yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] TheFirstFishy:
Dont think the homepage problem is a ram issue.

I had stock browser running with 5 pages, Chrome running with 7 pages, GTA running in the background togeather with FB, Pulse, Gapy Geek, Flipboard and 6-7 other in the task manager and still run Dead Spare without any problems.

My homescreen sometimes freezez for 2-3 sec after a restart, after browsing, after or call. Its quite random and cant see a pattern in it atm.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] doministry:
Well good to hear.

What I'm talking about IS a RAM issue though, previously present on Arc.

On my X S never happenned yet, on GB.

I hope it won't happen on ICS either.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] harvy20:
hello all, can I also mention what many people have not mentioned but i think the google voice is much more snappier, responsive and accurate, nobody seems to mention it, maybe because not many use it either lilke myself, but was driving and instead of typing did a quick google search with voice and it was great!

I have also noticed the FB timeleine is not working.

The large weather widget (not the one that expands but static half page one) looks a little outdated on this slick ICE???!? needs some kind if transparency effect so it looks ok on top a live wallpaper!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] doministry:
How come official FB app problem is a Sony X S problem?

I suppose it's just a Facebook problem...?

Or maybe you talk about a different app?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] NeGATiV_:
I have no problems whatsoever with the official facebook app if anything for me it runs better now...

The only issues I have faced so far are the lockscreen which has been mentioned a 100 times already...

and gracenote messing up most of my album artwork when i downloaded music info
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Felimenta97:
The only problem I have with Facebook is that the font is too big, even with Small font choosen on ICS menu...
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Ambroos:
You should never let Gracenote "replace existing info".
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] lostsouls:
Same for me too. Received signal is not good....
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] yuxiang:
Everything's going good for me in ICS on SXS with the exception of unable to read HTML emails using exchange account.

appears blank as in attached. =/
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] zhuozhi211:
what I like:

- u can disable most (though not all) app/ services, without root

- dont need to unlock twice if u set a pin/ pattern etc

- the overall appearance

what i dont like:

- several screen lock (off the screen) apps may not work e.g. widgetsoid

- browser address bar harder to call out?

- home screen redraw ocassionaly
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] hello_hello:
I am using widgetlocker too.

What theme you are using? Yours have no lock icon in the middle.

Btw, the any button wake up now won't work with volume down but up while in GB it works for all.

Can you test it on your side?

Thank you.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Mysteryos:
ICS feels very smooth so far. Did a flash and factory reset. Works like a charm.

However i'm a little concerned with Android system showing 24% usage in battery statistics. Anyone else have this?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] doministry:
Sh..t. That's RAM.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] pascalbrax:
The bilingual keyboard was what I missed the most from my old HTC phones (that have also a nice theme, IMHO).

But I want my calendar back on my Xperia.

The previous Sony version was very "ICS stylish" with that sleek and dark tones, even on GB.

Now in ICS we have the same calendar, no updates, just reverted to white an very very light gray, it really doesn't match the rest of the UI. :(
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] doministry:
Shoot.... Can you make the screenshot?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] KalleD:
Thanks for an interesting and good review. Your comments (both the positive comments and the suggested improvements comments) have been fed into our organization.

/KalleD

Developer Relations - Sony Mobile
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] doministry:
Are you really from Sony?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Ambroos:
He is :D I'm very glad you read my review and thought it was good! Thanks a lot KalleD!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Lord Takyon:
Any chance you can find out why the facebook app is partially disabled on XperiaS ICS? No timeline, can't view other people's galleries, etc

Sent from my XperiaS via transwarp conduit.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] doministry:
Woud be great to revert to Slide-To-Silence from lockscreen.

It's total nonsense to have Slide-To-Camera when we have a Camera key which gives the same functinality. Why to double it.

Also WHY did you destroy the looks of X S calendar??!!

