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Quake2 ?

Hey guys, I got the quake3 running on my xperia, but its not really playable so Id like to try quake2. However I cant seem to get it running!
Downloaded it from http://quake.pocketmatrix.com/ . When I start up the app I get like a control interface with a couple of buttons "Attack", "A", "B" etc. But behind these there's only a gray background. Sometimes the game seems to start, as I can hear in-game sound. But the screen stays the same. Also tried the xscale optimized one but that didnt seem to work either.
Help plz

This is one of the first things ill be trying when I get mine, Ill keep you updated. Hopefully it will be sometime next week when phones4u stock it

That'd be nice. Hopefully you'll get it as soon as possible

Hmmmmm.
Just tried Quake. I start it with the X1 closed and it comes up but the display is part white i just get the weapon selection bit and the A B buttons etc, I try opening the X1 up and closing it but the display just switches orentation. when i pess the x to close it asks me if i really want to quite, when i press yes, the main display flashes up with 'Single Player' 'Options' etc!
Any ideas anyone?
Installed Quake2. I run the program it comes up with a box saying by Dan East or something, press ok then nothing happenes

weell I get a bit further than that but still doesnt work for me neither. Anyone with more luck?

I find it puzzling that in general Windows on PC "just works" but Windows Mobile breaks compatibility with even slight changes to the OS and/or hardware.
Why should a higher resolution screen break an app? Does Windows Mobile have no support for dealing with that? Surely you would expect it to detect an app trying to use a lower resolution and put it in some sort of wrapper to pad the extra space.
Its bizarre that even Java apps have compatibility issues from phone to phone. Why no standards so they work on ALL headsets? The whole mobile market is a shambles when it comes to compatibility but Java seems to have a better success rate (well, it usually displays SOMETHING) than Windows Mobile does, despite their being more variations of it around.

actually I dont think its the resolution...
Also, wvga has a different aspect ratio. So it makes sence that some apps dont fill the whole screen

Noob has rooting questions about xperia play

Hi all im new to the forum and have a few questions about rooting my xperia play and wondered if some of you in the know could help?...
im interested in using gingerbreak v1.20 to do the root, i have read the tutorial and understand most of it and from what i have read on the forums other XP users have had varied success.
my questions are...
1. my phone is on a vodaphone contract and im not sure if its sim locked (to that specific network) and does this effect the root?
2. my phone had some kind of update downloaded to its software from vodaphone about 1 week ago gingerbread 2.3.2 build number 3.0.A.2.184 other people with this version root ok?
3. so just to clarify i was wondering if that update ive had has hindered my chances of the rooting also if my phone being locked to a specific network (e.g vodaphone) is a problem?
4. last but not least, if my phone fails to reboot after the rooting process, how hard is it to put it back to original version? (like do i need more software to fix the failure or can i just remove the battery wait 30secs and itll be back to normal)?
i know these may seem very basic questions to u veteran rooters, but id like to get involved i just wanna have more knowledge myself before i jump in, and would appreciate your feedback, loving my xperia play and i want to improve it and not brick it
cheers in advance

I am with tmobile and also received the ota update before I rooted.
SIM lock doesn't effect root.
I can tell you that the update won't effect running Gingerbreak at all.
You shouldn't have any worries using Gingerbreak as is.
It is purely an apk and will either successfully root your device or will not.
This is the easiest method of rooting i've ever used.
I was an android n00b when I got my hero & had to go through the method of creating a gold card & reverting to an older build & flashing flashrec!
To be honest, now my play is rooted in probably won't even bother using custom roms in the future.
I did all that with my hero and am happy with the plays UI.
I just wanted root to free up more space.
I'd also recommend researching setinstalllocation2 on here.
Doing this natively installs everything to sd and is worth the time.

cheers for the speedy reply DeadlyDazza, yeah id like to remove some of the stock rubbish to free up some space i was also hoping to do a small overclock, is this possible with a basic root? using the android overclocking apps?
im still nervous about the reboot and it not coming back on :S

@DeadlyDazza did you use gingerbreak on an empty/formatted sd card like described in the tutorial or does it also work with a sd full of installed apps? ( i really dont want to delete all my apps and data)
cheers covux

I have a fair bit of installing custom Roms on Android phones and i can honestly say this -
Unless you are rooting the phone in order to help develop custom roms and tweaks there really is no point in rooting it at the current moment.
Gingerbread is excellent at managing apps and the Xperia Play is designed so that games run independently from your homescreen.
"Trimming the fat" will offer almost zero benefit at the moment.
My advice is to wait a while, let the experts put together some custom Roms and gain access to the Kernel, allowing us to overclock.
Until then, i do not see a reason to root at all.

