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As some of you may know, SEUS has finally put up the R2A firmware for the X1. Someone from another forums said that the new official firmware is newer and has more features than the one that we can find in the ROM development section for R2A UK. Does anyone know the actual differences and whether or not it's worth the time to update?
its in the rom development section!
Norti has even has a list of what files have changed..
However I've been having a look and there's a huge amount of new files in the SYS that weren't in the last build.. (it looks like the "OS" folder wasn't populated in the "08" build).
Ive not flashed yet.
I'm sorry, but after looking for a few hours, I still cannot find the actual post. Is it possible that you can link me?
Thanks in advance.
Edit: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3357724&postcount=721
If you're referring to that post, I have no idea what it means really.
I have NO idea how much or how little has changed but I have to give the new software a resounding HELL YEAH!
I don't see any different functionality yet. BUT........ my Xperia is AS fast after 4 hours on the Sony download as it was after a week WITH the R2A_UK and Xperiatweak memory tweak. The panel selection is super fast and access to menus as well as their selection is INSTANT!
It ran great on the R2A_UK downloaded off the boards but my Xperia is running like I expected it to run out of the box. I have loaded gtrags icons/taskabar, youtube+panel, facebook,advanced config, Tom Tom7.9 and run the hell out of all the programs. I have intentionally left all programs running in the background instead of closing and installed no memory tweaks at all.
With EVERYTHING I can run at one time going (including blue tooth and wifi AND enterprise push) I have had no lock ups. It slows down on video playback of course but this is the first load where I haven't had to poke the little stylus in it's favorite hole for a soft reset as soon as I start flogging it so soon after a fresh rom.
Be warned that the reload took 30 min for my Xperia to load from sony. I don't know why it took so long but it did.
Bottom line, what ever changes were made were surely small, but it really helped my unit run well. I may be only do to cache not having to catch up as much as with the previous two revs I have had.
So it is worth the trouble of updating?
Edit: Or should I wait for DuttyThroy's ROM.. hm...
I tried the SE-US for me swedish X1 and it told me I already had the latest FW. Is this new edition only for english devices?
Someone has posted an alarming thread, they said they updated to Rom2, through SE Update service, and the new ROM has no mobile office.
Please tell me they are wrong and mistaken
Is this the same update that was on emma a couple weeks ago?
About this mobile office thing:
it should be under START Menu, right after Today! Another way to test if office if there, open a doc in the phone...duh!
kdspiv said:
I have NO idea how much or how little has changed but I have to give the new software a resounding HELL YEAH!
I don't see any different functionality yet. BUT........ my Xperia is AS fast after 4 hours on the Sony download as it was after a week WITH the R2A_UK and Xperiatweak memory tweak. The panel selection is super fast and access to menus as well as their selection is INSTANT!
It ran great on the R2A_UK downloaded off the boards but my Xperia is running like I expected it to run out of the box. I have loaded gtrags icons/taskabar, youtube+panel, facebook,advanced config, Tom Tom7.9 and run the hell out of all the programs. I have intentionally left all programs running in the background instead of closing and installed no memory tweaks at all.
With EVERYTHING I can run at one time going (including blue tooth and wifi AND enterprise push) I have had no lock ups. It slows down on video playback of course but this is the first load where I haven't had to poke the little stylus in it's favorite hole for a soft reset as soon as I start flogging it so soon after a fresh rom.
Be warned that the reload took 30 min for my Xperia to load from sony. I don't know why it took so long but it did.
Bottom line, what ever changes were made were surely small, but it really helped my unit run well. I may be only do to cache not having to catch up as much as with the previous two revs I have had.
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So you would suggest flashing to R2A010 from R2A008 then?
I would say yes, as I have seen a nice improvement over 8.
It has been suggested that maybe my 8 load wasn't a clean load and the 10 loaded directly from Sony was. I don't know, but I have seen a very nice improvement in the overall speed of function and video.
One funny thing is that when I tried the xperiatweak memory tweak, my phone actually slowed down a bit. Huh? I wonder why this is.
kdspiv said:
I would say yes, as I have seen a nice improvement over 8.
It has been suggested that maybe my 8 load wasn't a clean load and the 10 loaded directly from Sony was. I don't know, but I have seen a very nice improvement in the overall speed of function and video.
One funny thing is that when I tried the xperiatweak memory tweak, my phone actually slowed down a bit. Huh? I wonder why this is.
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The response here for the new firmware over SEUS seems good, will update mine after I get back my phone for the casing replacement.
I have tried the SEUS and it tells me no update is available, this is for a UK O2 phone. Should I be able to update this?
Thanks
Ant
The one on SEUS for UK just now is for generic/not network locked phones. I'd imagine the O2 version will be online later this week or next at the latest.
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The one on SEUS for UK just now is for generic/not network locked phones. I'd imagine the O2 version will be online later this week or next at the latest.
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Ah that would explain it, thanks So if I wanted to update I assume find the generic ROM in here? I cant think of anything I need from the O2 stuff.
Thanks
Ant
my country is still using the FIRST firmware.. sigh
db2boy said:
Ah that would explain it, thanks So if I wanted to update I assume find the generic ROM in here? I cant think of anything I need from the O2 stuff.
Thanks
Ant
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Yup, go into the Xperia Rom forum and you'll find it there. It's very simple to do - dl the .exe file, extract it to get the image file, rename the file (details are in the forum, I forget), stick it on your micro SD card, restart the phone whilst holding volume down and power. It should then kick in automagically!
