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[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] K900:
Yeah, you're absolutely right. Except that the work on ICS might have started before the device was released, and definitely before CM devs got their hands on it, Sony has access to proprietary sources and blobs from hardware manufacturers, datasheets and employs a team of experienced full time developers working on it.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] on99:
Better have a stable 2.3 than a buggy 4.0... im very pleased with the speed of the sxs while ive experienced ics on other devices with alot of bugs, random resets etc etc

only thing i slightly miss is the option to close programs, but we will get that eventually

patience!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] chesterr:
What really!!hell no.We've been told that it'll be released in Q2. not in Q3.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] augie7107:
Honestly, when do you remember ever seeing Sony/Sony Ericsson ever meet a deadline for device or software release?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] goodwin_c:
June is Q2 ;) Q3 starts from July
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] chesterr:
Damn you're right. Now I don't trust Sony anymore.:rolleyes:
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] theskeptic:
Anyone who was an early adopter of the x10 will be in familiar territory at the moment. History repeating itself. Guess Sony hasn't learnt a damn thing. Then again neither have we the consumer, obviously.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] arc_u:
Sony warn us about it, and tell us that the XS will be upgrade in q2, and we've bought the phone knowing this, and q2 is not finish yet... So Sony isn't "blamable" :D

Sent from the future with my LT26i on ICS using telepathy.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] wing_zero8556:
I thought Sony was mostly on time with the updates for 2011? And they started the roll out for Ics 2011 devices on time as well. They said q2 for the xperia s and q2 is not finished yet so they have kept their promise so far. Don't get me wrong I want Ics for the phone so bad just for the sake of having Ics lol
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] K900:
If PTCRB doesn't slow everything down, they will now.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] mistermakri:
To be honest, that's not what I expected in terms of battery life. If you charge the phone during night and unplug it before you go to work, I would want it to at least last until the next day without having to worry about it dying and turn off wifi etc. If you're having a night out on a friday you would have to recharge it before you go out even though it was fully charged the very same morning. Im not impressed. Too bad its such a beautiful phone though, otherwise I wouldn't hesitate to return it :p

Just hoping that ICS will make it better.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Felimenta97:
So buy Motorola Razr MAXX. 3300 Mha shoud do the job.

Man, c'mon, you're asking too much for a smartphone, with NFC, a HD screen, Wifi, Bluetooth, 3G, etc.

If you want a better battery, go for Razr MAXX (not sure if it handle what you want) or a dumbphone.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] RiotRick:
Razr MAXX is not for sale in the netherlands. Just the standard razr, which doesn't have the huge battery. Isn't the Razr MAXX on verizon in usa only?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Felimenta97:
Don't know.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] xpsman:
My battery is fine, had it 2 days
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] NeoWakko:
...was it on airplane mode....?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] xpsman:
Nope, haven't had WiFi or bluetooth on though
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] mpolanski:
Anyone tried J's aka FXP CM9 on Xperia S?

FXP's signature says:

but i can't find his development thread on this model.

PS. 2 collosus, is it discussion thread about official ICS strictly, or official discussion thread about all ICS releases?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Cholek3:
I would say everything regarding coming official ICS upgrade (new features, rumors, fixes, etc.)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Nimche:
I asked Bin4ry and he said that "Yes, we are working on it" so I think its not out yet but I doubt if it takes them that long with the new alpha rom. fasten your seatbelt.

When is the ICS due? :D
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] veryproudmonkey:
In the end, I guess all threads about dual core phones turn into battery threads. ;)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] xpsman:
Anyone think it will be possible to ever put a bigger battery in the Xperia s? I took mine out the other day, just screwed the back cover off
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] K900:
Sony Eri^W Mobile Russia confirmed ICS for 2011 devices in early April on Twitter, and the update for XPS "shouldn't be too far away".
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] chesterr:
I guess they'll update it within two weeks cause I had the GPS problem.

