[HELP] Q&A Thread - MUST POST ALL QUESTIONS HERE

[chiefy009]

In an effort to keep the thread clean with developments and ROM's due to the fact we dont have a general section either this thread has been opened for all the support and help questions that people ask.

Please use this thread for all GENERAL SUPPORT questions regarding the RAY, this will keep our thread clean and easy for everyone to find ROM's and THEME's

Once you have asked please await someone to help and please thank them after by hitting thanks

We all need to keep our thread clean

Now including ROM LIST

Chiefy's Miui

Miui by iriijo

aire 4pda

CM7.2.0 FXP

Miui by Seatone

MiuiV4 iriijo

CM9 FXP

ICS by szl.kiev

RayOnium

Kernels and themes to be added

(if your rom is not listed here please pm me and I will add it)

 

[nightwing_sw]

Hello, Thnx so much for this thread.. i like the stock sms app in ray but the txt is so small. Is there a way to enlarge them? Thanks for your help. Waiting for the response...

 

[hansip87]

Hello, Thnx so much for this thread.. i like the stock sms app in ray but the txt is so small. Is there a way to enlarge them? Thanks for your help. Waiting for the response...

None that i know of. Maybe with some apk editing we can fix that, but i don't know. Ray's screen is too perfect that all the text is too small..

 

[chiefy009]

Hello, Thnx so much for this thread.. i like the stock sms app in ray but the txt is so small. Is there a way to enlarge them? Thanks for your help. Waiting for the response...

You can use a third party app and customise everything

 

[Ridho1]

Hi all. I am really excited to install custom ROM in other thread. But I don't want to lose my apps and settings. Is there a way to backup and restore them after flashing? You know, need not an hour to do that. Thanks.

Sent from my ST18i using XDA App

 

[chiefy009]

Hi all. I am really excited to install custom ROM in other thread. But I don't want to lose my apps and settings. Is there a way to backup and restore them after flashing? You know, need not an hour to do that. Thanks.

Sent from my ST18i using XDA App

You can download an app from the market such as titainium backup or my backup, that will back up all your apps and data, once you install your rom download the app from the market again and restore. All of your apps will be restored

There are a few paid and none paid apps in market, I use paid version of titainium backup but i have used my backup in the past

 

[coolkaas]

Hello, Thnx so much for this thread.. i like the stock sms app in ray but the txt is so small. Is there a way to enlarge them? Thanks for your help. Waiting for the response...

if your phone is rooted, you can edit file /system/build.prop. at string ro.sf.lcd_density=240 (9 from bottom) and change density to 260 or 280, than ALL text elements will slightly bigger. need reboot after changing.

 

[jjdoctor]

Well frankly i don't think the messaging fonts are smaller... It's quite comfortable...

That lcd build.prop method was very common in Sensation section... but there we used to decrease it to 204 and with that you get 5x5 application drawer inn HTC sense...,don't know how it will behave here...

secondly, users reported that some market applications show incompatible if you change lcd density...

 

[yujin_11]

You can download an app from the market such as titainium backup or my backup, that will back up all your apps and data, once you install your rom download the app from the market again and restore. All of your apps will be restored

There are a few paid and none paid apps in market, I use paid version of titainium backup but i have used my backup in the past

or use Astro File Manager to backup your apps, it's free though
and download the latest version

 

[Mylow777]

Hi Gents

I have my phone rooted with unlocked bootloader and i use stock rom .42 with Doomkernel.
Now when I connect my Ray to PC, PC Companion says that new firmware is available for my phone (.62). Do you know what would happen if I would start updating through PC Companion? Brick? Loosing root? Nothing? Simply updating? What is your oppinion about that? Thanks for support.

 

[chiefy009]

Hi Gents

I have my phone rooted with unlocked bootloader and i use stock rom .42 with Doomkernel.
Now when I connect my Ray to PC, PC Companion says that new firmware is available for my phone (.62). Do you know what would happen if I would start updating through PC Companion? Brick? Loosing root? Nothing? Simply updating? What is your oppinion about that? Thanks for support.

Don't.think.you get brick doing it by.USB only.over the air.

My.bootloader is unlocked when I tired to update it told me I couldn't as running a moddified rom?

sent from my gorgeus Xperia Ray

 

[yujin_11]

I'd recommend reverting to stock form again(relock bootloader, unroot, stock firmware), then update

better safe than sorry

 

[jjdoctor]

Any stable CM7 and MIUI ROM with fully wOrking everything in this Section?

 

[alidsd]

ICS for Xperia Ray

HI Guys,
I am planning to buy Xperia Ray, but i didn't find any ICS custom ROM for this.
so here are my questions:

1. Will Sony Ericsson port ICS on this phone ?
2. Is there any ICS custom ROM for this set ?

Thanks in advance.

 

[hansip87]

HI Guys,
I am planning to buy Xperia Ray, but i didn't find any ICS custom ROM for this.
so here are my questions:

1. Will Sony Ericsson port ICS on this phone ?
2. Is there any ICS custom ROM for this set ?

Thanks in advance.

There will be ICS on March/April this year. Don't fret. There are some beta/Alpha ROM here on MIUI version and CM 9 version.

 

[KristianKenneth]

has anyone been successful in using link2sd?

 

[monkeytown]

Changing launcher

hey guys,

i´m having some trouble with changing the launcher components....
according to THIS:

hey,

habe euch hier mal meinen veränderten arc launcher hochgeladen......vllt. hat ja jemand interesse

screens:
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4

ansich wurden nur der homebutton, dock und die folder icons geändert

i already did it some time ago...but now i can´t get it to work again and this file doesn´t exist anymore

my steps are:
- open .apk in betterzip
- take out some .png and change it
- replace the .png
- save the .apk
- sign it
- install
- error, app not installed

i did some searches and found something about deleting the files of the "META-INF" folder, but that didn´t work either
i guess it´s related to the launcher not just being a launcher but also a system-file or something

so...what am i doing wrong?

 

[Mylow777]

I'd recommend reverting to stock form again(relock bootloader, unroot, stock firmware), then update

better safe than sorry

Hi, and is there any way to relock the bootloader if it was unlocked through the "official" way? If there is can someone link it which is the safe? Thanks

 

[KristianKenneth]

hey guys,

i´m having some trouble with changing the launcher components....
according to THIS:

i already did it some time ago...but now i can´t get it to work again and this file doesn´t exist anymore

my steps are:
- open .apk in betterzip
- take out some .png and change it
- replace the .png
- save the .apk
- sign it
- install
- error, app not installed

i did some searches and found something about deleting the files of the "META-INF" folder, but that didn´t work either
i guess it´s related to the launcher not just being a launcher but also a system-file or something

so...what am i doing wrong?

Just put the apk in system/app change permission to rw-r-r and restart.

 

[monkeytown]

you mean copy / paste with a file manager or install??

and why change the permission? the original launcher has other permissions (i´m just curious)



/e: oh ****, it worked
thx man!

can it do it the same way when modding the framework-res.apk?