yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[XPERIA X1 General] jkr284:
I was gonna switch to the iphone before this rom, but now......

Some improvements i have noticed:

1: Boot time is much faster.

2: iGo08 now takes about 10 seconds to load up instead of over 30!

3: Infact pretty much all programs load much faster than the previous rom.

4. PanelSwitching is faster.

5: Phone signal is much better and more consistant (im on 3UK)

6. General Speed improvements all round.

Not fixed/worse:

1. On the sony ericsson panel i still cant get weather updates on my city/town (Doncaster UK) even though its a city i can select.

2. Media Panel now does not detect photos in my storage card stored in folder my documents/mypictures. Now previously taken pictures have to be stored in my pictures in the storage card root directory.

Overall a very good update, im impressed, looks like i have an iphone to sell!
[XPERIA X1 General] agent_47:
thnx

thnx a lot.

ill flash wen i get home.

btw, i really like ur work. ur tf3d works like a charm 4me.
[XPERIA X1 General] doministry:
Hmm, so why 210MB was a problem??
[XPERIA X1 General] norti:
Because there wasn't enough storage to restore (at least Sprite Backup told me that :D ). I think the bond trailer and the music folders took up the place (they were previously deleted by me on the R1A firmware)
[XPERIA X1 General] norti:
IMPORTANT update in R2A:

Jbed JAVA is updated to build 20081203.2.1 ! :)
[XPERIA X1 General] decazz:
sorry guys, i am a noob also.

can anyone show me how to flash my X1 to the new ROM?

I dont even know what is hard-SPL.

How long does the flashing takes?

many thanks!
[XPERIA X1 General] slash_5150:
ok. what other changes are there?

any improvements on the camera?

im waiting for the update to be available through seus.
[XPERIA X1 General] George Knighton:
That probably makes sense. It seems to me that a lot of Xperia users make manual changes to the caching, and if they're accustomed to the higher memory already being cached, they'll notice that the caching is a detriment instead of an advantage in the beginning stages of using a new ROM.
[XPERIA X1 General] ZenithUK:
Hi there, I'm maybe one or two steps ahead of you but still think of myself as a noob. :)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=445662 tells you how to flash a ROM from the SD card.

Just my observations...

Because this is an official SE ROM, you don't need to have HardSPL installed.

If you're using the 4GB SD card that comes with the phone, it is already formatted to FAT32.

My idiot's guide is:

Uncompress the .rar file to get the .image file.

Rename the .image file to Kovsimg.nbh

Copy the Kovsimg.nbh file to the top of the SD card.

Remove the battery for 5 secs (guarantees the phone is turned off).

Hold down the volume down button, then hold down the power button at the same time.

After 2-3 secs you'll see the reg/green/blue stripes, then it will go to a light grey background saying "Loading".

You'll then be given 2 options. Follow the instructions.

You'll then have some blue text indicating the progress of the update.

Once it has finished after about 10 minutes, it should say "Update success"

Soft reset your phone (poke the hole under the battery cover).

The phone will restart and ask you to tap the screen to continue

I'm sure you know what to do after that. :)
[XPERIA X1 General] Shadowdh:
Is there another mirror or dl site, I am having major probs trying to use rapidshare... I get to the dl button and after clicking it there is nothing...
[XPERIA X1 General] slash_5150:
^theres a megaupload mirror here...last post.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=475482&page=40
[XPERIA X1 General] Ganondolf:
when i load the new rom it finds tesco mobile and o2 (o2 being my sim)

anyone else got this?
[XPERIA X1 General] Shadowdh:
Thank you for the info, it turns out I needed to do a restart to get anything to dl at all... not sure why but there you go... its on the way... woo hoo... :D
[XPERIA X1 General] sidneylopsides:
Changes I've found:

General

Boots faster

Panels are faster

Video playback has improved (CP benchmark gone from 93% to 98% on the same video)

Google search on today screen

Word prediction in any text box, plus it remembers what you might be typing next (I type "the" and it suggests "the bus" etc)

Media Panel

Scrolling images in the fancy coverflow style works much better, how I expect it to.

Changing tracks now show the track info at the top of the screen

Only shows images from My Pictures on card or internal, so no longer have loads of silly images when I browse

Camera

Faster and focus lock is more stable

Preview is smoother

Now has a framerate option in video settings, doesn't seem to do anything though.

got to check photos and see if they look any different.

