[XPERIA X1 General] kdspiv:
When I first bought my Xperia, I HATED it! I was forced to give up my iPhone due to some of the “Call acknowledgement” programs that our hospitals use would not recognize the iPhone email format.

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So I bought the Xperia and:

It wouldn’t play Youtube video AT ALL!

It was slow as hell.

It froze up constantly…AND WHAT THE HELL IS THIS 5 TO 15 SECONDS BEFORE THE SCREEN REACTS TO A BUTTON PRESS CRAP?!?!?!?

Video playback was terrible and it was a pain to convert movie in the first place.

Camera performance was slow slow slow and poor

Windows itself is clunky and unrefined.

Call signal was weak and volume low

Media panel volume was low and noisy.

Why in the wide wide world off sports would Sony use a resistive screen instead of capacitive glass covered in this day and age? With a stylus no less.

FIRST time round:

-So I found XDA and:

Installed Youtube.cab and Panel. – First problem down!

Found the Video with Hardware acceleration thread – there are my pretty decent results (not perfect but decent) video convertor.

Found the Turbo your X1 thread and my video was greatly improved.

Loaded Xperiatweak and changed a Bunch of annoying Xperia behaviors and setting

Loaded SDTuneup.cab and was nicely surprised by the improvement.

Found the benchmark posts and played with setting constantly improving the performance more.

Found all the different tips and tricks threads between Xperia and HTC forums….nice!

SECOND incarnation:

-Then loaded the leaked X1i_GENERIC_UK_CDF1215-1832_R2AA008 rom and loaded from the SD card.

Hey! Everything and I mean everything works faster!

Video looks better!

Installed all of my old programs and tweaks plus the simple battery colors cab. SHAZAM! This is nice!

It is locking up WWAAYY less.

Youtube videos look 90% as good as they do on the iPhone.

I am getting happy with the phone,

I am no longer switching sim to my iPhone on the weekends. I may carry it to have a movie on hand but that is it.

I get the Sony panel set up to my PERFECTION with 3 RSS feeds, Calendar, com managers, and launch icons.

By now I’ve found the stylus is much easier to use when surfing full web pages as the icons and links are tiny but usable.

I am finding myself constantly pulling our my Xperia to play with it now.

AND FINALLY!!!!!!!!!

-I loaded (via SEUS) X1i_GENERIC_UK_CDF1215-1832_R2AA010 rom

** HOLY CRAP! After 4 hours of use the Xperia is working as quickly was the 008 upgrade was after a week with tweaks installed**

-Installed sdkcerts followed instantly by SEX1cons "Q series v1.1”. WOW! This looks slick as hell! I mean really ‘effing good!

-Installed Youtube Panel and cab. I can’t watch and download “HD videos” at the same time without lag. But after loading, “HD” trailers and such look 95% as good as they did on my iPhone. (almost there guys)

-Installed Xperiatweak

-REMOVED Xperiatweak – found that the Memory tweaks actually reduced my overall speed and if even attempted the default Panel mode would lock up my Xperia Constantly until a hard reset was performed. The "memory tweaks" made by Xperia tweak would also be reset to original by the phone. (advanced configs would not) I don't think everyone has had these issue with it but I found Xperia tweak more of a problem than a help at this time.

-Installed advancedConfig.cab and did almost EVERYTHING (sms notice, security notice disable, ) than I could from Xperiatweak (default IE cache, pic/video location, pressure threshold, etc)

- Put my memory settings (except for glyph cache-32kb) back to Original rom (File system-enabled, system cache-auto, filter cache-disabled) and found my Xperia is fastest here (don’t know why yet)

-Installed tomtom7.9 –downloaded the free map and a voice. With the help of quickGPS info TomTom locks on in about 10-15 seconds.

-Overall media volume seems improved too. I am not hearing any of the noise between tracks or when searching for tracks.

-Installed Facebook panel and have not seen anylock ups at all from it. And it is nice and speedy now.

BOTTOM LINE:

When out to eat, I find myself throwing my phone up on the table with all of the other tards who throw their iPhones and Storms on the table to show off. I know I won't be embarrased by lock ups when they pick it up and start flipping through panels and programs. I am smilling by the "ooo's and ahh's" of having weather, calender, communications, launchers, and RSS feeds all on ONE screen. And TOMTOM (with Ozzy voice) seems to just blow everyone away. MY phone was crowned the new king of the hill and I am loving it!

Best of all, I seem to be installing programs for customizing looks and preferences instead of installing programs just to try and improve performance.

If you just want to be able to pickup your phone, load and ap or a song on and go, the iPhone is for you. If you want to be able to mold your phone to the way YOU want it.....the Xperia is it baby!