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[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] jonmorris:
One is a review model. The other is my own personal model that I bought as I expected the phone to go back some time ago. HTC and Samsung took their devices back in no time at all!

There are so many good points about ICS over GB that I'm willing to put up some issues with Skype (that I don't need to use all the time) for now. However, if the problem isn't fixed in the coming months, I'll be a little more upset. Skype is quite a major app that I'm sure a lot of people will want to use and expect not to cause problems (i.e. quitting, or making the launcher restart every time you hit home).

I can also add to the list my own personal experience with music stuttering in the Walkman player when the phone was doing things in the background.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] gopiann:
Is your SI number is correct because im having the same .Is different Mobiles will have same SI number ???? Im using Xperia S from INDIA
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sinple:
I not sure if its coz of ICS or due to me replacing the battery from the service centre, the battery rating from the service information(*#*#7378432#*#*), changed from 1500000 to 1750000( ignore the number of zero that I type).
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] gm007:
I am not saying that this build is perfect and hoping to see an update.

I was wondering why the rollout start last week and no one could update via pcc or seus,knowing that 452 is newer on ptcrb.

Till now I am not sure if we are using an official ics or leaked one.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] subben2003:
at PTCRB its .452 and thats the officiak we are updating
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] gm007:
Sorry typo....writing while driving :D

Wondering no one could update via pcc.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Handy0:
I'll have to agree with "doministry" and others regarding the no-wipe needed for the upgrade.

I did my GB to ICS upgrade using flashtool as I didn't wnt to wait any longer. I kept all my data but only wiped out the app cach. I already have more than 150 apps instaled with around 1.3GB remaining on the phone storage (not SD).

I'ts been 2 days now and I didn't face any of the issues mentioned above, neither battery nor wifi problems. All seems to work fine and I'm happy with the new update.

I already have an ARC (updated to ICS) and I do go back to the X10 days as for android, but I also go back to the days of P990, P910 & P800 (which I believe doministry remember as the golden old days of Symbian UIQ :) ). So I'm familier with all these smartphones. :D

The only thing I'd recommend, as many already mentioned, is to leave the phone to settle down after the upgrade. I left it for an hour after installing ISC (on flight mode), then restarted and left it again for another 30 min. Everything was loaded well to the system and no lag whatsoever in any of the phone elements.

So, I'd say that "wiping data to get better working ICS" is a myth and from my experience it's running as good as it should.

p.s. I also upgraded my Vista to Win7 without wiping my data and it's still running very fast and with no issues. And if anyone is wondering, my pc (well, it's a mac book pro running bootcamp with windows 7) and my SXS are being used heavily every single day! :cowboy:

Hope this helps someone worrying about doing the upgrade and don't want to loose ime restoring his/her data and apps after getting ICS. :rolleyes:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] subben2003:
A lot of peoble have updated the prober way. Those you never hear. Only the ones, like me, who cant wait makes the noise ;)

so no conspiracy plans at all... :angel:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] rahulmaindargi:
Interesting mine is also "1264-4179" some how I believed its unique...

by the way I am from India too.. May be it represent Country or Some geographical area...

And unfortunately :silly: :crying: still missing Update from Sony PC Suit or via phone.. it says I have latest... waiting desperately...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] dreamz0r:
Can someone explain why they have to make two different releases for black and white?

I mean it surely can't be more to it than different colors?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] jonmorris:
Running CPU Spy, my phone (which hasn't been used that much today) has been in deep sleep for 55%, 384MHz for 36% and 1512 for 6%. I quit Skype this morning and rebooted, so that hasn't been running at all.

That's only based on 5 hours 29 minutes but seems close to what I'd be expecting given there are a number of background tasks going on (Gmail, Facebook notifications and also a lot of Tapatalk notifications!).

This is on the upgraded Xperia S.

I will add one final note: Yesterday, I connected my phone to the LiveDock which has a keyboard/trackpad connected to it. In that mode, it rotates the launcher into landscape mode.

After disconnecting it last night, I noticed this morning that the launcher was still rotating into landscape mode when disconnected. I figured I'd simply not noticed than since ICS, you can now turn the phone sideways and the launcher swaps.

