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[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] vysak121:
Need help.

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S I install the rom only..no gapps installed..s..both partition are primary and second partition is ext4 2 GB.

I Flashed the kernel inside ROM...

It is not booting..but while charger is connecting it shows battery meter and it is charging....what this means...

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S I install the rom only..no gapps installed..s..both partition are primary and second partition is ext4 2 GB.

I Flashed the kernel inside ROM...

It is not booting..but while charger is connecting it shows battery meter and it is charging....what this means
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] psychoticdemon:
Did you flash the system-formatting-tool.zip before flashing the rom? I had the same issue where the ROM wouldn't flash completely before I flashed that zip.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] evil.demon_s:
guys...i have released sony lollipop framework for our devices

if anyone wants to try...head over here ;)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] plb-dev:
Can i remove this framework when i want ? How?

Well , what is lollipop without status bar colorization?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] evil.demon_s:
yes

you can remove it by flashing original cm12 framework

and " lollipop without status bar colorization " means in sony apps the status bar is adapting the color of action bar

and dont comment here...this is cm12 thread...comment about framework on framework thread
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] plb-dev:
And CM12 does the magic again....
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] rcreation33:
I wanted to upgrade to new build of CM12 ROM. I have not cleared data and not formatted disks using system partitioning tool file just cleared cache as specified in steps but it gave error no ext partition found.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] psychoticdemon:
Since CM12 uses a different memory layout over the previous android iterations, you would need to create an EXT partition in your SD-card in order to install the ROM, and then format the system with the provided tool and clear it using the option in the recovery.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] T3sla:
So you say you didn't follow the instructions and that gave you an error...who's shocked?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] legolas340:
hi friends ı have dowloaded it but it has not a ftf file where is this file i can not found it can anyone help me ?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Langes:
Search the forum of your device for a stock ftf, there is usually a sticky thread with this.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] legolas340:
No Bro you didn't understand me ı have downloaded that rom http://xdaforums.com/xperia-arc/development/dev-2011-unofficial-cyanogenmod-12-0-t3053950 and when ı downloaded it ı can't saw a ftf file there was a boot file
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Langes:
Step 5 of that link says "Flash update zip" ... this is the file you have downloaded. There are no ftf files for custom ROMs, only zip files.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] legolas340:
Ok bro thanks then what must ı do
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Langes:
Read this page a few times
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] delifor:
R800 3g

Hey! I have a R800a, and my mobile carrier uses 850 band for 3g, it works on stock.2.3

I tried this rom(cm12) as well as cm11, and everything works but the 3g connection, I searched in both threads and tried some solutions, clearing cache, with no results, and forcing wcdma by the test menu (*#*#4636#*#*), but I lost service. After this I decided to reflash the ICS form the MT25 and realized that it didn't work either, from settings it didn't allow me to register to the 3g band of my carrier, it didn't even detect it.

After some research, I found out that MT25 works with 2100 and 900 bands, so I'm guesing the problem is with the baseband.

Asuming I'm right, I don't know if there is a workaround for this, if I could use the baseband from stock 2.3, or if there is a merged baseband that I could use.

So I come to you for help :)

Thanks in advance
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] rcreation33:
When I connect charger and turn on WIFI I get a black screen and phone becomes very slow even after I kill app pressing back button so I have to remove battery and restart it again. Restart takes almost 5-7 minutes.

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I already have old CM12 build installed with EXT partition so as said in the instructions I have skipped steps 2, 4, 6 which mentions Clear Data and Format using System Partitioning Tool but it gave error EXT partition not found.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] legolas340:
which kernel must ı install on android lollipop
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] plb-dev:
The boot.img inside rom zip
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] legolas340:
where is the boot.img bro ı can't found it and the rom ftf folder where is that how can ı install android lollipop
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] intruder16:
Please read post #548.

Please read post #542.

You have a lot to learn. Do some research.

Read this too.

If its still hard to understand buy an iPhone.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] vysak121:
S i flashed it and then clear data, cache, dalviccache.and installed the rom only (not installed the gapps).installation was successful. But it always plays in cyanogene boot animation....

but it is charging. ..if the rom not installed perfectly it is not charge.....

how can i fix it.

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"Boot.img"that is inside the rom ..you must extract the zip file (rom) and there you can see bboot.img . Then you flash it through fastboot....
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] legolas340:
how can ı extract the boot.img file ı know nothing about that boot.img please help me about
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Langes:
Did you read this page several times like I told you before?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] legolas340:
ı have installed but it didn't open in the screen wrote just <LegacyXperia< please help
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] manoware:
xperia active NEW ROM

CM12 PERFECT ROM https://basketbuild.com/devs/pacman/satsuma/Nightly
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] mikeioannina:
In theory you can use the 2.3 baseband but I haven't actually tried it. We recommend MT25 baseband since it's the most recent one & has matching ics RIL libs.

