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[Xperia Play General] Wii89:
Yeah, the Play is great, it's verizon that angers me, the not pushing updates, hard to unlock bootloader, etc... Despite that, the Play is a great phone.
[Xperia Play General] DubleJayJ:
16 minutes. Can't wait to see how bad Verizon messed up.
[Xperia Play General] ozzmanj1:
I hear you man, I am sure there are a lot of us in line with your opinion, myself included. Love the phone hate the carrier and all their stupid idiosyncracies..........
[Xperia Play General] ozzmanj1:
I'm going to take a wait and see approach. Lets hope its as easy to root as 2.3.3 update was.

Just had a thought (ouch my head) I have a 3D boot animation of the android peeing on the apple logo, would love to see the same thing done but with the Verizon Logo...hahahahaha... beautiful.. VZ golden showers...lol
[Xperia Play General] :
i love how people dislike verizon:D
[Xperia Play General] Snow755:
well its 8:48PM W coast 11:48 EST for E cost and still no 2.3.4 update for my phone yet
[Xperia Play General] :
c'mon i want to see this fail!!!
[Xperia Play General] Snow755:
cant wait too see if this is really 2.3.4 or or they really give us 2.3.6
[Xperia Play General] ozzmanj1:
Noticed the PSP scene tag, I used to be in that scene too until android popped into my life. But recently I found my PSP again and have been playing it again online, mostly for Monster Hunter Freedom Unite online....

And now back to a word from our sponsors... "Verizon where is the update?"
[Xperia Play General] ozzmanj1:
WHOA!!!..... the update is 2.3.7!!!!!!

Kidding.... shutting up now. Crossing my fingers for ya'll....
[Xperia Play General] Snow755:
likey comeing out in 5 mines or less

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[Xperia Play General] Leraeniesh:
Guys, I hope you realize they START at midnight, and will role out over the next few WEEKS.

Sent from my CM9 Kindle Fire
[Xperia Play General] Wii89:
Dangit, if there's only 5 minutes, my calculations are wrong...
[Xperia Play General] ma777:
so is this live yet?
[Xperia Play General] :
i loved those days. i used to know a whole bunch! everything was easier!
[Xperia Play General] Snow755:
will see
[Xperia Play General] ozzmanj1:
Yeah I had a custom rom on my psp, put in my umd plug in my usb cable and copy the game from the umd onto my backup hard drive. I have a MicroSD to Memory stick pro duo adapter, have a 32gb card packed full of games and take that with me on PSP......anyway... Verizon..back to you!!!
[Xperia Play General] Leraeniesh:
What's there to see about?

Verizon has openly stated everything about this update.

It is 2.3.4

Sent from my CM9 Kindle Fire
[Xperia Play General] :
i felt like a god in those days! hahaha
[Xperia Play General] Selim873:
Haha That reminded me of when I took my Play to Verizon, I forgot to unroot my

phone, and I left that boot animation on there... The guy laughed after rebooting and let it slide. :D
[Xperia Play General] DubleJayJ:
They do realize this isn't an update, but a lateral move?

IT'S MIDNIGHT.
[Xperia Play General] Snow755:
but how can we be sure it will be 2.3.4 you no how verizon is

if is 2.3.4 then its conform but if its 2.3.6 or 2.3.7 then they lide
[Xperia Play General] ozzmanj1:
haha... nice to know the rep had a sense of humour... met some reps that are way too serious in life...... maybe that why they worked for VZ... kidding
[Xperia Play General] Snow755:
if you live on the E cost check your Phones has it is now 12am
[Xperia Play General] ozzmanj1:
Verizon has already confirmed hours ago its 2.3.4

ITs ben discussed to death. ITs not going to be anything else but 2.3.4.
[Xperia Play General] DubleJayJ:
Started checking for updates at 12:01

