Dear all,
I'm new to the smartphone game, just got an X8 for my mom.
I would like to upgrade to a smoother, faster ROM for her.
Her main requirements:
1) Fully working camera,
2) Music player
3) Wifi for facebook and gmail app
Which rom would you recommend? I prefer 2.3 but 2.2 is more than enough for her I guess, as long as it's stable.
Another question, after I install the rom, do I need to manually re-add all the contacts, and their customization (ie ringtones, pics, etc).
Thank you in advance for your patience and answers.
there are no gingerbread rom with a fully working camera yet..but theres is a few complete froyo rom..maybe you should check out floyo by racht,minicm by povanon,and elelinux v6 from frogy furnatel..but in my opinion,elelinux v6 seems to be the most stable of all..
you have to backup the contact before you us the rom and restore it after using new rom..ringtones and pics will not lose if you place it in sd card,but all of sony original stuff will be gone for good..
Using miniCM6 now, quite stable, lag free, everything works (at least in MY apps)...
Cons : fast battery drain.
Cheers to the developers!
use racht's floyo 0.20..no oc but fast n stable
I disabled the OC in my miniCM, as it cannot boot up with the OC.
Elelinux v006 + patch, working all.
Rafael.Baugis said:
Elelinux v006 + patch, working all.
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If that phone is for your mum, than install Elelinux. On miniCm theres a bug when baterry is 10% or less, screen dims, goes black etc...
Elelinux is free of that bug, and battery last for long.
For example: I had 6% of batt last night at 1:00 AM, when I woke up, it still was at 6%. Than I chacked facebook and used tapatalk for 10mins, and it droped to 5.
Battery draind at 4pm.
ELELINUX FTW, belive me!
don't even try to waste your time flashing miniCM, it's laggy even when oc'd, try floyo or elelinux - satisfaction guaranteed.
Use racht floyo v. 20 its stable and fast
And about the contact make an export and import to the SD card by going to contact then menu
Hope I helped
proud owner of sexperia X8
I got yesterday FroyoBread by doixanh, and I really appreciate this rom...it´s smooth and stable.
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What do you think about this rom? Is ready for daily use or not?
Of course it is. I've been using it for 2 days and it's flawless. Especially since doixanh fixed the wifi libs.
I should say it's as fast and smooth as Floyo and Elelinux.
I recommend you to use it. I'm currently using it, and I love the special feature teh ROM got
HaN6787 said:
I recommend you to use it. I'm currently using it, and I love the special feature teh ROM got
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Nice rom so far,but the baterry drain so fast, switch back to gngerfroyo.baterry long lasting and nice theme too
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gothickah0 said:
Nice rom so far,but the baterry drain so fast, switch back to gngerfroyo.baterry long lasting and nice theme too
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i don't have problems with battery drain. have you wiped batters stats ???
FB
FroyoBread - the best 2.2 ROM (for me)!!! And i use FB daily
After install and battery wipe, drain 17% in 8 hours (standby, no 3G, no GPS, no Bluetooth).
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After install and battery wipe, drain 17% in 8 hours (standby, no 3G, no GPS, no Bluetooth).
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have you charged your battery to 100% and then wiped or only wiped ??? my battery drains about 5% in 8 hours
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have you charged your battery to 100% and then wiped or only wiped ??? my battery drains about 5% in 8 hours
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Yes, charged to 100% and wiped. I think the wifi is turning on, even with the option "When screen turns off".
Turning off the wifi manually drains 5% in 8 hours.
Id say its the best rom! Good work dx
Sent from my X8 using Tapatalk
best custom ROM so far for me.. with the cool features like the crt animation, it is a good ROM for daily use.. now with v.007 even FM radio is fixed.. i'm loving this ROM..
best rom among i have tested
btw, any video player work on FroyoBread?
have tried some and none of them work.
it is mentioned in his note, just want to know if any exist
Im using froyobread v 009 and its wonderful
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hey does any body try to restore games by titanium backup like angry birds and fruite ninja because when i flashed the rom and restored my games it doesnt work like angry birds and fruite ninja i dunno why the rom is amazing but the games thing let me return back to gingerbread =(
Well, Doixanh work amazed XDA community in Xperia range, and for me it makes me proud owner of X8. The rom quality is superb, maybe because it appeared when almost all bugs are solved, but anyway, doixanh reunited the best features in all roms and merged them in one, his! I think It was a great choice to bet in froyo platform, because it's already well developed. Anyway Ginger doesn't have camera working at full potential and this rom looks almost the same as it.
I hope more people like doixanh join ours and XDA community.
Hello everyone,
I've have updated my ROM from Racht's 0.20 Floyo to 0.25 Froyobread. Great work on both ROMS, I appriciate the effort from the developers.
