yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] linqdesires:
the major issue actually I believe are random reboots. I'm not able to post any log, since these happen and I don't even realize, but if anyone has, please share.

this said, this it's quite magic having kitkat on xperia s! thank you devs :good:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] andreacorti:
That is a problem I've never seen
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] dreezz:
same here.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Oscar96:
No random reboots for me,and I'm using art,so it should be more unstable. No major issue,in my case. I've installed a theme (gem flat) and it's super responsive :D

Inviato dal mio Xperia S utilizzando Tapatalk
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ville525:
What performance settings are you guys using? I/O scheduler, governor, zram, etc..
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mpiwosal:
"allow purging", "16 bit" to yes, conservative 384-1512, deadline, zram 18%
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Darth Inferno:
I do not have that problem with purple tint i'm using the app for the LG camera and photos are amazing and the videos too
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Darth Inferno:
at the moment no random reboot for me, everything work perfectly, the only problem that i have is with the game Asphalt 8 and the HDMI output
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] amey_gangal:
Hey guys

I have been experiencing a lot of problems with WiFi CONNECTIVITY..as in my phone doesn't connect good to the internet buy connects well to the WiFi router.. I have seen apps from the play store aborting and then resuming the downloads ..its not a problem with speed ..when I force it to connect like downloading from the play store and simultaneously browsing tapatalk.. It works well..anyone has a solution to this coz I don't think a logcat is particularly useful here
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] deepanshunamdeo:
i did that but nothin is happening,

---------- Post added at 07:38 AM ---------- Previous post was at 06:44 AM ----------

I did that,it fixed every camera needing app but it start lagging my phone now what to fix that lagging problem
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] andreacorti:
where is the runtime selector? maybe I'm blind, but I can't find it in dev options :!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] genecis:
Fourth from last :p
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] De@n:
It's there :p
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] glenkocco:
i'm on this rom (beta 3) since sunday and for now it's great! i love the new looks of KK, the rom is really smooth and reactive and i did not see any major bug (just the first time i flashed it first boot ok, the second boot won't go.. it was stuck on the open semc logo for ever.. so i had to reflash the rom and it worked fine). no random reboots or anything else (ok, only 2 days on this rom but for now no problems ^^)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] dermaze:
The KK roms are known for their 10-minute long second boot. So even that is "normal". ;)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] someone755:
Afaik, ART is disabled. Tried enabling it, end up with Dalvik again...

(PLACEBO ALERT!)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] aiola1982:
Xposed installed? If yes uninstall it and enable ART again and it should work unless you have any other mods / apps that prevent your phone from running ART,

ART is working great for me. (clean beta3)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] YYvo:
Xposed framework prevents ART to enable. As far as i noticed. Disable xposwd and try without it.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] genecis:
It doesn't work because you have xposed framework maybe.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] someone755:
You guys just ninja'd each other...

I have no xposed installed. This could be interesting, thanks for the heads-up. Gonna explore this.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] alveos:
GPS doesnt work on beta 3 or is it just me? No gps in Ingress, sygic, gps test.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Kargi:
Its just you, gps no problem here...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] airwolf1544:
Im on this rom since alpha 0 or 1.. now i'm on beta 3. The phone is slow after unlock the screen.. about 5-10 seconds.. after that, the phone is fast.

Is it worth to cleanflash the Beta3 with all wipes? or is it a waste of time?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] bamboohao:
So you are saying you have been dirty flashing since alpha 0? Lol

And you never wondered about the 5-10 second lag? Yes, you should be doing a clean flash, i personally didnt get a slow 5-10 second after unlocking the screen.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] NeoXP:
No problem here with GPS either.

I've been dirtyflashing since alpha0 also, now lag or anything. I do have to say, that I remove apps that aren't used by me with System App Uninstaller.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] darkado:
does spirit fm work on this rom? if it does, which audio method to choose?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ahvipardik:
I can confirm that even with clean flash there is some delay, especially when someone calls you it takes time for the screen to turn on. Otherwise much better rom imo than stock based
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ardf69:
I noted that with ondemad governor the wake up on call is responsiver.