Since rebooting, it's now fixed in portrait mode (just as it was with GB).

Has anyone else noticed this? Is it meant to be possible to rotate the launcher at all times, or have I hit on another bug?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Dpk1:
Guys.. I ask this again.. can anyone on ICS confirm that the quicklaunch function (i.e capturing an image from sleep just by pressing camera button) of camera is working perfectly? It certainly isn't for me, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't :confused:!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] pawelek110:
@up: it works for me but only in slide-lock locked phone..in face unlock, pin and others it doesn't work. sry for my english :P
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Maximus999:
It's probably Skype. It's a piece of crap on pretty much all platforms, from Windows 7 to Android, I have yet to see a decent, stable version of Skype. I'm starting to think they have bunch of monkeys coding for them...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] jonmorris:
You got me trying over and over on both of my phones (although each is set to simply launch the camera, not actually take a photo).

On the one WITH face unlock enabled, it actually starts up quicker than the one where it isn't (go figure?) as that seems to quickly display the unlock screen before jumping to the camera.

On the one with face unlock, but in standby, it starts the camera straight away with no jump.

I can also go to the camera even when the phone is trying to recognise my face - but it's a little slower (not much).

I can't promise it won't mess up ever, but I've not been able to get it to fail in my testing yet. If that changes, I'll let you know!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Dpk1:
Yeah i had problems with camera (being FC) when i enabled face unlock but it was fixed after a reboot, but the above mentioned issue persisits.. even did a re-flash of CH rom but no luck! Seemingly, this might be an ICS bug :(.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] adz14:
why does it say my phone is already up to date? ( SI - 1257 - 5173 ) is already on the list :(
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Deniz.S:
Did you get that SI from the service menu or the back of the phone?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Dpk1:
Thanks for the response.. I tried it with launch only and now it fails less commonly like 1/10 times while with launch and capture it failed like 4/10 times! I agree that sometimes it launches camera very quickly. Still can't figure the exact cause of this behaviour. Waiting for the ICS release of my region, maybe that resolves it.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Hyouchi:
Oh, I have found another bug, and it's on the Timer app. The countdown ring from the minutes is floating away from the main circle. :D
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] richteralan:
Turn on force gpu rendering. Makes the settings menu smoother.

Sent from my Sony Xperia S LT26i
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] hasaan6545:
Bug report: BRAVIA engine

I said this before but nobody paid much attention so I'm saying it again.

In ICS update, BRAVIA engine does NOT work on photos. There's no difference with the eengine being off or on :( I've tried it on the stock Album App

On gingerbread, there was VIVID difference in image colours and contrast with the engine on

I reverted to Gingerbread and confirmed this.

In ICS, BRAVIA engine works fine on video, you can see a clear difference; but on images it's not working :(

Anyone else felt this?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] realfelix:
something for the Issues:

well i've updated my phone in favor of the new apps, chrome and HW acceleration. unfortunately the phone is more laggy than with GB. Like when starting the musicplayer it takes like 10 seconds sometimes.. or the launcher stutters etc
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] donjamal:
why to call a feature bug? :D but yeah, that's really there, now i won"t be the one using the timer while playing poker :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xperiax10.awesome:
Check Your SI number using:

*#*#7378423#*#*

sent from seXperia S
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Dpk1:
I tend to agree with you. In GB I could make out the difference but in ICS I can't.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Hyouchi:
There's a odd way to fix it. =O

It seems to be relationated with the Forced GPU Rendering. Just disable it and return to the Timer app. Then, enable again and everything will be normal. :rolleyes:

But if you close the app with the multitask menu and run it again, the problem persists. :/
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Bendix83:
where exactly should it be?

If i go to service Info

i get a few numbers like 1252-XXXX but they are different as the one on under the back cover
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] scook94:
Well FWIW, I've bitten the bullet and re flashed the CH Firmware. This time without wiping anything!

