Big request for developers - Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A

Dear Developers,
I know, that lot´s of you don´t have Xperia Mini Pro with great HW keyboard, but a litlle have it. Every Developer, every ROM is great, amazing design, amazing funkcion, but almost ROM have one big problem, that dont support our HW keyboard Please, pause releasing a ROM, and make working HW keyboard, Full working HW keyboard for all ROM... I isn´t speak for me, but I speak for all XMP users Thanks. Every Developer is BOSS for me !!
Sorry for my terrible English O

2kan said:
Please, pause releasing a ROM, and make working HW keyboard
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you do realize that you need quite different skills when it comes to developing ROMs and apps, right? and unfortunately I guess it would've been already done if it were possible.

hmmm..
Dear Developers,
I know, that lot´s of you don´t have Xperia Mini Pro with great HW keyboard, but a litlle have it. Every Developer, every ROM is great, amazing design, amazing funkcion, but almost ROM have one big problem, that dont support our HW keyboard Please, pause releasing a ROM, and make working HW keyboard, Full working HW keyboard for all ROM... I isn´t speak for me, but I speak for all XMP users Thanks. Every Developer is BOSS for me !!
Sorry for my terrible English O
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i'm not a dev but maybe its a solution for you if u using STOCK-based rom....
--> pranav pandey (who maked xNXT ROM) released a fully working keyboard that also has fully working HW keyboard..
you can extract it from (xNXT) - Addons v2; but it has a custom signing so you have to look if it works on ur rom;
when not try to replace androidmanifest.xml in keyboard.apk FROM your ROMs keyboard with 7.zip
OR search for stock-signed version (have only seen version for xNXT...)
good luck.
also i think, like said before, its mostly impossible to make a universal workink HW keyboard zip for most roms, sry

