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[Q] Xplay exclusives on custom rom

Hi everybody, lately, I'm wanting to get rid of Sony themes and annoying apps, and install a Stock ICS.
But as an avid FIFA 12 player, but I'm worried if this game will work, because it's exclusive for Xperia Play.
So, will it work?

puelocesar said:
Hi everybody, lately, I'm wanting to get rid of Sony themes and annoying apps, and install a Stock ICS.
But as an avid FIFA 12 player, but I'm worried if this game will work, because it's exclusive for Xperia Play.
So, will it work?
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If you go completely AOSP, and use a rom with NO Sony (Ericcson) material you will lose the touchpads and may also lose the directional buttons and the 4 shapes buttons as they are specific to the Sony software. You should still be able to use the touch screen with the game but that is if it will even load. I believe there are Stock Gingerbread roms with some Sony stuff left in it so that it will still use the full touchpads and game controller, if I am wrong someone please correct me but from what I have read this is what I found no Sony specific software isntalled no game controller. Like CM7 no touchpads or game controller and if there is support its only on a limited number of games like Shadowgun, etc.

jgregoryj1 said:
If you go completely AOSP, and use a rom with NO Sony (Ericcson) material you will lose the touchpads and may also lose the directional buttons and the 4 shapes buttons as they are specific to the Sony software. You should still be able to use the touch screen with the game but that is if it will even load. I believe there are Stock Gingerbread roms with some Sony stuff left in it so that it will still use the full touchpads and game controller, if I am wrong someone please correct me but from what I have read this is what I found no Sony specific software isntalled no game controller. Like CM7 no touchpads or game controller and if there is support its only on a limited number of games like Shadowgun, etc.
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Thanks for the answer!
So, I have to install a Rom based on Sony, uninstall all crap, based on a list of safe removal it can be found on this forum, and then keep hours customizing it to look like the original thing...
Damn!

puelocesar said:
Thanks for the answer!
So, I have to install a Rom based on Sony, uninstall all crap, based on a list of safe removal it can be found on this forum, and then keep hours customizing it to look like the original thing...
Damn!
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For speed and ease of use this is what I do. I use titanium to backup all my apps. Then I do a Custom Recovery backup before trying a new ROM. Then wipe and flash teh new ROM, then once its all booted up, I use titanium to remove the system apps, then restore the apps you have backed up you want to restore. I did a full blank slate on my phone 2 weeks ago an what used to take hours took about 30 minutes. But yeah it sucks, this method just makes it suck a little less. And when you restore from Titanium it will at least restore all your apps data. so like I restored my GO launcher and all my wallpapers and widgets were restored as well.

Xperia ZL "google/nexus experience"

I used to mod phones alot back in the day, but switched over to iPhones...recently though I got a job at a regional carrier called Cincinnati Bell and they give me android phones like candy.
I've been using the ZL alot, but I really just want it stock android because the Sony junk just makes the phone laggy...
So my question/statement is: I have been so not in the game, I can not seem to find or figure out which ROM is a stock android one, or even if there is one....?
Can anyone help me or point me in the right direction?

IF you want pure stock android experience then you can install cyanogenmod 10.1(recommended). Download the latest nightly from : http://get.cm/?device=odin
It is pretty stable
Or
for stock rom with some modifications, you can try aokp rom : http://aokp.co/devices/odin
or PAC rom : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2228436
I guess you know how to flash custom roms
but after flashing these, you wont be able to use bravia engine 2

R4GE199 said:
IF you want pure stock android experience then you can install cyanogenmod 10.1(recommended). Download the latest nightly from : http://get.cm/?device=odin
It is pretty stable
Or
for stock rom with some modifications, you can try aokp rom : http://aokp.co/devices/odin
or PAC rom : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2228436
I guess you know how to flash custom roms
but after flashing these, you wont be able to use bravia engine 2
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Thanks for the tip! and kinda a bummer i wont be able to use the bravia engine

R4GE199 said:
IF you want pure stock android experience then you can install cyanogenmod 10.1(recommended). Download the latest nightly from : http://get.cm/?device=odin
It is pretty stable
Or
for stock rom with some modifications, you can try aokp rom : http://aokp.co/devices/odin
or PAC rom : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2228436
I guess you know how to flash custom roms
but after flashing these, you wont be able to use bravia engine 2
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UGH!!! so after reading on how to unlock my bootloader...apparently I have one that does not allow the bootloader to be unlocked...so i guess i cant flash anything.

