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Which ROM should I use? Details inside.

I'm all about the coolest looking ROMs.lol. I'd like to stick with 2.2 because I still use the original PSX4Droid.. It's the only ****ing one I could find that works extremely well. Plus it's the only one with support for UP+LEFT, DOWN+RIGHT.. etc. At least from what I know. I haven't checked in several months, so if I'm wrong, PLEASE let me know. I can't understand why PSX4Droid worked SO well until he made a new version..and completely ****ed it up.. Makes no sense to me..
Oh ****, ANYWAY. I'm using Viper 5.0 at the moment, but lately I've been having major issues with it. It worked fantastic for quite a while, but now 90% of my apps force close, every other time someone calls and I answer it, it will lag for a few seconds, then I won't be able to hear anything they say until I completely restart my phone. After like the third time I open it, Maps will say there is no data connection, even though there is.. So I have to re-download it.. Makes me sad because I really like the ROM and would like to keep it.. But I can't stand these issues anymore. I just downloaded the NEW Viper Rom. But I thought I'd ask you guys if there is a better, more stable one.. I have used CM7 in the past, and I think I used CM9.. but once again, after a while the bugs start kicking in and drive me insane.. Not to mention when you're on a call and receive a text message your face vibrates..lol. That drove me nuts.
So... if anyone kept reading this.. Thank you first of all.lol. But what are your suggestions? I REALLY wanted to try ICS, but there is no visual voicemail That's a dealbreaker.. I barely check my voicemails as it is WITH it..lol. But if there are any newer roms, with amazing working PS1 emulators (I play a LOT of FF7), please let me know! Thanks guys!!

The Visual Voicemail is working on all ICS ROMs. They took the one from the Epic Touch ICS. If you are looking for the most customizeable options for appearance try AOKP B29.
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Lulz this is my help all day long.. I love to play emulators on my phone. I use cm9 and run with the samurai kernel it has a fps uncap to 72hz and runs at 65fps =]. Overclocks to 1.5ghz stable and not warm. I play zelda on n64oid... with my playstation 3 control with sixaxis controller app off the market. I use fpse for playstation one and it runs amazingly smooth.. haven't tried any rpg games on it but crash and tekken run pretty slick at 1.5ghz. If your a gamer then the samurai kernel is a must.. but he makes em for all types of roms. Touchwiz el30 bml or mtd. Cm7,miui gb and v4 and cm9. Hope this helps.. oh and with fpse you'll need a ps bios if you don't already have one otherwise it won't work but I had mine setup and every game I downloaded played great. Hope this helps.
*Click my sig pic to get to the site for the kernels.*
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Thanks guys!!! I really appreciate it. If Visual Voicemail is working now, I'm totally gonna give that a try first... Just to check it out. Then I'll flash another one. I don't play the PS1 too much anymore since I played FF7 for HOURS, then lost my SD card (((( I've been too upset to start again.lol.
But really, thanks guys!!

[Q] Touchpad support in CM9?

As the title states. I am aware there are select games that utilize the touchpads in CM9 but most if not all GameLoft games have 0 support in the CM9 for touchpads. Can anyone tell me if there is any possible way of getting the touchpads to work flawlessly?

Hmm, someone could port the SEMC Framework from ICS Beta Rom to CM9 and make it work. Problem is, that the Framework won´t work without any modifications. And for that, you´ll need to know how SEMC Framework works-> Closed Sorce. Might be possible to do that, but it would be a mess because Trial and Error work.
Then there´s the problem with the Xperia Play controller drivers and the generic touchpad drivers. Not a huge problem, since a developed app for it could de/activate each driver.
And some games don´t even work on ICS because there´s no ICS compatible version for it. Maybe a CM7.2 based Rom might work.
However, I´m not a developer. Just my guess.

UNCUT88RAW said:
Hmm, someone could port the SEMC Framework from ICS Beta Rom to CM9 and make it work. Problem is, that the Framework won´t work without any modifications. And for that, you´ll need to know how SEMC Framework works-> Closed Sorce. Might be possible to do that, but it would be a mess because Trial and Error work.
Then there´s the problem with the Xperia Play controller drivers and the generic touchpad drivers. Not a huge problem, since a developed app for it could de/activate each driver.
And some games don´t even work on ICS because there´s no ICS compatible version for it. Maybe a CM7.2 based Rom might work.
However, I´m not a developer. Just my guess.
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Agree. I figure that it's only the proper touchpad drivers for CM9 can solve this problem,
the hard part is where to get the drivers
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Will it work if Sony gives official support to Cyanogenmod?

