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[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] agentinani047:
Equalizers (3rd party) and even acid mod doesn't work. Driver problem or it's just that they are not compatible with 4.3 yet?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] anightfire:
i'm using acid mod and i'm not facing any issues.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ben36:
i use acid mod 5 and poweramp with its equaliser preset to rock
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SavCom:
Ben.

Have you moved from PAC to this ROM? I seem to recall you were championing the PAC ROM until recently.

Been thinking of a move to this ROM myself - I'm looking for a lightweight ROM in which I can run my normal set of apps - and PAC, unfortunately, seems low on resources (especially RAM!)

Any comments? (and I'm not looking to diss the PAC ROM - fantastic effort by all involved).

Sent from my TF101 when my back was turned.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ben36:
yea, the latest pac is really buggy and this is totally smooth and lag free. I'll wait until they've got pac smooth again and stick with this until then. this is absolutely flawless for what i use my phone for
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] m1st3r1:
yes. this rom is really good. i've no problems so far, everything is working well. even 3d games are working good (at least most games that i played are working good :) ).

but i want to confirm something: this rom cant do the offline charging right? if it can, how to do it?

second thing is the lightbar that always on. yes i know that this happens in every custom (non-stock-based) rom, but still i wonder why there are no people cant figure out how sony does the lightbar trick (only turned on when the capacitive buttons were pressed). it's not a deal breaker though.

thanks letama,, :D
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Chacc:
For people who want turn off the lightbar (like me) :

Edit /sys/class/leds/button-backlight/max_brightness and change 255 by 0
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] -Johannes-:
Thanks :)

sent from nexus 7
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] De@n:
4.3 Gapps: http://goo.im/gapps/gapps-jb-20130813-signed.zip
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] m1st3r1:
lol. i know how to permanently turned off the lightbar, but it's one of xs' features. so i'll keep it on. usually in custom stock-based rom i put it in max value cause it will only on, when the capacitive are pressed. so kinda neat :)

and one more bug (need to confirm first though), whenever i copied something (well, mostly texts) the app (any app) that contain that texts (eg: whatsapp, box, etc ) will crash. well, the app will return automatically but still, i think this is a bug. :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ben36:
i copy and paste stuff and have never found this
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
I confirm, offline charging is broken in newest recovery :(

Until I fix this, you can flash the older one here. It has the older kernel though, it can have issues with system partition format in recovery.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] m1st3r1:
yeah, but it happened in mine. logcats show java and ads errors.. i absolutely have no idea. maybe it's because the xposed framework (there's xposed error in one of those java errors line). I'll investigate more :D

hmm. older kernel means lower performance? :D if yes, i rather stick with no offline charging for awhile. hope u can fix this issue fast.

thanks.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
No, recovery kernel is different than the one used with the rom (benefit of bootmanager). Rom is not affected, but you may have difficulties flashing another rom from recovery (like cm kernels) and will have to reflash another kernel before being able to do it.

I've been trying to solve the issue for few hours now, that's why I'd recommend flashing the old one until I can figure this out. It's a bit dangerous not having the offline charging working.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ben36:
got a kernel only zip link anyone?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] precardo:
aaaah.. Why Ben? Did you find another android 4.3 compatible rom you wanna use this kernel with?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Gallardo994:
Are you sure he wants that with this purpose?

Powered by GSR with Android 4.1.2 on the board.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] precardo:
Nope, but that is why I asked, so psychologically anybody who reads something once and not understand the concept of a particular statement or in this case a "question", than one should go over and read again what that particular "question" is intended for.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ishamm:
My WiFi and data connections seem to be very erratic and 'not working' for all intents and purposes on this rom. have i missed something? did a full wipe from Raymans 4.2.2

thanks

EDIT scratch that, a few cache wipes cleared that. Man this rom is smooth!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ben36:
lol i meant for the older kernel with offline charging
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
Ok, I finally figured it out, apparently at least :). Weirdly, I have to run chargemon two times to get it start properly.