ben182tx said:
UGH!!! so after reading on how to unlock my bootloader...apparently I have one that does not allow the bootloader to be unlocked...so i guess i cant flash anything.
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Boo! You can't get someone at work to fix that for you?
You can still root the stock firmware and debloat it. I find mine to be pretty stable and using some substitutions for apps it's very usable and smooth:
Nova Launcher (the Sony launcher IMO is laggy and makes the whole phone feel slow, Nova is smooth)
SwiftKey (the Sony keyboard is lacking, you could also try the JB stock keyboard in the app store)
Using TitaniumBackup, I froze the following:
com.sonyericsson.unplugchargerreminder (why do I need to know that unplugging the charger while the phone is NOT fully charged would save energy? it's stupid)
WALKMAN
Xperia Social Engine Photos
Xperia Social Engine Sharing 3.0.A.2.7 (Twitter sharing plugin)
Xperia Social Engine Sharing 3.0.A.2.8 (Facebook sharing plugin)
Xperia with Facebook
Xperia with Twitter
I then deleted all the bloatware, either through Nova or Titanium Backup if they were system apps. These are the ones I remember, but there were more:
McAfee
Sony Reader
Music Unlimited
TrackID
Google Play Magazines (Google bloat but still not needed)
Google Play Movies
The Camera app is ok, it looks like in the latest version on 4.2.2 it remembers your mode setting, so if you were in Normal mode and relaunch, it will sometimes come back to Normal mode. I have Camera Zoom Fx but I still use the Sony Camera most of the time.
The Gallery app is not my favorite, but I was able to install the JB gallery, albeit it is missing the Picasa Album integration. The Picasa album feature on the Sony app sucks, but I can use Google+ to pull my Picasa images easily.
I haven't spent the time to disable throw, which I don't use, but I don't think it's using up much resources.
The lock screen is annoying me a bit, and that's the next thing I will look into replacing.

havanahjoe said:
Boo! You can't get someone at work to fix that for you?
You can still root the stock firmware and debloat it. I find mine to be pretty stable and using some substitutions for apps it's very usable and smooth:
Nova Launcher (the Sony launcher IMO is laggy and makes the whole phone feel slow, Nova is smooth)
SwiftKey (the Sony keyboard is lacking, you could also try the JB stock keyboard in the app store)
Using TitaniumBackup, I froze the following:
com.sonyericsson.unplugchargerreminder (why do I need to know that unplugging the charger while the phone is NOT fully charged would save energy? it's stupid)
WALKMAN
Xperia Social Engine Photos
Xperia Social Engine Sharing 3.0.A.2.7 (Twitter sharing plugin)
Xperia Social Engine Sharing 3.0.A.2.8 (Facebook sharing plugin)
Xperia with Facebook
Xperia with Twitter
I then deleted all the bloatware, either through Nova or Titanium Backup if they were system apps. These are the ones I remember, but there were more:
McAfee
Sony Reader
Music Unlimited
TrackID
Google Play Magazines (Google bloat but still not needed)
Google Play Movies
The Camera app is ok, it looks like in the latest version on 4.2.2 it remembers your mode setting, so if you were in Normal mode and relaunch, it will sometimes come back to Normal mode. I have Camera Zoom Fx but I still use the Sony Camera most of the time.
The Gallery app is not my favorite, but I was able to install the JB gallery, albeit it is missing the Picasa Album integration. The Picasa album feature on the Sony app sucks, but I can use Google+ to pull my Picasa images easily.
I haven't spent the time to disable throw, which I don't use, but I don't think it's using up much resources.
The lock screen is annoying me a bit, and that's the next thing I will look into replacing.
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Well, i rooted the phone...and went to delete the SIMLOCK APK ... which what i figured controlled the SIM being locked to my network, however...it seems to have made the phone not read any sim cards now lol
I have since taken it to work and swapped it with a new one.
No one at my work knows anything about rooting/dev stuff oddly enough haha

ben182tx said:
Well, i rooted the phone...and went to delete the SIMLOCK APK ... which what i figured controlled the SIM being locked to my network, however...it seems to have made the phone not read any sim cards now lol
I have since taken it to work and swapped it with a new one.
No one at my work knows anything about rooting/dev stuff oddly enough haha
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haha yeah, don't do that. Do you also want to unlock the SIM lock? Easy, just pop in a foreign SIM and get a SIM unlock code from your employer
Hmm that sucks. I haven't heard of anyone being able to unlock the bootloader on a carrier branded phone, so I wouldn't be surprised if no coworker knows about this. It was probably a package deal from Sony. Do you want the restrictive package or the freedom package for your customers? Cincinnati Bell went with the first option I bet.
Which model do they sell? Is it the C6506?

