yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] ozzmanj1:
Although I am disappointed to hear that there will be no ICS release, I do understand their reasons. Especially as VZ was never going to release it anyway.

At this point I would much rather see Sony work hard on a Xperia PLAY 2. My contract ends in 6 months and I do not want to replace my phone unless it has a game pad as I really dislike touch screen gaming. So again, I would rather at this point Sony works on a replacement or this phone.

Am I saddend, yes. But I would like to thank Sony and Sony Ericcson for their hard work in attempting to make ICS work with our phone. They have been extremely good to use users firmware update wise compared to other companies. So again. THANK YOU SONY for your efforts and for being honest with the Xperia PLAY community. I do hope that there is a Xperia PLAY 2 in the works....
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] IE-coRe:
There wont be an Xplay 2, the Play did not sell good.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] TLRtheory:
Not really surprised or disappointed.

Looking at this from a logical point of view, I'm kinda siding moreso with a "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." train of thought... we already witnessed firsthand that the upgrade came with sacrifices and compromises... leaving us with 2.3.4 didn't really do anything but save everyone a hassle. Less complaints filed for Sony, less of the devs having to stop working on new projects to patch older ones, and less of a waiting game on our consumer-side.

People that are willing to sacrifice their stability and software compatibility just to have the newest thing can already do so. The rest of use can stick to 2.3.X which works perfectly with everything.

My only real regret is not getting my hands on that sweet-looking new Game Launcher (which I'm willing to bet could just be ripped from the ROM and used without ICS).
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] zaryab:
ICS isnt design for 1gb+ Ram phones :/...

cant u see its sony who are developing such buggy software

2011 SONY linup can hardly handle ICS where as Nexus S of 2010 with almost same specs can handle ICS very gently
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] IE-coRe:
exactly. the htc one v has the same chipset and runs awesome with ics and sense4!!
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] DennisDroid:
What the f*ck - No matter next week comes my HTC One S ... F*cking Sony -.-
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] clewis:
All I can say is goodbye Xperia play and goodbye Sony bring on the s3
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] w4lkm4n:
hey people ,think once again ,are you buying the xperia play just want to get an ICS ???

and see the ICS requirement ,it must have 1GB of ram and X-Play haven't it . .on XPERIA 2011 line is hardy handle it . . .and PLAY made for gaming on smartphone

I think it fair
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] IE-coRe:
ICS is not only for devices with 1gb+ ram. There are many Devices out there wichhave less and ICS runs awesome on them.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] DennisDroid:
No,

its the reason that Sony Ericsson (Sony) lied to his customers..!!
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] hebjes:
dissapointing **** Sony
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] caoscorp:
Let's strike against Sony for lying about the ICS on Xperia Play :eek::eek: :mad::mad:

Who's with me ? :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] - Swift -:
This is so pissy.

Just got my Play recently and Sony don't update it? This isn't a surprise as I'm used to the X8 and Sony's crap updating.

That's the last Android phone from Sony ill ever get.

Sony.Make.Forget

Fuu
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] jerses:
Sony is telling us that we waited 6 months for them to figure that the upgrade will not work. 6 months of teasing, delays, preview videos..and then just give us the finger. Thats not cool sony.

They did the same with the x10 and gingerbread but they where just been lazy... then they released it 1 year later.

Sony, if the reason for not releasing was the pstore or the crappy playstation stuff...then get rid of them. If you are not going to support it anymore then what do you care if 3 lame psx games work. i bet all the gameloft games work, they still work on my G1.

I did get this phone because of the ICS update promise i wanted to have a future proof phone. Sony you disappointed me in more than 3 products.
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] Jockard:
Agreed

I waited for ICS confirmation and release of a Beta to buy the xperia play, I sold a Samsung galaxy tab to buy the xperia play, and YES I bought it because of the ICS update! I also had a x10, and they said the same crap, until we from xda developers showed them wrong, then they updated it... The developers should unite all in a single project to make a CM9 version or something like that... Then they will see how wrong they are...

