yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] falken007:
partition table backup/restore, flash readonly execution/acces

Hi all, my very first post here; I am on latest FXP249 now, having the kernel from it and not used stock ICS yet, simply I skipped it, going directly from stock 2.3.4, then regular sony BLU, etc... I understand that I need to flash entire stock ICS at least once to comply with OP requirements (as there is newer radio, other peripherlas DSP support and few other partitions updated, not regulary reflashed during ROM or kernel updates - FTFs are in fact renamed ZIPs containing images, decodable too by CWM ROM manager) - ya, some screenshots here show that ppl are using older RILs and even kernels too. My ST15i has now 2.6.32.9-FXP kernel with CM10.1 FXP249 and everything is working quite well (no comparison with other roms yet).

So questions:

I want to backup THIS STATE completelly (even the partition table, "MBR" or so) first, before pushing stock ICS etc ... is this possible with Nandroid?? I searched deeply but not found exact info; may be regular linux "parted" allows to backup/restore?? (sorry I am win guy). In OP the dev says that nandroid restore isnt sufficient into different partitions layout - but I need this now (and as stated, to settle on new layout for a while between others rom derivatives too - its ok).

Another related thing - as I understood, link2sd allows some magic with insufficient starage redirected to SD (highest IOPS always good) partition. The dev increased size of system area and userdata (apps) area and almost removed (umm, redirected) caches too, My question is, how such storage partitions (having filesystem) behave from code execution POV - are readonly assets from here accessed/executed directly/in-place/mapped from natively addresable flash chip and not always copied into precious RAM for execution?? Its fast enough, at least for not frequently needed things? Can we save the RAM by moving very basic apps cached now here to system "ROM" area?? Will it free RAM runtime demands too?

As the current CPU and 384MB RAM is quite enough to run latest android versions (not mentioning ART; for example,on WP8 similar things are already prebuilt only once per device-type, server-side, though - and ao final ARTed RAM demand MUST be far higher than with dalvik/JIT, as its "speed vs memory" trade-off), it is possible to use some kind of virtualmem swap to very fast (SLC based?) SD card partition??

Now it seems only troubles you have with latest ROMs are the continuously shrinking userdata storage (solves link2sd) and apps to be waked-up into RAM ASAP ??

thanks,

faken

Xperia MIni - st15i
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] hmnk:
Hello people.

A quick question. When using ART, is there any problem using Link2SD to link apps??
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] mikeioannina:
First of all there is no FXP cm10.1, FXP supported only up to cm10

Backing up EVERYTHING is not possible. Question: Why do you need to backup everything? Is there a possibility/reason you would want to go back to GB baseband etc.? Even in cm9/cm10 recommended baseband etc. is the ICS one.

The reason ICS .587 is a requirement is because we use the modem libs from that version and also to make sure that all internal memory is mapped (in some devices which haven't flashed the ICS update the repartition didn't work, some parts of the mtd chip were unmapped and IO errors were present when trying to access these parts)

I coulnd't quite understand what you asked here.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] dexter1123:
Haven't tried any of the link as m back on Alpha 1 due to high battery drain in Alpha 3...thanks for sharing the correct link
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] mengxaxau:
Osb not placed well when lanscape orientation

How to fix??
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] v.belimov:
Try Honami keyboard from this thread, best choice as for me and my satsuma with only 5.x Mb of space in system. Its fully working with latest build and i like it very much. Thanks to kumar abhishek
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] dexter1123:
Small request for next release

[MENTION=4698029]Mike[/MENTION], Can you please add this in your next release:

a) Use volume keys to move cursor

b) Lock Screen gets unlock after entering password without pressing enter key

c) High Battery drain issue in coconut

Thx
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] mikeioannina:
a & b are already in for the next build
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] godlesplay:
[MENTION=4698029]Mike[/MENTION], will we need to wipe everything while flashing next nightly or just wipe dalvik cache?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] mengxaxau:
I cannot record video

Help please
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] johnny.tifosi:
I'm currently using a home build of LX CM11.0 and I must mention one thing that went unnoticed: there is an impressive increase in graphics performance. The Antutu score has risen to 5400, and if that doesn't mean anything to you, now Real Racing 3 is running incredibly smooth with the highest fps I have ever seen, even better than CM10 that was the best until now.

However, the boot time is painfully long, about 2 minutes.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Chinaboy5216:
Thanks for the feedback, in this case I will stick to what I have until more final versions come out.

Lost too much data due to a bad backup and don't want this a second time.