Ciao Angelo

Inviato dal mio Nexus 7 utilizzando Tapatalk
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ahvipardik:
Thanks, I'll try, had interactive now.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] saumil007:
One more problem. I factory reset my phone and SD from TWRP. And the ROM and Gapps got deleted. Now my phone won't boot until I flash them again and I don't have it in my SD :( . What should I do now as my PC won't detect my phone :\
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] airwolf1544:
Ok.. reflashed verything aber a full wipe... and... :laugh: the rom ist fast again...

hmm.. i'm not shure, but maybe "Kerneltuner" has something to do with the problem..

Thx for the hints..
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] bamboohao:
Only thing you could do now is either push the zip using adb or perhaps restore your phone using sony pc companion first
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] entermetallica:
I think TWRP has usb mode, try to use that.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xpamamadeus:
Use ABD sideload
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] dolon:
Hi All,

before I flash this rom, I want to ask a few questions:

1. OpenSEMC-kk-beta2-oldmapping-boot.img kernel would be okay for BETA 3?

I found it here: http://goo.im/devs/RaymanFX/downloads/OpenSEMC/Kitkat_4.4/Nozomi

2. Is it possible to use the quick photo button or volume buttons to wake up the screen?

3. Sony Xperia keyboard is available too in this rom? I really want to keep due to the swipe feature.

thanks for the responses!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ville525:
1. I guess it would work, but I don't see why you would use it, since the latest kernel is already included in BETA 3.

2. No, but you could add it yourself, i think.

3. No, but the stock keyboard has swipe too. :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] anthony03:
Dolon if you want the Xperia keyboard go here ;)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2196653

flash it after the rom and the gapps :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] dolon:
Thank you! Unfortunately the first post hasn't got an install guide and also the beta 3 kernel is missing. Could you please provide the download link?

Thanks for the keyboard too!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ahvipardik:
If I remember right, the kernel is included in the zip.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] andreacorti:
kernel is in the rom zip
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PremanshuRaj:
cm 11 for hikari

HEY when are you going to upload kitkat rom for xperia acro s?

i tried installing the one of xperia s ...it works just that the battery cnt be charged...i think its the kernel prob.

i hope you upload kitkat rom for acro s...thnks in advance
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] entermetallica:
Please do not cross-flash.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] osk7:
GPS problems.

I got problems with gps too. If I got twitter, ingress... not hibernated with greenify, these apps are all time using gps despite having the location off. I think this is not normal, tell me if I'm wrong :)

Sorry for my bad English. I only want to show you that GPS works when apps aren't in use.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] dolon:
Hi Guys,

I flashed the BETA3 so far so good. Unfortunately none of the xperia keyboard works for it :(

I could setup the wake screen for the camera button.

Two more questions:

Once later system will come, lice BETA 4 or RC, do we need to wipe again everything?

How we can install clockworkmod? Now the TwinRecovery installed (dunno why)

thanks

dolon
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] bamboohao:
Dont use it then, there are tons of keyboard alternative lying out in the wild

You can dirty flash unless Rayman specially mention not to, but it is not recommended as doing so often cause weird problem.

As for cwm, you could try using flashtool but i am not sure
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] genecis:
1) You can flash without wiping, though clean flashing is always recommended.

2) No you cannot have CWM.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Redstarr1:
This keyboard should work: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2196653, it worked for someone else so it should for you as well.

Also, TWRP is better than CWM. I don't get why you'd want CWM back, operating a recovery with volume buttons is medieval. If you ever want to go back to stock, just flash DoomKernel or something and you'll have CWM again.

Verstuurd vanaf mijn Xperia S met Tapatalk
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] RaymanFX:
Told y'all. Warned y'all.

I am closing this thread now, since I don't have enough time to maintain this thread at the moment, with important exams coming in next month.

There's just TOO MUCH offtopic going on in this post, and I do neither have the will nor the time to keep the overview and keep track of every single post in this thread just to be able to filter out the ones that really help me / are valid issue reports with ACTUAL logcats attached.

This does not mean I will stop my work on the XS, everybody should be able to see this, looking at GitHub.

