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what do think guys will we get jellybean update for our devices???
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what do think guys will we get jellybean update for our devices???
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thats the only reason why its delayed ;-)
update for NEO was also delayed and got 4.0.4 instead of 4.0.3....
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure we'll get it by the end of the year.
I hope Sony doesn't further delay ICS (it was supposed to be released by now per Sony's schedule, but delayed for the end of July) because of JB, I want 4.x ASAP.
i hope sony skips ics and gives us JB instead the offline voice messaging feature is awesome
IROC_69 said:
i hope sony skips ics and gives us JB instead the offline voice messaging feature is awesome
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they cant afford to miss ics i would suggeest as the phone has so many problems in its current state i.e software bugs and call/network dropping. If they dont sort these quickly then nobody will care about jellybean as they will have got rid of the phone by the time that happens. Im on the verge of this now...at the end of the day it has to function as a reliable phone and at the moment its not.
It most certainly is on it's most current released firmware, B.1.564. You can downgrade back to it, B.3.162 was pulled and you should not be using it.
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It most certainly is on it's most current released firmware, B.1.564. You can downgrade back to it, B.3.162 was pulled and you should not be using it.
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so what am i missing here then?
so they brought the phone out, then released an update for it to solve what?....and then realised that actually it created more problems than it solved and then pulled it?.....where have they then come out and said that you should roll back and put the original firmware back on it?
seems to be very few forums for the xperia p anywhere so ive not come across much information about how this problem is being fixed. Would appreciate any links or info you have though as i really want to give this phone a chance but its being let down terribly at the moment.
Already explained here. I suggest reading the stickies in order to familiarize yourself with Flashtool and for other useful information regarding the NXT line.
cx_ said:
Already explained here. I suggest reading the stickies in order to familiarize yourself with Flashtool and for other useful information regarding the NXT line.
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yes you gave me the link etc in the xperia p thread which i thanked you for however my question was around the fact that having released a firmware (.62) in a bid i assume to correct some problems it seems that it actually created more than it solved. You have recommended that i roll back to the earlier build that i have not actually ever had as the phone updated itself within a few mins of having it. I am willing to roll back if you feel this will make the phone more reliabe as a phone however i was interested to know where it had been said by sony that we should do this or where the general discusion on here was about it.
what ever we get we get it quick and bug free i heard xperia p has alot of bugs in gingerbread
IROC_69 said:
what ever we get we get it quick and bug free i heard xperia p has alot of bugs in gingerbread
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Exactly my point which is why they can't afford to wait until the end of the year. They need to sort it and sort it fast, don't think there has been one solid phone in the xperia range released yet. All have so much potential, fantastic hardware and then ruined by shoddy software.
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You're definitely getting it sooner or later.
I'm guessing ICS in late July or early August, and JB somewhere in Q4 2012.
Though the sooner we get ICS and Sony releases it's kernel sources, the better... I'd like to see some custom ROMs floating around, especially FreeXperia's CM for the P.
ICS is on the way right now as we've seen with the Xperia S and other handsets. As for Jellybean, you'll be looking later in the year, if not in the new year. Well, I suspect.
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Sony always take so long to release it :crying:
hey guys final word of advice from me cause there are some real users out here
should i buy xperia p is it really worth it or should i get a galaxy s2 please help me out here i think i will keep this for a while and i want it to be a good one
I'm not sure we can get JB...
IROC_69 said:
hey guys final word of advice from me cause there are some real users out here
should i buy xperia p is it really worth it or should i get a galaxy s2 please help me out here i think i will keep this for a while and i want it to be a good one
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Compared to the SGS2, the P is actually in a little lower range. The S is about the same.
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I'm not sure we can get JB...
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You'll definitely get it.
I got this idea from over on the X8 forums and thought it would be a good addition over here aswell. Note to the mods, if there's any reason this thread shouldn't be here, then just get rid of it. Not like you need my permission eh?
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I'm Pokoby. 14 years old, using an Xperia U. Also used to be part of the SliTaz Linux development team for around a year. I know my way around Linux, and am learning all the ins and outs of Android too :3
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hello XDA., bought xperia P last week and now i m learning how to root..
I finally conclude to use this bootloader for both unclock BL and ROOT.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1560613
so is that possible? becoz i m little confued on all those commands as i m newbie to this linux thingy :silly:
BTW: This forum is great and members are giving great support. Happy and excited to be a member :good:
Hi everybody. William here. User of Xperia S and Sola. Trying to learn more about my devices. I'm a noob in android...well, read n learn...no shortcut. :angel:
hi all, Zsolt here!
im 18. bought a sola 2 weeks ago, but i used x8 for around 2 years.
now i am waiting for official 4.0 for sola. then ill see if im going to throw some roms to it
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Hey all
Firstly thanks for making this thread kidkarter.
I bought my Xperia S last month but to my dismay the phone bricked in two hours. Basically I was updating via pccompanion and a quarter of the way through the installation it stopped. Tried flashing back to GB but could never get past bootloop. Three weeks on and I received the replacement. The phone has it's good and bad but I'm very happy with it...and with the thorough support and development available at XDA! Looking forward to being part of the crew.
Cheers, -Red
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tej911 said:
hello XDA., bought xperia P last week and now i m learning how to root..
