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[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sssache:
Some people say that the battery with ICS it's much much better that the GB. Who can understand you all...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ower:
Love performance of ics. in 15 hours it drained only ~10%.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Hyouchi:
For me it's just perfect. No FC, no Lags, smooth as butter. The Rotation is normal, face unlock working. The Gallery and the Walkman too. I've formatted the internal storage before flash, and did a full wype. No problems with Wi-Fi or BT, or Lockscreen, or anything else.

Only have to congratulate Sony for the wonderful update, although they have removed some features is the original ICS.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] del1701:
And have you had data and WiFi on constantly for 15 hours?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Ower:
Nop, data and wifi are off. But i was listening to music while walking in city.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] OS4.:
Guys any one noticed that the screen shot option is gone 0.0
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] dachao:
My GPS does not work. Any suggestions? It is turned on but will not lock.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] k_myk:
For those lucky ones that updated to ICS:

I have two questions:

1) Is promised battery widget present? (that one from the review unit)

2) Does Power Saver finally work as it should or it still can't managed to stay in memory?

:>
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] lordoftheriffs:
For those who experience laggy scrolling, enable "force gpu" in the developer settings... Scrolling should become buttery smooth
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] TheFirstFishy:
Hold the power + volume down button for 2 sec and it takes a screenshot.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] jimbobcox:
USB Issues

I flashed ICS today and it is fantastic. :D

I have just connected usb to my laptop to take some files of it but it wont connect to internal storage. USB debuggin is fine but no internal storage.

Has anyone else had any problems or have any idea what it might be??

cheers

I have found a work around, but is this common bug?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] amal94:
For anyone whos face unlock is not showing try this:

1. Switch off handset

2. Switch on handset

3. Go to camera

4. Select front camera

5. Go to security and it should be in screen unlock

This worked for me! So hope this helps!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Felimenta97:
1) Yeah.

2) Didn't tested it. And I wasn't lucky. Why you just don't flash the update with Flashtool?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Apology11:
Why has nobody discovered that we have flac Support now?

Gesendet von meinem LT26i
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] TheFirstFishy:
Because we dont know that it is. :laugh:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] alexoz:
Someone did in another thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=27724520&postcount=4

:)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] MasterLinuxer:
For some reason I can't download music info in Walkman. Any solution?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] im_iceman:
I had a really annoying problem that my phone wasn't seeing the SDCARD properly - I could use it in some 3rd party apps.. but he stock gallery, music, video players couldn't see any of the content that was on there.. I guessed that it might be because I had Doomlords SD Mounter installed when on GB and used that to xfer the nozomi-recovery to the phone before flashing ICS.. however.. I forgot to "unmount" before flashing..

So after much faffing about I flashed back to Gingerbread, and Doom's stock plus kernel.. re-installed and re-ran the mount/ unmount tool.. checked that it was connecting in MTP mode again.. then reflashed back to ICS.. now.. it's all good.. everything is visible again..

So if anyone else is having this problem try my solution and hopefully that will work for you too.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] jonmorris:
While that works on any ICS device, it's odd that Sony didn't still keep its own method. Samsung seemed to manage to include screen capture as a gesture (swipe palm over phone display, like a photocopier/scanner), power + volume down and it's own way, power + home. Three ways to grab a screen - a big jump from the days when you needed to root your phone to do something so simple (to this day, I think Android suffered as tech sites favoured iOS content because it was so easy to grab screens for reviews/features, and not for Android as it was a pain to get any images.. and no images, no story).

What would have been the harm in keeping the feature in the menu? It's quite good to be able to take a screen grab (I've done it many times to show someone an error message or other detail) and it was, with GB at least, an extra feature on the phone. Now it's gone, how many ordinary people will know there's a standard way to take screen grabs (and even then, you aren't able to share it as quickly as before).

I know I'm being petty here, but another annoyance is that the menu button on the home screen now gives you those two options up top. I realise Google has certain guidelines, but couldn't it have still been possible to just bring up a menu to access settings and other things (and hold to activate a search as before) rather than have to get to settings via the notification bar, or the menu?

These are the little things that may annoy more than just me, like those people who will see ICS as quite a radical change (even silly things like Uninstall and Upgrade swapped around in Play and other dialogues) and why I wondered if it would have been better to delay the launch of the Xperia S until it had come with 4.0.x out of the box.

We can cope - but what about the thousands of people that get ICS in the coming weeks and don't like all the changes?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mrpuppy:
Someone pls update the "List of SI numbers availability", cannot connect to talk.sonymobile server :(.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] doministry:
I must agree Android 4 is not consistent in every place of the UI.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Mrimstad:
Illumination bar Notification grab it from play store.

it still works, some fc's along the way during some apps that i took note of but yes it still works.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] FenrirMX:
I mentioned this in another thread but I might as well ask here too.

