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[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ksekhar:
SE (or Sony) came to the market with a inferior product, I m talking about dual core processor and it is S3 not even S4, and 6-10 months late.

On top of it

1. Hardware is just wrong, capacitative buttons are not responsive. It is a basic requirement, dammit. And what good does that transparent bottom does?

2. They advertised 1GB ram and now i came to realize (bought it only 3 days ago) that it is only 634mb ram and 450mb is almost always full with Sony crap running all the time. I had to freeze apps using Titanium to make sure i have enough memory for my apps.

3. Camera is not SE good. I own Xperia neo and SGS2 and i feel SXS camera is inferior to both.

4. Neither Bravia nor Xloud is working good. Low sound on in call speaker volume.

5. Sony fills your phone with all their junk which you ll never gonna use but have to pay for it with RAM. Also you cannot mount as USB connection on MAC as you ll need Sony Bridge for MAC and if you use it you cannot use Android File transfer provided by Google. Sony Bridge is crap as file transfer is at awful speed. (Again comparing to SGS2 which has mount as USB for ICS as well).

6. Screen has washed out colors and 720p doesnt feel any good. Even LG and Asus has better screens. I had LG optimus 2X and own Transforme prime.

7. Non removable battery and no option for micro SD. If you have non removable battery at least put higher capacity battery or make software good that battery lasts long.

8. And yeah it costs as much as HTC one x or SGS3.

May be i ll have something good to say after few weeks of use.

-K
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Sikiduck:
It's OK. First of all, it sucks to go into a phone store and only found 1-2-3 different cases for the phone. SGS3 got alot more cases to choose from.

Second, yelloy tint problem many phones got, including mine (!).

Third, the sucky battery. It drains sooo fast.

Also very little available memory after ICS upgrade.

So its a OK phone, not that good and not that bad.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] XperiAngelRB:
I said what is the intention of publish this question in Xperia s Forum?

It's ridiculus. I've this phone and is excellent, i prefer Sony that other brands. But you choose that you want.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] brunodmjr:
Go for S3, it is a better phone than Xperia S in all the ways possible (maybe the screen is a matter of taste, but the rest...). Battery, GPU, CPU, Sound Quality (yes, sound quality, the chip that Samsung uses are really better, the sound of Xperia S is just OK, to be true it is worse than my old ex-phone, LG Optimus Black), camera (8MPX vs 12 MPX, its true, but the camera is more sharp, and dont make noise like Xperia S camera, imo a unacceptable noise), etc. The community is just huge! I don't want to diminish my fellow comrades, but Xperia S community is really small and with devs shortage (not complaining). I just have it because its the best phone i could get for free from my carrier. Not a bad phone, but far from be a incredible phone. In fact, it is not incredible in any area, but competent in almost all except battery (and maybe cam). A good phone and just it, a good phone.

Press thanks if i helped, please. :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] dSayonarab:
Reasons I prefer the Xperia S over SGSIII. Note that these are mostly subjective.

1) Xperia Timescape and Walkman apps. No TouchWiz. (moot point if you flash custom ROMs, but there goes the warranty)

2) Sharper, more color-accurate screen. SGSIII screen is greenish and fake-looking due to AMOLED.

3) Better physical build. I find Samsung phones to feel cheap and plasticky.

4) Looks better (according to my brother, the SGSIII is awesome because it looks so generic that any case looks good on it...?)

5) microHDMI + microUSB vs MHL.

6) Cheaper - in NZ. Xperia S is ~$600, SGSIII is ~$850, so it's a significant difference.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] zodiac100:
I have a lot of issues with the phone but I'm sorry you are on your own with all that. The xperia s is no where near as bad as you make it.

It's display is the best available. Viewing angles mean nothing in every day use and it's one of the best in direct sunlight which has more value. The camera is also the best available. It's not for point and shooting and so you need to take more time to get the best pictures but those pictures are the best of any smartphone. No phone has all ram available to the user do don't know what you're on about. The sensitivity of the capacity buttons are too low but I've used other phones where they have been too high and you keep hitting them inadvertently. You knew it had all its internals sealed in before you got so what's your beef and no it doesn't cost as much as other high end phones.