Why you made it white, not matching any part of the phone? Looks like cr..ap now..
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] wello168:
Really impressed with the review and Sony ICS... very proud to own a device like that:good:

@KalleD

i 2nd that, i think i still prefer the old one which is slide to silence. if can't change it, please at least provide an option for it where can choose to slide to silence or slide to take 1st picture (or should say enter camera mode).

another things is, i read that too many user having issue with home screen re-draw after exiting app or from menu page, i definitely won't be happy with that.

last one for now,:p, please do release an update for creating folder inside the menu page.

Edit: KalleD plz do read This this if u have time, too many ICS issues appeared..
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] pascalbrax:
This is the new ICS calendar:

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and this is how it was on GB (just found on google, not mine)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] doministry:
Thanks.

Looks like sh..t compared to GB one.

Plus those ugly tabs Month Week etc.

Why do they always have to "improve" everything even if it's fine!!!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Felimenta97:
I liked the ICS one, actually. Of course, it's all about taste. The Theme Engine from Sony could have been more deeply implemented, not affecting some icons and backgrounds, thought...
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Ambroos:
I prefer the ICS calendar too. The variation between Holo Dark and Holo Light is nice. I've noticed most organizer apps (Calendar, Mail, ...) use Light, entertainment apps use Dark. Makes sense to me too.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] richteralan:
Thanks for the post here.

Also please look into the music playback stuttering, the launcher always redraw due to high dalvik vm heap size.

Sent from my Sony Xperia S LT26i
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] donjamal:
And into the wifi and deep sleep issue as well, please

Tapatalk 2-vel küldve az én LT26i-ről
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] donjamal:
Sorry, accidently posted
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] doministry:
Oh so you say email also has the light theme?

Pity.

Anyway, it maybe makes sense, it's a rip off Windows Phone 7 design.

Anyway I am very interested in one thing:

SonyEricsson designers made one horrible decision with - otherwise brilliant - email app on XS:

It didn't allow to store more than 25 emails on phone (last ones).

So even after loading the whole inbox to the phone (lets's say 700 emails) in the next refresh

the phone would DELETE all the emails and leave only 25 on the phone. Totally idiotic!!!!!!!!!

That forced me to use K9 email.

So my question is:

Is it corrected on ICS??!!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] richteralan:
Also make the Sony UI use hardware acceleration automatically.

I notice a significant increase of smoothness when I turn on force hardware acceleration.

Sent from my Sony Xperia S LT26i
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] DevilsArc:
Is it just me or has screenshots option disappeared from the menu?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Felimenta97:
Press power menu and volume down at the same time for 2 seconds.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Static-Noise:
If if any help, deep sleep is working well. Phone on for 5 or so hours, and with moderate use its sleeping for 4 and a half. Also, battery is 84%. Happy.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Ambroos:
Just a little note, in my opinion people who are running a modified version (which means anything you can't do from a locked bootloader such as rooting) have no right to comment on so-called 'issues' with the software.

I'm running on completely clean Sony ICS on a phone that never had the bootloader unlock. ICS was flashed with a full wipe. I currently experience none of the issues people have been saying. Battery life has greatly improved, my phone is in Deep Sleep almost all of the time the screen is off, and that is with a huge load of background syncing apps.

I haven't had any application instabilities, launcher redraws (even though I have about 70 apps installed), reduced WiFi signal strengths (I feel my WiFi got faster and more stable), ...

One of the only things that got worse with the update (and isn't a UI change) is that some apps take slightly longer to launch. It's a very small difference and I'm not sure if I just think they're slower or they actually are, but it's probably because (as Sony has said in their excellent blog post before) internal database access was moved from native code to Dalvik-based code. Again, the difference is really small.

To anyone having issues I can only say: don't modify your software. Relock your bootloader, wipe everything and reflash a clean software image with Flashtool. Don't root, don't try build.prop tweaks, don't use task killers, power managers, ... Just use the phone and wait at least a few days before making comments and drawing conclusions. I'm quite sure you'll notice everything is just fine.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] doministry:
What about this email I mentioned above...
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] DevilsArc:
So you suggest completely wiping the phone with the new flash? I didn't have this option when I flashed mine, but I did loose all my settings, contacts, apps etc, so I am assuming that's classed as a wipe. I have had it installed for four days now and I can safely say my battery performance is dodgy, my WiFi reception leaves allot to be desired and I have never rooted, unlocked my boatloader or ran any tweeks.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] DevilsArc:
Thanks that worked perfectly
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] DevilsArc:
I charged my phone all night, and within five hours running time I've dropped back down to 55 percent.

