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[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] jonmorris:
Finally updated my second Xperia S without wiping data and it upgraded everything after rebooting and appears to be working just fine. WiFi is working fine, both signal wise and supporting all 13 channels. Channels 12 and 13 disappeared by doing the wipe on a separate phone that I'll probably have to flash back with a UK ROM to fix. By doing a clear and starting fresh the phone must default to only channels 1-11 on the Swiss ROM.

I can also state that I have no significant lagging issue, at least not after Play updated a few apps in the background.

Personally I don't think there is any issue with doing a non destructive update via flashtools (deselect wipe data) . Obviously this ROM was intended to be an upgrade in the first place. I've had more issues with the one I cleared first, which I've subsequently reset via the phone to try and improve.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] hello_hello:
My goodness, I am anxiously waiting for SG generic FTF as I flashed cross region to SG .73 :(
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] wing_zero8556:
anyone try deleting fast dormancy apk's?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Dpk1:
Rotation lag fixed

Hi guys, I had this annoying rotation lag when i first flashed ICS CH rom (which i mentioned few pages back), but it is fixed now after doing a clean install i.e first, by factory data reset & erase everything (inc. internal memory), then flashing the CH rom wiping everything (data/cache/apps log) and again factory reset on booting.

I don't know if factory reset actally had any role in it but thats what i did :confused:. But hey, no lags or issues now, whatsoever. Loving this ICS upgrade :victory:!

I can confirm that the camera performance has improved (better camera speed/focussing & now 1080p video bitrate at 20mbps, 720p at ~12-13mbps). Videos also seem to be smoother now.. Cheers!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] wello168:
according to "this", the ICS already release for FOUR days (GMT+8) my time zone, but still no update for Malaysia....

now becoming more impatient, feel like wanna flash the CH ftf files now...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] TheFirstFishy:
Are your SI number on the list?

http://talk.sonymobile.com/thread/42096

If not, you just have to wait for the rest of us until your SI number are up.

Or flash ICS if you dont got the patience - like me. :D
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ang1000:
what time the service centre close?

Sent from my Xperia S running Google Android 1.5 Cupcake.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ang1000:
sorry I quote wrong.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] wello168:
the page seem like no any updating activites...:crying:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] TheFirstFishy:
Thats why i flashed myself.

Dont got the patience for my number to pop up. :D (6105)

So i took the step instead of waiting for x days before i could get my update.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] wello168:
if i'm not mistaken, i have read somewhere in this thread that some user report that the menu button lost it function while in main screen. is that true....??
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] harfot:
No, menuselection is shown on top of screen in a new way.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] TheFirstFishy:
Yes, the settings are located in the notification bar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i189IkIvJc0

You can see the settings icon at around 0,48 in the video.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] wello168:
although haven't use the ICS, somehow i feel a bit weird for the menu buttons... just my thought..
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] subben2003:
mine 6102.

who is your carrier?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] TheFirstFishy:
Sry, it was 6104.

Im on CBB.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sensez:
sony ericsson became just SONY. It was much better to change to the name to SONY TURTLE just to match the wonderful speed they have in.

Thank god that we haven't receive update after serial number.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] AnubisNefer:
Partially you are right, but its upon the carriers, they have to release the update given by Sony.

Sony imo is the only manufacturer to support their back catalog and continously choose to upgrade them where possible, you cannot say that for all manufacturers, so even though the wait was long, Sony in the long run, are more customer friendly than others when it comes to prolonging the pleasure of your purchase instead of forcing you to buy a new product due to no longer supporting them :cool:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] subben2003:
Me too

I flashed cause i could't wait but will reflash when ours out i think.

or....?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] k_myk:
To all where-is-my-update-I-want-it-nao:

Be so kind to go to talk.sonymobile.com and look for update charts with SI numbers for 2011 devices. Take for example Arc S and Neo V as those two are quite popular at least in my region and see for your self how the update turned out to be scheduled. Arc S has over 100 different SI variants and updates for next batches of SI were rolled out in 3-4 day intervals. Next interesting thing which could be red from those charts is that second batch almost every time was much bigger than the first one.

Only thing that can go wrong IMHO is that our chart may not be updated for some time because Johan, author of that topic wrote on his profile that he's "On midsummer vacation.". BUT even if they won'a update that thread it has zero impact on real roll out schedule.