I'll reopen this thread when I think I can handle the vast amount of unrelated posts again.

Sorry if this sounds a bit harsh, I know there are at least a few people out there that actually use this thread for what it's meant to be used - development purposes. But at the current time, I don't want to get the moderators more frustrated on this thread than they already are.

Anyways, I'll keep up the development and if I think it's time for BETA4, it will show up on Goo.im eventually and this thread should be re-opened.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Clark Joseph Kent:
Understood and Noted OP, BTW a small cleaning has been done, Thank You.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Great_Geek:
Beta 3.1 Released!

http://d-h.st/new

Subway Surfers is working.

My testing team tells me it's way more fluid than before.
​

Changelog:

Frameworks adjustments:

Enable fading marquee

Enable support for VRW & Camera button wake

Bring back Torch QuickSettings tile

EGL Fixup

Enable voluntary kernel preemption

Set default Timer Frequency to 300 Hz

Raise Governor Thresholds

Make libhealthd device-specific
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] RaymanFX:
Ohey guys, feeling like we should step the game up again and show what we're made of!

While I was absent, deedwar and Great_Geek did a great job maintaining the sources and squashing bugs (most notably the EGL issue).

I'll jump in again very soon, my OPPO N1 CodefireX bringup is almost done (those who don't know: I received a N1 for free and am working on it to run CodefireX flawlessly), so Nozomi shall see some love again :)

More detailed updates will follow, along with a thread update to reflect on the build by Great_Geek (+changelog).

Stay tuned, and use his build, he did great with it!

P.S.: Nexus 7 (Old & 2013) CodefireX 4.4 Open Master Nightlies are up, if you own such a device, make sure to head over to the corresponding forums and give it a shot! I'm running it on my Nexus 7 right now :)

About Nozomi - CFX: there are some crucial issues regarding the boot image. I hope I can figure them out somewhere soon, because if I can, you'll see nightly builds in no time.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xPeriaGUY666:
Alleluia the king is back ! RaymanFX is our savior ???

Thanks dude for not letting us down ;)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] piyush95:
Subway surfers is working...but asphalt is not...:(

anyway great update...THANKS...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] frantisekz:
Thank you guys, nice update.

I wanted to ask about RAM. Is there any chance that Xperia S users will have more available RAM? In my opinion, it's one of the performance bottlenecks. And zRAM option disappeared from settings, is it active by default from now?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] amey_gangal:
That won't be possible mostly.. As RaymanFX mentioned.. Xperia S does not have proper ION drivers for 4.2.x and above AFAIK please correct me if I'm wrong
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] andreacorti:
Great work!!!

4 problems:

- when I receive a call, the phone starts ringing and vibrating, but it takes 10+ seconds to show the call on screen

- a2dp problem: the audio is sluggish and the phone become unusable when streaming audio

log: http://sdrv.ms/1hEjEfH

- google maps crashes: search for a POI (restaurant), tap on it and shake the phone.

log: http://sdrv.ms/1bDgstb

- every reboot the date/time goes back of 12 hourse and in 1970 :cowboy:

- some other random crash (quizduell app):

log: http://sdrv.ms/1fr0Uve <--- I'm an idiot
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] RaymanFX:
It is possible to give you more RAM, easiest way would be SWAP.

But it's useless, and will shrink your battery life, it will keep the CPU busy and is not worth the hassle.
[MENTION=5258737]frantisekz[/MENTION], you're wrong. There's just too many people here on XDA who think free RAM = more performance.

It's probably the biggest misbelief since the church told you the earth would be the center of our universe.

The ONLY thing more RAM will give you is more multitasking capabilities, keeping more Apps running in the background.

But (thanks to android's lowmemorykiller kernel module) it has absolutely zero to do with lags, whereever they might occur.

The only bottleneck here is the video/gpu/adreno driver, nothing else :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Miggystar:
Hello, good work with this ROM, testing since came out, until now works smooth, I just want to report the same bug that [MENTION=4019151]andreacorti[/MENTION] reports, the one that annoyng me mostly its the a2dp problem, i just can play my music normally and that is deadly haha, I wish that could be fixed not far away I want to keep this Rom for my daily usage.