Lack of zoom at 3Mp is no loss at all, there's no point in it anyway. I don't get this fascination with digital zoom.
[XPERIA X1 General] Aleemz:
Yes, I got this too, but by the time I noticed this message was on the screen, I already had locked onto a signal/O2

Does tesco mobile use the O2 network? If so, that would explain why it was showing both options once locked onto O2.
[XPERIA X1 General] norti:
+ music indexing is a LOT faster than on R1A :) almost at light speed :D
[XPERIA X1 General] rob_h:
I was just thinking about updating to this rom but have the SD card encrypted. Will I be able to access it after flashing or should I copy everything to my PC beforehand?
[XPERIA X1 General] trice1921:
Can anyone tell me if reception is any better with this rom?

Thanks
[XPERIA X1 General] ZenithUK:
Unselect encryption and copy the contents to a PC JUST IN CASE.

If you're flashing the ROM, then you're resetting your encryption as well. The data on your SD card would be unreadable.
[XPERIA X1 General] mcbyte_it:
what the difference between a NAM and UK ROMs? i know one is for X1a and the other for X1i, but what's the real differnce?

I have an X1i mobile (italian no brand) running Bxsteez Lite 1.04 NAM rom and everything is just going fine, will i gain something from putting a UK x1i rom?
[XPERIA X1 General] juro:
I believe they also fixed bluetooth...so far (last 2 days) it is still on in visible mode without the need to use mortscript fix
[XPERIA X1 General] gtrab:
This has already been asked, discussed and answered in the ROM DEVELOPMENT subforum

May I recommend you to search there for details and

ample

information about NAM and UK ROMs :rolleyes:

BTW differences are very slight...
[XPERIA X1 General] slash_5150:
just updated. :D

so far so gd. but i notice handangoinhand is back but not in remove programs list. is it safe to just delete its shortcut from windows/startmenu/programs?
[XPERIA X1 General] gtrab:
Yes you can delete the shortcut

Does anybody here realy uses handango ??

I'd like to find a way to get rid of it... mean time flashing "lite" ROMs help ;)
[XPERIA X1 General] a5ian300zx:
this is something i wanted to know too, before upgrading as i have just set it up perfect.
[XPERIA X1 General] moleculez:
How have u set it up for a better performance?
[XPERIA X1 General] a5ian300zx:
Hi have various tune up utilities,

advance configuration tool - data gprs = disabled (improves reception)

xperiatweak - general tweaks

tweaks2k2 - tune up video performance

framework 3.5 improves overall speed of the phone (make sure you have it set as default)

SKtools - general maintenance

Core player for media playback

netfront browser - much faster internet browsing.

and i have setup custom icons
[XPERIA X1 General] fards:
yep Tesco use the O2 network
[XPERIA X1 General] twe69:
maybe you need to learn how to cook roms for us!

otherwise a step by step guide on how you have set your phone up, would be interesting...
[XPERIA X1 General] a5ian300zx:
Do you mean me?

Pic of my home screen i love the sbp panel as its easy to use and also i have sbp phone profiles.

if you have the software installed then, i will guide you through it but its very easy,

next step i would like to do is have the battery icon work in increments of 1% to give more accurate reading.

PS: this is my first windows mobile phone and i'm loving it :)

ive just posted more screen shots of my device, any question then please ask.
[XPERIA X1 General] twe69:
Yes meant you a5ian300zx, I did press the quote button but didn't work....

I like your screens, that is probably how I would like to make mine... If you can do a little walkthrough then that would be great... I am basically on the borderline of flashing my phone again to the new uk generic rom as the other roms that I have been trying out from the development section have almost always not how I want it or causing problems like rebooting itself, etc...

Also the small tweaks you have been doing, or even links to the threads....

This is my first windows mobile phone as well so trying to get used to all the tweaking and customising business....

cheers....
[XPERIA X1 General] musichelle:
thanks to the thread starter!
[XPERIA X1 General] Ves:
Thanks for the explanation. It worked on the Generic NL
[XPERIA X1 General] a5ian300zx:
Hi,

all the software are additional software that will need purchasing except xperia tweak, but im sure that there are some manual registry tweaks around. my rom at the moment is standard 02 one, but most likely i will upgrade to the latest if the reception is improved and then run the same utilities and see how it goes.