I strongly suggest anyone using this rom to flash this recovery, offline charging should be working now. Previous recovery was broken, and you could be in trouble if you let the battery go out completely with it.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ben36:
is this the old kernel? or a new recovery as such?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
This is a recovery and recovery kernel. It's separated with boot manager. Offline charging is managed by recovery kernel.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Anders1:
Excellent, thank you very much!

Skickat från min Xperia S med Tapatalk 4
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mirhl:
.delete
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ben36:
so no decrease in performance?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
None, it's boot manager/recovery kernel, not rom kernel. rom kernel and ramdrive are untouched.

More, change is in recovery initramfs, boot manager kernel wasn't changed.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mirhl:
did you achieved any progress with your fota partition recovery load?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ben36:
i seeee, kind of makes sense to me now! :D
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] m1st3r1:
lol. you were asking questions the same as i did Ben,, :D

and i just know the fix for offline charging will be coming fast. thanks letama.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ben36:
did you miss the download to fix offline charging? it's 2 pages back
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] m1st3r1:
lol, you and i asked the same questions:

i asked:

and you asked:

lol... and yeah the newest recovery (the 0.8.2 version) can do the offline charging.

thks letama,, :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
No, I didn't take the time to do it, I'm fighting (and I'm loosing :)) with a new kernel for 4.3 currently.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] frantisekz:
I tried your rom while PAC 4.3 is being prepared and it's very nice to see almost everyting working. I hope you'll solve remaining issues, I miss only TRIM support. Btw, did you consider including zRAM module to kernel? Xperia S has only 1 GB RAM, so it can be very helpful ;)

And enabling OC up to 1,7 GHZ (same CPU is running on that frequency in Xperia SL, so it is safe OC)?

Thanks ;)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
Thanks!

Regarding TRIM, it's probably working already in alpha1, but it needs to be verified...

Regarding OC and zRAM we'll see after being sure of which kernel I'll use. I still don't know with what option I'll go.

Regarding 1.7 OC being safe because it's used in SL, I disagree. Sony doesn't overclock "blindly" the 8660, they probably use specific Qualcomm batches that were tested and qualified to run at these rates. Ours were not, so it's like any overclock: it works, you're lucky, it doesn't, tough luck, it burns, your fault. More, we don't know if cooling isn't different between S and SL.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ben36:
also i have never actually found 1.7 to be noticeably faster than 1.5 in any rom really, just drains more battery
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] cebulank:
Like you said OC makes no big difference

Gesendet von meinem Xperia S mit Tapatalk 4 Beta
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] precardo:
Than in that case would UC under clocking make any noticeable different in battery save or reduced performance??
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] switzerland92:
Undervolting has much bigger effect than any kind of underclocking. On the other hand UV is a bit more dangerous.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Chacc:
There are a big big big difference against 1.5 CPU and 266 GPU against 1.7 CPU and 320 GPU, something like 10 FPS more in EpicCitadel.

There are a lot of difference between governors and sheddulers.

There are bigs differences with many kernel tweeks (internet speed, etc, etc ...)

During 1 year with OC XPERIA S : no issues to report.

...

But for the moment the priority is the Hardware acceleration to solve.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ben36:
I don't play games on my phone tho. probably why I've never noticed any significant difference before
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] frantisekz:
I've newer compared the FPS but there is difference. So, in my opinion, best choice will be allowing some OC for CPU (probably up to 1,7GHZ) and GPU (probably up to 320MHZ). Currently, I am experiencing low FPS just in Asphalt 7, but for example Temple Run 2 (Ultra/ 4*MSAA) is really smooth(sometimes random lag - fixed by locking screen). Sometimes, I run out of RAM, so I think this can be fixed with zRAM (or by activating SWAP, but I don't want to destroy internal storage).
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] DeJe63:
Please don't waste time to include OC. ;)

First 4.3 should run as seemless and bugfree as possible. Afterwards there will be time to "optimize". I'd say, even at stock speed the ROM is pretty smooth and fast, no real need for OC (but I don't play games...).