I finally conclude to use this bootloader for both unclock BL and ROOT.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1560613
so is that possible? becoz i m little confued on all those commands as i m newbie to this linux thingy :silly:
BTW: This forum is great and members are giving great support. Happy and excited to be a member :good:
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Hey Tej. Welcome to these forums
I don't really know that much about unlocking BL or rooting and even though my device is rooted, I flashed a pre-rooted rom onto mine that was specific to my device. As I'm not sure if this is available for your device, I would suggest asking in that thread then say after a couple of days if you haven't received a reply, send the OP a little reminder of your post.
Sorry I couldn't be of more help
wilspencer said:
Hi everybody. William here. User of Xperia S and Sola. Trying to learn more about my devices. I'm a noob in android...well, read n learn...no shortcut. :angel:
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Hi there Will. 2 nice devices you've got there. Treat um nicely and they'll treat you better
zsszeli199417 said:
hi all, Zsolt here!
im 18. bought a sola 2 weeks ago, but i used x8 for around 2 years.
now i am waiting for official 4.0 for sola. then ill see if im going to throw some roms to it
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Hey Zsolt. It's nice to have you as a part of these forums
Is there not an unofficial way to get ICS onto the Sola? Or would you rather just do it officially?
red.leader87 said:
Hey all
Firstly thanks for making this thread kidkarter.
I bought my Xperia S last month but to my dismay the phone bricked in two hours. Basically I was updating via pccompanion and a quarter of the way through the installation it stopped. Tried flashing back to GB but could never get past bootloop. Three weeks on and I received the replacement. The phone has it's good and bad but I'm very happy with it...and with the thorough support and development available at XDA! Looking forward to being part of the crew.
Cheers, -Red
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Heya Red No problem at all. As I say, I seen it on the X8 forum and thought it would be good over here especially because we have 4 devices all into one section xD
Glad to hear that you've received your replacement I actually manager to brick my SXS within a few hours aswell but mine was just a major noob error by attempting it when I only had 35% battery left. Obviously it ran out mid-update and bricked my device. Luckily it was only a soft brick so I was able to come on here and find a solution to that. That's simply what I love about XDA
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Hii
Bought Xperia P two weeks ago.Used galaxy mini for 1 year.Developed Chakra Rom for Galaxy Mini.New to Xperia forums:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:
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Bought Xperia P two weeks ago.Used galaxy mini for 1 year.Developed Chakra Rom for Galaxy Mini.New to Xperia forums:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:
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Hi im relatively new and only recently active, I have owned an xperia x10 mini pro, neo and s.
Dedicated Sony fan, though I currently have a xoom :S
Been on several forums but xda is a bit hard to get active on as there are so many users and there's not much sense of a community and you don't really get to know people as much
I'd go on to help people but there's like 5000 others who can help before me
Ill lurk around for the years to come
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Hi im relatively new and only recently active, I have owned an xperia x10 mini pro, neo and s.
Dedicated Sony fan, though I currently have a xoom :S
Been on several forums but xda is a bit hard to get active on as there are so many users and there's not much sense of a community and you don't really get to know people as much
I'd go on to help people but there's like 5000 others who can help before me
Ill lurk around for the years to come
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Welcome to these forums. Hang around in Off-topic for a while. You'll soon get to know some people. That's what I did
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KidCarter93 said:
Hey Tej. Welcome to these forums
I don't really know that much about unlocking BL or rooting and even though my device is rooted, I flashed a pre-rooted rom onto mine that was specific to my device. As I'm not sure if this is available for your device, I would suggest asking in that thread then say after a couple of days if you haven't received a reply, send the OP a little reminder of your post.
Sorry I couldn't be of more help
Hi there Will. 2 nice devices you've got there. Treat um nicely and they'll treat you better
Hey Zsolt. It's nice to have you as a part of these forums
Is there not an unofficial way to get ICS onto the Sola? Or would you rather just do it officially?
Heya Red No problem at all. As I say, I seen it on the X8 forum and thought it would be good over here especially because we have 4 devices all into one section xD
Glad to hear that you've received your replacement I actually manager to brick my SXS within a few hours aswell but mine was just a major noob error by attempting it when I only had 35% battery left. Obviously it ran out mid-update and bricked my device. Luckily it was only a soft brick so I was able to come on here and find a solution to that. That's simply what I love about XDA
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Thanks for the advise, James...I will remember it!!!:angel:
Good idea...
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Now owner of Xperia P. ..
Enjoying this too
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Hey guys, I thought I'll introduce myself too, just for the sake of it. It's grown into a quite lengthy post, but anyway, here goes.
As a developer
Some of you may know me from the Desire scene, where I worked (the slacking-around-IRC-doing-random-stuff kind of work) on ICS and then switched to maintaining AOKP. I'm quite new to the Sony scene (excuse my using the word 'scene' here, it's just a short way of saying 'developer community' or something), but I'm learning the quirks and we (KeiranFTW, nickholtus, championswimmer and me) have set up a nice little team with the Big Project being bringing vanilla AOKP / KangXperiaProject to all 2012 devices. While waiting for the development to gain traction (and for FreeXperia to release their sources), I've also worked on a little side project - porting AOSP / AOKP to the Asus TF101, where I learned a bit about the new quirks introduced in JellyBean and forward-porting ICS stuff. Some more words on the Big Project: first we wait for the Xperia P to get an official ICS update. Then the plan is to try and build JellyBean for the P, just to see if we can make it work with ICS blobs and kernel sources. If we run into some issues that can't be solved without support / blobs from Sony, we'll fall back to building ICS. The Xperia P goes first in any case, then we'll investigate ways we can share the code with other U8500 devices, and release ICS based on Xperia P stuff for those.
