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[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Gloris:
hi all,

just wondering what you guys make of your xperia s's?

i've had an htc wildfire s for around 8-9 months now i guess and i absolutely hate it.

it;'s slow, it has no memory, crashes all the time and is generally a terrible piece of technology.

thinking of getting myself an xperia s because i can't really justify spending £500 on an iphone ha ha.

how do you guys find your phone in terms of reliability/stability? how's the battery life?

are there any drawbacks or issues you have noticed? what other benefits does it offer other than being a hell of a lot faster and prettier than my htc?

i've read something about it having psn store? how does that work?

sorry for the total lack of orgranisation in this post, i'm just eager to learn :)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] electrash:
phone is wonderfull, i would never change it.

But i give it 8 of 10, cuz had problem with yellow tint on display, and some others... :)

battery life is quitly good.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] wangc:
Battery life is not so good, how long should I charge the phone?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] K900:
Very nice, good battery life if you don't overload it, the software is really good.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Gloris:
cool, thanks for the input guys.

yellow tint though? maybe a faulty unit? or is this a common issue?

i'm thinking of going for this over the iphone now because it has

-twice the battery

-twice the processing speed

-twice the storage

-12mp camera

-psn store

-around 2/3 the cost (have seen in online for £360, vs apple's £500).

just not sure because i really like the iOS5 and the general smoothness of the iPhones....but this xperia does seem to blow it out of the water on every level ha ha.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Efe64:
Reserved for tonight

Verstuurd van mijn LT26i met Tapatalk
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] 3Shirts:
The delay of ICS has seen me lusting after the One X and, more recently, the S III BUT they are considerably more expensive and actually similar in spec anyway.

I think once ICS arrives, I'll fall back in love with this. The screen blows everything (those two included) away!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Why So Serious?:
The most recent devices haven't got this issue anymore, but you don't have much control over how new a device you'll receive and there are reports of it disappearing over time anyway.

I ordered mine from 3 (UK) the same night my girlfriend ordered hers directly from Sony, and I got a newer model which doesn't show any sign of a tint (w19) compared to hers (w13), and I had .73 firmware compared to her .67.

Having said that, she's not a gamer or anything and just uses the phone for calls, texts, facebook etc and hasn't noticed any tint either (often contributed to high phone temperatures). I think by the sounds of it, and there's no offense intended here, but coming from a Wildfire, I wouldn't expect you to be a massively heavy user and an Xperia S would be fine for you.

The screen is absolutely fantastic and is easily comparable to, if not better than the iPhone retina. I don't think you'll regret getting one in the slightest.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Gloris:
nice one, yeah, i've been reading a bit more about this phone, and a lot of people say that the yellow tint thing goes away after time (and that many other smartphones, including iphone, are subject to similar problems anyway).

yeah, coming from the wildfire s, i just basically want a phone that WORKS :p

went down to carphone warehouse today to have a little play around on one, and i was pretty impressed, it all seems pretty smooth and fast (and that was on an old software version i believe, since it's just a display model, which they won't bother keep updating it all the time).

one thing i did notice was the lack of the psn store on the display model....it had the playstation app where you can view playstation news and blogs etc, but the store didn't seem to be there....

this was one of the main reasons i was thinking of going for this phone specifically....is there any reason why it was missing? is it because i'm in the uk? :S

hopefully it's just soemthing that comes with an update or something?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] K900:
The PSN store is quite useless really. Any decent emulator blows it out of the water.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Gloris:
yeah, but i don't plan on rooting or any of that jazz with this phone :s

and i have a fair ammount of psone games already on my psn account :p

am i right in thinking it is definitely available in the uk though? just wondering why it wasn't there on the display model in store :s
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] K900:
PS1 games you bought for the PS3 won't be playable on the phone.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Gloris:
:O???

then what's the point of linking your psn account? lol

hmmm
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] K900:
For now, you can buy other games. I think they're working on that, just not quite there yet.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Gloris:
ah, cool. long as they are doing something about it :s it's one of the major selling points in my view :s

i mean £3.99 isn't exactly a bad price for some classic games, but i don't see the point in buying them again if i've already bought them on the ps store before :s ha ha.

i might just go ahead and order this tomorrow (my sisters friend is selling her iphone 4 [not 4s] so i'm borrowing it for tonight to see what i think....but i'm more likely to go for the xperia s i think.....it's just an amazing looking phone :)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Why So Serious?:
When I went into o2 at Westfield Statford to test the Xperia S I was a little bit bummed by the overall smoothness of it due to some minor lag etc but when I checked it's running time it had been on for over 500 hours (3 weeks) and of course every tom **** and harry been experimenting on it.

