Flashing without unlock? - Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Say I have an r800x that isn't connected I just use It like an ipod. If I flashed an ics rom to it but not a kernal would it still work with no radio or would it just brick my device?
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mp998 said:
Say I have an r800x that isn't connected I just use It like an ipod. If I flashed an ics rom to it but not a kernal would it still work with no radio or would it just brick my device?
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No matter what is the phone you use, ICS always needs a new kernel, well, not actually, depends on what rom are we talking about. Not sure about what happens next... more info?
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mp998 said:
Say I have an r800x that isn't connected I just use It like an ipod. If I flashed an ics rom to it but not a kernal would it still work with no radio or would it just brick my device?
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The kernel does a lot more than just manage data. I think someone needs to go find out what a kernel does.
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Skyrocket Room?

So I read that we can use At&t Skyrocket rooms on are phone.
Does that mean any room that is out for the Skyrocket?
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Yes we could use any skyrocket ROM. This is because of the same processor.
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Thank You ... so if we can use any room why do people complaint about slow room development just go to the other forum.
Also can you flash any kernel
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peconaut said:
Thank You ... so if we can use any room why do people complaint about slow room development just go to the other forum.
Also can you flash any kernel
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You can flash any kernel, but it fraks up rotation.
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GBGamer said:
You can flash any kernel, but it fraks up rotation.
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Best thing to do is combine a Skyrocket ROM with a T-Mobile kernel, and that'll work just fine.

ICS rom confusion.

I'm wondering what the best ics rom for my unlocked R800x is. The reason I ask is because there are too many ics roms and kernals out there and it kinda feels like I'm trying to find a needle in a 1000 hectare wide field piled 10 miles high with hay. I understand that best is a subjective term so perhaps it would be nice if someone were to mention the pros and cons of the different ICS roms so users which are confused like me can make an informed decision. Links are always good and I do know how to flash roms and kernals to my phone so you don't need to go into detail about that. I thank everyone in advance.
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Check the AOKP rom
Cant remember off-hand but Im sure there is a CDMA variant
plAyOSP of course
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xperia play not going into cwm
hi
i have rooted the xperia play using super one click,
rom manager knows the phone is rooted
titanium also knows
cwm app from play also knows it rooted
i chose the cwm 5 from there.
not sure if the memory card is partioned, but not sure if that is anything to do with it.
when i want to make nandroid on phone it accepts it but it does nt go to
cwm the phone just restarts and no sign of the the backing up happening.
can you please let me know where i went wrong.
i dont remember anythign like this when i had my htc desire rooted. but yeah if oyu could help me,
very gratefull.
peace
Check out CM9, AOKP and ICS++, they are three cool ICS roms.
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KeiranFTW said:
Check out CM9, AOKP and ICS++, they are three cool ICS roms.
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Do you have any idea which one runs the smoothest and with the most features enabled? i don't care about the camera features but I do care about everything else...
beez1717 said:
Do you have any idea which one runs the smoothest and with the most features enabled? i don't care about the camera features but I do care about everything else...
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AOKP runs the best. 2 slight issues are the game pad (certain games) and Panorama camera
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The fastest ICS ROM is KeiranFTW's PlAyOSP with SuperCharger V6
CTU_Loscombe said:
AOKP runs the best. 2 slight issues are the game pad (certain games) and Panorama camera
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Do you have a link to the rom you mention?
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beez1717 said:
Do you have a link to the rom you mention?
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It and all the others can be found in the dev forum section
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There are so many roms that links help a ton!
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1628197
A full list of all available ROMs.
I personally chose the DarkForest ICS one.
Si1ver Shad0w said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1628197
A full list of all available ROMs.
I personally chose the DarkForest ICS one.
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You're welcome.
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I was able to restore from ICS to GB

