Posted by doministry
Cool, thanks.
Posted by Detox
Congratulations on your purchase, smclion102 and thanks for the pics, randomuser
.
My SI-number is in the list, but nothing to see on Update Center yet. Anyway, I'll update with the PC Companion, I'll try it later today, we'll see...
Posted by randomuser
Benchmarks and more screenshots coming up soon
Posted by HxH
Don't forget to clear background running before runs the benchmarks
Here is my wishlist
Quadrant
AnTuTu
Nenamarks 2.3
SunSpider
Rightware Browsermark
If you can provides
Thanks
Posted by rickster2kuk
Flashed my UK S to swiss via flashtool. A lot easier than Ithought. Really nice update, everything is super smooth and for me this really is a big update - the whole interface is much more polished.
Not sure about battery life yet, seems on par with Gb. Few initial annoyances; pattern unlock now won't let you see sms preview and I can't find the emoticons in the keyboard.
Cgrime browser is immense!
Posted by randomuser
On 2012-06-22 13:48:25, HxH wrote:
Don't forget to clear background running before runs the benchmarks
Here is my wishlist
Quadrant
AnTuTu
Nenamarks 2.3
SunSpider
Rightware Browsermark
If you can provides
Thanks
Will include all of the above. Anything else ?
Posted by >500
got a white one from Vodafone Australia today. They have an exclusive on it here, but dont stock black!
anyway, Leather case, smart tags, HDMI and spare screen protector were in the box... Not bad at all!
edit: ICS review on XDA already:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1724777
[ This Message was edited by: >500 on 2012-06-22 14:51 ]
Posted by smclion102
On 2012-06-22 13:00:21, Detox wrote:
Congratulations on your purchase, smclion102
Thx you
Detox
Posted by randomuser
Okay so let's start with Xperia S ICS benchmarks.
Starting with Futuremark Peacekeeper HTML5 benchmark test. As you can see, Xperia S beats all except One S and the GS3. Once we get an OC kernel XS can easily score higher than HTC One S in this benchmark.
On Gingerbread XS scored around 310 stock ! So a huge difference after ICS
Next let's take a look at Antutu. Antutu score on ICS as you can see is 6700+. On GB average Antutu scores was 6500. So a slight improvement here.
Nenamark 2 is for some reason showing a worse score on ICS. On Gingerbread XS scored 37.5 fps but now 37.1 ( Not a difference at all almost but still ! )
Browsermark score is also a nice improvement from Gingerbread. 75000 vs 97000 on ICS. The browser itself is very smooth now, scrolling is butter smooth.
Vellamo shows the biggest improvement. On GB XS scored around 1240, with ICS there is almost a whopping 400 points increase to 1650. Matches the One X Vellamo score.
For some reason I was unable to run Sunspider Javascript benchmark on the stock browser. Got a driver not found error. But you can see the score from Vellamo test. 1700 is a pretty good score, on par with the some of the fastest devices currently. On Gingerbread the score was ~2400 ish.
Now last but not the least
Quadrant. It shows a decent increase as well from (best) 3250 on Gingerbread to 3400 almost on ICS. Decent increase.
Some random screenshots
ICS Observations
* On the whole ICS is pretty fluid but sometimes it feels a second or two slower than Gingerbread, especially Settings.
* Battery Life seems to be better. Will be posting battery graphs in a day or two.
* Albums app is pretty smooth even with more than 1000 photos. Seems almost as fast and smooth as on GX.
* Films app is really nice and I love the whole idea. Very cool looking as well !!
* For some reason with ICS screen seems brighter.
* Face unlock, at least to me seems very convenient.
* Google chrome works great. Super smooth !
* Walkman app is more or less the same as semc music. The visualizations are really cool though. And also sound is now slightly louder and better, both through earphones as well as speaker.
* The keyboard is much better now ! Plus lot more new options to customize it. Feels great typing on it now, in portrait mode its MUCH better than 2.3 keyboard.
* The emoticons button in the keyboard is hidden by default now.
* New live wallpapers !!
* Camera UI is unchanged from Gingerbread.
* The three touch buttons are not as sensitive now as they were after the .76 GB update. Hope Sony releases an update to fix this soon.
* WIFI reception is improved
* Phone heats up a little bit more on ICS compared to GB. Around 2-4 degrees higher while performing similar tasks.
Nothing alarming but still hope its fixed.
