[XPERIA X1 ROM Development] gtrab:
SEX1 R4 BETA TESTING THREAD

WM 6.51 CE|OS build 5.2.23028 | 23028.5.3.0​

These new builds (WM6.51) have major improvements and very, very big changes, sort of "love it or hate it" IMHO

Some new features I've found so far on 23028:

- Closing an app or menu turns you back to previous menu screen, not directly to "today" (finally !!)

- "Battery bug" finally solved: Task Manager's slot has been omitted an replaced with ample battery + clock space in the task bar

- Tap the task bar and a new transparent menu emerges, enlarging taskbar options (cool)

- Tap & hold a Start menu item to drag and drop it around (great !!)

- Lower menu bar has been stretched to fit thumb-wise buttons

- "OK" / "X" (close ) button has been moved to the left of the lower menu bar

- New, big finger friendly interface for volume

- New, big finger friendly and lateral scrollable interface for most programs and control panel apps

- And so on...

SO MANY CHANGES MEAN MORE INCOMPATIBILITY WITH THE "OLD" XPERIA INTERFACE AND APPS - NOT SURE IF A "PURE" ROM IS STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS MUCH UI CHANGES

I have prepared this BAREBONE VERSION to test WM 6.51 capabilities, incompatibilities and possible bugs

If you want to BETA TEST, please post your report and help development of a next release

If you find bugs, please post and add as much details as possible

If you find solutions for any possible bug, or incompatibility issue, please share it

Brief description:

Very pure WM6.51 SYS conten, minimal XPERIA OEM content but no panels

Also added my SEX1 Battery enhancer icons and Ethermind's % battery driver, SDK certificates, CAB and registry warnings off

From SYS, omitted sample music and user feedback only (kept the WM system files as pure as possible)

Kept the XPERIA auto connection setup (more universal than current WM one)

This build had a timebomb, removed by inserting a patched shell.exe folder

Thanks to Da_G for sharing da goods

[16 AUG 09]

- DOWNOAD SEX1 R4.01 BETA FROM MEGAUPLOAD

- mostberg's FTP mirror, thanks to JOeS

- Another FTP mirror, thanks to sthomas042

- Another FTP mirror, thanks to Hornet Wing

SCREEN CAPS HERE: POST 114, PAGE 12 OF THIS THREAD

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AIM of this thread

- New builds Kovsky ROMs up for beta testing, NOT FOR FINAL USERS

- This is a PUBLIC BETA-STAGE ROM DEVELOPMENT-COOKING EXERCISE

- I am testing the new builds myself, and I wanted to share the developing/testing stage experience with all users

- Fell free to test and report in this collaboration project to make a better, public ROM

EXPECTED RESULTS

- If a particular build is found to be worth cooking further, it will be shared and can be used for customizaed ROMs from myself and from other users

- The XIP, SYS and OEM folders of the beta-stage passing ROMs are shared -as usual- @ the SEX1 tutorial-kitchen sticky thread for other cookers to use freely

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[18 JUN 09]: CE|OS Build 21815​

Build Bugs:

1- MS changed the themes pattern, so background is GRAY if you don't use the updated 2815 themes

2- Keyboard bug inherited from 21812 --> to fix, replace compime.dll from a previous version

A FUNCTIONAL test ROM posted @ the SEX1 R3 ROM thread

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[13 JUN 09]: CE|OS Build 21812​

BUG: Hardware Keyboard slow, messed up, inserting spaces elsewhere

FIX: Use compime.dll from 21500 or 21723

BUG: Batt bug still present...

BUG: Phone canvas bug (hide keypad -> scroll last calls) still present

Download and details @ post 95

Lokatho was the "fastest finger in the west" this time :D :D

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[08 JUN 09]: CE|OS Build 21806

ROM: SEX1 beta r3 047​

This one is for double-testing purposes:

- Testing New WINDOWS MOBILE 6.5 BUILD CE|OS 21806 XIP|SYS (details and SYS version report @ post 2)

- Testing the new OEM SEMC WWE R3AA010 (99.9% pure XPERIA content) from my SEX1 r3 ROM

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[30 MAY 09]: CE|OS Build 21725

ROM: SEX1 beta r3 002​

OK, here we go again... I must be crazy :D

Being a beta, this ROM has only:

- WM6.5 basic CE|OS build 21725 XIP|SYS (SYS modified from jerpelea's kitchen)

- My W4X.23 Barebone OEM packs only

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Downloads

[08 JUN 09] Download -> SEX1 r3 047 (OEM R3AA010 + CE|OS 21806) from megaupload

[08 JUN 09] Download -> SEX1 r3 047 (OEM R3AA010 + CE|OS 21806) from FTP

[30 MAY 09] Download -> SEX1 r3 002 (W4X-BB + CE|OS 21725) from Megaupload

[30 MAY 09] Download -> SEX1 r3 002 (W4X-BB + CE|OS 21725) from FTP

Of course, ROMs are NOT protected: feel free to dump, extract, use, cook recycle, test, etc any components you please

Have fun

;)