As a user
I have a total of 3.5 Android devices: the HTC Desire, the Asus TF101, the Xperia S and the Nexus 7 (shipping). I've fallen in love with HTC when the N1/Desire series was released, but the following (Desire HD, Sensation, IncS) series disappointed me multiple times, so I turned away from HTC and switched to Sony. When it comes to tablets, I've had a lot of good experience with ASUS in the past (desktop components, laptops, network equipment and most of their products really), so the TF101 and now the Nexus 7 were an obvious choice. I'm also an AOSP fanboy (and a hater of most vendor skins), and my faith in AOSP has grown way stronger when ICS, and then JB were released. I sincerely hope that in the future vendors will stop skinning Android and just provide the hardware, but for now I just use custom ROMs wherever possible. I'm currently running AOKP on both the Desire and the TF101 and Sony's stock with Trebuchet launcher on the XPS.
As a person
I'm a geek when it comes to mobile technologies, Linux, board games, anime and Japanese culture in general, quality sound / music and smart computer games (i.e. not Call of Duty and friends), in no particular order. I enjoy playing and designing games as a hobby, though I've never released anything as a developer and some of the ideas never went further than pen and paper prototypes. I'll go into a bit more detail on that later. I don't like people who are too lazy to actually use their brain and RTFM / search before asking, especially when it comes to questions that have been answered multiple times, though I often don't mind the general / off topic chit chat in release (i.e. not dev) threads.
Mobile technologies
I'm an Android fanboy in a good sense, though I try to stay open minded when it comes to iOS, WP8, B2G and other competing products. I've been very enthusiastic about Meego, Maemo and the idea of a Qt/Linux based mobile operating system that is largely compatible with desktop Linux and now I'm closely following the Plasma Active project and the Vivaldi/Spark tablet for largely the same reasons, though I think Linux on tablets is not quite there yet.
Linux
I've never really 'fanboyed' Linux in terms of thinking that Linux > any other OS like some people do. But it works the best for my tasks, and I'm looking forward to the large community growth that is going to happen after Windows 8 is released, as it's going to be a change too big for many people, and the big release of Steam that is hopefully to remedy one of people's most common complaints - gaming. I currently run Arch Linux testing / community-testing / kde-unstable / AUR VCS packages, which is about as unstable as Arch can possibly get, but it somehow works for me.
Board games
I don't like TCG's and other 'collecting' games (except for Warhammer, I enjoy playing it even though I don't have an army of my own), I prefer games that are fun to play with friends and don't take a lot of time and rule reading because you can get more people in, especially those who never played it before. My personal favourites are Risk, Munchkin and (since recently) Cards Against Humanity.
Anime
I love good anime (faves: SE: Lain, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Spice and Wolf, Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu, Soul Eater, Steins;Gate), know about the existence of Japanese music and don't think jRPGs are long and overcomplicated, which already makes me an otaku for some people, though I don't consider myself one.
Quality sound / music
I don't have any specific genre of music I prefer over the rest, there's a special 'Music that I like' genre which includes music that I like. Most common last.fm tags in my library are metal, anime and post rock, if that matters. I also have a weird sense of 'how stuff should sound' that usually involves good headphones and often doesn't have too much in common to how the original performer intended it to sound. I currently use Sony V6 headphones with the Xperia S, my laptop (ASUS N55, Realtek ALC883) or my old Creative Zen player.
Smart computer games
This includes games that actually make you think about what you're doing or about some other matters that exist outside the game world. This includes many indie games (LIMBO, Braid) and excludes most AAA titles (Call of Duty series). I also enjoy hardcore RPGs with as many choices as possible both in the script and in character development. The upcoming games on my wishlist are Torchlight 2, Borderlands 2 (those are not very 'smart', I know, but the originals were really fun, and sometimes it's all that matters), 0x10c, Dishonored, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 (if it's actually developed by Bethesda now) and some other less known projects like Defense Grid. I currently play Skyrim with a bunch of mods, Minecraft with a bunch of friends and re-enjoying Final Fantasy X on my PS2 (which is the only console I own now, and likely the only one I'll own ever).
Whoo, that's been one hell of a long post. Anyway, enjoy and feel free to ask if you have any questions, whether they are dev related or not
P.S. Please, please, don't quote this whole post. If you want to highlight something, remove the rest of the quote.
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Hey guys, I thought I'll introduce myself too, just for the sake of it. It's grown into a quite lengthy post, but anyway, here goes.
As a person
Anime
I love good anime (faves: SE: Lain, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Spice and Wolf, Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu, Soul Eater, Steins;Gate), know about the existence of Japanese music and don't think jRPGs are long and overcomplicated, which already makes me an otaku for some people, though I don't consider myself one.
Smart computer games
This includes games that actually make you think about what you're doing or about some other matters that exist outside the game world. This includes many indie games (LIMBO, Braid) and excludes most AAA titles (Call of Duty series). I also enjoy hardcore RPGs with as many choices as possible both in the script and in character development. The upcoming games on my wishlist are Torchlight 2, Borderlands 2 (those are not very 'smart', I know, but the originals were really fun, and sometimes it's all that matters), 0x10c, Dishonored, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 (if it's actually developed by Bethesda now) and some other less known projects like Defense Grid. I currently play Skyrim with a bunch of mods, Minecraft with a bunch of friends and re-enjoying Final Fantasy X on my PS2 (which is the only console I own now, and likely the only one I'll own ever).
