Howzit going guys.Im in the process of UPDATING my old Sony Xperia mini X10 (served me well for 5 years) to a newer Sony Ericsson XPERIA Mini ST15i
My question is, Do I just plug it in to my Sony companion and it will upgrade by itself or do I have to do some rooting and stuff?
According to Sony Ericsson XPERIA Mini ST15i specs it is running on 2.3(Gingerbread) right now but upgradeable to 4.0 ( I beleive Ice cream sandwich)
My main purpose is to maybe speed it up a bit plus theres so many apps that requires Android 3.0 and above so just staying with 2.3 my apps are limited
Any help is greatly appreciated
Thanks folks
Congrats for your upgrade yes. Just plug it and PC companion will ask you to update. Performance wise actually gingerbread is faster, but ICS is the bare minimum for todays app compatibility soo yeah just upgrade it.
Advancemars said:
Howzit going guys.Im in the process of UPDATING my old Sony Xperia mini X10 (served me well for 5 years) to a newer Sony Ericsson XPERIA Mini ST15i
My question is, Do I just plug it in to my Sony companion and it will upgrade by itself or do I have to do some rooting and stuff?
According to Sony Ericsson XPERIA Mini ST15i specs it is running on 2.3(Gingerbread) right now but upgradeable to 4.0 ( I beleive Ice cream sandwich)
My main purpose is to maybe speed it up a bit plus theres so many apps that requires Android 3.0 and above so just staying with 2.3 my apps are limited
Any help is greatly appreciated
Thanks folks
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fundre said:
Congrats for your upgrade yes. Just plug it and PC companion will ask you to update. Performance wise actually gingerbread is faster, but ICS is the bare minimum for todays app compatibility soo yeah just upgrade it.
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Thank you very kindly. I am going to do that soon as I get the new phone
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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.
Sent from my X10i using XDA App
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
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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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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?
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
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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)
I read all phones discussion about ics and going to this point.
Sony giving worth ics update for all nxt series phone I didnt understand why. I expected much more from sony.
My suggestion is dont update ics in your device using prerooted gingerbread zip and enjoy its lagg free.
Hello guys! U believe it or not I still use my Xperia mini pro and I have cianogen mod 2,1 android. Is there any good working ROM etc etc to resurrect it again? (I have other phones too) but I love this little guy
There's a new compact Xperia to be released tomorrow. I don't think it'll be as compact as the Xperia mini pro though. The only 11 year old phone I know of which is still seeing recent development is the Samsung Galaxy SII i9100.
demezakos said:
Hello guys! U believe it or not I still use my Xperia mini pro and I have cianogen mod 2,1 android. Is there any good working ROM etc etc to resurrect it again? (I have other phones too) but I love this little guy
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Well, believe it or not, you're not the only one I'm still using Xperia Mini as my main phone actually (never had the Pro version, thinking also of getting one to play with it, but I love my Mini and will probably never replace it).
I might help you with your request, tell me which ROM would you like to try, for Marshmallow (Android 6) or Lineage (Android 7)? You can PM me also if you like.
I love these little devices of mine, but unfortunately I no longer use them because there is not enough space (storage):
1. I definitely want to write with them 2. and with my goddaughter / niece (who saw them and wants to use one when we spend time together)
The problem is that I no longer remember how to root. The factory ROM can be enough for me and I can remove the excess to have minimal storage space, I want to write (text editor, maybe e-mail) and e.g. Total Commander sw and possibly retro games designed for this screen resolution... : )))
Please help me with this! I might also be interested in a custom ROM. 8)
Best regards,
John
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Well, believe it or not, you're not the only one I'm still using Xperia Mini as my main phone actually (never had the Pro version, thinking also of getting one to play with it, but I love my Mini and will probably never replace it).
I might help you with your request, tell me which ROM would you like to try, for Marshmallow (Android 6) or Lineage (Android 7)? You can PM me also if you like.
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This phone is perfect and I wish for a re release..thank you for ur help!! Well from both sound good! I have cyanogen mod 2.1 and old recovery and non tutorials any more out there. U have any tutorial?
I've never stopped using this phone since I bought one many years ago.... I've had more than I can remember... I dont need apps, chat, BS.... just calls, text and camera (and some internet... google search etc) and of course, a keyboard. This phone is perfection.
It still looks like a modern phone today, in fact it looks more modern than the latest phones, I always have people aask me about my phone.
Anyway, I recently lost mine and had to get a replacement and I lost my HDD that contained all of the old firmware.
I'm looking for the stock .587 FW with android ICS: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/rom-sk17-mini-pro-4-1-b-0-587-generic-version.1907994/
But all links are dead and I cant find it anywhere online. Does anyone still have it?
SK17Me said:
I've never stopped using this phone since I bought one many years ago.... I've had more than I can remember... I dont need apps, chat, BS.... just calls, text and camera (and some internet... google search etc) and of course, a keyboard. This phone is perfection.
It still looks like a modern phone today, in fact it looks more modern than the latest phones, I always have people aask me about my phone.
Anyway, I recently lost mine and had to get a replacement and I lost my HDD that contained all of the old firmware.
I'm looking for the stock .587 FW with android ICS: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/rom-sk17-mini-pro-4-1-b-0-587-generic-version.1907994/
But all links are dead and I cant find it anywhere online. Does anyone still have it?
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This one?
Sony Ericsson XPERIA Mini Pro SK17 - Android 4.0.4 SK17i_4.1.B.0.587.ftf | Original Flash File Website GivemeRom
www.givemerom.com
or:
Download Sony Ericsson Xperia mini pro (SK17i) Firmware v.4.1.B.0.587 (4.0). Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini pro
Sony Ericsson Xperia mini pro (SK17i) smartphone Firmware v.4.1.B.0.587 (Android 4.0). Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini pro
x-drivers.com
or (customized for Middle East Asia):
Download Firmware for Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro SK17I Android Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.4
View Secifications of Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro SK17I Mobile and Download Android Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.4 Firmware
samsony.net
or (customized for India):
Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro SK17i Stock ROM Firmware (Flash File)
Download the official Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro SK17i Stock Firmware (Flash File) for your Sony Smartphone. We also provide all other Sony Stock Firmware for free.
xperiastockrom.com
Not sure which one you exactly are looking for but I hope one will fit your needs. Please note that I have not tested any of those as I don't have Mini Pro. I just googled the links. Best of luck.
Thank you mate, I'm in UK so was looking for the "generic world" one, I got the first 2 you posted on download, thanks.
Hi guys..
I have 2 of SK17a, but only found rom for SK17i. Even the stock rom...
Do you know where do i find a good rom to it?
I tried CM10 from SK17i, but gapps wont work..
thanks in advance..