Never going to buy SE products again
[Xperia Play Themes and Apps] AlmightyCushion:
Read this earlier on another site. Such a load of crap. I remember reading about the disaster that was the x10 (I didn't have one luckily) and was really happy to see that Sony changed their tune and promised all 2011 devices were getting the ICS update. It seemed they decided to start giving a crap about their customers. Guess I was wrong. If I had known that the play wasn't going to get the update then I wouldn't have gotten one. Don't know what I'll do with mine. I could unlock the bootloader but that means voiding the warranty or I could flog it and buy a galaxy s2 second hand.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] blaine.hale:
http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/25/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-review/

Scratch that, I'm REALLY glad I bought the One X.

Let's hear it for our beautifully, forward thinking designed phones with a completely tolerable UI over Android 4.0!

Love my HTC more than any phone I've had in the past. I refuse to complain about any aspect of it.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] eskimochaos:
It's good, but not perfect - no phone is.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Red5:
Eh, there are already enough praise threads going on. Please use one of those instead of creating a new thread just to say "yay".

Thread closed.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] cing01:
I'm using CM 7.2 on my Mini. The ROM is fast and I like it. But my problem is the camera. It has lack of auto focus.. Even I use LGcamera, I still prefer the stock camera of sony. Can someone ported it to CM 7.2? :D
[Xperia Play General] Snow755:
its been conform no Ice Cream Sandwich for Xperia PLAY

http://blogs.sonymobile.com/products/2012/05/25/update-on-ice-cream-sandwich-rollout-for-xperia-smartphones/comment-page-2/#comments
[Xperia Play General] AstroZombie1:
:(:(:(:(:(:(:mad:
[Xperia Play General] Devedue:
But this is the reply I got:

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Thank you for contacting the Sony Xperia support centre.

We understand that you want to know about the availability of android 4.0 version for your Sony Xperia Play.

We value the importance of your query and we are here to assist you.

In response to your query we would like to inform you that android 4.0 that is ICS has been launched in India for Sony Xperia Ray, Xperia Arc s, Xperia neo v and is not available for any other Sony smart phone.

Kindly note that Xperia Play is upgradable to ICS and it will be available as soon as the update would be launched you would be updated through our website.

To know about the latest software updates refer the below mentioned link;

http://blogs.sonymobile.com/

For further information on Sony Xperia products, services and support please visit www.sonymobile.comThank you for contacting the Sony Xperia support centre.

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[Xperia Play General] vokal1992:
but when did you received that?
[Xperia Play General] supernoodles2011:
you should report the person who gave you that information as it is 100% wrong it has been confirmed on the Xperia forum and blog that the xperia play WONT be recieving ICS so we can only hope the devs will give us the latest rom they were working on so we can get a stable rom from the amazing devs here
[Xperia Play General] Devedue:
Fri, May 25, 2012 at 8:16 PM

Maybe I will.

:(

I think this will my first and last sony phone
[Xperia Play General] psxpetey:
ICS is coming stop listening to rumour
[Xperia Play General] swebosdev:
Its not a rumor anymore coming from an official sony xperia source.

I called it about 5 months ago but for different reasons
[Xperia Play General] supernoodles2011:
not sure how an official blog post on the Xperia website is a rumor... we arent getting it... not from sony atleast
[Xperia Play General] CTU_Loscombe:
Im going to be blunt here:

We dont need it. Gingerbread works fine

For those who think we do need it: You dont NEED it...You WANT it

Learn the difference between the 2 caps locked words
[Xperia Play General] psxpetey:
I no I was just f****** with you guys haha gingerbread is bomb ics can kiss my a**
[Xperia Play General] kelvenha55:
Bleh, Sony.....wow nice way to excite people then **** on their parade. can't say I didn't see this coming. Oh well screw Sony, and Verizon. I'm going to call 611 in the morning vent some rage and then port to sprint, I'm tired of this crap.
[Xperia Play General] Willie_Dynamite:
Just my opinion: I wouldn't jump ship on an OS just because Sony couldn't make it work. I have an XPlay for personal use and a iPhone4 for work. I would gladly go back to my old Eris before making the iPhone my main device. :p If you're really hurting for something ICS-ish, unlock it and slap on a new ROM.
[HTC One X] cyben76:
Saw Otterbox post of Facebook... I think those who remembered, they use to have the Armor series for PDAs during the WinMO era.. I think they are coming back with Armor series for smartphone!

