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Xperia play roms?

Hello can any one please explane why there still arent any modified rooms? is it realy hard to create it for xperia play?
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There are no custom ROMs because:
1) there is still no universal way to back up restore the relevant phone data (Trim Area, or TA)
2) there is still no custom recovery
3) there is no way to unlock the bootloaders for people with SIM-locked phones
4) there is only a certain number of people with interest and means to work on the three prior points.
You should be patient and support the people who are working on it. They'll do great things if we let them work

Yea I am eagerly waiting for some tweeked custom "ROOMS" lol
Dude edit ur title
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Logseman said:
There are no custom ROMs because:
1) there is still no universal way to back up restore the relevant phone data (Trim Area, or TA)
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1105425

WelshPaul said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1105425
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You have to pay to restore backups with that yano lol
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Yes but the ability to backup is there and available sadly at a cost though, for now at least!

I like the stock rom
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Logseman said:
There are no custom ROMs because:
1) there is still no universal way to back up restore the relevant phone data (Trim Area, or TA)
2) there is still no custom recovery
3) there is no way to unlock the bootloaders for people with SIM-locked phones
4) there is only a certain number of people with interest and means to work on the three prior points.
You should be patient and support the people who are working on it. They'll do great things if we let them work
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1) It's possible for now with Omnius - it officially supports TA backup/restore for MSM7x30 platform.
2) It's almost there. Check out Arc section - it works but with graphical glitches, but no files to flash yet...
3) I'm working with Androxyde on TA backup/restore tool in hex format. It'll make my progress on this much easier.

or better yet we should be trying to get xrecovery to work on our phones, doomlord and Z are trying to get it to work on the arc(they might have it working by now) once that can be implemented then we'll be able to do custom roms no problem

1) I cant wait
2) I cant wait
3) I cant wait
4) I guess i will wait, good things come to those that wait
I'm 90% happy with the stock play rom, but we all know the xda developers unlock more than 110% of a mobile devices potential

hi, i'd like to free some space of my internal storage so i can install more apps, is this could be done by just rooting my device? i've seen some Apk' rooting program, but still can handle mine, some article say GingerBread v2.3.4 can not be rooted :-S , is that right?

gtfo

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idiotzach15 said:
this thread should not be in development. there are plenty of custom roms, but i guess you have to have an IQ of at least 10 to realize that.
to name a few:
Darkforest
GintoJellyBean
CyanogenMod7.2, 9, and 10
IT rom
GlazedICS
xDarkICS
MIUI
TrueAncestor
etc.....
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And if you had a higher IQ you would realise that this thread is over a year old. There's no need for you to be sarcastic like that. It's just plain rude.

ixyak said:
hi, i'd like to free some space of my internal storage so i can install more apps, is this could be done by just rooting my device? i've seen some Apk' rooting program, but still can handle mine, some article say GingerBread v2.3.4 can not be rooted :-S , is that right?
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Some roms are prerooted, but you may need an unlocked bootloader for some(Just read rom thread), and another way to root is "fastbooting a kernel" like Doomkernel. Just search around. You will find it in Play "Android Development"
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And if you had a higher IQ you would realise that this thread is over a year old. There's no need for you to be sarcastic like that. It's just plain rude.
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lol. This is the oldest thread ive seen in Xperia play forums. Let the "higher IQ" guy argue with himself. please Close this thread

Oh shoot. Guys I'm really sorry. I thought this was a new thread since I'm on here all the time and have never seen it before. all apologies
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[Q] CM7.1.0 - FXP024 Sim Unlockcode

Good day all!
Yesterday I tried the CM7.1.0 - FXP024 as posted in this thread.
While waiting for FXP030 I was very curious what CM would look like.
So I followed all the steps and everything seemed to work fine, except my phone didn't ask for my sim unlockcode.
Instead it just went straight to the screen where you have to tab the android and follow the steps to setup your phone.
Maybee I completely misunderstood and is this version like a demo?
I hope someone can help me with this question.
Greetz,
lowizi

