yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] plb-dev:
Bugs or whatever

Every time I switch apps, a black screen ( with status bar ) appears for some 10 seconds .

The back and menu hardware keys are a little slow to respond (almost 2 seconds) .

UI very laggy during downloads.

WiFi ,BT and Mobile Network Toggles are missing
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] chushko1:
Sorry!

I can not load the phone!!!

MANGO, cdcard is empty 32Gb 10class

I install the last CM12

done all steps

1: Flash boot.img in fastboot & reboot into recovery

2 (optional): If the device is not booting, reboot to bootloader again and run:

fastboot erase system

3: Enter recovery

4: Format /system using System-Formating-Tool_signed.zip (can be found here) , then /data and then /cache (Important step!)

5: Flash update zip

6: Flash gapps

BUT i still can't load!!

only to bootloader, than install, than reboot.

It start loading, and that's all((((

Help!!!!

please)))
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] bejunk:
you made EXT4 partition on SD?

same for you. i guess you forget the 2nd partition.

to all, having install troubles:

Damn is it so hard to read the instruction? here i posted it again for you. if you dont execute everything exactly, it will NOT work. & it will be your fault.

Requirements:

* Have the stock ICS 4.1.B.0.587 full ftf flashed (doesn't matter if you have flashed it in the past or if you flash it before installing cm11.0, it will work both ways)

* LT15i (Arc) users need to flash LT18i (Arc S) ftf

* MT15i (Neo) users need to flash MT11i (Neo V) ftf

* minimum 2GB secondary ext4 partition for /data on class 10 sdcard.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] FranckJZA:
Yes, I made it, and I don't know why my device restarts when the installation is in progress, should i buy a class 10 sd card?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] atanganaa:
cm11 new build

hi guys, i need your help for a couple of questions:

- should i make a linux swap partition?

- i made the ext4 partition on my sdcard. My question is: how i format that ext4 partition to f2fs. should i flash the archive DATA-F2FS-Format-signed.zip? :confused:

- the call apk does not work well in my coconut, sometimes not call and show black screen :(

- where can i downloaded the gapps? which one should i install? :eek:

hope you to help me, thanks to all :fingers-crossed:

Sorry for my bad english :laugh:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] bejunk:
yes i you want atleast a bit usal experience else it will be lag much or fry your SD. BUT, installation should finish anyway. did you get the text that it found ext4 partition? or you phone reboots before? checked the zip if size is ok? did you formatted system using the zip, then factory reset & format cache? it seems you doing something worng. or may partition mounted wrong.. like said install should work allways no matter of SD class. (if you do it right)

- should i make a linux swap partition?--> no, totally useleess for us, we have zRAM. or if you want more lag you can do it.

- no the DATA-F2FS-Format-signed.zip just prepares the partition. if you want f2fs instead of ext4,you will have to make it first on SD. you willl need linux machine or gparted bootdisk. windows cant format partitions to f2fs.

- the call apk does not work well in my coconut, sometimes not call and show black screen :(--> this is dev rom. if you need rom for daily use go back to CM11. i remember mike saying, that it will not get better than "just showing of friends that 5.x. runs on 4 yr old device" so its a big achievment i think considering how far we NOW are.

- where can i downloaded the gapps? which one should i install?--> again. R-E-A-D-I-N-G is the key to wisdom. go to ROM thread there is you question answered. & if you still there, read all that stuff, less questions for future ;)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Joy Bangla:
i used an app called diskinfo to check partitions and it shows that my data partition is f2fs after flashing DATA-F2FS-Format-signed.zip. thoughts?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] badboy21102000:
root cm12 : http://xdaforums.com/apps/supersu/2014-09-02-supersu-v2-05-t2868133
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] dragongreen:
Hi guys, i am getting a bootloop. Problem with boot.img (cm-12-20150401-UNOFFICIAL-LegacyXperia-hallon) i think.