So PLEASE be patient if you want update designed for your particular region. I think that most of "generic" (not carrier branded) SI's would be updated max till end of first week of July:)

If you disagree with what I just wrote remember, you can always flash one of firmwares Sony gave us in the first batch. It's quite official route for debranding so I'm sure it won't void your waranty:)

Thank you.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sensez:
I agree that they don't force customers to buy new product but that have nothing to do with the slow devolpment they have. I'm involved more n more with they laptops also since it's my work. I can tell you sony are best hardware you can find with the slowest developers in software among the other companies.

being friendly to customers are positive but it's not a reason to make devolpment slow for new products.

we are in the 2nd half of calling our phone one year old. so it's realy a joke to say we get update after many monthes of buying a hardware n wait till they wake up.

sony pushing handsets with promises for new update then they update it later make customers live waiting the mercy. other companies release the new handsets full new in all.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] jonmorris:
Sony is still Sony Ericsson in all but name. Same staff, same offices.

It's too early to start comparing the mobile division with the others within Sony as Sony Mobile is still very separate. For how long, I don't know.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] nemer12:
Fast Capture ??? Is slower and not working good on ICS ?? doesn't focus corectly :( . how about you ?!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ladynaamah:
Any PC, be it current macs or any other x86 or x86_64 machine is based off from these ancient IBM PCs, both of them use Dynamic Memory, aren't they? and therefore both of them use similar approach...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] soo55:
my SI number 1257-3114 is not in the list :( .... is there any link where we can download the official "ftf" file ?

great thanks in advance

soo ..
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Roli5173:
:laugh:http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1599303:good:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] soo55:
thanks Roli .... :good:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] realfelix:
source? Link?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SnowOokami:
http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_messages/1487185/last

dutch... ;)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] realfelix:
as my dutch is almost perfect i can't see that anyone is updating.. well there was one called Zeror but he said that it wasn't ics unfortunately..
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xperiax10.awesome:
Where its available???

sent from seXperia S
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] OS4.:
Guys you are talking about giving you a ftf file, how can I do it ?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] HenrikSolna:
If you have ICS, we are interested in you giving it to us. If not, we are not interested :P
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SnowOokami:
he didn't say that.. he said he didn't flash it using flashtools ;)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] realfelix:
oh lol . :D
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] OS4.:
Lol. Im talking as if i was the first to get it xD
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] realfelix:
dennis585 schreef op donderdag 21 juni 2012 @ 13:04:

[...]

update en vertel het ons.

Hij is al bezig

Nee, nog geen ICS jammergenoeg.

they ask him to update and tell them if its ics.

but then he says its already busy but no ics unfortunately or am i completely dumb? lol :D
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] marcbrophy:
YES!! The time is close :D

Let the good times roll :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SnowOokami:
oh lol, I didn't see his edit :(

sorry @_@
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] realfelix:
no harm done mate :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tsukeyomi:
Just checked, nothing here on world generic ;)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] realfelix:
god damnit how long are they takin? the post for the SI numbers was made at 11:47 (GMT+1) and now its 13:34 ... :D
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] K900:
Me too :P
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Yakandu:
SI number is written somewhere on the nand or it changew by flashing firmwares like the customization number?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Porchy12:
I was wondering why it was taking so long to load every time I hit 'F5' :p
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ambroos:
The SI is only a valid way to wait for the update if you didn't use Flashtool, ever. It's softwarespecific. If you flashed another region with Flashtool, you'll have to wait for that region to get the update.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tinyXperia:
Has anyone already succesfully updated?

Please extract the album app and lockscreen settings, I want to try them on a 2011 device.

Edit: didn't see that no SI numbers where added yet.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Roli5173:
I took the German and am very satisfied. All apps and settings are preserved
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Steve3581:
I assume no more SI numbers have been updated for release this weekend?

It is fair enough being the weekend and all, but I just wish they would have started on a Monday and released more numbers during the same calendar week.

Fingers crossed for Monday I guess!!!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] D33KK:
My keyboard doesn't want to make any noises even though its enabled
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mikbe:
The new calendar widget would be nice addition if it wasn't so limited. It doesn't show "all day" events at all. Only shows those with specific time.

And Timescape overview lags. A LOT. Lucky no one actually uses it. Maybe they forgot to test it. :silly:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] shoz_on4u:
Everything's planned

Hi,

What I think is that everything is going as per SONY's plan remember their promise by end of Q2 and there's still some days left.

What they might have thought is this:

Release the version for some SI nos. only and keep a track on XDA forum for the issues and try to overcome it and finally at the end of Q2 give a new version of FW to all of the world :rolleyes:

God what kind of testing is done I don't understand the firmware is passed on to so many people for testing even though so many issues(not that many but still....:eek:)

Any ways I think now they will release new FW IMO and that be better tested hope so :fingers-crossed:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SEFanX10i:
Haha craziness !

Its been 23 hours since I unplugged my Xperia S and still have 71% battery left :P
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] shoz_on4u:
Battery usage screenshot pls :victory:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SEFanX10i:
:D
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mikbe:
Makes perfect sense because you don't have mobile network or wifi on. :p
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SEFanX10i:
^

I had WIFI on for about two hours. And with similar usage on Gingerbread I would have been down to 40% or lower by now. :)

So its definitely a big improvement.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Xadious:
I'm also in the UK and experiencing battery problems again...thought they'd have learned from .67, guess not.

