yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] skip0pot2mus:
Just flash it yourself, it's simple, I've managed it and I know nothing about Android etc.

To be honest, your'll end up having to flash it yourself when Sony give up supporting the device [if they haven't already]
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] jonmorris:
Sony has an agreement to support devices for at least 18 months, and given they updated every 2011 model (bar one) to ICS and almost certainly will to JB too, I think it's a bit unfair to suggest they've given up.

What they ARE bad at is rolling out the new firmware to all devices in all regions (especially to the SIM-free models that normally would get done first). However, that's not quite the same thing.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] oxycash:
UI lags, screen wake nd camera from sleep mode issue, audio freeze when launching apps

sent from INDIA with love <3
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SavCom:
Well I've had a bellyfull of Sony and their 'class leading' software. Twice this weekend I've had to reboot the phone to get it out of a freeze and now I can't keep a wireless connection walking round my house. Meh.

Seriously thinking Gingerbread again. Or going it alone with a third party ROM

And no. No new apps loaded. Just the camera being used more this weekend.

Sent from my LT26i using my fat fingers
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] oxycash:
Need fix ASAP Sony are you listening?

sent from INDIA with love <3
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] odinXperia:
Go to sonymobile forum dude.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] DekinGBar:
Hey man Sony here...oh wait wrong line.Switch to sonymobile.com

Sent from my LT26i with... well guess what!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SavCom:
This last week it's been dire. So s l o w. Going back to Gingerbead this weekend. You listening Sony? Since last week, your 'flagship' phone has been extremely slow. Seconds to switch between screens/apps. Seconds to respond to keyboard input. Stutters and dropouts in Bluetooth streaming - hell, even with ordinary wired headphones it lags.

Useless.

Unacceptable.

Unusable.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] doministry:
You have a faulty device or some serious crapware on the phone.

.45 works great here.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] HooLIMAN87:
Maybe you installed some apps that are slowing your phone even when you don't use them? My phone works as smooth as third day after update. ;)

Sent from my LT26i
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SavCom:
I hear you, but the only new app has been the BBC news app, updating every six hours - and that was two weeks ago. I'll uninstall and see if it makes a difference.

Mind you, looking at Settings -> Apps -> Running shows me with 496M used/139M free which is poor in my mind It would be good if someone has a list of what Sony bloatware one can unload/stop.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] doministry:
Hmm that's interesting, maybe it's exactly the process in the background which screwes things up.

See, my phone usually has 250MB free (around), even after 20 days or so after reboot...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SavCom:
Ok. Rebooted phone and immediately after reboot I have 240M free but after 2.5 hours and I'm down to 181M free. :(

BBC News is now unloaded, but obviously is not the culprit. Meh!

Sent from my Transformer using my fat fingers
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] HooLIMAN87:
Indeed but his phone is laggy for some reason.

SavCom maybe you need to wipe everything and do a factory reset, but first make sure you have a backup of your current rom. Yes it's a pain in the a*s to do all this but who knows. Maybe when you start reinstalling your apps you find what app is slowing your phone.

Sent from my LT26i
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SavCom:
I'd pretty much come to the same conclusion. After a reboot I have about 240M free but after a few hours I'm down to less than 100M. Something is eating RAM.

Does anyone know of an app that records memory usage per app against time to check?

Sent slowly from my LT26i using my fat fingers

---------- Post added at 05:17 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:12 PM ----------

:) Nice try. If free memory stops the phone from trying to recover memory then I want some. Fed up with lag.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] doministry:
But what do you see under Running Apps?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SavCom:
Here goes:

Running Apps (sorted by memory size and name):

<MB> <AppName>

40 Facebook

34 Settings

22 Lookout

13 Google Services

13 Xperia Keyboard

11 PowerAmp

10 Maps

7.8 Travel Agent

6.6 Contacts

6.4 Dropbox

6.4 Smart Connect

5.6 Power Saver

4.8 Battery Widget

4.2 Bloom FM

3.6 Bluetooth Share

3.2 com.sonyericsson.wappush

3.0 SmartCardService

3.0 usbotg

All these add up to 197M. Yet the setup shows 446M used and 196 free.