It's still checking for updates and it's 12:03

Hmmm.
[Xperia Play General] ozzmanj1:
From my experience that means the servers/network is probably getting ready tp unleash the beast
[Xperia Play General] DubleJayJ:
Or everyone is flooding their servers and it's taking a while to get through. I'll check in the morning before work for the update.
[Xperia Play General] ozzmanj1:
Hmmm... yeah I am sure we are not the only ones in the US of A trying to scratch at the feeding door which is 2.3.4 (I made a rhyme)
[Xperia Play General] DubleJayJ:
Just got through. "Device is up to date"

Nothing yet. I'll try again in 6 hours. Night everyone.
[Xperia Play General] ma777:
nvstati freed

my phone wont even let me click check for updates... its greyed out.
[Xperia Play General] Snow755:
am one of them lol
[Xperia Play General] ozzmanj1:
HUH!... Greyed out too for the update button?
[Xperia Play General] Snow755:
heh heh

i hop the next update after 2.3.4 is 4.0:D
[Xperia Play General] ozzmanj1:
Dont we all wish that........ but I would be totaly shocked if VZ made the release for ICS for our phones.... You get the update?
[Xperia Play General] Leraeniesh:
If Verizon's release schedule is anything like your spelling, you might as well give up.

Sent from my CM9 Kindle Fire
[Xperia Play General] Snow755:
yep me two i dont think they will but i do think will see other update a round DEEC
[Xperia Play General] retrogrymlyn:
No update yet. But ICS would be amazing... Im planning on finding a way for T.E.A.M. after 2.3.4
[Xperia Play General] Snow755:
i think i have too wait in tell 12am my time for my update am on the W coast in CA
[Xperia Play General] ozzmanj1:
I am pretty sure its specific to your time zone... although it did say 11:59pm EST, so I dont know.......
[Xperia Play General] Snow755:
ok

well have too see
[Xperia Play General] DubleJayJ:
If your update button is greyed out, then go back into Settings, and re-check for updates.

Still no update.
[Xperia Play General] Snow755:
it says my phone already has the lastes software
[Xperia Play General] retrogrymlyn:
That's because they probably haven't uploaded it to your update server yet.

Not that I've got the update either...
[Xperia Play General] :
*sigh* three more hours to go
[Xperia Play General] Wii89:
Grr, maybe tomorrow will be more, updatey, I'm off, have fun who ever gets the update.
[Xperia Play General] :
Okay then bye-bye
[Xperia Play General] Snow755:
good night
[Xperia Play General] :
I live in CA also
[Xperia Play General] ozzmanj1:
I live in UT. But I would have to relock my bootloader, ftf, then try the OTA, which all that would take some time, more then I can spare right now. Need to get to bed in about 10-15 min, hoping somone has good news before I crash
[Xperia Play General] :
I need to sleep also. Need to wake up early tomorrow to configure my phone for the update
[Xperia Play General] :
Let's see who survives the longest!!!!
[Xperia Play General] ozzmanj1:
Dang it, and I just drank a 2 liter bottle of pepsi......oh wait... I'm not OTA'ing my phone.... ahhh breathe a sigh of relief... but not that kind of relief...... dont want to bring the mop out :)
[Xperia Play General] :
Why'd you do that?
[Xperia Play General] ozzmanj1:
Just a joke..... just trying to be funny..... backfired

Well. Calling it a night. see ya'll
[Xperia Play General] droidjunkie:
1201 here and no update yet....god I forgot how much I hate the stock rom
[Xperia Play General] paxChristos:
Same here :( I was hoping with my proximity to verizon hq, I'd have an unfair advantage, but it looks like no dice here, either.) See you all tomorrow (already missing CM9, this better have a baseband update, or else it's a complete waste of time)

Sent from my phone, please excuse any Swypos.
[Xperia Play General] eros78:
Don't mean to sound cynical here but man they can keep their instant brick my phone update. My phone is running pretty good right now now and when someone gets ICS working for CDMA then I will go with that.