Back to OP, the GS3 is faster and smoother but not by a long way in real world performance. Just benchmarks much higher.

I'd say, go down to the phone shop and try out both before making up your mind.

Having said don't choose the Sony under any circumstances if android software is a big deal for because in that department Sony are notoriously very poor. Their ICS update was later than all their major competitors and is far from ready. It needs a lot of work still doing to it. It's slower than gingerbread with a lot of slowdowns and glitches here and there.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] metcard:
The Xperia S has very harsh treble and meh mids with the stock Walkman player on default equalizer settings, but it can easily be tuned to sound as good as a dedicated Walkman player.

I have an old S series Walkman and prefer the audio quality of the Xperia S.

I'm using a good pair of Shure IEM and a decent portable amp (not really needed) and the only fault I can find with the audio is that the gsm/3g radio tends to interfere with the sound a bit when I use the shure earphones with the amp.

I had a Galaxy TAB a while ago which has the wolfson dac and I never liked it (don't know about the GS3 but maybe it's improved?), even after tweaking the audio for a long time using Poweramp.

Also, the Sony Walkman app sounds far better than both Winamp pro and poweramp.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] 18lama:
Spot on! that's why we should not buy mobiles by reading internet reviews and forums posts.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] rhogz:
I'm happy with my Xperia S no complains just enjoying its features. Everyone should be happy they have their own phone too. Sony, Samsung, LG, HTC, iPhone etc.. Whatever brand it is. Just learn how to appreciate what you have. This is just my opinion :) again I'm enjoying my Xperia S :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sinple:
Reason why I got xs instead of s3: its cheaper!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] mrsatan:
Galaxy s3 isn't 200 dollars better which is the price difference. And its an ugly phone.

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It has 1gb of ram, the system takes up almost 400mb. Also onex is 100 dollars more while sgs3 is 200 more. If I would get another phone it would be a nexus. Both the other 2 have their issues too.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Dpk1:
Well, it depends on what you like/want from your phone:

1) If you want the fastest android till date with earlier software updates/lots of roms along with external memory & replaceable battery: Go for SGS3

2) If you want an android with best camera till date, brilliant screen & eye catching design, and relatively cheaper: Go for SXS

I have been using Xperia S for over 3 months now and am quite pleased with it overall, no major issues so far (except for a few bugs in current ICS build by sony). Also compared it to my friends SGS3 & was pleased to see my SXS almost matching the real world performance of SGS3!

And yes, as aready stated, fully functional/official MIUI is available for SXS (myself currently on MIUI build 2.8.3 which fast, smooth & most stable build so far).

Also, i recommend you to check both of them out at local demo stores and then decide it for yourself!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ttiimm:
Galaxy Nexus has its updates the quickest because it is directly from google and it is running vanilla android. It has one of the biggest dev communities and it is easy to unlock the bootloader for it, the gs3 is hard to mod and you need a special usb tool

btw, the xperia s is an amazing phone, it looks great with the lightbar and the performance is great, even with the snapdragon s3, sony knows how to optimize the software for snapdragon chipsets
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Jackmax32:
Xperia S on Gingerbread was great but on ICS its crap...

You will be irritated by the terrible multitasking of Xperia S on ICS...

Its just a software issue n can be fixed...

If you want upto date performance and may be good software support go for SGS3 ..

Go for Sony Xpria S if you care about looks, decent performance (Compared to SGS 3) n can wait for an update to solve the ICS issues on Xperia S..
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] metcard:
the galaxy s3 suffers the same multitasking issues of the xs.

if you need apps to remain open without them being closed by the os get a phone with 2gb of ram.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] schoolofmonkey:
I had a SGS2 last year, went to the Xperia Play, which to be honest was an awesome phone, sucked the bootloader was locked.

Picked up ths SXS last month and I prefer it over the s2.

I have a friend with a s3, I think they are ugly and clunky. Its trying to be a iPhone.

Been flashing roms to find the right one for me, and its seems to be a hard phone to brick.

I use it for my main MP3 player at night (Due to ringing in the ears), it barely looses any battery playing all night.

Headphones sucked a bit, but picked up some Skullcandy and the phone drives them perfectly.