Good news so far is that my problem app is now working properly over mobile network. Time will tell with the battery drain issue I was experiencing, I'm hopeful though...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] m.a77:
SUS and PCC check for the customization version from the service menu. so I think until the firmware isn't released for this number SUS and PCC will always say the handset is up to date.

like you also the SI number of my SXS is listed as update available, but no ICS update until now. and also the customization version differs from SI number
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] gopiann:
Im also having the same problem. Waiting for Official Version of ICS
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] newalopez:
Someone said something about power-saver not working, indeed, I think the service won't run unless you go to the application, happened to me, only when I go to app it starts the power-save mode (if the timer is right), maybe they worked too much on saving battery that they killed this power-save service lol.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] jonmorris:
The Power Saving app sucks.

1) It hardly ever activates automatically at a timed interval when enabled to do so. Likewise, it doesn't come out of that mode in the morning (or whenever set to). If it's because the OS is closing the service down then that might explain the problem, but doesn't help the user!

2) The widget freezes and stuck on 100% for me when the battery was down to 69%.

3) Because you need to (stupidly, thanks Google) confirm you agree to re-enabling GPS, if you set it to turn off GPS then you must fiddle around when turning off the power saving (and again, stopping it coming out of power saving mode).

Total waste of time. I can't believe Sony allowed it to be kept on the phone.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] dSayonarab:
I just tried it. It didn't work!

So I unlocked and relocked quickly... and then it worked again. Hmm. :rolleyes:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Dpk1:
Exactly that is what happens with me.. I mean it is very random, if u relock and try again then it works but if u try after a minute or two, well then its a random hit or miss!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sgsgs:
Launcher rotation has all along been supported in most 3rd-party launchers such as Launcherpro, Go launcher.. so it is not surprising that the default launcher now supports this.

The fact that it is not rotating back could be due to some software bug? Maybe you could try if 3rd-party launchers have this problem?

Anyway, I chose to turn off launcher rotation as screen rotation in Android is not the smoothest experience (unlike ios - dun flame me, just my honest opinion :angel:).
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tel033:
Actually mine on gingerbread is quite smooth nothing to envy at all to my friends 4s

Does the smart tags behave well? Cause in gb when I set an alarm via nfc it just won't ring at all it just keep skipping the time and reprogram for next day :confused:

Wonder if it works in ICS finally
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] FenrirMX:
Not for me, but I seem to be in the minority.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] jmphillips89:
Agreed, my bluetooth audio sucks now too. No where near as good sounding! The Walkman app also doesn't seem to have the same level of equalizer settings (i.e. Studio.)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] olaf313:
i gave it another try yesterday, so i flashed my mobile with a genereic german ICS, formatted my internal storage before and performed a factory reset afterwards.

i installed almost all apps fresh from the market and - it works :laugh:

my mobile can go to deep sleep, my battery drains in 7 hrs by night only about 7 % !

WiFi is still weaker then on .75 but its ok (so far), hope for a fix of that
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] bill1clinton:
Hey, by formatting your internal storage, do you mean "clear internal storage" under storage? Thanks.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] olaf313:
yes, that option.

i donno if that was needed, but i wanted to be sure that no setting or app from GB firmware cause any trouble
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] bill1clinton:
Thanks! btw, did it fix the re-draw issue?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ryknex:
Ok After So Many Pages, I Would Like To Post Another

PROS. , CONS. , ISSUES pt 2

PROS.

1)Fast UI

2)Many Widgets (Few of them Resizeable)

3)Gallery

a)New Style

b)Fast Pinch & Zoom & Browes, Picture Loading

c)Nice Geo Tagging

4)Walkman Player

a)Visualisation

b)Increased Sound Volume In Headphone (Still To Be Confirm)

c)FLAC. Format Supported

5)New Movie App To Inform The Movie Details From Database, With Album-Poster Picture

With The Help Of Its Hash File, That Means_Pirated Movies Can Also Be Informed

6)Camera

a)Still Photos Quality Slightly Increased

b)Video Quality Increaseed With Bitrate (Forgot The Exact Number)

7)Speedy Browser, In Pinch-Zoom, Scroll, Desktop View, Save Page For Offline View

And Chrome Bookmark Sync From PC

8)Battery Backup Incresed

9)Normal ICS Features

a)Face Lock

b)Data Usage

c)Task & Notification Killer

d)Rearanged Settings

e)Keyboard...etc

CONS.

