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[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] omegastarr:
Same situation as the last year's waiting for ics for LWW/mini/mini pro.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] MaxPayne3004:
Sonymobile.com at 16h55 (French) : Dernier logiciel disponible: 6.1.A.2.55 :eek:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] soulpower11:
I think we are getting trolled by Sony ....
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] martinko23:
If they can't even properly update their website, I am scared to see what they will do to our phone...

Sent from my awesome Nexus 7.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Lodotux:
+1

In fact it has changed 3 times today, and now, the date has changed : 2013.04.15

tweet #sonytrollinside

:p
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ^Reloaded^:
what is this by sony

before 10 mins it was Latest available software: 6.1.A.0.200

but now when i open url it says Latest available software: 6.1.A.2.55

http://www.sonymobile.com/global-en/software/phones/xperia-s/
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] lee480:
Now the global site changed to .55

Just 5 mins ago was .200 :/

http://www.sonymobile.com/global-en/software/phones/xperia-s/
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Vaith:
It should be like that until 31 May. There won't be a lot of spam .200 was added by mistake.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Emeraldawn:
Maybe they have added a script to randomly change firmware version at each refresh.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PLovrin:
Norway sony website has ICS as firmware but all the features are from JB and it includes Stamina mode so weird right? maybe we'll get stamina after all..

http://www.sonymobile.com/no/software/phones/xperia-s/
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] lee480:
http://www.sonymobile.com/no/software/phones/xperia-s/

This is so weird. Norway site now says JB but gives a ICS build.

So it seems JB will come with stamina mode and socialife.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] lee480:
Timeline of events:

22/05/2013 - Xperia S 6.2.A.0.200 build listed on all Sony Mobile page.

23/05/2013 - Sony Mobile FR said that the update is rolling.

23/05/2013 - Xperia S 6.2.A.0.200 removed from global site but still appearing on regional sites.

23/05/2013 - Xperia S 6.2.A.0.200 removed completely.

23/05/2013 - Xperia S 6.2.A.0.200 relisted on global site. But still removed on regional sites.

23/05/2013 - Xperia S 6.2.A.0.200 removed again.

23/05/2013 - Xperia S Norway have the ICS build version but list all the JB features.

What's next? lol Sony is so cute.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] xjox:
http://www.sonymobile.com/global-en/software/phones/xperia-s/

23/05/2013 - Xperia S ICS with all the JB features.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] MarkMRL:
On the italian page it doesn't even have a version number anymore, it just says "VERSION", and that's it.

Anyway, I assume it will be ready by tonight or tomorrow. They are probably preparing their servers for the heavy load that the downloading of the update will cause, maybe.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Aniket:
Relax guys it only means that JB is coming and its coming soon!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Cholek3:
I got the same.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PLovrin:
We are already causing some heavy load on servers by always checking their pages lol
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] algates:
At last, it's time to relax, be patience, forgot about those updates for a while and go out to breathe some fresh air....:D:beer:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] lee480:
Timeline of events:

22/05/2013 - Xperia S 6.2.A.0.200 build listed on all Sony Mobile page.

23/05/2013 - Sony Mobile FR said that the update is rolling.

23/05/2013 - Xperia S 6.2.A.0.200 removed from global site but still appearing on regional sites.

23/05/2013 - Xperia S 6.2.A.0.200 removed completely.

23/05/2013 - Xperia S 6.2.A.0.200 relisted on global site. But still removed on regional sites.

23/05/2013 - Xperia S 6.2.A.0.200 removed again.

23/05/2013 - Xperia S Norway have the ICS build version but list all the JB features.

23/05/2013 - Italy's site don't list anything. No build version, no features list.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] saul1980:
This is the result of copy-paste in the webpage edit
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ohwarumbloss:
X10 and ArcS which is still a very good phone as long as you don't upgrade to ICS...

I think it's our damned right to get a real update and the power of the phone unleashed.

I am not a Developer and I don't want to sound ungrateful or arrogant but FXP was NO option with my X10, not with my wife's ArcS and not with the Xperia S.