It starts to install the room and then stops. After that, reboot and then bootloop.

Now i flashed the old boot.img (cm-12-20150313) with this new build (cm-12-20150401) and the phone boot normally. It seems to be a problem with kernel.

Any help?

Device: xperia neo (hallon)

I just wanna say thanks to mikeioannina, Blefish, Mardon, pcfighter, mikegapinski, Men_in_black007, Rrreutel and nobodyAtall for the hard work ;)

Hey, its running smoothly btw ;) ... Only apps like WhatsApp and Viber lag a bit.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] vabigoon:
I have the same problem with april fools bootloop on iyokan, just tried to update from march version of CM12. It's resetting at some point of update and keeps looping. Flashing old kernel, and applying older version (March CM12 + GAPPS) in CMwhatever, makes it work like before. It's probably repairable by wiping everything, but it's really a thing i want to avoid :o

However, thank You guys for Your work, it makes my phone still fun and pretty usable, after 3 years :o.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] atanganaa:
Thanks bejunk I found gapps in the other thread.

but i have another question:

- Is a big diference of speed between class 4 and class 10 sdcard?

- Is there a way to make a backup to sd (like in CWM) with this new recovery? I don´t see that option
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] alex.dot:
Running Coconut here and CM12 is definitely faster than the stock 4.2 I had running up until recently, about an order of magnitude faster I'd say. The f2fs support in the newest release is also greatly appreciated. A very, very big thanks to all the devs here therefore!

On that note, what is the recommended way of installing a new version of the same release? I.e. how to flash a new minor release over an old one? Do I have to wipe everything and install every app/setting after rom installation a-new? Or is it enough to just simply flash the new boot.img and the rom (i.e. excluding wipe)?

Cheers and thanks for the hard work. It's a bloody shame those blood-sucking corporations aren't supporting their hardware for more than 3 years; that's just good for mounting garbage heaps.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] vabigoon:
It should be insane. I tried CM12 firstly on C6 card, it was nearly unusable, now when I've bought U1 (it's like C10 really) Samsung evo card (probably best price/random access time and overall performance) CM12 is working better than CM11 LX release.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Tomi_Ohl:
1. Are you sure swap partitions make lags? Cuz I've created a swap partition, and the phone is...weird. Some apps open really fast, but some things like switching on/off functions in settings are really slow.

2. That means if I created an ext4 partition, then flashed the DATA-F2FS-Format-signed.zip, then it remains f2fs, right? When installing it, I also had an error, that can't unmount /data - no such volume.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] joezsweet:
Hi,

same problem here, solved wiping all and clean install ..
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] effe12:
Is it just me or the stuttering in the music app is gone ??

If I only could get rid of this stubborn app driving me crazy on every reboot, it'll be just about perfect lol

Thanks dev for this amazing work...

cheers!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] karza87:
Urushi problem

Hi,

I have a problem with the cm12 first time installation for urushi. I did all the steps required and installed the system formating tool zip and the DATA-F2FS-Format-signed zip with the recovery. Recovery runs the newest build until it wrotes:

could not detect filesystem for /dev/block/mmcblk0p2, assuming f2fs

mount: failed to mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 at /data: Block device required

unmounts of /data failed; no such volume

I have Samsung 4 gb 4 HC micro sd card in.

What went wrong?

Many thanks:)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] DISCOVERCHETHAN:
Works Great On Urushi

Tested it on Xperia Ray..... Works Great. Faster and stabler than PAC MAN JB ROM.

As the OS is on the SD Card reading and writing two or more things slows down the Xperia Ray (Like hearing songs and transferring files)

CONS:

Cant Install Facebook (Don't know the exact reason.)