Mark A Cilenti said:
Someone has posted an alarming thread, they said they updated to Rom2, through SE Update service, and the new ROM has no mobile office.
Please tell me they are wrong and mistaken
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Yes...they are wrong and mistaken...the new update via SEUS has still have the mobile office...
Thanks for the info - all done now to get phone back to where it was!
Ant
Trouble after the update!
I don't know if anyone is experiencing this problem but after the update i can not connect to the internet. I can connect to windows messenger and AIM. If i connect using Wi-Fi i have no problem using the internet but when i'm out and about i want to be able to access my internet. Does anyone know how to fix this problem or know how to downgrade the firmware?
So many ppl saying that HD is slow when compared IPhone. No. HD is faster than IPhone even it has double resolution.
First, watch my video. (I have recorded it with a bad webcam, so its not so smooth sometimes and blurry, sorry for that).
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbn1vm_my-touch-hd-running-lots-of-apps-sa_tech
You can see I am running these apps at the same time;
- MSN Live Messenger (connected)
- Facebook App (connected)
- Opera Mini (via JBed)
- MySpace (Connected)
- SongLoader (Downloading 1 song)
- MediaPlayer (Playing 192Kbps MP3 File, It has some glitches since I cant adjust buffer)
- PocketPlayer (Playing 128Kbps through Wi-Fi, full buffered, so no glitches in sound, smooth)
- CorePlayer (Playing 320x240 25FPS MP4 file with 44100hz 2channel sound WITHOUT SLOWDOWN)
* There is active background services like G-Trigger, GPSModDriver.
* Manila is still smooth while running all those applications at the same time.
Conclusion: HD is maybe twice or more faster than IPhone when you configure your windows well. I dont know why ppl choosing winmo 6.5.. I tried it with every custom ROM, manila was freezing while listening to simple MP3..
If you like it, here is my configration:
- HTC Touch HD without any overclock installed Topix 3.1.2 (WinMo 6.1).
- Installed Neos drivers V3 first, then Xperia X2 Drivers on it. And Graphics Booster 1.2.
- I am using custom priority management (Using SpeedBooster). Most important thing is this. Since speedbooster is not free, you can use sktools (I didnt try it, but heard that it can do priority management).
- Manila.exe and gwes.exe %80 priority. Other apps %60 (Players, browsers, etc.). You can set jbed.exe (Java emulator) %80 too for smoother experience, since it's pausing any running threads when you minimized it. And you must adjust players buffer sizes as much as possible (when you use manila or other %80 prioritied application, your ppc can't process mp3 as fast as playing, in this case it plays from buffer. If you keep doing things in manila, sound will stop when buffered part is played.). So you must adjust these things for yourself, depending on your needings.
Thanks to kwbr for this nice and smooth rom.
This is not for noobs, if you dont know what are you doing, then please dont. You may get your ppc unstable/freeze.
Hello,
thanks for this topic.
Xperia X2 Drivers Where can i download ??
Graphics Booster 1.3, i can only find V1.2 ??
regards,
Roachie said:
Hello,
thanks for this topic.
Xperia X2 Drivers Where can i download ??
Graphics Booster 1.3, i can only find V1.2 ??
regards,
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oh sorry for typo, its 1.2 already. post edited. and here is x2 drivers;
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=587176&page=20
I would appreciate it if you could place the links of the used appz, rom and tools.
so people can be sure they're downloading/ installing the correct links and the updated ones.
I wanted to ask you one more question, how long does your battery last ?
because i have to charge my phone every night even if i didn't use it a lot!
(i almost forgot to say that my HD has a standby time of 32 hours is that normal ?)
THAANK YOU!
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anoniem said:
I would appreciate it if you could place the links of the used appz, rom and tools.
so people can be sure they're downloading/ installing the correct links and the updated ones.
I wanted to ask you one more question, how long does your battery last ?
because i have to charge my phone every night even if i didn't use it a lot!
(i almost forgot to say that my HD has a standby time of 32 hours is that normal ?)
THAANK YOU!
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Of course, I would attach files when I back (I am in another country right now, so I can't access my PC). But I am sure that you can find them by searching forum
"neos2007 driverpack 3"
"gfx booster 1.2"
"teksoft speedbooster 2.0.010" (not free)
and, already given xperia x2 drivers.
About battery, since I use topix wm 6.1, it lasts longer (like about 2, 2.5 days). And those programs or drivers didn't affected the battery life so much, it's almost the same.
THAAANXZ
I love your fast reply you're really my hero!!
I'll try searching, but im still waiting for the links
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BTW:
i think youre still using the Topix 3.1.2 rom?
and which radio /rom version do you have
Thanks for your useful advices, mr barisahmet:
I have installed "NeoS2007_Driverpack_3.cab", reboot after installation, then have installed "X2 Video Driver.cab" and after the required reboot my HD freezees on the boot screen. I have do a reset and dont boot, then remove the battery, and also dont boot. Now I have a beautiful "Blackstone paperweight".
Have you forgot any steep? Well, to late for me.
Yules said:
Thanks for your useful advices, mr barisahmet:
I have installed "NeoS2007_Driverpack_3.cab", reboot after installation, then have installed "X2 Video Driver.cab" and after the required reboot my HD freezees on the boot screen. I have do a reset and dont boot, then remove the battery, and also dont boot. Now I have a beautiful "Blackstone paperweight".
Have you forgot any steep? Well, to late for me.
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Before doing all this, did you have Hard SPL 1.56 installed?