I don't even have my screen that bright to be consuming that much

Any ideas?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] decentgi:
i have the same issue with my handset
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] FlightTribe:
I'm no expert, but I have read many times that when a phone has a major OS update, the battery 'forgets'.

So for the first week or so, the battery is recalibrating just how much juice it uses and how much the phone is using and when.

The bottom line is, don't worry, the battery isn't worse, it's just 're-learning'

Of course if an expert wants to come along and blow my theory out of the water, then that's ok too :)
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Velnica:
Hmm, mine was a bit like that the first day, then second day it was all peachy. Try and do a hard-reset (turn off, then press Power+Vol up until it vibrates 3 times) and see if it does anything. Otherwise just do a reflash of ICS.

My battery is now swimmingly good. I have Wi-Fi and 3G on all the time (even overnight) and I get about 1+ day out of it with moderate usage. Of course that brilliant screen is still a juice sucker, hehehe.

The WiFi and Radio Cell also went down in consumption compared to GB. I used to lose 25% overnight with everything on, but now I only lose around 10%. I might set it to off at night though to save even more battery. I'd rather not be woken up by my email tones :P
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] tel033:
I don't know if wipping is the solution just remember that commune people with no knowledge at all they would just update following Sony steps which don't include wipe so it really shouldn't be am issue IMHO
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Ambroos:
It might be, but wiping is always a bit better. Aside that, I'm still not sure if the update without wipe you can do with Flashtool actually does the same as updating with SEUS or PC Companion.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] keithwalton:
I can see you rebooted and lost charge % at sometime which suggests either the battery calibration is out of whack. That or you turned the phone of for a while and the battery cooled down a lot.

What is the notification you have ? I don't recognise it.

Battery life for me is still good, i'm only now recharging for the first time since flashing on friday. It managed 4days 1hr 37m 27s on battery with light to medium usage (display on time 1hr50, deezer music app 2hr27) with wifi, 3g, data all on and quite a few e-mail and facebook notifications in that time.

It doesn't seem to eat up battery anymore when I have a notification waiting.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] gm007:
You must be kidding!!!

4 days with data and wifi on?? And 2 hours screen on? :p
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Forzaferrarileo:
So , battery drain very quick ( today i went back from 100 % to 13% in 4h!?!"?!?!?!?!? , and I only used browser , facebook , 3g and 10 minutes of nfs hot pursuit! ) ; it's worse than overclocked doomkernel up to 1890 mhz ; but I think in part it's fault by crappy governors ( ondemand normally use only 1512 mhz and 192 or 314 ... i'ts don't use the other frequency)

I don't know if anyone has tryed HDMI , but THERE IS NO LAG BETWEEN PHONE DISPLAY AND TV ( very good improvement) ; now we can play on tv using hdmi :D :D :D :D :D

In conclusion it's a very good upgrade ( if 2d ui lag check " Force GPU 2d rendering" under developer option in settings menù) , but need to improve battery , kernel ( release of source code and normal tweaks [ overclock , governors etc...])(

P.s

Sony keeps an eye on xda post , because i was editing media_profile.xml to enhance camera quality and I saw that default bitrate for full hd videos was 20mb ( from the 15 mb of stock gingerbread)
[General Questions and Answers] nodyarg:
I use GO Power Master which lets me disable alot of things at a specified battery level, but no livewallpaper setting. Also it only has an option to set brightness as low as 10%/Auto, but not off. Anyone know of an app which can do this as well?
[General Questions and Answers] BloodDonor:
I too would like this... it'd be very useful :good:
[General Questions and Answers] mistermentality:
I don't know of a specific app but you can try tasker. It can automate pretty much anything including letting you program certain things to happen at specific battery levels.