Battery Drains Fast (Wouldn't stay the night... :( )
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Joy Bangla:
im guessing you did not partition your sd card so just skip the F2FS-Format-signed zip and you should be ok
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] FranckJZA:
No I can't see the message that found ext4 partition, evidently because my phone reboots. I have a big question, when i flash the image boot and then when i enter in recovery mode, the instructions say that i need to "Format /system using System-Formating-Tool_signed.zip (can be found here) , then /data and then /cache" but, in the menu doesn't appear it, I'm newbie, my apologies.

One more thing, when flash the image into the cm-12-20150402-UNOFFICIAL-LegacyXperia-mango folder, the steps 2, 4, 6 are not needed?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] karza87:
Hi

I skipped the f2fs, but no luck, it wrotes the same message as before.

It's weird.:confused:

Thanks
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Anthara:
Exactly the same problem with haida version.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] plb-dev:
Doubts

Guys, Im using AOSP right now. But it wouldnt make outgoing calls. As it is the most important thing for a phone , and this is my only phone, is there anything I need to know about the latest build of cm12?

Are there any problems related to calls ? :confused:

Is the battery life better or worse than AOSP ? :confused:

Should I flash the kernel of the first build ? :confused: (as someone specified)

Should I expect a bootloop? :rolleyes:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] blueman24:
It is necessary to format SD card with f2fs manually before flashing this zip?

I flashed the zip directly assuming it would convert my /data to f2fs but my random read/ write is nearly half of what it was without zip. What did this zip do exactly to "prepare" the partition?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] spambot_2:
I don't intend to install the GApps.

Using a mini pro/mango do I still need to re-partition the internal memory?

Can I make the system partition small enough so that I can still use my phone's memory for data instead of an SD partition?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] vipinrahul:
i installed the new version now and exchange services it not responding.. i configured my mail account but am getting this error message
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] bejunk:
that would be cool. I said that because some time before (as i used homebuilds from mardon) there was asked on a german forum if that zip automaticly formats EXT4 partition to F2FS. the answer was that youll have to make a f2fs partition yourself before, than flash this.

yes. like said before you cant compare. C10+ SD card is needed.

no, unfortunetly no :( im missing this too. but afaik we can do a backup using adb. but i dont tested yet. need do this.

i said in our case its useless we allready use that zRAM which is kind of SWAP. also considering SWAP has heavy impact on sd (read the internet, there plenty of posts that SD dies faster like 10 times, then many r/w errors etc) and we allready run /data form SD, Apps r/w data from SD (that android folder on ur SD, many store sth there, also like music app pulls mp3) i think this is simply too much which will cause more lag than it will help with that RAM.

to 2nd question, i dont think so like said above. but nothing verified by me.. i will do some test today. got time (yay)

nothing is weird. look the answer he gave you. You NEED make a 2nd partition on your SD, EXT4 or f2fs, as primary.!

---------- Post added at 12:39 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:35 PM ----------

this has nothing to do with gapps. memorys layout i set by kernel, so if you not build yourslerf a kernel with desired changes, you have to format. & our space on internal is so less i guess you could install only 1-5 apps even if stripped down the whole system, bcuz LP needs much space, also the APKs now need much space.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] blueman24:
Wrong.

Some class 4 SD cards are faster than class 10 SD cards at random I/O speeds.

You need to search and find a good card for max performance. But I do agree than those sandisk ultra and Samsung evo's class 10 are good cards.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] bejunk:
yes & no like you said cant really compare them. but at all its better to say "get a C10". theres a reason why its stated on DEV thread.

btw what class you using?. you can give me a good tool for testing randow r/w speeds?? (pc or android preferred) i have some strange issues, will be testing it today, as:

used C4(no name card, i dunno from where), EXT4:

- was little slower than CM11, but opening apps was normal. also while downloading apps (play), the system still "responded".

then switched to Samsung C10 (no EVO, 2 yr old card), f2fs (with system formatting tool)

- is slower than above case. apps opening is long. on forst open i even waited 20 secs till (google)keep opened, 50 when it loaded notes.. lol. when dl apps system has literally no response.