Yules said:
Thanks for your useful advices, mr barisahmet:
I have installed "NeoS2007_Driverpack_3.cab", reboot after installation, then have installed "X2 Video Driver.cab" and after the required reboot my HD freezees on the boot screen. I have do a reset and dont boot, then remove the battery, and also dont boot. Now I have a beautiful "Blackstone paperweight".
Have you forgot any steep? Well, to late for me.
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I havent experienced that before since I used always that combination with every rom. You maybe using stock rom? No I explained all steps. I will edit post as "not for noobs", sorry for late edit.
Though drivers and/or radio is not important part. I get almost same results with original drivers and radio. Important part is, well adjusted priorities.
anoniem said:
THAAANXZ
I love your fast reply you're really my hero!!
I'll try searching, but im still waiting for the links
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i think youre still using the Topix 3.1.2 rom?
and which radio /rom version do you have
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Yes, fastest rom ever is Topix 3.1.2. And my radio version is .17 .
Yes, I have Hard SPL 1.56 installed with the 1.56 stock ROM decert and 1.17.25.09 radio. Now I have flashed with a custom 6.50 ROM.
Anyway, I don't know how you call "not for noobs" a procedure that consist on install some cabs. I have do many tricks with my phones since my first Qtek 8080 on 2004, including flashing, registry tricks, etc... and I never have freezed a machine before.
I think that if someone follow your steps and freezes the machine, you have forgot some previous requeriment previously included in the customization of your ROM. You must recommend this procedure only for people with your same ROM or identify what is the previous steep necessary and include the steps to do it manually.
At last, sorry for my english. ;-)
Yules said:
Yes, I have Hard SPL 1.56 installed with the 1.56 stock ROM decert and 1.17.25.09 radio. Now I have flashed with a custom 6.50 ROM.
Anyway, I don't know how you call "not for noobs" a procedure that consist on install some cabs. I have do many tricks with my phones since my first Qtek 8080 on 2004, including flashing, registry tricks, etc... and I never have freezed a machine before.
I think that if someone follow your steps and freezes the machine, you have forgot some previous requeriment previously included in the customization of your ROM. You must recommend this procedure only for people with your same ROM or identify what is the previous steep necessary and include the steps to do it manually.
At last, sorry for my english. ;-)
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Topix 3.1.2 is a custom ROM.
my little friend, have you tried putting it in boot loader mode, try this, pull the battery out, put back in again, hold both vol up and vol down in at same time then whilst you hold them down hit the power button on the top
you should see a multicoloured screen
now, on your PC go to whoever released your phone and download an "official" ROM for it.
plug your HD in to your PC
your PC might try and install something at this point, let it do it!
now run the official ROM you downloaded and it should install.
next id suggest you install Hard SPL which you will find in the WIKI then try the whole thing again .
your paper weight should no longer be a paper weight
Yules said:
Yes, I have Hard SPL 1.56 installed with the 1.56 stock ROM decert and 1.17.25.09 radio. Now I have flashed with a custom 6.50 ROM.
Anyway, I don't know how you call "not for noobs" a procedure that consist on install some cabs. I have do many tricks with my phones since my first Qtek 8080 on 2004, including flashing, registry tricks, etc... and I never have freezed a machine before.
I think that if someone follow your steps and freezes the machine, you have forgot some previous requeriment previously included in the customization of your ROM. You must recommend this procedure only for people with your same ROM or identify what is the previous steep necessary and include the steps to do it manually.
At last, sorry for my english. ;-)
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whoops, missed that post, sorry, well do what i said anyway, it should still un brick your phone
ok now I'm scared!
what is the way of doing it ?
what do i have to do first,could someone give a step by step guide?
Does anyone have the correct links?
and could someone give us a step by step guide?
thaanxz
ok first things first, you need a new ROM incase the one you downloaded is corrupted.
then turn off the device
pull your battery out and put it back in again. holding down the power button will have the same effect but the battery out will make sure its off
step 2
hold down the volume up AND the volume down button on the side
whilst holding down the two volume buttons push the power button once
this mode is called bootloader mood, it will allow you to install a new ROM without the need to boot the HD up in to windows
Step 3
plug in the HD to your computer
allow it to install anything that might pop up on your PC screen.
your PC will look as normal, your HD will be multicoloured with writing on it
now try and install the new ROM as you normally would
its dead easy, and unless your HD is buggered it should get it working again, if it doesnt you wont be any worse off than before!
In speedbooster:
How do i set up process %?
I can just see a bar from green to red and i dont know how much is 80% there
hello guys
Cool that you made such a video, so everybody can see that our Blackstone isn't a slow device.
In my Oppinion Blackstone "could" be faster than a non-customized-LEO.
The problem is HTC and Microsoft don't provide a good Hardware-Driver support, so the blackstone can't run on his maximum Level.
We can see this in such small things like the TF3D 2.5 Landscape Album View.
3D-Games are no Problem for our device if they are well configured by the programer, but we can't slide smooth through a list of 10 MP3-Albums with an small 3D-Effect
That's all because of bad configuration and a bad hardware support.
Why is there a so big community supporting Android drivers, when we should have a good WM-System at first?
greets
cuz we dont have WM drivers, what we have are a bunch of files collected and made to work with one another to give some form of speed improvment but unless someone releases the full driver and code or re writes the OS to use GL we are buggered. moan to Qualcomm and HTC
herpez said:
In speedbooster:
How do i set up process %?
I can just see a bar from green to red and i dont know how much is 80% there
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%80 is, just one step previous than %100. Where %100 is last step.