Hope they make one for HOX! and i hope it's less bulky then previous Armor series:

[youtube]iWZ1Ca3eo04[/youtube]
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flexoduss:
I cant seem to find anything about the sgs 1 and changing its mac adress (permanently/temporarily) ?

Can someone help pleaseeee!!!

Thanks in advance :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] erpurohit:
I dont think we can change the mac address.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flexoduss:
can't you spoof it?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] erpurohit:
I havent heard of this in android yet.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ilabs:
Mac address is a permanent address hard coded into the phone's hardware, or any wireless device's hardware for that matter.. Each wireless device in the world has its own unique mac address, just as each computer's bios has its own unique code..

You cannot change your device's mac address..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hardrockk:
Hi

REQUIREMENTS

1) ROOTED PHONE

2) BUSYBOX INSTALLED

3) Terminal App

OPEN UP TERMINAL AND WRITE

:su

:busybox iplink show eth0

(THIS WILL SHOW YOUR CURRENT MAC ADDRESS)

NOW TYPE IN

:busybox ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:11:22:33:44:55

(INSTEAD OF 00:11:22:33:44:55, YOU CAN WRITE YOUR WANTED ADDRESS)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1385577
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chrizzly-bear:
I started to grant SuperUser rights to my terminal app . After this, i started with the command "busybox iplink show eth0" and received the following error message:

iplink: can't find device "eth0"

Additionally tried the other command (with eth0) and there is the following error message:

ifconfig: SIOCSIFHWADD: No such device

Im using a Samsung I9000 with root access and all root-related apps already have root access all in all.

Even when Im typing ":su" or ":busybox ~", the device means:

sh: :busybox: not found

I don't get it, the terminal can work without these colons but the "eth0" could not be found, too

Any hints/tipps? Would be great, thank you :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Latrop:
Wlan0 not eth0 no Ethernet on galaxy s
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chrizzly-bear:
At first, thanks for the fast reply and I think your right..

..but at least, I already tried "Wlan0"

It seems, that the command (including wlan0) could be executed and I'm also able to display the wlan0 settings by typing: busybox iplink show

All related content is displayed including the "wlan0". The recently added mac-adress is successfully taken at this point (xx:xx:xx~ instead of the original one) and could be displayed there but even when im checking for the MAC adress in my android wlan settings, there is still the old one and my smartphone still connects with the old MAC to my gateway
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Latrop:
I'm not sure then sorry will have to see if anyone else knows how
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ashish lakhdhir:
error eth0

eth0 not found in terminal what i should to do ? how to fix this error and ip link not found i know xda devloper in work fine but they have not solution for this...........
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] michael.santosh:
1. A rooted device

2. Busybox installed </system/xbin>

3. Terminal Emulator

open terminal

type 'su' press Enter

grant super user access

then type 'busybox iplink show wlan0' press Enter

this shows ur current mac address of ur android phone

then type 'busybox ifconfig wlan0 hw ether XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX' press Enter