25% drain overnight in about 9 hours of no use and every feature turned off (wifi, data etc). "Android OS" showed as 74%, Keep awake: 8h 47m -- Cpu total: 32m

Add to that the homescreen and menus seem to lag slightly, don't recall experiencing this in .75, weird considering the CPU power.

Updated in the hopes that they fixed the rubbish camera focus problems, but nothings changed with that. Don't really see anything new with ICS, even features that are supposed to come with ICS like WiFi-Direct have been taken out; starting to wonder if the XPS even has the relevant chip and they simply made a mistake in the documentation.

Not impressed with the update. Getting more and more annoyed with the phone and Sony as well. Shame the price of the phone has dropped quite a bit (used at least).
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] TheFirstFishy:
I really dont think Sony are the only one that release ICS and need to add some updates.

Just look at the S3 and HoX forums and see that sofeware problems they struggle with.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] jonmorris:
I have gone back to locking the phone on WCDMA and seem to be seeing little problems with the battery, especially considering how much I've been playing around with it.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tsukeyomi:
Didn't Sony promise folder support in the app menu too? I may be wrong.

If there is such thing, how do you do it?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Daniel_GB:
about battery:

I have better experience with ICS,battery drain in standby mode improved!!!

Look at this

as you can see in the picture i also listened to music & with simple calculation:

almost 1 percent for every hour...(9 percent in 9 hour) :good:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] a4rocks:
See, you have to understand that a lot of people aren't facing such a problem. While my phone isn't going in to deep sleep at night, I am only losing 2-3% in 7 hours and that for me is just brilliant. Battery life with normal usage has been lasting me absolutely effing brilliantly. And I am only thrilled to get this update. Even signal reception has improved for me. Wi-fi has been a bit of a downer but hardly any to keep a check on my excitement. There might be an offending app responsible for all your troubles. For all I can say, do a full wipe and install ICS again. It should run well and when it does, you will be happy.

Regarding testing, well making an upgrade to anything will always involve problems. And I believe Sony has done a great job of ironing a lot of bugs. One X and the S III are suffering problems too. If everyone suffers from a specific problem, then it can be termed as a bug, otherwise it is just a case of bad luck for you and you can simply try again. Rest assured, ICS brings Holo theme across apps, Google Chrome, smooooooth scrolling and well, nice looks (again). It is why there is a point why the upgrade is worth it
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] TheFirstFishy:
And for those that cant add a widget.

Longpress on the screen, and you will get a add widget, change wallpaper or theme bar at the top of the screen.

Or you can single tab your screen and get the same bar.

Or you can press your menu button and get the same bar.

Or maybe its just me that need more time in order to find more ways to get that bar.

I can confirm that throwing a brick at your dog dont bring up the bar, and taking a cold shower allso miss the bar function.

Or maybe its just me thinking that 3 ways to bring up that bar is abit tooo much.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mister-g1:
I also think battery life is great with ICS. I have 1 day and 10 hours with 29% remaining. My display was on for 2,5 hours of surfing, writing messages and watching some videos on youtube.

Since I waste my battery with wifi/3g on all the time, auto sync and e-mail push on and some background services like whatsapp, I think this is totally awesome!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Xadious:
It seems the phone isn't going into deep sleep; showed using 384mhz & 192mhz with "Unused state: Deep sleep".

And incase anyone's confused, just like in .67 which had the battery issue, i don't have a problem with battery life during phone use, rather the poor battery life when the phone is NOT being used and supposed to be in deep sleep. Gingerbread .67 had a bug that prevented it from staying in deep sleep which was fixed in .73.

If i and some others are experiencing battery life problems in standby mode, and you a4rocks even attest to your phone not going into Deep Sleep mode in standby, then that is a bug and one that needs to be fixed irrespective of whether you're happy with battery life in standby mode.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sssache:
Seems to me that Sony has stopped the 4.0 update...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Daniel_GB:
maybe that is because of some incompatible apps!!

my phone does not have any problem with deep sleep,as you can see in the screen shot:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Xadious:
Thanks for the screencap; a rogue app could very well be the reason for the problem. Going to remove some more apps and see whether the problem persists.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Dpk1:
+1... btw just scrolling to an empty homescreen brings up the bar too :eek:!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] scook94:
Glad to hear I'm not the only one who has (had) battery issues with ICS!

I didn't have any apps on ICS that weren't installed under GB, but I guess it could be an app issue...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] suspy69:
I couldn't wait for an OTA update, so I updated it with ftf file.

So far everything is fine. I don't have a solid opinion about the battery's life cause is Sunday.

One thing that I've noticed it's a lag when the phone tries to get the contact's list and when I try to add an application or a widget.