Why would you expect it to make you put your sim unlock code in? The android that you tap to setup your phone is supposed to happen
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Yes, I see.
But I cant connect to the network without entering my simcode first.
Thats the main problem actually.

lowizi said:
Yes, I see.
But I cant connect to the network without entering my simcode first.
Thats the main problem actually.
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on what rom where you before you installed FXP024?(quote from fxp threat: REQURES SEMC 4.X.X rom or you will not have GSM signal)

kistigun said:
on what rom where you before you installed FXP024?(quote from fxp threat: REQURES SEMC 4.X.X rom or you will not have GSM signal)
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This is why noobs should be restricted from posting for a certain amount of time, might make them pay more attention to what's stated in an OP.
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XperienceD said:
This is why noobs should be restricted from posting for a certain amount of time, might make them pay more attention to what's stated in an OP.
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too bad you need to reply something like that
Without letting me answering kistiguns question first...
Ofcourse I read that. I was using the SEMC rom!
I did pay attention and searched around before posting in here.
So the question remains.
I tried 3 times from a complete fresh SEMC 4.0.A.2.368 flash.
(Also tried from 4.0.1.A.0.283 if thats of any help)

Just noticed this link overhere actually links to the download for FXP023 instead of FXP024, no wonder it didn't work lol
Download: arc_beta_FXP023.7z | 108.9 MB
copy/paste helped, now I have the right download. Will try again.
Download: arc_beta_FXP024.7z | 109.3 MB

lowizi said:
too bad you need to reply something like that
Without letting me answering kistiguns question first...
Ofcourse I read that. I was using the SEMC rom!
I did pay attention and searched around before posting in here.
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Er.........
lowizi said:
Just noticed this link overhere actually links to the download for FXP023 instead of FXP024, no wonder it didn't work lol
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[GUIDE] R800x owners - You got Custom ROM questions? I've got Answers!

