yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mouhaboo:
Flashing steps

So I was on a custom rooted rom and the steps to flash this sweetheart is as follows: ( without using Flashtool )

1) Download the rom .zip file to your phone.

2) Extract the Boot.img file found in the zip you have downloaded and put it somewhere in your phone

3) Download and install Rashr which is a kernel flasher app on your phone

4)Open Rashr and Grant root permission when asked to.

5) In Rashr, Go for choose Kernel from storage option and choose the Boot.img file you have extracted from the rom .zip file and your device will reboot with the xperia overlay kernel.

6) When xperia overlay shows up press the volume down button multiple times to get in the CWM recovery already implemented in the xperia overlay kernel.

7) Wipe data factory reset

8) Wipe Cash partition

9) Install zip from sd card, choose the .zip rom file.

10) reboot and enjoy you new full of ram rom :)

note 1: in case you face error mounting sd card when trying to install the rom which is what happened to me, just go to the advanced otion in the recovery and choose fix permissions then reboot to recovery and everything will be allright.

note 2: according to what I just found out, you must follow these steps if you don't have a custom recovery installed.

in case you have CWM or TWRP recovery already installed then there is no need to flash the kernel, so you can skip steps 2-3-4-5-6
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Deleted member 5225837:
No need of following this in detail.

If you have custom recovery like twrp

Then just wipe data, cache, dalvik, system and flash the zip and reboot. That's it.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mouhaboo:
this depends on what kernel you are using, if you are on another kernel, you have to flash the xperia overlay kernel before you go on with the flashing steps, anyway the steps are meant for people who are not much familiar with flashing custom roms :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Deleted member 5225837:
No bro. Thats not needed. The kernel is in the zip and it flashes with the ROM. So you only need a working custom recovery.

Ya agree with new users. But sometimes it confuses people.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mouhaboo:
another step by step guide including a video to flash the rom using flashtool can be found on this link

http://www.xperiaoverlay.com/wiki.html

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ok I did not realize the kernel will be flashed with the rom, is this a general rule ? as sometimes I try to flash a custom rom and get stuck with the old kernel and I flash the new one later with flashtool to get the rom to work.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Deleted member 5225837:
That's mostly with stock ROMs. They don't have kernel in it. You can check in any jb stock ROMs, you won't find any kernels in it.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mouhaboo:
ok now I got it, thanks for the explaination
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Deleted member 5225837:
[MENTION=2482775]Achotjan[/MENTION]

I have taken last_kmsg

Here is the link - www.pastebin.com/8sHVPWKR

Plz look in to this. :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Achotjan:
what was the problem ? did it rebooted with no reason or ? cause i dont see anythink wrong
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] :
Reboots occurs when uninstalling cm11 themes.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Achotjan:
thats a strange bug , thanks for report will see what cause that but i think its CM bug
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Chocklety Boyee:
[MENTION=5225837]dhruvmu[/MENTION] bro...I flashed cm 11 yesterday...Yeah uninstalling cm themes gave me reboot too..But strange is My android is heating slightly ..i can feel it...I guess it is not going deep sleep...What about you bro..Is that same with you???
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] :
Mine is going in deep sleep. Perfectly working.

But it gets warm with basic usage. I have not tested any games yet. Surely with that it will heat too much. I feel heating is bcoz of over clocking.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Chocklety Boyee:
View attachment 3283981View attachment 3283982 [MENTION=5225837]dhruvmu[/MENTION] here is my CPU status ..would u mind posting yours too..
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] :
Yours is going in deep sleep.

Here is mine

View attachment 3284000

Also i feel there is something with the 2nd core. It many times stays on offline and then directly jumps to 1728 and again comes to offline.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] JeffreyPiket:
Achtojan dude, please don't bail on X10!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Rayul911:
Is there any possibility of remove themes without obtaining reboots???
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] :
As of now its not solved. But you can give a try with adb. Might work. I can't test that bcoz I don't have PC access now.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Rayul911:
I could delete the themes that I didn't need with App. "Es Explorer". I went to the folder where were the themes : / /data/App, I selected the themes that are not wanted and i pressed eliminate option. I reboot my phone and they were no longer installed.