Right now I give it another try. I had the issue that Sygic stoped loading (just black screen for ages) and I needed it for a long trip. Don't know however if the ROM was the issue. But I could not get it to work again. So I flashed a stock ROM backup and it was working right away.

Anyway, now it's time to test again. :D

Keep up the fantastic work!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Lucio25m:
Hi everyone,

These is one of the most stable rom I have tried so far.

I have faced some issues when using Sygic. Every time I run the app I get black screen and nothing seems to help. Only by switching the phone off and on I can get the program. At least I found a way around but it can be annoying.

Is somebody facing the same problem I described?

Thanks

Verstuurd van mijn Xperia S met Tapatalk
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Chacc:
Please don't waste time with that, we don't use Sygic, not need.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] DeJe63:
:confused: If you would just read correctly...I did not ask to do anything about. ;)

There are real funny gyus here. :laugh:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ben36:
what's sygic?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mirhl:
[MENTION=259791]Lucio25m[/MENTION] [MENTION=4648296]DeJe63[/MENTION]

if you have an issue simply take a logcat and post here
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] drodericks03:
So the stock launcher is laggy , so I'm using it with nova and it is simply amazing.. Super fast and I haven't encountered any bugs so far
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Lucio25m:
This is a navigation app aka Tom Tom.

Verstuurd van mijn Xperia S met Tapatalk
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] m1st3r1:
correction: it's you that dont use sygic. some of us, use it so dont say that *we* dont use sygic :) . and who knows. the bug in sygic maybe saying that are some bugs in video (driver). i too, have this bug when using sygic. turn off the display/lock the phone the turn it back on, fix it. it's annoying, but i can live with that.

and about oc. oc will only shown in benchmark. so it's only good for those number chaser. i think letama shouldnt do it if it's too much of work. but if it's easy, well, why not. this is my 2 cents though :)

thanks.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] anightfire:
I use sygic and faced blank screen at startup just lock screen and back on, it works, starts and works perfectly.

---------- Post added at 02:31 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:30 AM ----------

Gps navigation app.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Chacc:
Really ?

1 - I totally don't care of Sygic

2 - My answer was ironic for people who ask a request especially for him.

3 - Letama knows this graphic driver problem

4 - Try to read correctly all older posts before to come talk for nothing
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] m1st3r1:
1. some people care of sygic. dont think all people should behave like you

2. no one ask a request. read the posts. it's just bug stating.

3. yes letama knows there are graphic driver problem (letama even said that subway surfers game is not working, though I dont care bout that game, but still there are some people that care, hence that bug should be stated)

4. read all my previous points.

bug stating is always good, though logcat is required and ofc, the dev doesnt have to fix it, even if the logcat is required, but still with bug stating other people can read what's the bugs are (and if there's any workraround for that).

thanks. and for others, sorry for none-dev related. :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ishamm:
Are there any mods to increase the number of volume steps on this rom? Ta
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ben36:
any reason why you don't use Google maps navigation?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] anightfire:
Sygic can work without a net connection,it can work with gps alone.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SavCom:
Have to say that's a good enough reason. Since Google stopped allowing local caching, I've stopped using maps for navigation.

Sent from my Xperia S while my back was turned.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] prohibeat:
this rom is still in alpha stage and letama has a lot of work to do. instead of complaining about particular apps you can provide logcats of your bugs. arguing in development thread is not going to help ;)

more apps and games have bugs and listing them all when rom isn't even half ready (it may appear to be but it's not) is just making more mess. I would wait for further development results or revert back to stock if I wanted fully working rom. flashing 'alpha 1' and expecting everything to work is a bit silly, don't you think?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ben36:
cool. I'll have a look at it!

really? have you tried stock rom? this is less buggy than stock

---------- Post added at 01:24 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:22 PM ----------

you can still offline cache, press the search bar and scroll to the very bottom
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] prohibeat:
I tried most good roms and right now I only use .200 because I need reliability and ability to use some proprietary apps for work. Despite the fact that this 4.3 runs really well and smooth at this stage I cannot agree that it is less buggy than stock but that comes only from my experience and my needs. No hdmi and graphical errors in some professional apps (and some games) both as reported and from my own experience confirms why it's alpha 1 and even letama says it's preliminary build. Just because it runs basic phone functions and popular apps better it doesn't mean it's more complete or less buggy than .55 or .200.