xda-developers is a great site for learning all sorts of tricks and tips. However, sometimes it's been excruciating trying to get straight answers to what should be simple questions. You can get lost for hours or days in some of these threads, and still not be certain of the answer. And some people just can't seem to resist giving a n00b a hard time instead of a helpful hand.
Hopefully, this short guide will lessen someone's pain a bit. This guide is intended for use primarily by those of us who own a Verizon Xperia Play, model R800x.
Basic terminology you should know before using this guide:
1. What is Root, and why should/shouldn't I do it?
2. What is a locked Bootloader?
3. Can I unlock my bootloader, and do I have to in order to customize my R800x?
4. What is a kernel?
5. What is a Custom Recovery?
6. What is a Nandroid?
7. What is a ROM?
Use Wikipedia or Google to get the answer to those basics before moving on. You need to understand the whys and wherefores before going further.
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OK - You're back, so hopefully you have a better understanding of what we'll be doing from here on out. This guide is intended for those of us who for one reason (money) or another (caution, anxiety or fear) choose not to unlock the bootloader but still want to do some customization. I'm going to gather together the threads you need to perform the following tasks:
1. Root the R800x - [HOW-TO] Root Phones w/ Android v2.2.x-2.3.x (zergRush Method)
2. Install a Custom Recovery - The easiest method is found here: [APP]/[RECOVERY] Auto-Installer 5.0.2.7-nAa-r2 (Locked/Unlocked Bootloader) 10/1/12 That's an apk you install on your phone and run to install CWM to the \system folder. No cable or PC needed!
3. Make a Nandroid backup - Turn off your phone. When you see the words Sony Ericsson, repeatedly push the volume down button to enter Clockworks Custom Recovery. Using the volume down button, highlight Backup and Restore. Use the Home key to select it. Use Home again to select Backup. When it finishes, congratulate yourself on making your first Nandroid Backup! Reboot your phone to get out of CWM.
4. Choose and install an alternate ROM The following ROMs have been tested by me and have been shown to work. Each of them is available as a Nandroid, so you will copy them to your SD Card in \clockwork\backup and then use CWM's Backup and Restore menu to restore them to your phone.Follow the directions as provided by each thread. NOTE: In most cases, these ROMs may be used on either locked or unlocked bootloaders.
- GBTweaked0 - the Basic Gingerbread stock ROM, debloaded and tweaked out with the Icecream Sandwich look.
-R800x with UK Firmware - 2 links here and both work. Verizon 2.3.3 Timescape works as is. UK firmware needs a little extra effort to enable the hardware keys Tutorial Fix R800X UK nandroid Back,Home,Menu, and Search buttons and the wifi which can be downloaded from here: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?rps86s1qxbbe6vo
-UPDATE For the button fix above, I found that if you follow those instructions, your buttons for the gamepad stop working. Follow the tutorial but insert the lines above the line that says "# KEY_UP, KEY_LEFT, KEY_RIGHT, KEY_DOWN" instead. This lets both the front buttons and all the gamepad buttons work properly. (See my post in the tutorial for the total script.)
-UPDATE: Hogwarts has added another customized ROM called COLA just for our R800x with the locked bootloader. When Hogwarts says it's the smallest and fastest ROM currently available, he's not kidding! This is about as bare minimum as you can get, lean and mean. Interested? Check out his post for COLA.
-UPDATE XperianceIT has posted up another customized ROM, a variation based on Hogwarts COLA. He calls it IT-ROM
-UPDATE From KeiranFTW comes Darkforest CDMA Rom (3.0.5) - [ROM] Darkforest ROM 3.0.5 UPDATE | GSM 2.3.4/.62 | CDMA 2.3.3/.145 [WIP]
5. Return to Stock - Download Flashtool from here: Flashtool-0.6.8.0-windows.exe and the stock ROM ftf from here: R800x 2.3.3 Full 3.0.1.E.0.88 FTF
Please be sure to READ AND FOLLOW the instructions provided on each of those threads. I bear absolutely NO RESPONSIBILITY if you do something to damage your phone.
NONE of these programs or solutions are my own work. All I have done is hunted down and tested these different links. All credit goes to each thread reference's OP and their respective affiliates. SOME of the people to be thanked are: DooMLorD, PaxChristos, KeiranFTW, Chevyowner, 216Monster, 007shark, odst0016, Leraeniesh, Androxyde, CrimsonSentinel13, Hogwarts, pvyParts the ICX Developers, and the Dark Forest Developers. Oh yeah, Sony (Ericsson) for making the phone, and Verizon for challenging all the devs creativity! If I've missed anyone, it's because I have a lousy memory and not because I wanted to shaft them from the glory they so richly deserve.
I hope this helps someone out. I sure could have used this post myself!
02/16/2012 - Updated some of the links that had been pointing at MultiUpload to new links on MediaFire
03/38/2012 - Removed ROM info for Unlocked Bootloaders as this thread is for LOCKED R800x Phones Only

Great thread whenever I post something new ill send you the details in a pm if I remember
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Very good thread! I wish this was here when i started out looking for answers. Hey if you want you can add a link to my thread on how to change the carrier name for the r800x. That way even after flashing to a custom ROM, your not stuck with "Verizon Wireless" in your notification pulldown. The link is in my signature.

Thanks for the info.
Specifically the hardware key fix on the UK ROM
If you dont mind please add my Cola rom to this list of R800X roms
thanks.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1442557

Any news on overclocking?

Cl8rs said:
Any news on overclocking?
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For locked bootloaders requires a module ive been learning about how to make them. So maybe in the future.
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Bumping so it doesnt get lost
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It should be stickied/pinned.

Hogwarts said:
Thanks for the info.
Specifically the hardware key fix on the UK ROM
If you dont mind please add my Cola rom to this list of R800X roms
thanks.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1442557
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Thank you, Hogwarts! I know we ALL appreciate another ROM to work with. I hope to test yours this weekend. I'll try to comment on your thread when I do.

netizenmt said:
Thank you, Hogwarts! I know we ALL appreciate another ROM to work with. I hope to test yours this weekend. I'll try to comment on your thread when I do.
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You're welcome
I've made alot of improvements to it.
You can read changelog to see everything
I think it's the fastest setup possible for R800X locked bootlader

kernel
So do these roms come with a custom kernel (e.g. doomlord) to allow for overclocking?