I guess that the games which don´t run on CM with hardware keys use the standard keyboard app and/or Xperia Play Launcher.
Why Xperia Play Launcher?
1) Deleted Cache of app-> Nova 3 didn´t work properly.
2) Some people flashed the new Xperia Play Launcher as zip through CWM-> Games which used the old launcher didn´t work with touchpads anymore.
Maybe someone could hack the apk´s to work without SEMC Framework. There are people who hack game apk´s, so why isn´t someone trying this?

some guy that made the darkics rom on the dev section has them working. He doesn't say what the rom is based off of but he says. "well i just took a look inside the framework and i noticed that the touchpads driver was not directed at the .so (linux driver) so i edited it and saved the framework, added the touchpad drivers and signed it and it worked!" My guess is it's from ics beta but it's worth looking into for aosp and aokp roms

How about game compatibility ? Does every game work? Would be great if a CM7.2 based rom geared towards speed (no bloat, Linaro optimations) would be made since high end games like GTA3 don´t perform well on ICS or some don´t want to start.

Guys,
We are working on a touchpad solution and getting very good results.
I think it's not perfect yet, but many gameloft games is working and recognizing touchpad . I tested BackStab and Six gun, some others tested Asphalt 6 and 7 and is working too. Some gameloft games is tested as well and with touchpad support.
The fix is not perfect yet. We need to do more tests, I need more logcats to track some errors that can occur to improve the fix compability, but I'm hope that in a very near future the touchpad on CM9 will get full support with this fix.
If anyone can help testing, I'll be very welcome!
here is the thread

[Q] Android 4.2 and multi-touch gaming issues

Hey everyone, I just had a question, with most Jellybean 4.2 roms I've tried multi-touch has been kind of non-responsive with gaming. I've tried multiple games (Dead Space, Sandbox, Pinball, various SNES Emulators) where whenever I would put more than on finger on it and remove it, both touch points would still act as if I had my fingers on it. It seems as if it doesn't register the two touches as seperate. For example, I was playing Chrono Trigger using an emulator (Snes9ex+ and Snesoid) and in order to run you have to hold down a button and navigate with the directional pad. Whenever I would do this and remove my fingers the chracter would keep moving.
This only seems to happen on 4.2 roms (Evervolv, Mazwoz, Xenon) with any kernel (I used stock, mazwoz, and blackdome). However, Jellybean 4.1 roms seem to work just fine for the most part (Solar Flare, Dirty Unicorn/Diablo) where multi-touch was just fine no issues. There is an app to check multi-touch on the market and when I used that it registered up to 5 points for 4.2 roms and anything else such as pinch-to-zoom in the browser was alright, just seemed to be gaming.
So I was wondering, is this due to the roms or the kernels? Also, is this merely just a downside with porting 4.2 roms to the EVO or just something that hasn't been reported yet?
Thanks everyone, I really appreciate all the work you developers have done.

ohen2494 said:
Hey everyone, I just had a question, with most Jellybean 4.2 roms I've tried multi-touch has been kind of non-responsive with gaming. I've tried multiple games (Dead Space, Sandbox, Pinball, various SNES Emulators) where whenever I would put more than on finger on it and remove it, both touch points would still act as if I had my fingers on it. It seems as if it doesn't register the two touches as seperate. For example, I was playing Chrono Trigger using an emulator (Snes9ex+ and Snesoid) and in order to run you have to hold down a button and navigate with the directional pad. Whenever I would do this and remove my fingers the chracter would keep moving.
This only seems to happen on 4.2 roms (Evervolv, Mazwoz, Xenon) with any kernel (I used stock, mazwoz, and blackdome). However, Jellybean 4.1 roms seem to work just fine for the most part (Solar Flare, Dirty Unicorn/Diablo) where multi-touch was just fine no issues. There is an app to check multi-touch on the market and when I used that it registered up to 5 points for 4.2 roms and anything else such as pinch-to-zoom in the browser was alright, just seemed to be gaming.
So I was wondering, is this due to the roms or the kernels? Also, is this merely just a downside with porting 4.2 roms to the EVO or just something that hasn't been reported yet?
Thanks everyone, I really appreciate all the work you developers have done.
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Well this is a question that is probably asked about twice a week,but the reason for the lag is JB is not and i stress,is not made for the EVO,just not enough memory,also ICS,so you are lucky enough to get good devs that know what their doing with touch response tweaks and such,with ICS,unfortuneately we havent had such luck with JB yet,there are a few tweaks that might help with your lag since you are a gammer.... 4cyl Turbo engine v0.2.2 w/ 150 shot NOS / RTMixManager™2