Is it me or did they break Smarttags?

They used to work consistently on Gingerbread but now they only work sparingly.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ar47vn:
12 hours after flashing ICS, I suffered laggy scrolling in home screens with LWPs on. Strangely the stock Phase Beam LWP causes no lag at all, it's almost as smooth as still wallpapers. Anyone experiencing the same problem?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] richteralan:
I tried with live wallpaper and no lag. Maybe badly written live wallpaper you have?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ar47vn:
I've tried stock xperia LWPs like "cosmic flow", "enchanted forest"and "alien shapes", "leaves" by malexus.net on Play Store. The lag is there. In GB, they were flawlessly smooth.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] wello168:
still no update for Malaysia... :(
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] aldredd:
Download the ftf file linked to earlier and flashtools - you will be running the update in no time. No root required.

In reality, there really isn't anything significant you're missing out on though.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] TheFirstFishy:
Struggled to find the options for Wi-Fi, so i should scan for new networks. :(

After x mins i found out that the Wi-Fi bar with the on/off button holds the Wi-Fi options just by pressing the Wi-Fi letters in the bar.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] nemer12:
the WIFI signal is poorer I experience :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] shmoejoe:
I can't get my flac files to play O.o they can be seen but not played on my device....
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] niaboc79:
For the one complaining about less ram, it's normal! The Dalvik cache can use 208m more.

Check the buildprop.

On Gb: Dalvik.vm.heapsize=48m

On ICS: Dalvik.vm.heapsize=256m

Envoyé depuis mon LT26i avec Tapatalk
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] wello168:
I'm sorry if this is sound too noob, what Dalvik serve to do??
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Steve3581:
Dalvik is the process virtual machine (VM) in Google's Android operating system. It is the software that runs the apps on Android devices. Dalvik is thus an integral part of Android, which is typically used on mobile devices such as mobile phones and tablet computers. Programs are commonly written in Java and compiled to bytecode. They are then converted from Java Virtual Machine-compatible .class files to Dalvik-compatible .dex (Dalvik Executable) files before installation on a device. The compact Dalvik Executable format is designed to be suitable for systems that are constrained in terms of memory and processor speed.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] michellegirl:
Prob with email app,

After the email is deleted, it was not deleted from the server and still on the web gmail.

After sync, it will show it has a new email ( which is the deleted one) but you can't find it on the phone
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sky94:
and .mkv support too
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] skybeeho:
Sony's killing me ! Still no update for my french generic phone ( 1257-3120 ). The worst thing is that i'm living at only 20 kms of the swiss frontiere!!! What a pity ;)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Nahalas:
i yesterday updated manualy it, bored to wait, and now i'm happy with new ICS.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Steve3581:
You and me both!! Living in Annecy Im only 45 minuters from the swiss boarder myself, guess its going to be Monday at the earliest now :crying:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] amal94:
yeh i agree, personaly the update is nice but really annoyed they removed some things, also theyve removed so many little features that are really useful or make the overall experiance better, but i think they will release another update to give back quite a lot of missing small features, well i hope so! :eek:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] scook94:
Well, it was fun but I've gone back to 2.3.7. Appalling battery life and app issues being the main reason, I didn't gain anything with ICS worth putting up with these problems for.

I'll wait for a working CM9 before I give it another go.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sinple:
Just to clarify, I understand that user data will be preserved if update normal. But if I flash using flash tool, my app will be lost right? Will other stuff like MP3, picture still remain?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] gm007:
Even in flashtools you can uncheck the wipe data button and nothing will be lost.

In the 2 method all pics and music will be intact.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Scratchling:
Anyone know of an app that can take a photo every time there is a successful face unlock(other than cerberus). It'd make an awesome little collage if there was.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] gm007:
I don't know if it's something related to DRM key that we lost when unlocking the BL.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Scratchling:
Think its pretty safe to assume thats it alright.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] m1st3r1:
why you no read other topics bout ics (preferably the review one).?

me beat u to it :D

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=27724520&postcount=4

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1724777 @_@

btw... i hate when roaming there's no HSDPA/3G/Edge icon in network signal. only R... hope some devs will be able to mod it.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] somemadcaaant:
Tho i hate quoting... the camera has better image quality and video quality, the video bitrate has been upped 1080p from 14mbps up to 20mbps and 720p from 6mbps to 12mbps, that alone was a worth while upgrade in the camera so mods are no longer really needed imo.

I haven't experienced any wifi drops either.

Browser is now almost completely smooth and lots of new quick features, a very large improvement in which case i no longer use opera mobile for a smooth experience.