When I got my own XS the experience was 10x better so if you liked the display model you should like it even more when you own one :)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Gloris:
yeah i'm going to order this tomorrow, if i get it form argos i get 7 months to pay it off (and if i use my dad's discount it puts it down to £360, same as play.com and amazon).

i've just read also that these phones come pre-fitted with a screen protector :)

is this correct (especially for uk peeps)?

if so, that's genius, because applying those things are near to impossible without getting bubbles etc.

does anyone use another screen protector on top? or is it best to use the pre-fitted one until it gets scratched/damaged.

i was going to go carphone warehouse and get their pro-fitting/lifetime warrenty, but if it comes pre-fitted i needn't bother until it gets damaged?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] bikutaa:
yes, it indeed comes prefitted with a screen protector so just use it as is, it's great

(and they also included an extra one in the box too!!)

battery life is pretty good, and should be better once Ice Cream Sandwich releases (soon), so the only thing i've done is switch auto-sync off, mobile network as 2G and screen brightness to about one-third

the (built in) Power Saver app, timed saver modes also help (I set it to switch wi-fi, 3g, bluetooth, nfc, screen brightness etc to off or low between 1am and 7am for example)

as for PlayStation certification:

you get a link 'Let's start PS Store' to instructions

where you can download PS Store

so I don't know whether it connects with PlayStation Network PSN ID (haven't tried yet!!)

but the forthcoming PlayStation Mobile might be what PlayStation certified devices have access to
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] NoobTW:
I've used Xperia S for about one month.

I feel Xperia S with DooMKernel & Xperia SSpeed ROM is SO GOOD!!!!! :D

I can use Xperia S all day long without charging.:cool:
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] soo55:
Hi Gloris,

Forget about PSN and go ahead and buy this phone, for me it's the best smartphone ever exists since now, and it will be better after some weeks with android ICS ; I was using the iphone's model since many years, after buying the 4s, I was very disappointed! it's a jock, it's maybe useful for the paraplegic persons, but how really needs to speak to his phone! which asks you to repeat many times .... well, I sold my Iphone 4s after 2 weeks of use, and I bought an HTC sensation XE and I updated to ICS 4.0.3, I was very impressed by this OS, it's excellent, no more syc with itunes, you have just to copy and paste what you need in your phone via USB cable, (music, pics, files, apps, games ...), but I was still disappointed about the hardware of this HTC, so I bought my xperia S since one month, version 67 with no yellow screen issue, and now I'm really satisfied and it will be better after the release of ISC .... the camera is just wonderful, the screen excellent, 1.5 ghz processor, 1 go RAM, 32 Go HDD, sound Sony! I’m using it with a beats audio headphone, it’s a crazy …. You can pay movies full HD 1080p and link you phone to the TV via HDMI cable …. No seriously, stop asking questions and go buy it ….

soo
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Gloris:
thanks again everyone, i've just ordered the phone from argos (delivery is not until tueday though, but i have 7 months to pay it off). can't wait :)

::EDIT::

anyone know if there is some way to backup the device without rooting or anything like that?

i want to keep this phone totaly stock, without messing about with it, but i also know that sometimes "updates" can actually make devices worse, so it would be nice to have a way to backup so that i can restore to factory state should anything go drasticaly wrong :p
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] noob.fl:
hm...

so i will rate this way

with closed bootloader and everything stock: 5 from 10 points.

it just need to much of accupower, missing a Mass Storage Mode (hate MTP ona Linux with xFce), but the OS works smooth, looks great, sounds like BOOOOOOOOM, an is very fast... the Design is great

with unlocked bootloader, rootet and Stuff : 8 from 10 Points

makes a lot of fun to play with, with DooMKernel and CPU Master, the accu works 2 times longer, Mass Storage is Possible now, runs very fast after clean up some no-needet sysapps) - only MicroSD and a battery to change is missing
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] HeCareth:
So I 've been wanting to really test how long my battery could go with minimal use.

