[XPERIA X1 ROM Development] Howshall:
Minor bugs found in Energy.XPERIA.23569.Sense2.5.Cookie.May.16

See my other post for just how impressed I am so far with both speed and stability (no SOD yet :)) of latest Energy.XPERIA.23569.Sense2.5.Cookie.May.16 ROM

To help with any mop up release or others curious about flashing, these are the current problems I've found with that above ROM version:

1) Soft keyboard 'Space' key disappears

Default 'Touch Input' soft keyboard can have spacebar key disappear and be replaced by split '.com' and '/' keys in that location

Problem seems to occur when you've been into an Internet URL field (such as Opera URL bar) which adds '.com' and '/' keys replacing ':' and ';' keys next to spacebar to help text entry, however later if entering 'normal' text those extra keys stay and because ':' and ';' are now back this squashes the spacebar out of existence!

No currently known permanent fix. Once occurred, problem can not be fixed via soft reset :(

Suggested workarounds are:

- Switch to included Swype soft keyboard type - can be used as normal soft keyboard, but try out the drag/trace to type...it's actually very good and quick! :)

- If you toggle keypad into numbers selection there is a space key on that view of soft keyboard (but that's obviously a pain to have to do all the time!)
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2) Opera hardware keyboard issue

Known X1 Specific issue: Included Opera 9.7 (and most 9.7 versions) don't properly support X1 hardware keyboard for text entry into web form fields. NRG likely won't fix this one as other phones have issues with Opera 10 and his kitchen is for multiple devices.

Suggested fixes are:

- Install 'Opera 10 WM Touch phone' version from http://m.opera.com (direct via phone, may need to look in 'Other download options') :)

- or use Pocket IE when needing hardware keyboard
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3) Not a bug: Alarms do not vibrate if phone is in vibrate or silent modes

Coming from WM6.1 I expected that if an alarm was set to vibrate=on then it should still vibrate if overall phone was set to vibrate, but apparently not under WM6.5

Configuration fix:

- Start > Settings > Clocks & Alarms > Alarms screen - Via this WM OS screen there is extra 'Sound alarms even when the device is set to silent or vibrate' checkbox that is unchecked by default :)
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One off glitches

- After first start-up and full use of included Opera 9.7 I ended up getting persistent (until soft reset) screen corruption of left 1 pixel solid white line and top 1 pixel dotted white line appearing at edges of phone display. Has only happened the once on first start-up so far, and I have since been using Opera extensively over last 36hrs with no re-occurrence

- Had 1 full phone lock-up (with screen on) while repeatedly switching soft keyboards while in new empty Note - Happened while writing this post and looking to confirm soft keyboard issue mentioned above!

And here are some personal 'loves' from this ROM:

- Great look and feel throughout, very integrated and fluid

- Start menu down the bottom

- This non-Leo Sense 2.5 version is very fast on X1

- Fully landscape Sense 2.5

- Cookie home mod is so good and flexible for homepage layout

(My preference is for compact clock, which even with notification bar allows me 1x row of 4 quicklinks + 3x row of calendar items)

- Love having both time and battery on top status bar all the time

- Voicemail number auto setup as part of initial Connection Wizard! (Missing from most WM6.5 setups)

- Love widened finger friendly scroll bars throughout OS (although can look a bit too grey and featureless ;) )

- Non-default Swype soft keyboard is great (as long as you're not being bounced around at the time! But then just use it via taps instead)