If I want to watch PORN I don't need strange download hosts to watch it. Plus, they never got one really stable CM on any of the 3 Sony Devices I had/have.

I know no-one like to read it but it's true.

OpenSEMC seems to be a wayyyy better way.

Back on Topic.

I managed to root the Stock .211 Firmware, deleted many bloat apps and using Greenify to stop unwanted apps from running in Background. After 15 hours I am sitting here after a day of light usage and having 60% Battery left. That's very ok and, compared to my (now dead) S2, even better.

This may seriously grow up to a daily driver with the known bugs killed. I am curious now.

Greetings

Thomas

---------- Post added at 10:26 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:23 PM ----------

Lol so so true. But imagine you'd get a S as your birthday present from Mom,probably you'd act similar ;)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Bwyan Benton:
The thing is is sony phones are slick and nice. ICS on my ion is way better than jellybean....which shouldnt be. The problem is is to many good phones get left behind because of the amount of new phones being released. Its criminal! We pay money for these phones and contracts and when a company releases a new phone, your current phone is no longer important to them. Even tho its 1 yr old.

Sony left the X10 in such a nasty state and moved on. But not only sony is guilty.

If sony optimizes jellybean better and fixes all the bugs INCLUDING VIDEO RECORDING ill be pretty happy with my ion.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] JOHNNYMED9:
As long as they fix 1080 recording I'm happy absolutely love this phone
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] zupadroid:
Let's not forget about 2G
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] RHBH:
And volume up stops responding.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ejstubbs:
Bear in mind that one of those "confirmations" said that the fix would be released in week 28. That's been and gone, which does undermine its credibility somewhat. ISTR there was the case of another statement on a Sony support forum, reported elsewhere, being shown by subsequent events to have been less than completely reliable.

I'm not saying there won't be a bug fix release at some point. I certainly hope there

will

be, as I will then be able to migrate to Jelly Bean, having been put off it so far by bugs like the 1080p recording. All I'm saying is that we should be careful treating posts from individual Sony support forum monitors as being definitive, especially since past history indicates otherwise.

If Sony is anything like most other large organisations, the people who deal with the 'support' forums are far removed from the actual product development and technical support departments. Their specialisms are more around monitoring social networks, and managing information flow. Most of the time the only technical support they offer is to say: "take your phone to a Sony repair centre," or: "run the Sony repair utility". That's a bit like the PC helpdesk folks who only know how to say: "have you tried turning it off and on again?" The truly useful assistance on those forums usually comes from other forum members. A lot of the information about things like updates is coming to the Sony forum staff second or third hand, and can therefore easily be subject to distortion and misinterpretation on its way to them, and during its final transformation in to a forum posting.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] lee480:
Week 28 was in reference to fix some NFC connectivity issues. However, few days later, Sony confirmed that video recording will be improve in another update but he couldn't give a specific timeline for that. Just wanted to point that during the Syrian Wi-Fi crisis, Sony promised a fix within a week and it came (.211).

Also I want to point out that the support forum rarely gives timeline for bug fixes.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Bwyan Benton:
Please point me to this forum where a sony rep states video recording will be improved.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] lee480:
Here you go

http://talk.sonymobile.com/message/497153#497153
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Bwyan Benton:
Thats an Xperia S forum but ill assume they'll treat the Ion accordingly.

Thanks
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tel033:
hi, im currently on .200 jb and i just can find any big improvment, its a bit more fluid but battery is not the best, home redraws are worst i think and chrome forces close and freezes a lot, is there a way to make it better?

Ive never rooted my phone before but im seriously considering it now, will it make it better perhaps with that Lagfix app that manage te ram? i think it does sth with the trim problem, or maybe that greenify app?

and also almost every time i update an app from playstore it says that theres no sufficient memory ,and im just udating isnt it supposed to replace the old app version? I still got 250 mb free

thanks !:good:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Redstarr1:
Rooting won't do wonders, but I personally think that Greenify helps great. I still have launcher redraws though. I have no idea why you get insufficient memory errors, how many apps do you have installed? 250MB free is that your free active memory or free memory for downloaded apps? I also have about 250MB free active right now, but for apps installation I have about 850 (so 1,1GB installed, around 70 apps). If you only have 250MB free for installing apps that could explain things, I mean yes it replaces the app, but during installation you still have the app twice on your phone.

