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[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Asiansniper911:
Firmware without any carrier bloatware is best in general.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] bluecool13_2000:
Just installed an over the air update from AT&T.

Build number is 6.1.C.1.111
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Vaith:
Screenshot or didnt happen.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] bluecool13_2000:
See screen shot attached
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] UchihaDareNial:
Still ICS,I wonder Whay bug fixes does it...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Vaith:
It's first update since September, so since 8 months... But why not JB? Really? We must wait 1 year for old update? In May we will see Android 5.0 ... Sony can be proud of his stupidity.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] kfc.Android:
Wi-Fi hotspot still controlled by at&t?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] bluecool13_2000:
Yes, it still is.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] FanDroid09:
How big was the update? Like in megabytes...

Sent from no where....
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Asiansniper911:
Is it safe to update while having root. Cwm installed and de odexed?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] bluecool13_2000:
The update was only 3 or 4mbps. And I am rooted but not deodexed, and had no problems.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] derrickdroid:
Confirmed. Just got a sms from att for update. Im gonna wait since im running custom Rom.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] jboscan:
Yes, I updated to 6.1.C.1.111 without any changes o.o?

The update just install the apps from AT&T again in my phone -.-!

Anyone know what are the changes on this update? release notes? something :s
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Bugly Astard:
Maybe it was kernel or baseband?

Sent from my stock lt28at(I)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] derrickdroid:
Hoping it is SIM unlock maybe since the phone is no longer exclusive?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] thanitos:
Keeps failing for me. Rooted and deodexed
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] armando_rod:
deleted
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] thanitos:
I'm downloading a 416 mb update right now with SuS, not sure what it is yet but I'll let everyone know.

yeah, same as the rest just a ics update, BL unlock = no :(

Edited Again- I didn't notice this before but on the sony bootloader unlock site http://unlockbootloader.sonymobile.com/supported-phones our phone is supported now?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Bugly Astard:
The unlock appears to be for lt28i, not at&t version. As for the update, you say jb?

Sent from my stock lt28at(I)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] thanitos:
Na I meant ICS, Im reading and typing and it doesn't work well.

I tried the unlock method from sony and it didn't work, oh how I wish our unlocks would come :( I don't even see anything new about this update other then it messed up my CWM
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Asiansniper911:
I'm going to wait to update then I don't want to mess up cwm.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] agd4life:
Did anyone else get this update OTA?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] thanitos:
After some fiddling I got cwm and root working

Just a few things I noticed:

Re-rooting my phone took a bit one touch didn't work and either did flashtool.

Cwm works fine and once rooted so did all that stuff.

No change in service menu

No performance increase if anything it's a decrease because I lost my tweaks after installing the new os

Phone doesn't hang on texting as badly but that could be for a list of variables.

Bloatware came back :(
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] FanDroid09:
http://www.xperiablog.net/2013/04/2...end-of-may-same-for-xperia-ion-acro-s-and-sl/

Great... Your the best Sony.

Sent from no where....
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] thanitos:
I'm about to just get an galaxy s4 or nexus I'm tiered of waiting around for Sony
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] FanDroid09:
Im almost there too... I have an upgrade with at&t coming up soon.

Sent from no where....
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] jackinct:
How did you get root to work?

What did you fiddle with to get root to work?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] thanitos:
Well I used an older method that used two. Bat files and I just had to tap restore from the restore app before the program passed you have 60 seconds to tap blah blah because it gives you one second to tap not 60 so it kept failing unless you timed it just right but after that it's like I didn't even update really
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] rkmoran:
I got a notice about an update, so i obliged. And...

The only difference i noticed was that it turned my AI-keyboard off? WTH?!

Sincerely apologise of my discontent offended anyone. :(
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] FenrirMX:
Open letter to the members of the Sony Xperia community.

If you ever find yourself frustrated by the evils of Sony and their horrible updating methods, enough to write something like this:

Stop, think hard about what it is that whining will accomplish, if it will actually reach Sony, and more importantly, how much you will annoy everyone else, then delete whatever it is you were going to post, and post something else. Something that is actually on topic preferably.

The mods here have made it abundantly clear that they will not tolerate this whining anymore, and while I'm just as frustrated about this situation as you are, I agree with them.

So, don't post this garbage, unless you want to get the thread locked.

Thank you.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] thanitos:
Well as you could have noticed there was only two posts about it and the thread carried on until people like you feel a need to spam even more about it so take your own advice and be quiet
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] FenrirMX:
Best to nip it in the bud, but you do seem determined to get this thread locked.

Knock yourself out, but don't say I didn't warn you.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] asengupt:
Some comments on the new update

All:

After using the new update for a couple of days I wanted to share a few things:

My ion was stock 6.1.C.1.105 - I did install CWM, Rootpack, Google Now and a few other tweaks on it.

