yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] soulsearch:
Help for a first timer

Hi Guys,

I am planning to flash this ROM to my Xperia mini for the first time. I have already unlocked the bootloader and rooted the phone.

I tried to follow the procedure above, Looked complex for me. As many said, mistake during flashing make Brick device.

It would be very helpful, if some can can explain the installation procedure in layman language.

Thanking you in advancve
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] u.b.o.o.t:
[MENTION=6872788]soulsearch[/MENTION]: did you read https://github.com/LegacyXperia/Wiki/wiki/Installing-Lollipop ? If yes - what exactly is still unclear to you?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] soulsearch:
Installation

Its works now, thank you
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] evil.demon_s:
can you provide me arc or coconut framework-res file??
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] saqibkhan:
here is the attachment for ARC .. framework-res.apk
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] racw:
Why wifi n Bluetooth status in lolipop kernel for zeus still untested ???
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] saqibkhan:
maybe didn't update the log. but everything works perfectly.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] neurer:
Stagefright

StageFright and related patches for CM12.1 are out, as it seems. A LX security release would be greatly appreciated.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] mikeioannina:
I didn't have time to test it much, but since you say it works fine I'll update the list.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] K3243:
How about xposed framework for CM12.1 ?

Sent from my SK17i
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] BigBenlolz:
I flashed it about a week ago,but it's not working for me.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Raixer:
i use cm-12.1-20150724-UNOFFICIAL-LegacyXperia-smultron on my mini. its work great. very smooth and without lag. more more better than stock ics. really like it..

but it still have some bugs. the notification bar, there is no problem when open notification bar after reboot. but when opened for second time and so on, the notification is all stacked (only 1 visible even there is more than 1 notifications) and just the top can be clicked.

and cleared notification still visible on lockscreen and stay on top of clock.

anyone have same bugs like me?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] eberhardweber:
Has anyone gotten their haida, iyokan or coconut running on the latest? Does it work if you don't try to upgrade the previous package?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] devtry:
Yes, I do. I've been having problems not only with the status bar/notification area, but with the overall system UI: so, yes, the status bar, notifications area, PIN screen, lock screen, etc. For me the problem is after the first reboot (and then it persists); if I do something like using the brightness slider on the quick settings then I can say goodbye to my status bar, replaced by a piece of still image of the pulled down notifications area/quick settings.

Actually I did not try the latest official build, but I've been having this problem with my builds for some time now, and on the previous official build (and my builds till some point in time) everything was ok.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] emaijala:
I have it running on iyokan. I had to try a couple of times, though. Rebooting and/or using system formatting tool seemed to help clear the problem.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] edipss:
General Review

Hi guys, I have an Arc S. I was using Gin2Kitkat, it was good but it became a bit slow so I decided to change this rom. I installed LegacyXperia AOSP and CyanogenMod roms. I increased internal memory to 2GB ext4 partition for data using AParted(An android app).(You must do backup your sd card before creating an ext4 because of formatting) As I see CyanogenMod was faster and more stable than AOSP, however both of them was still not for daily usage and slow, battery drain was too much, sometimes freezes.

Now I am using Racing Bean, as I see it looks smooth and stable. I tryed many roms, some of them were good but after a few month they got slower. I hope this one will be good alternative for daily usage.

Lolipop roms suggested me that increasing internal memory so I searched for this about other android versions. Now I increased JellyBean's internal memory using this post. You can also try this on JB roms! Now I dont think to buy a new phone :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] eberhardweber:
Excellent! Thanks for the help. These are the exact steps that did the trick for me:

Run the system formatting tool

Reboot back to recovery

Install cm-12.1-20150723-UNOFFICIAL-LegacyXperia-iyokan

Install latest gapps

Voilá! I'm on the newest build on my iyokan now as well.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] u.b.o.o.t:
Cool - so many iyokan-owners :) I also have cm-12.1-20150723-UNOFFICIAL-LegacyXperia-iyokan running fine on mine - despite notification area / SystemUI bug.