Anyway, we're getting an update one of these days, keep an eye on this forum.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PLovrin:
I also had a lot of problems with insufficient storage available. Even if I had plenty of storage. Sometimes restarting the phone helped and sometimes I just had to go to settings/storage just for the phone to figure out that it has enough of storage. I was getting this error even for installing apps only 1mb in size. I even tried lucky patcher but it didn't help. Then I just got crazy and deleted a lot of apps so I had 350MB free and it stopped. I don't know if android has some kind of reserved space or what. But it was mind boggling. Every update or install insufficient storage available.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tel033:
I don't know what you meant with free active memory, but I have now around 150 apps and I had 160 some days ago but I deleted cause I was nervous, I had 250 mb and now 433, that's the phone memory available, in the external memory "sd" I have a lot of space but a lot of apps can't be moved to sd and many stop working properly or widgets dissappear when I do.. Is weird cause play store doesn't allow me to install some apps and maybe the second time I try it works

Apart from that if I'm rooted I will be able to delete some apps I now can't, and maybe find a way to lock home app so It won't redraw, I read about some trick in here but it's complicated for me

Thanks!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PLovrin:
I really think that there is something wrong with android for this insufficient problem. Two days ago I had 300+MB free and I didn't install anything till yesterday. Yesterday I wanted to install an app 1.7MB in size and I got insufficient storage available. I went into settings/storage and it showed 201MB free. Where is 100MB more I had... So I went in settings/apps, waited for the phone to load app sizes and it got me estimate of 500+MB free. I went back in settings/storage and now it showed me 251MB free :-/ I really don't understand this. Then I was able to install that app but after that it showed me 202MB free... This is just weird.

I checked today and settings/storage was 206MB and settings/apps 737MB.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Rangeeshnathan:
U must have an unused odex of that file

Try removing it with lucky patcher >remove unused odex
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PLovrin:
Will try, thanks. I'll report later, can't try right now
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PLovrin:
Lucky patcher didn't help unfortunately.

But it was really weird because looking at settings/storage graph it showed that I have approximately 40% free storage but it claimed 204MB which is somewhere around 10%.

I was looking in settings/apps and it showed 600+MB free which is right around 40% free.

So where the hell would be lost that 400MB right.

I downloaded an app called diskusage from playstore to look at my phone storage.

And what I found out? Only Google+ alone had 200+MB in cache... I deleted all cache and now I have correct 600+MB free as settings/apps claims.

So basically it's kinda a flaw of android that you can't see nowhere, that cache is hogging your storage.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] dobodu:
Are you shure you weren't sync. photos or videos while observing this 200 Mb requirement ?

I've never seen my G+ cache so high (at least 80-100Mb max).:confused:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PLovrin:
Yea man. Only cache. I'm not syncing anything. It was really weird. And all was shown as system memory.

In settings/apps Google plus was 36MB total storage, data size 3MB and cache 200+.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] dobodu:
Well,

After a clean install of OpenSEMC RC2 and flash of the latest GAPPS, with only a few pictures taken and nothing synchronised,

I got :

Google +

Total : 25 Mo

Cache : 1,6 Mo

Quite far from 200 Mo :confused:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] PLovrin:
Well, I deleted all cache yesterday and I only browsed g+ for maybe 30minutes today and I already have 9MB cache..

I'll see what will happen in a week or so..
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] TheBrutux168:
Somebody help me

I can't seem to update to Jelly Bean. I am currently on ICS rooted with an app to change the boot animation. Whenever I try to install it says something doesn't work
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] YuriBasescu:
Do a factory reset.

