kappa 1.7 Beta 12 for Mango / Mini Pro

Kappa 1.7 Beta 12 for Smultron / Mini

Kappa 1.7 Beta 12 for Coconut / LWW

Kappa 1.7 Beta 12 for Satsuma / Active

Thanks for your support! Take care,

Ka.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] rahimali:
Thank you! (I'm all out of thanks button :) )

I've been hitting F5 all day waiting for this :good:

edit

[MENTION=373657]kast[/MENTION] i just played a video i had received in whatsapp in es media player (that i think is a part of es file explorer), anyways it played just fine, without issue. :good:

i usually play in mx video player but didn't this time to check video playback of 1.7 beta 12. please let me know if you want it checked some other way

edit

just charged phone to 100% and the bug seems to have gone as well :good:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Doubtfire:
I tried the New 1.7 Beta 12 kernel for smultron.

im using SJB 8.0 (4.1 jb rom). wifi working fine. bluetooth working fine, i played music using bluetooth speaker. dont have the 100% bug, but i haven't tried to pull the battery. so far so good. Great Work Sir Kast! ;)

more POWER!

Edit:

i open the camera app, and there is no picture (black screen but you can see the capture button). i click the capture button, and flash lights up and stack up. and no picture save. i tried to clear data and force stop and restart the phone but still black picture. video is also black.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kast:
I'll look into this, thanks.

Oddily enough, camera seems to work in 4.2.2 but sdcard isn't.

Ka.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] rahimali:
camera working just fine for me. i'm using the rom in my sig + cybershot mod ( i don't remember which one but not the latest ), i flashed kernel, wiped cache and dalvik and rebooted. no other modifications/alterations to the ROM after flashing the kernel. it's the same one i've been using since about mid December...

as they say, the proof is in the picture ;)

image cropped slightly due to privacy concerns ;)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kast:
Camera works ok with ICS and 4.2.2 (at least the Rom I tried) but is giving issues with 4.1.1

Ka.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] job.bousix:
Hi ,

after testing the new beta12 i can say it's A REALLY GREAT KERNEL ! .

but infotunatly init.d support still not working ( i have even tested universel init.d app for testing and it is giving bad results :( ) --> if you change busybox version , would that fix it ? If no , then check this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2287540 ??

thank you very much for your work .

Edit :

The kamenu script isnt working properly when trying to change cpu configuration ( speed ) .

BTW the boot bug is fixed as well , i havent faced it since flashing the last beta12 , thank you :D

Except those two bug kernel is rock stable combined with stock rom .
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] optiplus:
Hi,

Boot in Satsuma is ok, now I test all the rest and tell you my report
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] JimmyX32:
Hi Kast,

thanks a lot for the new version :victory:.

Just tested it on my Coconut and so far it's working perfectly :good:.

I tried:

- flashing the 1.7b12 + wipe dalvik cache (with my ROM, it has been reported that it's not possible to wipe cache)

- taking a shot with the camera (OK)

- recording a short video and then playing it in QuickPic (OK)

ROM: i1 Honami ROM

Thanks a lot and keep up the good work.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kingozzo:
Tested on Fluorescent Feather ICS ROM (Mango).

- Taking pictures and Videos: ok

- Playing videos with quickpic: ok

- Row scheduler: more laggy than noop and cfq.

- Battery drain: sometimes ok,sometimes more than 1.6.

- Other: one freeze and one random reboot from 6 AM until now.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Muckyfox:
Tested beta11 and beta12 on mango/mini pro using customized stock ics.

Camera works fine on both

Video playback fine on both

Battery bug seemingly fixed on both betas:thumbup:

Music playback using walkman 6.0.a.1.0 stutters with screen rotation, not experienced this using 1.6 release.

Init.d not working on either betas

Unable to boot into cwm on either betas, screen hangs on black screen with blue led, need to pull battery to reboot.

Other than that, beta 12 feels fast and fluid.

:D.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] job.bousix:
Hi,

Try the zip method or any of the 3 methods from here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1933849 .

All the importance is in the 08setperm script so don't delete it .

Sir [MENTION=373657]kast[/MENTION] please use from that script to fix the init.d bug difinitly , or add it to ramdisk to be there in every boot even if its deleted .

Thank you all :D .
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] vampent0026:
Testing build 1.7 beta 12 on LWW

:good:

-Camera is working fine (Image and Video)..video is playing smoothly in xperia movie app & mx player.

-Faster Booting time and faster Re-creation of Dalvik-cache (if wiped) than previous build.

-CWM is working perfectly fine atleast for me.

-No music Stuttering using Walkman player while playing King of Fighters via NEO.emu emulator app. (intellidemand/sio)

-Noticeable Performance Improvement!( I Can play Modern Combat 4 w/slight to no lags in 30min. playing) (I hope i can provide vids but i dont have Screen recorder app=P)

-Bluetooth Audio is Good..

-Bluetooth Calling is working too but has one Bug, it's when you adjust the volume in phone (while on-call) by means of volume rocker or slider then the bluetooth headset suddenly turns off! (im just not so sure it its kernel related or rom??but it doesn't happen in CM10.1 & CM10.2) anyway i'm using SE MW600 bluetooth headset.

Bugs i found so far:

-Sometimes when i'm browsing file manager like Solid explorer or when i am Accessing Kamenu via Terminal Emulator and then i press the back button,vibration go wild,i mean the haptic feedback vibrate a lil' bit Stronger and longer than usual (about 3 secs)...it happens 4 times now...also, sometimes Long-pressing an item in file manager makes the haptic feedback go wild.