havanahjoe said:
haha yeah, don't do that. Do you also want to unlock the SIM lock? Easy, just pop in a foreign SIM and get a SIM unlock code from your employer
Hmm that sucks. I haven't heard of anyone being able to unlock the bootloader on a carrier branded phone, so I wouldn't be surprised if no coworker knows about this. It was probably a package deal from Sony. Do you want the restrictive package or the freedom package for your customers? Cincinnati Bell went with the first option I bet.
Which model do they sell? Is it the C6506?
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Cincinnati Bell doesnt/wont unlock any phone that is locked to our network...period. Not even for employees.
The model we have is the one that can use T-Mobile HSPA+ and AT&T HSPA+

ben182tx said:
Cincinnati Bell doesnt/wont unlock any phone that is locked to our network...period. Not even for employees.
The model we have is the one that can use T-Mobile HSPA+ and AT&T HSPA+
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Oh well. But if you still want to use the ZL with a more AOSP experience, look into just modifying the stock ROM and make it more AOSP. It's easy.

havanahjoe said:
Oh well. But if you still want to use the ZL with a more AOSP experience, look into just modifying the stock ROM and make it more AOSP. It's easy.
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Yeah i am def gonna try your suggestions out tonight! Thanks!
So...what exactly is the SIMLOCK.APK anyways?

ben182tx said:
Yeah i am def gonna try your suggestions out tonight! Thanks!
So...what exactly is the SIMLOCK.APK anyways?
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I don't know. I went to look at mine and I don't have that, I have a SimlockUnlockApp.apk instead

[Q] Xperia ZL post-mortem

I have a couple of quick questions about the xperia UI.
Recently, my ZL died in an accident. Due to my location, I had few replacement choices available, so I opted for a Galaxy S4. It wasn't my first choice, but it's not a bad phone.
There are a few things I miss.
First, what is that thing circled in red on the first picture called? It's a launcher of small apps that appears on the bottom panel when you open Recent Apps. Samsung doesn't have it, so I'm assuming it's an Xperia thing. I want to search for an app or a mod that can perform a similar function, but I don't know what it's called, or if there's an app that does it.
Secondly, I was really getting to like the Xperia's "Album" software. I've found gallery apps that organize in a similar way, but don't include a home screen widget that allows the user to flip through photos. Can this "Album" app be installed on the S4, if so,how, and if not, can anyone recommend a good replacement?

I don't think thats possible on a sammy phone... not unless you port the stock xperia rom to the S4... But you should head over to the s4 forum and maybe ask someone to port it for you.... only the small apps if possible! Also Samsung has their multiwindow and all... maybe use that!
You could also root your phone and use floating window from xposed!

Dr_SUSE said:
I have a couple of quick questions about the xperia UI.
Recently, my ZL died in an accident. Due to my location, I had few replacement choices available, so I opted for a Galaxy S4. It wasn't my first choice, but it's not a bad phone.
There are a few things I miss.
First, what is that thing circled in red on the first picture called? It's a launcher of small apps that appears on the bottom panel when you open Recent Apps. Samsung doesn't have it, so I'm assuming it's an Xperia thing. I want to search for an app or a mod that can perform a similar function, but I don't know what it's called, or if there's an app that does it.
Secondly, I was really getting to like the Xperia's "Album" software. I've found gallery apps that organize in a similar way, but don't include a home screen widget that allows the user to flip through photos. Can this "Album" app be installed on the S4, if so,how, and if not, can anyone recommend a good replacement?
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Well, my sister have a s4, and somehow i didn't like it...
And samsung doesn't have a small apps, and also , you can tweak your Xperia ZL using Xposed Modules (Need root but not custom rom)...
Like mine, you can customize the status bar icon, battery icon, nav bar, screen off animation, and many more!
Feel free to ask, bbm or pm me if you have a question

AndreIrawan97 said:
Well, my sister have a s4, and somehow i didn't like it...
And samsung doesn't have a small apps, and also , you can tweak your Xperia ZL using Xposed Modules (Need root but not custom rom)...
Like mine, you can customize the status bar icon, battery icon, nav bar, screen off animation, and many more!
Feel free to ask, bbm or pm me if you have a question
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You can tweek any phone with Xposed, but why are you telling him that? didn't you read his post? He states that his ZL died and the S4 is a replacement, he's asking if it's possible to make his S4 to be closer to the ZL.
Now to the topic at hand, from what I heard it's a popular practice to port Sony apps to all Xperia phones as well as other phones. So if you go to the S4 forums you should be able to find the small apps as well as the album app, along with instructions on how to install them correctly. Good luck man, and don't be sad, the S4 is a bit better than the ZL anyway.