@ iyokan-owners: did you ever notice that number entry via physical keyboard does not work for phone numbers in contacts app (and other apps with number-only input controls)? This issue has been there since CM10. I posted a simple bugfix here: https://github.com/LegacyXperia/android_device_semc_iyokan/pull/2
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Superrman:
i saw some august nightly releases for some 2011 devices when coconut will get the update?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] saqibkhan:
where is that ?? we all got the update on 23 July recently.. nothing after that. Even coconut got it on 23 July
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Superrman:
hmm i didnt found now maybe i didnt look at 12.1CM

anyway for OP [MENTION=3839575]mikeioannina[/MENTION] . i installed july version (last one till now) and GUI run very fast, my 2nd partion became my "internal" which is cool i have UHS 3 (90MB'S SD CARD)

bugs :1. notification bar buggy all notification together or not shown (work after restart)

2. camera button dosnt work (you can fell vibration feedback but not working)

3. walkman button dosnt work (Working so far, after restart)

4.torch very weak

5.speakers are weak

6. can set CPU... (can set but by 3rd party application) is came with 1GHZ (underlclocked) up to 1400 from which is max safe according the qualcomm website

and this is what i found so far ( on 1 hour of use)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] emaijala:
What's the notification area / SystemUI bug?

I haven't noticed the problem with the physical keyboard, but I tend to use the touch screen for number-only input.

--Ere
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] harshu0101:
I still don't understand why is it the ROM laggy for me even though I've Class 10 Sandisk memory card. Apps freezes sometimes and then it takes long time to respond. Then I just have to remove the battery. I want to use this as a daily driver but I can't. Is anyone facing same problem as me?

Btw my device is Xperia Pro.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Mardon:
Dont sent pull requests. Submit fixes to review.

http://review.msm7x30.org

Gesendet von meinem LT18i mit Tapatalk
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] iamthex:
I'm sorry if this has been already asked, but do you know any script to make third sd partition work as RAM? I have some concerns about that since we're already using second partition as data on a ROM-level. I haven't tried any yet, but I'll do and if any of you is interested I'll report back.

(Sorry for my english. I hope you can understand what I mean.)

Enviado desde mi Nexus 4 mediante Tapatalk
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] acharnleygg:
HI, I'm also running the latest 12.1 build on a ST17i and a Samsung Evo card. I don't have any google apps installed, have tweaked the phone as best I can, but have found the web browsing experience to be excruciatingly slow at rendering pages. I'm wondering if this is the limitation of the (now older) processor or if reverting to CM11 is the way to go.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] karyk:
My xperia pro was gathering dust for a while now, so I decided to install this and use it as my secondary phone... I only have an old class 4 SD card though (could be class 6, as i measured 7 MB/s write and 17 read...). Gotta say that the performance is very bad - lags all the time, often completely freezes and reboots (if i dont remove battery first...), downloading and installing apps from google play in particular slows the phone a lot.

So i want to ask - is this just due to the slow SD card? - Does anyone have it running smoothly on iyokan? I want to know if its worth investing to an UHS SD card - if my problems are only caused by the slow memory, i dont think getting a class 10 would make it better (or better enough...)́.

BTW its awesome to see latest android running on these, at this time I dare to say ancient, devices.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] plb-dev:
It runs smoothly on all devices. The only thing you need is an sd card with fast read/write speeds. Most people recommend Samsung EVO sd card.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] eberhardweber:
I am running an iyokan that has a Samsung MicroSDXC PRO card (UHS-1) in it. I was facing exactly the same issues as you were on my old class 10 SD card that I had once been using with the phone - simply put, these ROMs are simply not usable, at all, on older SD cards. There's no reason to try. You'll have to get a new card should you want to try to run it properly.