Thx again!!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] ErecDeGraal:
Try adding another button. This worked for me in the past
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] swarshah:
Yes it's working just edit it and reboot

Now screen won't turn off automatically but it will stay you can off with power button.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] falken007:
thanks, my bad, its cm10

If real backup/snapshot, then everything, simply for complete undo - I still believe there must be way to do this; but OK, I will do the ICS .587, gotcha

The repartition is the reason why its harder to go back to other ROMs, right? (what can you recommend then, if somebody wants it??)

umm, if internal NAND flash has regular parallel bus access from CPU (inside SoC or externally), then, its possible to execute code and read data also from this flash ROM area using processor instructions or its always used only as "storage" over filesystem driver to load and execute in RAM? may be its completelly dumb question and its by default behavior, sorry - but as internal memory is closer to CPU, it should(?) read much faster than commands driven SD-card storage (some really fast SD cards with SLC chips and good controller are in fact far better than internal storage during writes, not to mention built-in wear leveling too, on the other hand?? but with more power consumption?) I want to understand how the firmware operates and if moving also crucial apps to internal flash ROM can save also runtime RAM usage and if this can combine much faster(?) internal ROM memory reads also with possibly redirected userdata storage reads/writes to (sometimes faster!) external SD card using link2sd or so - sorry for such complicated description from me; many thanks for the support and your work; no more such disturbing you :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] aneesh.kotiyoor:
Friends, is possible to get Small OSB . can anybody give me a link.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] SurajH:
NEW BUILD MAgika...

AS mike working on next build...

i request to MIKE that

1. Battery Percentage ..... (as previously ans. by mike already included.) so thanx for it

2. Mass Storage option nt woking correctly so plz insure its working correctly or nt.

3. If no ART STABLE then plz can u repartitioned kernel like old alpha build

4. Printing in setting nt working correctly all the time as its very useful so plz just check from ur side also..

THANX for ur support

and SALUTE to urs effort......
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] mengxaxau:
Cant record video on my xperia neo

Any solution??
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] SurajH:
Wait for Next build

NO solution friend

just wait for next build as mike solved this issues in next one....
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Mardon:
not the rom...

they are talking about a _powered_ usb hub for devices like 2.5" hdd and high drain pen drives
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] tinyXperia:
This is the device [MENTION=5029971]chamara1112[/MENTION] is using, which is specifically made for this kind of purposes, so I doubt the hardware is the problem.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] pcfighter:
So we need logs
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] 1 6 D:
Hi, I had on my anzu builds from Mardon, I had 20141023 build and after OTA ROM update to 20141025, full discharge with turning off, it's still rebooting after minute or two. I tried to make log but phone freezes and reboots again.

I tried full format but it still rebooting. I tried flash to fresh build 20141016,20141025,20141026, but still everything is the same. Somebody have an idea?

EDIT:

I have log but can't post link here.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] izida:
Is it possible to temporarily turn of root on rom?

I want to use some app but dont work on rooted devices!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Toni Suwanto:
Go to Settings -Developer Options -Root Access -Disabled :D
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] wooose:
[Urushi]Notification Light not Pulsing

[Help]Notification light not pulsing on Urushi

I'm upgraded to latest build (20141006) and my notification light not pulsing, light is working fine but not pulsing at all.

::previous build my notification light was pulsing::

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Sorry for my bad english.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] chamara1112:
I'm sorry I didn't mean like that. No it worked on normal Samsung galaxy S2 with its stock rom. I meant to say that the device I'm using is working on other device but not my Xperia mini
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] tinyXperia:
http://repo.xposed.info/module/com.devadvance.rootcloak
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Headhunter.242:
Have you correctly flashed the new kernel inside the rom?

The drivers changed and I don't think the new rom can work with the previous kernel...

Anyway my Urushi works fine also with the latest build!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] 1 6 D:
I partially found what is my problem, without SD card my anzu works ok, when I insert this card to mango it makes same thing like working about minute and rebooting all time. I will scan it with NOD32 and format probably.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] skaveelicious:
Shortly after 20141006, Mike backported some bugfixed for ext4 filesystem, those changes actually made the device reboot all the time because some more patches were missing. The missing patches were added a few days after and I tested and did not run into that issue again. It may aswell be that the build you have may have been made from a branch that does not include all the latest changes.

Currently I'm running a Anzu build from 20141026 and the device is stable, it might be worth noting that my latest flashed build was done ontop a 100% clean system. I even repartitioned the SD-Card.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Don No 1:
Bro can u plz share your home build for anzu via pm....
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] 1 6 D:
But my anzu was working correct with all builds form 20141006 to 20141023.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Huitzilipochtli:
I see... well, I can always try to reflash kernal, as well as the CM11. But I've done this 3x already... sigh. Thanks anyway for the response.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] fundre:
Get logcat and post them to bug report. Mike might solve the problem in the next build :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] 1 6 D:
i have checked my SD card on PC with NOD32 and Windows disk tool for errors, there was nothing and my anzu works correct now.