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Gargantuan post!
I love Anime too!. My all time favourite is code geass.
K900,
How did you started developing?
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Erachter said:
K900,
How did you started developing?
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It's a fun story really. I saw the eight-way lock screen on Virtuous Wossname on a friend's DHD and I wanted to have that on my Desire. So I just went ahead, read the docs and built it from Evervolv's tree. I had some experience with random Linux hacking, so I knew my way around makefiles and git, so I got the code together, built it and thought I'll just throw it out there for anyone who wants it. I did and it all kind of snowballed on me.
I thought I might introduce myself too
My first Android powered phone was a HTC Wildfire, which I couldn't flash anything on till about a month after getting it because of HTC and their stupid S-ON bootloader lock. At the time I had to wait for AlphaRev X (a.k.a Revolutionary as it is called now) so I could "unlock" my bootloader and install a custom recovery. This was back in November 2011, and I didn't even know what a kernel was then, you could say I was a noob back then, except I actually knew what the search function is for.
On this, I flashed CyanogenMod 7, and forgot about it, until ICS source code was released (around November) and I didn't know how to build from source so I started learning, helped port from another phone (Droid Eris) and fixed the touchscreen driver in the kernel to get a half working ROM. Unfortunately the Wildfire didn't have a GPU and so support for it was dropped by CM in ICS and that is probably not a bad idea considering the last HTC release was 2.2.1 (Froyo).
I then bought an Xperia PLAY, and started tinkering with development, created a few ROM's based of the stock Sony OTA's, then a few more kernels. But I still wanted to learn to build AOSP from source.
So, I learned how to compile, and how to fix compilation errors, and all that. Then I waited for FreeXperia to release CM9, and they did. It had a few problems though, they were using kernel sources for Arc S ICS beta not meant for the Play, so deep sleep was broken and so was hardware acceleration. So, I got the newer Sony kernel sources meant for the Play for the ICS beta, and rebased their stuff on top of it, added a few optimisations such as zRam and tweaks, and then released it.
Then, one day I had a personal message from FXP asking me where my kernel sources are so he can track them. We had a short conversation and I started working with Jerpelea and the FXP team. I fixed a few things here and there into CM, but nothing major.
I stopped working with FreeXperia after as I didn't agree with some of the rules set in place by the CM team for people developing on CM (I didn't get told them all, you have to be part of the CM team for that) and so I started to lean to AOKP.
Sony then released the Xperia U, and it didn't pick up much developer interest in these forums, there was no recovery. I wanted to develop for the Xperia U, and with FXP confirming CM support on it, I wanted to bring AOSP/AOKP onto it, so I talked with K900 who maintains HTC Desire in AOKP, and we decided to form a team, me, nickholtus, K900 and championswimmer. It is the AOKP Xperia Project.
Then we made recovery (after several attempts (documentation == null)) for the P, U and Sola.
Then the community helped raise funds so I could get an Xperia U (which is awesome btw)
And, now I am here posting on this thread.
Sorry if my English is bad here, I am not used to writing this much
PS: If you want to contribute to AOKP Xperia Project, look here: https://github.com/AOKPXperia, pull requests are welcomed. If you would like to join the team, show us what you got and what you can do.
Keiran
Hey all,
My dad just got a Xperia S for himself...he is in love with it...the design, the looks everything is fantastic... I've never seen him decide on a phone so fast..
Cya!
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I dont know what is wrong with Sony, this is the worst mobile ever! always f...ing WI FI problems in every software, lot of bugs, slow very slow, no one can fix this ****! I root phone and in fast boot shows me that I need to root phone. I want to instal recovery but i cant get market working, wi fi lost every time i try to log in in market. This is terrible. SONY SHAME ON YOU MORONS!
why posting this to share you anger about sony, what we can do about it?
maybe its your router at home, there are enough fast roms, i using stock,locked bl rooted and all and supercharger and nthe newest stuff and my Neo V is flying fast, so i dont know why you post this, just call sony and tell it to them, and not to us we cant help if you get angry on Sony, just stay calm
Fast boot need unlocked bootloader not root
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@Gluove: friendly suggestion, first inform yourself before calling "people" names.
Read something, maybe you will learn how to solve your problems.
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Gluove said:
I dont know what is wrong with Sony, this is the worst mobile ever! always f...ing WI FI problems in every software, lot of bugs, slow very slow, no one can fix this ****! I root phone and in fast boot shows me that I need to root phone. I want to instal recovery but i cant get market working, wi fi lost every time i try to log in in market. This is terrible. SONY SHAME ON YOU MORONS!
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Man,chill out...maybe not phone is the problem,but you,or maybe the phone you've bought have some software issues.. I have this phone from novemeber last year and i didn't had any problem with it,i even watch online movies in browser. (i'm using stock 4.0.4 with unlocked bootloader and custom kernel).
LOL. . who is this guy?
just calm down and read the posts in the dev section.
I think this is the first one of such posts. He calls SONY morons..LOL
TheDarkDefender said:
LOL. . who is this guy?
just calm down and read the posts in the dev section.
I think this is the first one of such posts. He calls SONY morons..LOL
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Indeed, Sony a buch of morons ??
No way they are the best peeps in the world
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Pandemic said:
Indeed, Sony a buch of morons ??