I mentioned it on the Sony community and at there someone commented that he contacted Sony and they mentioned that they will be updating ICS very soon and the GPS problem will be solved soon,

so I guess gotta wait and see what'll happen.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] :
why there are no custom/leaked ROMs yet?!

Is the dev community doesn't prefer this phone? bcz I used to flushing ROMs every week or so :) with my SGS2!

I hope they buy this phone before i deiced to sell it!:(
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] keithwalton:
Custom roms take time to develop / test etc.

This phone is still very young (less than 3 weeks in some areas, international only a couple of days) and the source code was only released a couple of days ago. work has already started on a custom kernal despite the dev's not having the handset yet.

From what I could tell from buying mine the device is in very high demand / flying off the shelves in the uk, so I'd expect it will pick up a few good developers soon.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Felimenta97:
We have DoomLord + FXP. Wait for CM9 Alpha anytime soon, + other ROMs.

Sent from Xperia X10 Mini Pro using CM9 by paul-xxx
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] somemadcaaant:
Usual case for most of us - just waiting for clockworkmod support before we begin anything else just in case as i've got the phone setup nicely ready for nandroid snapshot and modding.

Short agonizing waiting game, price u pay for buying cutting edge. Every device is the same, but ours differs because we have an unlocked bootloader right off the bat thanks to Sony... no other company is doing that right now except maybe HTC and they will be slow.

-smc
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] yacbos:
Sony problem is:

they release an amazing product but unfortunately there is another generation ahead

the Arc S is a flagship for single core cpus which was released after the Ducal core phones filled the market, the funny part is, it was loaded with froyo

seems like history repeats itself, quad core are knocking the doors and Sony still living in lala land with dual core 1.5, am not complaining its slow or not fitting at all, i own one and happy with it am complaining about the strategy sony is adopting,

and now its even worst, they promised the 2011 high end lineup with an ICS by march/april on their blog and they just released a phone in feb with GB ?

for me it means that Arc S and Neo V are receiving ICS prior to my SXS which is totally not acceptable, why didnt wait and released the whole phone with ICS instead ? thats the point ,

from a customer perspective if at a point of time saw another sony OLD product running on ICS u will be pissed, and you have all the right to be correct ?

sony buying Ericsson's shares might changed the product concept but the same old stupid strategy remains the same.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] unknown13x:
Sorry, I call this straight up rant. Also Arc/Arc S came with 2.3 GB, SE never touched 2.2 Froyo with any handset. It was the latest Android OS at the time of its release. I don't see the point in complaining when the only handset that had ICS was Galaxy Nexus, and the S2 and some HTC are only STARTING to get it this past week.

Also, for all the "quad-core" fanatics, go read reviews about the S4 chips that's coming out from Sony's kitchen very soon.

Regarding the ICS update coming later, do you KNOW that the development of ICS for the 2011 handsets began way earlier than the new handsets? I just don't know which mood, reason, or logic to give for this, as it is so obviously clear. If Sony were to delay the XS another month, is it even worth the wait and have bad press saying, "XS delayed to wait for ICS" or "XS will launch in Q2 when the handset announced in Q1. People have KNOWN Sony for launching mobile too slow, and they're trying to step up, and yet people see it as negative...What have the world become? :mad:
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] mzr7:
Guys seriously I think most of you are over reacting the update will come in q2 if not may then definitely in June with gx and gs which are launching with ics and besides gingerbread isn't as bad as say um 1.6 with x10. sure not ics but still and let's be honest we knew that s wasn't coming with ics we just mainly wanted it cause its friggin beautiful!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] reptile64:
the latest official info is end of May/start of June so we will have to wait for about one more month
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] realfelix:
I hate waiting :-(
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] FenrirMX:
Entering giddy schoolgirl mode
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] vrnsharma:
http://www.ptcrb.com/vendor/complete/view_complete_request_guest.cfm?modelid=20799

i have bookmarked this link and checking it after every 10 min

this is height of waiting for god sake i want ICS for the sake of ICS :P
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Roman91:
ics for ics's sake xDDDD
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] realfelix:
Jesus i want it so bad.... It can only make our xps better :-) as its designed for such devices( dual core, 1gb ram) etc :-) and i want hw acceleration as the launcher isnt completely smooth :-P Same for scrolling and facebook :-P
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] K900:
@ALL Please, stop the F5 mashing on PTCRB. I've got a cron job that checks the page every hour and sends me a message the moment it detects a change. The hour it's updated I'll let you know about it. So please, stop creating unnecessary load and wasting your time.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] shoz_on4u:
Patience.............