You can try it and see if it works, then let us know :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] vysak121:
Extract the zip..in windows use winrar...or in your phone you can find many apps like es file explorer...after extracting there you can see many folders and boot.img.....
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] rcreation33:
When I connect my phone to plug in charger ( not the usb charger to computer ) My phone hangs with black screen and charging light on and I have to remove battery and turn it on again.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] atanganaa:
bad performance with gapps (mini gapps)

Hi guys! I hope you can answer me this doubt..

I bought a Sandisk Microsd Sdhc Ultra 8gb Class 10 Uhs-1 30mb/s 200x for my coconut and i'm running cm12 last build :cool:

The thing is that the rom runs good without gapps (almost like cm11) :)

but if i install gapps (mini gapps) the performance is very bad. Even the configuration process is frustrating!!! :mad:

-Is an sdcard problem? :crying: (a class 10 problem? :eek:)

-a gapps problem? :(

I don't know what's the problem... I heard many of you guys that said that cm12 (with a sdcard class 10 and gapps) is even more fluid than cm11.

At the moment i'm using cm12 without gapps

hope you can help my. (Sorry for my bad english, i'm from Argentina)

THANKS IN ADVANCED!!!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] plb-dev:
I had 14% juice today and just as i was about to open newsstand, it became 1% in one second and powered off automatically. Wierdest and first bug happened to me in CM12
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] bejunk:
ok, maybe you need a fresh, clean install. my phone behaves same with or without gapps (no peformance loss)

try to make sure use this gapps: http://xdaforums.com/android/apps-games/hdpi-google-apps-5-0-2-t3064366

also i noticed that f2fs is very slow for me. (even i have UHS1 Samsung SD) EXT4 way faster. so use EXT4.

check your google settings, the sync etc - maybe some running process makes the phone slow.

if phone still slow with gapps, go developer settings & look the "process summary" which process is taking all that juice.

can stop it using servicely OR disable service app.

good luck!

this sound more like dead battery cell than a bug. try to use the phone until dead, then recharge it without pause to 100% to calibrate battery. if issues still persist its probably some dead cells in yr battery.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] intruder16:
Not a bug. Calibrate your battery.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Aamir19:
Custom lollipop roms for haida

Sorry for posting link
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Faustop:
Please don't post links to your custom builds (and remove the link you already posted). This is a thread about the LegacyXperia builds and posting links to other builds can confuse users.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] softlayer:
instaaling android 5 on xperia ray

hello guys

who can install android 5 on xperia ray?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] blueman24:
Happened to me many times before. I even have the screen shots of battery usage when this happens.

Its a bug. I flashed stock ROM to check and it works just fine but cm 12 has the issue.

I never experienced it on KK as well but just to make sure, I'm gonna flash cm11 kk to check if it happens.

Also, I see a bug being reported on Github about this...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] intruder16:
Just FYI it happened to me on both Stock ROM and KK.

I think this is what you are referring to.

I don't know if its a bug or not, but calibrating your battery once will get rid of it.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Praeses:
Nvm, fixed my prob
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] bejunk:
[MENTION=5991071]atanganaa[/MENTION] fixed your problem?? maybe try the newer gapps... i did a gain a install with mardon's gapps & done all the google stuff but my performace still ok.... hmm

we all. (incl. you) if you read the instructions, search & use your brain ;)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] TarWai:
phone gets too slow when WIFI is on. Everything is messed when on wifi.

it's okay when on mobile data. I wonder why it gets too slow when I'm using with wifi on.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Bart11666:
Facebook

for those who can not install Facebook app from playstore:

- download Facebook apk file with min API21 dedicated to android lollipop 5.0+ and place on sd card

- with Root Explorer copy apk file from sdcard to folder data/app

- restart your phone and thats it.

if it's laggy you have slow sd card.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] intruder16:
Or the Facebook app is sh!tty, designed only for supercomputers. Worse app ever.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] axy_david:
Hey, I can't install any unsigned package from CM recovery on my mango so I was wondering if there is any other recovery/kernel(featuring /data being mounted on the SD partition) available for mini pro?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] bejunk:
AFAIK, you can use zipsigner app to make the zip work in CM recovery. Theres no other kernel.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] bejunk:
1st guys a friendly reminder, you know questions in any way belong on this thread, i think we should show mike our respect if he wishes so, considering all the magic he give to us ;)

sorry, i never used fb :(

i send him pm, dont worry :)

-you mean the wallpaper on homescreen? i can do that. but i use nova beta with only 3 (minimalistic ) screens..

use this works 100% just put the zip there & sign it, done

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1966007

i think this device just lays around (not use, also notice that network is disabled, it normally takes much juice)

i also did a test with my OLD Xmini, see the result: :D

(no use, just laying around, battery is still the 3-4 yr old & it was heavily used time ago!)