Unless you just, like me, wants to get rid of bloatware and ads in various apps and other benefits with root access
+1 on liking the XP UI and don't want to flash and mod this phone as I did with my HTC desire hd
If you just want that, root it now and keep your locked bootloader and enjoy the XP as it is
Regards Dousan...

Rooting does have many benefits, which mine was to free up more space on a device that, although is designed for gamers, seems to fall very short of.
Also to use root enabled apps such as cache mate.
Apart from the space issues, which have now been resolved by rooting & setinstalllocation2, I'm more than happy with my Xperia Play.
Will I be saying the same in 6 months? Probably not, I'll probably be wanting a fresher feel.
But that depends on how much support SE give the Play (my last device was the Hero & HTC was very slow with their support).
In answer to the question about running Gingerbreak with blank sd.
I had a spare 8gig that I formatted & used.
I didn't want to risk losing any data & couldn't be bothered to back up the 14gig on my card.
Although I have heard a few people say that running Gingerbreak is completely safe & won't erase any data.

Didn't erase anything on my sdcard when I rooted my XP, would still recommend a backup before using gingerbreak I was just lazy and went ahead without doing a backup. Did one today...
Regards Dousan...

@DeadlyDazza, @Dousan thanks for the info, i think i will also use a spare blank sd.

dsswoosh said:
IXperia Play is designed so that games run independently from your homescreen.
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How exactly?
Whenever I navigate home away from a running game (such as to check a text) my XP shuts down the game.

DeadlyDazza said:
How exactly?
Whenever I navigate home away from a running game (such as to check a text) my XP shuts down the game.
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I read in one of the reviews/specs for the phone that the homescreen and gaming operate independently meaning that when you play games, the homescreen sits in another part of memory or works in another processing thread or something.
The point being made was that whatever app you have open in the homescreen, won't make your games stutter or lag when you are playing them.
Maybe an expert can clarify this.
As for your problem, i can say that something is wrong with your setup for your games to be unloaded out of memory and shutdown when you navigate to the homescreen.
I would imagine you have an appkiller that is setup to close all running apps when you navigate to the homescreen.
I can't stress the importance of not using app killers with the gingerbread o/s. They are not needed, they will not improve performance of the phone, they will not make you battery last longer.
In fact, app killers will make your battery last SHORTER on gingerbread, since you will be using alot more processing power to load and unload them.

I don't use any app-killers.

Do you navigate to your homescreen with the back button, the home button or holding the home button and selecting a new icon?

Ok I have just performed 3 tests.
1) Emulator test - had tiger genesis running playing sonic 2. Hit the home button and navigated instantly to home screen. Tiger genesis happily sits in the notification bar. Navigating back to tiger genesis sees it exactly as before I left it.
2) Playstation pocket game crash bandicoot - loaded the game and hit the hom
e key. Same as above. The game sits in the notification bar and returns to the exact state you left it in when you return back to it.
3) Xperia play game Backstab - loaded the game and hit the home key. The game did not sit in they notification bar, but reselecting the game from the xperia play menu put the game onscreen at the exact position I left it from.
I can not re-create your situation where navigating to the homescreen makes the game unload from memory.
I made his post on my xperia play btw and performed each test while making this post. My browser doesn' t even unload from memory.

dsswoosh said:
Do you navigate to your homescreen with the back button, the home button or holding the home button and selecting a new icon?
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Usually just by tapping the home button. I only hold home for hotswitching & only navigate back to quit.

DeadlyDazza said:
Usually just by tapping the home button. I only hold home for hotswitching & only navigate back to quit.
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So does it only happen with a certain game? All games?
What about apps?
I find it hard to believe that hitting the home key unloads anything from memory unless you have changed some major settings.

Using Xperia Play games.
If I go to home when playing or paused the game unloads.
Not changed any settings at all.