Apersonx said:
So do these roms come with a custom kernel (e.g. doomlord) to allow for overclocking?
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doom lord is working on one hopefully since i requested it.
i'll be adding it to my rom and others can to

This is fantastic! Thanks for the guide. This is my first time trying out a custom rom and it was super easy thanks to your instructions.
Currently testing out COLA and holy **** it's fast. Loving it so far.

gchaggy said:
This is fantastic! Thanks for the guide. This is my first time trying out a custom rom and it was super easy thanks to your instructions.
Currently testing out COLA and holy **** it's fast. Loving it so far.
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Glad I could spare you some pain! And, yeah, COLA is friggin' fast. Too lean for my particular tastes, as I like to load up on games and what not, but Hogwarts has done an amazing job with trimming the fat, for sure!

dos any one no if there will be a android 2.3.4 or android 4.0 for the R800x?

Thank you for this post i was having a problem trying to comprehend all the stuff needed to install a ROM on the CDMA locked bootloader R800x but this cleared it all up.
Now im running the IT-ROM. Works great

Hello, is posibel install a stock Android 2.3.4 (Ginger) in the xperia play? ... and then edit some files allow the functionally of the hard keys as does this tutorial?

Hey guys im having issues, i tried using about every rom that was posted in this thread, the only one to install without error was cola6, anyway all the others give me a md5 sum mismatch. can anyone clerrify how to resolve this issue

Agito504 said:
Hey guys im having issues, i tried using about every rom that was posted in this thread, the only one to install without error was cola6, anyway all the others give me a md5 sum mismatch. can anyone clerrify how to resolve this issue
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Redownload it and try copy pasting again. I've had an issue with arch Linux where I'd get continual MD5 errors, but no md5 errors on xp.
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thanx for your quick feedback @paxChristos

Im new and have a few questions!!

First I want to say hello! I just got my sg3 lastnite.. Was with htc for a while and now im done with them! I wanted to kno can we flash that senergy rom for verizon? Also wanted to kno what is the latest firmwear/ radio cause I want to kno if im up to date.. and I thought there was a Ziggy kernel for sprint is that true? I was on his site and coulndt find a download.. Thanks!

If the synergy rom says its multicarrier, then yes you can flash it...otherwise expect some things related to signal to not work. As for the latest baseband, its MB1

You can't flash (and expect a fully working ROM) a Verizon ROM, however I know there is one that is multi-carrier and uses aroma to install the correct version to by our device. It would be wise to read the op, and follow directions. If it doesn't say for sprint then I'd wager its not for ours. Never flash international ROMs.
Never flash international ROMs.
As for Ziggy, no idea.
MB1 I believe is the newest baseband. MB anyway, I'm too lazy to look.
Go to the dev forums and read, read, read. Don't mean that as a smartassed answer. When I get a new device I always spend days/weeks reading different threads. Not just the op but replies as well. XDA has a wealth of knowledge, you have to be willing to be patient and drink it all in.
/sermon
BTW, don't flash international roms .
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CNexus said:
If the synergy rom says its multicarrier, then yes you can flash it...otherwise expect some things related to signal to not work. As for the latest baseband, its MB1
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Beat me again. 3rd thread i think....

Thanks guys.. Yea this is all new to me.. I was HTC for many years.. So thats all i kno really.. But I will learn :good:

Nooblube said:
First I want to say hello! I just got my sg3 lastnite.. Was with htc for a while and now im done with them! I wanted to kno can we flash that senergy rom for verizon? Also wanted to kno what is the latest firmwear/ radio cause I want to kno if im up to date.. and I thought there was a Ziggy kernel for sprint is that true? I was on his site and coulndt find a download.. Thanks!
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Edit; was way slow to reply lol

You may want to try different modems. Some work in areas better than others. For example, for me MA works better than MB does. Was like that with my S2.
Best to keep them on your SD card and try them all with Speed Test from the market.
Others a thread in development with the different modems.

jfcooley said:
Beat me again. 3rd thread i think....
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Ninja'd

Here is where Ziggy's kernel is. Great kernel developer.