Using System Tuner I see that:

User apps total 96M

System totals 277M and

Kernel totals 134M

What I want to see is a log of how apps use memory over time - when they start, when they're used and what happens in the background when they're idle.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] HooLIMAN87:
Maybe your apps are using a lot of cpu. Once i downloaded one app from play store my phone was very, very slow. And ram was around 170mb, it was using cpu alot. So maybe it is same situation for you too. Or if you are rooted maybe you changed your governor settings etc?

Sent from my LT26i
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SavCom:
No I'm not routed. And regarding cpu, one core is almost never used, so I'm not short on cpu power. It's just RAM I seem to be short of.

Sent from my mind by thought transferance
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] rkanwar:
Hi guys I know this thread is kind of dead now. I'm on o2 UK and received the ota notification for this update the other day. I wish to upgrade but I cannot be bothered to back up then reinstall new update and reroot etc. I'm rooted can I update without losing root via ota?? Thanks
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Spectre51:
Yes. OTA update should keep root. Even if it does for some reason remove it you can use the flashtool method to reroot.

Sent from my Sony Xperia™ TL
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] okeph.:
great , all work as good as it be :thumbup:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] rkanwar:
Thank you. But I removed a few system apps so will that stop me from performing the ota?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Surethom:
Just got the over the air update, better late than never ??????????? O2 UK.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] rkanwar:
Wow you just got the ota today?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] doministry:
:) I have Z now
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] meyourchum:
mY xPeRiA Z

mE tOO !!!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Efe64:
Lol

Send from my awesome 1080p
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Loris93:
Landscape mode was avaible while charging,but i haven't tested it on this fw yet.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] alexpraga:
But the screen shot feature was already available at 452.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] doministry:
Battery life is terrible AGAIN.

I am so fu..ng annoyed by this.

Apparently Sony not able to roll out a good software, dumbasses.

They are strugling to make it work properly, it's really horrible.

Maybe they should stop making phones?

My Xperia also drains the battery quick as hell.

In the night through 9 hours almost 10% - that's crazy!
What a failure!!!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] drakexpl:
10%? Check your signal, wakelocks using betterbatterystats etc. because I have 3-5% over night (10 hours asleep). It's not ROM related because for me it's perfectly fine. Stop blame SONY for your localization (signal strength - battery drain) / trash-apps and others.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] meyourchum:
HOME Landscape Mode ...

Home goes to Landscape mode both while using HDMI and Charging (Even when auto rotate is turned off).

This may be an add on feature for the Xperia S DOCK which is " Coming Soon ".

I think this is "NOT A BUG"
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] meyourchum:
Xperia Dock ...

Hope Sony releases this soon ...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] dr_athul:
Sony ...

How come you (Supposed to) know everything?

You work with Sony ???
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] doministry:
Hmm on my phone it goes BLACK and crashes... When connected to the Charger.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] doministry:
My battery usage in attachement.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] meyourchum:
Do a Fresh Install ...

I think you have to wipe off everything and do a fresh install ...

Maybe some app compatibility issues or some flashing problems ...

SO far i am very satisfied with the present firmware ...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] doministry:
Does your phone go nicely to Landscape when connected to the charger?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] doministry:
Hmm.....

On previous ICS battery was great.

Now I rebooted the phone and consumption became normal, just 1 or 2% in the night through 6hrs...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] keithwalton:
10% battery drop in 9 hours isn't great (particularly if you're in flight mode, are apps trying to sync ?) but it's not horrendous by this phones standards.

Original GB firmware for this phone would of drained 36-45% of the battery in 9 hours!

I'm currently at ~48 hours after flashing and have 45% battery remaining, haven't recharged yet so haven't tested the homescreen rotate, but I did get it randomly with previous firmware where the homescreen would rotate sometimes but not others. Do want to turn that off though.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] doministry:
Sorry but you must be completely inactive on the device than...