No way they are the best peeps in the world
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haha
Gluove said:
I dont know what is wrong with Sony, this is the worst mobile ever! always f...ing WI FI problems in every software, lot of bugs, slow very slow, no one can fix this ****! I root phone and in fast boot shows me that I need to root phone. I want to instal recovery but i cant get market working, wi fi lost every time i try to log in in market. This is terrible. SONY SHAME ON YOU MORONS!
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@Gluove ... As far as I know...Sony is/was the only company that actively participated with the developers in bringing out a stable ICS versions...It mostly because of them that we have so many Roms flying around...choose any one of the top five Rom threads and install any one of them...I don't think you will have issues like you mentioned here..but then again looking at your frustrated post...i am sure you'll come back with even more problems than you have mentioned...lol...a bit mean here.. but then you did call Sony morons! To be fair to you, its quite possible that you got a faulty hardware on your phone..If you are still on the warranty period...replicate these problems and the Sony "morons" should help you out. However to voice your frustration and to deem the phone model and the company as worst...well my friend..you are pretty much alone there..:silly:
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@Gluove ... As far as I know...Sony is/was the only company that actively participated with the developers in bringing out a stable ICS versions...It mostly because of them that we have so many Roms flying around...choose any one of the top five Rom threads and install any one of them...I don't think you will have issues like you mentioned here..but then again looking at your frustrated post...i am sure you'll come back with even more problems than you have mentioned...lol...a bit mean here.. but then you did call Sony morons! To be fair to you, its quite possible that you got a faulty hardware on your phone..If you are still on the warranty period...replicate these problems and the Sony "morons" should help you out. However to voice your frustration and to deem the phone model and the company as worst...well my friend..you are pretty much alone there..:silly:
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lol.. good one :good:
Yep instead of whinging do a repair with pcc or sues, if errors persist return to vendor. Simple.
Whereas running to a development community for the above device and proclaiming it ##### shows that quite clearly most of your issues begin before the touchscreen.
Also your previous posts imply that you've at least read about and possibly tried, tampering with your kernel and iemi number so no real surprises
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i dont know what made the OP say that SONY is a bunch of [email protected]#$% or #$%^
i am using neo V since last November & it is pretty good for what its worth, try and ask HTC/Samsung to give you an upgrade, HDMI with a cable, Gold Plated point..... even today they are waiting for an ICS upgrade for a few of HTC models which were promised but never delivered....
my personal opinion of Sony,
i have a vaio notebook - using it for a few years, when there was some problem with the model globally - it was repaired for free
my PS2 & PS3 give me the gaming experience that i crave for
Sony Digicam, Walkman have all been good for me
i wont say much for the phone, the others here have already said enough
it may be like an off-topic since i mentioned about other Sony devices, but it is just not fair of a person who cannot accept what is available neither can tweak things to suit his needs to call names for a brand like Sony
SONY
make.believe :highfive: :victory:
Really man, what is wrong with you?
You just seem to do everything in a hurry and then mess it up and put all the blame on Sony!
As far as I know Sony is the most customer friendly mobile company!
Tell me something, which company rolled out their ICS updates on time.. No one! Only Sony did!
You should be at least happy with the fact that you are being provided with the official update from them!
As far Neo goes.. I don't see any other phone in this price range that can match up to the standards of Neo..
Rather than just bashing up the brand for no reason whatsoever, try to look out other posts in xda.. There are complete tutorials, from A- Z everything you need!
Search them!
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Sony is late with thier update to ICS, but it doesn't matter, its have almost no bugs, look at samsung and htc, thier hurry with they ICS and its full of bugs, so who is worst?? Not Sony !!
Sony is a good product, i have a phone from Sony, a ps3 and a stereo, tv with bravia engine, so all what i have is from Sony, so please dont blaim Sony but yourself
Sent from my Xperia Neo V with Supercharged ICS 4.0.4
Please join me in this great cause for further development of of our beloved BEAST! Everyone knows there's a need for better development for this overlooked and underrated device.
DooMLoRD, as you know, is a senior member and one of THE TOP XPERIA Developers so wouldn't it be a great idea since the Sony Xperia Ultra GPe Edition has been discounted by $200 to get ONE in his hands? Since the price is $449.00 let's all get together to chip in and send him one.
He's halfway there and I'll donate the fastest shipping possible to get it to him if we achieve the remaining $250 or so (there should be taxes added to the total) just so we could have his Kernels, Mods, Fixes or whatever!
Everyone knows how hard it is to develop for a device you don't even have in your hands. But DooMLoRD does this time and again - I know this for a fact. Let's give him what he needs for the good of ALL of us who use these forums.
Won't you join in this effort to help this great well known developer who is also a WONDERFUL GUY - let's get this device in his hands as fast as possible! Take a moment and just read through some of these posts and you'll see he's presenting incredible work without thus device in his hands. How cool of him to do that!
So the goal is $250 in addition to the taxes. Anyone can P.M. me with any thoughts, suggestions, questions, or even complaints for that matter. You can contact DooMLoRD or go to his XDA page to find out how to donate to him.
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LordManhattan your point is well taken as I'm sure you know better than I. But by having the Xperia Z Ultra or the Z Ultra GPe he can still help us all one way or another. I think that's already been proven.
Just sayin'...
Could a Mod please move this to the Sony Xperia Z Ultra Development Forum. I'm sorry I made a boo boo!
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I agree. I don't have the GPe version, but I've waited for a GPe+Sony compatibility for ages. Why isn't it happening?! The GPe Ultra got released back in December (?) and it's still completely dead.