I'd recommend th SXS to anyone.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Dpk1:
Right, my bad! Hence, i stand corrected & use the word "earlier" instead of "earliest".
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] darth5zaft:
Well the reason why I choose the SXS is that In my country the sxs is a little bit more expensive than gnex but come with 170dollar of gift..that include Livesound, car charger and stuff..

Personally, I also don't find spending 200 more for a better chip ( one x or gs3) that does not make a different in user experience is brilliant. Well maybe games run better, but still a phone is a phone it's too small for comfort to play on it,and since it's a phone (that use to make calls) I don't really want it to run out of juice..the 200 I save would instead go to nexus 7 onces its out!..

To me the best phone..is one that Suite ur need..i like my because it hold to signal like a *****! very good call quality,afterall its a phone right!.. Then the multimedia espect of its also top notch. The best screen( higgest ppi of any phone), higgest MP for camera,sound quality is great too..

Before this all my phone has replacable battery.but i never hot swap it.so sxs fast charging work great for me..I get like 1% every minute of charging..

I drive a lot and get lost a lots too,and i usually will only launch a GPS apps when I'm really lost..Sxs GPS is really great!.it lock into signal just seconds after I launch a navigator apps.so it saves me a lot of turns compared too other phones which really like to take their time to lock into a signal.

Also it's look great!.. I don't really like owning ugly thing no matter how good it's inside is..and probably,it's only me.but I like the SXS hardware button.. I hated oversensitive capacitive as well as on screen button.. I kept hitting home whenever I hit the spacebar or pulling up the notification bar.real button are better,but it's become tiresome after some time.. So swipable hardware button of SXS really pleased me..
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] doministry:
Sony Xperia S = the best design and UI in the Android market for me.

Great camera to.

Customization Sony does is brilliant.

Some phones may be marginally faster but it doesn't really matter.

And all of them look so much worse.

Especially Samsungs.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Htin Shar Kyaw:
but Ram??

But How about Ram???? I'm dying here walkman always gone zipppp when I browse and listen

At the same time my previous phones are sony brand but not this worse eventhough they are Nokia Os with

Really good multitasks U5i and U1 but this,this precious one.....why it has so many scars??? 634 ram?? What? over300 mb

Missing whyyyyyyyyyy?????

Sent from my LT26i using built-in browser

:crying:
[HTC One X] HectiQ:
Whenever I receive a text, it never notifies me, only when I light up my screen. Anyone else has this problem?

Also the screen doesn't light up.

Sent from my HTC One X
[HTC One X] debrancherenzym:
Yes bro..i had the same problem with my One x...it was alrite in the beginning but then it started to act like this...After a lot of research i found absolutely nothing ...did a factory reset as well...but then i stumbled upon an app in the play store called SMSAwake....get it..what it basically does is it will over come the bug that is causing for the sms to come up only on lighting up the screen...with this app the screen will light up as well and u will get ur msgs on time ....unlike when u'd have to manually wake ur phone up to check for texts.... hope it helps:angel:
[Android Themes] nozerogravity:
Hi guys,

I hope that I don't get in trouble for this...

PlayerPro, popular music/video player for android. It has few skins available in Play Store, but nothing for our precious amoled screens. We have ICS Skin, but with all due respect it has not so much ICS in ICS and for sure it's not amoled friendly.

So today I took Pure White Player Pro skin and redesigned it to match (more or less) my desires for a skin.

I'm not sure if I should post it here, but the skin is free on Play Store, doesn't have any protection from modding, so what the hell...

If this is not OK, then I'm sorry, please Mod delete this thread.

I don't think there are any bugs, but let me know if you find one! For now it's only HDPI, but maybe I'll make MDPI version. When you install it with Pure White skin on board it'll probably ask you to override... sorry for that.

Feel free to mess with this! Skin looks amazing on amoled screen :silly:
[Android Themes] z28tovette:
This looks real good,thanks.
[Android Themes] nozerogravity:
Thanks!

Anyone for the MDPI version? :rolleyes:
[Android Themes] fql89:
I like it, looks great too

Sent from my GT-N7000
[Android Themes] LouRock:
Nice theme work!

Thank you!! ;)
[Android Themes] dantemudjin55:
Hi friend

I'd like to mod this theme, adding orange colours, but i'm have a certain dificult to find more infos. How i can change the blue scheme colours for the orange? I must extract the PNG's and modify in photoshop or exist a form to edit all (colour scheme)?