Thanks for this rom, I'm very happy with it.

Sorry for my english :(
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] dieptit:
Thanks u for new ROM. How can i install it? Where can i download Gapps?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] :
Go to recovery

Wipe data, cache, dalvik and system

Flash the rom and reboot

Use can use any 4.4.4 gapps.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] gechu:
Glad to hear about this ROM!

How is the camera compared to the stock one? And does bluetooth work?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Achotjan:
camera is good, but dont expect to be as good as sony camera app, caue ther is a hardcoded optimisations on the app

and thats only available on the XperiaOverlay firmware (not this opensource pure CM11) where we have the xperia Z3 camera app

and for bluetooth its fully working, as for other thinks like wifi, video decoder etc etc.....
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Achotjan:
we are locking into the problem it seems somethink is wrong with CM repo, will tray to finde what cause that and fix if ther is no update from them
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] fqr:
apparently max cpu frequency is set to 1.7Ghz as standard with this rom, but limiting CPU max. frequency to, lets say 1.5Ghz, seems to only have effect on core0, while core1 max speed is still 1.7. bug or feature? ;)

apart from that the rom is runnig great so far, but im curious to see how long battery lasts on this one.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] :
Ya the 2nd core is acting weird. It either stays at 1.7 or goes offline.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] fqr:
no, here the second core goes up and down from 384 to 1.7 in several steps, at least cpuz shows that. but as i said, the limitation of the max freq to 1.5 doesn't have any effect on the second core.

im running this rom only for some hours, but as for now that doesn't have any negative effect on battery life, or overall stability, but time will tell.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] HollowCrown:
Can anyone give me 4.4.4 gapps link?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] :
I am using minimal version

https://basketbuild.com/devs/JoseGalRe/gapps
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] HollowCrown:
Oh, I forget to ask... Is the ART runtime works correctly?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] :
Not tested yet.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xnv:
How is battery life and is trouble with OC unavoidable?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Captain Droid:
Hi, Can someone posts some Screenshots ?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] MegaRacingHD:
Just stock CM11 what do you expect ? :D
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Captain Droid:
Well. I don't know how it looks :rolleyes:. So some screenshots will help. thanks.:D
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] fqr:
as far as i can judge now, its not too bad, about the same as the not-overclocked AOSP 4.4.4 rom for ion, maybe even a bit better. so the ion lasts one day if moderatly used.

system_server is using a bit too much juice, compared to stock...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] HollowCrown:
ART runtime runs fine.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ceriqdesign:
i've been used this rom past a week already..battery life not bad..got 17-18 hours if moderate used..usually when i played candy crush i got 8-10 hours..
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] XrosMaster:
rom doesnt load up

hi, after flashing the rom and rebooting... my phone doesnt start up i press the power button for it to come on and it just vibrates... please help me i really want to try this rom
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ceriqdesign:
Thats just soft brick..are your ion unlocked bootloader
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] :
Just started using ART and omg!!!

This ROM feels like its flying on ion. Just using it since an hour and its so smooth. Never felt so better on my ion.

Edit - tested it more. now if you are gonna install more ram consuming apps then it might lag in between. But if you are using it just for normal apps then it will work good.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Captain Droid:
OK Its been a Day since i started using this ROM on my phone. Installation was damn easy and no problem occurred.

First thing i wanna tel is , its Amazingly Smooth. :good: & no Force close.

Seriously i didn't feel any lag at all, No icon draws or whatsoever. But i do get some occasional delay while opening or while exiting Whats app or some apps like mail . (No idea why it happens)

I'm new to Cyanogen and its better than Stock. Me loving it. :o:D

Camera is fine for me. Pretty much everything working the way its suppose to. Bright LED awesome work.:highfive: and Free RAM. :good:

And the only problem i'm having right now is the Battery. I don't know may be its because of the Over-clocking. My phone doesn't get heated up or anything like that. Normal heat & it doesn't bother me much because i use a hard plastic back cover.

