Custom ROM: Cyanogen Gingerbread CM7

Features:

• Wifi with 801.2 (wpa_supplicant compiled with all Crypts)
• Bluetooth (seems to work better now)
• Speed Tweaks for SD (thanks owain)
• Overclocked (thank doixanh the module man)
• regular Market
• Headphone detection
• Keyboard with Sony Ericsson Input (see Hardware Keyboard thread for language)
• Xrecovery
• the regular stuff
• offline charging (since v10)
• Camera low quality and camcorder with video cam illusion

Troubleshooting:

• If it asks you about Network SIM hit dismiss, I'll make a new build tomorrow
• Skype crashing? Deinstall and update from market newest version fixes reboot issue
• Gmail crashing? -> update thru market (thanks to phoxy84) or replace this : Click me
• first Wifi activation will freeze or reboot the phone after reboot it works!
• first creation/login of google account will fail, after reboot market should be updated and everything be fine
• first boot and second boot take long -> this is due to odex files create a heap in the dalvik and normal cache
• first bluetooth might fail after reboot it will be fine forever
• languages on hardware keyboard not working -> please see this thread : Hardware Keyboards
• if for some reason games are still not fast enough for you -> disable JIT!
• SD card not recognized?!? -> delete any additional partitions you have on your sdcard and format again with Fat32
• Hating that keyboard light is on when screen is on? -> Check out this thread!! Keyboard Light and other Tweaks thanks D4rKn3sSyS

Disclaimer:

Do this at your OWN risk. The makers of this ROM or the author of this article is not responsible for any damage on your phone.

Requirements:

• Baseband version must be M76XX-TSNCJOLYM-53404015
• Kernel must be 2.6.29
  
• CWM Recovery (Click here for CWM Recovery installation instructions)

Downloads:

• Cyanogen Gingerbread CM7
  

Installation:

1. First of all check if your phone meets the requirement for this ROM. Go to Settings > About Phone then check if the Baseband version and Kernel is the same with the requirements.
2. See to it that your have CWM Recovery installed. If not, please install it first.
3. Download the ROM. After that copy the zip file to your SD card's root folder.
4. Restart phone, then access CWM Recovery by pressing the back button a few times when your see the white Sony Ericsson logo.
5. At the CWM recovery, choose wipe data/factory reset and wipe cache partition
6. After that, navigate to advanced > Wipe Dalvik Cache and Wipe Battery Stats
7. Still at CWM Recovery, navigate to install zip from sdcard > choose zip from sdcard then choose the ROM's zip file.
8. Wait for it to install then choose reboot system now
9. It may take long to restart but that's normal for newly flashed phones so don't worry.

Enjoy your flashed mini pro! As you can see, your mini pro is now running on Gingerbread while before flashing it's running on Eclair.

Credits:

D4rKn3sSyS for creating this ROM

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