Sure, the Ultra is a niche device and the Ultra GPe is even more niche, so that's understandable, but we have some great devs around here including some promising kernel devs too, so I guess those two together could solve it? Or? That's the only barrier left around here. Do you guys know what the Galaxy S4 (bootloader) bounty is? It's over $4,000! Do you know how high the ROOT bounty, yes ROOT bounty for the S5 is? Over $10,000! Moto X? $1200.
We are ****ing lucky if I dare say. OP, I understand what you're trying to do and we do have a lot of custom ROMs around here, but people with the Xperia version are pretty happy right now, BUT our last venture is the GPe. If we can get a Sony ROM over to an Xperia phone, then we'll be done. We'll actually be done, while other people on Samsung and what not will be crying.
Point: We're incredible lucky. We'll want Android 4.5/5 in june/july (after I/O). What do we do when the time comes? Wait a couple of weeks. We'll get the GPe version to back us up! All we need is one single dev that knows his **** and completes it.
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We are ****ing lucky if I dare say. OP, I understand what you're trying to do and we do have a lot of custom ROMs around here, but people with the Xperia version are pretty happy right now, BUT our last venture is the GPe. If we can get a Sony ROM over to an Xperia phone, then we'll be done. We'll actually be done, while other people on Samsung and what not will be crying.
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At OP: At the moment we can easily port @DooMLoRD's work but it would be nice for him to support our device
@LordManhattan If the script I have just been working on works for Custom ROMs I dont think it will be too much to get custom Sony ROMs working on the GPe
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At OP: At the moment we can easily port @DooMLoRD's work but it would be nice for him to support our device
@LordManhattan If the script I have just been working on works for Custom ROMs I dont think it will be too much to get custom Sony ROMs working on the GPe
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I, and probably some other people might love you if you get this working, and shower you in blue cod and grey mullet!
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LordManhattan said:
I, and probably some other people might love you if you get this working, and shower you in blue cod and grey mullet!
Sent from my Z Ultra
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/me looks over at the fishtank in the corner and wonders how you will get my grey mullet from there to the shower
Way OT
From when they were tiny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EljAZnC7taY
Hey guys I am interested I'm developing for either of these devices... If you think GPe needs more attention then so be it...
Btw whats the issue with flashing sony ftf on GPe? It should work! What issue are you facing...
Remember I got GPe rom ported over to ZU normal and Z1 so I know a thing or two
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Hey guys I am interested I'm developing for either of these devices... If you think GPe needs more attention then so be it...
Btw whats the issue with flashing sony ftf on GPe? It should work! What issue are you facing...
Remember I got GPe rom ported over to ZU normal and Z1 so I know a thing or two
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Flashing a FTF seems to brick the GPe. If I remember right they has slightly different partition layout or was it bootloader?
blueether said:
Flashing a FTF seems to brick the GPe. If I remember right they has slightly different partition layout or was it bootloader?
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You flash only system & kernel partitions
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You flash only system & kernel partitions
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Dat be tru
if you flash a non _gpe ROM to the GPe some users have reported that it wont boot, doing it the other way around, the only way I can test, it will boot but baseband is missing. The GPe seems to chuck *everything* into /system/etc/firmware/ where the ZU doesn't. The GPe also includes the same blobs as the ZU as well.
I have a update.zip that should get the radio working if a GPe user wants to test it out (see separate thread if you do). If it doesn't want to boot then it will need a little more work...
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Dat be tru
if you flash a non _gpe ROM to the GPe some users have reported that it wont boot, doing it the other way around, the only way I can test, it will boot but baseband is missing. The GPe seems to chuck *everything* into /system/etc/firmware/ where the ZU doesn't. The GPe also includes the same blobs as the ZU as well.
I have a update.zip that should get the radio working if a GPe user wants to test it out (see separate thread if you do). If it doesn't want to boot then it will need a little more work...
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all new sony handset variant need different basebands..
just create a update.zip with all the files from /system/etc/firmware from original ZU GPe KitKat and flash it over the ZU Sony firmware system
device will easily boot
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all new sony handset variant need different basebands..
just create a update.zip with all the files from /system/etc/firmware from original ZU GPe KitKat and flash it over the ZU Sony firmware system
device will easily boot
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that is what I've done, just no GPe owners have piped up yet that they want to test it. I was hoping that the same method would work for stock Sony as well. Just create a zip like I have done in the past and include the firmware dir from the GPe dump.
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Hey guys I am interested I'm developing for either of these devices... If you think GPe needs more attention then so be it...
Btw whats the issue with flashing sony ftf on GPe? It should work! What issue are you facing...
Remember I got GPe rom ported over to ZU normal and Z1 so I know a thing or two
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Just got mine today, but will get the urge to flash stuff before long.
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adfurgerson said:
Just got mine today, but will get the urge to flash stuff before long.
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thanks for your kind donation of 40 USD!
i request you to please hold on before sending donations!
lets first be sure that there are adequate users who are pledging (ready to donate)... once we reach target only then start sending in donations! i dont want you guys to feel cheated incase there arent enough pledges and target is not reached!
regards,
DooMLoRD
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thanks for your kind donation of 40 USD!
i request you to please hold on before sending donations!
lets first be sure that there are adequate users who are pledging (ready to donate)... once we reach target only then start sending in donations! i dont want you guys to feel cheated incase there arent enough pledges and target is not reached!
regards,
DooMLoRD
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If you fall short just use it as you see fit. I benefited from all your work back when I had an X10.