Unless they're pushing ICS in that 67MB update, or to 720HD video recording...?

I'm good.
[Xperia Play General] Wii89:
They are releasing 720p :P (I think, back to sulking)

Edit: 720p IS included, enjoy :)
[Xperia Play General] :
Night guys! I'm going to sleep. Time is ticking way to slow for me to stay up till 12 for the update
[Xperia Play General] paxChristos:
See my signature for cm9 (AOSP ICS) on R800x

Sent from my phone, please excuse any Swypos.
[Xperia Play General] netizenmt:
5:18 AM Eastern - May 1st - no update as yet.

Verizon, you suck.

So, umm, I will be the first to admit I'm dumber than a fence post at times when it comes to all this rooting and romming stuff. If we're getting a Verizonized version of 2.3.4, did I understand someone to say we're getting a new radio as well, or is it still the same radio but a different firmware? Does this open up other ROMs that have previously only been available to GSM users to CDMA users now? Or was all this waiting for the stupid update a waste of time and I should go back to using my customized version of ICS or CM9 or whatever?
[Xperia Play General] Phryxus:
EDIT: 5:58AM it popped back up and still no OTA. So I'll check back later.

Verizon does suck indeed. 5:57AM EST time here in Michigan and I keep getting "Could not download error" Except, when I do get it to work it says "Latest Software" so I'm confused, do I actually have the latest or is it not downloading Verizon?

Will keep trying, I refuse to go outside to get a better 3G connection as it is cold as can be here in the mitten. :P
[Xperia Play General] lightningdude:
It may or may not have an updated baseband. Personally, I'll probably wait until someone that is smarter than me to update.

Just for clarification, so long as my bootloader is unlocked via testpoint, I'll always be able to use custom recovery and root that way, right? At the very least, restore a nandroid, correct?
[Xperia Play General] netizenmt:
According to Pax, yes. That's why I'm goofing with it. Otherwise I'd be using the ICS Beta with calls, and sorta 3g.

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Well it's a bit warmer here in O - H - I - O !! Go Bucks! Territory,,, but I'm getting the same results as you, so there you go.
[Xperia Play General] savage24x:
Damn you got me for a sec...
[Xperia Play General] Selim873:
I - O !! I edited your post just to do that, I'm a buck too! 2 bucks, one mich. lol Don't worry, I don't hate you, Phryxus. :) But I get the same thing, no update. Off to school, I'll check before my track meet.
[Xperia Play General] sufy1000:
LOL you Americans got the update now we already got it way before you !

Feel sorry for you guys :)
[Xperia Play General] Phryxus:
Well after getting my work done for the morning, I deiced to try again (8:07 AM EST) and still no update. Since it was supposed to be published at 23:59 (11:59 AM EST) April 30th, its way overdue. Makes me wonder if it was all a marketing ploy to generate buzz for something? And this was update won't truly come until weeks down the road.
[Xperia Play General] netizenmt:
And... do you feel vastly superior now? :p
[Xperia Play General] ozzmanj1:
Has anyone gone into settings/app/manage apps/ all/ and selected the Fota (I believe thats the file that looks for an update) and selected it then hit force stop, then tried it again? I do that sometime with a new version of Google play to make it update to the latest version of the Store.....
[Xperia Play General] :
Not here for me. It's 5:39 a.m well at least I decided to go to sleep because I would of stayed up for no reason
[Xperia Play General] :
Well off to school. Will check if the update is there after school
[Xperia Play General] Wii89:
Hmm, I assumed that verizon would stick to the schedule, and release it 11:59 EST to ATLEAST people in the East. Never again...
[Xperia Play General] droidjunkie:
Yes I force closed the mobilecare app and tried again, no luck yet. I'm going tI call verizon later to see when I'll be able to get the ota
[Xperia Play General] Phryxus:
I'm actually getting ready to live chat now with them because I've waited almost 12 hours (12am-12pm)
[Xperia Play General] agraceful:
Whenever the update does come please pm either me,CrimsonKnight13, Leraeniesh, Mills00013, or paxChristos. Doomlord sent us all a message regarding the update and needs some info so he can update things. I will post what he has wrote:

hey guys i was planning to update the PLAY-CDMA kernel but saw a news feed that VZW has released a firmware upgrade for the R800x...

