[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] phil.star:
Hi xda Community,

at first - BIG THANKS TO ALL OF YOU ACTIVE CUSTOM ROM GUYS!!

With all your FAQs, Videos and postings, you made it possible - and easy - for me, to get rid of the annoying Sony ROM by rooting and installing a custom rom.

Currently I am running CM10 FXP230 on my Xperia U. I know it is not a stable version, but still a great improvement in speed for me and also the first ROM i discovered during my internet research for an alternative to the slow stock sony stuff.

However, i am facing some problems during the daily usage of my phone, perhaps one of you can support me during finding a solution for some of them.

1. Updating ROM

Pretty basic question, just need a confirmaton that i understood it the right way. I download the new Version of the custom rom (e.g.fxp232), copy the zip onto the smartphone and reboot into recovery mode. There i use CMW to first wipe cache and delvik cache, then select and install new version from zip.

Correct way so far?

What about the Google Apps? Do i have to reinstall them too?

Do i have to backup the SD card data and my apps,?

2. The Camera Fix

At the beginning i thought that i could live with an inverted camera due to the fact, that i am not taking many of them with my phone. but during the last weeks i had to face the facts - its important from time to time :cyclops:

During my search in this forum i found a user linking to a file called "FXP231_CM10_CamReverse_Fix".

Does this work only with FXP231, or also earlier and later versions?

How do I install it, like gApps in CMW?

3. Alarm Clock

I am using my phone as an alarm clock almost every day. Its plugged in to recharge during the night. Sometimes the phone crashes during the night time and the alarm is not going off. The display turns dark, no reaction to any button i plress, only the little signal light at the top right is glowing constantly. I have to take out the battery every time and make the same changes in settings over and over again.

Is this the "deepsleep" problem everyone is talking about? Is it connected to the cpu settings - I did select "conservative" there. Whats causing the problem?

4. Dial Pad

Every time i am dialing an unknown number the touchpad is hardly responding. It can take up to 5 minutes to enter all numbers and dial. I already deactivated the T9 contact search, still no improvement. Anyone any similar expieriences?

5.General Custom ROM Question

During my journey through this Community I found out, that there are a lot of different roms available. Some - with only minor changes - based on other custom roms, some based on sony.....whatever. Right now i am totally confused that ROM to use (if the above mentioned problems cant be solved!!)

I just need a quiet fast and reliable ROM to use in daily life - well this is everyones wish i guess......

So what am I doing with my phone? Basically I am just using my phone to call people, use whatsapp, check mails, manage my appointments and take a spontaneus picture from time to time. No Video, Twitter, Facebook, Games and what else is out there...........and no big experiments and time to backup, upgrade and reset my phone stuff every week.

Should I go back to CM9?

Cant I install a "normal google android" rom? Might sound stupid, but isnt there some kind of "pure" rom for all phones, that gives you the same comfort as the sony stock rom (-> update and functionality) ?

Even if there is not THE correct answert to this question, maybe some of you can at least suggest some interesting ROMs, that might fit

uff.....long wall of text, hopefully I could point out my problems good enough to motivate you to spent your time to answer them.