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If you fall short just use it as you see fit. I benefited from all your work back when I had an X10.
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glad to see old x10 users
ALL Questions Should Finally Be Put To Rest
For the record, as many of you now know, DooMLoRD is THE Lord for a damn good reason. Check out his Xperia Download page (http://doomlord.xperia-files.com) and see for yourselves he's already proven just how capable of a developer he already is. Plus since Sony has matched Google' pricing either device could easily be in his hands by the end of this month. C'mon people we've all used his work at some point since the X10 and he clearly stated he'd ..."be interested I'm developing for either of these devices!.
How hard could it be to muster up another 14 members (minimum) to donate at least $20? In the end we'd be GUARANTEED a Bona fide Z Ultra Developer who would instantly improve development for our devices. Something that has been lacking since it's release.
Thank you ADFURGERSON for stepping up to the plate and donating!
I pledge 20 minimum more if needed Ieft note 3 for this device I crave development!!
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Bump 4 my Bro DooMLoRD!
As we know that xperia overlay is now available on 2011 lagacy xperia devices such as arc, neo, ray etc
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2799730
I am waiting for it to come on our devices , they are saying that they need some donations so that they can buy 2012 line xperia devices or anyone can help them as far as i know.
So i created a thread on discussion and latest news regarding to it, feel free to share your knowledge
I want it !
I, and I think many other people on XDA, don't need this KitKat modded Sony ROM.
First because I don't like Sony UI (it's personal).
And I read what says the guys who make this project. It's a mad and arrogant guy (see this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=53784524&postcount=3).
After, I don't like guys want donations just for them, pretext that they really need to develop.
That's all for me.
Now please don't talk about this ROM just because this team have maked KitKat with Sony UI and apps. Look what there is behind a ROM project before.
Have a good day/night !
I tend to agree with I4G regarding Sony's UI! It's just ugly! ?
i think sola users already have one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-u/sola-development/rom-ultraxperia-v1-55-t2772196
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i think sola users already have one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-u/sola-development/rom-ultraxperia-v1-55-t2772196
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its based on cyanogenmod
im talking about complete z2 build
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I, and I think many other people on XDA, don't need this KitKat modded Sony ROM.
First because I don't like Sony UI (it's personal).
And I read what says the guys who make this project. It's a mad and arrogant guy (see this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=53784524&postcount=3).
After, I don't like guys want donations just for them, pretext that they really need to develop.
That's all for me.
Now please don't talk about this ROM just because this team have maked KitKat with Sony UI and apps. Look what there is behind a ROM project before.
Have a good day/night !
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about arrogance , well munjeni was a little arrogant too, why are everyone against them ?
about donations, well who knows they might need some
and about ui, sony has good ui better than cm11
abbas23 said:
about arrogance , well munjeni was a little arrogant too, why are everyone against them ?
about donations, well who knows they might need some
and about ui, sony has good ui better than cm11
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This is my personal opinion after all.
Yes, munjeni was little arrogant, everyone have a part of arrogance, but this guy takes people a little too high, as if he was one of the best developer on XDA. As if everyone had something. I do not like it, I could never work with someone like that.
I know many developers on XDA who made many things about our Xperias, except that they did not ask for donations to reward their work, they just leave a donation button like many people here.
At one point, must stop abusing and mocking people.
After that remains my only and personal opinion.
EDIT: About Sony UI > :laugh:
If you think that munjeni is arrogant you don't know munjeni.
Info4Geek said:
I, and I think many other people on XDA, don't need this KitKat modded Sony ROM.
First because I don't like Sony UI (it's personal).
And I read what says the guys who make this project. It's a mad and arrogant guy (see this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=53784524&postcount=3).
After, I don't like guys want donations just for them, pretext that they really need to develop.
That's all for me.
Now please don't talk about this ROM just because this team have maked KitKat with Sony UI and apps. Look what there is behind a ROM project before.
Have a good day/night !
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Hi, i understand your point, and you are right because its somme time that i am complaining about stuffs without doing what i shuld realy do (develop)
the problem I and our team have is that our firmware that we created is a real firmware and not a moded rom ( wich is realy dificult to explain and make pepole belive)
many pepole think that our firmware is just a moded and themed rom wich is not real, and what we ask to xda is just to ask somme developers totest and check rom structure and write a post on portal about what Xperia Overlay realy is .
in past when this project started many great devs told that its impossible , but times has changed and pepoe are inconstianely thinkink of moded rom.
we ask for donations yes but only for the project, what that means ? that mans that all donations are used to get devices that we dont have to be able tom make the firmware for them, but also ther is the need to keep the website online creat OTA update posibility (right now we use otaupdatecenter) wich will be depending on us and not third party software that need root, we also want to put the firmwares on our proper server to allow pepole to download and install them without waiting too long and havin many adds with download link like we found on dev host and onther hosting websites
i honestly dont see in how i am arrogant, i am helping pepole via PM when they have problem with rom installation , i responc to questions and take all critics to good use , for me it will be a pleasur to make our firmware for your 2012 line devices, but when we dont have the device is complicated ,
in past we trayed but we got blamed because we wasnt able to make stable builds as we can not test them and ther is too much devices and we are not so many pepole on working on it to it,
its for that reason that i asked to developers who want to join xperia overlay dev team to write us email on [email protected] so we can work with other devs to bring the firmware
right now we are separating the project by 2 part first is creation and features bugfix and all os relaeed stuffs on us (owners)
and second part are indepandent developers who will make the firmware boot for devices with all needed information and code that they need to do it
but we need that pepole know about our works and its dificult when almost everyone think that its impossible , pleas understand us
I personnaly developed since 2010 on xda and had done a lot of open source work, like gingerbread features port to froyo etc.. and put all on github, also was part of freexperia team and worked on cm bringing , then i decided to do somethink that a lot of pepoe was asking, a real and full firmware with everithink working to update theyr xperia headest, now we are close o our objective and we need the support of pepoles ,
i will say he last think about myself , is that when i was working for xperia x10 , one guy here on xda helped me a lot with donations, help etc...