I've found no flaws on either, however, I'm a person who's a bit minimalistic, and I like to have clean nice ROM, to a full extent. Now, I have no issue with developers putting their signature on their work, they should take pride in that, however, I like to have clean nice UI and lockscreen.
So, my question is: Can you remove "Froyobread 0.25. [email protected]" message from you lockscreen?
Please, hold no grudge, clean ui and lockscreen is my personal preference, I give full recogntion and gratitude to our developers. Kind regards, and thanks.
i install LINK2SD in this rom, but it is cannot work , what should i do ?
i have ext2, n FAT 32 in my sdcard, but cannot work for LINK2SD :'(
i have ext2, n FAT 32 in my sdcard, but cannot work for LINK2SD :'(
Quiem said:
Hello everyone,
I've have updated my ROM from Racht's 0.20 Floyo to 0.25 Froyobread. Great work on both ROMS, I appriciate the effort from the developers.
I've found no flaws on either, however, I'm a person who's a bit minimalistic, and I like to have clean nice ROM, to a full extent. Now, I have no issue with developers putting their signature on their work, they should take pride in that, however, I like to have clean nice UI and lockscreen.
So, my question is: Can you remove "Froyobread 0.25. [email protected]" message from you lockscreen?
Please, hold no grudge, clean ui and lockscreen is my personal preference, I give full recogntion and gratitude to our developers. Kind regards, and thanks.
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That will not happen on FroyoBread, He Already said that, and he said "This is My Personal Rom, Just Want to share it" - unless you can change his mind
but you can remove it, if you want to
this them is great.
but isnt perfect stabale
Hey guys.
My GF has this Xperia X8 and was wondering if theres a way to make it (alot?) faster and the battery drain better. Her phone has a crazy battery drain of like 90% in 10 hours without really doing anything. Browsing the web with hsdpa drains about 50% in 1 hour and the phone itself seems crazily laggy and bugged.
Is there a everyday-use rom or are they more or less all experimental?
Thanks in advance guys, appreciated.
Every ROM here is stable enough for daily use but if you want my suggestion, use GingerDX. It's the best ROM I've tried so far and it's very very fast!
I didnt know that custom roms would ever improve battery life?
If you wan't a stable, fast and no-bugs rom, perfect for daily use, MiniCM6 is what you need. I have problems with sending/reciving MMS with ALL 2.3 Roms, but i can MMS without problems with ALL 2.2 roms.
So, for daily use the best rom is MiniCm6, without any doubts.
Probably some other users say "GingerDX" or "Froyobread", but these ones are slower (they are fast, yes) than MiniCM6, and they aren't as stable as MiniCm6.
But there is ONE big problem with MiniCM6. The video recording has a problem, the audio is unsinc. from the image. But if you don't use that theres no problem. If you use... well... i don't know but maybe FroyoBread has that bug fixed.
I simply don't recomend you 2.3 Roms because they are slower, and more laggy and unstable than 2.2 Roms.
Yes, this is my opinion, what others think is what others think and yes, probably different, probably not...
But watchout, don't full out your phone with a lot of apps, install ONLY the apps you use.
Sorry for my bad English
I Agree that 2.3 ROMS are not so good at everyday use,i use GingerDX and it have not so many problems whit lags and bugs,but the battery drains veeeeery fast.I think its the same for all 2.3.
So,i'll recommend you FroyoBread,thats the ROM i used before GingerDX till version v15 (or v14,don't remember )and its very stable and fast,and the battery life is very good.I don't tested miniCM6 either!
I suggest u to used floyo 0.30 by racht... stable,fast n no bug.... =)
I recommend GingerDX releases for stable daily use
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If you wan't a stable, fast and no-bugs rom, perfect for daily use, MiniCM6 is what you need. I have problems with sending/reciving MMS with ALL 2.3 Roms, but i can MMS without problems with ALL 2.2 roms.
So, for daily use the best rom is MiniCm6, without any doubts.
Probably some other users say "GingerDX" or "Froyobread", but these ones are slower (they are fast, yes) than MiniCM6, and they aren't as stable as MiniCm6.
But there is ONE big problem with MiniCM6. The video recording has a problem, the audio is unsinc. from the image. But if you don't use that theres no problem. If you use... well... i don't know but maybe FroyoBread has that bug fixed.
I simply don't recomend you 2.3 Roms because they are slower, and more laggy and unstable than 2.2 Roms.
Yes, this is my opinion, what others think is what others think and yes, probably different, probably not...
But watchout, don't full out your phone with a lot of apps, install ONLY the apps you use.