DeadlyDazza said:
Using Xperia Play games.
If I go to home when playing or paused the game unloads.
Not changed any settings at all.
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Ok try this and tell me what happens.
- Slide the phone open
- Load Bruce Lee
- Get into an actual fight
- Hit the home key
- Slide the phone down
- Slide the phone up
- Load Bruce Lee
After doing this, my game has paused, but is exactly where i left it. The game did not unload, and therefore did not reload. It was exactly as i left it.
If yours does not do the same, and you havn't changed any settings or are running any app killers, then i suggest you make sure you have the latest revision of firmware and try again.

Bruce Lee stays in memory ok.
Star Battalion & Dungeon Defenders quit as soon as you hit home.

DeadlyDazza said:
Bruce Lee stays in memory ok.
Star Battalion & Dungeon Defenders quit as soon as you hit home.
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I can confirm that Star Battalion stays in memory after i hit the home screen on my phone.
It shows identical behaviour as Bruce Lee.
When you hit home, and reload the game, the game has paused itself and when you unpause, the game is exaclty as when you left it.
Can't confirm Dungeon Defenders behavious since i do not own it.
If you continue experiencing problems, i would suggest you have faulty memory and request a handset replacement.

[Q] What's the best PlayStation emulator for Play [and how to set it up]?

Hello could someone please tell me the best PSX emulator for the Xperia Play and give detailed instructions on setting it up so that it runs smoothly? I have tried one, FPse, but the sound does not work properly. psx4droid doesn't work at all [the latest version 3.0.6,] it just keeps asking me to force close when I try to load a rom. Please give the name of the emulator and the version and how to set it up for the Xperia Play.

the best emulator so far is FPSe, check on the Apps & Themes section, there is a sticky with all playable roms.

FPse.
Mine works perfect. No sound or framerate choppiness at all.

How did you set up FPse ? Mine has poor sound, it doesn't seem to be playing all the sound only some parts.

Solved the sound issues. So in FPse i went into "system" and unchecked Mdec Acceleration, Gte Acceleration and HLE mode. Now I hear all the audio though at some points the audio slows down a bit.

jdz7t8 said:
Solved the sound issues. So in FPse i went into "system" and unchecked Mdec Acceleration, Gte Acceleration and HLE mode. Now I hear all the audio though at some points the audio slows down a bit.
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I have -
Country - USA (i live in the UK though but i d/l USA games. This might make a difference to smoothness as the timing of the games is 50 mhz or 60 mhz and could account for some choppy sound)
Mdec - On
Gte - On
Fast Booting - On
HLE - Off
Boost Mode - Off
No Sound - Off
Spu Sync - Off
Framelimiter - On
Frameskip - None
Screen Filtering - Off
Screensize - Full Screen
Fast Overlay - Off
Screen Orientation - Landscape (turning off auto in theory could speed emulation up)
Print fps - Off
Invert colors - Off
Some games didnt work very well. Tony Hawks 2 had very glitchy graphical errors (or might of been THPS 1, cant remember), and Colin Mcrae 2 grinded to a halt.
Here is what i have tried though -
Time Crisis (touch screen as light gun, dam awesome)
Demolition Derby
Rampage Universal Tour
Point Blank (touch screen as light gun, dam awesome)
Strider 2
Die Hard Trilogy
All of them run flawlessly. No graphical glitched. Now sound stuttering. (and i mean none at all, not even a tiny hiccup).
I have rooted my phone, taken away lots of bloatware. Maybe this helps, maybe not.
N64 emulator sound skips for me alot. fpse none though.

Hey man mine is rooted also, you said you took off bloatware, could you go into detail? I want to take off stuff but I do not want to "brick" the phone because I don't know how I would get it back working.

Check out this thread for removing bloatware: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1046699

Man I don't think it's actually possible to get this damn emulator playing the sound properly, it keeps slowing down messing up the sounds. sucks man.

Sorry to bump an old thread..
But does the phone need to be rooted to work with emulators - to eventually play psx games ?
and what is the actualy process on loading these old school games to the xperia play?
Especially looking forward to colin mcrae..
plz help
Thanks

No.
No root is needed for emu. In phone .it is just a normal app..
Sent from my GT-I9100 using xda premium

Mr_Rabo said:
Sorry to bump an old thread..
But does the phone need to be rooted to work with emulators - to eventually play psx games ?
and what is the actualy process on loading these old school games to the xperia play?
Especially looking forward to colin mcrae..
plz help
Thanks
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No you don't need to be rooted.
If you're looking to use FPSe, here's how to get playing your games:
1.) Buy and install FPSe.
2.) Open up the app and it will ask you to load a BIOS. Google is your one and only friend when searching for the PSX BIOS.
3.) After that, you can load your game. So rip your own .iso from games you own. Or again, Google is your friend for this.
4.) Then you can load the game and stay playing.
You might have to change a few settings to get the game and emulator performing better, that's basically trial and error.