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[ROM] Cyanogen Froyo CM6-Latest (based on MiniCM) - v6.01 - created by slade87
I didn’t have any problems with this ROM, slade87 tried to take out the Sony’s stuff and it works.
The camera app it’s different from the other ones (I couldn’t figure it out but I think it’s the default android app?)
You could say bye bye to the album of SE, cause there is an app called Gallery 3D, it’s pretty good and simple.
I’ll be honest, I never like ADW, I’m more a Launcher Pro guy, but this theme, it’s smooth and with the option to “separate” the apps from each other’s it’s great.
The Flash player doesn’t work on the browser (damn you SE) but it’s installed so you can open swf files. (I didn’t try)
Bugs I found:
- Seems like, the keyboard light turns on with the keyboard closed :S (I think it’s fixable thanks to D4rKn3sSyS)
- The sms doesn’t have the option to save costs to.
- It’s possible to access the power options (by pressing the power button) even the phone it’s lock.
[ROM] Cyanogen Gingerbread CM7 based on MiniCM for MiniPro (v15.0) - created by slade87
What a disappointment… I was expecting much more from this ROM 
The best:
The profiles in the power options, that my friend it’s a damn good idea!
The worst/bugs:
The wifi was crazy, it was almost impossible to download via market the Quadrant Standard Edition to benchmark this ROM.
The camera doesn’t support full resolution (I think slade it’s working on that)
The screen goes off when it feels like, I mean even if you are navigating throw the menu, the screen goes off.
When someone calls you, the option to answer or not it’s in front of the name.
The sms doesn’t have the option to save costs to
It’s possible to access the power options (by pressing the power button) even the phone it’s lock.
[ROM]CyaNo (R)Evolution v1.3 & CyaNoComb v1.2 - created by slade87
This is a cleaner version of Cyanogen Froyo CM6-Latest (based on MiniCM) - v6.01.
The bugs are the same except:
It’s possible to access the power options (by pressing the power button) even the phone it’s lock.
[ROM] SonyBread 4.0 Final - created by paul-xxx
I couldn’t run this ROM because it loop in the gingerbread boot animation
[ROM 16-07-2011] Andread 2.2.9 Pro v7f - created by pumakkiotto
Sorry but I couldn’t review totally this ROM because of the updates :S My phone stuck at SE logo every time I tried to update with the “fix c.1.0 ok.zip” file.
The phone reboot one time while I was using the voice app, don’t know I why but isn’t important.
The camera app it’s very good, lots of options I think it’s the vignette app (correct me if I’m wrong)
The launcher it’s simple and cool, but doesn’t support horizontal mode.
This is a very lightly and fast ROM, very good work
Bugs I found:
- The keyboard layout (I didn’t test the slade87 method, but I think it works )
- The launcher doesn’t save the order of apps.
- The sms doesn’t have the option to save costs
[ROM] CyaNoComb v1.3 - created by D4rKn3sSyS
I couldn’t test this ROM at all because the setup wizard always stops after I change the clock settings and then I don’t have a launcher :S
I tried to install the ROM twice.
This is the cost saving I'm talking about, I take this screen shot from the SONY's ROM
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Reserved! =)
bugs find in latest version of roms
hi im running slade´s minicm 5.0 when i install 6.0 or 6.01 my app jbed java emulator dont work anymore. but it does en 5.0, i try Paul sonybread too and all works fine exept my java emulator. its say {no sd card present or maybe sd card is busy please chek it} the emulator installs fine but midlets dont run just says that and close.same fot froyocomb 1.6 and minicm 7, maybe a wrong lib file or line on build.prop? can somebody give me a hand or a hint? i really use this app. but want to jump to 6.01 or sonybread. thanks in advance.
First of all i am not a developer.
But i think it is a bad idea. Developers dont compete. Ui is what you make it too and everyone has different taste..
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Snusdus said:
First of all i am not a developer.
But i think it is a bad idea. Developers dont compete. Ui is what you make it too and everyone has different taste..
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i absolutely agree with that.
A batery test alone would be nice. I've seen differences on up to 300 % from slades android 2.3 v 15 to his 2.2 cyan revolution alone. Other than that i think a comparison of features set up nice would help people, a test alone is kinda silly.
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Snusdus said:
First of all i am not a developer.
But i think it is a bad idea. Developers dont compete. Ui is what you make it too and everyone has different taste..
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his right.
and i dont think the dev want to enter this contest and compete with each other.basically all the rom are same.
What would be usefull is some kind of comparison. So new users can make a choice easier.
But don't you see, developers will not be submitting their roms to compete. That's not the point in xda.
XDA ♥
djx24 said:
So with so many roms out there, I thought maybe it's a good idea to make a test to all of them.
I'm gonna give them a score from 0 to 10 to:
- Bugs
- Users vote
- Interface
- Graphics
- CPU
- Battery
- Apps that are already installed
- Others stuff
I think it's fare enough to give a preparation time to all developers, thus I'm gonna review all the ROM that has been submitted to me, by the developer of that ROM,in a PM before 23:59:59 (UTC+1) 22nd July.
After that I'm gona download all the last versions of the ROMs submitted unitl that day.
I hope the developers like the ideia =)
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the idea is not sooo bad
maybe you could see that CM is not forever the best rom in xda
it is sad that all roms are basicly a CM6 ROM
CM is good but a little bit new would be interessting
It's not a competition! It's like a comparable chart for new users, don't get me wrong please!
djx24 said:
It's not a competition! It's like a comparable chart for new users, don't get me wrong please!
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I suggest changing the thread title, it suggests a competition. As of right now, you have developers working together using fixes,optimizations from each other to make all the roms better and more stable, i see no reason to change that. Even just rating them still creates a competition in rankings, let alone the fact that your experience with a rom could be far different than what another user will have. This is evident in the rom threads themselves as some users experience bugs and others don't.
I think it's best to leave it as it is, comment on your experiences with the roms, rank them as you wish, just make sure that everyone knows its just your opinion and not a contest or competition.
Why don't you just review the ROM's if you want to review them? I don't see the need to set a certain time and date, why should the developers work to your timescale?
coversnail said:
Why don't you just review the ROM's if you want to review them? I don't see the need to set a certain time and date, why should the developers work to your timescale?
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Hmm yeah you're right! Good idea!
I'm gonna do that in the next week, anyone want to review them with me?
flex96 said:
the idea is not sooo bad
maybe you could see that CM is not forever the best rom in xda
it is sad that all roms are basicly a CM6 ROM
CM is good but a little bit new would be interessting
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yeah but what could you change? You cant add new features, only change the stock Apps and look. Thats it!
Btw a rom with only new features but no "custom" stuff would be nice, so new "devs" have a nice blank rom to start customizing it! =)
they all suck.
100% done.
Dr.Pat said:
they all suck.
100% done.
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Not all, Your's it's cool, [email protected]?
Lol epic
The roms that i'm going to review are on the first topic, please be free to tell me if I forgot someone or something
10 out of 10 for enthusiasm but I think you should make clear from the start its your opinion if you really want to go ahead and do it.
When I first bought my phone I knew zero.
I don't know much now but everything I've learned and decided to do on this phone I've done through reading, and through trial & error.
My opinion is that beginners should learn for themselves, by trying for themselves...not being told
But thats my opinion.