SEE my Screen shot below ^^ but better before take a seat xD

for me there no perfomance drops with wifi. maybe when u activate wifi it start auto update apps or the gservices? this makes this phone get very slow.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] axy_david:
You probbablly mean that EXE file where I put the parameters so I can sign it as test, that doesn't work either, but please link me to a zipsigner app please

I also tried sign-em mentioned abouve but to no avail.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] bejunk:
i can flash all the files when i sign them with the tool lined above. its easy, btw no exe its a simple .bat :)

i dunno if zipsigner works. i just heard it. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=kellinwood.zipsigner2&hl=de

if nothing helps i can sign that for you.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] keeying:
Did i brick my phone?

Flashed boot.img via fastboot and encountered a bad block...

C:\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>fastboot flash boot boot.img

sending 'boot' (8576 KB)...

(bootloader) USB download speed was 9332kB/s

OKAY [ 0.956s]

writing 'boot'...

(bootloader) Download buffer format: boot IMG

(bootloader) Flash of partition 'boot' requested

(bootloader) S1 partID 0x00000003, block 0x00000280-0x000002e3

(bootloader) Erase operation complete, 1 bad blocks encountered

(bootloader) Flashing...

(bootloader) Flash operation complete

OKAY [ 1.675s]

finished. total time: 2.633s

C:\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>fastboot reboot

rebooting...

finished. total time: 0.002s

Not sure if the bad block is the cause of this, but now i can't restart my phone, enter recovery mode or enter fastboot mode

When I press and hold the on/off button there is a vibration, and that's it.

Nothing will appear on the screen.

When I plug in USB via PC or power supply there is no light or anything...

Did I brick my phone? Is there any way to fix this?

Update:

Forgot to try flash mode, which was ok

Flashed a stock ROM and phone is back up... but i guess there's no custom Kernel flashing for this phone ever :(
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] stefaca:
can someone help me? which gapps to install? I've try PA pico but there was some error during installation proccess
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] atomrat:
On my haida rom is very smooth i have samsung class 10 16gb card.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] bejunk:
http://builds.hubdroid.com/LegacyXperiaAOSP/

HDPI --> ARC,NEO, RAY etc. MDPI--> MINI (PRO) , ACTIVE, LWW

this is linked also in the DEV (ROM) thread. Please read it fully before installing :)

http://xdaforums.com/xperia-arc/development/dev-2011-unofficial-cyanogenmod-12-0-t3053950
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Dekill93:
Help

in my Urushi each after a reboot always appear "Android is upgrading" and running around 10-15 minutes, how to fix? look at the picture below
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Zerathul:
Is transparency a big hit on performance? I cant tell cuz its always a bit laggy.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] stefaca:
my first boot was without gapps and all was good. I have network. but after I did install gapps my phone has no network. what is the problem?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] L3RAT:
For those how want to buy new sd card:

The problem with sd cards is caused by low random read/write speed. Most of class 10 cards are extraordinary fast (up to 48mb/s or more) when moving big files, but when you try to randomly read/write e.g. 4kb in different part of the partition the speed lowers to 0.04 mb/s, which is responsible for lags and lower performance.

Firstly I used SanDisk Ultra UHS-1 32gb and it was a bit laggy... Recently i have changed it for Samsung Evo class 10 32gb (best random rw speed / low cost ratio) and its working great :D
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] dragongreen:
We need to create a ext4 partition or CM recovery will do the job?

Thanks
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] devtry:
Still I think there are big problems in this first public release of CM12.0... I have a SanDisk and I know they are not the best (many times I have now seen people reporting Samsung ones performing better), but I was already using /data on sdcard with KitKat and I could only see a few lags with games... most of the experience was smooth... CM12.0 on my urushi is super laggy and reboots itself too often, I don't think it can be explained by slow sdcard... it's weird that some are reporting it to run smooth on their phones...