-smc
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] alexoz:
In 2.3.7 I can't record video that occupies more than1.9 GB of space (that's about 19 mins in1080p), don't know why. So now that the bitrate has been increased it will be even less time or has this restriction been removed somehow?

Sent from my LT26i
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Scratchling:
It doesnt warn you of remaining time so I cant tell you now but will test later on if you like and see how long it goes for :)

EDIT: NVM, you are correct. 2GB is a limitation of the version of FAT32 that Android uses. As the file system cant handle it the only way to do it to mount and NTFS USB key or w/e and write to that(dont think stock will save outside DCIM so you'll need a third party app too).
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mrpuppy:
White one waiting here :-<. Seem like forever////....:silly:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xperiax10.awesome:
Wait till monday now !!!

sent from seXperia S
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] jonmorris:
Would you say this is a good idea? Will it be exactly the same as if you had installed the ROM via SEUS?

I say this because I wouldn't want to have a mix of system files and other problems, yet I'd always rather do a non destructive update as I've had many problems restoring files over the years. Backups always fail when you absolutely rely on them!!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] shoz_on4u:
Restoring data after ICS update??????

Hi,

One quick question. All of those who installed ICS were you able to restore backed up data in PC companion?

Another was there any problem faced when you installed ICS without wiping the data?

Please reply i'm becoming impatient to install ICS.

P.S. I have some important data on my phone which i don't wanna loose.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] a4rocks:
ICS is a major upgrade from Gingerbread and it is highly recommended you do a full wipe. Almost everybody who didn't wipe data experienced lags and slowdowns in every part of the OS. Use Titanium Backup for the apps and Super Backup for contacts and SMSes. Its a one-time upgrade and you don't need to wipe your phone again (unless you want to).

People not doing full wipe have faced slowdowns and lags. Do it, worth the time and effort. As I have suggested some apps above, use them to backup your apps and contacts and SMSes. Do not be impatient and start sorting the backup out already :D

Has anyone noticed the earpiece volume has improved quite dramatically in ICS? I had loads of problems with the earpiece in GB but since ICS, the volume seems to have adjusted and can hear through the earpiece much more better now
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Felimenta97:
I installed without wiping nothing. DuPont loosed nothing. But, I recommend backing up at least the majority of things and do a clean install. I will only have time to do that on Monday. I think it will make the phone faster.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] jonmorris:
I think I'm going to do a backup, then try an install without wipe. If it's no good, I have the option to wipe and restore the backup.

I've already found lagging on the total wipe/install I did with my second Xperia S, so I am not totally convinced that even a wipe will stop some of the issues people are experiencing (and I'm definitely noticing Wi-Fi performance is poorer as I have the benefit of having two Xperia S's - one 2.3.7 and one 4.0.4 next to each other).

Part of me wants to wait for my actual phone to get the update, but the other part is impatient! It's the bigger part. :o

(Scratch that - I just realised Titanium Pro only works on rooted devices and my Xperia S isn't rooted.)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] jack_panosyan:
hi

sorry i have a question. Is there Wifi direct in ICS? And does this phone support this feature?if the answer is yes so how can i enable it? please answer this it is so important.thx
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] MrBelter:
Does the disable (freeze) apps work in the Sony version of ICS?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SFU11:
yes, but not to all app.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] randy_c:
Email notification always indicated I have ... unread email even all has been read when turn phone on.

No option for transparency for lock screen as original once change lock screen back ground.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] MrBelter:
And im guessing its the ones you want to freeze you cant :rolleyes:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SFU11:
ah yeah... you're right.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] k_myk:
I'd like to ask you guys about one more thing:

Does facebook events integration in calendar works as it should? For some reason my events are displayed couple of hours earlier than they should and it was promised to be fixed with "next" update :(
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sgsgs:
Am I the only one who flashed without full wipe (only wipe cache and app logs) and did not experience any lag or other problems reported?

During first boot after flash, there is a dialog box that says optimizing apps and took quite a while to run. Maybe this is telling that it is meant to support upgrade without full wipe?

There are other who flashed with full wipe and experience the lag issue which could mean this problem is unrelated to wipe.

I would suggest that there is no harm trying first without full wipe and only resort to wiping when you experience issues.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] aldredd:
Wow - only just realised that the keyboard has swype-like functionality built in! has this always been there?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] gm007:
Most of the time I do a clean install for everything,that means when I flash a firmware by flashtools I do it twice with wipe then when the phone boot I also do a factory reset.i know this is too much but just to be on the safe side without bugs.

After that I have all my apps backed up with apk extension,so I install them one by one and I setup all the settings for my phone.

All this takes about 15-20 minutes but that what I do all the Time.