Porting GingerZaraki to the Mini

Hey guys I'm RohinZaraki of the X8 forums...recently i started developing my own rom; GingerZaraki and since then, I've had 3 PM's asking me to port this rom for the Mini...and I even recieved this...so I wanted to ask you guys, would you really want this ROM for your phones and if so, are there any experienced testers here ? I don't know anyone here so I can't handpick Beta testers like i did in the X8 forums..if I see people interested in wanting this ROM for the Mini, this thread will be turned into a disscussion thread for the rom till it's released in the Dev section Btw, I have a 2 week break so you better make your decision fast so I can start my work early
Hope to hear from you guys soon
-RZ
P.S. No trolling or flamming...
Test builds
This is where I'm going to post test builds for you guys to test and report .
Build 1-Based on GingerZaraki V02. Bugs : Lags, no torchlight option, no squash imput keyboard.
Build 2-Changes : Added squash imput, Added torch.apk, merged and added many tweaks from my unreleased V03 test build to help with the lags. Bugs : ??? (Awaiting testers)
Kernel?
Hi bro and thanks to port this rom but,
is for stock or nAa Kernel?
RohinZaraki said:
I'm done with the rom...idk if it'll even boot...anyone willing to test ?
Here's the link http://code.google.com/p/gingerzaraki/downloads/detail?name=GingerZaraki-v01-robyn.zip&can=2&q=
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Wich kernel?
Only nAa 11
Edit : Do you guys have any other custom kernel for the X10 Mini besides stock, nAa 11 and nAa's ICS kernel ??
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Only nAa 11
Edit : Do you guys have any other custom kernel for the X10 Mini besides stock, nAa 11 and nAa's ICS kernel ??
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No, besides... nAa kernel RULES.
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alrighty then test and provide some feedback...my main concern now is if it'll boot in the 1st place
Hi and thanks for port this ROM for X10 Mini, but you can port for X10 Mini Pro???
herbesi01 said:
Hi and thanks for port this ROM for X10 Mini, but you can port for X10 Mini Pro???
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I can try but 1st thing's 1st, I have to see if it works on the Mini first I see 5 people have downloaded the test ROM. Hope there's some feedback soon
you can add features and changelog? and the diference with mini cm 7 2.2.0 for nAa
Changelog is in the rom itself under CM settings/System/View changelog. As for the features, you can check it out in my original thread. Click on my sig
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Can we have screenshots?
cool!
Thats cool vro..(^^)/ thanks!
Nice work!
Install: OK
Boot: OK
Works: OK
Bugs: Longpress Homebutton on lockscreen to turn on flashlight does not work
Profile option in settings-menu is misaligned (small annoyance really, see screenshot)
Gallery feels slow and unresponsive (don't know why, it's the same as on other roms and it usually works fairly smooth)
Every now and then the UI is unresponsive, it detects all presses you do, but reacts very late, so if you press a second time because an option or app doesn't react immediately, it will send you through to whatever that option or app expects from a tap in that same area. (hope that I explain myself clearly enough)
Overall impression: fairly smooth, clean, basic CM7
Suggestion: Add SE Squashiinput (or other clean t9) keyboard, standard android full qwerty keyboard is a pain on our small screen.
edit: Desperately missing Homescreen/Appdrawer options, dock is locked, so not able to change the apps launched from there (I use my messaging app more than the browser, so i want to change that)
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Nice work!
Install: OK
Boot: OK
Works: OK
Bugs: Longpress Homebutton on lockscreen to turn on flashlight does not work
Profile option in settings-menu is misaligned (small annoyance really, see screenshot)
Gallery feels slow and unresponsive (don't know why, it's the same as on other roms and it usually works fairly smooth)
Every now and then the UI is unresponsive, it detects all presses you do, but reacts very late, so if you press a second time because an option or app doesn't react immediately, it will send you through to whatever that option or app expects from a tap in that same area. (hope that I explain myself clearly enough)
Overall impression: fairly smooth, clean, basic CM7
Suggestion: Add SE Squashiinput (or other clean t9) keyboard, standard android full qwerty keyboard is a pain on our small screen.
edit: Desperately missing Homescreen/Appdrawer options, dock is locked, so not able to change the apps launched from there (I use my messaging app more than the browser, so i want to change that)
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Thanks so much ok for the torch bug, im not too sure, may have to port the feature from a X10 Mini rom. As for the launcher, its stock 2.3 launcher so there's no customization for it you can easily download a new one from the play store As for the t9 keyboard, I'll see what i can do and as for the unresponsiveness, there has been many performance tweaks and modifications to my X8 version since the one i posted here i'll be sure to merge and implement those tweaks in the 2nd build
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You might want to consider posting this rom in the x10 mini development section
I will I just wanted to make sure there are people interested in the ROM first. Plus, the Mods said you can open a thread in the general section to plan developing something ...plus i need to know if it works in the 1st place
@Everyone else : Expect a 2nd test build soon
Uploading Build 2 What to expect ; Added squash imput, Added torch.apk, merged and added many tweaks from my unreleased V03 test build to help with the lags
Build 2 is up please test and report
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Can we have screenshots?
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Check out my ROM for the X8 screenshots are there...link is in my sig