-someone wrote that get worser speeds after flashing the f2fs formatting tool on existing f2fs part. - will test

-i also test if i get same "lame" results with EXT part. using my C10 card ,...

this is my goal, i love this phone & mikes clean builds, got a s3 mini handset but that LP ROM there is poorly developed.. :

-what filesystem you choosed?

-how many apps installed?

-gapps installed?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] zechsmerquise:
I thought I'm the only one experiencing this problem, at some point when installing the rom the phone crash and did'nt finish the installation and boot loop..
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] plb-dev:
Cannot make outgoing calls

Cant make phone calls . Anyone please help :crying: :crying:

When I call somebody, after 2 secs a slight beep ( the one that is heard when we end a call ) is heard and it shows "Call ended."

I experienced the same problem in AOSP also. But it worked perfectly in CM11. Please help guys, its been over a week now and I want to stay in CM12. . .
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] vabigoon:
I use ext4, I'm talking about march CM12 version, so it doesn't have f2fs support.

I have minimal gapps installed, and I've installed about 18 apps, excluding gapps.

I was using CM11 with that app to link applications from sd card ext4 partition, and I moved to that partition some less used apps. It was C6 noname card. It's not fully truth, that CM12 is smoother, it's only my overall feeling, for example keyboard is showing much later than on CM11, but I have hardware keyboard, so it doesn't make me a real difference. Phonecall app is working like crap on CM12 (first public build), but it's possible to use it.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] dragongreen:
Hi all

I'm now running cm-12-20150401-UNOFFICIAL-LegacyXperia-hallon with last kernel. Everything is ok.

I changed the /data partition file system to f2fs and the apps are more responsive now...

For those who have the same problem (bootloop), follow this steps:

1. Flash the boot.img

2. Reboot in to recovery and format system partition with provided zip (System-Formating-Tool_signed.zip)

3. Install the update

The system should boot normally.

Cheers ;)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] medozzz0:
Big thanks Bro

thanks Dev for your great job

My Phone (Mango) and run on latest cm12 Build 20150402

Everything works well and rom smooth & fast but

1- almost programs " basic or installed " in first use lag and slowly open but after that open faster than once

2- facebook too lagy on lollipop

3- layout issuse dailpad during call

sorry for my bad english ... thank you again
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] manoware:
big problem

xperia st17i cm-12-20150402-UNOFFICIAL-LegacyXperia-satsuma

continuous reset and closed , mp3's poweramp vs stop stop playing

more hesitation

English on the sorry
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] bejunk:
yo!

please post issues/questions in this thread. bug is recognized & will be fixed in nxt build i guess :) im happy system works that well 4 y:)

---------- Post added at 09:32 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:21 PM ----------

2. That means if I created an ext4 partition, then flashed the DATA-F2FS-Format-signed.zip, then it remains f2fs, right? When installing it, I also had an error, that can't unmount /data - no such volume.[/QUOTE]

yes i tested zip converts the EXT4 to f2fs :victory:. i dont had this error (anzu)

i tested. just need EXT4 partition. will format it to f2fs. as this is some nice performance extra anyone should do this.:good:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Toni Suwanto:
So DATA-F2FS-Format-signed.zip will format my ext4 partition to f2fs right? :confused
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] bejunk:
yes :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] zechsmerquise:
I found workaround for my device (haida) with the latest build kernel problem..

First flash the kernel from the previous build, then flash the latest custom rom, then viola you are running on latest build :D
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] pharandeamit:
That mean if i have ext4 Partition and i want to move on F2FS partition then below in correct installation guide for Installing Rom Right :confused:

1. First flash DATA-F2FS-Format-signed.zip (Which will format your previous ext4 partition to F2FS)

2. Flash Kernel

3. Flash System-Formating-Tool_signed.zip then /data and then /cache

4. Flash Rom Zip

5. Flash Gapps

6. Reboot Device...... Right :confused:

I'm too confused about how to move on F2FS Partition using DATA-F2FS-Format Zip from ext4 Partition :p
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] blueman24:
I'm using a class 6 and have been performing storage benchmarks since alpha build. The speeds on f2fs are nearly half of what I was getting on ext4. Tried the zip and gparted for formatting with f2fs but same results. I don't know what's wrong. Maybe its just my SD card but I'm gonna go back to ext4 for now.

