Hello Play owners / Developers,
For a few days im searching for a good rom for my Xperia Play R800i.
Ive found alot of them here but alot of topics have dead links or have roms full of virusses.
also al the gingerbread versions do not work this becource you're unable to login on google with them.
The last rom i tried was "ICS Original by Dany XP" but it wass full of adds and troyans (took me a day to clean them out but still the rom has alot op problems playing games)
so im looking for a good rom with as mutch spare room for apps and as fast as possable wit at least ICS.
Im also looking for the original games that were downloadable on the device with the controlls usable. I foun alot of the games with dead links or not playable since they are having newer versions now. If someone has them and would upload them i would be happy! (if they are still buyable please send me the link of the site!)
Sorry if my english is bad, im not used to typ down in english alot!
I use gin2kitkat. Very good rom with good space and options to overclock as standard. I found an apk for Play store and it updates the market automatically and you can log in as usual. I used link2sd to freeze google play services as this can take up the entire internal storage and have no issues running like this. I have installed all the emulators I have bought no problem (the .emu ones etc) and bought the extended battery too. 7 years on and still loving this phone
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hi, i cant play some games like PES 2011, real football manager etc on my HTC wildfire. Is there anyway to manage to do this through rom update or any other way?
thnks
It's due to old hardware. Using a Custom ROM with an overclock MAY smoothen the framerate of some games, but, it's still nowhere close to what one expects.
Hi
As 3xeno said is due to old hardware.
Games that require a lot of graphics do not work on wildfire.
Overclocking can a little better but still it is normal to not work correctly.
so if i update my rom would it be possible to play pro evolution soccer?
the thing is that i cant really install it as it says that my device doesnt support it.
changing me mother rom to another one will it solve it?
thanks for the quick reply.
In that case, I dont think changing ROMs will help. It can only help a bit only if it works by default, but at extremely slow rates. The Wildfire should be your last choice if you intend to use it for gaming. Can't give you more specifics, since I haven't really tried that game.
I have had a good look around the forums but still feel like a small fish in a big pond
I would like my play to be lean without all the bloat do I need to flash a new rom / kernel for this ? would like it to run faster , I am into games had a stack of emulators before I rooted and unlocked what benefits can I expect now and what programs / mods should I be doing in general ?
I apologise I know this has probably all been asked before but this is the first time I have messed with a phone and every thread I look at confuses me more .
i found that the stock rom works for me the best in terms of gaming and even normal use. i have .58 rom + Samsung Galaxy SII theme on it and it works smooth for me for now i also using Rom Toolbox to uninstall bloatware and block ads in programs. whenever i installed some custom roms, they were great, have awsome functionality, but i always back to a stock one where i had no problems with compatibility in hardware or software...
Ok, thats what many are asking right now!
If you are a hardcore pro gamer and you only use your play solely for play games using the PS certified pads then don't bother coming here. Cause I can tell you you are gonna have a bad time trying to find a decent hack, Custom ROM and ICS firmware with a stable and optimised Game pad compatibility. True i can say some are better and some are worse. Many ROMs fully suppor emulators. However No Custom ROM has a proper working driver where all those HD games by gamloft can run on.
So now i said all the disadvantages then here are some pf the pros
Rooting, unlocking your phone opens many capabilities. You can flash ICS which is the latets android operating system on the market and not available throguh offical update on Xperia play. You can learn more about how the phone works and everyday you get the chance to try out cool features that the devs around here make or implement. ICS is fast and smooth. Not so nice with the gamepads. But fast! Performance on it is excelllent. Battery life sometime an issue though. Unlocking bootloader and rooting would mean you can flash complex kernals that can allow you to Over Clock your CPU safely to 1.8ghz which is almost double the speed you would get on stock firmware. Some say it's useless when you can't use that speed to play hardcore games but thats not true. The OC speed has given me personally faster video playback and most points and All the normall games on the pla market generally load much faster,
I hope this gave you what you were looking for.
Good luck and happy rooting
Cheers I am not concerned about the HD games the only marketplace one I play is GTA 3 I am more concerned about emulators , so can you point me in the direction of a good kernel and rom to accomplish this and give me a few pointers of how to change them , i have flash toll but I am kind of lost at this point .
Try Gin2Ics, emulators work, it's stable and unarguably the best Gingerbread rom there is, in my opinion
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1631144
Well i am going to give it a go , wish me luck
Which files do i need from the repository the rom and what else ?
So I am rom and Kernel successful but now my wifi does not turn on
I've tried many of the ROMs and kernel combinations but so far gin2ics with stock seems the most enjoyable. You don't need an unlocked bootloader for this.
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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....
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use my signature as a reference.
Please help me, since about a year ago i got the play. The first thing i looked for was a wad player since i love doom. I tried prboom and doomgles and they both sucked. Pr boom doesn't support the plays controller and doomgles is too f*king dark (can't see a darn thing) also can't 'reconfigure the controlers to suite and game datas simply won't download, so i'm stuck with doom demo on it.
So I am basically here to ask for a recommended doom wad player/emulator for my play out of desperation. I'm certain someone has a solution. I'm so disappointed with all these android doom ports
FPse?
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:/ well i decide to settle with doomgles. i fixed the darkness, got the data to finally download manually, also fixed a problem where objects were disapparing. Still cant seem to get custom wads to work. but for now doomgles would have to do since it seems to be the best for gingerbread.
If thinking about using an ICS rom or above Doom Touch can be mapped to hardware and out of all the ports i think its the most clean and fast choice you can choose.
Doom Touch - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.beloko.doom&hl=en
Other ports available on the market for Gingerbread (Can't say if any good as not tested)
DoDoom - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bakateam.andoom
PrDoom - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bestapp.prboomdoom
Retroarch Multi Emulator (Doom PrDoom Engine) - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.retroarch
There are a few non market ports which have either been taken down by Google (When Google had a moan and took down ports and emulators like the iods) or never made it to market in the first place. If find any in my collection i will edit my post.
hope this helps
poo-tang said:
If thinking about using an ICS rom or above Doom Touch can be mapped to hardware and out of all the ports i think its the most clean and fast choice you can choose.
Doom Touch - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.beloko.doom&hl=en
Other ports available on the market for Gingerbread (Can't say if any good as not tested)
DoDoom - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bakateam.andoom
PrDoom - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bestapp.prboomdoom
Retroarch Multi Emulator (Doom PrDoom Engine) - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.retroarch
There are a few non market ports which have either been taken down by Google (When Google had a moan and took down ports and emulators like the iods) or never made it to market in the first place. If find any in my collection i will edit my post.
hope this helps
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Thank you very much. I wish i could try doom touch, but alas I'm on Ginger Bread.
Never tried Dodoom, so i will give it a werl.
I sent an email to the Doom touch developer asking him:
"I really love the look of your Prboom Plus port and was wondering if you had any plans to support Ginger Bread devices like the xperia play in the future."
He replied by saying:
"Hi,
Probably not to be honest, GB does not natively support gamepads, and a lot of GB devices would struggle to play the apps.
I may do a special release for older versions of Android after I finish my other projects.
Best Regards,
Beloko"
I really wish for an awesome wad emulator like his on GB. The xperia play is starting to show it's age.
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.