Sorry for my bad "Brazilian" english.
[Android Themes] nozerogravity:
Hi,

Yes, you must edit images, and/or xml's. You can do that by decompiling package, editing, and recompiling + sign. There are tons of tuts here on xda, you can look for APK-Multi-Tool, which I personally use. Good luck!

No need to be sorry, I'm polish, hope we understand each other :)
[Android Themes] vincenzosk8:
Wow ! Great work ! Very pure job and good musical tastes too. :good: :D

Really want it in MDPI version. :fingers-crossed:

All MDPI devices suffer in Playback Mode with Player Pro because the album art cover is too big and is not displayed entirely on the screen, because of the bottom Star-Rating-Bar, and the very large height of the buttons and the header too. There is currently no skin for Player Pro which minimize them in order to display entirely the album artwork for MPDI devices. It is really annoying and frustrating... :(

Hiding this Star-Rating-Bar would be very cool too in order to have a look even purer.
[Android Themes] nozerogravity:
Thank you for kind words :highfive:

I don't own a MDPI device, but theres one in my family, when I get my hands on it I'll surely do a port of this skin, and will look at things you mentioned.

But on the other hand I don't know if it's a good idea to do this now, when PlayerPro update is few weeks from us. I heard that the update is coming by the end of the month. Maybe some layout changes, new skins, bugfixes. This could mean my skin will get pretty outdated :)
[Android Themes] vincenzosk8:
Haha ! An update ? Truly ?! I though that the devs were all dead... :p

Seriously, this app works so fine that I really wonder what they will add. :o

The eternal problem of maintaining... you're right. :) Anyway, today I motivate myself to make some modding to an existing skin... It's not achieved yet, but the result is not too bad for a first try... and now, I'm a little less annoyed than before. :)

:D
[Android Themes] chrislo.7:
amazing ! however, was wondering if you could make it so that when you click or touch something , the color is shown blue (like the Holo-blue) instead of white? thanks and once again, amazing theme!!!
[Android Themes] playabigfoot:
This is the theme I was looking for years:thumbup:

Sent from my smartphone
[Android Themes] TheWitcherzs:
can u hide rate stars ? :D
[Android Themes] TheAndroidNinja:
This looks awesome :)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] NickStew:
So as many know the International version of the s3 has a lot more development than we do here. But my question here is shouldn't it be pretty easy to port them to the VZW version? Its the same phone. And if we switched up to the kexec kernel or something along those lines and flipped a few switches on the structure of some key apks shouldn't it work on vzw?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] adclem:
Should yes, easy probably not. Can it be done by some of the Awesome Devs we have around here yes. Will they?? Doesn't hurt to ask.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] NickStew:
True. Some MIUI and maybe Gummy would be pretty awesome..
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ronns81:
I would like gummy. Maybe someday
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] tonu42:
I am waiting on a non buggy MIUI from the International Gs3. I tried porting one from Galaxy nexus but it didnt boot. I will try again soon someday once our RIL gets worked out. Its really weird right now, its based on a GSM stack when our phone is both CDMA and GSM. They are working on a CDMA stack on r.cyanogenmod.com, and once that gets fully approved I will work on this project.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jgrimberg1979:
It is possible. Entropy did this for the AT&T sgs2 so we could flash anything in the dev forums. The only issue was both sgs2 had the same hardware for the most part except for the buttons. In our case it is different; we have completely different processors. They have a quad core eynkos(lucky *******s) and we have dual core snapdragon. This is just one obstacle of many. The best thing to do would be to go an post in the threads for the Roms that you like in the i9300 forums and ask the dev to port it to our phones. You may not get a response but the more people that ask the chances are better the we will see them port some of those Roms. The best rom over there in my opinion is omega rom. Believe it or not they are listening. That how we go some many ports on the sgs2
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hitmanblack:
Hy,

My phone has a problem after I unplug the charger it still loads.:confused::crying:

Take that sound like they still load.:(

Mention that run Android 4.0.4 N7000XXLRB and took root.

Help me or advise me please as I do to get rid of it!