Diablo67 said:
Well this is a question that is probably asked about twice a week,but the reason for the lag is JB is not and i stress,is not made for the EVO,just not enough memory,also ICS,so you are lucky enough to get good devs that know what their doing with touch response tweaks and such,with ICS,unfortuneately we havent had such luck with JB yet,there are a few tweaks that might help with your lag since you are a gammer.... 4cyl Turbo engine v0.2.2 w/ 150 shot NOS / RTMixManager™2
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Thanks a lot for this, honestly I didn't account it to lag, I just thought it was a bug since everything else was so smooth. Also sorry if this is a common question, I searched around but didn't find anything, thanks a lot for answering though!
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anyone intrested in another cm9,cm10 or ics aosp built

title says it all

extremetempz said:
title says it all
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Id be interested in cm10 as long as its possible to.port to cdma
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Im looking for any super stable AOSP Rom, CM10 Would be great, If it had no bugs and if it was smooth and if it had full working touchpads.

Super stable AOSP CM10 Would be Awesome, with no bugs was smooth and had full working touchpads

CyberScopes said:
Im looking for any super stable AOSP Rom, CM10 Would be great, If it had no bugs and if it was smooth and if it had full working touchpads.
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Lotta if. I'd be interested in cm10 too. But with the same "if" like cyberscopes.
Regards,
Sdojoin

Yep, but would most likely not be possible

Yeah, but i think this's what this thread is for. To know & to ask us what we want. If not, then just close this thread.
Regards,
Sdojoin

Cm 10 forsure
Slimed, debloated, working touchpads, video, camera and panorama lol
Cdma/gsm.
Is that to much to ask lol

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Yeah, but i think this's what this thread is for. To know & to ask us what we want. If not, then just close this thread.
Regards,
Sdojoin
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This thread should actually be put into general... not into Q&A...

I've recently started building/using CM10 following these instructions: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Build_for_zeus
(only instead of ics on the repo init line, I used jellybean)
I'm assuming that should be roughly equivalent to what the FXP team produces (considering they're the ones that submit the source to CM). It seems to work fine for me.
I don't honestly use my camera very much, but what is wrong with it? I seem to be able to take pictures and they seem to be the right resolution (though I haven't done any quality comparisons) I haven't actually tried video or panorama.
I'm mainly interested in trying to add some tweaks, some of which may be Xperia Play-specific, and CM seemed like the best developer/community open source ROM to work with (though if someone else has other suggestions let me know)
The touchpads actually work, though not in the way that games expect them to is the problem - so it's really more a matter of game compatibility than functionality (and some of the others have made great strides in this area, but still not compatible with all games). I'd honestly like to try to get the Xperia Play's gamepad to be exposed to applications the same way a Bluetooth HID controller would be - I honestly think that needs to be the future - games shouldn't be written for Xperia Play or MOGA or whatever special controllers people come up with, just write it for HID controllers.
I've also thought about custom unlock methods, one of which could be entering codes on your gamepad to unlock.
A more ambitious project unless I can actually get the Android Transporter's guys' attention would be hardware accelerated Wifi screen-mirroring, which is what the Android Transporter guys did to stream from phone to phone or phone to tablet or phone to raspberry pi (they've open-sourced their raspberry pi receiver and as I understand it have plans to open source the android platform mods to be able to screencast). Basically the idea is to pull composited images from the surfaceflinger and put them through the hardware encoder (similar to what the camera does for encoding video), and stream them over Wifi according to RFC standards.
What else is wrong with CM10 that ya'll would like to see fixed? Any new feature ideas?
I'm not promising to implement anything though, I haven't been able to devote much time to android development, but thought I'd go ahead and try to share and inspire ideas and hopefully I'll be able to find more time to contribute soon.
~Troop

Not really in any of those options if gaming is not as fast as in gingerbread.

Yes, I want something like yours ExtremeRom but with better performace. But I know that ICS is crap for gaming so it's just a dream

[Q] Help setting up a brand new Xperia Play for my daughters birthday pls :)