[Q]Working lights,speakers,button

I have come across many promising roms in this forum and I want to desperately try them but I stop at the last moment...
The main reason being that-
1)The walkman button doesnt work properly in the custom roms(Although a tweak has been reported,it doesnt close the player as in the stock version)
2)The light effects dont work
3)Both the speakers dont work all the time,though the dual speaker fix has come a great rescue.
So my question-
Are there custom roms solely developed for LWW??(with everything working)
Are Devs working on LWW??
There is a MIUI, specially made for LWW, however not sure about the functionality at the moment.
Yeah I saw it,the comments said there are a few bugs
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I installed MiniCMSandwich today,it also has problems,the light doesnt work,both speakers work only with xloud

[Q] Searching for an developer for CyanogenMod 10 Keyboard Mod

Hello.
I hope I post this on the right place now. Sorry for posting it on another place too, but i think this noob question isn't well seen in the other forum
I have an Xperia Pro and now I am using PAC Man rom and CM10. But I am not very happy with the hardware keyboard on both Roms.
So I am searching for an developer who would make an Mod with an Stock Liked Hardware Keyboard. That means, the "Sym" Key should work and insert from "äöüß" shoulkd be easier. In the stock rom I press on the "aous" a moment, pop-up apperas, for german the "aous" are selected automatically, and for further write this letter is inserted automatically. at CM must be confirmed via touch or enter.
The Sym-Key now works, the äöü is one thing of getting used. But is really miss the smilies in the Sym-Menu.
I'd like do it myself, but I don't have the time and for all I don't have knowledge in that.
I think the hole Xperia Pro CM Community would be happy for that. I would pay a little bit for the work.
Regards
Christoph