Apart from a persistent issue where Google Play Store tilts and reboots the phone if I choose to update all apps simultaneously, my old iyokan is much faster and smoother than my Pro ever was back on stock ICS. I'm not 100 % if it'd qualify as a daily driver for me after having used better and faster phones for quite a while now, but it's definitely pretty darn close - could get to that territory with a few updates, too, so I'm following the situation with great interest.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] karyk:
Thanks... What r/w speeds are you getting with your sd card within the device and what speeds are you getting with the same card in PC ? - could you benchmark it?

I've got my eye on a sandisk UHS-3 card which has >60MB/s read and >40 write, but im not sure if the device is even capable of r/w to the sd card so fast... I'm worried that I would end up getting the same speeds with slower (and most importantly cheaper) cards. I'm kind of poor right now and every penny counts :D.

As I said the card i used had 7 MB/s write, so class 10 wont be much much faster (maybe twice as fast if I'm really lucky, but if it would be just 10 MB/s it probably wouldn't do anything... either way I dont think it will be good enough).
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] vikusz:
The figures you quote are all sequential read/write speeds (7+MB/s). These are more or less standardized and marketed as Class 1-10 or UHS 1-3. They are relevant for copying/reading large files. Using an SD card as the data partition (and generally OS related read/write), random read and writes speed matters (not sequential). Random access speeds are orders of magnitude below sequential speeds and these are usually not specified by the manufacturer so you'll have to rely on benchmarks. People here recommend the Samsung EVO series, have a look at bencharks e.g. here http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/sd-cards-2014/-8-Random-Write-4-KB-QD-32-MB-s,3479.html

TL;DR Forget sequential speed (Class, UHS); the operating system needs high random read/write speeds.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] karyk:
Didn't know that... I got 16 GB samsung evo card for $10 on ebay, thanks for advice.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] snoopy20:
I've tried it with an Evo card and it's slow. Some apps are nigh on unusable (chrome browser especially). Be great if someone could modify the 12.1 binary to go back to the old method for those that don't need google apps or who can download individually. I'm back on CM11 but the mp3 stuttering is a deal breaker.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] sudheerkdty:
Guys I need your Help

I am currently using Transcend class 10 32 GB SD card. I still face freezing and lagging at random times. I read Samsung evo has better random rw speeds. Can I buy that SD? I think I found 2-3 evo which I felt they are not same. can someone please provide me the link to purchase evo.. or some other suitable one(if any)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] p_sajeev@hotmail.com:
Yes, the orange coloured Samsung EVO 16GB card work very well. I purchased mine from flipkart.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] sudheerkdty:
I found two one orange and another red

www.amazon.in/gp/aw/d/B00L543E3K/re...&sr=1-1&pi=SL75_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=evo+32gb

www.amazon.in/gp/aw/d/B00WR4IJBE/re...&sr=1-2&pi=SL75_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=evo+32gb
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] p_sajeev@hotmail.com:
Don't know about the red one. The orange one should work though.

If you are able to purchase from flipkart, do email me at my username, and I will send you the exact flipkart link...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] u.b.o.o.t:
Severe lags may also be caused by swapping to ZRAM. ROW scheduler and sysctl -w vm.swappiness=5 (put into /data/local/userinit.sh) helped in my case...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] u.b.o.o.t:
I just benchmarked my Sandisk 32GB Ultra (UHC-1) against internal flash and while external sd is much faster for sequential transfers, random read / write with 4k block size is significantly slower, especially on ext4 /data partition:

sdcard (ext4 /data) 4k random read : 2594KB/s ( 648 IOPS)

sdcard (ext4 /data) 4k random write: 22KB/s ( 55 IOPS)

sdcard (vfat /mnt/media_rw/sdcard0) 4k random read: 3746KB/s ( 936 IOPS)

sdcard (vfat /mnt/media_rw/sdcard0) 4k random write: 2095KB/s ( 523 IOPS)

internal (yaffs2 /system) 4k random read : 4876KB/s (1219 IOPS)

internal (yaffs2 /system) 4k random write: 1987KB/s ( 496 IOPS)

For this test, I cross-compiled fio 2.14 benchmark with Android NDK tool chain and used the following job settings: ioengine=sync, iodepth=1, size=128m, rw=randread or randwrite, directory=/data/local/tmp or /system/tmp or /mnt/media_rw/sdcard0

Random write benchmark on ext4 sdcard partition even made Android Framework restart (not reboot!), probably because benchmark took too long, thus I lowered size to 16mb.