I think drivers are almost okay. Problem is coding style in some applications. Some apps has very smooth interface with eye-candy graphics, while some apps are slow with a simple UI. But of course, its hard to adapt those applications to many device variants. Iphone has no such variants like those devices. And windows must have better dynamic priority management, like the app you see on screen must have higher priority than foreground apps. In this way we set static priority to an application and it may be kinda unstable. But at least we can see what our device can do.
On 24th Dec 2009 Schtruck from fpsece.net released his new version of FPSEce. On the website www.fpsece.net you can download FPSE v0.10 for free or get a version for a small donation of €5,- with the ability to save whereever you are whenever you like
It bringt speed-improvement, a new core, new GUI and supports a lot of more games now.
Even a new website is launched.
It's not like v0.96 which quits on my Xperiy 28of30 times I tried to run it... and it makes games more playable, really! (but I only testes with Final Fantasy VII right now - that's what I wanted the emu for .
Hope you enjoy it and if you like it, buy the supporter-version to support the future developement of this software.
I guess it's a really good Idea to give supporters that special-feature but keep the normal version for free! So you can use the software as long as you like.
Wow cool, I'll have to give this a shot!
@Cysign thanks for posting this, I'm having a problem trying to configure the keys with the Hardware keyboard every time I put it to Landscape and the screen goes black and just shows the FPS. How do I configure the PS1 buttons with the X1 keyboard. And my last question is when you load the game you want to play, after the sony logo pops up is the game supposed to Automatically play??? I'm trying to Run DinoCrisis 2 but so far having no luck. Edit : I used pocket ISO to rip the image.
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@Cysign thanks for posting this, I'm having a problem trying to configure the keys with the Hardware keyboard every time I put it to Landscape and the screen goes black and just shows the FPS. How do I configure the PS1 buttons with the X1 keyboard. And my last question is when you load the game you want to play, after the sony logo pops up is the game supposed to Automatically play??? I'm trying to Run DinoCrisis 2 but so far having no luck. Edit : I used pocket ISO to rip the image.
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when you slide out the keyboard press the ok button (the one next to the panel button) this should put the phone back into the portrait mode when the keyboard is out so you can configure the buttons. I dont no about the sony logo, on mine it never came up i think you have to change something in the fpsce.ini file??
lebkom said:
when you slide out the keyboard press the ok button (the one next to the panel button) this should put the phone back into the portrait mode when the keyboard is out so you can configure the buttons. I dont no about the sony logo, on mine it never came up i think you have to change something in the fpsce.ini file??
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Thanks man, I'm going to try it now. Edit I meant the playstation logo.
Viper89 said:
Thanks man, I'm going to try it now. Edit I meant the playstation logo.
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I tried both ok buttons and niether did anything????
Viper89 said:
I tried both ok buttons and niether did anything????
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you might need to change gfxdrv in the fpse.ini file (program files/fpseCE) to 3. i think the default is 2 which is qvga and 3 is for vga. 4 is for directx but this doesent work on my x1
Hi to all!
I have a problem. When I set MultiFix=1 it is finally possible to bind more buttons on my I740, but it becomes impossible to use on-screen buttons and arrows.
Does anybody know how can I use both of them???
PS: sorry for my English
I start FPSE with keyboard-slided-out in portrait-mode (I use Wisbar to manually rotate screen if I need...). But you don't need this.
If you slide out keyboard, you can press the upper left corner (near the FPS-counter !!! ) to go back to portrait-mode.
Then just configute your keys and when I want to go back to landscape-view I close and open Keyboard again. When I use the screen-rotate-button FPSE leafes and I have to restart my device.
If images don't work using PocketISO try with uncompressed ISO.
I.E. Final Fantasy VIII works on my device without compression and when I use PocketISO it doesn't. But could be a setting in PocketISO - haven't figured out this right now.
If you find bugs please report them to the FPSE-forum!
Compatibility-list availible: HERE.
Just figure out if your game usualy should run.
0.10 working on WM6.5.3?
Wajk said:
0.10 working on WM6.5.3?
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should give it a try. It's for free - so don't hesitate to give it a shot
If it doesn't work, you cn tell me and I post it into the FPSEce-board - or just do it yourself xD
It important to give Schtruck all information about problems so he can bugfix them
Sancher said:
Hi to all!
I have a problem. When I set MultiFix=1 it is finally possible to bind more buttons on my I740, but it becomes impossible to use on-screen buttons and arrows.
Does anybody know how can I use both of them???
PS: sorry for my English
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Just use FPSEce-board. I'm sure that guys may help you quicker/better than here...
Cysign said:
I start FPSE with keyboard-slided-out in portrait-mode (I use Wisbar to manually rotate screen if I need...). But you don't need this.
If you slide out keyboard, you can press the upper left corner (near the FPS-counter !!! ) to go back to portrait-mode.
Then just configute your keys and when I want to go back to landscape-view I close and open Keyboard again. When I use the screen-rotate-button FPSE leafes and I have to restart my device.
If images don't work using PocketISO try with uncompressed ISO.
I.E. Final Fantasy VIII works on my device without compression and when I use PocketISO it doesn't. But could be a setting in PocketISO - haven't figured out this right now.
If you find bugs please report them to the FPSE-forum!
Compatibility-list availible: HERE.
Just figure out if your game usualy should run.
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Thanks for the info, On the list it says Dino Crisis 2 works good, I'm going to try it without the Pocket ISO if that dosent work ill try the to re download the game again. If you have spare time could you test it out and report back.
sorry...PS1 games are that cheap that I only rip my own games for playing (I bought Final Fantasy VII-XII for my PS2, which has no chip inside)...I don't download games which I can buy original for less than €20,- .