Booya, another easy and fast solution by YuriBasescu!!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] m7s1994:
Try Flashtool to update : )
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] franklin93:
http://www.xperiablog.net/2013/05/30/install-jelly-bean-to-your-xperia-s-using-flashtool-tutorial/ this should help but my suggestion is to wait for the bug fix which is expected soon,because the current jelly bean is full of bags.if you have no problem continue :good:
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] sp3z3l:
If I understood that correctly what you wrote, I assume you have a rooted stock ICS and want to upgrade using an "official" way like OTA or SEUS/SUS or something similar.

Your phone checks if you did unlock your phone, which you might have done for rooting - and then the update fails. Easiest thing to update is using flashtool. If you want the official way you might want to relock (if you had it unlocked) and update as you wish.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Redstarr1:
Use EMMA if you have an unlocked bootloader, this downloads the latest firmware available for your region/phone and installs it. I think it might work for locked bootloaders as well. The procedure will wipe your phone though. You could use the unofficial Flashtool as well, but you'll need to get the ftf file from somewhere yourself.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] LucidSomnia:
So if I ipdate through EMMA, I 'll get the latest 1.96?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] switzerland92:
Can someone take a full res daylight photo with new .96 build so I can see is camera really improved or not.

I really hope Sony did make changes on algorithms like they did on Xperia Z and it's picture quality after the patch.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] burnin:
Xperia S 6.2.B.1.96 @ 12Mpxl SCN AUTO

Dont like... too many compression i think
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] switzerland92:
Thank you but can you upload it on dropbox, box.net, skydrive or any other image hosting service that support full resolution upload? XDA resizes and compresses :(
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] burnin:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bxw9SpAgU4i0MzlFNHBWbmQtTkk/edit?usp=sharing

And now?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] skyhirules:
6.2.B.1.96 first bug...

Here it is:

Let the screen turn-off, either by each-self or by pressing the power button. Let a few minutes pass (important). Press the power button, in order to unlock the screen. You'll see for about a second, a black lock-screen with a clock that shows the time when the screen turned off. After that, the lock-screen picture appears (either the theme's one or the user defined one), and the clock with the correct current time.

In simple words, it seems like there's a lag in loading the lockscreen and its clock.

Does this happen to any of you with the stock 6.2.B.1.96 (no root). Please give a reply so we can see whether is indeed a firmware bug or it only happens to me.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] switzerland92:
Thank you very much, this is it :)

As I can see Sony did not change camera firmware, at least not in the way to improve imaging algorithms.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] omegastarr:
But if not improved the quality is at least "restored".. I have mixed feelings about all this..
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] topuji:
What is the new media apps everyone seems to be talking about in 6.2.B.1.96? I did't see any difference from .200 ? Can anyone comment?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Pankaj_png:
Yes.. I did noticed that there is lag of couple of seconds and then it updates the time.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] tania247260:
you people are really very very crazy.Always looking for bugs,trying to find out minor issue.Go and build a own rom for yourself
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] skyhirules:
Yeah, we're ALL very very crazy! So, why don't go find your own forum like zedge or something, and stop picking on us!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] burnin:
I see this too but less than a second mybe half a second, dont see the clock its very fast but yes from some time a black screen before the lock screen picture!

---------- Post added at 09:46 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:35 AM ----------

For me camera on Xperia S was the big disapoint from the start! I Bought my Xperia S November last year with 4.0.4 ICS out of the box and love everthing else but the camera! My previous device was a Sony Ericsson Satio from 2009 with a 12Mpxl + Neon Flash and i have come backwards because pictures in Satio are a lot (very a lot) more sharp and smooth without any noise! I think Sony flagship for 2012 anounced with 12Mpxl camera it will be superior to the Sony Ericsson flagship from 2009... wrong!

Somene have som toturial to take good pictures with Xperia S?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] omegastarr:
There was a difference for me since I come from LWW with 5mpix. I guess I am wrong, but in a normal daylight I think it takes good pictures.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] @NUJ:
The stock kernel sucks battery alott
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] skyhirules:
Sony's official answer on their (new) forum, about the lockscreen "bug" I mentioned before:

http://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/Xperi...ckscreen-clock-on-Xperia-S/m-p/353624#U353624

It's not a bug. It's on purpose for saving battery. When the screen is turned off, the phone gets in power saving mode, and some functions are paused (like the lockscreen and its clock). That's cool with me! So, a bugless JB (for the moment)! :)
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] gopiraj_m:
Download the lockscreen apk from the link below. It's not my work, I just found it on Xperia Z forum and I've been using the same since a long time. http://db.tt/8uHGg7re

I've had the same bug not sure if it's really doing the power saver job under the hood, but this new one does light up fast when you wake the screen.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] dieselman6969:
Keyboard still laggy :@
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] burnin:
Yes, sometimes take about 1 or 1 and 1/2 second to show up!