Hi all,

I know how we all are eager to get ICS on our SXS but lets wait because we all waited for the SXS to launch, which finally launched along with quad core processor HTC ONE X but still we purchased SXS and atleast myself will never regret my decision of purchasing this one instead of ONE X coz the SXS is worth for the wait. So i suggest lets have patience and wait coz once ICS is on our device it will be the KING of all phones even S3 for atleast 1 year ;)

:D
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] DooMLoRD:
i have noticed (since Xperia X10) that sometimes major FWs are not reflected on PTCRB... they get updated after the official release...

thats a very old firmare... VERY ALPHA... internal testing... LOTS of bugs from what we tested... RIL kept on crashing on that one and some FCs ;)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] richteralan:
I post that picture to show that Sony is using the new 3.0 Kernel for ICS, unlike most other manufacturers still use 2.6 with backporting patches.

I certainly know that is a very early firmware. ;)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] DooMLoRD:
yes buddy i know... i had posted that screenshot and discussed the EXACT same thing (3.0.x kernel)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=24531911#post24531911

:p
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] richteralan:
Apparently I didn't read all posts and don't know how to use search...:o

This is better than any NVIDIA SoC (Tegra series) anyway.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Yakandu:
So, we can be sure that you are working on Doomkernel based on stock v3? yay!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] DooMLoRD:
ofcourse mate!

but atleast wait for the ICS to be officially available and then we need to wait for kernel sources from Sony, only then can the work begin :)

and i will be working to port Sony 3.0.x kernel to ARC/PLAY
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] K900:
From what I know, they can ask PTCRB not to post the firmware before it's released and that's usually the way they do it with major updates...
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] richteralan:
So guys you all can calm down and enjoy the phone. ICS will come soon!;)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] lullesha:
Update for ANT service was provided on Play store just now, and guess the content of the changelog: ICS compatibility.

I'll be frank with you lot, me thinks that they'll update all of the Sony apps before XPS ICS FW roll-out.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] K900:
Yeah, they pretty much have to do this for /data apps. Still good to know they are updating stuff. I don't think Sony is involved in ANT much, it's more of an OEM thingy, so that's one less thing that might block the release.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] thebluepotter:
I agree with you in principle, owning the phone for 24 hours should be pleasure enough. It's just I know that the phone with ICS would be a much better experience, I have had it on my Transformer for ages....
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] optik19918:
hmm.. i don't wanna say that ICS is not near but don't look at updates on market becose those apps (except nfc related apps) are for the others sony devices to, and remember the 2011 device line has allready ics! and usualy the updates for the apps comes after ics release or in the same time becose they don't wanna lose time i think, working on something that nobody can use atm!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] K900:
Something interesting from mobile-review ST21 preview:

> Last, but not least, it's the first Sony phone that will come to the market with Android ICS onboard instead of receiving it with a firmware upgrade a while after the start of sales like Xperia S did...

Murtazin is quite famous for his leaks (and ST21 is another proof) so I guess he knows more than we do right now. So it's either a bad factual mistake or they actually know something. Just don't get too excited.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] subben2003:
hmm...

official sony moderator says:
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] realfelix:
its always the same with sony.. if they say Q2 or Q3.. its always at the end.. what a company ^^
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] K900:
I wouldn't call late May (which is the latest date possible according to my info) the end of Q2.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] realfelix:
No but for several markets it'll be mid june which is almost the end...
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] K900:
There are reasons such as local authorities/certification centers, i18n, marketing, infrastructure, etc. It's not a simple process in any way and they don't delay updates to make you feel bad.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] realfelix:
mhh i understand that.. but still.. im sick of waiting for A4.0 as the xperia s is supposed to have it out of the box imo.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] marcoplo:
Calm down ones it came it will come! there is nothing missing in the phone camera is working, website are play flash(x10 like it didn't so), wifi does not lose signal(arc) i dont understand what the point of hang in the ptcrb and smashing f5 button!