While reading through the posts, i saw [MENTION=5182697]ceriqdesign[/MENTION] posts claiming that he is getting 17-18 hours on moderate use and 9-10 hours while playing games and such tasks.

I really doubt that. Maybe its the problem with my Phone Battery, its showing "Battery is in Good Health" but i am not getting that much of battery. i am getting only 7-9 hours on moderate use.

Whole day i was using both WiFi and 3G Mobile data. Automatically switches between the both when i go out(3G) & when i return back to my room(WiFi). i don't use my phone much for listening to music or to play games.

If anyone knows how to make the battery give more backup, help me. :)

Next is the theme. Someone please tell me how to install New compatible theme for Ion.

That's it for now. Will post about the ROM & my experience after using it for some time.

Thanks a tonne! [MENTION=2482775]Achotjan[/MENTION] :highfive:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] :
+1 for the occasional delay during what's app and facebook and also for the battery. But I don't think the battery will improve.

Also one more thing what's app calls are not working for me. This is imp for me.

Also for the themes search cm11 themes on play store and install what you want. Go to themes in settings and change it.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Chocklety Boyee:
Have u been using Power Nap?? I found it to be effective on increasing battery life...Stamina mode on cyanogen..?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] :
Oh ya thanks for reminding. Its an xposed module for stamina mode but it still left to be tried.

But currently I am going back to jb coz I need my phone to work best for few days. After that I will again be back on KitKat. Will test at that time.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Chocklety Boyee:
Jb lags a lot on my ion these days even esistence z and the android system consumes more power ....I found fx rom to be the king of jellybean...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] :
No bro not those honami and Sirius ROM. I will use stock jb.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Captain Droid:
Check my Battery Usage Screenshots.

I didn't find any improvement in battery backup even after using Greenify app. Almost all apps are set to Hibernate automatically, except Whats app.

I really doubt that the battery can be improved anymore.:(

Another problem is, my phone is Rebooting when i try to open some apps. Like Gallery, Settings etc. I don't know why its happening. Mostly Occurs when i start using my phone after the phone being idle for some hours. Any fix ?:confused:

And how to Stop the Cell Broadcast Channel50 messages.

Its so annoying, i'm getting so many text messages. 100 messages in 30min. :mad:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] :
Remove the mobile broadcast app.

For battery i think we cant do much. But try power nap module. Seems promising.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ceriqdesign:
yup mine also didn't working..its crashed..i'm using WhatsApp Reborn V1.80..did u used original WhatsApp?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] :
Yup original.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Captain Droid:
I can't install X-posed Framework and so Power Nap is not working for me.

Please check the Screen & tell me what has to be done to make it work.

Help guys !!

thanks.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] :
Never seen this error yet. Try to post it in the xposed thread.

And just to confirm did you installed the kitkat one or the lollipop???
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Captain Droid:
Nah bro.I don't know about that. "XposedInstaller_2.7_exp1_mod3" This is the name of the file i downloaded.

I was using the same in FX ROM before,without any problem.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Chocklety Boyee:
View attachment 3299863look at mine ...it is working flawlessly...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] :
Can you give the battery usage with powernap
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Chocklety Boyee:
Okay when I willl charge my android to max ...ryt now my charge is low ...but my power battery life may not be great cause I have already replaced my battery ..genuine is genuine ..?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] :
Then too. Just to get an overview of it.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] fqr:
im currently using DeepSleep battery saver as a substitue for stamina mode. its an ordinary app from play store, so no exposed framwork needed. it puts your phone to deep sleep whenever the screen is off and wakes it up on predefined intervals. since im unsing it with this rom, im quite satisfied with the battery life. the ion easily lasts one day on morderat use.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Chocklety Boyee:
View attachment 3301261 [MENTION=5225837]dhruvmu[/MENTION] look at the battery usage of mine ...1 st slope with 3 g activation....another slope with 2 g network and last slope with Power Nap installed ...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] :
What's the sot?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Captain Droid:
Guess i have to do a clean flash again. Now i have app crash. Delay in opening apps like whatsapp and facebook & random reboots.