Thank u again for u hard work and for come back to pimp our XS's
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Jeremy0:
Same here :).
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] hamad335500:
Bug: Apps are disappeared from folder after reboot
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] frantisekz:
Maybe, I expressed wrongly. I know about low mem killer - but if the app has to start every time I launch it because it was killed when I launched some game (for example) it is bad performance as a result, isn´t it :) ?

But I didn´t want to argue with you, I just wanted to ask about the future, thanks for the reply.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] RaymanFX:
Haha, don't worry, it's fine, really, and I like being corrected by people (if I am wrong) :)

But in this case, I would say it's just useless to speak about RAM on the Xperia S.

You get 1024mb physical RAM, a lot of that is consumed by the system and the kernel (e.g. ION memory allocator).

See, with a lot of tinkering I could maybe squash out a few more megabytes of free RAM for the user, but, frankly, I don't think it's worth the hassle :)

I rather want to concentrate on those audio bugs now.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] nisu4717:
Some times it becoms very slow..

Using as loop.otherwise one of the best rom I tried.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Jeremy0:
Feel free to test with Viper4Android ;).
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Maxilius123:
GPS Always On

I know this was mentioned before but i dont find the post anymore..

So the problem is, gps is on all the time.. I disabled it in settings but it wont turn off, is there any solution ?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] TheCaptainZ:
Thanks for this small update. It works really stable.

PS: Downloadlink is in my Signature if you not able to Download this Rom.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] on99:
Rayman, i hope you will buy a sony xperia z1 compact so i can enjoy your work for the coming years!

I will take his release aswell for my sxs, as usual!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] dreezz:
any news on the random reboots?

are they still there?

any kernel changes?

[now no 4.2.2 rom, because of the reboots...]
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] bamboohao:
Please bring all these to the discussion thread, xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2571966 , I really don't want the thread to be closed again, or worst the development stopped now that Sony has officially announced the drop of support, so please, kindly use the discussion thread. And for the random reboots, i never had any, from all the openSEMC rom i tried, i got none random reboot.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tOrNadO™:
When u said Swap to be used to get more free RAM, i think it could also be possible to use a Gigabyte of SD memory and allocate it for RAM right? I think i read about it somewhere.. Just an implementation of Virtual memory concept.. Although XS can handle KitKat and with ART there is enough free RAM for XS to run atleast 4 apps without problems.. Just sharing some thought, may be it could interest u.. :cool:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] frantisekz:
I've been experimenting with SWAP some time ago - generally it worked fine, but theoretically it will destroy SD card quickly.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] someone755:
Guys, seriously. Eversince the thread was re-opened I saw like 4 developer-friendly posts. Out of what? A page and a half?

It's good to hear your points on what free RAM is and how to get it, but this is really not the place, or the time (if you really want to know more, Google it, search XDA, create a discussion thread etc. PM is also an option...).

If the closing of this thread wasn't enough of a warning, then I don't know what is.

And as far as we all are concerned, Rayman can get an iPhone (never thought it'd come to you begging him to buy a phone).

Last rant in this post: Don't say thanks, hit the button. Like seriously, don't post it unless it's included next to a bug report with a log (not the tree thing, the computer document with fancy text) or a development-related question of some sort.

And to finish in a way that isn't completely off-topic so it doesn't only look like I rant all the time, [MENTION=5450035]opens[/MENTION]EMC team, if what I'm seeing you've done to the kernel is all, why is that nothing? May seem like a dumb question to you all educated people, but, if the drivers are what's causing most issues (as people keep saying that in this thread), shouldn't there be a million commits in the kernel rather than the ROM (most notably the framework, as I see it)?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] nisu4717:
U hav read that in ram expender.i m using this aap.got 2200 mb ram now
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] jeremymolina:
Hi guys, I'm testing this ROM, ART work very great, but i will give it some days to give a conclusion(about how positive or negative it work).