Thank you!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eng.rego:
Just try to clean ur micro usb port using a toothbrush and some perfume or alcohol, some dirts may cause this,

↖(^▽^)↗ Sent from Rego Galaxy Note ↖(^▽^)↗
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aftabbabar:
push the usb pins straight back inside the phone with a plastic fine tool. this will set the pins inside the usb post and phone will work fine. make sure the after-,market cover is not hindering with the charging cable when connected to the phone. I cut my cover's hole bigger so my cable can connect. it was bend slightly because the cover's opening for the charging port was not sufficient enough. My micro usb cable was connecting with an angle. when I made the cover opening bigger and used a new cable and pushed the usb pins back inside the phone, all went fine from there on.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dannycanrock:
Happened to me 2 what people told in the 2 post what helped me try it hope that fix it

Sent from my GT-N7000
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] p51d007:
Try the wiki

See if you have this problem. Unless you have macro vision, you will need a powerful magnifying glass, or loop.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=25102882&postcount=18
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hitmanblack:
Resolved!

I resolved and I followed the advice of aftabbabar. Thanks!
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] weeo:
Had this problem too
[Motorola Photon 4G] Jakeroxs:
So first thing I did was rooted the Photon 4g with torpedo and it worked.

Second I installed bootstrap recovery and made sure it worked, it did.

Third installed the 198_7 libmoto_ril.so (from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1798210) with bootstrap recovery then I installed the SBF that went along with it (in RSD lite of course). Everything was working like normal.

Then I tried to execute the Unlocked bootloader with microboot and TWRP 2.2 recovery sbf and it gave me an error saying "failed flashing process. error processing flash file"

So instead I just used the unlocked bootloader sbf and it worked fine.

Now I'm not sure what to do next as bootstrap recovery no longer works (it just reboots back to my lock screen) and I want to get a custom rom on it (ICS) and make sure that it's unlocked... Any help?

Also info:

system version 45.3.6.MB855.Sprint.en.US
Model Number MB855
Android version 2.3.4
Baseband version N_01.28.07R
Webtop version WT-1.2.0-160
Kernel version 2.6.32.9 dnt648@fl36bld22 #2
Build number 4.5.1A-1_SUN-198_6
[Motorola Photon 4G] peetr_:
Hmm, when did you download the sbf with twrp? I did a mistake, when I made that sbf for the first time. Try to download it again.

You don't need bootstrap recovery, if you want to be unlocked.

After unlocking, you can install the recovery in fastboot, if you keep having problems with that sbf.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Jakeroxs:
I did it about an hour before I made the post, so I don't think I used the old one.

And how would I go about installing recovery in fastboot? I can't seem to figure this out. :confused:

Also is there some way I can check if I'm unlocked besides just putting a SIM card in it?

Thanks in advance!
[Motorola Photon 4G] peetr_:
I just downloaded the sbf with twrp and flashed properly.

Try to download it again and flash it from download folder.
[Motorola Photon 4G] Jakeroxs:
Seems to have worked after redownloading. Thanks a lot :good:
[Asus Transformer TF700] polish_pat:
I'm looking for a case for my infinity, I hate leather cases and all of the cases on ebay that seem nice are leather. I was looking for something slim, sort of like a transleeve, actually a transleeve would be good but i can only find them in pink. Also the non-pink one i found were "on sale" for 70$ like amazon.ca.

Any links to websites that ship to canada?
[Asus Transformer TF700] polish_pat:
no one???
[Asus Transformer TF700] Chief Geek:
Sorry man, this is the bane of early adoption of devices. Good news is on the horizon though. The Gumdrop case is in developement and hope to see one soon for our device. This link is to the TF300, but will likely look exactly like this. It's a rather tough looking case, plus it has a built in screen protector and is water resistant.

http://www.gumdropcases.com/asus-transformer-pad-tf300t.html#
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cookielong:
Hi,

I'm after some advice on running an old champ manager game (97/98 season) on my nexus - love the nostalgia!

I've installed ados box, astro file manager and have downloaded the champ man game files. However, when playing on my laptop I could just drag the launch file onto the icon and it would play, so no commands to type.

I have no idea what to type in dos box when it launches so if anyone has successfully run this or has any advice that would be great!

Thanks