The delay appears while it tries to populate each list.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tel033:
Does the xperia wallpapers on gb stay in ics? I love the grey flow
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] frikakwa:
Yes :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] randy_c:
why all themes are no longer live wallpaper?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ash_c64:
Ye just apply the live wallpaper under wallpaper setting. Now by default its not live wallpaper
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Felimenta97:
They should have left the live wallpapers not the stock ones.

Little off topic, but I would like to see this ROM ported to our phones when Sony release the kernel sources and the ROM sources are released: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1729942
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] newalopez:
Battery is a lot better
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] BoSib:
Drag one app shortcut onto another and a folder is created!

Oh wait, you wrote the "app menu".. I thought you meant on the homescreen, didn´t read it properly.. Sigh.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Felimenta97:
He meant folders on app drawer. That isn't possible.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] randy_c:
Long press the Menu key no longer bring up search. where?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] s-X-s:
Thats a ICS feature... Why missing it?? Did they remove that feature...:eek:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Felimenta97:
It never was a ICS feature.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] doministry:
That's right, app folders on default app drawer is impossible.

But you can make them on the homescreen so no problem.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Felimenta97:
300 Mb? OMG. I don't know how the Settings app can use almost 60 Mb of RAM. And the worse is that when you uninstall one app from the settings, once you go back, all the apps need to reload. This destroy my happiness...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] wing_zero8556:
Anyone having issues with their Widgets freezing? As in not updating anymore. The time on my beautiful Widgets stops updating after a while. The time will be like 10am but the widget says its like 3am
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] bill1clinton:
I guess I'll throw my 2 cents into this.

- I am having the re-draw issues (very annoying since I have ICS on an arc and it certainly doesn't do that)

- camera focus is still garbage; either takes forever to focus or doesn't want to focus at all

- only been about 15 mins since I flashed and my battery is being drain like there is no tomorrow

Question: I was wondering if anyone can tell me how to enable it so that when I tap an icon, it doesn't surround it with a "grey square". I thought it was suppose to be see-through...to me the "grey square" just feel very un-polished.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] randy_c:
If theme applied then change wallpaper would leave a line of theme color at the 5 home icon near bottom
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] randy_c:
Every time I received email. This is what I got on luck screen. I read all email
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] DevilsArc:
Yes to all of these, my battery is draining Badly!

Don't even get me started on the focus issue, I seriously thought that the update we received right before this came out fixed it, but now its back to what it used to be. I am assuming however, that within a bit of time, we will receive yet another update fixing this, however, I may be expecting to much....
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] judunur:
@randy_c

Mark all your deletet Emails as readed.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] richteralan:
Try a factory reset.

About the redraw, I think it is related to the dalvik vm heap size setting.

Sent from my Sony Xperia S LT26i
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] shoz_on4u:
Wifi problem....

Hi,

I just installed ICS CH version. Wifi is showing full signal but with limited connectivity how to overcome it coz my laptop connects fine and previously on GB there were no issues pls let me know how to cope up with this issue. Thanks :)

P.S. Really disappointed by this ICS update features are good but not upto the mark to be called SONY coz they impressed the hell out of me with their excellent optimization with GB :(
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ryknex:
No 'Wifi Direct'??? Why, So Sony Is Making 'FALSE WHITE PAPER'?

Its Sooooo UNFAIR!!!

I was looking so damn forward to this feature!!!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] aldredd:
I think that says more about the facebook app than anything else. Try an app called Fast for Facebook.

It's a streamlined interface to facebook with halo theming. Still in beta but showing promise.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] bill1clinton:
I flashed with a full wipe...do you think it's necessary to do a factory reset?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] TheFirstFishy:
If it can't be the FB app, then it can't be ICS either, since my FB runs just fine at 45-55 mb just like in GB.

The problem might be the wiping, since I wiped my phone and don't got the problem with FB using 250+ mb of ram.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] jatt101:
if you flashed the DE firmware, it could be due to that, the uploaded fixed a potential wiping bug in that firmware couple of days ago, so try flashing the CH firmware
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] jatt101:
I honestly don't know what's wrong then. Did you try reinstalling the app, clearing the data?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] rampraven:
Any new SI NO UPDATED
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Dpk1:
Quick launch problem on ICS

Everything seemed to be running great on this new ICS update (CH rom) till yesterday, when i found that the camera button fails to respond randomly (quicklaunch set to launch & capture by default)! Sometimes pressing the camera botton (from sleep) launches the camera app & captures as it should but most of the times it doesn't. It worked perfectly well on all GB roms for me.

I did reflash the CH rom again with full wipe etc, but the problem persists.

I really feel that ICS camera app has improved quality in comparison to GB but this issue is bugging me :eek:! Anyone else on ICS facing this issue?