About random reboots, I think I have a solution for it; first of all I install the ROM, in the first flash i didn't get any random reboot, all was working very great, but after other clean install I start to have a lot of random reboot, so I try to format system, cache, etc; anyway the last i didn't was turning on the phone without the SIM card and it works, after configure the phone I putted back the SIM card and after that the phone works very fine. Think this trick will help for those who have random reboots.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] amey_gangal:
Not practically effective.. You see the read /write speed of storage memory like sdcard is much less as compared to RAM.. Frankly even in Linux, swap was much more useful in older machines with less available RAM.. So the idea of using 1GB of swap is really over the top and pointless

And let's move this to the discussion thread.. We don't want to annoy RaymanFX or the moderators
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Abood Madridista:
Everything is working perfectly for me ;)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] keunhuvac:
I'm using googlehome from pa gapps.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] AnrgKrshn:
Clean flash right? Cause it's really fast and smooth for the rest of us. Try reflashing
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] hamad335500:
It is tataly unstable most of times on different videos it give us black screen most of cases online videos it stucks only which is stable iz sw decoder not hw decoder
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] AnrgKrshn:
Does anyone have the Google built into the phonebook working? Do I have to enable it somehow?

Also, I think it's worth noting, YouTube works below 1080p
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PNuT.:
Try a different launcher and see what happens
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] entermetallica:
Videos will start to work after a couple of releases. So just wait.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] carluccio92:
When the bext release with something bugs solved?

Inviato dal mio LT26i con Tapatalk 2
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] darkado:
For the 3467191947482929477th time, it's not polite to ask for ETAs!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] zaidx:
Installed and it's awesome

Didn't have any trouble with viber like some of you :D

But how did you managed to play videos with vplayer in hardware acceleration it didn't work with me
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] dreezz:
installed it, and have no problems sofar.

(reboot takes a long time time for the semc logo appears, other than that... booting fast!)

coming from slim rom @ i guess 245dpi everything is quite big.

in setting i went to 85% text size, but still.

is there a way to change the screensize? and is that confirmed working?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] NeoXP:
Hi,

I tried to install also coming from Slimrom, I got a "Set_Metadata-Recursive" error. Please explain the steps you have taken.

Regards,
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] dreezz:
first the top 4 tiles in twrp/wipe (cache/factory reset/system/...)

installed rom+pa gapps

got an error... abort.

flashed the boot.img (i always do it via flashtool, in fastboot mode)

installed rom

reboot to recovery

installed gapps

working!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] AnrgKrshn:
That's the default dpi
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] dreezz:
ok, then i guess Slimrom is (a lot) smaller.

is there an app/setting to change this value in a safe way?

edit: found this one... "Texdroider DPI" in the play store

anyone tried it?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] AnrgKrshn:
I believe there's an closed module.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] NeoXP:
Thx for the quick reply. I will try it when I'm back home from my linux box, here at the office on a windows PC my fastboot isn't working.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Andrew21P:
(Sorry my english) After one day of usage, i have to say is working awesome for be an Alpha 0 version. These are my issues/conclusions:

1- Battery duration with wifi is flawless.

2- Battery duration with "only wcdma" and no wifi is terrible, less than 10 hours of usage.

3- I don't know if is gpu issue or something, i get graphic glitches (blinking) writting in "FB Messenger", it just happened to me yesterday

4- The font has graphic glitches too, in apps like Feedly, Gnow, Gchrome, like a | between two letters.

Amazing work Rayman, greetings
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] NeoXP:
I think there is a setting in build.prop that you can change, I would have to google to be certain for the correct setting, but I think you have to look for lcd_density setting and change that to you liking.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] hamad335500:
runtime art

ok guys after deeply testing i found Pagapps are not compatible with runtime art so install rom with full wipe then boot it and select runtime art then boot it and after 3 min reboot and flash this art compatible gapps

Download art compatible gapps http://d-h.st/hSL
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] dreezz:
(sorry for quoting myself ;) )

installed texdroider dpi...

xperia s default dpi is 320.

changed it to 245, reboot and it is OK :good:

Thx for this amazing 4.4 rom
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] shahrukhqasim:
Did virtual memory really help?? I think I need to do that too.