once you have the utilities then i can talk you through them
[XPERIA X1 General] raysmobile:
hi i have an 02 unlocked x1i if i flash new generic rom will i get boot logos and will my phone still be unlocked thanks
[XPERIA X1 General] blink182_joel:
yes

i have same... tesco uses 02's network
[XPERIA X1 General] a5ian300zx:
no you won't get the boot logo, and yews it will still be unlocked. and you will get a text with the settings from 02 at first boot.
[XPERIA X1 General] twe69:
ok thanks, will make a note of what you have and see if I can try the software out first like a trialware or something... Also the home screen that isn't standard right? Did you download it? Cheers...
[XPERIA X1 General] Shadowdh:
I upgraded last night and then had to do a hard reset as I stuffed up the install of a program... sigh... but I have to say so far I am impressed, seems much faster and smoother, gps locked in about 30secs from cold and then held the signal well while I am sitting in doors... so far everything seems better, have not tried the camera yet but will later on... probably to take pics of the snow that has housebound us today... over all so pleased I upgraded, and how easy was it...
[XPERIA X1 General] rotsu:
Is the GPS disabled on this ROM?

My external GPS settings are not being saved no matter how many times i apply them (hardware settings). They always reset back to default COM port and bitrate rendering it unusable.

Is this an issue with the ROM or is it just me?
[XPERIA X1 General] Ctrl+A:
Bluetooth better in R2A

Flashed yesterday.

Was unresponsive (compared to Jacks 1.04), so did a hard reset and much improved instantly.

Is very stable, and quick. Even better, bluetooth is very stable and quicker to establish connection.

It is strange, but does appear to get faster as time passes..??
[XPERIA X1 General] Tylwith:
other people with R2A think the same thing!

another thing sometime it works better when you flash hard reset and flash again and har reset something with the organisation of the om file in memory.

for for me with R1A phone a lot more faster after flashing the same rom again.

it was also the case with my previous htc units
[XPERIA X1 General] bahamas1:
Yes you can or you can install: inhand_x1.cab and you find it in remove programs list, uninstall this and all disappear.

Another change in this ROM R2:

Now Opera is the default browser, before that was internet explorer.
[XPERIA X1 General] a5ian300zx:
yeah thats a free panel to download from the sony Ericsson website
[XPERIA X1 General] Shadowdh:
Mine is fine... and so far (touch wood) its just getting better, gps is so fast...
[XPERIA X1 General] matthewpapa:
is anyone else on AT&T having problems with connecting 3G (or even at all) after the upgrade? I have redone the connection settings numerous times, tried rebooting, all the works.

Sometimes when I turn it on it has the 'Call forwarding' icon in the taskbar. Something is fishy/not working right... Anyone else experiencing this?

EDIT:

I just popped my SIM card back into my old Tilt and the internet/3G functioned fine. I then switched it back into the Xperia and for the moment its working again. Hmmmmm
[XPERIA X1 General] zzone:
This rom , is until now(installed just a few progs) much faster than R1A.

Major things changed in good in my opinion :

only taken pictures are shown in media panel

better camera application

better battery life

google search plugin for today

faster file system (dramatically less time to show \windows contents)

This is what i realised in 8 hours of usage. I really think that this is a step ahead , and i encourage everyone to make this update.

I have to mention that i used Generic UK ROM before with memory twaks.Until now i didn't find necessary to make those modifications again.

Thanky you xda-devs for doing such a great job :d
[XPERIA X1 General] johnchan78:
In regards to reception...

there is a place in my work that gets very, very poor reception. Usually it is 1 bar, and sometimes 0 (the X comes out instead of the number of signal bars).

After the update.... same thing. So for me, I don't think the reception power or capability is improved, at least not for situations where the signal is very poor.
[XPERIA X1 General] moleculez:
do you guys have any tweaks for better signal strength?
[XPERIA X1 General] fards:
Stand closer to the transmitter? There's not a lot you can do in software.
[XPERIA X1 General] Jabe:
One major improvement:

Watching videos smoothly in Media panel with BT stereo headset rather than with wired headset. True I have only watched a minute of a video (just to try this out), but the whole minute was smooth, without any glitches. Before 5s were painful.
[XPERIA X1 General] podman2004:
I think it's already been asked but I didn't see a reply, if I use spb backup (lots of software setup in my phone which I don't wnat to have to do it all again!) will it be able to restore after the rom update without effecting the rom update?
[XPERIA X1 General] Darth Sith:
My new R2A is very lagging when play videos taken with camera. Instead go very fine with mp4.