what are the changes?

and what is the firmware version?

an about phone screenshot would be nice, so i know which FW kernel sources to watch out for

regards,

DooMLoRD
[Xperia Play General] Phryxus:
Firmware: 2.3.4 Gingerbread

Version: 4.0.2.E0.57

Changes via Changelog:

- Verizon Wireless Video on Demand now comes preloaded;

- Improved user experience and new delivery method of preloaded games;

- When connected via Bluetooth, the Music Player now supports Fast Forward and Rewind;

- VZ Navigator has been updated with the latest 3D map improvements.

- A long-press of the power button will successfully capture a screen shot;

- Charging issues forcing device to remain in landscape mode have been resolved;

- Recommended contacts now populate correctly when using the dialpad.

Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY’s 5-megapixel rear photo snapper with autofocus and LED flash has been improved with the following new capabilities:

- Right trigger successfully captures a picture;

- Record video in 720p with continuous auto-focus.
[Xperia Play General] lightningdude:
Don't know if it's been mentioned yet, but according to the Voodoo OTA RootKeeper app, the Xperia Play doesn't have the right filesystem to support root protection. Looks like keeping root through update is going to be unlikely.
[Xperia Play General] netizenmt:
Yeah, that was pointed out a couple of times. It will indeed be interesting. Of course, the longer Verizon JERKS ME AROUND on getting the update, the less interest I am likely to have in it anyway! :p
[Xperia Play General] 216Monster:
I just want the baseband in hopes it provides something useful... knowing big red.. it won't :rolleyes:

Sent from my R800x
[Xperia Play General] droidjunkie:
Just talked with tech service, the update is getting pushed out in batches and if you can't ota update your phone you might be able to go to a verizon store and have them update your phone. Gonna call my local store next.
[Xperia Play General] - Swift -:
Screenshots in 2.3.4?

Coolbeans
[Xperia Play General] _mayank:
Is it worth updating?
[Xperia Play General] paxChristos:
Already responded buddy ;)

Sent from my phone, please excuse any Swypos.
[Xperia Play General] droidjunkie:
Did you ger the update?
[Xperia Play General] Snow755:
its 7:16 am and no 2.3.4 update foe my phone
[Xperia Play General] paxChristos:
Check out the post I quoted. I was saying I already responded to Doomlord.
[Xperia Play General] lightningdude:
I think it was for that reason that he asked if you got the update. One would assume from that statement that you had received the update in order to give DooMLoRD the requested information.
[Xperia Play General] paxChristos:
Nope, just sent doom the link with the Verizon Flyer. (Cause those have all the info necessary, imo, plus it has the firmware version on it :D )
[Xperia Play General] ozzmanj1:
Has anyone looked to other non XDA forums to see if anyone has received the update from VZ? I'm not finding anything.....been looking.

Also once the OTA is downloaded where is it stored at prior to the phone being rebooted to install the OTA?
[Xperia Play General] sivart0:
Has anybody tried SEUS?
[Xperia Play General] droidjunkie:
I am guessing it is stored in the system partition somewhere or in a hidden partition.

Update, called my verizon store and they don't have the ability to forced the update just have to keep checking/waiting for the ota to be pushed through
[Xperia Play General] ozzmanj1:
They dont have the ability to updae it for you?! MY wife took her phone in when it was having issues OTAing and they could do it... maybe it depends on the store.....
[Xperia Play General] droidjunkie:
I'm still going to take it on my lunch break and say I been having problems. Hopefully the guy had no clue what he was talking about
[Xperia Play General] paxChristos:
Multiple times, no dice.

