Posted by Kirankj1724
just checked out Ray at one of the local stores!!
AWESOME display
build is rock-solid!!!
[ This Message was edited by: Kirankj1724 on 2011-12-03 11:10 ]
Posted by Rookwise
I agree. The build quality seems excellent. Not even had the usual SE squeaky battery cover syndrome happen on mine. Display is nice and sharp too.
Just the small amount of firmware bugs which hopefully will get sorted with ICS
Posted by OffLineR
I think Ray is the most under appreciated mobile phone on the market.
No one really knows how capable it is and how solid.
I don't regret a second migrating from X10.
Posted by pao9195
can this phone plays HD movies in mkv, avi, and mp4 format? i want to buy this phone this december.
thanks
Posted by pauvincent
On 2011-12-04 13:30:02, OffLineR wrote:
I think Ray is the most under appreciated mobile phone on the market.
No one really knows how capable it is and how solid.
I don't regret a second migrating from X10.
+1 tp that amen
Posted by gayannr
On 2011-12-08 02:31:56, pao9195 wrote:
can this phone plays HD movies in mkv, avi, and mp4 format? i want to buy this phone this december.
thanks
yes it should ; with a 3rd party video player from Android market
Posted by amardeep
Does the update to 2.3.4 and whatever Sony bundle with it lose me any features ? (e.g. I take it that major things are unchanged, like the availability of a Japanese keyboard).
Of less concern, what do I get apart from internal bug fixes / optimisations, apart from some new camera modes, anything else of note ?
Posted by mediar
^^
http://blogs.sonyericsson.com[....]obal-roll-out-of-new-software/
Posted by amardeep
Thanks, updated and all is well (though I too miss the screen power-off animation tha makes it look like a CRT switching off, strangely screen power-on now has a little bit of expand-effect animation that's quite subtle but makes it look a bit like CRT power-on if you're looking carefully).
Posted by Rookwise
ｎｅｅｄ ｈｅｌｐ． ｍｙ ｒａｙ ｈａｓ ｓｕｄｄｅｎｌｙ ｄｅｆａｕｌｔｅｄ ｔｏ ｔｈｅ ｊａｐａｎｅｓｅ ｋｅｙｂｏａｒｄ． ｗｈｅｎ ｉ ｓｅｌｅｃｔ ｉｎｔｅｒｎａｔｉｏｎａｌ ａｓ ｔｈｅ ｄｅｆａｕｌｔ ｏｒ ｅｖｅｎ ｓｅｌｅｃｔｉｎｇ ｓｗｉｆｔｋｅｙ ｘ ｉｔ ｊｕｓｔ ｇｏｅｓ ｂａｃｋ ｔｏ ｊａｐａｎｅｓｅ ｋｅｙｂｏａｒｄ．
ｉｔｓ ｄｏｉｎｇ ｍｙ ｈｅａｄ ｉｎ． ａｎｙｂｏｄｙ ｈａｖｅ ａｎｙ ｉｄｅａｓ ａｐａｒｔ ｆｒｏｍ ｒｅｆｌａｓｈｉｎｇ ａｓ ｉ ｈａｖｅ ａ ｌｏｔ ｉｎｓｔａｌｌｅｄ．
Posted by Rookwise
Nevermind. Seems to have sorted itself out now. Back to using the International keypad.
Posted by Bonovox
that's really odd!!
Posted by Rookwise
Yes very. Giving me more reason to get my x10 back out if things carry on. Just hope ics sorts most of the problems out with the phone.
Posted by jplacson
Do you have alternative input apps installed? keyboards? etc?
Posted by Del
On 2011-12-19 23:13:00, Rookwise wrote:
ｎｅｅｄ ｈｅｌｐ． ｍｙ ｒａｙ ｈａｓ ｓｕｄｄｅｎｌｙ ｄｅｆａｕｌｔｅｄ ｔｏ ｔｈｅ ｊａｐａｎｅｓｅ ｋｅｙｂｏａｒｄ． ｗｈｅｎ ｉ ｓｅｌｅｃｔ ｉｎｔｅｒｎａｔｉｏｎａｌ ａｓ ｔｈｅ ｄｅｆａｕｌｔ ｏｒ ｅｖｅｎ ｓｅｌｅｃｔｉｎｇ ｓｗｉｆｔｋｅｙ ｘ ｉｔ ｊｕｓｔ ｇｏｅｓ ｂａｃｋ ｔｏ ｊａｐａｎｅｓｅ ｋｅｙｂｏａｒｄ．
ｉｔｓ ｄｏｉｎｇ ｍｙ ｈｅａｄ ｉｎ． ａｎｙｂｏｄｙ ｈａｖｅ ａｎｙ ｉｄｅａｓ ａｐａｒｔ ｆｒｏｍ ｒｅｆｌａｓｈｉｎｇ ａｓ ｉ ｈａｖｅ ａ ｌｏｔ ｉｎｓｔａｌｌｅｄ．
I had that on my neo when I installed swiftkey x, I had to uninstall swiftkey to get back to the international keyboard
Posted by Rookwise
I tried uninstalling swiftkey x incase that was the problem but it didn't work.
As mentioned. Everything is now back to normal. I didn't do anything it just switched back from Japanese to International Keyboard on its own.
Must have been it's time of the month. The phone is sooo tempermental its worse than my girlfriend for causing hassle.
Posted by Bonovox
Just long press in texting screen & choose the right keyboard
Posted by Rookwise
Did that. Just defaulted to the Japanese keyboard even after selecting international or swiftkey x.