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You have to do it... for the size they recommend at least 2 GB
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] stefaca:
I have kingston class10, 16gb. phone is unusable. everything is sooo slow :(
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] L3RAT:
Face it: Facebook app is crap ;) I managed to install it (after like 20 min) and got through optimisation stage (another 30 min), but app was unusable... If you really need official app, you can always use Facebook Lite (I saw it available to download in one of xda threads)

Until recovery will be updated with additional functionality, you have to do it manually. Personally I recommend MiniTool Partition Wizard for Windows and GParted for Linux ;)

This is what i thought in the first place. I was using Mardon's CM12 builds since december on that SanDisk sd card and I can't say CM12 itself is perfect. It was pretty usable and snappier with every build, but after I read more about random rw and changed sd for EVO, I discovered true power of Android 5.0 ;) You have to remember that in CM11 dalvic & data used by system apps is in internal storage and you installed only 3rd party apps on sd. Now we have ART and everything is stored on sd.

From my own experience, if you don't want to change sd card, just wait up to 2 days for rom to "stabilise" itself. There are certain operations that have to be done by system after update and when they would be done, performance should be enough good to use the phone normally.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] amishxda:
I have strontium class 10 UHS-1 SD card and its working preety fast.

I have now installed everything I had in Kitkat CM11 version and it is probably faster than Kitkat.

Boots withing 2-3 minutes.

For me its already a stable ROM!! No reboots yet.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] dwijender:
How to Revert back to CM11

hi,

I flashed CM12 as your steps but phone got stuck on boot animation it's not moving from that boot animation n now i am not able to install CM11 also. what i have to do to go back CM11 ?? Thanks.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] Zerathul:
"MB-MP32DA/EU" this one?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] vipinrahul:
i have also installed in in my ARC.. I notice that app installation takes a long time and getting errors when trying to update app via google play. should i adjust the I/O settings?

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for me also it was stuck at the legacy xperia logo during first boot. i simply restarted and went into recovery. see if it works for you.

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i also have the same problem. android is upgrading stays on for a long time.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] L3RAT:
Yeap, thats it.

I can't actually find that article I read then, but here are some benchmarks of it:

forums.storagereview.com/index.php/topic/36678-samsung-evo-sd-memory-card-review-discussion/

As I'm a bit of Sony's fanboy, so it was hard to me to buy something from rival company, but Samsung have the best random 4kb write speed in class 10 cards. However as you can read in link above, some class 6 cards have better rw speed. Higher class means sacrifice of random rw speed for higher speed in big files transfer.

Choice is yours, just remember to google for benchmarks before buying anything ;)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] blueman24:
I am on AOSP 5.0.2 and no black screens at all.

Also, slow internet maybe due to the phone downloading/ updating play services/play store. My phone downloaded play services which was over 100 mb and play store also updated itself, all in background.

The high time for installing apps is all dependent on your SD card. The class 4 and below sh*t is not gonna help here. I would recommended a MINIMUM of class 6 SD card from a good brand.

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Just install flashtool by disabling signature check. Its easy-

Search for "Advanced startup options" in Win 8.1. After it reboots, select "advanced options" and then press F7 to select "disable signature" check and reboot.

Then install flashtool drivers and reboot again.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] devtry:
Well, since EVO cards are pretty cheap I might consider buying one, it's just that I bought the SanDisk only a few months ago and it wasn't really cheap... That said, I can understand if it is not as smooth as CM11, but it was just impossible to use... this morning after a couple of reboots it began working properly (no spontaneous reboots and just a few lags)... now it started again with lags and reboots: is it because I have installed a couple of apps? Will it behave like this every time I install or update something? Because this means it's pretty unusable for me...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] saurabhere:
Flashlight?

The rom works pretty great on anzu but i can't find the torch app anywhere. Is it still in the works?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] amishxda:
There is Flashlight in notification drawer. You may use it. Or there are many apps for the same too.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] plb-dev:
Guys,

Anyone Know which music player is used in this video?

It has all the animations
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] sknerus75:
Looks like a concept of google play music :p
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] bejunk:
yes this means memory chip is damage. this happens over time especially when device gets older.

probably you can use the device with a stock rom, but custom kernels will not work.:(

sorry to say that.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] DrEAmRBoY:
For some reason my neo v takes a lot of time to boot into recovery . The recovery logo pops up but its not showing me the options . Couldnt flash the rom yet due to this. Tried flashing the recovery again and erasing system.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] jucaroba:
Has the miracle happened? OTA possible? http://fxpblog.co/2015/05/01/finally-boot-to-recovery-enabled-in-special-bootloaders-from-sony.html