This included...

about 45 minutes of 3G tethering

and about 13 hours on 3G. 4G was disabled the whole entire time

As you can see it was idle a lot, but I almost got 2 full days on stock battery. So no complaints.

Part of me feels like if it was not for that 3G tethering maybe I could have got 4 more hours+
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] phatmanxxl:
Not bad indeed.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ÜBER™:
Would rather use my phone and have to charge when I get home then leave it in my pocket all day.

Also your wifi was toggled on the whole time... that would have saved some battery.

Sent From My Sprint Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] zeke1988:
my gnexus can only last 1hr and 50mins of screen time and i have to charge it ~2 or ~3 times per day.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] m.is.for.michael:
That sounds pretty dire....are you running at full brightness with Wifi and bluetooth and the GPS on (happens e.g. if you enable GPS for apps and then open Facebook) and no screen timeout while running the camera?

I've had an hour of screen time, and about 9 hours of screen off; I've not had it on to charge at all today, and I'm at 60% battery.

If you go into settings/battery, what else is keeping your phone awake? In other threads, people suggest installing 'Better Battery Stats' (nb, cheap, not free) and posting screen shots of the kernel/partial wakelocks. I can't interpret them myself, but others can...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Ryjabo:
How is the signal strength where you spend most of your time?

When I'm at home, it's crap, and I'm about in the same boat as you.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Chaotic Peace:
You can get the better battery stats for free if you can locate the guys thread here on xda. But I recommend at least donating to him for such a useful app.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Jayrod1980:
The only complaint I have with this phone is the massive difference between hspa and lte versions in battery life. Other than the razr maxx no late phone has acceptable battery life including the nexus. To get 5-6.5 hours screen time on my nexus versus friends 2.5-3 on an lte version is just crummy. I know some people just have extra batteries but that short of usable battery life is just too much of a hassle for me when I'm out and about. I would be forced to get a huge ugly seidio battery if I needed to move to Verizon. Even with 4g disabled the Verizon/sprint versions don't get the screen time I get with my hspa nexus. I really hope lte radios get more efficient and battery tech gets better. Removable or not, all phones can be made as sleek with a huge battery if manufacturers wanted. The maxx is proof of that.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] FrankHH:
I am giving my machine a hard time every day. Usually it ****s up after something like 4 hours. That is much better than the old machine I had. However, it is not good enough cause I work for 8 hours. So after the midday break in the canteen there is no more angry birds for me. I think of getting a second machine, one for the morning and one for the afternoon.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Kalavere:
Yay, another super 1337 battery thread.

Check out my super 1337 battery savings with a stock battery!!!

/Facepalm.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] CoronaDelux:
I'm lucky to break 2 hours screen time on my GSM phone before I have to recharge. How the hell you guys managing such spectacular battery life?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] BrianDigital:
what's your signal strength during that time? At work I get horrible reception, and leave work probably around their percent. Weekend I could away without charging
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Kalavere:
Lol, how's this for on screen time on a stock battery? I just managed to get the screens before I had to charge it up, It's the longest I've gotten with my ROM and kernel combo. Last screen shows it's the ~1800 mAh battery, the third line down reads 35/1750 mAh.

*Edit* Hold the phone, 1400 mAh is stock, right? My 'stock' battery is 1750mAh... How does that work?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] I Am Marino:
How did you manage that?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ÜBER™:
Wifi and conservative use... well kind of I probably could have gone long... but couldn't stop using the phone.

Sent From My Sprint Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bgdxv:
Is everyone else getting strange battery drops? When the battery is at 19%, it drops directly to 15%, without going through 18,17,16. Is this happening to you or is my battery screwed up? It's been doing it for weeks now so I don't think it's about lack of battery training :(
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Duncs:
This is with a genuine 2000mah extended battery, minimal use over a long weekend. This is also with emails, facebook etc all polling at 30 min intervals, wifi on but not always connected and screen on auto brightness. I had also conditioned the battery by fully charging and discharging about 5 times when the battery was new.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bgdxv:
Screen on time?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ÜBER™:
Looks like 35mins...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Duncs:
Sorry im a bit rubbish at saving info, forgot to screenshot other screens but screen on time was only about 30-40 mins as suggested.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bgdxv:
That's great. Sadly, I can never pull something like that off. I get pretty bad signal 1-2 bars in my house generally and this phone sucks like mad when on bad signal :(
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ksizzle9:
I'm using a LTE Nexus, but current fly out of a 3G area, and I **** u not I get fantastic battery. No complaints.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Kalavere:
The graph is useless, screen on time is what most people look for when gauging battery life.