I'd give h a shot but I'm too happy with the kernel I have. I seem to remember the name. Maybe from evo 3D? Was Viper using his kernels? Been awhile since I had that god awful device active. Donated it to a dev that skipped out after getting it. Have another with a bad digitizer sitting on a shelf. Can't believe I swapped a Nexus S for that thing.

Hey guys im getting a samsung softwear update and its 81.5 mb.. Do i not download it.. Will it mess root up??

If you have custom recovery it will just fail on install. Shouldn't hurt anything.

jfcooley said:
If you have custom recovery it will just fail on install. Shouldn't hurt anything.
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So I shouldnt install it correct?

jfcooley said:
I'd give h a shot but I'm too happy with the kernel I have. I seem to remember the name. Maybe from evo 3D? Was Viper using his kernels? Been awhile since I had that god awful device active. Donated it to a dev that skipped out after getting it. Have another with a bad digitizer sitting on a shelf. Can't believe I swapped a Nexus S for that thing.
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He made quite a few kernels. You can look here. I used his kernel on my Evo 4G. And he made one just for Virus and his rom on the evo.

jfcooley said:
If you have custom recovery it will just fail on install. Shouldn't hurt anything.
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Incorrect, it may still go through.
Nooblube said:
So I shouldnt install it correct?
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Don't install it. Instead, edit your build.prop, then reboot into recovery and clear cache, reboot and it should be gone, check out my stick thread in general (link in my sig) for how to do it, latest build is MB1

Nooblube said:
First I want to say hello! I just got my sg3 lastnite.. Was with htc for a while and now im done with them! I wanted to kno can we flash that senergy rom for verizon? Also wanted to kno what is the latest firmwear/ radio cause I want to kno if im up to date.. and I thought there was a Ziggy kernel for sprint is that true? I was on his site and coulndt find a download.. Thanks!
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Well, here's SYNERGY. Floating Multi WIndow
http://downloadandroidrom.com/file/GalaxyS3Verizon/roms/Synergy/Synergy-S3_30Mar13_0726_r443_s.zip

[Q] Available ROMs?

I have the Virgin Mobile 816 and wondered what, if any ROMs are available. I'm new to the phone and don't want to mess it up lol. Already rooted

http://bit.ly/1yS8j48

As I said, I don't want to mess up the phone by trying to install a ROM that isn't working with the Virgin Mobile variant. I'll just stay stock
Moderator edit: When someone helps you, it's hardly fair to then call them names... particularly as it's you that hasn't read the Forum Guides - HERE - post moved and edited.

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As I said, I don't want to mess up the phone by trying to install a ROM that isn't working with the Virgin Mobile variant. I'll just stay stock
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For a direct answer , no there are no custom Roms other then stock at the moment. But all will change soon when InsertCoin rom drops

xXminiWHOOPERxX said:
For a direct answer , no there are no custom Roms other then stock at the moment. But all will change soon when InsertCoin rom drops
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colossus3974 said:
As I said, I don't want to mess up the phone by trying to install a ROM that isn't working with the Virgin Mobile variant. I'll just stay stock
Moderator edit: When someone helps you, it's hardly fair to then call them names... particularly as it's you that hasn't read the Forum Guides - HERE - post moved and edited.
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Actually CM11 works on the Virgin Mobile variant, and the older nighties of CM12.

I did get CM11 up and running. Works great. Going to attempt CM12 soon but need to figure out the recovery thing

colossus3974 said:
I did get CM11 up and running. Works great. Going to attempt CM12 soon but need to figure out the recovery thing
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Just use cwm 6.5.x is works for cm 11 and 12 its on the same download page as the nightlies