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Anyone using Cyanogenmod for Xperia SP

luap — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 10:33:56 GMT

I've got used to the fact we wont be getting Kitkat so I was wondering has any one installed Cyanogenmod 11 on an SP yet and how's it going

Re: Anyone using Cyanogenmod for Xperia SP

Larek — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 11:21:19 GMT

I am.

You should check and decide by your self. I know some people are happy using it, some not.

I have to use CM11 as stock 4.1.2 has an issue with stock calendar, 4.3 does not pull messages if I use activesync.

Updates are provided everyday, so sometimes it works better, and sometimes worse. Last nightlies are ok.

Ask if you need any specific informations.

Re: Anyone using Cyanogenmod for Xperia SP

ogu — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 11:54:06 GMT

Hello, can I ask a couple of things if you don't mind?

I've heard that speaker sound volume is pretty low and also the call quality suffers from some echoing and again low volume levels. Is it true?

To install cm11 do you only need to download the ~250MB zip file and that's it? Do I need a kernel, too and where to get it?

How do you update everyday? I've searched about it and saw an app called someting like CMdelta, do you use that or download 250MB files everyday?

By works better and worse do you mean overall performance or some app specific glitches?

Edit: I forgot to ask about overheating and battery performance. Stock 4.3 overheats like crazy, is it the same with cm11 and how's the battery endurance?

Thanks in advance.

Re: Anyone using Cyanogenmod for Xperia SP

Larek — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 13:59:36 GMT

Ogu,

1. Speaker sound. Iinstalled stock ROM a few weeks ago, and frankly speaking I think stock sound is even lower. I use CM11 with Williams Kernel which makes a possibility to increase sound volume using configuration files. Now the sound is enaugh for me.

2. Files. You need to have rooted device and a recovery (simple use CWM) installed. So, that what you need if you dont have a recovery is download zip file, take boot.img from it and flash it using flashtool. Then you restart your phone and call CWM pushing vol up number times. You have to install whole zip in CWM recovery, what takes just a 1-2 minutes. Then you can install PA-GAPPS, this package contains google apps from nexus devices. It is not neccessary, as you can install everything you need from a google playstore

3. There is CMdelta which is a differential installer, but I don't use it. Instead of it you can use OTA installer (similar to stock). But, please remember, you dont need to install every nightly.

4. It depends on nightly version. The overal performance is worse after some of them. Sometimes batery drain quickly. For example 18082014 nightly make batery loos power quickly, but next nightlies solved it. No I can use my device all day without charging, what is offcourse worse result than the stock. I use my phone very intensively, today I took it from a charger at 7am, now is 4pm and I still have over 60% left (my phone has used almost 40% during this time).

And, I don't play any games, so I cannot confirm a game performance.

5. My cpu is ovbercocked to 1832MHz an the highest temperature I had was about 37 Celcius. Normaly the phone is cold. Otherwise, you can downclock for having better batery life or lower temperature. Batery, as I said, after 9 hours I still have over 60% to use.

Re: Anyone using Cyanogenmod for Xperia SP

J0a0 — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 16:41:08 GMT

Hi @Larek

Are you using this CM11: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2735975

Seems that the rear mic is working now: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=55079530&postcount=888

I'm on stock, rooted and LB and following this CM11 ROM on XDA... maybe i will flash this one if Oficial KK doesn't come!!!

This CM11 as .207 kernel on it, do you recomend Williams Kernel instead of stock .207/.205?

Re: Anyone using Cyanogenmod for Xperia SP

Larek — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 16:49:39 GMT

I use official CM11 fo unlocked BL. http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=huashan

I use with Williams . If you disable mpdecision works fine.

Re: Anyone using Cyanogenmod for Xperia SP

ogu — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 21:38:40 GMT

Thank you very much, Larek that was very informative.

I am not experienced with this, asked about the files because I wanted to have them beforehand because I have slow Internet connection from my laptop if another large file starts to download while installing it might get interrupted or take too long. When it comes to Google apps, I don't need more than half of them, some of them don't work here anyway.