1)Low Benchmark

2)Missing ICS Feature: Wi-Fi Direct

3)Gallery Is Not Folder Sorted (Someone Later Found A Solution)

4)Walkman Music Player

a)Icons Are Ugly (Personal Preferences)

b)Visualisation Is Not Rhythmic On Music

5)Movie

a)Some General Movie Format Is Not Supported (e.g MKV With AC3)

b)It Does Not Let You Play On Any 3rd Party Player

6)Camera

a)Not Much Functionality

b)Slide Camera Unlock Not Needed

ISSUES

1)Wi-Fi Signal Drops (In Some Cases)

2)Bravia Engine Not Working In Photo Gallery

3)Bluetooth Audio Laggy

4)Laggy UI (In Some Cases)

5)Power Saver Mod Fails To Function Sometims

6)Battery Backup Decreasesed (In Some Cases)

7)Facebook UI Gotten Old Look

REVIEW:

As For My Think This ICS Update Is Definitely Cool & Worthy

BUT NOT ESSENTIAL

Gallery Is Better Then GB

Walkman Music Player Got Visual Style

Movies App Is Handy And The Butter Smooth UI With ICS

General Features Make The Incomplete Phone Complete

But That Doesn't Mean You Couldn't

Watch Movies In GB

Listen To Music In GB

Or Browsing Photos In GB

...So Its Not ESSENTIAL

But On The Other Hand SONY Made A Very Unworthy Fault

With SXS False White Paper About Wi-Fi Direct, I Think Most Of The

Android Users Are Not Just Show Off, They Go Through Proper

Features Of A Phone And Limiting Budget Before Buying A Phone

And This Time Sony Failed To Keep Promise With Wifi Ditect.

And How Come The Benchmark Reduced, While Competing In Quad-Core

Market. SHIS

And To Avoid Issue Many Said To Whip Data Before Updating

And Keep Backup Of Contacts SMSs etc With Applications

Well As Long Its Not Harming Your Phone, Go For It
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] olaf313:
can't confirm 'cause had no such issue so far
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] emwgee:
Battery drains like hell. Lags and stutters when connected to MW600 BT headset.

Hopeless, hopeless.

I tried reload the firmware 2 times and factory reset also, all the wits that I can think of......

Really bad for me.....
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] olaf313:
have you checked your device when you flashed the firmware and performed reset but did not restore any app, so leave it a time in basic mode without any additional app ?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ang1000:
my si number is in the list, but it says latest software available. singapore generic.

Sent from my Xperia arc running Google Android 1.6 Donut
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] fkef:
Questions

Just a few questions.

Is there anyone out there who has been able to update their phone using the official method using PCC/SUS. So far I have actually not seen any comments from anyone saying they have successfully updated their phone the official way.

Also does anyone know if the CH-version, availible here on XDA, is coming from the official update or is it a leaked version?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sgsgs:
Official update uploaded by Bin4ry
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sgsgs:
If it says available, just go ahead and update it, but best to backup your data first :fingers-crossed:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xperiax10.awesome:
TO FIND THE CORRECT SI NUMBER:

Open Dialer

Type *#*#7378423#*#*

Check Service info-> Software info -> Customization Version
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ang1000:
back of the phone. 1257-0991

just that I flashed to singapore generic.

Sent from my Xperia S running Google Android 1.5 Cupcake.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ang1000:
that's the customization number.

Sent from my Xperia S running Google Android 1.5 Cupcake.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ang1000:
but the pc companion keep saying up to date.

Sent from my Xperia S running Google Android 1.5 Cupcake.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ang1000:
or if there is any singtel firmware for me to flash back just send me. thanks.

Sent from my Xperia S running Google Android 1.5 Cupcake.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] dhilluk:
Battery life is now awful, I was getting up to 4 days low use and 2 days medium use on GB now I get 1 day and 16 hours respectively. Checked all apps, it isnt them as they were installed on GB too.

I think I will go back to GB. I had a better experience with ICS on my HTC Desire. Sony's developers do inferior work compared to a guy building or modding a ROM in his spare time.