1. OTA update notification SMS came - the OTA download was successful - it was only about 3.8MB, but after rebooting and showing the update screen, it rebooted and gave me a notification that the update failed.

2. Used PC Companion then - it pulled down about a 400MB download file, and the update went pretty successfully.

Lost CWM, Lost root, Google now, and my tweaks (not that I was expecting them to survive). One of the tweaks that I lost that hurt was the adblock. Now that Google Play store has booted off all the adblock apps, I guess I am stuck with ads now.

Reinstalled root, CWM. Leaving Google Now out for now.

Phone feels about the same as far as performance goes - but Quadrant reports a little lower (3207 as opposed to 3275 before - but thats too little of a difference to really make any assumptions - quadrant anyways is not a very reliable measure of performance).

Just thought I would post though and request everyone who is on stock 6.1.C.1.105 to update to this. This may be the last AT&T update (I trust Spectre51 - he was spot on about the 105 update and he is not too hopeful about a JB update for the lt28at). However, in the off chance that AT&T is "testing the field" with such a late ICS bugfix update, maybe more people that update will convince AT&T to give us a JB update - I know its wishful thinking, still... at least on their blogs they promise a JB update for the ion...

Oh well - the new update does not introduce any bugs or lags so people who like stock ROMs please update - you will have to redo the tweaks, but if we do get JB we have to redo the tweaks again anyway so it may be a nice practice :)

Please don't lock this thread - and post any issues you find on this new ROM.

J
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] drogers81:
Good review. These are the kind I like to read. I am running stock on my ion and applied this small update right away..I always get excited when I see any update!

Anyway, I have noticed some small improvements with this update such as better call quality, somewhat better battery life, my capacitive keys seem to be more responsive, my external speaker seems louder and more clear(odd I know) and no browser crashes..so these are some nice small improvements or at least new things that I have noticed so far. I bet JB will look good on the ion.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Bugly Astard:
Could you share what method you used to root after updating?

Sent from my Xiaomified lt28at
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] thanitos:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/waiuasx6qf5rkd5/Root.rar

This file has root and CWM i forgot what post I got it from but I didn't make these or contribute to them in anyway.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] alkanaft:
Adblock now can be dowloaded directly from their own website. No need for Google Play any more.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] drogers81:
I think if AT&T can push out JB to the LG Escape, then the ion should get the same treatment..I was kind of shocked to here the LG Escape got Jelly Bean recently...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Smash2Bash:
I avoided that phone...kinda depressed it got jellybean before this :( ..but then again I talked to support and they said jellybean will be out at the end of may so I'll just wait....and I wasn't harrasing them I was getting help and figured why not ask.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] rkmoran:
Never hurts to ask...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Toledo_JAB:
I successfully rooted using flashtool and the backup/restore hack, I keep the apk for backup/restore on my sd card.;)

However it did take trying the process twice. The first time says hack failed but a second attempt works.

I use a custom .bat file I made to install CWM + init.d + cpu editor (I only combined the currently available files :D ) and all things install as normal.

This is a link to my thoughts in the stock archive thread....

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=40828879

From my Xperia LT28at ION :D
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Bugly Astard:
I still had those files on my laptop, works like a charm. I went back to 6.1.E.3.7, the at&t firmware was too bloated and the sms app looks too girly. I tried replacing the conversations.apk like i did with Xzxperience rom but it doesn't work.

Sent from my stock lt28at(I)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] princemarcus19:
So couple days know with new update i notice my music via Bluetooth keeps lagging and cutting off, did a fresh installation on smart headset, smart.watch and phone same problem ,anyone with this issues?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] jtr165:
Anyone having really wonky battery status issues? The specific problem is listed here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=40884804#post40884804

I'm fairly sure this all came with the small update...I did mine OTA, didn't seem to have problems with it. I did the update with roughly 70% battery life, as i was prompted to have 'above 60%'...so i charged it for a few minutes...

weirdly, now that i think about it, my displayed battery status is roughly 30% off reality...meaning ~30% is completely dead...70% says 100% on the phone, but I can keep charging it. If i leave it charging above 100%, it'll stay at 100% for like 10 hours...so since the update, in all cases, my displayed battery life is much higher than what it should be.

I guess i'm just going to completely reflash and see what happens. I have no 'real' battery problems, it still lasts all day like it used to. It just seems the scaling is off...instead of 0% it displays 30%...fun for sure.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] thanitos:
If you have cwm boot into it then go advanced then reset battery stats and reboot. Run phone until dead then fully charge

Edit - I still have that 3.4 MB update in my update center but it fails to install and sus doesn't even see a new update since it's not an unlock it's probably not worth getting?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] rkmoran:
I've noticed since the firmware update last week that my battery life seems significantly less. Anyone else?

