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Not really happy because..

Ehi guys!
I hope to write in a good english, because i'm italian.
I have an Xperia Arc and i'm not so Happy about it.
I'm going to explain why :
Before receiving this Arc, I had a htc hd2.
I was pretty happy, I had no problems whatsoever.
But now, with this Arc'm having a relationship not too happy because it is slow!
I installed several rom, The Arconium ics V5, V8 the ginger, the SEMC and other.
But I always have the same problem, as I listen to music, the phone slows down significantly, and if I try to run 3 apps simultaneously as WhatsApp, Music, Browser, the phone lags and becomes UNUSABLE.
If I get a call it, the screen remains black and I can not answer.
Well, maybe it's a ram problem?
Becomes really impossible to use, slow and I have to restart the phone.
also with the supercharger, is not good.
the phone has no hardware problems, so do not know what to think ..
If any of you could give me his opinion, I would be happy.
Thanks, I hope I was understandable.

What can I say, apparently HTC's programmers are far better than SONY's. I have my Arc S and I'm not fully happy with it either.

Ive never had a problem like that.
Are you using the latest software provided by sony ?
Tried overclock ?
From my sexy LT15i

Try V6 Supercharger

Sell it and buy another phone
Mine runs ok, not good but ok, looking forward to S III
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then try something which is not stock
i was on CM7 the experience was quite good
now on ICS beta.. waiting CM9

i'm an arc user, installed the latest fw (4.0.2.a.0.62).
everything is stock. got around 130mb free ram on idle.
i have no problem doing wifi+music+facebook/download or 3g+music+browser(m.facebook). and i do this everyday.

I'm with Squalldua on this. I'm also an Arc user with stock rom / all bloatware remove / more or less changed some initial system apps to what I like and I get great speed and memory usage. I haven't seen lag or slowdown from opening and switching application.
There has to be other underlying issues with what some of your are experiencing. I can listen to music, browse online, facebook opened and gmail and it's running smooth and the music doesn't skip.
The question is what aren't you telling us? Worst case, SELL IT get a new one.

How much apps do you have?
I have ~100 apps and a lot of stuff running, updating and syncing
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I had galaxy s before Arc, I liked the Arc more but I miss the super amoled screen.

try oc'ing and supercharging with CM7.2

squalldua said:
i'm an arc user, installed the latest fw (4.0.2.a.0.62).
everything is stock. got around 130mb free ram on idle.
i have no problem doing wifi+music+facebook/download or 3g+music+browser(m.facebook). and i do this everyday.
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Im 185mb on idle
From my sexy LT15i

[Q] play running extremely slow :(

Hey guys, I've had my play for just over a year, I've installed countless roms and had a ball doing it. Unfortunately I think the old girl is struggling to keep up with the last couple of custom roms, cm9.1 and mark phyton's un/official ICS rom. The latter is the one I am running now and even after a reinstall it is nearly unusable, it's extremely laggy and freezes on apps like facebook, kindle and youtube. Ram sits at 30-40mb free, I have link2sd running to free up internal memory and am overclocked to 1.2ghz with setcpu. I know ICS is pushing the limits of the play's capabilities but I'm pretty sure it shouldn't be this bad can anyone suggest anything to try to get better performance please?

ICS roms are not suitable for the play. If u want better performance use a GB rom instead

hypestylez said:
ICS roms are not suitable for the play. If u want better performance use a GB rom instead
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facebook uses alot of resources...also markphytons unofficial rom is quite good I use to have around 130 mb free ram...the rom comes with a very nice app called pimp my rom which it has a good few options into speeding up the rom very handy....
was meant to quote the other post

use my signature as a reference.

[Q] There is a rom for Xplay with no lags?