Anyway. I hope that new firmware from Sony will fix obvious bugs and letama will be able to complete this soon. Good luck.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] DeJe63:
[MENTION=222023]Ben[/MENTION], its a Payapp and quite expensive for Android. But you could have a look at OsmAnd(+). This also features offline navigation based on OSM maps. ;)

[MENTION=834547]letama[/MENTION], I do have a question about kernel. Do you included this into the kernel or have plans to do so? It looks like pretty small changes needed. But it's important to mount system wide file system like CIFS or LUKS volumes.

Today I played a bit scripting to make a LUKS volume available. But at current stage it just works within adb shell, not on device itself with terminal and root.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ben36:
I've just installed mapfactor offline navigation. works fine with the rom :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Anders1:
Ben, could you please share these files again? I would really like quick panel settings without ogbattery mod :)

Thanks in advance!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ben36:
try this - https://app.box.com/s/7gkhvsg5s47p3hs3vclw (flashable)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Anders1:
. Mk jii

Thanks Ben, however, this breaks something with battery info. After flashing, battery icon has disappeared from status bar and the battery tile in quick settings shows 0% all the time...

Thanks though :)

EDIT: Flashed latest version of quick settings control panel from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1999125 and it's working now.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ben36:
ah balls. I'll delete the link. sorry!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Yasharkhan:
1080p videos aren't working with Hw acceleration in MX player, any reason??
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Anders1:
No worries, I really appreciate your help. :)

Skickat från min Xperia S med Tapatalk 4
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] m1st3r1:
first of all. you should try the rom. it is faster (apps run more smoothly) than stock (or custom-stock) roms. i cant agree more with you for providing logcat. but i think we needed the apps and games bug listing.. heck, even letema do it, see op, letama said that subway surfer cant run. you may say it's video (driver) bug, if it is how come other games run well (even more smoothly than stock roms, such as: real boxing, minion rush (slight lag in stock rom), etc) it means it's spesific bug to subway surfer. well, i think it will help people to decide if this rom for he/she or not. and (if any) users can find a workaround for that bug in those spesific apps.

i think it depends on the codec that is used in the video. but my 1080p videos are playing fine both in mx player (use hw+) and bsplayer.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] rahilsayed:
ITs just great to see so much development in the forum,CHEERS to ALL THE DEVELOPERS,:good::good:

May allah bring peace to universe. :highfive::highfive::highfive:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] AnrgKrshn:
Does this break Boot Manager?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mirhl:
this UPDATES bootmanager
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] kuzeykutupdayisi:
Hi guys i cant open the gapps site that is given in the op. It says 404 not found. So can anyone give mirrors please?

Ok nevermind, i just used search function and got what i wanted. Sorry for inconvenience :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ben36:
I added just tile toggles only zip -

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=44321338

it should work if someone could confirm (it did for me)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] precardo:
Why is Wi-Fi draining my juice??? I've never turned on or used Wi-Fi since i've installed this rom:eek:

It there somehow an invisible app or script within the /system that is activating Wi-Fi without user knowledge???
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Saurav16:
Its a ANDROID 4.3 thing which keeps your wifi always on...