Sk17i (Mango) Mini pro keyboard

I am trying to port xperia mini pro keyboard from original stock rom to cyanogen, but still i did not manage to have good news...
the fact is that we sk17i users need it because of autocorrection on physical keyboard which is not supported by android stock keyboard. also i love t9 in portrait with slide keyboard closed... so it would be great to have the original keyboard software
what i've done for now is to install it: i can see it in the keyboard list, but as i select it, it keeps crashing...
i am sure i am not considering some files, but really i dont know what i could flash....
can somebody more experienced do something for all mini pro users?
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Thank you for your thread! I hope someone will help us, because i also want this to be working, but my main purpose is the emoticons (smileys) to get work with hardware keyboard, the SYM button. ( LIKE THIS)
I tried to do this and asked for help but everybody says: it is impossible because of the copyright...but i dont think SE will come here and see my phone what keyboard i use...
So come on DEVs MAKE IT! And CM10 will the best ROM ever. Thank you! :good:
sym, globe, and blue square (for special letters and numbers) and also the caps lock are not working good on other keyboards, also missing the autocorrect feature which is essential for languages like italian (full of stresses on vowels)
so having the SAME keyboard as the stock firmware on cyanogen would be GREAT
Check my thread buddy. Xperia flavour on CM10. I include the Xperia S keyboard for Cyanogenmod. But auto correction for physical keyboard still not working and m working on it otherwise everything is working fine.
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xperiaminipro86 said:
sym, globe, and blue square (for special letters and numbers) and also the caps lock are not working good on other keyboards, also missing the autocorrect feature which is essential for languages like italian (full of stresses on vowels)
so having the SAME keyboard as the stock firmware on cyanogen would be GREAT
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couldn't have put it better myself,
+1 for this feature
also accents are not in the right order when using CM10 roms,
example : "SYM + e" should give => "é" as first choice not "è" with azerty frech settings (becaus "é" is used way more often) and this minor detail has a major impact on whether I use that rom or not...
thank you for the tip, but as long as there's no autocorrection on physical keyboard, for languages such as italian is very slow to write words with correct accents...
so if we could be able to run stock mini pro keyboard it would be great
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Check my thread buddy. Xperia flavour on CM10. I include the Xperia S keyboard for Cyanogenmod. But auto correction for physical keyboard still not working and m working on it otherwise everything is working fine.
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I have installed Xperia S keyboard. it is working fine with the onscreen keyboard. But with physical keyboard we dont have smileys and etc..
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anyone can help?
am writing this comment for almost the third time but i did ask M66B once about this and he told me that it works by a low yeild driver so unless SE releases this driver this wont work or at least that's what i understood by his reply , anyhow u could contact him for more help, and ya that would be damn awesome cuz am too lazy to type the whole word + i love the symbols button
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am writing this comment for almost the third time but i did ask M66B once about this and he told me that it works by a low yeild driver so unless SE releases this driver this wont work or at least that's what i understood by his reply , anyhow u could contact him for more help, and ya that would be damn awesome cuz am too lazy to type the whole word + i love the symbols button
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SE released a method how to unlock the bootloader to help devs...so i dont understand what the problem is? And why SE didnt release "the driver" for this to work..
sutyi said:
SE released a method how to unlock the bootloader to help devs...so i dont understand what the problem is? And why SE didnt release "the driver" for this to work..
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Sony is releasing some drivers to help FXP for 2012 series but not for 2011 :/
this should be in general forums
moezaka said:
Sony is releasing some drivers to help FXP for 2012 series but not for 2011 :/
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hope they'll do something like that.... i can't wait to install cyanogen mod on my xperia and have a full working keyboard!
Isn't anyone missing the swipe function of stock? I neva used to type, just slide around on screen, so it's a big blow forme. Currently using SwiftKey keyboard.
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Sony is releasing some drivers to help FXP for 2012 series but not for 2011 :/
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any news about these drivers and xperia mini pro stock hardware keyboard?
This has been already released somewhere here.
Here's the link for a working keyboard with xmp.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=39516551
Envoyé depuis mon SK17i
nori971 said:
This has been already released somewhere here.
Here's the link for a working keyboard with xmp.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=39516551
Envoyé depuis mon SK17i
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It still not support the hardware keyboard, i gave the "Thanks" to fast...
moezaka said:
Sony is releasing some drivers to help FXP for 2012 series but not for 2011 :/
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So F**K Sony!
shyam4ever said:
Check my thread buddy. Xperia flavour on CM10. I include the Xperia S keyboard for Cyanogenmod. But auto correction for physical keyboard still not working and m working on it otherwise everything is working fine.
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any news for auto correction and globe, blu and caps keys?
xperiaminipro86 said:
any news for auto correction and globe, blu and caps keys?
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No :crying:

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