I could leave my phone on standby and get 15 days on the graph but it shows nothing about how much the phone was actually used.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Duncs:
sorry guess i dont understand why this graph exists then if it doesnt mean anything, i will stop posting stuff, thanks :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ÜBER™:
Nah it does mean something.... Means stop playing with your phone and it will last days.

I still say I would rather use my phone all day and have to charge it at night.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] 95Z28:
My gn should be in tomorrow and I would love to see comparable battery life to my current sgs4g, but if not I always have a car charger and spare charger at work.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] anton2009:
I don't think you're going to get that kind of battery power with the GNex unless you do some heavy tweaking/modifications (kernel, extended battery, the works...)
[Gen9 Android Development] surdu_petru:
Added S1tweak into init.d Yes or Not ???

We need S1tweak added in /system/etc/init.d for two processors to run proper ?

- I did some tests to find the answer ... look below :

First test - without ../init.d/S1tweak ( settings max. freq 1.2GHz , Governor = performance )

Quadrant ( cpu ) = 2890 / PassMark (cpu) = 2014

Second test - with ../init.d/S1tweak ( need reboot your device ) ( settings max. freq 1.2GHz , Governor = performance )

Quadrant (cpu) = 5742 / PassMark (cpu) = 4173

What makes practically this script :

- running this script on boot the device will run with the same performance for any selected Governor;

- however , the best performance still remains for Governor = hotplug !!!
[Gen9 Android Development] Shano56:
I wait :D
[Gen9 Android Development] surdu_petru:
Hi!

I'll update later...within 24 hour !!! Thanks & good luck ...:)
[Gen9 Android Development] Shano56:
oh 24hr :( okay i will check back tomorrow! thanks!
[Gen9 Android Development] jipee296:
cant wait for this!
[Gen9 Android Development] Number0ne99:
Hi surdu_petru,

you a right.

Yesterday i tested multiboot with v02 and see that it didn't work.

I think "when he do an update to v03"

and .... this morning i take a look and wtf he do it.

Waiting for your upload.

Style is a little bit near SGS III style isn't it?

Looks very nice.

Bye
[Gen9 Android Development] sheriffy77:
Is the difference between this ICSBLUE rom en the custom ics rom from the other thread only cosmetic ?
[Gen9 Android Development] DragosP2010:
This rom will be with "Test 3 zImage" from "[ROM] NEW CUSTOM ROM ICS - Update 04/06/2012"?
[Gen9 Android Development] samx69:
I think that the last test zImage is 9:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=27572240&postcount=371
[Gen9 Android Development] DragosP2010:
I know, but I have 4430.;)
[Gen9 Android Development] cajl:
Great i Wait !
[Gen9 Android Development] djdoc1975:
Yeah me too, also waiting for my son to be born, wonder which will happen first, my wife has been in labour for the last few hours :-/ thanks surdu for the amazing work you do :-D

Sent from my X10i using M&M's MIUI v2.0 + tapatalk :-D
[Gen9 Android Development] surdu_petru:
Hi!

Yes, @samx69 - he is right !!! will be the ultimate test zImage !!!

...also thanks samx69 for your attention !!! :)
[Gen9 Android Development] surdu_petru:
On 4430 OC seem to be the same to test3 zImage , may be more quickly !!!
[Gen9 Android Development] surdu_petru:
Hi!

Congratulations and all the best !!! I'm happy for you ! Good luck ...:)
[Gen9 Android Development] surdu_petru:
Hi !

OK ....should be ok within 2~3 hours !!!
[Gen9 Android Development] surdu_petru:
Hi!

YES, you are right ....but I changed more icon ( some of them very well hidden in the system !!! )

- I think will not work on multiboot ! ...but you can try !!!
[Gen9 Android Development] surdu_petru:
Hi!

Based on firmware 4.0.6 with latest kernel update - and will included more stuff like previous versions !
[Gen9 Android Development] sheriffy77:
But the other thread with custom ICS is also based on 4.0.6 with kernel update ?