48hrs with 45% left without recharge?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] -Harsh-:
Is it out for UK yet ?? I am on .453 generic UK and my phone is up to date :D
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] richkez:
i am in the uk and mine updated lastnight to 6.1.A.2.45 once it was done the play store updated to a nice new looking store but its back to the old one this morning
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] s-X-s:
But u seems to be in India man
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] -Harsh-:
Yeah i am in India but i currently am using .453 UK ICS !! And i am not getting any notification whatsoever for the update !!! :confused:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Liamginman:
453 build no update?

I am in the UK with the same build; 6.1.A.0.453, and im not getting any update notifications on PCC, SEUS.My phone is up to date according to all of the update services? Not complaining though as my xperia S is running smooth as on all fronts. For all those complaining about battery....I find keeping screen on low brightness improves life dramatically! I play games, watch videos and have wifi on most of the time and get just under two days out of it?

Any news on the 453 builds not getting updates would be good to see still!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] kdroid79:
the update is available in india right now via pc companion. tried through sus, but no luck.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] clinta:
I live in India but bought the phone from UK. Still I can't get the update notification.

Did you use PC companion or SUS?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SnowOokami:
the .45 update will ONLY appear if you got the .452 version and NOT operator customized firmware versions like .453 or .58
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] indesisiv:
If that is the generic uk can you upload it as an ftf somewhere?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] del1701:
.453 is not operator customized, it's uk generic sim free ;)

Also as for the update for uk generic, we had to wait about 2 months for ics after it's first release so I think we'll have a bit of a wait for any updates yet.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SnowOokami:
.452 is Generic NL

.453 is still a modified firmware (customized radio), that it is the Generic UK firmware doesn't really matter ;)

I was running .453 before, but no update, flashed back to .452 and it updated right away.

.58 same story.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] chefnoob:
Sorry to point this out but for some reason, he may be correct.

I flashed and rooted (locked bootloader) this firmware 2 nights ago, charged my phone then observed.

Im now at 23 hours and still 66% left. On .453, it would have been around 30% or less by now. Im just a light user btw, just some calls, wifi, checking of emails, etc...I hardly tinker with it also.

With regards to the wakelock issue, its still there...but for some reason, it uses less juice! Weird!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] -Harsh-:
Okay i get it.. So now as i am on .453 i won't get an update, so i am going to manually flash a .45 firmware.. Which one is the most clean, NL or CZ ??

Any help guys ??
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] technaudio:
I disagree.

I was on 453 uk. Flashed to 58 turkish a couple weeks ago, got the update via pcc yesterday after reading all these threads.

Decided i wanted a UK version, so went back to 67 GB generic UK and let it OTA update, phone is now on 453 with no update available.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SnowOokami:
Yes. 67 generic UK! So it will flash automatically to .453 UK. Mm I didn't get the update when I was at. 58

.452 generic NL or CZ doesn't really matter I think, I'm pretty sure you can uninstall all bloat applications :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] -Harsh-:
I meant the new 6.1.a.2.45 nl or cz ??? Which has lower wakelocks :P

Use the thank button, it's there for a reason :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SnowOokami:
Same ;) I could uninstall all applications in the NL version
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] technaudio:
ALL??

Such as...?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SnowOokami:
meh... all bloatware apps.

not ALL apps (ICS won 't run that way :p)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] -Harsh-:
Lol !!

Use the thank button, it's there for a reason :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] technaudio:
There was only about 4

Playnow

Mcafee

wisepilot

media remote

Whats this 'Civil Alerts'?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] darth5zaft:
Just finish downloading

I get a new apps call wisepilot for Xperia, before it was just wisepilot.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SnowOokami:
civil alerts is a replacement app for broadcast push messages from the government... but I think it's for NL only... xD
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] dogefresh55:
I was on. 58 fw and got the update notification for 6.1.a.2.45 and updated successfully. And I'm from Trinidad & Tobago.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] (de)vices:
Glad to know the camera focus issues are solved. It ducks to have a good camera that won't focus!