Posted by Bonovox
Hmmm,seems the Ray still has some bugs
Posted by bronxdude
new firmware out. .062 is the version
Posted by Rookwise
Not available for Generic UK phones yet.
Posted by OffLineR
What is new?
BTW, I am so happy with my phone I don't care what is going to be offered with a new FW
Love this phone so much.
I did remove the oem screen protector as well.
IT had tiny scratches on it which I hate.
But it was smoother with it.
I might buy a new screen protector for the smoothnes.
Posted by Bonovox
Well,as
is no more I decided to buy a Ray again. Second time lucky this time round it's better. Build is better,firmware more stable it's just excellent!! I too removed the sheet & it's better imo. Anyway I have noticed the battery life is excellent too.
Posted by arcmhyke
On 2012-01-28 17:37:10, Bonovox wrote:
Well,as
is no more I decided to buy a Ray again. Second time lucky this time round it's better. Build is better,firmware more stable it's just excellent!! I too removed the sheet & it's better imo. Anyway I have noticed the battery life is excellent too.
huwat?!
Am I in the Past or in the Future?
[ This Message was edited by: mhyke on 2012-01-29 08:42 ]
Posted by Bonovox
Twilight zone
Posted by arcmhyke
On 2012-01-29 11:40:00, Bonovox wrote:
Twilight zone
well, here I thought that you really stay away from Sony Ericsson/Sony since you had your Arc, Neo, Ray, Play, Mini's, and again Ray and said lots of good things about the phone from day 1, and also said lots of really bad things too when you found a fault or it does not meet your needs and switched or tried Nokia, Samsung and HTC, and now here you go again, back to SE/Sony
It's like a life cycle for you
anyways good luck with your Xperia Ray
Posted by hihihans
@mhyke. That's Bono
Posted by Bonovox
Yes I came full circle. Its not that the Ray or any other Xperia never met my needs that's not the right word. I guess I was becoming a little over fussy and the Ray had many annoying niggles but its much better now IMO. I also have the HTC Incredible S(terrible name) which I love. I do love the Ray this time. I miss Xperia and look forward to new Sony range although I always still have my views on quality
Posted by Bonovox
Cos I recently bought a new Ray I got a free 90 unlimited music download code & 5 free movie downloads too
And the Ray came with the Sony Ericsson live headset
Posted by hihihans
How is the quality of the Live headset. I'm thinking of buying one.
Posted by Bonovox
Excellent
Posted by Rookwise
Mine came with the Livesound headset as well. Never bothered using it due to the ear phone type. Still use my ds220 with hpm66's for my music unless the phone is plugged into my car.
Only time I use headphones is when I'm in the gym.
Posted by Bonovox
They are worth quite a bit them headphones I think??
Posted by Rookwise
Yea bout £60ish
Posted by Bonovox
I listened to some Pink Floyd on them 2 nights back sounded fine. My live headset
[ This Message was edited by: Bonovox on 2012-01-30 19:53 ]
Posted by hihihans
MH1 LiveSound €30 in Holland
Posted by Bonovox
Cheaper
Posted by Bonovox
Original
Android docks makes a refreshing change from the iphone ones we always see
Posted by tranced
Android is making its way. They cannot follow Samsung's pattern
Posted by Kimi
I just received an update notification on my Ray for version 4.0.2.A.062
.
Anyone else? I'm a bit reluctant installing an update and being one of the very first ones...
Posted by Bonovox
Really?? Mine is 042 I will check myself but I have no notifications as yet.
Posted by Rookwise
Confirmed available for Generic sim free UK models. File size is 169mb
Android version 2.3.4
Baseband 8x55A-AAABQOAZM-203028D-64
Kernel version 2.6.32.9-perf
SEMCUser@SEMCHost#1
Build number 4.0.2.A.0.62
I chose to just update instead of update and reset as I've got too much to reinstall and not a lot of time. When I get more time I'll be doing a complete update and reset.
Cant see anything different from just a quick look as my battery has nearly had it and needs charging. Perhaps just some background system update ???
Edit
One thing I have noticed is that the phone seems quite a lot quicker accessing and scrolling through items. Could be just me though with it being an update. It might have cleared a few things out. However. Its much faster than before.Previously my Ray was really slow and unresponsive.
[ This Message was edited by: Rookwise on 2012-02-05 23:12 ]
Posted by Bonovox
Just updated mine
_________________
Material things don't matter,but Rock n Roll does!!!!
[ This Message was edited by: Bonovox on 2012-02-06 00:34 ]
Posted by Bonovox
Forgot where I read this but apparently this update one of the fixes is better memory management. I noticed I had more ram than usual too.
Posted by myavu
My Ray's Battery Status
Cheers!
Vinu
[ This Message was edited by: myavu on 2012-02-06 05:28 ]
Posted by OffLineR
3d on battery.
Wow mate.
I'll never see that
Posted by Bonovox
Definitely noticed a speed improvement. And as for better memory management well it does seem so as in standby with normal back ground stuff running I had 208mb ram free. Before it hovered around 179 down to 150mb ram.
Posted by Bonovox
The amount of free ram on standby is much more now from before.
Posted by Kimi
Looks like this version cannot be (easily) rooted any more. Since I removed a lot of crap stock apps and autostart services (facebook, TimeScape, Twitter etc.) my Ray is very fast and stable and I like to keep it that way. As I also have around 205mb RAM free in standby, I don't see any advantage for me.
So I think I'll wait until ICS arrives and then have a look...
Posted by altemyr
On 2012-02-06 20:23:52, Bonovox wrote:
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The amount of free ram on standby is much more now from before.
How do you manage to get that amount of free memory? On my Ray, the free memory is around 75-85 MB