I run the other ICS custom on my archos 80 @ 1Ghz and was wondering if this would bring any advantage ?

keep up the good work !
[Gen9 Android Development] _Vialli_:
Yes, cristal clear :P

Can u tell me what type of resolution in the bootanimations i can use if i want to create one myself?
[Gen9 Android Development] surdu_petru:
Hi!

Please take a look into archive bootanimation.zip ( you can unzip ) - you will see all your info there !:good:
[Gen9 Android Development] xcen3x:
the file in ICS_blue.zip is "archos.ext4" and in the instructions for flashing this rom its said to use this command "adb push archos.ext4.update /mnt/storage/"

Should I rename the file to "archos.ext4.update" or omit the .update from the command ?
[Gen9 Android Development] surdu_petru:
Hi !

Ok! ...fortunately works with archos.ext4 and also with archos.ext4.update !!!
[Gen9 Android Development] darthfaber:
working fine thx :D
[Gen9 Android Development] bobjbain:
I have just received a replacement for my old G9 and have quickly installed this ROM, however I am getting the Archos firmware update alert which I didn't have on my "old" device!

Have I done something wrong?

How do I get rid of it (the Archos firmware update alert)?

TIA
[Gen9 Android Development] surdu_petru:
Hi!

You can desable this notify by delete Daos.apk and Daos.odex in system/app/

Good luck !:good:
[Gen9 Android Development] bobjbain:
That did it :-)
[Gen9 Android Development] myoo-at-xda:
3G Stick

Hi,

Thanks to surdu_petru for these firmwares !

Did someone test the 3g stick ? I cant get it running. Works well (at least after fresh rebooted device) in rooted 4.0.5 and 4.0.6. Now its only flashing red fast (removed cover) and i get no PIN question. Tried with 2 sim-cards.

Archos 80 G9 Turbo 8GB / OMAP4460
[Gen9 Android Development] gogojons93@:
overclocking available

I want to know if the overclocking is now available for archos 80 g9 ICS @ blue 4.0.7 custom rom:confused:
[Gen9 Android Development] surdu_petru:
Hi!

On what firmware and kernel you are ?

If you run ICS@BLUE , please flash this kernel , maybe will be ok !
[Gen9 Android Development] surdu_petru:
Hi!

Not yet ! ...but you can try to flash the last overclock kernel ( Test 9 zImage !) here ! ( see the second post at : The best Overclock Kernel Test 9 zImage ( TI OMAP4430 & TI OMAP4460 ) !!!

Good luck ! :good:
[Gen9 Android Development] gogojons93@:
is safe to use that kernel version 4.0.6 to version 4.0.7 to use the overclocking
[Gen9 Android Development] surdu_petru:
Hi!

Yes, you can use. ...kernel was updated , is not the same with stock kernel 4.0.6!
[Gen9 Android Development] djdoc1975:
Could also be that if your using O2 for your internet, they have been having problems for the last few days so it won't work. Not sure If that helps at all, but thought I would mention it just in case

Sent from my X10i using M&M's MIUI v2.0 + tapatalk :-D
[Gen9 Android Development] Kenomann:
Screen turns on and off

Hello,

since two or three days the screen turns on and off without that I have done anything. The lockscreen appears for a few seconds and then it turns off again, and after some time (few seconds, few minutes) it turns on again. No change if airplanemode on/off. After restart the same problem.

Does somebody know this, and where it comes from?

(I have the 80g9, 1gHz, 512 mb Ram)
[Gen9 Android Development] surdu_petru:
Hi!

You can try this ...maybe it solved ?

> adb shell

# rm -rf data/dalvik-cache

# exit

> adb reboot

Good luck !
[Gen9 Android Development] Kenomann:
So you mean I should clear the dalvik cache? Is there a difference between doing this with adb-shell or an app like titanium backup?
[Gen9 Android Development] surdu_petru:
Ok!

Yes, you can do with Titanium Backup ! ....if device not reboot ....do it manually !

:good:
[Gen9 Android Development] Kenomann:
With titanium backup no change, problem still exists. Will try with adb tomorrow.Is there really a difference between these methods?
[Gen9 Android Development] surdu_petru:
I really don't know , maybe Titanium not point well ( but it should do well )...but with adb is sure ! so , go wirh adb tomorrow , and let me know if it's work ! Good luck !
[Gen9 Android Development] Kenomann:
Hey Surdu,

just one more question. Do you mean adb with tablet connected to PC, or can I do that with a terminal direct with the tablet?