With the release date soon, the XDA team are currently trying to what they can with the Xperia Arc’s they receive. With, however, the amount of work that went to the Xperia X10 family and the X8, we should be looking at some custom stuff fairly soon.
You can find the new Xperia Arc section here
While the magicians over at xda-developers try to crack open the yet unhackable Sony Ericsson bootloader found on current Xperia devices, the Head of Developer Program and Partner Engagement for Sony Ericsson Mobile, Simon Walker, tweeted a rather interesting message, which certainly gives hope to customers who prefer having their device the way they want.
Although the tweet was rather vague, as nothing was mentioned about the way root method would be implemented, nor if the bootloader will be unlockable in order to gain full root access; it still was enough to show that Sony Ericsson is listening to their customers’ needs, even if those aren’t in their best interests.
Do you think Sony Ericsson should ease off with their anti-rooting practice and allow users to use their devices to the full potential?
If you bought an iPhone and regretted not having a chance to get onboard the fun bus otherwise known as Android LifeHacker have some good news for you … you can dual-boot Android alongside iOS.
Take a look at the video below to find out how, and remember, if you mess up you invalidate warranties, etc.
Some of you may remember the ‘does it? doesn’t it?’ sage over the X10’s multi-touh capabilities before, and shortly after it launched. For weeks there were conflicting reports that the device did and did not have the capability to support multi-touch input. Finally the matter was settled when Sony Ericsson announced that the handset could not technically support the feature. Case closed.
… well no. Steup the intrepid boffins at XDA Developers. As you can see from the video below they’ve managed to come up with a hack that gives the X10 rudimentary multi-touch input. It’s by no means perfect and currently it’s not available to the X10 owning public, but as the say goes, where there is a will, there is a way.
The X1 might have been overshadowed by newer handsets from Sony Ericsson, but that doesn’t mean that it can’t still grab the odd headline. Case in point, people seem to be porting just about every OS they can think of onto it. This week the boffins at XDA Developers have managed to her running Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 of all things! By the looks of things functionality isn’t too hot here, but then I suppose that’s to be expected when running a desktop OS on a handheld device.
Check out this rather interesting video of an X1 running Android. It looks pretty sweet although finger navigation doesn’t look too hot, rather the stylus seems to be the order of the day. Check out this thread on XDA Developers for more information on doing this yourself.
From the second K850 and W910 were announced, I knew that there would be a way to customize the media player look of these. Even bigger did my gut feeling get when I got both phones and realized that the look changed accordingly to the themes. But even though I had found out that it had something to do with the themes, I didn’t investigate more into that. Now it seems that some people at Esato have found a way, and there is a discussion thread about it here. So if you want to change the look of the media player on your K850 or W910, take a look at the discussion going on.
By the way, I am pretty sure that this also goes for other A200 phones (K630, K660, v640, Z750, etc.)
Today the new version of the fantastic XS++ software was released in a new version (I guess this is no longer beta) – version 3.1 codenamed Darwin. This means even more features, and here’s the changelog for this new version.
I think it finally has a slight support for the new phones such as K850!
You can download it here at SE-NSE (8.84 MB), and here’s the official thread for the application.
Now here’s something very interesting. It seems that Martin Vagner from uiqmania.cz has successfully flashed his P1 to a W960! However at a first look, Memory Stick Micro cards won’t work and the QWERTY won’t function either. Check out the video below, and see the discussion here.
The guys at SE-NSE have done it again, and have now released a beta version of XS++ 3.0. This one adds many new features, and one of the coolest is probably the full FS file system explorer – now there’s no need for FAR Manager when modding your phone! See the full list of changes and download the beta version right here! Please also do report any bugs either on the forum or by submitting a comment here – then I’ll make sure it gets forwarded.
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