Edit: I have been on LT26_6.1.A.0.452_Generic_CH (full wipe) since late evening on Friday 22rd June, it was allowed to 'settle' through the night.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] snafu_fubar:
Xperia S ICS, going back to GB

Hi all,

Thought I'd post my experiences with the ICS update for the Xperia S (Lt26)

I flashed it three days ago using the below firmware and flashtool

LT26_6.1.A.0.452_Generic_CH_1257-3740.ftf

No problem with that, all done. Wiped my phone and memory back to factory before to ensure a clean install. So with all that done, I sat down to play with the new features.

What can I say, ICS is pretty good, i'm not going to say its rubbish, I had no problem with battery life, noticed no difference between GB and ICS in that department. Really liked some of the added features, especially the ability to disable apps, I could finally disable all the facebook and google+ rubish, hate how phone companies automatically presume you want this crap built into your phone, if I want an app for it, I'll download it. The settings layout is done very well and there is a lot more options to tweak your phone to how you want it.

But for some reason, after a couple of days, I just found the little things starting to annoy me, dont shoot me down for this, i'm not saying there good reasons, there just my reasons! I'm a bit of a control freak, so I have my screens set to how I like them, I was willing to change a bit, but not much, the new youtube app screwed that all up! The difference in the keypad layout, the dreadful change to the gallery, you cant select individual folders, it just shows you everything and you can only arrange by date, no 3D album shortcut, Camera seemed sluggish and not as responsive. Mostly, just the general feel to everything, I just wasn't enjoying it.

So flashed back the Gingerbread, and now i'm happy again, I will flash back to ICS once my local (UK, 3 network) update is released, just to see if there is a difference, but I doubt there will be, I've played with my wifes HTC on ICS and it just feels better, I dont know why sony feel the need to mess around so much, atleast Timescape seems to have disappeared. Does anyone know of a release that will just be stock ICS that will work on an Xperia S, or is that not possible.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sgsgs:
I might have mis-read your message :confused:

Just update the CH ver like I do, works great so far, no diff in batt life or issues like others reported.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] jatt101:
So i reflashed the ICS firmware this time using the Germany Generic one, and i did a factory reset deleting internal data as well like someone said, and flashed the firmware, and did a factory reset afterwards as well, and all i can say is i notice no lag whatsoever now, i can't say anything about battery life atm, but thank you olaf313
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] donjamal:
there is a folder sorting option in the Album app, look at the sorting icon on the right top corner of the UI. Press it and you'll get the folders. though you can't set it as default sorting, which is pity :(

speaking of which, pull the stacked images to the right and it will show them one by one :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] warface:
Well, Google+ IS owned by the people who make your software, so thats going to be included. As for other apps like FB, UEFA Champions League and stuff like that, it's all about the $$$$$$$ they pay to have them included!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] snafu_fubar:
Ya, i get that, but they don't put skymap or goggles on automatically, which in my mind are far more usefull. I wasnt asking why they do it, I know its about the money, I was just saying its wanky!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] necrohiero:
I have a german generic phone and.. My SI number already got listed..

But until today.. I did not have an update yet. Oh god why..

I'm stuck..
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] doministry:
So true!!!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] donjamal:
today was the 2nd time i lost internet connection, i turned on flight mode then turned it off, internet connection didn't come back, i had to restart the phone. i clean installed the system.

does anyone have the CE firmware?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] olaf313:
you are not the only one and this is not the first post about that :eek:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] gm007:
I had this problem on different. 75 firmwares,only NL .75 generic solved my problem.

But now on ics I don't have this proble anymore.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] dachao:
This problem has been inherited from the X10. I had it on the x10 and now on the XS.

:eek:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] donjamal:
on the x10, i never had it on stock based roms (GB). but on other custom roms, like miui or cm i had it
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] KidCarter93:
UK generic gets the updates way too slow. Especially in my region D:

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[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] slybeans:
I have a problem with Top Contacts widget, the 4x1 works but the others say "Can Not Load Widget"
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] KidCarter93:
Anyone received the update on UK generic yet?

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