Sent from the parking lot at work using xda app-developers app
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] drogers81:
I am actually starting to notice somewhat less battery life now too other than what I had originally thought. Not a big noticeable change but I can tell it's a little different.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Lazarus65:
I was having a similar problem before the update. I thought it had something do with me being rooted which is why I opted to update to back to stock. Mine would die out at the 13% mark with no warnings. After the update and a battery doctor test, the battery has been behaving normal under heavy use. Whatever I did seemed to have worked.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] jtr165:
Well I called AT&T last night to see if they knew of anything up with the OTA update...long story short, the girl just sent a refurbished Ion after a fair bit of explaining some hardware problems (she claims this is common and that they've replaced many an Ion because of it)...

So i guess thats that for me...Since i'm sending mine back, i reflashed ATT ICS .105...and attempted to just do the OTA update again...which wouldn't pop up...this morning it showed my phone having the latest software, which was not the case yesterday morning troubleshooting all this...but PC companion showed and updated the phone to .111 without issue...but after all that again, phone shut off at 31%...so in the end it really doesn't matter.

despite what ATT has said, i almost guarantee this is just a simple software bug somewhere...and for whatever reason its not getting wiped. Diagnosing this problem is far from fun though, so i'll just take the refurb'd unit and be done with it haha.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tonynmisty:
I have been pushing for an answer from AT&T about whether they will release Jelly Bean for the Ion. After a lot of emails and frustration, they finally sent me this email. :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] drogers81:
That does make it seem a little more promising, maybe they are changing their minds and deciding to give it Jelly Bean after all. I have gotten similar responses from 2 different AT&T reps that I have talked to, and a some that didn't know. Thanks for sharing!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Spectre51:
It's not coming guys.

Sent from my Lumia 920
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] jeriku:
Maybe not from ATT (which I wouldn't use anyway) but international or Chinese?

______________

From my LT28

LT28 Thread Index
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] lee480:
It's coming for international ion from late May.

[MENTION=2775934]Spectre51[/MENTION] can you confirm a narrower JB timeline for international ion? Maybe 3rd week of May? And any chance for 4.2 for international ion? Many thanks.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Smash2Bash:
Nah no 4.2 man. The only phones that have that to my knowledge are the Nexus 4 and the Galaxy S4 so they aren't gonna toss it our way before other, for a lack of better words, more advanced phones. But I talked to Sony and they said end of may for ATT so yeah. That's my input.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tonynmisty:
If AT&T doesn't push this update, will I still be able to flash the firmware for the lt28i? I'm a noob, so I'm still trying to learn how all of this stuff works.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] luisoman2000:
Yup. You can flash the lt28h or I firmware without any problems. Im running lt28h 6.1.E.3.7 firmware on my lt28at
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Spectre51:
Don't have that info sorry. Should be beginning of June end of May.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Asiansniper911:
There isn't a big difference between 4.1 to 4.2, but to 4.3 there might be, Google I/O is real soon so we'll know soon enough.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] drogers81:
Anyone have any new word on the JB update for the ion? I'm assuming we are still only getting this for the LT28i...getting antsy to try it out.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Spectre51:
I put out a feeler to my contact today to try and get the eta. Might not be able to get the international release dates since he is only involved in the US specifics.

Sent from my Lumia 920
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] drogers81:
Sounds good! Thanks for the info. I seen some new update info posted on xperia blog for the LT28h.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] yalkowni:
Got update notifaction anyone know what it is?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Spectre51:
Small bug fixes. Been out for a little while now.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] rkmoran:
Why AT&T, Why?

You disappoint us so...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Toledo_JAB:
Come on..

How can we be disappointed when expecting nothing ;)

I think the update had more bugs than the old one.

Back to LT28i 3.7 for me

[MENTION=4790803]rkmoran[/MENTION], How are things?

Good I hope.

Hey, check out my new member status. ;)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] jtr165:
I know this isn't really the thread for it, but could someone attach a screen shot of AT&T's recent .111 update to show the baseband version?

I've got a weird situation going on with flashtool, and not sure if its the phone...flashtool...or both...and a few others are having the same issue.

I flashed from AT&T .111 back to the latest LT28i firmware (3.7)...and excluded the baseband...but seemingly have the international baseband (and international signal icons to go with it) anyway...some have reflashed the .111 baseband back over the lt28i 3.7 firmware...and got the AT&T specific network icons back, but the phone status still shows the international baseband version in settings?

could the two firmwares just use the same baseband version? I'd assume that is unlikely, but don't know for sure. I guess this might have something to do with the random garbled voice calls some experience with LT28at's on international firmwares...Either flashtool isn't properly 'excluding' basebands when flashing, or the phone is somehow not updating its status accordingly...

flashed from AT&T's .111 ICS firmware to generic .3.7 w/ baseband excluded in flashtool...my baseband version is:

9x00B-SCAQCSZQ-34702090-23

I just didn't think to grab a screen before the flash..and now i get that baseband no matter what i try to flash over it?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] thanitos:
Here ya go
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ccrowe3:
The baseband should not have anything to do with the set of icons available. Unless, of course, you have a baseband that doesn't support LTE, which the international software will call 4G.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] jtr165:
I was thinking the exact same thing...but:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2286236

zackspeed is saying thats not true. Couldn't confirm it myself...trying to flash over just an att baseband didn't do anything at all in my case.