I may wait to upgrade though as I am traveling and the wifi bug seems a bit annoying.

Thanks for all the notes on this new firmware, I was real surprised to see the update notification today.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] NZLion:
I get a 100% replicable issue in the Update Centre, whether accessed via settings or as an app.

If I hit the menu key, then choose Settings, it crashes out with "Unfortunately, Update Centre has stopped."
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] kdroid79:
+1
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] doministry:
The phone is crazy regarding battery/sleep/activity.

When I rebooted the phone it was just perfect and took 2% in the night.

Than I had a full day with the phone with very reasonable battery life.

Than went to sleep and put the phone to flight mode.

It ate 15% in 7 hours, showing full blue line of activity.

This is crazy, at the same time I saw Facebook beeing the main batt eater,

and Android system only at 15% or so.

I have no idea what it is but it sucks.

Of course Facebook app was Off, just left as a process. Sync is off.

So it means the system runs something..
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] adsada arc:
Eh, sorry to break it to you but the camera focus issues are far from solved with this latest updated :(

Well for me anyway, I am now getting more and more convinced its a hardware fault :(:crying:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] osharaf:
Guys, can someone post a link for the ftf file since i can't update mine as my phone is already rooted and bootloader is unlocked and i can't update from PC companion?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] rhogz:
I never had this issue.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] skip0pot2mus:
Messaging bug still not fixed with this update:

Get new message, click on the new message, it goes to the attached screen.

You have to back out and open messaging again to see the message.

I have noticed that I was able to open the "attach image" menu even though the screen was blank...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] dedei:
I never had the deep sleep bug but it's here now :( It will only enter deep sleep if wifi is ON :eek:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] skip0pot2mus:
That reminded me, I put my phone on air plane mode last night, and from the graph I can see the phone is awake more during the night than during the day!! lol what?!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] kalbasnik:
Can some P owners also confirm this screen awake problem in their ICS?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] XxBlackVenomxX:
Is this the new Xperia S Firmware?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] -Harsh-:
Yup the latest one !!

Use the thank button, it's there for a reason :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] hesamodin:
how to root this version with lock bootloader??
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ashqmallik:
You cant root unless u have an unlock bootloader. You have to unlock first to root your phone. U might want to check out the bottom two threads if u want to unlock/relock ur bootloader and then root.

BUT..if you just want to flash it then u can easily do it with flashtool. Just download the desired ICS firmware from the bottom thread and then use flashtool to flash the firmware into your phone.

Have fun :highfive:

---------- Post added at 04:49 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:38 PM ----------

I really didnt face any problem with the new ICS firmware..apart from some minor email bugs and all. Here and the cons and pros..

- The battery life has improved A LOT. Advice : Keep your wifi on .. i know its weird! dont know why.

- No sleep bug (Yet)

- Quick Launch Camera worked in every occasion till now. Did a normal test like 30 times in a row and it did response every time.

- Very smooth in touch and responsive apart from the little lag that you might face when u add two big widgets ( i got calender and notes into one home page and it lags to open every now and then)

- The default Email app will smoothly add your google account but might act weirdly when you try to add your yahoo/hotmail account. I still didn got through to it.

- I use TitaniumBackUpPro to manage my apps. You cant really delete neither can freeze some apps such as googlemaps and youtube. Every now and then it gets unfroze automatically so thinking to delete those permannently.

Please let me know if anybody else faced the above scenarios

Thank You
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] -Harsh-:
Dude you can root with a locked bootloader!! Check out the android dev section..

Use the thank button, it's there for a reason :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ashqmallik:
With the new firmware? :eek: might provide risks with the ramdisks. Still gona wait on the update kernel
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] -Harsh-:
Here you go !!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1742992&highlight=cwm+for+locked+bootloaders

Just flash in the last step with this ICS without wiping anything :fingers-crossed:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Spectre51:
Still seeing the stock email app issue where it shows lock screen notifications for unread deleted mail. If I get an email and just delete it without viewing it shows up as read in the trash. Next time email checks I will get a lock screen notification about a new message. If I swipe the notification it takes me to my inbox and the message isn't there because its already deleted. I have mark the message as read to stop getting the lock screen notification.