Hello everybody!
I'm new in xda and I've seem that is very good stuff here.
But I simply cant install a ROM in my play and play e.g. NFS most wanted.
always give me FC or low fps. please somebody that currently has a good rom and kernel installed
let me know cause I want install too. I´ve tried G2JB, auroraplay, nxt gb, nxt ics combining with lupus kernel, doomkernel, turbo kernel
I thought was my sdcard, then I got a 32gb class 10, but keeps the same way.
Sorry for bad english, Im from Brazil..
thank you

fredcosta said:
Hello everybody!
I'm new in xda and I've seem that is very good stuff here.
But I simply cant install a ROM in my play and play e.g. NFS most wanted.
always give me FC or low fps. please somebody that currently has a good rom and kernel installed
let me know cause I want install too. I´ve tried G2JB, auroraplay, nxt gb, nxt ics combining with lupus kernel, doomkernel, turbo kernel
I thought was my sdcard, then I got a 32gb class 10, but keeps the same way.
Sorry for bad english, Im from Brazil..
thank you
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your issue really is not with a specific rom but with a specific game, what i can advise you is to try different set ups, different governors, try with andreno boosters, or maybe try with gaming mode with boost my xperia app, its really hard to advise a rom for you my friend since i think your main goal is to optimized a game which is NFS. but hopefully trying out my suggestions could help you

I'm using AuroraPlay and feeling satisfied with it. It's fast, lightweight and the performance is great. However, don't expect to run heavy games without lags. You can't force a 2-year old android phone to play modern heavy graphical games

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I'm using AuroraPlay and feeling satisfied with it. It's fast, lightweight and the performance is great. However, don't expect to run heavy games without lags. You can't force a 2-year old android phone to play modern heavy graphical games
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IMO this phone is capable of that though
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thanks all!!
I'll keep trying. :good:

Which rom have the Best performance in XP.

Hi, well this is a hard question, i like to know what rom are you using and Why?, because im flashaholic Ill try a lot of roms like gin2jelly, Atomic, aroma, miui, etc, but i still using the true ancestor 1.6 because for me this rom its fast, If i dont want open my XP i can play with the virtual jostik and have a battery life very acceptable..
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in my option gin2jellybean is best in xp and futures and everything
i didint have any lag till now and everything is working great for me in v2.4

Last night i install gin2jelly 2.4.0 this from q clean install.. First install 2 3.0 and later the patch.. And i dont know If im the only one with this issue, but in all the games i test the virtual jostick doesnt works, or the buttons on screen, this like the touch doesnt Work, i really freak out because i think my touch era brocken, but when i get back to my nandroid of true ancestor everything going fine again. So tell me one of you have the same issue than i?
Im using lupus Kernel v10..
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Performance
Best Gaming performance? Stock Rom (GingerBread) + Custom Kernel (Lupus v10 GB) for max and stable fps.
After a lot of time passing flashing roms, i found that all the "performance scripts" or "boosters" are causing fps drops in games, or they are placebo effects.
I tried flashing several versions of "Gin2JellyBean" but the only things i liked of this rom are the keyboard and the sound quality. Adrenobooster give me fps drops so i always delete it.
The custom rom that gave me best results after deleting Adrenobooster and init.d scripts is "Bane of Speed v4", that have almost the same gaming performance of the stock rom.
If the gaming isnt ur priority, you can go with Gin2JellyBean without Adrenobooster that have the best features.

Reiven89 said:
Best Gaming performance? Stock Rom (GingerBread) + Custom Kernel (Lupus v10 GB) for max and stable fps.
After a lot of time passing flashing roms, i found that all the "performance scripts" or "boosters" are causing fps drops in games, or they are placebo effects.
I tried flashing several versions of "Gin2JellyBean" but the only things i liked of this rom are the keyboard and the sound quality. Adrenobooster give me fps drops so i always delete it.
The custom rom that gave me best results after deleting Adrenobooster and init.d scripts is "Bane of Speed v4", that have almost the same gaming performance of the stock rom.
If the gaming isnt ur priority, you can go with Gin2JellyBean without Adrenobooster that have the best features.
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Well i guess.. Im gonna try "Bane of Speed.. First.. Because im not a full gamer, but i like the smoothiness in games and in the entire system, when u select the options.. Thanks for the comment.
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ozezz said:
Last night i install gin2jelly 2.4.0 this from q clean install.. First install 2 3.0 and later the patch.. And i dont know If im the only one with this issue, but in all the games i test the virtual jostick doesnt works, or the buttons on screen, this like the touch doesnt Work, i really freak out because i think my touch era brocken, but when i get back to my nandroid of true ancestor everything going fine again. So tell me one of you have the same issue than i?
Im using lupus Kernel v10..
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Im using gin2jellybean and everything's working fine so far.
Sent from my Xperia Play (r800x)

Well I don't know really what's wrong with that issue.. But I try first install the true ancestor rom and later the gin2jelly 2.4.0 and everything's work's great.. Obviously with lupus v10. Now the virtual button's works.
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gin2jellybean. Best room i have even seen. Smooth,fast and good looking.

