[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] evildev:
WHY ANOTHER GINGERBREAD ROM?

OK, now you will ask "why posting another Gingerbread ROM when we have ICS, JB, Kitkat?"

Simply because it is a fact that our Xperia U runs good only on Gingerbread.

Yes, it runs well on higher versions, but GB is the only one on which it runs FLUENTLY.

I was furious because every single ROM higher than GB would run poorly or would have some bugs.

Closest thing to perfect ROM was CM10 LE. Thumbs up for those guys, really, they did a helluva work :)

I was also unhappy with default looks of stock gingerbread ROM for our little precious device,

so what I did was that I picked the best (chiefly cosmetic) features of more advanced ROM's and

integrated them into this ROM. I thoroughly tested it, so finally I can share it with you without fear

of something going south :D

I must warn you that while this ROM took some of the looks of its younger siblings, it IS NOT a try to mimic them.

I just took what seemed as a good fit to refresh the outdated ROM. My aim when I made this ROM was not to

have a feel like you went to the stone age when you flash it. :D It still retains many GB elements, but I hope

you will find pleasing and soothing :)

Hence, I present to you:

Refreshed Gingerbread

(changelog and addons in second post)​

FEATURES:​

Added support for Locked Bootloader :) [update]

Sounds: Removed maximum volume beep and changed battery warning sound to Kitkat one [update]

init.d support: Now you can add you own init.d tweaks :) Included are loopy smoothness for launcher, mali tweaks [update]

Addons (find them in second post): You can now install Kitkat fonts and change colour of toggles to match with current theme [update]

Completely redesigned systemUI (statusbar and notifications panel)

- potato statusbar: you can now play/pause/change tracks by swiping across statusbar (set you preferences via potato app) [update]

- ability to change transparency of statusbar (also changeable via potato app; if you set maximum transparency, you'll get kitkat-like statusbar) [update]

- toggles

- jellybean-like clock

- settings button

- you can swipe notifications

- other small changes

Advanced Home application (GXhome by [MENTION=3989065]serajr[/MENTION])

Redesigned themes, our phone now looks unbelievably cool :))

Wallpapers from Xperia Sirius integrated in themes

Roboto and SoMA fonts from stock JB ROM's

Notes widget, not like the one from ICS, but still very useful

New icons for music player and gallery

Redesigned music player. Things modded:

- new icon

- buttons

- widget

- statusbar icon

- lockscreen controls

Set of useful applications included:

- oandbackup, very useful app to backup your other apps. I use it when changing ROMs. Ant it is open source :)

- latest Gmail for GB

- Latest Youtube

- Ultra explorer, very useful file manager app. Another open source app :)

- Xperia U SD card mounter (we all know this app)

NOTE: they are all uninstallable!

Heavily debloated:

Removed all Timescape and Facebook related stuff,

removed almost all Sony's bloat, removed live wallpapers,

removed a ton of unneded stuff :)

Added build.prop tweaks (only the ones which actually work)

- Notification for ADB connection is disabled for aesthetic reasons , if you want it back just delete persist.adb.notify=0 from build.prop and you'll have it back

New Kitkat toast notification (it's pretty sleek)

Advanced kernel with working CWM and Wifi tether

SuperSU v 1.93 instead of Superuser

less than 200MB in size!

...and many other small tweaks and mods :)

SCREENSHOTS:​

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DOWNLOAD:​

For Unlocked Bootloader:

refreshedGB_v1.1

For Locked Bootloader:

refreshedGB_v1.1_for_LB

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INSTRUCTIONS:​

For Unlocked Bootloader:

- copy ROM to your phone

- wipe data, cache, dalvik cache (you can also format /system if you want everything to be 100% failsafe)

NOTE: if you are coming from another stock GB based ROM, you probably don't need to wipe data)

- install

- reboot

- wait a little until ROM boots up for the first time

- enjoy! :)

For Locked Bootloader:

Same as for Unlocked bootloader, you just have to have any CWM installed (duh!) so you can flash this zip :)​

Note about GPL2 licences:

Since this is a stock based ROM and all the sources that Sony have released are publicly available on their developers site,

I think that it is redundant for me to post any links or sources, since I don't own any. Thanks :)

Credits:​

- [MENTION=4715592]mariozawa[/MENTION] for great potato statusbar mod :);

- Special thanks to [MENTION=3989065]serajr[/MENTION] for letting me use his great GX home app, cheers :);

- Unknown author of notes widget, if he or she ever visits this thread, please let me know so I can include you in credits;

- [MENTION=4555100]FranciscoGool[/MENTION], I've asked you for permission to use some of your resources included in my themes, but you didn't log in for a long time, I hope you don't mind posting it before you replied :);

- [MENTION=4007042]VavanL[/MENTION], for his great tutorial on how to disable max volume beep;

- Chainfire, for making such a wonderful Superuser app;

- All of the XDA community, for being such a supporting bunch of people;

- And finally you, for downloading this ROM :)