Anyone noticed that?
[XPERIA X1 General] Jabe:
There was another thread about backups and as i said there: SPB Backup does not restore on R2A correctly when the backup was made on R1A. Mine .exe did install but the phone froze moments after booting up, the only solution being taking out the battery. SPB BackUp will probably work if all you backup is data (messages, multimedia and similar), but forget about restoring programs, settings or registry.
[XPERIA X1 General] Dandie:
Sprite Backup supports an Upgrade mode after updating your ROM. It works fine for me but maybe one or the other bug won't be gone after the restore, e.g. I still have the SMS freeze bug with the new ROM even though people here say that this bug was gone with the new ROM.
[XPERIA X1 General] Ganondolf:
i had probs with the spb backup, this is what to do.

when u start the backup do the customise option (not full) but dont deselect anything, press next and then press the option button, tick the force rom backup option and u will get 3 choices, press backup to new rom on same device.

the only prob i got was some double folders (ms office) in the programs menu.

if anyone knows how i can delete the folders it would be great help, thanks
[XPERIA X1 General] nyan187:
Is there like a tutorial for installing these generic_nl things? thanx in advance
[XPERIA X1 General] Shadowdh:
rename it to ruu_signed.nbh or Kovsimg.nbh if you do from sd-card as outlined in this thread on the second page I think... post 18. Or follow this guide from post 28...

Just my observations...

Because this is an official SE ROM, you don't need to have HardSPL installed.

If you're using the 4GB SD card that comes with the phone, it is already formatted to FAT32.

My idiot's guide is:

* Uncompress the .rar file to get the .image file.

* Rename the .image file to Kovsimg.nbh

* Copy the Kovsimg.nbh file to the top of the SD card.

* Remove the battery for 5 secs (guarantees the phone is turned off).

* Hold down the volume down button, then hold down the power button at the same time.

* After 2-3 secs you'll see the reg/green/blue stripes, then it will go to a light grey background saying "Loading".

* You'll then be given 2 options. Follow the instructions.

* You'll then have some blue text indicating the progress of the update.

* Once it has finished after about 10 minutes, it should say "Update success"

* Soft reset your phone (poke the hole under the battery cover).

* The phone will restart and ask you to tap the screen to continue

I'm sure you know what to do after that.
[XPERIA X1 General] nyan187:
Thanx you guys! it works perfectly now
[XPERIA X1 General] matthewpapa:
YES, I HAVE TOO

It seems it can record videos at full VGA speed no problem, but when it comes to playing them back it stutters really bad. You would think it would be the opposite way around. It is very frustrating. I dont know if this is a new problem (i think it is) but surely there is a way to tweak it...
[XPERIA X1 General] slash_5150:
^^hv this problem too. :( playback of recorded videos is really bad.
[XPERIA X1 General] ivanlwk90:
Yes, I havethis problem too. Can anyone help out? I bumped another smilar thread like three times.
[XPERIA X1 General] chetzy:
bbc - iplayer?

Ive just updated to this and my iplayer says now not supported, any ideas on how to fix this.
[XPERIA X1 General] Shadowdh:
There is a fix somewhere in this part of the board... I cant remember what it is exactly... something to do with opera and configurating it properly...
[XPERIA X1 General] chetzy:
yeh its goto opera:config

and setting the agent as sgh-i900 , tried that still not working...on the original software supplied with o2 xperia it worked fine..
[XPERIA X1 General] Ves:
There is another thing i noticed. Before when you wanted to send an email/SMS to several people you had to add them through the Meno 'button'. Not it automatically gets addedin the proper way (; and space)
[XPERIA X1 General] bees:
Just wanted to thank you guys. I have a Vodafone X1 and with the original firmware, the panels were taking such a long time to implement that I had given up and Vodafone were sending a replacement. Found this thread and for the first time have updated the firmware and the panels are now instant. Will now check that reception is better (very bad with original firmware) and will report back.
[XPERIA X1 General] gallous_boy:
i also have a vodafone x1 still with the older firmware, can someone please post a link and intructions on how to go about getting the new firmware, tanks in advance.
[XPERIA X1 General] zetex:
hi guys,

just got my first pocket pc and its an xperia x1 on vodafone...

i would like to try this rom... just been reading upon how toflsh so it doesnt look to bad for a newbie...

will i have any problem with an xperia that was originally loaded with vodafone rom... im using mine on o2 at the moment...

thanks alot

Z:)
[XPERIA X1 General] gallous_boy:
after downloading the uk generic rom, does the file name need to be changed? and if so what to?
[XPERIA X1 General] chetzy:
* Uncompress the .rar file to get the .image file.