So you could have live wallpaper auto disabled on low battery then re enabled when charging or no longer low, set different wallpapers depending on where you are or time of day and so on.

Dave

( http://www.google.com/producer/editions/CAownKXmAQ/bigfatuniverse )
[General Questions and Answers] nodyarg:
thanks ill try that out and see if it works.
[Galaxy S II Accessories] kyroz:
I've been used SGP Ultra crystal for almost 3 years: 2 different devices,

On SGS1 it was amazing, but lately on SGS2 the protectors gets scratched very quickly, not as expected from a 15$ screen protector.

There are better alternatives?
[Galaxy S II Accessories] Jeremy:
Vikuiti screen protector by 3M is pretty good
[Galaxy S II Accessories] lambstone:
Depends on how much you are willing to spend. I ordered a glass screen protector (that's right. glass). It should arrive in the coming week. I will post a review when I get it.

Hmm. I guess I'm glad I didn't order the ultra crystal. I did some research into the Vikuiti. Seems like its more scratch resistant. 5H instead of UltraCrystal's 4H.
[Motorola Droid X2] Tomsgt:
These are some launcher reviews I did on some ginger bread launchers

ADW launcher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlX99vVNV-k&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Launcher pro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO3MixpiAnc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Launcher 7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZIUjqqiKNA&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Claystone launcher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgfFRfxPzE4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Regina 3D launcher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NfJdWTswdc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Go launcher ex

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeUaULqC9W8&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Holo launcher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI5l0yx-msI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Miui home launcher with mi locker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhvS-C7oQvE&feature=youtube_gdata_player

All of these launchers can be found on the google play

Enjoy

Sent from my hacked DROID
[Motorola Droid X2] Pixelation:
I'm not sure if Regina is still available. I tried a couple months back and couldn't find it again under the developers page. I used that in all my phones...I liked the functionality of it.

DROID DOES, Apple did...like I forgot when
[Motorola Droid X2] Tomsgt:
Yeah its still in the market. Regina 3D launcher. :D
[Motorola Droid X2] ztotherad:
have you all tried Lighting Launcher?
[Motorola Droid X2] SlimMan:
Sorry I have to say it, Holo pre ICS and Apex ICS>Better :)

Thanks for the efforts here tho.!

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Purchased that launcher and have regretted it, it reloads way to often (Stock / custom MODS). However it do agree with you on the functionality.
[Motorola Droid X2] Tomsgt:
Bump for Noobs
[Motorola Droid X2] motrinHD:
no review of lightning launcher, have you tried it op??
[Motorola Droid X2] Tomsgt:
Yes I have sorry just havent had time to make a video
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] nicholaaaas:
Can you have more than one rom boot option?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] SoraX64:
As far as I know, not in the way you're probably thinking. There is an app called Boot Manager that allows you to install ROMs in different 'slots' on your SD card. You use the app to choose which one to boot into.

I don't know if it supports this phone as of now though, but you might want to look into it.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] nicholaaaas:
Cool thanks. That's all in really need
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] dude2k5:
any news on how to do this for the LTE? I would love to have dual boot, one for sense and one for CM9 or AKOP
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Spyderekz:
last i tried it didnt support it, you can put in the settings for the phone, but it still wont work yet, waiting for the dev to update it for us...

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here is the forum link

HTC One X/S/EVO support?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Icculus574:
Sorry to necrobump this thread. I was wondering if there's been any update about this from the dev.

I tried searching on their forums and found every thread about the topic had been deleted (about two pages worth of search results). Then I tried posting a thread asking about it and it was automatically deleted. I have to say, if they're actually ignoring and keyword deleting threads about it, especially from people who paid for the pro version (back in my EVO OG days when I could use it), I'm pretty disgusted with the company.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] dxtyle:
any update on this??? i really need dual boot :fingers-crossed:
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zourykou XDA:
What rom is using same kernel with gingercruzt??

Can anyone tell me..