Not sure why ext4 is so much slower. When partitioning my sdcard, I aligned partitions by making start sector divisible by 128k.

I tried mounting /data with journal=writeback,barrier=0 but my changes to /fstab.semc where not applied after reboot because fstab.semc resides in RAM and will be re-created from initrd during boot... Have to change kernel for this...

I did theses tests on my Xperia Pro in root terminal. Will repeat sdcard benchmarks on my linux laptop and play around with ext4 mounting options...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Sincraft:
I'm using an arc! Flashed lt18i ftf, installed rom and flash gapps HDPI. Unable to call text or even run apps cause phone lags like hell! Any advice??
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] fred0r:
Like mentioned MANY times in this thread - you need a faster SD-Card.

Sandisk Extreme Plus 16 GB runs very good for me on a SK17-Mango.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Achin Meshram:
I am try to open media file (like mp3 , songs) in music app .

I AM TRY TO OPEN MEDIA FILE (LIKE MP3 , SONGS) IN MUSIC APP .

BUT IT SHOWING THERE IS NO FILE IN SD CARD :crying::crying:

I ALREADY HAVE FOLDER FULLED WITH SONG .... SD CARD ALSO connected

PLZ TELL ME WHAT TO DO...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] u.b.o.o.t:
Hi folks.

I just replaced my Sandisk Ultra with a Samsung Evo+ and especially heavy apps load much faster now.

According to some Amazon reviews, Samsung Evo+ cards have even higher random 4k performance than Sandisk Extreme cards, that's why I bought it.

I've written a summary of my findings on benchmarking and performance tuning here: https://github.com/LegacyXperia/Wiki/wiki/Installing-Lollipop#choose-a-fast-sd-card
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] mikeioannina:
New builds

I forgot to announce it, but some new builds are released

## Nightly build 20150831 - cm-12.1

* Latest cm12.1 changes

* Fixed more libstagefright vulnerabilities

* Fixed CVE-2015-1534
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Raixer:
for all who experiencing notification bar issue and empty task manager frame, try to enable "force high end graphic" in developer option
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] BigBenlolz:
I used the latest build for a whole day and I'm pretty suprised.

It feels faster and the music hickups aren't as frequent either.

Thanks Mike! :D
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] harshu0101:
May I know which memory card are you using? and your device?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] BigBenlolz:
I have a Toshiba C10 SD,it's pretty bad,my Samsung EVO is on it's way and I'm on zeus.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] harshu0101:
I've Sandisk Ultra microSDHC UHS-I 16GB Class 10 and my device is iyokan. And the ROM is laggy for me so I was wondering which one you're using.Thank you.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] TomTomcrafter001:
status 0

i have a Problem on xperia ray/urushi:

i installed the 20150831 kernel and tried to install the 20150831 build of cm12.1.

after a few seconds i got an error with Status 0.

i tried it again and now it says signature verification failed.

i dont know what to do, please help me
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Mardon:
Damaged zipfile redownload

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[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] TomTomcrafter001:
status 0

no, md5sum match the provided one in basketbuild

in another issue the Problem could be solved by flashing system formatting tool. does it delete any userdata?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Achin Meshram:
HELP ME

I AM FACING PROBLEM TO OPEN MEDIA FILE (LIKE MP3 , SONGS) IN MUSIC APP .

BUT IT SHOWING THERE IS NO FILE IN SD CARD

I ALREADY HAVE FOLDER FULLED WITH SONG .... SD CARD ALSO connected

PLZ TELL ME WHAT TO DO...