Pax
[Xperia Play General] ozzmanj1:
Just spoke via online chat, here is what they said

"You are now chatting with 'Erin T.'

Erin T.: Hello. Thank you for visiting Verizon Wireless "Pre-Sales" chat service. My name is Erin, can I assist you in upgrading or adding a line today?

Erin T.: =

Jesse: I currently have a family plan, however I had a question about an OTA for my phone and was told I could ask via the online chat.

Erin T.: I'd be happy to assist you.

Jesse: I have the Sony Ericcson Xperia PLAY and last night / this morning an OTA was supposed to be released. My question is can I take it to a store and have them update it for me?

Jesse: So I dont have to wait for the notification or keep pressing the "Update" button on my phone to see if it can pull the update.

Erin T.: It hasn't been released yet.

Erin T.: It will be released today, however it can take up to 6 weeks for your phone to update.

Jesse: Oh, I saw the release for it on Verizon and it said 4/30 11:59 est. firmware version 4.0.2.E.0.57

Erin T.: Yes.

Jesse: oh, so I cant just take it into the store and have them do it for me?

Erin T.: No you cannot.

Jesse: oh..ok. Well that was my only question. Thank you.

Erin T.: May I ask if you would like to purchase accessories today?

Erin T.: You are very welcome.

Jesse: No thank you. I am good.

Erin T.: Ok, not a problem.

Erin T.: Thank you for visiting Verizon Wireless; it’s been a pleasure chatting with you. Have a great day!

Hmmm...... yeah........that was a waste, but I kind of already expected that, but was hoping I would be surprised.
[Xperia Play General] sivart0:
Bluh.

Oh well, gonna just keep trying ota.
[Xperia Play General] SenseOffender:
I'm a bit confused about the Playstation store...

What's the difference between Android Playstation store, Playstation pocket, and Playstation Suite?

And I heard some say this new update might allow us Verizon users to use the PS Store. Is this an official Sony app that allows access to PSOne games? If so, why is it not on the Market?
[Xperia Play General] 216Monster:
I thought in the past it was on the SD card and deleted after its complete .. I could be wrong!
[Xperia Play General] retrogrymlyn:
Downloading

GOT THE UPDATE!!!! ITS DOWNLOADING NOW! (I live in UT.)
[Xperia Play General] CapNM77:
I'm downtown LA and no update. Will I loose root even with zerg method?
[Xperia Play General] ozzmanj1:
I live in UT too, but I wont OTA, unlocked BL.. plus I am at work. Let us know how it goes.... good news...

Trying to remember where the OTA is stored before it asks if you want install the OTA now or later (after it downloads)

If you can find the data from the OTA in your systems folder ( or wherever its saved) you can post the files here and have the devs take a look through it
[Xperia Play General] GHRocker08:
Downloading now in New York City! Maybe it was scheduled for around 11:59am or just took a while to propogate through the country. I hope my phone runs better now :)
[Xperia Play General] ozzmanj1:
before OTAing you can download from the Google PLAY store OTA RootKeeper,run it and try the OTA to see if it keeps root. Its been proven to work but with any OTA you never know if it will be 100%...
[Xperia Play General] retrogrymlyn:
45%... I'll check it out and peek around to see if it'll allow different roms. If it saves the update as Update.zip can't I post a link?
[Xperia Play General] Rogue Leader:
I have it and it basically says it won't work. I'm gonna try anyway what have I got to lose?

