When I try to play music on Android 2.3 (using various players, including PowerAmp) on Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 I get not reliable sound. Music pauses for a short time, for example, when: * I press the power button (especially repeatedly) (request_suspend_state: sleep;request_suspend_state: wakeup in dmesg) * When I see messages like send sigkill to 15497 (ndroid.settings), adj 8, size 6428 in dmesg * When some program reacts to changed screen orientation. * When wifi connection gets established, when I force it to "reassociate" * When I go to/from application from home screen (AWDLauncher), except of to/from WidgetLocker screen. * When I enable/disable Airplane Mode. * When the display is off (the most annoying) When only really stable way to play music is to use StayAwake to force display on, turn off Wi-Fi, turn on Airplane Mode and don't switch applications. Starting CPU hogs like while true; do true; done does not affect chopping. And it was playing more or less fine on Android 2.1. "mediaserv" process (that writes to /dev/msm_pcm_out) has realtime io and scheduling priority, but sound is choppy anyway. If I start playing from console with mplayer -ao pcm:file=/dev/msm_pcm_out the sound chop less (notably it does not get interrupted by power button / loading bunches of heavy processes), but still behave not normally when screen is off (even ionice -c1 -p4 cat /dev/urandom > /dev/msm_pcm_out is choppy) When I start music A by usual way and music B using mplayer to /dev/msm_pcm_out (getting them mixed) music A chops more than usual and I usually hear B when A is in chop. When I turn off screen, both A and B chops in sync (stopping B leads to relatively more fluent playback of A this way). How to play music on Android reliably in presence of background load? Should I report a bug somewhere? Update Found a way of playing music. Inconvenient, but _without chopping_: 1. Start WakeLock in "CPU on, Screen Off, Keyboard off" mode 2. Use mplayer to play music bypassing Android: ionice -c1 -n4 \ schedtool -R -p 3 -e \ mplayer -really-quiet \ -af volume=-26 -quiet \ -ao pcm:file=/dev/msm_pcm_out,nowaveheader \ /mnt/sdcard/music/something.ogg # (created script to start it easily, of course) Plays without chopping no matter how much applications I start, what do with Wifi, orientation and airplane modes. Even with "powersave" cpufreq governor (everything very slow, but music plays fine). So the hardware have enough resources to play it. Update 2 Looks like doing for i in pgrep ''; do schedtool -D $i; done i.e. "Set Idle priority for all processes" makes music play fine even when I {start programs,lock screen,rotate screen;it reconnects to other mobile network stations} at expense of some input lag in games. Don't know exactly why it happens.

I have backed up my messages from my Sony Xperia, and now I want to open the file and export them to excel or something more easy to read, but I can't find a program or tool to do that I just have the file and i want to open it and extract specific information. I need some help, thanks!

When I first set up my Xperia 10 (running Android 1.6) I selected a 'dummy account', not knowing that it might be somewhat difficult to change it afterwards to a real account (I wasn't warned). I want to avoid hard resets or losing too much data. Is there a recommended procedure for this case?

I've got an Xperia X10. I listen to audio books, so I'd like to keep my position in the playlist. Whenever I mount the SD card using USB, the standard media player, Mediascape, lose both the playlist and the position. Do you know of an alternative media player which doesn't have this defect? (Including paid apps.)

On SonyEriccson Xperia X10i I do this: echo 1000 > /sys/devices/platform/msm_hsusb/gadget/chg_current This allows faster charging from computer's USB port (if I know it can source more than 500mA) or limited/prohibited charging in case of I to economize the power of computer. But how do I do this on Huawei Honor 6? It doesn't seem to have msm_hsusb.

I was trying to install a custom ROM on my Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini (E10i) by flashing the ROM with the .zip file in ClockWorkMod Recovery, but after installation the device doesn't boot. It hangs on the Sony Ericsson boot logo. What can I do to recover from this situation?

Because of the recent update to Google play stores permissions, I wish that as apps can access very personal information, I want to deny permissions to the apps, but as I have heard that this might cause them to crash, I want to give fake data to the apps Eg. IMEI = 0123654789, so that the apps do not crash. I am running the Xperia X10i original stock ROM, rooted. I want to do it without flashing a custom ROM. I appreciate any help.

I have a Xperia E1 with 2Gb of internal memory. I had to buy an 8GB SD card to use good apps! The problem is that I can only use 2Gb of my SD card on apps! When I open the storage it say it has 6.90Gb free, but when I open from Apps settings and check on SD card it say 505Gb free.

I want to install Skype on my xperia x10 but I cannot find it in the market when I go to Skype.com/m and try to download it, I get the following message: > item not found A friend of mine who has a Nokia C5 was able to install it. How can I install it?

I would like to explain to my friend who lives in another country how to upgrade their phone to Android 2.1 so that they can use WhatsApp. How can they do this?