Shadowgun game running on CM7

I have been experiencing an issue with the Game Shadowgun I am hoping I may be able to get a little help with. The issue I am experiencing is that the game will pause itself every minute or two. This is actually the only game I have ever had any issues with. The game is fairly intense system wise so I'm thinking it's pausing itself to play catch up, either way it's very annoying, and the game looks sick so have been desperately trying to figure out a way to prevent this. One thing I have been playing around with is Chainfire 3D witch has solved many game related issues on my phone. Unfortunately I still have not had any luck with game. I guess that would go without saying or there would be no need for the post.. Anyhow, If anyone else who purchased the game during the $. 45 sale has had this issue, would greatly appreciate knowing its not just me. Also, any suggestions on a Chainfire 3D configuration or plug-in that would work well with CM7 on the Kindle Would also be greatly appreciated..
I’m using the IngCr3at1on 2/26 build with IntersectRavens 2/22 Kernel.,
I am not Supercharged but had been using Auto-killer with a very mild preset and no Kernel Tweaks. Thought it may have been responsible so have since uninstalled but doing so did not change anything.
Played around with different Governors like Interactive, Ondemand, and my personal favorite Hotplug. I have also tried setting Noop as the scheduler.
With Chainfire I’m basically just starting out with reduce texture quality and a few others but have honestly just been trying the game and then starting back again clean before trying other settings each time so basically starting from scratch with each attempt.
Also tried the VM heap size at both 64 and 48, been at it a few nights now and am on a mission.

Which version of CM7 are you using? Any Super Charge scripts enabled? What setting are you using for your cpu governor? Sorry for all the questions but it will help eliminate the issue. If you've changed a lot of settings in ChainFire you may want to reset everything to default for now.

airmaxx23 said:
Which version of CM7 are you using? Any Super Charge scripts enabled? What setting are you using for your cpu governor? Sorry for all the questions but it will help eliminate the issue. If you've changed a lot of settings in ChainFire you may want to reset everything to default for now.
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My bad on the details or lack of, Will expand on the post above.
On another note, just now made another attempt at the Transparent Status Bar. Had the same issue as before but had an idea so went into Titanium, froze my launcher and Status-Bar then defrosted the launcher followed by the Status-Bar and Walla, Transparent Status Bar. Thanks again for taking the time to put that together for me. Sorry got mixed-up in the order of that as I just reproduced it and it worked defrosting the launcher first followed by Status-Bar. Either way its now working. Arge, whats wrong with me today, its Status-Bar followed by Launcher.

Looks like I may have figured it out. Really did not expect this to work but been playing an hour without a pause, beating my previous record of 3 minutes. Read this on another devices thread.
1 install Shadowgun
2 Open and download the extra packages
3 Move the games folder from the Android SDcard directory to the SDcard Root directory
4 Uninstall Shadowgun
5 Set Chainfire with all openGL settings checked except RGBA and Unroll
6 Install and apply NVIDEA plug-in,
7 Reboot into Recovery and wipe caches
8 Reboot and install Shadowgun from the Market or whatever they call it these days but don’t open after installing
9 Move the folder from step 3 back from whence it came so it will not need to be downloaded again
10 Open Shadowgun.
Did not expect this would work but so far so good.
Edit: No go, worked for an hour or so after doing the above but then the following day it was back to constant pausing every 2 or 3 minutes. May try an older Kernel. Having the same issue now with Dead Space and being that I have not read many 3D game complaints I'm guessing its just me.

[Q] Fpse for Android - Resident evil 2

I lately looked into FPse and thought I would load up some childhood classics. Resident Evil 2 in particular. The game while running completely fine has a really annoying problem I have scoured the internet looking for info on said problem Re-installed the emulator completely and am just about to give up hope.
The problem that I am having is that any and all Menu's and inventory in the game scrolls incredibly fast, so fast that one tap of a button sends the in game cursor flying something 5 spaces away. This happens in the start menu as well so selecting a new game is a matter of pressing the button fast enough while its scrolling through. I have looked at various game play videos none of which seem to have this problem.
I am very sad.