I didn't root my phone when upgraded to ics cause I want to test it first with the original software and bloatware.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] k_myk:
:)

I'm sorry to tell you that, but yes :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] aldredd:
Feel like I've been missing out! Mind you, Only had the phone two weeks B-)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] LaughinGoh:
If i do a full wipe when upgrading to ICS and I use MyBackUp Pro to back up my data, pictures, sms, contacts etc.

Will the full wipe delete those data? and will I be able to restore it after update?

please and thank you!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mikbe:
Restoring app data didn't work for me. Everything else restored fine. I recommend using your Google account to restore contacts+calendar.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] labrahams:
video player cannot stream video

I recently updated to ics and discovered that the video player cannot stream video to my tv anymore. I get an error when I try. it worked with gingerbread. anyone else have this problem?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] LaughinGoh:
do you use mybackup pro? so you're saying apps didnt restore but pictures, sms, contacts did?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tel033:
HI i have the same problem customization version says 1257-6750 and in the back says 1257-2734(which is listed) but pcc says I'm up to date

Plus I'm confused now does it worth to update? cause there are some things I don't like like wifi problem or lockscreen button like pattern + slide to unlock

and WILL MY DATA WIPE IF I USE SONY PAGE (LIKE VIDEO) OR SUS OR PCC?

thanks!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] gm007:
Please don't update :D
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tel033:
:confused:

:what:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] FenrirMX:
No, I haven't unlocked mine and can't get music info with Gracenote.

The error says "Software version not supported"
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] BoSib:
You´re not alone, works perfectly here too!

Did that to me too until I found them as unread mails in the trash folder, mails that I deleted without opening!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ladynaamah:
oh come on, folks! Android uses far different approach than IBM PC's: while ibm's aren't too keen to use much memory cause it's power-consuming to keep DRAMs active, Android's expensive SRAMs are allways using static ammout of power (and far less than DRAMs) Android is using this to his advantage, using much more memory than needed, and freeing it only on demand also, "free ram" shown by Android is allmost never free, it contains precached data of recently used and then killed apps. android never swaps, swapping on flash-type memories is damn slow and uses precious write cycles. on the other hand, ibm's can use hard drive to swap idle processes on background, not to free ram for some reason, but just to save some power, in the end it might result in tens of kWh's per annum.

And there is a little question regarding update: i have disabled the lockscreen completely, as it allows me to wake the phone by short-pressing camera button. i am used to this from gb, but when i do that, the phone goes awake, some app covers screen (including status bar) with blank black form, which is killed by any action. it's not a dealbreaker, but it looks annoying. anyone also experiencing this?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] kaosdroid:
you mean WIFI_EAP_SIM ?

Yes it's possible,even on 2.3.7 but the feature is disabled by system ! !

So,

for enable it you need

ROOT !!

And go in build.prop and set

ro.wifi.eap_sim_enable=true

Save and reboot the phone

Is that you ask for ?

But,I'm not 100% sure if it work perfect!

You need to ask your operator because some prefer apple "quality" for this fonction (really bad)

And the sim card that support this

;)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] MrBelter:
What? ROFL isnt not 1984 mate LOL what a belter, most retro answer to a post in the history of internet forums that baby is :laugh:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Felimenta97:
Anyone who did a clean install got a better WiFi than installing without wiping data?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Hyouchi:
Nope. Having some issue here too, and i'm in the front of the hotspot. :(
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] elseanio:
Glad the update is finally here.

Have one problem that's really annoying. Every time I reset my phone, he keyboard defaults to Chinese. I have to go into the setting to change it back to Swiftkey every time. Facebook app also has some issue with the text overlapping too

Thanks to everyone at XDA for the guides and what not. Been really helpful in upgrading.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Felimenta97:
I see. I'm in hate with this, but I don't want to go back to GB. I almost have no signal on my bedroom, when with GB I used to have 2 bars, sometimes 3. And I am only 3.5 meters from the router. Only my bed and the floor/celling on it's way. Hope Sony realize this soon and release a update.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Daniel_GB:
That is weird,Because i dont have any problem with wifi here....

i have good signal even in my university housing where some of my friends have problem with their phones.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ShoeVan:
Just a wild guess, but the guys having WIFI issues, did you have Doomkernel installed prior to your ICS upgrade? Maybe its the wifi modules mixing up your signals? I'm not entirely educated on the wifi modules and what happens when you upgrade to a non doom kernel, but just something to keep in mind.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Hyouchi:
This isn't the problem too, I was on stock GB and Kernel, no root, no unlocked BL, firmware .75
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Felimenta97:
At least for me, this can't be the reason, as my bootloader is still locked.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sinple:
ICS is only available in Singapore's sony service centre only. zzz.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Apithanos:
guys my SI number is listed but i haven't the update yet...i have something to do or just wait?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sgsgs:
Just flash the CH ver, it worked fine for me