once i got all needed stufs that i was needed to retake the work back and had finiched my personal releated problems i donated 2x more to that guy for his help and support, we are not here to make money but a big project without any revenue is dificult, but we always use the donations we god for developement only, now i am not asking for donations, cause right now our team is searching xperia min of 2011 line, cause we have now the neccessery money to purshace a used phone but its dificult to finde, so when we will finde one we will work on it, so if evn comunity donate to us for 2012 line of xperia devices it will not be so quick to make the firmware as we promised the firmware for 2011 line first
if you have any critics tips, suggestions we are always happe to hear from comunity wich we are part to improve our work and our policy
thank you
cheers
Achotjan
Achotjan said:
if you have any critics tips, suggestions we are always happe to hear from comunity wich we are part to improve our work and our policy
thank you
cheers
Achotjan
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I appreciate your coming all the way here to answer queries and telling us your plans. But don't you think your saying that you will only develop for 2012 devices when you get that device is a little too much. There are many great devs for our devices like the aosx team etc. And development is all about teamwork. If i make a great rom thats bcoz of works of so many good people who enjoy working with others and appreciate the open spirit of Android .
Who will know us is if there are not people who appreciate and continue our work. No one will take away what you did, it's yours, but it's how u handle it will decide how many people know about it.
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I appreciate your coming all the way here to answer queries and telling us your plans. But don't you think your saying that you will only develop for 2012 devices when you get that device is a little too much. There are many great devs for our devices like the aosx team etc. And development is all about teamwork. If i make a great rom thats bcoz of works of so many good people who enjoy working with others and appreciate the open spirit of Android .
Who will know us is if there are not people who appreciate and continue our work. No one will take away what you did, it's yours, but it's how u handle it will decide how many people know about it.
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Hi, i maybe writed to quickly and ther is misunderstood... i has told that right now i am locking for 2011 MDPI (mini) device on wich i will work,
and i told that we dont need donations right now cause we need to work for 2011 first, i will not develop for 2012 xperia devices only... i will work for them all, cause i am working on the firmware bringing and want to separate the developement in 2 partie,
1st me and my team will work on z2 z3 etc... firmware rewriting,
and the teams or independent developers who want tojoin us will get all needed informations and souce code that they need to make it boot on their devices.
about the source code , i dont like the fact that everyone are blaming me to not share them , they will not do it if they had created it, just because they would have juridical problems with sony mobile, we had somme rules to respect and one importent one is not make xperia overlay source public, wich i personnaly promised to sony mobile,
pleas understand us, we work for xperia, but when source code available all device developers can make it work on theyr devices wich will be a hudge problem,
we are respecting the rules gived by Sony Mobile wich is :
- not share source code
- not build firmware for non sony/ericsson devices
and we are respecting those rules
by the way, even if we release the source code of it in every new android version the firmware change compleatly wich means that we need to do all from scrash, i already gived the way on howto make it, and how we do, ther is no magic
for all developers who want to do what we done its realy simple, decompile the framework packages, compare with AOSP framework package and see the changes that are done, and then rewrite all that into aosp source code by translating from smali languages to java
cheers
Achotjan
Achotjan said:
for all developers who want to do what we done its realy simple, decompile the framework packages, compare with AOSP framework package and see the changes that are done, and then rewrite all that into aosp source code by translating from smali languages to java
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Achotjan
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Talk about die hard Xperia ui fan, reverse engineering Sony code.
I might as well create a new rom with that skill.
alwaysadeel said:
Talk about die hard Xperia ui fan, reverse engineering Sony code.
I might as well create a new rom with that skill.
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ok guys as i see i am not apreciated at all here, well what can I say.. i will let you discuss and
I will work on my side .....
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Achotjan
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ok guys as i see i am not apreciated at all here, well what can I say.. i will let you discuss and
I will work on my side .....
cheers
Achotjan
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No its not that, ur work might be awesome and everything. But i will know when i use it. Till then good luck
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I seem to be a noob here among the big developers but let me say something
Its a discussion thread guys, you need to unite not divide stop fighting please
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BTW can you share the camera app ? And how did you manage to make it work ?
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abbas23 said:
BTW can you share the camera app ? And how did you manage to make it work ?
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wich camera app ?
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Achotjan
The one you have used in xperia overlay
Is it only compatible to that rom or it works on all kk roms such as cm11 ? Sorry for asking too much
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abbas23 said:
The one you have used in xperia overlay
Is it only compatible to that rom or it works on all kk roms such as cm11 ? Sorry for asking too much
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it is compatible with other aosp or cm11 rom, tray to install the app and see if it work, i havent put any extra dependency, this is not my creation my xperia overlay camera is in developement and when done it will replace current camera app, however new one will be rom dependent
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Achotjan