Sorry for my bad English
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I was on minicm6 it would not let me play pro evolution soccor 2011
GingerDx would
i totally disagree with your comment
GingerDX v011 is by far superior to minicm6
yes mms wont work. unless you sit there for a few minuets putting in the setting's then it DOES work
like everything else on gingerdx it works and it works FAST
Please dont take my comment as an insult but really you got to check out the newer versions of gingerdx it is SUPERIER to 100% or the rom's i have tried
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I Agree that 2.3 ROMS are not so good at everyday use,i use GingerDX and it have not so many problems whit lags and bugs,but the battery drains veeeeery fast.I think its the same for all 2.3.
So,i'll recommend you FroyoBread,thats the ROM i used before GingerDX till version v15 (or v14,don't remember )and its very stable and fast,and the battery life is very good.I don't tested miniCM6 either!
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Try MiniCM7, it has less customization options than GingerDX, but the battery drain is MUCH more lower
I would recommend MiniCM7 2.0.7 aswell!
If you use Undervolt and change some very basic configurations, you can have a lot of battery time.
Right now I have 58% battery remaining and made a lot of calls and some gaming, and it has been running for 37 hours
Hi,
I'd like to know the reason why is the better for and advices.
I use the MiniCM7 i like this rom cus has a lot upgrades my Xperia X8 works fine, but i feel its no the better rom for this mobile, maybe the CPU or RAM i dont know, but.. i think is better than 2.1 Original ROM from SE i used the Froyo (MiniCM6) and was great but i decides to try the MiniCM7 and sweeter, but slow in mobile... so
What ROM you use? Why do u use it? Is it the better? What is the better for SE Xperia X8?
Thanks! Guys!
I use Froyobread. Based on CM6(Froyo)
Reason?
Main Reason - Almost bugless ROM, very good for daily use.
Other:
CRT Animation/Glow - ppl will think I'm using Android 2.3 when they saw it
T-Mobile Theme Engine - CM7 theme for CM6 based ROM
easy to say, I use FB because of doixanh's special features there, (back button ends call, HTC Never-miss-a-call, etc). I know GingerDX got those as well, but I like CM6 more. Its smoother, faster, and really almost bugless, and good memory management.
I have tried stock 1.6 (before the big update), Eclair (unrooted and rooted)and now GingerDX V.6. A fact is that the X8 are not a terribly fast smartphone. It is fast enough for many things like divx-movies and not too complicated games. It´s like a cheap computer! You can do standard things but nothing too complicated and it doesnt do anything with an impressive speed.
I cant say that i notice any difference in speed between stock 2.1 and GingerDX. When the phone has been idle for a while it´s a little tired in a few seconds (Sometimes, not allways). But it was as tired when stock eclair was on it to.
I have 50 apps (and games) installed in my phone. Maybe there´s la difference if you have a lot more things installed.
Currently Im using FroyoBread v23
Why?
In GingerDX v010, after one night, my battery drains 16-20%
In FroyoBread, 6-8%
I did the tests with clean installations, original applications (Gmail, talk, maps, etc) removed and SD erased.
I have tested all top roms (fb,minicm,floyo,fxp.....) I am now using Kuyadroid v3 because its fast and great on battery, 1-2% standby overnight and 3-4 days with moderate use. I like DX roms and will prob switch to GingerDX later in development.
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using gingerdx, battery drain is too much
Well I will go with Gingercruzt 7.4.
Why?
Coz of its faster than GDX and a combined mixed of SE application and updated feature not to mention the interface is so cool.
hunff said:
In GingerDX v010, after one night, my battery drains 16-20%
In FroyoBread, 6-8%
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I'm not really sure, but as I remembered, my FB drains 0% - 1% from 0000hrs - 0900hrs. will try this night, and update the result.
Thanks for urs answers. I got i need question.
About the "core" in ours X8, What do u think? Eclair, Froyo or Gingerbread? Why?
As a senior member and owner of X8 for over a year now, I tried a lots of ROMs... even those in early stage of development. I remember, in April I tried lots of ROMs but I've always and up with nAa's miniCM series.
In the time of Froyo roms - miniCM6 was always the best and updated the most frequently... than dx came with his froyobread, and after, GDX. But, non of those ROMs were smooth as nAa roms was..
Now, miniCM7 takes over again! It's the very best ROM for X8 I've ever tried. Why you ask?
Well, lets start... Frist of all I use my phone a lot, all other roms become laggy after some time, but miniCM7 is as fast as just after reboot. no need for task killers. Also, a little or even no lags at all make this rom just as perfect for daily usage. Performance is great, I couldn't imagine playing all those games without a single lag on my phone... but than - nAa suprised us again...
He made nAa 10 kernel... High performance bacame even higher now. I use my phone just for WiFi and Gaming now, and all I can tell is - BRAVO!
My phone feells like new Xperia Mini... No lags, app startup is really fast, games do not lag... even those for "high-end devices" like Tiki Kart 3D...
Screen cuts.. I use overclock @729Mhz and I don't have any.. Recovery is also fine.