BTW

Will OTA works for kernel too? Not only for ROM?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] bassbox:
Just unlocked my girlfriends xperia pro and installed this rom... because sadly it is the BEST physical keyboard android available in germany...

It runs quite well so far... but there is one thing that drives her crazy..

With stock IC firmware a long press "u" e.g. instantly resulted in an "ü". But now long pressing it gives a choice of different letters.. so you have to tap the right one on screen or press the return key to choose it..

This really makes a huge writing-speed difference :( So any tips on getting the old behaviour back?

I chose QWERTZ for the physical input.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Tomi_Ohl:
This is like that on most ROMs. The solution would be to install stock Xperia pro or Xperia Go keyboard, but they would need to be ported and no one ported them :(

P.s.: I'm sure its related to stock keyboard, even on stock ICS if you delete stock keyboard it'll be like that...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] bassbox:
Yeah I'm also pretty sure, that a working port of the stock keyboard would do the trick. But a quick edit in the included app, to change their behaviour is also imaginable..
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] tinyXperia:
You can try this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2199071
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] AndStuff:
I have tried similar ports, but they only affect touch keyboard.

I think we need a mango app port, not something else, cause the issue concerns hw keyboard.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] xange:
[MENTION=3839575]mikeioannina[/MENTION] , just 1 thing bugging me, i used to click the discussion button on top to go dev thread ( i like this shortcut, instead go look for arc > development > thread), but it directs me to neo l / play dev thread instead of your unified dev thread in xperia arc development?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] cauch_y:
Did you try swype keyboard? It's for free and works pretty good even on those a little bit old devices. I don't know how good it is at German (?) but you can give it a try
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] bassbox:
Iyokan to be precise ;)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Mardon:
No because kernel and recovery are combined into Boot.IMG.

So you habe to flash kernel manually after ota update via flashtool.

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[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Ritonz:
Hi, I'm using the latest nightly on my mango. Since a few weeks, I'm experiencing an increased speed in battery discharge on my phone. As you can see in the screenshots of BBS, I'm getting a decent deepsleep, but the battery dropped 25% within 6hrs from 100%, which I think is not a good news. I've also attached a bugreport. Please someone tell me what's wrong with my phone and how to solve it. Thanks.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] AndStuff:
mango has a hw keyboard as well, so, i think either would be fine!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] bassbox:
Couldn't it just work when I just install/push the old files? Gonna search them and give it a try later...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Tomi_Ohl:
Here you are: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=38160846&postcount=326

I can't remember, if I have tried them, probably they won't work, but let's hope :)

And yes, I'm sure it will work on mango and iyokan with stock ics,I don't know, whether it will work with CM too...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] bassbox:
Link down. Found some stuff here: http://xperia.myftp.biz/Xperia_Pro_ICS_4.0.4/

Gonna play around with it now.. starting with the keymap.zip...

I'm also going to check the files from this rom... /system/usr/key...

Changing a single button to work as another key seems easy.. but so far i couldn't find where it calls the popup to choose the special chars from^^

The file "system\app\MogamiKeypad.txt" mentions a "res/raw/keyboard_layout_qwertz.kcm" but I can't seem to find em..
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] AndStuff:
I would be really gratefull if you got the hw keyboard to work as it did in stock rom! I had tried some stuff when i first installed LXP, but i'm not really experienced with this stuf,, and never got it to work!

I'm more than willing to try stuff if you need more testing :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] sumantaadk:
You should look on alarms from BBS and you can find the services which is quickly draining your battery. Mostly viber and periodicly updating widget eats a lot of battery in my device.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] bassbox:
Is there a thread with Xperia Pro runtime/display on time ? Couldn't find any... (with either stock ics rom or this, both interesting)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] tinyXperia:
I get approximately 2-3 hours of screen on time on my Neo (same screen as the Pro) using this ROM. On stock ICS it was similar.

stock ICS: https://i.imgur.com/aa32uek.png
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Nixus Minimax:
I'm not sure about the status of Bluetooth LE on the Xperia Pro. I brought up the subject some time ago in this thread and it was found that theoretically the BT chip of the Pro could support Bluetooth LE. This lead to BLE support being (re)enabled in the kernel but supposedly a special firmware for the BT chip was lacking.

Anyway, I didn't find the time to install any of the subsequent nightlies so I couldn't test. Yesterday I eventually installed the 2014-10-06 nightly, I think I was on 2014-07-18 before that. Anyway, I checked with my BLE heartrate monitor and it still doesn't connect to the Pro and remains completely invisible to the Pro.

