[Q] Sharing ROMs between the T and the TX?

[yesyesimanoob]

The only differences between the T and the TX, as far as I know are:

- TX has a slightly smaller but removable battery
- TX is a bit thinner and the physical buttons are positioned differently

All the rest is identical, hardware-wise. Does that mean I will be able to use Xperia T ROMs on the TX and vice versa?

EDIT: To clarify, I'm referring to global variants only, not the upcoming AT&T version. So LT30p vs LT29i, basically.

 

[Snow_fox]

The only differences between the T and the TX, as far as I know are:

- TX has a slightly smaller but removable battery
- TX is a bit thinner and the physical buttons are positioned differently

All the rest is identical, hardware-wise. Does that mean I will be able to use Xperia T ROMs on the TX and vice versa?

Unlikely.

The HTC flyer and the HTC View are almost the exact same.. literally you could confuse one for the other in some cases.. and they can't swap roms.

The T and TX may be close enough that the roms require minimal effort to port but, that doesn't mean roms are interchangeable.

 

[yesyesimanoob]

Unlikely.

The HTC flyer and the HTC View are almost the exact same.. literally you could confuse one for the other in some cases.. and they can't swap roms.

The T and TX may be close enough that the roms require minimal effort to port but, that doesn't mean roms are interchangeable.

Not what I wanted to hear but thank you!

Also, I thought the Flyer vs. View were also GSM vs CDMA? Not sure how much more of a difference that makes, but I'm curious.

 

[floepie]

Not interchangeable most likely, but I can bet many devs would make the few changes to allow the same ROM be applied to either device. I'm thinking of the HTC Desire HD and the Inspire. Most custom ROMs were available for either device. The ROM would simply query the hardware and the changes would apply during boot or get copied to cache.

 

[prewed]

T and TX are almost exact the same but not identical hardware wise. But i think Custom ROMs will be T and TX compatible.

 

[yesyesimanoob]

T and TX are almost exact the same but not identical hardware wise. But i think Custom ROMs will be T and TX compatible.

Not identical? Could you elaborate? Sorry if it's a stupid question, but I'm really curious. I'm looking at a side-by-side comparison on GSMArena (I believe they took specs from the white papers) and I'm seeing the same CPU, same GPU, same RAM, same radio bands, etc...

Comparison: http://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=4899&idPhone2=4959

 

[lokenok]

only the tx has removeable battery ... that got nothing to do with roms

 

[maxboy]

I am thinking of buying TX from China, I might try to flash T rom in it since China FW do not have google service framework in it.

Does anyone know if the fw brick it , can I flash back to china fw by using flashtool (locked bootloader) ?

 

[Spectre51]

Not the same exact CPU at least not for the AT&T variant as it has LTE and uses the MSM8960 chipset. Xperia TX uses the MSM8260A.

Sent from my Sony Xperia™ P

 

[yesyesimanoob]

Not the same exact CPU at least not for the AT&T variant as it has LTE and uses the MSM8960 chipset. Xperia TX uses the MSM8260A.

Sent from my Sony Xperia™ P

Ah yes... I wasn't thinking of the AT&T version at all. I'm only concerned with comparing global variants, where I believe the T and TX both use MSM8960A.

 

[Snow_fox]

Not what I wanted to hear but thank you!

Also, I thought the Flyer vs. View were also GSM vs CDMA? Not sure how much more of a difference that makes, but I'm curious.

There is

GSM Flyer
Wifi only Flyer
CDMA View.

Yet, there is still differences in the kernel which keep the two devices from being able to swap roms.

I'm not incredibly sure about all of the details but, I know it's caused a number of problems.

The main point I'm trying to get at is a lot of it will depend on how many people get each device and how much dev support they receive. If the flyer/view had more devs (and believe me, they tried recruiting.) Then we would probably be in a much happier place.