Thanks now im using gin2jelly 2.4.0 and i really dont find any issue.. .. Vokal really put a lot of Love and Work in this rom.
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Gaming on ICS ROMs

Hi guys, I have a problem playing games such as GTA III on my Xperia Play with any ICS ROM: everytime I launch the game, it freezes after a few seconds and I have to pull out the battery since the device stops responding.
Do you have this problem too ? Is it possible to solve it ? And...games aren't supposed to work better on newer versions of Android ? I know that ICS leaves less free RAM but there's are ICS ROMs like Krisdee's hybrid rom that leaves 200mb of free RAM like GB ROMs so I don't know what could be the problem...I've tried overclock to 1,6 GHz too, problem persists.

WhiteWashed said:
Hi guys, I have a problem playing games such as GTA III on my Xperia Play with any ICS ROM: everytime I launch the game, it freezes after a few seconds and I have to pull out the battery since the device stops responding.
Do you have this problem too ? Is it possible to solve it ? And...games aren't supposed to work better on newer versions of Android ? I know that ICS leaves less free RAM but there's are ICS ROMs like Krisdee's hybrid rom that leaves 200mb of free RAM like GB ROMs so I don't know what could be the problem...I've tried overclock to 1,6 GHz too, problem persists.
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Not sure if you still have this problem but you should know that just because some android versions (ICS, JB etc) are newer, it doesn't necessarily make performance better. This will be the case when it comes to the Xperia Play, since this 2011 phone has never received an official upgrade to ICS (due to performance issues). When it comes to our phone, Gaming and Battery will always be better on Gingerbread since it is more battery friendly and less laggy performance wise.
If you want to stay on ICS then your best bet will be installing some mods such as Ice Cream Speed or PurePerformancesX however like i said if you're the gaming type then stay on GB for your phones full potential
Good luck

That's the deal gta3 on ics.. btw have u tried asphalt 8 on ics yet?. pls share ur results

eddynoob said:
That's the deal gta3 on ics.. btw have u tried asphalt 8 on ics yet?. pls share ur results
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Asphalt 8 isn't compatible with the Xperia Play hardware so even if you have JB or ICS you can't even download the game from the Play Store it just says that the phone isn't compatible.
Anyways, I've tried it with a JB rom (downloading directly the apk+obb file) and the game installed succesfully but it was crashing during the loading before the first race so isn't playable.

Xplay21 said:
Not sure if you still have this problem but you should know that just because some android versions (ICS, JB etc) are newer, it doesn't necessarily make performance better. This will be the case when it comes to the Xperia Play, since this 2011 phone has never received an official upgrade to ICS (due to performance issues). When it comes to our phone, Gaming and Battery will always be better on Gingerbread since it is more battery friendly and less laggy performance wise.
If you want to stay on ICS then your best bet will be installing some mods such as Ice Cream Speed or PurePerformancesX however like i said if you're the gaming type then stay on GB for your phones full potential
Good luck
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I completely agree with you, it's a shame that an unique phone like the Xperia Play has such "ancient" hardware...

WhiteWashed said:
Asphalt 8 isn't compatible with the Xperia Play hardware so even if you have JB or ICS you can't even download the game from the Play Store it just says that the phone isn't compatible.
Anyways, I've tried it with a JB rom (downloading directly the apk+obb file) and the game installed succesfully but it was crashing during the loading before the first race so isn't playable.
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hmm.. I dont know why it didn't worked on your x play at all .. but it ran some what fine on mine ... although crashed on Tokyo and London tracks.. even after using swap 256mb.. on true ancestors ics at very low graphics settings..

WhiteWashed said:
I completely agree with you, it's a shame that an unique phone like the Xperia Play has such "ancient" hardware...
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True... I hope they make a newer version with better hardware.
Still, I managed to run GTA San Andreas on Fusion ICS. You can use the buttons and analog touchpad with gamekeyboard.
Overclocked at 1.5 GHZ and swap of 512MB it won't crash. sometimes I get 30 fps, but most of the time I get a crappy 10 fps...