Suggest me some good themes that i can use in this ROM. Links would be helpful. :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] :
I like this on cm11

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.giuros77.onel.grey
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Chocklety Boyee:
Hexagon Edge Cm 11 themes looks sexy on my ion...go get it on black mart ..?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Captain Droid:
[MENTION=5225837]dhruvmu[/MENTION] [MENTION=5453015]Chocklety Boyee[/MENTION]

Thanks for the suggestion bros. :good: Liked both the themes. But my phone kinda lagging. :(

Currently using this one." Ubuntu L CM11 Theme 4.0 ". Try this one from extratorrent. :)

Btw anyone having occasional hang or Whatsapp FC ?

i have succesfully installed Power Nap but i am kinda noob in using that app. Any settings in general for better battery backup ?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Chocklety Boyee:
It is same like sonys stamina mode ...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] fqr:
Im having strange problems with nova launcher prime and this rom at the monent. as soon as i set nova launcher as the standard launcher, some apps randomly freeze, one cpu core is permanently at max load and the other is not working at all. so i have to softreset the phone in order to gain control again. as soon as i switch back to trebuchet everything is back to normal.

at first i didn't believe nova to be the culprit, so i flashed the rom again and didn't change anything. the phone worked flawlessy until i changed the launcher to nova again...

anyone experiencing similar issues with other launchers apart from trebuchet?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] shrisha:
Hi guys. Is this ROM for unlocked bootloader only? I'm on LT28at didn't find any ways to unlock it yet. :(
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] :
Only unlocked bootloader.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Captain Droid:
Unlock your Boot loader . Its easy and enjoy the experience.

Probably your warranty is over i guess. So no harm. :fingers-crossed::good:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] shrisha:
I would love to! But as I said I have a LT28AT = unlockable - NO . Or there is some news on that?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Captain Droid:
Dude. You have any problem with Whats app when using WiFi ?

I have this Weird problem, started like yesterday. Whats app is not working when i'm using WiFi but works fine when using Mobile Data ( 3G ).

I UN-installed and installed whats app from play store and for sometime it was working and same problem started afterwards.

The Problem is with whats app. Other apps like play store and online apps are working fine. i can download apps from play store and from web. Checked the WiFi modem. No problem with the device. My IPod, Other phones all are working. Even whats app working fine in all other phones.

Please help. Its so annoying. Cant Download or Sent Text, videos or anything via whats app. I don't think my WiFi module is broken. Everything else is working fine. :crying::crying:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] :
Ummm sorry but I am currently on jb.

I didn't had any issue which u mentioned when I was using this rom.

But the play store whats app got updated with material design today imo. Might be an issue with combination of this rom and updates. You know even what's app calls doesn't work on this.

Try reverting to older version and check out.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Captain Droid:
If anyone having problem with Whatsapp or Hangout , not working under WiFi, Delayed message . Do this.

Go to -> Settings -> Developer Options -> Select runtime - >"Use ART" and then Reboot.

It worked for me.

PS : This Fix is not Permanent.It might work for you or it wont. :good:

Small Correction: Apparently the setting is changed automatically after Reboot. I mean " After Selecting "Use ART" then Reboot , it changes automatically to "Use DALVIK". I have no idea how to make the setting saved permanent. So Epic Fail. :(

[MENTION=2482775]Achotjan[/MENTION] Please HELP!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] zaidx:
it turns back to dalvik bcoz you probably have xposed installed right?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Captain Droid:
Yeah. I am using Xposed . Running Grenify & Power Nap.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] drakonyus:
xperia ion lt28i

android ics 6.1.E.3.7

bootloader unlocked

rooted

busybox 1.23.2

supersu pro 2.46

cwm recovery for 2012 xperia v01

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can't install from recovery, installation aborted (status 7)

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even tried with to install from my sdcard with team win recovery project v2.4.3.0, E:Error... (Status 7)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] shinubie:
try this way :

flashing firmware stock JB 211

flashing boot.img, you can get this from extracting zip

reboot to recovery

factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache

install zip

hope its help:D
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] aka.lander:
Thank you for this ROM. So far everything is good )

But the speaker volume seems a bit quiet. Is there a way to make it louder?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] fireblade786:
I installed this ROM and it shows me default CM launcher and theme. I wasn't able to see any of the Sony Xperia App's or theme engine. Am I required to do any changes somewhere?