-USB-otg is acting weird,in USB-otg helper app says no fuse and USB mass Storage not supported,but i have already activated it in kamenu and rebooted twice but to no avail. (see SS.)

Edit:I finally manage to get USB-otg working,but the same bug from 1.6 still exist..it's when you copy or move of more than 300MB files it suddenly freeze then reboots..

Anyway what is USB2Serial??
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] job.bousix:
Hi ,

After one day of regular and heavy usage on ics :

I faced these bugs :

- Init.d support ( fixed with the script mentioned in my previous post )

- Buggy CWM faced freeses and reboots when using it

- Music cuts when screen rotates ( just saying , but its not annoying at all )

- Not working kamenu when changing speed frequency

In contrast :

- A really performent ( specially in gaming ) and smooth kernel !

- Battery isn't bad ( i havent tested it regulary :/ )

- Really fast rom boot-time but a little slow kernel boot-time , both take around 35s

- No random reboots at all , at least for me

That's all i know and faced for now .

EDIT : wifi is draining battery more than usual 1% ~ 2 min (! It should be 1% ~ 3-4 min)

Except the wifi battery is great when i configure the cpu to interactiveX+deadline+min 134Mhz undervolted and max is 1017Mhz :D
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kast:
Thank you all, very much, very, very much for your feedback! Really appreciated!

I'll be looking into your reports, one thing after the other.

Take care,

Ka.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kast:
Hi,

Camera in CM10 is now fixed, inverted in the rom I tested but working

Still debugging the rest.

Ka.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] scorpion 21:
Hi Kast, you created very good work, for the reboot bug I have it only when using a 3g network, but It is not like a whole reboot for me its just ask for pin code if you understand me, and I saw just now when I choose "reboot to recovery" device boots to flash mode :confused: not sure if it's rom problem
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kast:
Hi,

fixed init.d support. Now working in both ICS and JB.

KaMenu I'll leave for last, till I fix the SDcard issue in 4.2.2

Ka.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kast:
Got no issues rebooting to CWM from Rom... Tested with both ICS and 4.1

Now flashing Hepta Erro.

Ka.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kast:
Added exFAT

(needed couple of fixes as it's back ported from a 3.x kernel)

Ka.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] djborek:
For me, there are problems when unlocks it hangs for a while when it comes sms just hangs for a moment. When playing music, the music coming sms jams.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] job.bousix:
does the kerrnel have auto-root ?? it hasn't rooted the fresh ftf for me ..
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] karandpr:
The auto root is waste of space in ramdisk :/ .

Plus it conflicts with other root apps..

Flash any root zip from recovery .
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] rahimali:
Hi [MENTION=373657]kast[/MENTION], I had the 100% problem again last night, dunno why, weird...

How it happened was this, I glanced at my phone and it was showing 48% battery remaining, a few seconds later, it gave the low battery sound, I looked at the screen and it showed 1%, I immediately plugged it in and it immediately showed 48% again! I left it plugged in until it reached 100% but after that it wouldn't budge from 100% so I did my usual, power off, remove battery, re-insert, then power back on and it was okay again...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] karandpr:
That's the second 100% battery bug :/....post logcat and dmesg next time you encounter it...

This bug is different from the primary bug...

Kast has patched the primary 100% bug....

[MENTION=373657]kast[/MENTION]

We should start using code names for different battery bugs....:p bug alpha01 ,bug ecto9 ,bug gamma09...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] rahimali:
[MENTION=3690061]karandpr[/MENTION], does Doppler have either of these? I was thinking of giving it a shot this weekend...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] karandpr:
Can't guarantee that :p ...Doppler 2 is based on Lupus...which uses a different method to patch the 100%...the bug hasn't appeared for me but I can't really say it won't appear in future
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] JovieBrett:
Got random reboots on Smultron on stock rom with the latest 1.8beta build.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] rahimali:
which cpu governor are you using?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] job.bousix:
try flashing the stock ftf then flash the kernel , and see if the bug persists , clean installs are always better :D
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] JovieBrett:
SmartassH3 with ROW. It will happen when the system gets to load heavier then it will freeze and reboot...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] rahimali:
same thing happened to me last night, phone rebooted under load but i was using smartassv2 with ROW. i switched to smartassH3 after the reboot

since we were both using different governors at the time of reboot, could it be row that is at fault here?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] JovieBrett:
It also happened when I used Smartassv2 with ROW. I'll give it a try to other governors.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] smoke_slim:
I got random reboot too
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ManthanRB:
link down for smultron:(
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] rahimali:
no, it's not

http://d-h.st/9nX
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kast:
Hi all,

first of all, hope you're having a tranqui-chill Sunday.

Just to tell you that 1.4 was posted seconds ago. You'll find the updated links in the first post.

A part from the already mentioned fixes (android_secure backup, offline charging) this version also has virtuous cpu governor, two-way call recording and a bunch of tweaks... Please tell me what you think about this build. Whether an improvement or other.

For the most old school adventurers... I might have forgot to display an option... ;)

Take care,

Ka.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Ikmalblack95:
Master kast,

can i flash your kernel without reinstalling rom?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] lsander:
yaaa man you can flash every kernel without reinstalling rom :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] iONEx:
you should build up your knowledge about android and flashing ROMs/kernels ;)

ofc you can flash the (any) kernel without re-flashing the ROM!

EDiT:

BTW- I flashed v1.4 now. Will see about any issues. If a reboot occurs, I'll provide the necessary log!

ThanX kast! :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] kast:
I'd say you can. But... There is always a "but".

My kernel doesn't replace anything on the rom. Your previous kernel might have replaced something.

Ka.