type the desired mac in XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX

voila Done!!!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] bervikje:
Got me new case mate case from Amazon.com and it is simply beautiful I love it. Doesn't feel like I have a case at all.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B005UNR5GY/ref=mp_s_a_1?qid=1337960913&sr=8-1
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] DIXZ06:
Looks great! Do you know if they are available in black?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] bervikje:
Yes they do but haven't looked on amazon for it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] bervikje:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0057G0R9Q/ref=mp_s_a_8?qid=1338003044&sr=8-8
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Seanbest:
Just bought the barely There regular one. Love it. Have the Otterbox Commuter as well. Does it kill GPS and cell signal like others posted?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] bervikje:
I haven't noticed any difference in signal loss.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] sfb14:
I have the same case but in silver. I did notice my GPS position was off with the case on.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] abezapata:
I have this case in gray. After one drop and general wear and tear it started to crack. Plus the brushed aluminum back began to peel off. If you're going for looks though it's a great case.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Shinobu's Smile:
Is there an inner coating so it doesnt scratch the phone when you put it inside?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] abezapata:
No there isn't. It's a glossy plastic finish on the inside.
[Nook Touch General] Nesh_:
Hello,

I have been researching lately about e-readers and such.

I started off with Amazon Kindle and found very interesting the K Touch.

Then I found out about Nook and its Nook Touch (I would be interested in the one with GlowLight, quite cool).

I know that both Kindle and Nook have some sort of root/jailbreak.

I also know that Kindle has a very young jailbreak and it doesn't seem to have a very big community (yet).

I would like to know which one, in your opinion, has the best features available once rooted/jbroken.

And, concerning the Nook, know what kind of extra features I would get rooting the Nook.

I read somewhere that Nook has an expansion slot which allows to boot other OS from an SD: very interesting.

But what about apps? games? music player?

[This thread is very likely to make choose one device over the other]

Thanks in advance.

N.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] monoespacial:
Hi all. I'm in line to get a Galaxy S III (upgrading from my Galaxy S), but I'm kinda dissapointed that Samsung went with the 2.3 button layout (menu, home, back). I'm running ICS and the awesome multitasking menu is hindered by having to hold home for 1 second to access it.

Is it possible for a custom rom to remap the menu key to make it the 4.0 multitasking key? This phone's hardware coupled with stock ICS would be amazing, and it would be even better to be able to really get that multitasking the way it should be.

Anyway, just wondering!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingzion:
I would also very much like to know that.

multitasking on the menu button and menu on long press homebutton.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gaetanolip:
+1
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eddiemc:
I too reckon the buttons should be swapped

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1664041

The problem will be getting around the voice activation, so unless there are separate mappings for press, hold, longpress, then it might need some serious tinkering to fix it.

So far nobody has done it on sgs2, which has a large support forum and the same stupid button setup as sgs3, so it might take some time..

Keep bumping and keep hoping and we'll see if someone can answer our prayers. Perhaps a pm to chainfire?

Sent from my mind using telepathy..
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bala_gamer:
expected the same for sgs2 ics, but it didnt happened at that time, not only that i couldnt find the value for remapping the longpress part, you can easily swap the menu with home button though
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gaetanolip:
If it is not possible, i'll install the mod that shows the three classic ics onscreen buttons, nexus like.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 1234568:
This may sound daft but... if apps haven't got a menu button built in, how do you access options without a dedicted menu button?

I'll elaborate... ICS aimed to move the menu button from the phone to within apps themselves, so that it could be incorporated if it was needed. Now if app designers are on the ball this is great, but if you run an old app that hasn't incorporated the menu button, and the phone doesn't have one either, then what do you do?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lootes:
Droid life just posted about this. Old apps that don't incorporate the action overflow function of ICS, create a black bar at the bottom of the screen with three dots for menu. Not pretty but functional.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 1234568:
I thought that was the case. You lose a lot of screen real estate for a single button - what a waste. This is exactly why I prefer the S3 key layout over the One X key layout. Until developers properly adopt the menu button into their apps it is valuable to have a dedicated hardware menu key. In six to twelve months, when all apps have been updated, this will be a non-issue and I will probably favour the HOX key layout. In my opinion anyway. ;)

Edit: Just looked up that article you talked about. It outlines my opinion perfectly. I wrote a similar piece last month and sent it to all the major Android news sites. No one ran with it. Perhaps my writing style leaves a lot to be desired, lol.