As for the update, at work, bad cell service here so I'm not gonna even try till I get home later.
[Xperia Play General] retrogrymlyn:
Yeah I downloaded rootkeeper. gonna see how that goes
[Xperia Play General] Snow755:
i will drop a 1000LB cow on verizon if i dont have the 2.3.4 update by the end of the day

its 9:02am and still no update
[Xperia Play General] sivart0:
Mine just started. (:
[Xperia Play General] ozzmanj1:
Do you know where the OTA is stored in the system folders ( not system itself but somewhere) if someone can get teh OTA files posted we can pick it apart
[Xperia Play General] droidjunkie:
Confirmed update is downloading!
[Xperia Play General] retrogrymlyn:
This just put me in the greatest mood, even though it might have tons of security... haha

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I can look around... where do you think its stored?

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90%
[Xperia Play General] paxChristos:
Same here.

Sent from my phone, please excuse any Swypos.
[Xperia Play General] ozzmanj1:
Not sure, scrounging the internet trying to find it.
[Xperia Play General] retrogrymlyn:
well i have it all dled
[Xperia Play General] hairdewx:
That's a lot of beef.
[Xperia Play General] ozzmanj1:
Still searching....... if you want to just install it go ahead, if you want to wait and see if I can find out where its saved.... I know I have seen it somewhere its just been a while.
[Xperia Play General] Snow755:
i was this kinding on that lol
[Xperia Play General] retrogrymlyn:
I will wait till my class period is over... yes, i'm in school... and i'm 17 lol
[Xperia Play General] ozzmanj1:
K, just read a post on droid forums that the OTA should be temporarily stored in the /cache folder. Anyone willing to take a look who has downloaded the file?

Just read again that after 2.2 Google places all OTA files in the Cache folder, used to be prior to 2.2 saved on SD as update.zip
[Xperia Play General] retrogrymlyn:
I just looked... Not in there...

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found a WHOLE bunch of 720p files... im gonna keep the root folder their in and send it to a dropbox.
[Xperia Play General] ozzmanj1:
I have read like 10 different sites all saying it should be in the /cache folder (if you are using root explorer first series of folders you see, all they way down to SDcard furter down System,etc. Cache folder up top. You have to be rooted to access the Cache folder, basically you can download the OTA on a rooted phone but attempting to install fails as it sees your phone is rooted

http://www.iphoneandroidtips.org/how-to/how-to-take-back-up-of-over-the-air-ota-update-rom-file/

yes I realize it says samsung phones but every where I am reading /cache folder, motorola, HTC, samsung,
[Xperia Play General] retrogrymlyn:
I have root and Voodoo OTA ROOTKEEP AND ROOT explorer, and their is NOTHING in the cache folder
[Xperia Play General] ozzmanj1:
Hmmm odd. Sorry wasnt trying to sound like a jerk, if it came out that way..sorry. I wonder if Sony or VZ changed the default download folder for it....hmm. Is there an update.zip on the root of your sdcard?
[Xperia Play General] ozzmanj1:
K, if anyone wants to try this to see if it finds the OTA files, do a search in root explorer or whatever you use to access root folders search for FOTA.

Also just because I am curious, if anyone using root explore select menu and select preferences and make sure the "Show hidden files" is check marked
[Xperia Play General] droidjunkie:
How do you take screenshot, long press home brings up recent apps
[Xperia Play General] ozzmanj1:
I believe its long press on the power button
[Xperia Play General] Phryxus:
My OTA is finally pushing through!

:D Hopefully this can be quickly rooted and modified!
[Xperia Play General] droidjunkie:
Gonna check root in a min, it actually looks to be the same kernel number as 2.3.3

Update, I tried to upload a screen shot of about phone but don't know if it worked, does anyone see it?
[Xperia Play General] lightningdude:
No, sorry.

I'm downloading the update right now, will see what I can find out, as well.

Edit: Trying to copy/paste a fota folder to my sdcard. We'll see what's in there...
[Xperia Play General] ozzmanj1:
Anyone willing to download and install Logcat and run Logcat before you do the OTA, download but dont install the OTA, then go back to logcat and it should tell us where the OTA files are stored. then hopefully we can get them posted online for the Devs

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.jtb.alogcat&hl=en