* Free RAM is much less now. Hard to get more than 300mb free RAM now. Most of the times it hovers around 200-250mb mark.
[ This Message was edited by: randomuser on 2012-06-22 17:03 ]
Posted by doministry
Thanks!
The free RAM sounds cr..p though - with 200MB you'll probably get this fcuking homescreen reloads with multitasking
just like Arc..... 200MB seems too little to multitask browser and facebook, I think. Sh..t!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by doministry
From Xda:
"RAM is fine. It's just some background services that use a lot of RAM but they can be cleared when the RAM is needed."
Posted by Detox
Still nothing for me today
. I have now tried the PC Companion (Support Zone), Update Center and Update Service. Btw, I saw this list online too, but I don't know how reliable it is:
Xperia S (LT26)- 1257-3741- 2012-06-21
Xperia S (LT26)- 1257-3740- 2012-06-22
Xperia S (LT26)- 1257-3740- 2012-06-23
Xperia S (LT26)- 1257-2734- 2012-06-24
Xperia S (LT26)- 1257-2735- 2012-06-25
Xperia S (LT26)- 1257-4879- 2012-06-26
Xperia S (LT26)- 1257-4882- 2012-06-27
Xperia S (LT26)- 1257-5062- 2012-06-28
Xperia S (LT26)- 1257-5063- 2012-06-29
Xperia S (LT26)- 1257-5212- 2012-06-30
So, maybe tomorrow is the day...
And again, thank you for your efforts, randomuser
.
Posted by owlsfan_72
Thanks RandomUser, I'm looking forward to the ICS update - just hope it happens before my holiday in a week.
Posted by rickster2kuk
Funny you mentioned the heating up - mine felt a little warmer on ICS.
Posted by smclion102
Using ICS
thx randomuser
Posted by Del
I was using ICS on my XS untill this morning, I left my phone off last night and put it on charge the whole night, then after having my phone turned on for just 1 hour the battery fell by 10% with very little use
So I flashed back to GB .75 I think I'll wait for my regions official update because for me the battery was terrible on the swiss ICS that I flashed from xda.
Posted by Muhammad-Oli
What are you supposed to do if your Xperia S freezes up? The non-removeable battery means you can't rip it out and restart like with other phones. Last night my Xperia S froze under some very light internet usage and I couldn't do anything but wait for the battery to run out.
Now it's on charge and the only sign of life it is showing is the red charge LED is on. It won't start up. Is my Xperia S dead?
EDIT: Ok, I think the battery was just very dead. It just suddenly flashed into life. Still... is there any way to avoid scary moments like this?
[ This Message was edited by: Muhammad-Oli on 2012-06-23 23:19 ]
Posted by Lightspeed_x
@Muhammad-Oli: Try pressing Home+Power button simultaneously for a couple seconds.
Posted by S4k1s
On 2012-06-24 00:17:11, Muhammad-Oli wrote:
What are you supposed to do if your Xperia S freezes up? The non-removeable battery means you can't rip it out and restart like with other phones. Last night my Xperia S froze under some very light internet usage and I couldn't do anything but wait for the battery to run out.
Now it's on charge and the only sign of life it is showing is the red charge LED is on. It won't start up. Is my Xperia S dead?
EDIT: Ok, I think the battery was just very dead. It just suddenly flashed into life. Still... is there any way to avoid scary moments like this?
[ This Message was edited by: Muhammad-Oli on 2012-06-23 23:19 ]
read the (f) manual.
At page 133 (Eng) it says
To force restart your phone
1 Press and hold both the volume up key and the power key for five seconds.
2 After your phone vibrates once, release the keys. The phone restarts
automatically.
To force a phone shutdown
1 Press and hold both the volume up key and the power key for 10 seconds.
2 After your phone vibrates three times, release the keys. The phone turns off
automatically.
Posted by eum1r
im very disapointed on camera = image quality of Xperia S
Posted by Muhammad-Oli
Cheers Lightspeed_x and S4k1s. Will make a note for next time! Unfortunately it was about 3am and I didn't have access to the manual so I couldn't read it.
Posted by randomuser
I checked out the Samsung Galaxy S3 in a store last week and what I observed really shocked me
First just checked the performance, didn't seem much faster than my XS at all. At best, its slightly faster.