Battery also drainning mutch faster now i think from .200 to .96

I did not do a clean install mybe thats my problem!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] dieselman6969:
the 1.96 update is making me sick so errors keypad camera battery do not know what else to do to the brick I just want to sell it I'm sick of sony ....

someone has a 1.96 rom europe more properly Portugal to test?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] lordoftheriffs:
For me, battery is perfect, and since I have ZU keyboard installed, it is not laggy
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] dieselman6969:
i have my bootloader lock :( can i install zu keyboard?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] burnin:
I m in portugal... my batt today drop 26% after 11 hours with very little use... 1 or 2 phonne call, only 36 min on screen time...

2,3 %/h battery drain its good ou bad?

Everything else its working good!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] lordoftheriffs:
You can, by installing recovery and flashing the zip.

Recovery: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2308493&page=12

ZUltra keyboard: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2344017

Although stock keyboard worked fine for me. It needs 1-2 seconds to load after a reboot, then loads instantly
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ConorCX:
Did you perform a clean install or upgrade from previous firmware? I flashed while keeping data, think I should factory reset to improve battery life?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] lordoftheriffs:
Do a factory reset, wipe cache/dalvik cache... Should be good as mine
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ConorCX:
Would that just be wipe cache/data/apps log on Flashtool and then re flash? I have no recovery installed.

EDIT:

Performed a factory reset from the phone itself, and the battery seems to fare better now.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] bullanguero82:
so after a lot of thinking i updated mi SXS to JB .96

as it was sure to happen, lag appeared in 1080 and 720 HD recording, but no problems with gps or wifi for now.

but i have this silly question: how do i activate the shuffle mode in the walkman?? it only shows the repeat mode on (also would like to turn that off), but its not like in ics where the options were right there. yes yes, im a noob

please help?

greetings from Chile
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] panchuckles:
Tap the album

Saludos compa.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] bullanguero82:
Fixed!!!!

jajaja enorme, loco! ahí estaba. revisé mil páginas y comenzaba a creer que era otro cagazo de JB

PD. entre tanto gringo que me responda un chileno en unas horas? no habría apostado a eso! saludos, perro
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] FenrirMX:
Nomás te comento, es a fuerza que hables en inglés, o, como yo, pongas una traducción.

Just a heads up, it's required that you speak in English around here.

Saludos.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] bullanguero82:
oops. didn't know that.

for the rest, i was saying that i had looked for that answer on a lot o webpages and YT videos and was starting to think that was another bug in the JB. but with that image posted by panchukles i resolved it.

greetings.

gracias, FenrirMX
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Vengeance66:
Xperia Keyboard update... I was shocked this morning when I got an app update.

This is the first app update in Update Center since JB.

Have you experienced something new? It's just functionality...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SxperiaS:
End of the road for Sony Xperia S it seems.....

http://www.xperiablog.net/2013/11/0...nth-for-a-wide-range-of-sony-xperia-handsets/
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SxperiaS:
Anyone knows what was the small update from Update Center ~0.1MB same version (6.2.B.1.96) ?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] LomDiV:
I've also got this message in OTA. Will root be preserved after update?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] teslavio:
I updated and didn't notice any difference. Root is still there.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] dieselman6969:
I have no update in portugal!!!
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SxperiaS:
Updated in Portugal - No Carrier
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] dieselman6969:
What activity was this and when?
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] SxperiaS:
Got this yesterday around 19:00h in Update Center and as i said i don't know what it did.

It

should be

mostly bug fixes because it was 0.1 MB