My PC - well, specifically, Flashtool - doesn't detect that my X10 has USB Debugging turned on, even though it displays that it has been activated both in the Settings menu and the notification shade. I've tried the modded Flashtool from XDA-Dev, and the latest versions, but to no avail. Any suggestions? I believe the drivers are up to date, as I can turn storage mode on when plugging it in and transfer files just fine. Rooted, running stock. It was fine pre-root, but as soon as I rooted it the first time around, it hasn't been able to detect. Recovery can't be flashed due to the lack of debugging.

I got a new phone today same as I had before its a Sony Xperia T I had all my contacts backed up to my Google account but now I can't import them to this phone from my Google account when I sync my contacts nothing is happening does anybody have any idea what I should do? it always work fine on my other phone when I factory reset it, then when I go to my contacts it's right there to import from Google account, on this phone it's the same but my contacts don't come in there

Since the time I started using USB tethering, my phone has been going into Emergency calls only after 30 minutes of little to no use. I find it a bother to always have to restart my hone to use calls or USB tether again. Why is this happening? Is this a limitation of USB tethering? This is NOT a limitation imposed by my carrier. I am using a Sony Ericsson Xperia X10i, running stock upgraded Android 2.3.5. I appreciate any help.

I just bought an X10 and I would like to have as large a memory card as possible. What is the largest one that works with X10? Does it work with 32 GB cards?

I have a Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo. I want to copy my outlook contacts to my phone without gmail. This is my first time I bought a Android. It seems great, but one thing I do not like is that I have to sync my whole life with google first, before I can transfer it. The previous software allowed me to copy back and forth between PC and phone,without going onto the internet. Hopefully it is something I'm doing wrong, because if it is not, I'm changing OS! Please help es

I am new to this forum and would really want to please help me get this problem solved. I just bought a **Sony Ericsson Xperia X10** and tried connecting it to my internet at home (**Belkin N1 router - 64-bit WEP encryption**) but it does not connect at all. It catches the internet connection and says its in very good range, I put the key but it never connects. I have tried all the different things possible via this forum, googling for answers, etc but haven't found a solution yet. **Stuff that I have tried:** 1. Tried accessing it via a static i/p technique. 2. I cannot change the WEP encryption to WPA-PSK because the internet is set up by my landlord and I am not allowed to change it. I can check the settings and it shows access to all b/g/n configurations. 3. I have another phone i.e. the new Sony Xperia S, even that is not able to connect to my wifi. 4. I am able to connect both these phones very easily to other wifi's having WPA-PSK connectivity but just not my home network. **Update:** I have been able to partially solve the problem but it is not the exact solution that I am looking for. Here's what I have tried: I have tried the WPA-PSK approach (AES encryption) and it does somehow make it work on my Xperia S (it did not connect to it instantly). Basically, there is an option of WPS (Wifi-Protection Setup) in my Xperia S which allowed me to do a Push Button Configuration (PBC) i.e. holding the router button for 3 seconds to allow my phone to access it. It assigned me an i/p address and thus made it work but spoiled it for my other housemates, so I had to get the setting back to WEP.I know it is more secure to use WPA, but I cannot change it without asking my landlord. Anyways, the point is that somehow my other phone connects to the router not instantly but via some route as given above. My question again is: Is it really not possible to connect it via WEP? Kindly help as I have been struggling a lot to find for a proper solution over the internet.

Sometimes my device shows "No SIM card" status and "0%" battery and soon powers off (even if I manage to quicky connect it to USB). After powering back on it works more or less as expected. Why does this happen? How to fix the issue or how to force Android to continue if battery suddenly drops to 0% (as opposed of gradually become discharged)?

I have a sony ericsoon xperia x10 mini. when I send a text message, a tick appears to let tme know it has been received by the recipient. This costs me money, how do I turn this off? I have looked through the menu and cannot seem to find the answer.

0.4 device **Sony Xperia MT27i** For development use. I describe one screen the here, and display my question: Image Screen with red mark (click image to enlarge) I want to remove the icon from my device screen. How can I do that?

A couple years ago, I picked up an Xperia X10i secondhand. The phone itself has been working great; no problems whatsoever. It's a real workhorse. I unlocked it almost instantly, and followed some steps I Googled way back when to open it up completely. I can't quite remember what it was, but it was supposed to root the phone. I don't think I managed to actually root it, but it's been working fine, regardless. Lately, I've been wanting to update the firmware on it. Every time I use the Sony Ericsson PC Companion or Update Service, though, to try to update the firmware, it just tells me I have the latest version. How can I go about updating this to 2.1 or higher? Are there steps a technically-savvy, but Android newbie could follow to update the firmware? I'm willing to blow it all away if I have to, although I'd really prefer to not have to do that.