Mayby I am not informed 100% but what is inside is there phone will not expand or become smaller :D even if we get ICS. If it has 2 cores it always wil have 2 core btw 200-300 point in quandrant wont make that diffrent or will it ?

Dont worry!!! be happy!!! :D

We got what we got there is no reason to regread and i rather like fully fuctional product and finished with care so my phone will be good for another 2 year
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] ErichSan:
Couldnt agree any more!

Dude, is there a better feeling than having one thing you really like or even love, and then it just gets even better?

As it's a cellphone, its like buying an awesome thing twice, for me. Doesnt seem that disturbing.

And, as I knew I'd receive the update for sure, I bought it with this purpose!

So yeah, marcoplo, lets not worry and be happy! :D
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] dclark16:
OTA?

I'm assuming that this update will be OTA? I know for the 2011 line up it was only by pc companion but that was because Sony "wanted it to be the users choice as it may have adverse effects on the speed of the phone" - but that's because the hardware technically doesn't meet the minimum requirements of ICS. But our SXS does, so will it be OTA?

Cheers all
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] K900:
Not sure, but unlikely.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] chesterr:
Oh man So Probably in July We'll get the update, way to go.

and I've been cut off from Sony China telling me that I don't have warranty for my phone cause It's a Taiwanese one.

I bought it inside of the China and they put my IMEI and told me that this phone is Taiwanese and don't have the warranty for yellowtint repairment and it's gonna cost me some money.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] dclark16:
Why unlikely?

Cheers
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] K900:
No idea, but that's what the word is. Might be the same reason, might be because they want to make the transition safe.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] arc_u:
Shortcut for f5 flooding :) lol

http://www.hapshack.com/images/C7Ka1.png

Sent from my LT26i using telepathy
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Felimenta97:
Nothing much different, design wise. Post a multitasking screenshot or settings menu (I am the only one who think that settings menu + Sony theme will look amazing?)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] K900:
I'm pretty sure it's gingerbread and he means the shortcut on his home screen.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Felimenta97:
Oh. Sorry :-( Stupid of me...
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] LitoNi:
sony staff somewhat proved it.

end of may / start of june

http://talk.sonymobile.com/message/191999#191999
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] richteralan:
Got my new Xperia S and can play with it for 2 weeks and ready for ICS!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] somemadcaaant:
Sony staff must be seriously getting sick of all the spam threads and posts asking for times and dates of ICS roll out, or maybe they have thick skin from all the firmware update requests over the yrs. Would have to be a job requirement lol

If ICS is even remotely buggy like it is on all other phones i'll instantly head straight back to the completely reliable GB.

-smc
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] K900:
A bit more leaked info from some Japanese dude: http://twitter.com/paopao0128/status/200958577739968512

Looks like he has an even later build. My Japanese sucks, but I didn't find anything else relevant with Google translate either. Also I'll be out of town for the weekend and I'm taking the router with me, so someone else should set up a cron job that does something like

$ curl bit.ly/xpsupdates | grep -q "6[.]1[.][AB][.]0" && (send email to you)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] shoz_on4u:
Hi,

Try this site http://www.excite.co.jp/world/english/#

Since i'm in office twitter is blocked on my office network else would have done the translation myself and post it.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] K900:
Well I know a bit of Japanese + google translate and most of this seems just general android and life talk. There's a tweet that contains the word XPERIA, but it's about how he doesn't like the branding DoCoMo does.