Steps which I did to install this ROM

1. extracted and flashed boot.img using flashtool

2. cleared cache and data

3. flashed the ROM and reboot
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] drakonyus:
Finally!

The xperia overlay logo on boot is awful.

Audio is really low.

LTE doesn't work, you can choose only 2G or 3G.

Battery drain really fast.

Don't like Apollo music player: is there a way to install Sony Ericsson Walkman?

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And how to boot initially into CWM recovery without restart the phone?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] rahul309409:
This rom is different that you have uploaded on YouTube please kindly upload that rom
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] rahul309409:
Kindly upload rom in xda so we can use it
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] rahul309409:
Kindly upload lollipop rom with cyanogenmode quickly we xperia ion users are dieing to use it we appreciate that you have uploaded paid rom in your site.... Bt whTas about free version?? ???
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] C0D3FR34K:
Thanks for the awesome ROM but this ROM was extremely laggy on my Xperia SL and the battery drained like hell ( max it would last is 12 hours with simple usage)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Steff63:
Had the same Problem and tried so much!

After rebooting phone it was OK - for a short time. Tried a lot of tools and tweaks - nothing really helped.

Found bad adjusted RAM management as the only reason for laggyness after a short time switching between several open apps.

The real solution is so easy:

just add that three lines at the end of build.prop

### RAM Tweak

ro.config.low_ram=true

persist.sys.force_highendgfx=true

Also the settings for lowmemorykiller are wrong and keep KSWAPD in some endless loops after having some apps started.

You can adjust the setting comfortable with Memory Manager or you edit directly in:

/sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters/minfree

2048,3413,5461,8192,16384,32768

In MB it means:

- Foreground Application: 8

- Visible Application: 13

- Secondary Server: 21

- Hidden Application: 32

- Content Provider: 64

- Empty Application: 128

reboot phone and it runs dreamlike!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Bigbachchan:
Installation Error ! Need Help

I was trying to flash this rom ,

I wiped cache,data ,dalvic ,format system then flash the rom (with no installation error ,although flashing happend within 4-5 seconds) and rebooted

then xperia overlay screen came and after that screen goes blank and did not proceed further. Stuck at boot.[my bootloader is unlocked]

please help...

[Sorry for my bad english]
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mouhaboo:
xperia overlay version 4.0 Marshmellow was released in February, Could anyone of you guys share it ?

Thanks in advance.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ivoda:
Where did you see it?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mouhaboo:
on xperia overlay page on facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/xperiaoverlay/
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Steff63:
Lagginess is a problem of "direct reclaim"

Update:

investigated more time in testing that rom and found that there is some general (Linux) problem at all the devices.

If the watermarks for wakeup kswapd (based on "min_free_kbytes) trigger the direct reclaim my phone will be nearly blocked.

For that reason I raised the values in LMK so high. But now we loose a lot of free ram for multitasking.

min_free_kbytes is set to 4096 an it doesn't make much sense to increase this value.

Found out that there exists another important value extra_free_kbytes. With the help of this setting you can expand the watermark starting background reclaim.

Increased this to 16384 kbytes and now it is possible to go down with the Minfree values. In the moment I get no more blocking from kswapd during direct reclaim. The biggest advantage is that I can use more RAM for multitasking.

I also set the swappiness to 0. Maybe a little bit mystic as the device doesn't use swap but it seems to help too.

Did those settings in sysctl

vm.extra_free_kbytes=16384

vm.swappiness=0

I wonder whether this kind of tuning is not generally known. Most people tune by MinFree and loose valuable RAM space on their phone.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Aang dur:
link eror 404,plisss help me.thanks

Link eror 404 ,plisssss help me:(:(:( ,thanks
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Samir65:
Download link failure

Download link is damaged Please update