I have a question. Is SE planning release ics for x10 mini? Or it will have Eclair forerver?
Eclair forever, only 2011 devices will get updates to ICS
djArturazz said:
I have a question. Is SE planning release ics for x10 mini? Or it will have Eclair forerver?
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eclair forevarrrr at least that you use a custom rom.
use a custom rom.
Ics Works well On X10 mini Or Not?
nAa's ICS Works Too Good As Per Many Devs But Hw Acceleration is not there When It's expected to Be Stable....??
It is expected to be stable as soon as nAa posts that the issues are fixed
No ETA's, it will be ready when it's ready.
No way. No ICS. No GB. Only Eclair from SE but everything from xda !
X10 Mini Pro was abandoned by Sony Ericsson a long time ago.This phone was released with Android 1.6,and in 2011 skipping Android 2.0 Sony Ericsson updated us to 2.1.1.Then,SE started to release Xperia ARC,Xperia Play,Xperia Mini and all of the others of the 2011 line.Froyo was skipped.All of them shipped with Gingerbread.Then,ICS came out for them.No ICS for us from Sony Ericsson.There is ICS for us from XDA,I think that Jelly Bean will come too!nobodyAtall along with paul-xxx and some others with many knowledge can do ANYTHING!I believe in them.
So,X10 line (except X10) gets stuck at Eclair.
In order for updating you need to unlock your bootloader (first you have to make sure it's safe to do so,you may lose capability of radio,i mean radio for music and radio for calls!) and then flash E10i_nAa-ics_02.ftf and MiniCM9-3.0.1-robynn.zip and voila!A partially (I use it everyday,even though it's slow as hell ) working ROM on E10i!(I have U20)
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THe sony ericsson xperia arc have a similar hardware to the xperia x10, is there any developers that is trying to port the xperia arc rom gingerbread 2.3 to xperia x10?
thanks.
To my knowledge the arc isnt out yet so ...
But they are porting gingerbread. Its in alpha right now but it is in progress.
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nope, not yet.
you'll have to wait.
the porting of gingerbread is now in beta version and looks quite well, but there are the camera and sensors not implemented. ok i could work without sensors and usb storage which was buggy is availble on reboot in xRecovery. So i just installed the froyo rom, which is very stable evrything except camcorder working and it looks very similar to gingerbread.
Nowdays there are those problems going to be solved (in progress). That means in a week or so we will have a good rom, and i think in two weeks a stable one with everything working.
Once the Arc is released I'm sure some devs will be able to port it over or at least components that could be used on our X10s. I certainly hope they can because that would like getting the update from Sony Ericsson they've neglected to give us all
not giving us official Update, SE follows a strategy to sell new phones, becouse no one would upgrade from X10 to Arc if SE would update the X10 to Gingerbread.
I'm so happy that the xda-devs are doing that great job porting original Android 2.2 and 2.3. And anyway the original rom, not branded by SE is better. It has not so much rubish system apps and saves the ram and the internal storage.
But in the future, when xda-devs have allready made a stable 2.3 rom, they will grab the original from Arc and port it too.
For sure the Arc's ROM will be used to make stable ginger for X10.It will take some time tho, but you can be sure about it
Hi,
when I posted this, I did not see a thread on this already, so no attacking!!
I'm sure it's been looked at, I don't think it's novel, but what would happen if you flashed the new SE Mini rom on the old mini? Why would it break? (I'm guessing) because it's just a rom. Would we need to see the new mini get a custom kernal (has it already?) with inbuilt recovery? then flash kernal with recovery then new mini rom?
If posting this, an existing post did not come up, then maybe this hasn't been discussed? Just trying to learn, no attacking....
I don't understand, do you wan't to update or what?
Assuming you mean the 2010 X10 Mini pro and the 2011 Mini Pro, then surely it won't work because the hardware is different (even though the form factor is same/similar).
Yeah I mean update the 2010 Mini with 2011 Mini ROM.
I know some of the hardware is different, but why is it not possible? 2011 Mini now has a battery, faster processor and more RAM...but that really stops a ROM being flashed? SE in their 2011 ROMS still use Android...they just skin it and add a few apps. Why couldn't we at least pluck things out, if not copy/imitate/directly flash such a ROM?
We already have Gingerbread working on the old U20i, so what would you be trying to do? Re-invent the wheel?
You'd need to find/write new drivers for the hardware, which is currently the stalling point with porting ICS on this device.
phoneyericsson said:
Yeah I mean update the 2010 Mini with 2011 Mini ROM.
I know some of the hardware is different, but why is it not possible? 2011 Mini now has a battery, faster processor and more RAM...but that really stops a ROM being flashed? SE in their 2011 ROMS still use Android...they just skin it and add a few apps. Why couldn't we at least pluck things out, if not copy/imitate/directly flash such a ROM?
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can u wear fatty short pants?
scook94 said:
We already have Gingerbread working on the old U20i, so what would you be trying to do? Re-invent the wheel?
You'd need to find/write new drivers for the hardware, which is currently the stalling point with porting ICS on this device.