Edit: you can't see the link, it's just a single tweet containing a UA string.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] shoz_on4u:
Yup u know in office only work no social networking allowed :(

Thank god XDA is not blocked ;)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] K900:
A word from my friend: there are no signs of new builds which might mean they are somewhere at about RC stage.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] chesterr:
So that means they release it soon, I hope
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] richteralan:
It is a reasonable timeframe for RC stage if they are aiming for late May and early June.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] sfkaudi:
This look like when x 10 was upgrading to GB!!!!!! So silent before storm
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] vrnsharma:
ya i knw that time and it is happening in almost same time when x10 has been upgraded to GB and i was so excited and same for Xperia S same excitement and same wait :P
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] krabappel2548:
So silent here, I'm waiting for news :D

And hopefully a release very soon so I can start developing with ICS instead of GB on our XS :D
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Felimenta97:
I want it ASAP too. I want to use Boid app.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] nit:
Markus from Xperia support stated at the Talk Sony Mobile forums “Xperia S is planned to get ICS somewhere around late May/early June. That’s what’s been said and that’s still what we’re sticking to ...”.

Let's hope for the best and prepare for the worse :rolleyes:
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] K900:
Fourth time.

Отправлено с моего Transformer TF101 через Tapatalk
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] vytenolis:
update!!!!

Hey I just received the update.That update changed my build number! What is that:-)that?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] DooMLoRD:
what is ur current build number?

can u post about phone screenshot?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] wing_zero8556:
You better not be trolling, xperia fanboys are the worst at dealing with posts like these :P
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] xpsman:
They see me trollin...
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] mzr7:
They hatiinn
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] K900:
Well it's not certified. So either he got another GB update, or he's friggin lucky.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] del1701:
Screen shot of device info would be good
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] lullesha:
If you're pulling our leg, vytenolis, we know where you live and I've a van waiting for you and a couple of bad guys just begging to give you a proper beating.

With love, lullesha.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] vrnsharma:
oh please tell us u r not trolling and its a truth ...
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] shmoejoe:
Well that would certainly be a pleasant surprise, but I'm afraid that he just got the .73 update or something.

I think if it actually started being rolled out, we would see posts from others confirming it.

I hope im wrong, would be a fantastic way to start my week :-)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] vrnsharma:
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2012/05/sony-xperia-s-android-4-0-ice-cream-sandwich-to-arrive-by-june/

they are saying its june ...see this link
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] SEFanX10i:
I am guessing he received the .73 update :p

@vrnsharma

That has already been posted a hundred times already here. So nothing new really :(
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] K900:
Fifth time.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] lullesha:
Genuine LOL here :D

Seems like people generally don't bother reading anymore.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] vrnsharma:
yup i think u r rite :)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] vrnsharma:
just checked it there is no update
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] dragunov:
Subject target name

: vytenolis

Purpose of mission

: Subject termination

Mission weapon limitations

: NONE

:D

C'mon vytenolis, spit it out! Was it a GB update? We will not harm you (yet)!

:)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] chesterr:
awwww c'mon guys leave the guy alone. he just made a honest mistake. lol
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] wing_zero8556:
yep if he hasnt replied yet hes trolling or he got .73 update lol
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Ambroos:
If the update was real it'd have been posted somewhere online by now. End of May = last week of May or later.

I still expect the updated build to appear on PTCRB before we'll see it being pushed to our phones.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Yakandu:
In spain, Sony Xperia conmfirmed ICS for the first week of june.

http://andro4all.com/2012/05/por-fin-el-sony-xperia-s-tendra-android-4-0

sorry its only in spanish
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] K900:
I know a guy who is NDA testing the almost final build now and they keep the information very well. Leak = fired.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Colinn789:
Also for Italy :)

http://www.tuttoandroid.net/android/sony-xperia-s-android-ice-cream-sandwich-48323/
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] K900:
That's nice to hear, should mean Nordic countries and some generics are getting it really soon.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] vytenolis:
updated

the build number after update is 6.0.A.3.73
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] markksa1978:
Means we will get the ICS custom rom very soon.. :D
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] K900:
Useless, most people got .73 months ago.