But perhaps it's your ripping-tool...a wrong setting?
I have trouble getting FF VIII and IX work - tried to rip them twice, I'm currently waiting in FPSE-board for a solution... I'm sure I get the problems by ripping my CDs.
When FPSEce website is lannched completly there should be a compatibility-list which perhaps has additional information for ripping your games and there'll be a wiki. I'm sure it'll get users closer to solve their problems
holy crap i cant believe this day has finally come. i have been following this project for atleast a year.
Hmm. I downloaded it the other day and right now I'm playing Diablo 1 on it. Works very good, better than I expected it.
First my games did not load and my phone rebooted everytime I tried to play. But now I installed in ON THE DEVICE, running games from my memory card. Works flawlessly.
I have to use frameskipping for Diablo 1 though. I consider supporting the developers because it's great software!
gonna try the non delay ff7 fighting scenes thanks for the info!
I have a few bugs to report. on my symbol mc35 it crashes at startup with around 30MB free ram.
on my touch pro it works fine in portrait mode but if i open the keyboard i cant reconfigure the buttons.
@key-config
slip out keyboard, FPSE changes to landscape-mode. now press near/on the FPS-counter. FPSE turns back to portrait-mode. configure your buttons and than ! don't use the orientation-buttons (this may crash FPSE - at least on xperia!) slip keyboard in and out again to switch to portrait-mode again.
that's an already known bug... you guys should read fpse-board here it is: http://www.fpsece.net/forum2/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=265&p=4807&sid=533071d203f08d489360950cef119a84#p4807 (there's also another problem with omnia...but one guy postet it's solution^^)
This emulator drains battery very fast!!
I was playing FF9 without wall charger.. After 40 minutes i think, the battery ran out! Not able to save without saving point how good if i have save state feature...
Cysign said:
sorry...PS1 games are that cheap that I only rip my own games for playing (I bought Final Fantasy VII-XII for my PS2, which has no chip inside)...I don't download games which I can buy original for less than €20,- .
But perhaps it's your ripping-tool...a wrong setting?
I have trouble getting FF VIII and IX work - tried to rip them twice, I'm currently waiting in FPSE-board for a solution... I'm sure I get the problems by ripping my CDs.
When FPSEce website is lannched completly there should be a compatibility-list which perhaps has additional information for ripping your games and there'll be a wiki. I'm sure it'll get users closer to solve their problems
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I finally got Dino Crisis 2 to work, I found a website that actually has the roms already with the image. I can't belive how smooth this plays to. If you ever get a chance to buy/download Dino Crisis 2 I recommend it, It's Like Resident Evil meets Jurassic Park lol
Hello, i am running 1.66 rom on a generic htc hd2 with a t-mobile contract.
I cant update to the very latest rom because theyve only released it for branded phones!
The first bug ive comes across is the Facebook profile pictures in my favourites list sometimes switch around betweeen different people, so say joe's profile picture appears on bills name! happens every so often, and its very irritating. the only solution is to delete both contacts and re enter them into the phone!
The second is when im texting, at the start of the text, after i have done a few characters, sometimes it scrolls up to the last text and selects it, meaning i can still type, but i cant see what im typing, the keyboard covers everything im typing.
Incredibly irritating, i then have to minimize the keyboard, then maximize it aagain.
Also, a new occurance, when i switch on my phone it says launching htc sence and stays there for ages, when i click the cross, i get onto my phone, its as if sence had already loaded and just not removing the message.
The next thing is the wifi, is it meant to switch off affter a while? my battery went from 100 percent to 0 in about 5 hours! (not even joking) i just leaave it off now..
OOh and whilst im at it, one more thing. Can you sync your emails over data conneection? It always displays 'synchronisation error' when ever i try to sync over data connection, but on wifi it connects and downloads perfectly!
Any ideas on any of these issues? has anyone else experienced them?
thanks in advance
stevemilw said:
I cant update to the very latest rom because theyve only released it for branded phones!
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Flash a custom ROM, they are far superior.
stevemilw said:
The first bug ive comes across is the Facebook profile pictures in my favourites list sometimes switch around betweeen different people, so say joe's profile picture appears on bills name! happens every so often, and its very irritating. the only solution is to delete both contacts and re enter them into the phone!
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I don't use the Facebook app as it is absolutely usless, but after a search I found this -'Go into all people then select your contact. Then select Edit Contact. Then press where the profile picture should be. A 'Set Contact Photo' option should pop up. Next to the Facebook profile it should have a downloading icon. Once that was done i selected Facebook Profile and all was working.'
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The second is when im texting, at the start of the text, after i have done a few characters, sometimes it scrolls up to the last text and selects it, meaning i can still type, but i cant see what im typing, the keyboard covers everything im typing.
Incredibly irritating, i then have to minimize the keyboard, then maximize it aagain.
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There is an SMS update from the HTC website, but I believe this just addresses SMS failure to deliver issues. However, flashing a custom ROM with 235xx (WM 6.5.x) will definately eliminate this problem, as it uses a different SMS application. I'd assume flashing a custom 21907 (WM 6.5) would fix it too.
stevemilw said:
Also, a new occurance, when i switch on my phone it says launching htc sence and stays there for ages, when i click the cross, i get onto my phone, its as if sence had already loaded and just not removing the message.
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I get this from time to time on my Energy ROM, I don't know what causes it, it doesn't really bother me.
stevemilw said:
The next thing is the wifi, is it meant to switch off affter a while? my battery went from 100 percent to 0 in about 5 hours! (not even joking) i just leaave it off now..