You can go to wifi option in the settings and then going to advance by pressing menu button and turn it off... :thumbup:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] precardo:
Yes:eek:

it appears so... thank you very much:)

Yes thank you very much:)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mirhl:
a little question:

what the fug should wifi scanning serve??
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] m1st3r1:
your location. if there's wifi hotspot nearby, it'll acquire the location (of the hotspot's internet, even though it's not connected to the hotspot).

it should have more battery saving than the gps, and more accurate than using your operator data (and in some devices there's no gsm/modem) so this wifi scanning is pretty handy,
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Yasharkhan:
Where are the developers menu? I can't seem to find it

Sent From Xperia S Jelly Bean 4.3
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] witti96:
Go to about phone and tap on the build number a few times, this will unlock the developer options. ;)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SavCom:
Well I've been running this ROM for a couple of days and already I'm seeing more stability than other previous ROMs I've used. Very nice job, letama.

It's quick; it's smooth and all one would want in a daily use ROM. Thanks. Very very impressed with battery life - never before have I gone beyond 24 hours on any ROM since I first had the phone, but today, after twenty two and a half hours use, the phone still has 21% left!! Excellent!

Can one ask what's next on your development plans for this ROM?

Well impressed.

Savcom
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Saurav16:
How do I take screenshot in this ROM? :confused:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] DeJe63:
Press Power+VolumeDown-buttons the same time...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mirhl:
as usual..

power button and vol - at the same time

[MENTION=274953]SavCom[/MENTION] rayman is actually trying to improve even more MDP composition, and in general the video overlays, because actual driver is far from perfection

when he'll have finished, he will focus on less important bugs
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
Currently, I'm quite busy trying to get a proper video driver for 4.3. Current one is basically the one I use in 4.2.2 beta 3 and is not working very well with 4.3.

After that, we'll see. Audio will need some work too.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SavCom:
Well, from my perspective you have a stable base from which to develop. As you say, shortcomings, but it's a very impressive start. I'll be testing audio tomorrow on my commute to work. I stream over Bluetooth, so this will be a good (and for me, a critical) test.

I'll let you know how I get on.

Cheers,

Savcom
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SavCom:
Well I streamed music this morning on the way in and I have three observations:

The volume seems louder than previous ROMs?

The pairing and Bluetooth functionality were both fine.

But the audio skipped, twice in half an hour, while I was listening.

I use Poweramp. It is set for large buffers and highest priority, but still it skips. Less than a second each time, but a skip is still a skip too many.

Cheers,

Savcom

Sent from my Xperia S while my back was turned.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ben36:
what cpu settings?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SavCom:
No change to the CPU settings so as they are straight out of the box. However, listening in work gave rise to the following:

At one point streaming stopped altogether. The phone was untouched on the desk and connected over Bluetooth. On investigation, poweramp had paused. Streaming resumed when I pressed play.

Soon after, poweramp stopped completely and disappeared from the notification bar. It restarted all by itself but did not resume streaming until I pressed play.

If this happens again, is it worth sending in a logcat file?

Cheers

Savcom

Sent from my Xperia S while my back was turned.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ben36:
what are the standard settings? I can't remember?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
Yes please! :)

I don't use bluetooth, I only check that basic stuff needed was there and that pairing / audio in call was working. It won't be very high on my priority list, but if it's something easy to solve, it could come early.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ben36:
download no frills cpu and see what governor and scheduler is set as standard please (unless someone else can confirm)

set it to on demand and deadline and see if skipping continues
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SavCom:
I use Bluetooth wherever possible as I commute on the train and hate trailing wires. Even in the car, I use Bluetooth to talk to the car radio for music streaming and for hands free. This latter works, by the way, so Bluetooth for making calls works fine.

Any particular format for the logs? Is there an app you prefer? (if you PM me your email address I could send them direct, if this would help).

To be fair, it's only been Gingerbread that has streamed flawlessly - everything ICS- and Jelly Bean-based has stuttered on Bluetooth streaming.

Cheers

Savcom
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SavCom:
That's what it says, Ben.

Sent from my Xperia S while my back was turned.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] letama:
Ok, a good tester then! :)

No particular format, I'd need verbose logcat (*:v if from command line), and dmesg as quickly as possible after the problem.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ben36:
ah... poo...

lol