I am using an international LT28i version ending .3.7, which is the latest...LT28i's and Lt28at's are identical phones, and both support LTE. I have LTE with this international firmware without a problem, i just get the international icons which are different than stock AT&T icons.

that isn't what concerns me, though, as i'm fine with whatever icon as long as its working properly. The bigger question is what exactly is flashtool doing with these basebands? I just tried to flash att .105's baseband back onto my international firmware. flashtool says it was successful, but it did absolutely nothing and didn't touch my baseband version, which remains the baseband included with international .3.7(and even during the inital flash i tried to exclude that, and keep the att .111 baseband version).
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] zackspeed:
The little letters are indeed different for the 3g and 4g as this was found very early on when ICS came out. We started with the L28H firmware and where flashing the GB baseband to get LTE back. At this point though I am just biding my time till this dang JB update shows up. We can only hope it brings a bunch of fix's with it.

Now that I think of it I am wondering if all the LTE basebands are the same???
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] killerskincanoe:
REALLY f-ing stupid if this phone isn't updated by att to JB. at&t is a f-ing joke of a company. they care less and less about their customers.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] thanitos:
http://forums.att.com/t5/Android-Di...Bean-update/m-p/3448021/highlight/true#M41629

Someone received an email from att saying an update would come after Sony's release, my guess if that is true is atts way of letting Sony test the waters of jb on the ion in case it's a flop to cover their own ass and once Sony ports it to the ion att can port it cheaper
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] jtr165:
I got part way through a warranty claim with my Ion, but the phone ended up 'fixing itself' and has been fine ever since...

but on the phone, the tech on the other end told me the Ion will not be getting a JB update through AT&T...and that the phone was no longer available through them other than for warranty claims...

so not sure who to believe, but i'll trust Spectre's word on it...its not coming...

but so what? AT&T's layering on android is complete trash...If its anything like current ICS, it won't be difficult at all to get international JB working perfectly...without any of AT&T's BS...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] thanitos:
Honestly I think the reps know about as much as we do
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] rkmoran:
My phone "died" last week, couldn't hear anything. Anyway, I called att for warranty claim they and put a refurb in the mail that day, overnighted it and waved the overnight fee. Got it the next day and it was a brand new phone. Now if they would overnight a box of jellybeans...

I'd be a happy man.

Sent from The Dark Side of the Moon using xda app-developers app
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] thanitos:
I sent in a warranty claim on my galaxy s 2 the i777 model which they stopped carrying for the rocket which was a dumbed down model I got this after a day of calling, the ion, and it was just a refurbished
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Toledo_JAB:
Am I reading this right?

You sent in a i777 for warranty and they sent you a refurb'd ION?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] lee480:
Yup awesome choice. You get a better camera and a larger screen. Good job! Welcome to the Xperia family.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] thanitos:
They had no more i777 s in stock so they offered me the HTC one x I think it was or the sky rocket and one other one and eventually I got to choose the ion but it was just a refurb
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] lee480:
Why didnt you choose the One X? :/
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] thanitos:
Knee jerk decision is knee jerk decision
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Zachinater:
AT&T Jelly bean

well I was on the phone with technical support from at&t and I now have verbal verification that the xperia ion will be receiving jelly bean from at&t

how ever i some how talked my way into getting my self a note 2 for free because of ion problems.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] drogers81:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/05/30/sony-rolling-out-jelly-bean-4-1-to-xperia-s-sl-and-acro-s-xperia-ion-coming-soon/
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] thanitos:
Well all of us Ion users need to keep in mind that there is more then one Ion, there is the I h and AT, I know we can flash the I version to AT but sadly we are still locked down and not given any info on our AT phone specifically. I emailed sony, yes I know this has been said many times, but I was very thorough in my questions and very polite to get the nicest response I could and most honest. The person that emailed me back said the ION is getting JB but to keep in mind when we get it depends upon carrier location and so on, so right now for AT users the balls in their court. I expect if you are on ATT and hope for a JB update from them I guess a month or two before we get it since we all know their track record. I also asked about a loader unlock and was only told to go ask at the sony Dev site. So maybe well get luck with a user found unlock or not, but at least well have the I version of JB :P.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] cristiano_7:
How did you talk your way into getting a new phone :o