Don't have that issue on ICS on my Xperia ion or Xperia PP

Sent from my Sony Xperia S
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] -Harsh-:
Yup with the new firmware!!

Use the thank button, it's there for a reason :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] drakexpl:
After 3 full rechargs i see brilliant battery life with this fw. 55 mins of screen since 7 AM and I now have 72 percent, its 11 PM. Very nice Sony :) wifi on, 2g, sync on, 2 gmails, fb, endomondo

Wysłane z mojego LT26i za pomocą Tapatalk 2
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] -Harsh-:
Gr8 news !!

Use the thank button, it's there for a reason :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] technaudio:
I've noticed a new language and input menu, but still can't turn off Chinese or Japanese keyboard.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] pepporony:
For Japanese I think you can delete JapaneseIME.apk in system/app

This is my battery usage.

3G always on during work hours and WiFi always on when I'm home.

Background sync as usual. Around 3 or 4 hours of listening mp3 I guess.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] samp52:
If your screen is only 19% you must've had it on for about three seconds ;)

Sent from my LT26i
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] doministry:
My quick report after few days:

1. It is snappier than previous ICS

2. More RAM available

3. This night the batt usage was great, just few % over 8hrs, the usage through the whole day is reasonable too in this regard

4. Still some little bugs like black screen after finishing conversation
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] LenAsh:
19 % equates to nearly 6 hours...

That, by any standard, is good.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] samp52:
Yeah it would be good but it's the percentage of power drained that that particular component or piece of software has used not how long it's been on using the battery.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tel033:
That's impossible with 6 hours screen would be far on top
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] samp52:
That's what I was thinking.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] -Harsh-:
19 % for 6 hours ??:eek:

Not unless Sony gave you a 3000mA battery :cyclops: ;)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] LenAsh:
If the battery has lasted for 30 odd hours and 19% of that time is display ON, he's used the display for about 6 hours. It's not far from my own usage.

Similar to GS2 too.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Gloris:
this new firmware does seem a lot better for battery life for me too.

previously, i'd be lucky to get 16 hours total out of it, with sync turned off :s

i did do a totally fresh install, wiped everything, and now have the generic NL firmware, not rooted, totally stock, and it's been on for over 9 hours, with data on all the time, and sync turned on all the time, battery is down to 75%. during this time i've sent about 20 texts, listened to around 30 minutes music (travelling to and from work), and the rest of the time it's just been basically sat idle (with the occasional internet use to check stuff for work). far far far better than any previous firmware.....i don't know if it's because of the firmware, or the fact that i did a totally fresh install and have gone back to stock kernel.....whatever it is, it's working really well at the moment :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] -Harsh-:
The 19% is the battery usage by the screen, not the percent of 30 hours it's been used!! I to get 6 hrs of no screen time with a single charge but the percent used by screen is near 50 :)

Use the thank button, it's there for a reason :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] pepporony:
I don't know the exact number but I'm 19% sure that it was more than 3 seconds :cool:

Guys, i'm not saying something like "omg, my battery is so good" or something like that, just show my battery with the usual usage.

Twitter,facebook, rss, the usual stuffs.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] zangetsu2188:
Noticed another bug when I created an event. Calendar widget does not show all day events.

Never tried the contact birthdays yet, don't have a friend with a September birthday. :mad:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] metcard:
Keeping wifi on does seem to help the battery on standby.

It still drains about 1% per hour on average, but last night it drained 3% over 8 hours, so it's good.

Turning wifi off produces very unpredictable battery drain, sometimes o.k but other times pathetic.

I've decided to keep push notifications active now since the phone is constantly waking anyway.

It would be nice if sony fixed the wakelock issues though, I predict I could get upto 15% extra battery over my normal 10 hour day.