Dead Metal said:
You can tweek any phone with Xposed, but why are you telling him that? didn't you read his post? He states that his ZL died and the S4 is a replacement, he's asking if it's possible to make his S4 to be closer to the ZL.
Now to the topic at hand, from what I heard it's a popular practice to port Sony apps to all Xperia phones as well as other phones. So if you go to the S4 forums you should be able to find the small apps as well as the album app, along with instructions on how to install them correctly. Good luck man, and don't be sad, the S4 is a bit better than the ZL anyway.
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I found a bundle of Xperia apps and flashed them, and I discovered the apps couldn't start without Xperia Home enabled and running. Needless to say, it didn't run well competing with Samsung's Touchwiz. Touchwiz can't be stopped or shut down. Most of the Xperia stuff didn't last a reboot. I couldn't get Walkman to run at all.
S4 may be a slightly better platform. It's got a better camera, for one. However, the better user experience goes to Xperia. Walkman's a better music app in every way that's important. Small apps are useful, especially screenshot for me. Album widget is irreplaceable. Now I've got 2 competing music apps, Adapt sound which breaks everything, 2 competing alarm clocks, and of course the one I don't want is the one I can't stop...
It was easy to root,though, to its credit.
Might just get a Z2 and give this one to my wife. Are those easy to root? Z2's, I mean?

Dr_SUSE said:
I found a bundle of Xperia apps and flashed them, and I discovered the apps couldn't start without Xperia Home enabled and running. Needless to say, it didn't run well competing with Samsung's Touchwiz. Touchwiz can't be stopped or shut down. Most of the Xperia stuff didn't last a reboot. I couldn't get Walkman to run at all.
S4 may be a slightly better platform. It's got a better camera, for one. However, the better user experience goes to Xperia. Walkman's a better music app in every way that's important. Small apps are useful, especially screenshot for me. Album widget is irreplaceable. Now I've got 2 competing music apps, Adapt sound which breaks everything, 2 competing alarm clocks, and of course the one I don't want is the one I can't stop...
It was easy to root,though, to its credit.
Might just get a Z2 and give this one to my wife. Are those easy to root? Z2's, I mean?
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Oh, that's a shame and kinda weird. I mean porting should imply that they have been modified to actually run on the device.
The Z2 is easy to root with towelroot or the Z2 root deamon we also used to root our ZL. Then again, everything is easy to root with towelroot.
The best music app is PowerAmp, Walkman kinda sucks when compared to that.
Here are the S4 forums, pick which model you have and see if they have properly ported Xperia apps.

Moto Z Play app: securitylt

I have recently bought the chinese variant of Moto Z play (the 1635-03 dual sim) that I'm willing to flash with custom rom.
However, there's a stock app (a beast i should say:laugh that's installed on the phone "Securitylt" and I wish to have it installed on my phone after customisation.
The app gives you full control over the apps behaviour on your phone, excellent tool for privacy and optimisation
The trouble is, I couldn't find a trace of the app on the net. Does anyone know anything about the mysterious app
or anything similar really
thanks guys​

Try to search a bit more.
http://www.appsapk.com/lenovo-security/

Yash24 said:
Try to search a bit more.
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Did find this one, but it's unfortunately not the same

Extract the apk and share it here. Someone might know about it and no even realise it.

[request] Google Phone App for XZ Premium

I really like the default apps from Google and replaced everything I could with them, but the Play Store won't let me download the phone app and if I get the apk directly the installation always fails. Could anyone port the app over so I could use it instead of the Xperia phone app since that made some weird design choices and I would prefer the Google solution. Thanks in advance.

https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-google-dialer-t3557412/page83

exvargos said:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-google-dialer-t3557412/page83
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Many function doesn't work on this modded dialer.
New dialer is avaible only when you have root and copy dialer files to system apps.
You must waiting for DRM and root. Better install version non Nexus from apkmirror.
https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/google-phone/google-phone-7-0-140861421-nonnexus-release/

I'm not sure where I got mine, there is an old version you can download that works perfectly. Nearby features and caller ID.

Loaded the nonnexus version, works just fine. Thank you very much.

If you want basically the same features and the ability to have a dark/black theme...then use ZENui dialer and contacts and black theme all from the play store. Works great.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.asus.contacts.theme.dark
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.asus.contacts

I had some non nexus version installed over my sony xperia x compact, and suddenly i got updated to version "google phone 14.0.176716531" 0_o
But in this version speed dial doesnt work well, so i was searching a little and found there is also newer version 15.0.179075669
apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/google-phone/google-phone-15-0-179075669-release/#description
And its working without any problem on xperia x compact. Don't have to mod anything, just install and thats all