* Rename the .image file to Kovsimg.nbh

* Copy the Kovsimg.nbh file to the top of the SD card.

* Remove the battery for 5 secs (guarantees the phone is turned off).

* Hold down the volume down button, then hold down the power button at the same time.

* After 2-3 secs you'll see the reg/green/blue stripes, then it will go to a light grey background saying "Loading".

* You'll then be given 2 options. Follow the instructions.

* You'll then have some blue text indicating the progress of the update.

* Once it has finished after about 10 minutes, it should say "Update success"

* Soft reset your phone (poke the hole under the battery cover).

* The phone will restart and ask you to tap the screen to continue
[XPERIA X1 General] kostas ntinos:
This firmware made my call quality better but the signal strength is still weak.

I also found that the graphics are slower than the R1 firmware.
[XPERIA X1 General] boycott:
How can I remove some *.mp3 and *.mp4 file from Widows directory?

By the previous ROM version it was easy because these files were located in the My Documents.
[XPERIA X1 General] twe69:
i have flashed this one and used all the tweaks and updated .net to 3.5 - faster and better for me so far than the original firmware.... Going to keep it how it is now instead of using a customised one for the time being, flashed different firmware so many times already probably about 10 times... would like to stick to something and get used to it instead!
[XPERIA X1 General] Calvin H:
Can anyone confirm this problem?

Does anyone also have a problem with PIE and Pocket Outlook (Gmail via IMAP or POP3)?

(it's where PIE remains on 'Searching', and Pocket Outlook remains on 'connecting', i.e. not downloading Gmail via IMAP or POP3.)

It's not the data connection as Opera mobile, rss hub (except pictures in feeds), spb weather, etc all work fine.

Using R2A Generic NL (Rom: 1.03.937.6, Radio: 1.10.25.18, Protocol: 52.56.25.29U, Outbind: 1.031555.11424), but I also flashed R2A Generic UK and had the same problem.

Appreciate if you could let me know if you also have this?
[XPERIA X1 General] spidertwig:
Works a treat :D

Hopefully should run smoother, and installed waaaay quicker that 10 mins :)

Thanks v much :)
[XPERIA X1 General] kdspiv:
How long does it usually take before it is available via the update service?
[XPERIA X1 General] spidertwig:
you know i was gonna wait till it was on SEUS, but decided i'd try the SD method.

It's really as easy as it's posted above!

And SE promised it before the end of 08... lol, think you'll be waiting a while!
[XPERIA X1 General] kuztardd:
this is the first SEX1 update, so it is unprecedented.
[XPERIA X1 General] kdspiv:
I thought the US update was already out? I am in the states but ordered a UK phone (only for the higher fps) so I am subject to the UK update schedule.

As a business phone, this thing is light years ahead of the iphone. Multimedia however, is another matter entirely. So I am hoping the firmware updates will help along just a tad.

This is my first windows ce device, so I am very much on a learning curve and have constant questions.

For example: If I just open youtube from the program list and play, ALL videos look horrible and are full of lag. But if I open the panel and run it...... the videos look great and ''HD'' youtube vids are almost perfect! With only just a hint of frame rate not being perfectly smooth but still with great resoloution.
[XPERIA X1 General] alabij:
It's really a tough decision as to whether to install this R2A rom or not. It's seems 50% of the posts say it is worse that the OEM R1A and the other says it is faster.

Putting speed of loading panels aside, what is really tangible or better in the R2A. Reinstalling apps is such a time waster that I really want to hear from all first.
[XPERIA X1 General] Shadowdh:
Alabij... I am one of those who feel its faster... programs load quicker, menus are accessed faster and when I use the slide it changes from portrait to landscape damn near instantaneously and vice versa... I also feel that the tv shows I watch from my sdhc card are smoother and the quality is better...
[XPERIA X1 General] spidertwig:
well after my first day of full on usage, after upgrading earlier today i'm rather impressed! IE and Opera are notably faster, as is the dialer and panels.

One thing i will say, they were so slow earlier, but seem to quicken when the cache catches up. Just a case of tweeking I think.

I'd upgrade, as you can always downgrade, and different settings that different ppl prefer, will have different outcomes.