:o:crying::crying::crying::crying:

---------- Post added at 03:30 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:23 PM ----------

I ALSO FOUND THAT I WAS PARTITION MY 2ND SD CARD WITH EXT 4 BY MINI-TOO PARTITION V9

BUT AFTER INSTALLATION ..... IT SHOWS ME

2ND PARTITION BECOME EXT3 :crying::(:crying:

HELP ME WITH THIS ALSO .........

:

HOW TO RESOLVE THIS ???????????????????????????
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] eberhardweber:
I've used it twice now after first installation to update my iyokan ROM due to having issues with flashing the new releases and it doesn't seem to touch anything :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] amg1980:
bug in camera r800i 12.1 cm

in my xperia play ( Zeus ) when using the camera of the bug and the phone resets , the first time you use it longer works after this bug . any prediction for this defect ? this last updating of the day 08/31/2015 remains the same defect:crying:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] BigBenlolz:
Yep,saqibkhan said it works if you use the jellybean camera,but the problem remained for me.

But I noticed that the camera in Messenger for example,doesn't reboot the phone on the latest build,unlike before.

Would be awesome if it just crashes the camera,not reboots the whole phone :crying:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] karyk:
Yesterday I got the orange samsung evo card (16GB) as recomended by ppl here. I installed the latest build (31.8.) on my iyokan right away and been using it ever since...

I'm very surprised by the performance, this is by far the fastest rom I've ran on the phone so far (including cm11, cm10 and stock based builds). I've installed 60+ apps, was browsing web an youtube all the time and even played some games - with no issues whatsoever! The only minor problem i have with the phone (compared to my daily driver - xperia z ultra) is sub-par (or lack of..) multitasking - but thats understandable due to the device's hw...

I love that huge screen of the z ultra, but it obviously isn't very comfortable to take to some places and my xperia pro is almost complete substitute now. I'm impressed - totally usable as a daily driver.

Awesome job!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] atanganaa:
Hi guys! I have a couple of issues con my coconut.

1. The screen doesn't turns on when people calls me. I have to press home button to awake screen.

2. Flashlight turns off when screen blocks.

I hope you can help me, thanks!

---------- Post added at 06:00 AM ---------- Previous post was at 05:56 AM ----------

I forgot to say.. The issues that i'm experimenting are in last two cm12.1 builds (sorry for my terrible english)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Achin Meshram:
expand ram

How do I integrate my 400mb(ram) + 300mb(internal memory) to become complete ram = ~700mb in smulton device . right now in xperia-mini my internal memory is not been used.

plz help me with this concern if it can be possible to expand ram by any trick...............
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] L3RAT:
It would be called swap partition on internal memory, but Mike advised us against doing so, while it would damage internal storage.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Faustop:
Any idea on how to set-up a lockscreen shortcut for turning on/off the torch?

In CM11 there used to be an option for assigning the long press or home button (in the lock screen) to the torch, but that option doesn't exist anymore.

I tried then to replace the camera shortcut on the right of the lock-screen, but the torch is not among the options. Anyone have other ideas?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] azakosath:
Why don't you try a tile in Quick Settings panel under Notifications drawer?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] RaphaelHam:
but this is cm12.1 q&a thread mike
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Langes:
Same announcement applies for both, just cm12.1 also has other changes in the build.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Faustop:
I already use that, but I miss being able to use the torch without unlocking the phone (that was a very nice feature in CM11).
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Achin Meshram:
Thank you so much for reply...

plz provide any trick or method for to :confused: increase Ram like you do with :good: internal memory... :angel: for excellent performance...

Because apps are lagging and also some time my xp mini get stuck in middle of process..
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] L3RAT:
Don't ever try to use internal storage as ram or you will very quickly demage your phone!

There 2 methods of increasing ram, which are available for us:

1) ZRAM (compcache) - Mike already added it in LX.

2) Swap to SD - you can use part of your sdcard as swap partition of your phone RAM. You can make it with app called Swapper, but you are doing it on your own risk as it could damage your SD card after couple of months. IMHO its not worth risking your sd, as I didn't noticed any improvement in performance...