Sorry about my bad english..
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mika Dee:
Gingercruzt uses stock kernel. You might want GingerDx and PrimeHD.
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Godra:
I think version 8.5 worked with nAa kernel 8.
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zourykou XDA:
Stock kernel only (with link)

Rply me please
[Windows Phone 7 General] killerb255:
Although I understand why WP8 will not be compatible with existing devices, the bad PR is not exactly helping Microsoft/Nokia. The consolation prize of WP7.8 is not enough to dispel the Osborne Effect that is very likely to occur between now and the time WP8 devices are released.

So let's use this topic to suggest some damage control possibilities based on what's happening NOW, not what Microsoft coulda/shoulda/woulda done (there are plenty of other topics covering the latter).

I think Microsoft/Nokia/carriers should have a trade-in program: trade in a WP7 device for credit off of a new WP8 device. Depending on the trade-in amount, it may or may not stop the bleeding from the Osborne-inflicted wounds, though.

Any other suggestions?
[Windows Phone 7 General] sitizenx:
Why? They gave you a Lumia 900 or free. What more do you want?
[Windows Phone 7 General] gbjohnson:
An expansion of the "Registered Enthusiasts" program that would give us carrier locked stock images of a stripped down WP8 build or a $100 credit from Microsoft upon request.
[Windows Phone 7 General] killerb255:
Aside from the word "you" in the second sentence, good point. Many people got the Lumia 900 for free with contract, so it's not like they're being totally shafted.

Other suggestions or rebuttals? Keep in mind that the PR is still bad, and people are not exactly thinking "well, I got a free phone, I should be grateful." They're thinking "OMG, M$ jus skrewd mez!"
[Windows Phone 7 General] vetvito:
Look at the big picture.

The market share wasn't going to get any bigger in the next 3 to 5 months, especially with no new flash ship devices on the horizon.

With Windows 8 and this kernel, there will be a surge of developers. Tons of amazing apps, the market share will explode.
[Windows Phone 7 General] guilhermedsx:
I think they should stop talking to us as if we're retarded. Just that. Come clean and say "we're not updating you to WP8 because we don't want to". Enough with the "kernel re-write" stuff, it doesn't make sense. It's like saying you can't run Windows 8 on a Windows XP PC with enough power to run it because it has a different kernel.
[Windows Phone 7 General] drupad2drupad:
I think trade in is the way forward. Based on IMEI they would know what phones were sold free, subsidized or full price. Pay the trade in value accordingly.
[Windows Phone 7 General] AndyFZ1S:
I am thinking along the lines of put as many goodies in the WP7.8 build and that way the consumers get a taste of the new OS and then go out and buy a new WP8, Not far from what's already in the pipeline I know but just exactly the way I would now treat this situation, Not everyone will be happy, But then again when is everyone ever happy :rolleyes:
[Windows Phone 7 General] killerb255:
A better analogy would be comparing Windows 9x (95/98/Millennium) with NT (2000/XP/Vista/7/8). Those have different kernels, but can run on the same x86 processors.

Either way, your point has merit. Windows RT is being written for ARM architecture...why not Windows Phone 8? One possibility could be that current hardware is just too dang slow, and we could have another early-gen Android-like situation, where single-core Android phones that aren't optimized (i.e.: rooted, Wi-Fi turned off, kill unused background apps, etc) run slow.

If the problem is more of a political/financial one, rather than a technical one, then I'm sure the fine cooks here at XDA will eventually come up with a way to run a Windows Phone 8 ROM on existing hardware. :)

Hopefully they release a complete list of updates to be put in Windows Phone 7.8, if for no other reason than to try and pacify the masses.

...of course this is assuming that the complete list consists of more than just the WP8 UI update...

True, but I wonder if Nokia can afford to wait that long...
[Windows Phone 7 General] eeeelliott:
The start screen isn't the only update in 7.8; its just the only one we KNOW about. Microsoft didn't completely release WP7.8 to the public because they aren't done with it. So don't jump to conclusions because you might just be happy with what's in the update.