My daughter (13) being a playstation fan....saw the "playstation phone" somewhere and had a fit for it. I had to look up what she was talking about and strangely....I had never seen or heard of the Xperia Play. I found an unopened brand new Verizon (r800x) and bought it for her. Her birthday is next month and I am wanting to get this thing set up for her. I didnt realize that Sony had stopped support for this phone...so I cant even update from the stock android version This will be her first phone, and I think she will absolutely love it....but I need some help getting it updated please.
I have the phone set up and activated on Page Plus. I have read and read and read on the different roms and kernels etc. and TBH...it is all greek to me lol. I have never rooted a phone...used a custom rom or kernel etc. So I am hoping that some of you awesome peeps could help me out a little and help put a huge smile on my little girls face .
I noticed that several roms overclock the processor and up the screen res to 720p. That would be awesome to have since she will game the crap out of it lol. Of course I want all of the functions of the slide out controller to work...like the touch sensors etc. and also the wifi, camera etc. because well...shes a teenager. I also have Themer on my S3 and she LOVES messing with it and I am not sure if its possible for it to work on the Play even with a custom rom etc.
If any kind soul would mind telling me which rom etc would be the best to use for this, and also help me with getting it all installed and set up etc. I would GREATLY appreciate it!! Thanks so much!

HBD to your daughter
Hi, it's amazing, our loved xplay will never die .
First of all, if you have your bootloader unlocked then you are ready to choose (see point #2) then flash a rom (see point #3), if not then give a look to THIS for web unlocking for R800x (may work) or THIS it should work for R800x too but roms must be for R800x, you can search on each rom post to see if that rom are compatible.
Lets think about gaming and stuff, if you think your daughter will use it to play heavy games instead social stuff and multitask is not a problem then GingerBread is the best option, if you think she will be a casual gamer and will want multitask and other cool "new" stuff then ICS, Jellybean is not an option since you said that you want touchpads and jellybean has no functional touchpads.
In both GB and ICS you will able to record on 720p and Overclock your device and i recommend to O.C up to 1.6GHz with a Lupus Kernel.
Now, i have tested a several roms and kernels and i'll list those which i think are the best.
GINGER BREAD
Gin2KitKat very good UI, good for gaming and social
AuroraPlay simple UI, very good for gaming (the best i think)
ICE CREAM SANDWICH
GAMING HYBRID simple UI, light and good for gaming
ICS Original original Sony Ericsson UI, good for gaming and social
Xperia Play ZXperia Z UI(the best i think), very good for gaming and social
As i said before, you must see if the rom is compatible for R800x since almost all of them are for R800i.
As a matter in fact i'm using Xperia Play Z with DoomKernel at 1.6GHz and i think its the best of the best :laugh:
Hope i was helpful, i'm sorry for my bad english. Good luck. :fingers-crossed:

Thanks SO much for your help She will game of course but I think the ICS would suit her better. After writing this...i read some more....and some more lol....anyway I found the sony unlocking website...and unfortunately I dont have the "bootloader status" option so it says I cant unlock it
I would love to set it up exactly like yours is, since it seems you really like it . Is there a workaround for the bootloader problem?
Thanks again for your help!

Well...I got the bootloader unlocked
I wanted to use the Xperia Play Z rom that you mentioned...but it doesnt seem to be a r800x rom Can anybody recommend a ICS rom and kernel for the r800x please?

Try Hybrid
GAMING HYBRID has a CDMA (r800x) version :highfive:.
Actually you can flash any R800i ICS ROM but you will not have network but wifi, just to try maybe .
May you should pm Markphyton to know if the Xperia Play Z rom will be ported ro r800x in near future, meanwhile try Hybrid Gaming its UI is not as ugly as you may think, is stable and light, give it a chance.

kidtransam said:
Well...I got the bootloader unlocked
I wanted to use the Xperia Play Z rom that you mentioned...but it doesnt seem to be a r800x rom Can anybody recommend a ICS rom and kernel for the r800x please?
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if r800x is not the only option that would work in you area.. then you really made a mistake by buying the x version.,. should have bought the r800i.

Want Controller in Minecraft
I am setting up an Xperia Play for my daughter as well, and two more for my sons, only we have the CDMA version. So far I have tried CyanogenMod 9.1 and Xperia Play Z. In both of them, the controller functionality is just junk in Minecraft. Both Softsticks operate the same functions as the D-Pad on the left, leaving no good way to get around without constantly touching the screen. Additionally, on both ROMs, the only way I could get the option to play worlds locally was to copy them over from other devices, only then did the New and Edit buttons show up, and they still go missing most of the time.
So my question: Would anyone like to give an example of a specific custom ROM which gives them good controller performance in Minecraft? I would prefer Android 4.0 or better so I could recover from the kids changing the PIN(also, using PINs) to something they don't remember, and using phone location from within the Play store, otherwise I might have stuck with Stock in the first place.
Update: After trying Gaming Hybrid, I am mystified as to how it made the recommended list at all, and... I'll stop right there because that's the most positive thing I have to say about it. ICS Original gave me no controller love in Minecraft either, but even though it tried to set default language to Chinese it was at least stable during its four-minute eval.