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I am assuming you have BSB Tweaks installed? If so you have the 'Wifi Standby' option in Connections selected on. If you don't have it, download it and make sure it's disabled.
stevemilw said:
OOh and whilst im at it, one more thing. Can you sync your emails over data conneection? It always displays 'synchronisation error' when ever i try to sync over data connection, but on wifi it connects and downloads perfectly!
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I've done a search using the forums search function, (hint hint) and found this it seems to have helped someone with this same problem with their HD2.
stevemilw said:
The second is when im texting, at the start of the text, after i have done a few characters, sometimes it scrolls up to the last text and selects it, meaning i can still type, but i cant see what im typing, the keyboard covers everything im typing.
Incredibly irritating, i then have to minimize the keyboard, then maximize it aagain.
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I get this regularly (and also having the keyboard go mental sometimes, switching character sets, entering characters when I'm trying to backspace etc). Seems worse when the phone's hot or when I'm outside and it's windy! But that might just be a coincidence.
I actually sent the phone back to HTC a month or two ago (their customer service was fantastic btw - picked up the phone on a Monday, I had it back by Friday all by courier).
There was a note in there saying they'd reconnected the touchscreen. Everything seemed okay for a while but it's doing it again (I've never dropped the phone or anything). Wonder if it's a loose connector or something.
Mine's unbranded, so I'm waiting for the next ROM update (currently 1.66). If that doesn't fix it I'll ask for a replacement phone (not a fixed one).
There is an SMS update from the HTC website, but I believe this just addresses SMS failure to deliver issues. However, flashing a custom ROM with 235xx (WM 6.5.x) will definately eliminate this problem, as it uses a different SMS application. I'd assume flashing a custom 21907 (WM 6.5) would fix it too.
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thanks for the help! You say i would benefit from flashing a custom rom 235xx, what type of rom is that? for instance you have energy rom etc. Sorry if im sounding like a noob, but i like the original layout of my hd2, and dont want too change it too much if possible, but i would like the performance increases that come with it. thanks
stevemilw said:
thanks for the help! You say i would benefit from flashing a custom rom 235xx, what type of rom is that? for instance you have energy rom etc. Sorry if im sounding like a noob, but i like the original layout of my hd2, and dont want too change it too much if possible, but i would like the performance increases that come with it. thanks
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253xx puts the Start button at the bottom of the screen and makes menus and scroll bars bigger, it's called WM 6.5.x.
219xx is the stock look with the Start button at the top and no so finger friendly menu systems.
That's the basics of the differences between them both.
ok thanks i think ill installl standard reference energy rom 235xx one.
Do i need to change my radio before i flash? i have hspl installed.
The reason being is that i have changed the radio rom before and the signal was no where near as good as the stock radio rom. So i flashed back.
stevemilw said:
ok thanks i think ill installl standard reference energy rom 235xx one.
Do i need to change my radio before i flash? i have hspl installed.
The reason being is that i have changed the radio rom before and the signal was no where near as good as the stock radio rom. So i flashed back.
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If you have an international HD2 you have to install a 2.xx.50.xx radio before you flash the Energy ROM. if you leave a 2.xx.51.xx radio on the device you'll brick it.
ok thanks, im gonna update the rom now. The rom i have currently is far superior, but i will flash anyway and make the compromise.
Thanks
flangepiece said:
There was a note in there saying they'd reconnected the touchscreen. Everything seemed okay for a while but it's doing it again (I've never dropped the phone or anything). Wonder if it's a loose connector or something.
Mine's unbranded, so I'm waiting for the next ROM update (currently 1.66). If that doesn't fix it I'll ask for a replacement phone (not a fixed one).
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Thank you for your feedback!
And also thank you the OP who posted about that SMS problem- which I kept reporting with no echoes.
1) Yeah "reconnected the touchscreen" my @ss. That problem was fixed as soon as I changed ROM.
2) "theres a patch for problem with SMS", my @ss, I installed it did not fix anything- Also, if you read the rom's releases notes everything is "fixing the sms". They forget to mention that they moved the "task manager" in rom 1.66 and changed a few other things-
3) i still had lot of bugs with that rom and device. Now some of them are removed and I'm using Artemis 22A- A few bugs but all minor so far- so I finally start to "enjo..."erm hard word to say after so many months of troubles.
4) also for the "quietly brilliant support" you mention, I would not be so happy if you really knows what happens there: it's likely they will swap your device with 2nd hand device as they discontinued the manufacture of new devices. Also they had shortage of 1 part and they took it from random devices...
My point is you also risk to get 2nd spares part or the whole 2nd hand part... not too nice as it does not means that the original fault/flaw is fixed, and its gambling until your warranty expires...
Hey guys, this post is just my way in saying thanks for all the help all of you guys have given me and for making it possible to have android on my HD2
Basically I have been doing some testing and have come up with a combination of things you can do to give yourself a fully working android build Ofcorse some of the information I had to test with was provided by other members but this combination I think is flawless, well at least it is for me ^^.
To begin you’re going to want to get the right WM rom for your android, and after testing I found the best one to be
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=734238
I have not had any problems with it. Just flash it to your device and let’s go from there.
Next your going to want to do something allot of members do not think of doing, and that is formatting the SD card PROPERLY, as this eliminates allot of problems for various reasons. The correct way to do this is, boot yourself into Linux, Ubuntu is the easiest in my eyes, and you can get it on a live CD or USB so it’s easy to get into, just boot into Ubuntu plug in your SDcard and its better if you can insert it via an SDcard slot in an adapter. Then format it as FAT not FAT32, I wont explain why this is better, but it will. Check this out if you really want to know why you need to do it ^^ but you don’t really need to know
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=750780
Next thing is your android build. Now there are ALOT of builds that work well but there is only one that I believe can give you a real working android experience, and the next part of this guide is based on this build so I suggest you use it .