It was an accident last night lol, but I remember seeing somewhere on it that someone said it couldn't be done, if anyone ever wanted to do it, just let me know, silly thought I know, but just in case.
Post it. I am sure someone will find it useful. Heck, I might if I dont like ICS.
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U need the radio u ....wouldn't be able to get 3g 4g 2g or any network
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don728871 said:
U need the radio u ....wouldn't be able to get 3g 4g 2g or any network
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Sorry, misunderstood your post, wasn't very specific.
Unconn said:
Post it. I am sure someone will find it useful. Heck, I might if I dont like ICS.
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Just flash the Stock GB through Odin, that's all I did, complete accident. But it worked lol, I was like why does my ICS look like that? and checked, sure enough it was GB.
pimpsuprazx said:
You're mistaken, I was using darkside's rom, flashed back to stock GB, and re-flashed stock ICS with no radio issues.
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pimpsuprazx said:
Just flash the Stock GB through Odin, that's all I did, complete accident. But it worked lol, I was like why does my ICS look like that? and checked, sure enough it was GB.
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Of course when you flash with Odin it flashed the modem with it. So he's not mistaken'd.
The only way you can get an ICS radio to work with GB is if they modified it and removed the ICS RIL files in the modem and vice versa for ICS radio's to work on GB which most of the Dev's did in their ROM selection. That's why you see modified modem in their OP's at times.
I had ics on my telus phone and proceeded to restore my phone due to issues and when I rebooted I was running gingerbread.
So loaded up kies to do a update to ics and said I couldn't so i took a look and was running lle4 in gingerbread and everything ran fine.
I had to manually upgrade go ics through cwm after
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Beefvvl said:
Of course when you flash with Odin it flashed the modem with it. So he's not mistaken'd.
The only way you can get an ICS radio to work with GB is if they modified it and removed the ICS RIL files in the modem and vice versa for ICS radio's to work on GB which most of the Dev's did in their ROM selection. That's why you see modified modem in their OP's at times.
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THIS
lol You can odin to anything because stock odins carry ROM kernel modem and recovery...
However if you RESTORE from a BACKUP it may or may not give you problems. depends if the radio is modified or not.
Yea well i got a gb kernel with an ics radio on a froyo rom with the launcher from eclair with the i9100 processor in a t989 with a galaxy note screen, a sk4g keyboard and the s3 battery cover....and im eating a donut. So whuddup now btw...not exactly the greatest thread ive ever clicked on round here. Just sayin lol oh yeah DUDE...then it transforms into a dell
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theUsualSuspexx said:
Yea well i got a gb kernel with an ics radio on a froyo rom with the launcher from eclair with the i9100 processor in a t989 with a galaxy note screen, a sk4g keyboard and the s3 battery cover....and im eating a donut. So whuddup now btw...not exactly the greatest thread ive ever clicked on round here. Just sayin lol oh yeah DUDE...then it transforms into a dell
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This had no use what so ever to this thread.
cool story bro.
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Where can I find the stock gb Odin file? My girlfriend doesn't like ics update. She complains too much about lag and app hangs. I want to revert her phone back to stock gb. Can anyone post a link of where I can download it from? Thank you in advance!
Never mind I just found the link. Here ill post it just in case anyone else needs it
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1513359
ooops.
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don728871 said:
U need the radio u ....wouldn't be able to get 3g 4g 2g or any network
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nah itmakes no difference, i thought it was common knowledge that you could nandroid back to gb..just that there will be a few kinks here and there

[Q] Custome rom for locked bootloader

Hey guys whats the best custom roms for a locked bootloader, i don't mean ICS roms, just what in your opinion on the best and why ie for gaming etc.
also has there ever been a free way to unlock the bootloader, i've heard some stuff about Omnius for Sony Ericsson, is it possible yet?
I'd say NXT v2 from. Think its v2. Might be 1.2 though lol
You on a carrier branded device?
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NXT 1.2
CTU_Loscombe said:
I'd say NXT v2 from. Think its v2. Might be 1.2 though lol
You on a carrier branded device?
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Its locked to O2, R800i
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Its locked to O2, R800i
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Ah right so you're stuck to the paid unlock.
The NXT rom I mentioned can be flashed with a locked bootloader
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I use nxt 1.2 and im not complaining in the least all id like is a list of what i can safely delete off it and im all good. Hell once i got nxt workin i totally forgot about wantin to unlock my bootloader
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I would use NXT or TrueAncestor, I have used both and they are both great. NXT has a more modern theme, though
What about for us r800x peeps? Ya know, the forgotten cdma users?
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Kasper DG said:
What about for us r800x peeps? Ya know, the forgotten cdma users?
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I would problem say Darkforest rom. I'm running it and i'm not disappointed. I don't even care about unlocking the bootloader anymore
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Does everything work properly? I've read about a lot of roms with something not working. E.g. data, mms, video recording, etc.
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U can try true ancestor or nxt, there is also gin2jellybean too for locked bootloader
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Locked Bootloader
datswhy said:
U can try true ancestor or nxt, there is also gin2jellybean too for locked bootloader
Regards from Lucian
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Locked Bootloader
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Those are all great, but again, those are GSM, I was asking about CDMA.
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Kasper DG said:
Those are all great, but again, those are GSM, I was asking about CDMA.
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How bout this one? It for unlocked and locked, it also have ics theme
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1416470
Regards from Lucian
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Locked Bootloader
Tried that one a few months ago actually. Wasn't bad, except had an issue with my account being swapped for another one on an online game after flashing. Not sure how that happened. After I finally got that fixed with numerous emails to the game developer I flashed my old stock backup.
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Actually i think nxt 1.2 is both cdma and gsm at least for me i get to choose which one id rather use or if it should do it automatically
Xperia Play 2.3.7 NXT
I posted on the thread for nxt and they said no go for 800x :-( Guess I get to stay stock until my next phone....
Unless someone can confirm it works for cdma 800x?
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[Q] xperia play R800x ROM questions