I don't think I'd install every nightly but if it has problems I might have to at least try a new one, right? If it's stable enough I'd probably wouldn't install another until M version is out. It looks like it takes more time for SP to have a snapshot build, I wonder why.

I don't think I'd overclock the CPU and the temp and battery sounds good even with overclock.

Thank you again for explaining and for your time.

Re: Anyone using Cyanogenmod for Xperia SP

Underside2nd — Sun, 31 Aug 2014 07:36:10 GMT

CM 11 unoficial huashan 4.4.4. for lbl works perfectly. Still 200-300 mb ram free.

Re: Anyone using Cyanogenmod for Xperia SP

restyle20 — Sun, 31 Aug 2014 13:22:43 GMT

I have screen flicker with CM11... why is that?

Re: Anyone using Cyanogenmod for Xperia SP

Underside2nd — Sun, 31 Aug 2014 16:12:09 GMT

Try to reinstall kernel and rom

Re: Anyone using Cyanogenmod for Xperia SP

daverawle — Sun, 31 Aug 2014 21:48:01 GMT

CM 11 unoficial huashan 4.4.4. for lbl works perfectly. Still 200-300 mb ram free.

So mhl is working fine?

Dave

Re: Anyone using Cyanogenmod for Xperia SP

Underside2nd — Sun, 31 Aug 2014 22:22:51 GMT

Yes

Re: Anyone using Cyanogenmod for Xperia SP

Harald731 — Sat, 06 Sep 2014 05:39:57 GMT

Anybody got any idea, when they´ll release the final version for SP? Don¨t want to install the nightly version but very interested in the final stable version.

Re: Anyone using Cyanogenmod for Xperia SP

MCTan1953 — Sun, 07 Sep 2014 11:41:57 GMT

Take a look at link below

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2735975

and

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2735841

XperiaSP Locked Bootloader (LBL) Cyanogenmod 11.0

and

XperiaSP Locked Bootloader (LBL) Slim-4.4.2

Read it carefully and decide.

Re: Anyone using Cyanogenmod for Xperia SP

User29 — Sat, 11 Oct 2014 11:13:27 GMT

Hii
Can any one tell me if the illumination bar works fine after installing CM11 and can we install sony's camera and Walkman app. Because I want to install cyanogemod but I dont want to loose sony camera, movies, photos and Walkman features.

Re: Anyone using Cyanogenmod for Xperia SP

TrigrH — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 22:18:44 GMT

The bar works fine but if u want options u will need to use the illumination bar app plus this special addon:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=49359381&postcount=1175

Re: Anyone using Cyanogenmod for Xperia SP

Navaneethan — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 08:56:45 GMT

The CM11 (Kitkat 4.4.4) on Xperia SP is awesome..... working good....smooth as butter.....better that sony's ROM.

But we have to scarifies the Sony's brand Walkmann for this.....

Otherwise, all other functions are good to use.....

@luap wrote:
I've got used to the fact we wont be getting Kitkat so I was wondering has any one installed Cyanogenmod 11 on an SP yet and how's it going

Re: Anyone using Cyanogenmod for Xperia SP

zenith777 — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 08:37:41 GMT

Anybody facing issues like

1] Tapping Home button takes almost 2 seconds to go to home screen.

2] For an incoming call, phone just vibrates for 2-3 seconds, there is nothing on screen. After 2-3 seconds the screen lightens and gives option to accept the call. This is annoying, I mean it is fine with WhatsApp loads after 5 seconds but incoming calls should come instantly.

Re: Anyone using Cyanogenmod for Xperia SP

Larek — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 12:04:57 GMT

@zenith777 wrote:
Anybody facing issues like
1] Tapping Home button takes almost 2 seconds to go to home screen.
2] For an incoming call, phone just vibrates for 2-3 seconds, there is nothing on screen. After 2-3 seconds the screen lightens and gives option to accept the call. This is annoying, I mean it is fine with WhatsApp loads after 5 seconds but incoming calls should come instantly.

Have the same issues (both). Waiting for working Lolipop