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=740963
Ok, so you have got your build on your card you have booted into it and it’s ready to go, right? Not yet. One of the most annoying things that occur in android under the HD2 is the random freezing and this is how I removed this pesky little annoyance.
1. Unlock your screen and hit the settings key (windows key)
2. Hit settings
3. Hit Cyanogenmod Settings
4. Hit User Interface
5. Scroll down to Accelerometer rotation
6. Make sure ONLY 90 degrees is ticked!
7. Done
Now that setting is how I have managed to eliminate the problem, but don’t worry if you still have this issue, just go back into the Cyanogenmod settings and turn off 90 degrees and then under display turn off Auto-rotate screen, this should eliminate the problems but then your screen wont rotate automatically so its swings and roundabouts really ^^
Top Tips!
DONT use live wallpapers, they WILL kill your battery and drastically decrease the performance of your HD2!
Turn off the GPS as it is on by Default, it drains battery ALOT and isn't necessary most of the time ^^
Get the XDA app because its mega? And you suck if you don’t!
Calibrate the Gsensor, it will reduce the screen freezes (that’s if you even have them, witch you shouldn’t after this guide: P)
Finally, always remember that you should turn off your phone to charge it OR have it booted into WinMo, allot of reasons why you should do this but again just do it
Hope this helped someone somewhere Its my first real post that gave something back to the community and I AM a noob hehe, so any addition to this guide is welcome ^^ Again thanks allot all you guys at XDA that made this possible and I will keep this updated as necessary
Thanks allot. Dane.
xpstyle36 said:
1. Unlock your screen and hit the settings key (windows key)
2. Hit settings
3. Hit Cyanogenmod Settings
4. Hit User Interface
5. Scroll down to Accelerometer rotation
6. Make sure ONLY 90 degrees is ticked!
7. Done
Now that setting is how I have managed to eliminate the problem, but don’t worry if you still have this issue, just go back into the Cyanogenmod settings and turn off 90 degrees and then under display turn off Auto-rotate screen, this should eliminate the problems but then your screen wont rotate automatically so its swings and roundabouts really ^^
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Calibrate the Gsensor, it will reduce the screen freezes (that’s if you even have them, witch you shouldn’t after this guide: P)
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If this works, I'll be eternally grateful.
shadiku said:
If this works, I'll be eternally grateful.
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I hope it works for you but remember if you didn't follow all the other steps I cant guarantee and fix and even if it doesn't work, you can disable all screen rotation as I mentioned and this SHOULD fix your problem ^^ I really do hope it works for ya.
Dane.
Forgot to discuss about RADIOS and HARDSPL.
Common man.
FriedSushi87 said:
Forgot to discuss about RADIOS and HARDSPL.
Common man.
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Well if your looking at this guide, you probably already have HardSPL :l and even if you didn't when you take a look at the ROM pages it explains it there, so I don't think its very productive or helpful to post random crap like that :l And as for the radio, i tested several radios and it didn't make any difference TO ME but if you really want to know the radio i am running its, 2.12.50. Happy now ?
Dane.
xpstyle36 said:
Well if your looking at this guide, you probably already have HardSPL :l and even if you didn't when you take a look at the ROM pages it explains it there, so I don't think its very productive or helpful to post random crap like that :l And as for the radio, i tested several radios and it didn't make any difference TO ME but if you really want to know the radio i am running its, 2.12.50. Happy now ?
Dane.
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I think it's incredibly important to post that here.
Imagine someone sees an HD2 with android or hears about it from a friend, does a quick google search and finds this thread.
They come in here looking for a quick fix for android....
They could end up bricking their device or something....
FriedSushi87 said:
I think it's incredibly important to post that here.
Imagine someone sees an HD2 with android or hears about it from a friend, does a quick google search and finds this thread.
They come in here looking for a quick fix for android....
They could end up bricking their device or something....
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/sigh, what are you trying to do here ? cause problems.if you had never even heard about android on HD2 you take one look at the writing in this post and think WHAT, it says things like Flash it to your device and lets go. you wouldnt know how to flash or even what it meant, so you couldn't even brick your device as you would not know how :l Please stop filling up this thread that i made to HELP people not argue with some guy who keeps coming up with random crap that is not going to happen, and i am not being unreasonable by saying that and i am sure many other members will agree im not in the wrong.
Dane.
Unfortunately still having the screen freezes, even after toying with CyanogenMod settings.
Back to the waiting game then.
shadiku said:
Unfortunately still having the screen freezes, even after toying with CyanogenMod settings.
Back to the waiting game then.
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Did you turn off all the screen rotation under cm settings and normal settings and did you calibrate the Gsensor these things can also resolve the problem, you can also disable the Gsensor in WinMO and this will cure your problem but thats not reccomended ^^ Give those suggestions a try, again hope it works for you.
Dane.
Are we allowed to start a poll asking people which mainstream rom they're using just so we know what is the most common and popular rom is,? Or is it a taboo?
xpstyle36 said:
Did you turn off all the screen rotation under cm settings and normal settings and did you calibrate the Gsensor these things can also resolve the problem, you can also disable the Gsensor in WinMO and this will cure your problem but thats not reccomended ^^ Give those suggestions a try, again hope it works for you.
Dane.