Here's an example of the black bar we are talking about... yes it restores menu functionality, but it's a long way from being ideal.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lt iibad:
I'd rather have the black menu button, I really don't mind it. My other phone is a one x. And have gotten used to it. The thing is the s3 will be the best selling android phone soon, so as long as it uses the menu key, developers will see no need to make their apps ICS native style. In fact the Samsung apps themselves aren't native ICS.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kelvar:
You will be surprised that Samsung's apps is actually compatible action overflow option. I successfully enabled that on my S2 and remapped the menu button to app switcher. I left a fallback option of having the menu button on long press for older apps.

I managed to do the remapping on my S3 but I am having trouble editing the framework-res to enable the action overflow button without putting the device into a boot loop.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cetin:
Can we remap same as you?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bala_gamer:
cm10 has implemented the button remap feature. now you can easily change the menu button long press to recent apps in cm10 :)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] harryville:
I would like the power button to be a shutter button while in camera/video mode. Coming from Sony/Ericsson I really miss this feature.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jastonas:
There was an option to remap hardware buttons on S3 on some AOSP/AOKP rom but now I can't find that option!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] awkwardcheesecake:
In case anybody is still wondering about this, LiquidSmooth also lets you remap hardware keys.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] bohiti:
Anyone find a way to have custom ringtone per contact, particularly for incoming SMS? Feel kinda silly not figuring it out..
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] SilverZero:
Can it not be done through the edit contact page? That's how it is on other phones, though I don't know that I've seen a way to get custom sms notifications. Would be sweet!
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] erikivy:
Yep. Look at the contact in the People app and click on Ringtone.

Don't you guys pester my locksmith, by the way. :)
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] slimcognito:
I did the drag-and-drop approach. Connect the EVO to your windows pc laptop/desktop using the usb cable. Wait 5-10 seconds and a “Choose a connection type” window will show on the phone screen. Select “Media sync”. Then you’ll be able to view folders/files in your phone device (like an external hard drive). Double-click “phone” folder (this is your EVO), and you’ll see various folders (Music, Ringtones, Notifications, Download, etc). You can now copy a music file or picture file stored in your laptop/desktop and paste it to one of these folders…depending on what you’re using it for. After you're done, disconnect the phone from the computer.

Go to EVO's Settings, then Sound, then Phone ringtone, and select your ringtone. (You can also do this via Music app).

For Messages app, open it, go to Menu on top right corner, then Settings, then Notifications, then Notification sound, and select your ringtone.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] shellguy:
You can specify an inbound call ringtone per person, but this does not apply to the TXT msg settings that I am aware of.

Will
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] hnljay:
I don't know if it works on ICS but try Ringo Lite for assigning ringtones, SMS tones and text tones.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] wlpywd:
handcent
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mills2533:
SMS Sounds is a lightweight app that is specifically for setting SMS tones for contacts.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] dased14:
goto contact/edit/ringtone pick ringtone then save

for sms/mms go in to app press menu(3 dot buttons on top right)settings/notifiction/notifiction sound/choose sound you wish to use for incoming sms/mms(if your looking to individual sounds for each contact i dont believe you can do that)
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Cyrene:
With GoSMS and Handcent you can set individual sms ringtones. The third party apps provide tons of customization for messaging.
[General Questions and Answers] kgal:
I have an idea to pitch for an Android app.

I am an electrical engineer in profession lacking the ability to write and implement an idea into the Android OS.

Where can I find a software engineer/coder for my purposes?

I would also like to know about any websites which tell you if this app has already been developed.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] dud386:
This took me a bit to figure out, so I thought I would share.

Download 'Android File Transfer' for mac (I can't post the link since I'm a noob, google it.)

Launch Android File Transfer, Connect your phone via USB and choose 'Media Sync'

viola! There are your files.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Spyderekz:
im anti apple products, but good tip for those that use em!
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] john9:
I agree.