hello i have a Xperia play CDMA R800x LB and i was wanting an UPDATED rom list for the xperia play.
mainly because im bord of the stock UI and launchers use too much ram so if some one could point me in the right direction, i would greatly appriciate it. thanks
crazymonkey05 said:
hello i have a Xperia play CDMA R800x LB and i was wanting an UPDATED rom list for the xperia play.
mainly because im bord of the stock UI and launchers use too much ram so if some one cold point me in the right direction, i would greatly appriciate it. thanks
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I've actually been wanting this too. From my research, the best you can find are GBTweaked, ICSTweaked, and DarkForest. I've tried GBTweaked, but have yet to try the others.
Gin2jellybean works also with locked
Bootloader
I want to try gin2jellybean but scared because my flash tool won't flash my phone.
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Why you are scared. The Play cant be bricked. The only way is to take a hammer and ... BAM
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crazymonkey05 said:
hello i have a Xperia play CDMA R800x LB and i was wanting an UPDATED rom list for the xperia play.
mainly because im bord of the stock UI and launchers use too much ram so if some one cold point me in the right direction, i would greatly appriciate it. thanks
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Why a ROM? Why not just flash a theme? If your on Verizon 2.3.3 you can flash one of my theme's. Click the red link in my signature and have a look.
Problem is, he's got an R800X. I'm not sure if Gin2JB Works on it or not...
Since its Sony based rom then yes. If you have looked to ROM thread there are instructions for locked bloader.
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wuby said:
Since its Sony based rom then yes. If you have looked to ROM thread there are instructions for locked bloader.
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Yes, but we have CDMA R800x's... That's for GSMs...
Exactly us cdma users get no love
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crazymonkey05 said:
Exactly us cdma users get no love
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Its more the fact that its harder to convert a Sony based ROM than it is to convert an AOSP ROM.
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crazymonkey05 said:
Exactly us cdma users get no love
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We get love. The locked people don't get that much. Get ColaROM. Perfect R800x rom.
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Is thare a ROM that's compatable with r800x that's android 4.1
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Dark forest and ICSTweaked are for unlocked bootloaders
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Get GBTweaked and GO Launcher EX, then use the included theme on it. I'm using it, and it runs beautifully. Leraeniesh did a great job with it, and he's constantly improving it. *Cough*It'd be nice to see a version updated for JB*Cough*
jrk190 said:
Get GBTweaked and GO Launcher EX, then use the included theme on it. I'm using it, and it runs beautifully. Leraeniesh did a great job with it, and he's constantly improving it. *Cough*It'd be nice to see a version updated for JB*Cough*
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I know what you mean and I did get go launcher and JB theme and its the closest to jellybean I can find
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Go Launcher is sh#t. Eats RAM so much. Get Gin2JB theme.
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Where can I get the Gin2JB theme? I've looked, and have yet to find it. Go launcher is actually doing pretty good for me though.
jrk190 said:
Where can I get the Gin2JB theme? I've looked, and have yet to find it. Go launcher is actually doing pretty good for me though.
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Gin2JB is for GSM not CDMA. It wont work on the R800x.
Have you seen my ICS Theme? [LINK]
ATTACK said:
Gin2JB is for GSM not CDMA. It wont work on the R800x.
Have you seen my ICS Theme? [LINK]
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I talk about theme not ROM.
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