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There it is...that's it...gingerB is avail. on CyanoG. Mind you, notice the pattern of people moving away from official SE stuff for a long time, anything but SE, now look at the forum, full of threads about how to get Arc/X10/Neo/New mini stuff. Apparently the demand is there.
I'm using E10i, I've no idea what roms are available for U10i/20 etc.
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Ok, so I unlocked the phone now, and I installed this rom:
tp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1200675
But the kernel still doesn't seem to allow wireless tethering.
Any ideas?
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Ok, here it is.
There is an article stating that the Xperia series won't receive a new Kernel:
"Sony Ericsson Developer Karl-Johan Dahlström has confirmed that the company’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update will use the same linux kernel that it is currently using for existing software. The Xperia Android 2.3.4 software is using the 2.6.32 linux kernel (as is the alpha ICS ROM from Sony Ericsson) and it was hoped that the final ICS update would use a newer kernel"
Since I am a noob in all phone development stuff, let me ask you these basic and simple questions:
The current kernel version of my phone is 2.6.29
So when Sony will release the ICS update, will my phone's kernel be updated to 2.6.32 ? Or will it stay as it is?
And also, is kernel 2.6.32 enough to allow features like Native Wifi Tethering, Sending apps to SDCard, etc...?
In short will the ICS update allow the xperia mini to support those features, or shall I forget about the update and flash some roms and kernels?
thanks for answers.
PS:
Link to original article:
w.xperiablog.net/2012/01/05/sony-ericsson-confirms-unchanged-kernel-for-android-4-0-ics-release/
There won't be any updates here at all... They don't care about Xperia 2010 phones anymore. It's all for 2011/2012 phones ONLY.
The Xperia Mini is a 2011 phone.
I think I got mine in 2010...
nomailx said:
The Xperia Mini is a 2011 phone.
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The Xperia Mini is, but the Xperia X10 mini isn't.
If you have an Xperia Mini you should check out http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1239
I have a X10 mini a.k.a. E10i, and it was released in March, 2010.
I assumed it was _this_ mini we where talking about since the post was in the "XPERIA X10 Mini Q&A" part of the forum.
Xperia mini is not XPeria X10 mini?
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nomailx said:
Xperia mini is not XPeria X10 mini?
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Exactly. Blame them for naming it and not supporting it.
Checked. Sony is getting more and more stupid. Xperia Mini 2, was somehow named as just "Xperia Mini". It's not even available in my Country.
total confusion.
nomailx said:
Checked. Sony is getting more and more stupid. Xperia Mini 2, was somehow named as just "Xperia Mini". It's not even available in my Country.
total confusion.
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2010. Xperia X10 Mini (no more updates)
2011. Xperia Mini (update to ics)
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Ok, so I unlocked the phone now, and I installed this rom:
tp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1200675
But the kernel still doesn't seem to allow wireless tethering.
Any ideas?
Hi,
I've found an online store (in Portugal) that is claiming to sell xperia x10 mini with android 1.6 upgradable to 2.3.
It came as a surprise to me.
Does anyone know something about official gingerbread to x10 mini?
Thx
official? I don't think so. you should ask if they deliver the phone with the 2.3 installed. (maybe they sell it with an custom rom installed) I have see stores that do that.
only miniCM7.2 include 2.3.7
There is nothing like this in the official Forums from SE.. 2.1 Eclair is the latest update for ourx10 mini´s.
most probably fake in other words
i want gingerbread 2.3 sony stock rom , is there any flashable zip files for it ? or atleast i want the stock firmware download link? can someone plzzzz giv me that
All 2010 devices from sony ( x10, x8, x10 mini, x10 mini pro and whatever i forgot to mention ) have been given an update to Android 2.1 (Eclair) and that's it.
There is no Stock Rom for our devices from there on, so no Froyo or Gingerbread. The reason this site exists is to allow us to bypass the limitations set by the hardware manufacturers and run software beyond what they give us.
So, if you want Froyo or Gingerbread.. run a custom rom, you can find many of them in the development section of this forum. If you want Gingerbread or ICS stock.. buy a newer device from Sony
SmG67 said:
All 2010 devices from sony ( x10, x8, x10 mini, x10 mini pro and whatever i forgot to mention ) have been given an update to Android 2.1 (Eclair) and that's it.
There is no Stock Rom for our devices from there on, so no Froyo or Gingerbread. The reason this site exists is to allow us to bypass the limitations set by the hardware manufacturers and run software beyond what they give us.
So, if you want Froyo or Gingerbread.. run a custom rom, you can find many of them in the development section of this forum. If you want Gingerbread or ICS stock.. buy a newer device from Sony
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thank u so much , would u suggest me a good gingerbread firmware that has the looks of the sony custom roms plzz ?
goutamniwas said:
thank u so much , would u suggest me a good gingerbread firmware that has the looks of the sony custom roms plzz ?
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Just in case you're not aware of it, your phone needs an unlocked bootloader to do that, pay very close attention to see if your simlock-certificate is supported, otherwise you will lose the capability to use it as a phone.
Kernel: nAa kernel for gingerbread
Rom:MiniCM7-2.2.0
Sony style: Sony Ericsson Stock Mod
Have fun with it