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I turned all the screen rotation off. Since I'm using ChuckyDroidROM, the gsensor calibration is removed.
In android, it worked for a while but tilting it continually in Gallery3D caused a freeze.
I wish I could disable the theming on shubCRAFT, it's the only thing that puts me off using it.
I think that if you look at this thread you will see
xpstyle36 said:
Next your going to want to do something allot of members do not think of doing, and that is formatting the SD card PROPERLY, as this eliminates allot of problems for various reasons. The correct way to do this is, boot yourself into Linux, Ubuntu is the easiest in my eyes, and you can get it on a live CD or USB so it’s easy to get into, just boot into Ubuntu plug in your SDcard and its better if you can insert it via an SDcard slot in an adapter. Then format it as FAT not FAT32, I wont explain why this is better, but it will. Check this out if you really want to know why you need to do it ^^ but you don’t really need to know
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that this method is a lot of trouble for no additional benefit over a simple format using WinMo in the phone. If you would "explain why" it would be interesting because no one else can. A full WinMo format, not quick, overwrites the complete data space on an SD card with new redundant data. It also only reserves and writes one FAT where Windows on the PC reserves and writes two. You can't get something from nothing and WinMo non-quick format leaves nothing in the data space. (And yes I do understand full mil spec data destruction and redundent and random erase so everything is destroyed.)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=760996&page=5
johnboatcat said:
that this method is a lot of trouble for no additional benefit over a simple format using WinMo in the phone. If you would "explain why" it would be interesting because no one else can. A full WinMo format, not quick, overwrites the complete data space on an SD card with new redundant data. It also only reserves and writes one FAT where Windows on the PC reserves and writes two. You can't get something from nothing and WinMo non-quick format leaves nothing in the data space. (And yes I do understand full mil spec data destruction and redundent and random erase so everything is destroyed.)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=760996&page=5
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Well i may be wrong but as far as i was aware, when you put a linux android build on your SDcard it creates a partition or something like that on the card, (i will look it up and get back to you) and windows cannot see it, wheras linux can see it and therefore it can wipe it, and these left over bits that windows cant see dont always get on when you get a new build Thanks for pointing it out though, just wanna help as many as possible ^^
Thanks
Dane.
shadiku said:
I turned all the screen rotation off. Since I'm using ChuckyDroidROM, the gsensor calibration is removed.
In android, it worked for a while but tilting it continually in Gallery3D caused a freeze.
I wish I could disable the theming on shubCRAFT, it's the only thing that puts me off using it.
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To be honest i think that if you got yourself a Shubcraft build and then followed the guide then you would end up with a pretty stable build, with no freezing, but if you dont like the theme, then i guess that there is nothing i can do, but hope that a sense version of it is relesed so that you can get yourself a nice stable build ;D
Thanks again.
Dane.
shubcraft themes and "stock"
If you dont like the shubcraft theme you can use this ..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=760641
there is even a shub version 1.4c with "stock" Froyo theme here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=760641&page=3
thanks to all dev's & builders
ugghuggh said:
If you dont like the shubcraft theme you can use this ..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=760641
there is even a shub version 1.4c with "stock" Froyo theme here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=760641&page=3
thanks to all dev's & builders
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Ah ! Thanks alot ^^ Hey ! now you can download that one, follow the instructions and hopefully get a working build D:
Thanks again
Dane.
FriedSushi87 said:
Forgot to discuss about RADIOS and HARDSPL.
Common man.
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FriedSushi87 said:
I think it's incredibly important to post that here.
Imagine someone sees an HD2 with android or hears about it from a friend, does a quick google search and finds this thread.
They come in here looking for a quick fix for android....
They could end up bricking their device or something....
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@friedsushi definitely agree with you it isn't clarified correctly about different radios affecting the android or that hspl is necessary for it to work. I am constantly getting people pming me to ask for a walkthrough, which on most occasions I have been able to get this working even though my wordage is more simplified in layman's terms-his looks like its been copy/pasted from all over these pages which in effect isn't a bad thing but to call it a guide and not including vital information is a bit haphazard IMO.
& to the op I am not flaming you but there are already guides out there & don't particularly need another unfinished version to add to the numerous threads which have only just been cleaned up by the mods, plus with only 11 posts 8 of which are on here I honestly don't see much experience to be able to give people guides
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@friedsushi definitely agree with you it isn't clarified correctly about different radios affecting the android or that hspl is necessary for it to work. I am constantly getting people pming me to ask for a walkthrough, which on most occasions I have been able to get this working even though my wordage is more simplified in layman's terms-his looks like its been copy/pasted from all over these pages which in effect isn't a bad thing but to call it a guide and not including vital information is a bit haphazard IMO.
& to the op I am not flaming you but there are already guides out there & don't particularly need another unfinished version to add to the numerous threads which have only just been cleaned up by the mods.
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I dont get it ? not one word of this was copied and pasted from someone else, and this is just the process i went through to get it to work perfectly, i didnt include the parts about the HardSPL and the radio because, i tryed a few different radios and it made no difference to me AND you wouldn't be able to flash or follow these instructions if you didnt know what hard SPL was. Again i am not flaming but i was just providing a set of instructions that i did, to get it working. So its not a unfinished guide, just because it didnt include some realy basic information. Sorry if i did not make this 100% noob friendly, was just trying to get a few more phones running stable ^^
Dane.
No one discussed any where about the below scenarios.
If booting to android, Phone reboots.
If already in booted and trying to make a call or check email again booted.Always getting booten in android randomly after trying various builds.
Anyone has answer for thatt?
Thanks