I have been using the app "A1 SD bench" for benchmarking. You can also try androbench but it takes ages to benchmark random write compared to a1.

I can post all the data about the benchmarks I've been performing if you wish.

It would be great if mike or someone can explain the performance decrease with f2fs. I have never seen f2fs being worse than ext4. Especially in random I/o speeds.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] bejunk:
if you have EXT4 allready, just flash that f2fs format zip & proceed.

i can only say:

used C4, EXT4: barely usable

used C4, f2fs: even less usable

now bought Samsung EVO UHS-I (48mb w/), using 3,5 GB f2fs & like other user said, it like CM11, even faster sometimes., only app install takes very long & launching a app for the very 1st time is a pain. but after that (also after reboot) it works normally like CM11. so CM12 is even better stabilty/speed than CM11, if u have right SD card. i will post her my result from A1 benchmark app.

EDIT: see attached my results. will try EXT4 if i wake up :D

-from what i see this new sd is good. same speeds like internal. so only the fs is the point.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] pharandeamit:
Thanks for reply... I have Samsung Evo UHS-I Class 10 16GB SD Card :good: Will try F2FS partition on Next Build :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] blueman24:
What's the random i/o for the data partition. (The one on SD card)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] blueman24:
Btw, I'm getting these sequential read/write speeds on a 16gig class 4:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] effe12:
It's more about random R/W than sequential... And mostly 4K random ... correct me if I'm wrong

cheers
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] blueman24:
Correct.

I posted sequential r/w just for comparison.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] doc174:
Can someone convert\rebuild\recompile boot.img for zeusc (r800x - Xperia Play CDMA)?

Because after throught boot.img installing phone not shutting on, just vibration and black screen.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] datumdatzgr:
Are the below features removed due to some kind of right issues, or related to android L or just missing for now?

-By pressing volume down, i cant put phone into silent mode (Just vibration mode is there)

-cpu Freq setting is not available. I can't set it also with init.d script

-Some tiles are missing in quick pulldown (network mode for example)

-Light levels in automatic backlight are not adjustable

I am not asking for these features, no offense. I just wonder if theyre missing on purpose.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Tomi_Ohl:
Thanks, so it's really f2fs. Will try it one more time without swap, but don't think it would improve much.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] vladht:
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[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] mikeioannina:
1. Silent mode is one of the most wanted missing features on L. Blame google

2. Cpu settings are hidden now in CM for devices that have performance profiles.

3,4. Lots of stuff haven't been ported yet to cm12 since they need to be reimplemented (most times from scratch)

I will stop supporting cm12 due to 5.0.x being so buggy and move to cm-12.1 once the issues in telephony are resolved.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] savyasachi.sa:
Not able to enter recovery

After partitioning the Sd card, flashing the stock rom and then flashing boot.img i'm not able to enter recovery. It's just stuck at legacy Xperia logo.I am using coconut. Any suggestions?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] saqibkhan:
Xperia Play Bug..

I don't know if other devices have this as well.. but I face it.. in 5.1 .. 5.0.2 and cm12 as well.. The Camera Restarts the phone most of the time.. SOmetimes rarely it starts working too .. SO I have uninstalled Camera by using Titanium Backup..

and installed Jellybean camera by using ES Explorer (Root) .. and now its working superb.. no restarts/hangups etc.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] dwellexity:
Which SD card should I buy?

I am planning to buy a new class 10 SD card for my phone to be able to run CM12 properly. Which SD card is recommended ?