Market - FINALLY! FINALLY Market that works without freezing or crashing, finally Market that actually download what you choose (even if on slow connections) ...Finally Market without LAGS!
Browser could be a little faster, but theres always an alternative on Market, which makes browsing on X8 very best so far. New kernel rocked this part.
What to tell.. I just don't like this ugly ADW ..so I replaced with LPP+ ...nothin more to change, except the theme.... which is very nice but (nAa if you're reading this please notice if it's already blue you should make it all blue like "Volume popups" - which is yellow and it doesn't match with all other stuff.
Conclusion: how better can it be, I didn't found any bug so far... everything works as it should work... Finally!
So, nobodyAtall.... DUDE KEEP IT UP! Focus on improving your already awesome kernel even more!
Regards,
DDI!
Sorry, for this reply.
Not wanted to disrespect anyone.
But please try Trial Xtreme 2 on this rom with nAa kernel 10
No graphics
While this and all the games works fine on nAa kernel 08 b.
Please report this to nAa .
And also i tried CF3D...
No effect.
And i am damn sure that this problem occurs due to only the kernel.
I couldn't agree more, mcm7 on top of nAa-10 is the best that our x8 has gotten so far n btw I play most high end games e.g: dead space with no oc and without cf3d and it doesn't lag at all
As for vinmac try a full wipe that's the first rule when u have such problems
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I agree other games works fine and performance is too fast
That is 1.5 times that of 08 b kernel.
But only trial xtreme 2 is troubling
Please try this game and report what happens ???
Hey man,
I tried the free version n it worked just fine, the only problem is that it took about 20secs to load but then it worked fine.
Try reinstalling it or deleting the save files in android folder on ur sdcard.
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[Q] Want to Upgrade Cm7.1 - Cm7.2 Rc2 or MIUI or Cm9
I jst want to Upgrade mY Defy RED Lens from cm7.1 Rc1 to a better version ..
having some network problem in last two weeks ...
I thought to try
cm9 - but its still on development
cm7.2 Rc2 - but read some battery drain problem in XDA
cm7.1 stable - Ya its ok as its on cm Official site .
or miui with 2.3.7 - I jst wanna try how it exceeds
My needs are
Good bettery life - im getting 3-4 days on average use . no 3g or wifi . jst calls and sometimes mp3.
Game support - i like to run nfs shift always when im free, or some funny games. no need of any HD games
So friends can u please suggest which ROM shuld i choose ...
I Dnt wanna flash my phone repeatedly to test the ROMS .. Always prefer to hear what others says and will try and choose myself ...
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Ok I Installed MIUI 2.4
I am running the lastest CM7.2 but quartx and cant fault it yet. I have run the v6 supercharger script and it seems really good. I got rid of the ADW launcher and put on GO only for looks but I think GO seems a bit slower, I ,might have to try ADW again but try different themes.
I use 3G and get about 3 days out of it but usually about 1 hr of calls in there in a day so that would drain it, But dont play many games maybe 5 mins a day if that. I find it really good but as I upgraded to 2.3.6 I am stuck with a few ROMS and this is the best so far.
Installed MiUI 2.4...
thanks Kelly ...
I jst installed MIUI 2.4 ....
a data wipe and complete reinstall of MIUI and reboot took a total time of 5 Min..
Awesome ...
Ya Its Looks is Simply Superb and im tweaking things ...
Bt I Miss a APP Drawer in it by default . first thought its a bug...
They all say to use a Alternative launcher if App Drawer is need...
Yea you can try another launcher from the market. Miui is nice as it gives that iPhone look. Try v6 supercharger to. Big difference!!!
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I think MS2Ginger is the best option for you. No battery drains, good battery life, good game support, stable, etc. I use CM7.2 nightly for defy+ on my red lens by Quarx. Is so good, smooth, stable, good battery life
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kidrobot52 said:
Yea you can try another launcher from the market. Miui is nice as it gives that iPhone look. Try v6 supercharger to. Big difference!!!
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Garuxa said:
I think MS2Ginger is the best option for you. No battery drains, good battery life, good game support, stable, etc. I use CM7.2 nightly for defy+ on my red lens by Quarx. Is so good, smooth, stable, good battery life
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thanks guys . r8 now im checking the MIUI ..
One things i want to mention is its has everything i want by default & an awesome UI. so i dont need to install separate apps..
Like Music Player with folder listing,
Stock Sms with password Lock,
File Browser with all options and fast loading image browser,
Data Traffic monitor and firewall.
Missed many of these in CM7 Rc1.5...
will check ms2ginger..
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Yea you can try another launcher from the market. Miui is nice as it gives that iPhone look. Try v6 supercharger to. Big difference!!!
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Ya im Planning to try supercharger ...
But is there any tweaks that i try for a improved performance ..
Like a Kernal Update or something Like that ???
Questions go in the Q&A section