[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chip_88:
Hi there!

First of all, I really want to thank you a lot, officiallysonyrebel, for such a great ROM!!!

You did an amazing job and compiled a wonderful ROM.

I'm using it on my Arc S - and it's actually the first ROM, I'm using at all.

I was running crazy with the former firmware and ICS (system too slow & all the other issues you know!).

I even thought, I've to buy a new smartphone, because my issues caused by the ICS - firmware will never be solved.

→ However, YOU SAVED me from further headaches them!!! :good:

Well, back to the essential:

While "optimizing" the ROM to my uses, i. e., deinstalling & moving apps from /system/apps etc., I realized the following "behaviors":

1. In the status bar, there is a date area. So if you click on the date, Calendar.apk opens.

The same happens with my weather widget: If I click there on the date, Calendar.apk opens.

When I removed Calendar.apk to replace it with my favorite Busines Calendar (netgenius.biscal.apk), both link areas simply lost their functionality.

→ Would it be also possible to link this area to any calendar app you want? So everyone could keep this great "link" in the status bar (and in the widget) without loosing its functionality and define himself which calendar app he wants to be linked with this area.

2. It seems QuickSarchBox.apk is linked to the GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk.

When I removed QuickSarchBox.apk, I only had the GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk, which at the same time offered me the Google Now!! functionality.

→ So may it be that QuickSarchBox.apk just "lays on" the "standard" Google Search and also hides the functions of Google Now!?

At the same time, it's really interesting that pressing long on the menu button opens Google Now!.

3. Actually, I didn't want to use Gallery2.apk, but instead Album.apk of Xperia Z.

But when I removed Gallery2.apk, I realized that some other areas are linked to "Gallery2.apk", i. e. my profile in Contacts.apk.

So it happened, when I wanted to add a picture to my profile, the Album of Xperia Z opened, I could choose a foto, but it wasn't "sent" to my profile. The pic - area there kept being blank.

→ Would it also be possible to link this area to any album app you want?

4. When I converted Contacts.apk from a system's to a user's app, moved it to my SD Card and wanted to dial a number of any of my contacts, Contacts.apk just crashed. But at the same time I was able to choose any of my contacts within Contacts.apk to send them a SMS and even decide via which app (Stock, Whatsapp, Textra, ...).

→ I was really wondering, why this happens in that way?

(To get all the functionality back, I converted it already back to a system's app.)

5. It's not possible to move the system app Torch.apk to SD Card. If you do so, it won't work at all.

→ Would be great, it would be possible to convert Torch.apk also to a user app and to move it without problems.

6. Is there a possibility to solve the "camera issue", i. e. the green foto thumbnail?

7. For those, who are interested: I converted a lot of system apps to user apps and moved them from /system/app to /data/app.

After trying them out, I also removed a lot of apps, because I didn't need them at all.

That's how I cleaned the System ROM up to aprox. 150 MB and the intern space up to aprox. 220 MB.

My Arc S literally "runs" now like a charm and the real speed (in comparison to ICS Firmware) makes me very happy.

This is a list of what I converted to user app or deinstalled at all - once, again, I decided to remove this apps, because I personally don't need them at all (a lot of them are live wallpapers:

Moved from /system/app to /data/app - WITHOUT ANY FURTHER ISSUES / PROBLEMS:

BasicDreams.apk
BeanStalkPapers.apk
Browser.apk
Calculator.apk
Calendar.apk
DownloadProviderUi.apk
Gallery2.apk
Gmail.apk
MediaUploader.apk
Mms.apk
SoundRecorder.apk

Removed at all - WITHOUT ANY FURTHER ISSUES / PROBLEMS:

Apollo.apk
ATweakerFree.apk
DSPManager.apk
Gallery2.apk
GooManager.apk
HALO.apk
HoloLauncherHD.apk
HoloSpiralWallpaper.apk
HTMLViewer.apk
LatinIME.apk
LiveWallpapers.apk
MagicSmokeWallpapers.apk
NoiseField.apk
PhaseBeam.apk
PhotoTable.apk
SetupWizard.apk
StalkExplorer.apk
Stk.apk
Trebuchet.apk
VideoEditor.apk
VisualizationWallpapers.apk
XposedDPI.apk
XposedInstaller.apk

So, I hope you can give me some answers to my questions an I hope my experiments help our community to get better and better!!!

Regards,

Chipy