Any hopes for BTLE support? My non-BLE HRM sucks and I would really like to use the other one...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] GiorgosKanellis:
ok!

OKKKK Thankkk youuu :good::good:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Zerathul:
anyone else is havng that issue?

https://github.com/LegacyXperia/local_manifests/issues/827
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Mardon:
Its a known bug of this game. Even on iOs devices.

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[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] komurka4:
How can I enable keyboard backlight (LED light under hardware buttons) on Xperia Mini Pro (20140907)?

I've tried to find answer but was unable to :(

EDIT: Solved by installing 20141006
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] dashesy:
Seriously who came up with that icon, I was searching for a WPS button for so long and it was here on the plain sight! It would not have hurt to also have it in the menu, but some people think their ingenious UI is universally understood.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] araboyy:
miracast

miracast not working properly. can You fix it? and why WiFi Direct disabled in latest update?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Mardon:
The icon symbol is based on standard wps icon.

but in theory it should look more like the attached file to match the wps original icon
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] 1 6 D:
I have seen new build from today for anzu:

cm-11-20141031-UNOFFICIAL-LegacyXperia-anzu-ota.zip

In OTA Update in changelog the is written "Clean Install required!". Can I make backup via Recovery and recover only data after fresh reinstall or how can I not loose all data?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] mikeioannina:
Where did you find this? There is no new official build.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] 1 6 D:
I have Mardon's anzu build from androidfilehost with build-in "OTA Update" app and there is changelog available. Every build with ota in name have this app.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] deccan451:
This is lxp thread discuss only about lxp kitkat ... Don't comment here for other build from different user other than Mike
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] fundre:
Anybody here have any idea why chrome is not showing the card-based tab switching animation on mini pro?

Currently it looks like this:

This is how it should like:

I used AOSP browser previously but it constantly crash after long browsing session(like an hour). Anybody? :confused:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Viper The Ripper:
Services.jar files modded & Supercharged Script

Hi mates ;)

[MENTION=868594]Mardon[/MENTION] hier you have your requested patches... (I have no mirrors, so I'll post the files hier ;) )

Service.jar files modded to get 100% Supercharged on Kitkat

Changelog:

Test patches;

-Tested by [MENTION=868594]Mardon[/MENTION] +208 Point more in AnTuTu Benchmark (just with the modded sevices.jar file) ;)

2 Options:

- Services.jar

- Flashable zip

Instructions for flaschable zip:

1. Download the correct file.

2. Boot into recovery.

3. Install from sdcard.

4. Flash it.

5. WIPE CACHE AND DALVIK-CACHE.

6. Done! Reboot system now ;)

If you want to include it in your build (CM11 based), just rename the file as "services.jar", open the rom's file and replace it in /system/frameworks/ or you can install it manually setting the correct permissions :)

____________________
| |
|[B][SIZE="3"] VTR_services.jar[/SIZE][/B] ||
| |
| |
| [B][COLOR="Red"] R W E[/COLOR][/B] |
| [B][COLOR="blue"]Owner[/COLOR][/B][COLOR="White"]![/COLOR] x-x-- |
| [B][COLOR="blue"]Group [/COLOR][/B]x---- |
| [B][COLOR="blue"]Others [/COLOR][/B]x---- |
| |
| |
| [B]AGREE [/B]| [B]CANCEL [/B]|
|____________________|

SUPERCHARGED SCRIPT

Get the Script
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Mardon:
Much THX ;)

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[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Viper The Ripper:
Services.jar files modded & Supercharged Script

ATTENTION

The script was tested on Galaxy Ace (armv6 device) running CM11. The script seems to work fine, but I've experienced a black screen loop with all the tweaks enabled after reboot, so be careful mates when you use the Supercharged Script.

Do a BACKUP before doing nothing and getting the 100% Supercharged
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Zerathul:
what is it?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Viper The Ripper:
The modded services.jar file allows you to use the Zeppelinrox's Supercharged Script ;)

What's it do?

Taken from the Supercharged Original Thread
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Zerathul:
Can someone test it and tell how to use it on our devices?(anzu here)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Viper The Ripper:
208 points more in Antutu, tested by [MENTION=868594]Mardon[/MENTION] ;)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Zerathul:
Can you tell me where can I download that script?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Viper The Ripper:
Just the modded services.jar should give you a bit more of performance but with the script it'd improve ;)

BTW I'll link too the script :)

---------- Post added at 05:35 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:28 PM ----------

Added instructions and the script ;)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Zerathul:
I asked how to use that script, not .zip :)