Next I decided to compare the screen against my XS. And boy was I shocked
. I knew the Xperia S screen was better but I didn't expect the difference to be so vast. I played a Samsung 1080p demo video on both (same vid) and boy was the Galaxy S3 screen dim and on the whole dull with not much fine detail !. Xperia S was way sharper and details very crystal clear on it compared to the S3. And everyone else in the store agreed the XS was way better as well, even the Samsung rep ( Well she was a secret Sony fanGIRL anyway )[ This Message was edited by: randomuser on 2012-06-24 07:45 ]
Posted by admad
On 2012-06-24 01:44:53, S4k1s wrote:
On 2012-06-24 00:17:11, Muhammad-Oli wrote:
What are you supposed to do if your Xperia S freezes up? The non-removeable battery means you can't rip it out and restart like with other phones. Last night my Xperia S froze under some very light internet usage and I couldn't do anything but wait for the battery to run out.
Now it's on charge and the only sign of life it is showing is the red charge LED is on. It won't start up. Is my Xperia S dead?
EDIT: Ok, I think the battery was just very dead. It just suddenly flashed into life. Still... is there any way to avoid scary moments like this?
[ This Message was edited by: Muhammad-Oli on 2012-06-23 23:19 ]
read the (f) manual.
At page 133 (Eng) it says
To force restart your phone
1 Press and hold both the volume up key and the power key for five seconds.
2 After your phone vibrates once, release the keys. The phone restarts
automatically.
To force a phone shutdown
1 Press and hold both the volume up key and the power key for 10 seconds.
2 After your phone vibrates three times, release the keys. The phone turns off
automatically.
Hmm I wonder if that would work anyway, after all, when phone freezes, means it can't really accept any command, just like on PC, we can press and hold ctrl+alt+del many times, it still don't guarantee restart. The one and only true restart is to cut off the power for short time (remove the battery or press "restart" button). Does this mean Xperia S doesn't have an restart button, and the only means to do so is this lame combination of keys and hope it will work?
[ This Message was edited by: admad on 2012-06-24 08:50 ]
Posted by xenia
What about timescape? Is it new like in 3dshell?
Posted by Muhammad-Oli
On 2012-06-24 09:50:13, admad wrote:
On 2012-06-24 01:44:53, S4k1s wrote:
On 2012-06-24 00:17:11, Muhammad-Oli wrote:
What are you supposed to do if your Xperia S freezes up? The non-removeable battery means you can't rip it out and restart like with other phones. Last night my Xperia S froze under some very light internet usage and I couldn't do anything but wait for the battery to run out.
Now it's on charge and the only sign of life it is showing is the red charge LED is on. It won't start up. Is my Xperia S dead?
EDIT: Ok, I think the battery was just very dead. It just suddenly flashed into life. Still... is there any way to avoid scary moments like this?
[ This Message was edited by: Muhammad-Oli on 2012-06-23 23:19 ]
read the (f) manual.
At page 133 (Eng) it says
To force restart your phone
1 Press and hold both the volume up key and the power key for five seconds.
2 After your phone vibrates once, release the keys. The phone restarts
automatically.
To force a phone shutdown
1 Press and hold both the volume up key and the power key for 10 seconds.
2 After your phone vibrates three times, release the keys. The phone turns off
automatically.
Hmm I wonder if that would work anyway, after all, when phone freezes, means it can't really accept any command, just like on PC, we can press and hold ctrl+alt+del many times, it still don't guarantee restart. The one and only true restart is to cut off the power for short time (remove the battery or press "restart" button). Does this mean Xperia S doesn't have an restart button, and the only means to do so is this lame combination of keys and hope it will work?
[ This Message was edited by: admad on 2012-06-24 08:50 ]
Yep I guess we have to hope it works. When mine froze last night, the screen and transparent strip were both lit and no input made any difference. I wish I had known to try the reset key combination then!
Posted by Tsepz_GP
On 2012-06-24 08:45:11, randomuser wrote:
I checked out the Samsung Galaxy S3 in a store last week and what I observed really shocked me
First just checked the performance, didn't seem much faster than my XS at all. At best, its slightly faster.
Next I decided to compare the screen against my XS. And boy was I shocked
. I knew the Xperia S screen was better but I didn't expect the difference to be so vast. I played a Samsung 1080p demo video on both (same vid) and boy was the Galaxy S3 screen dim and on the whole dull with not much fine detail !. Xperia S was way sharper and details very crystal clear on it compared to the S3. And everyone else in the store agreed the XS was way better as well, even the Samsung rep ( Well she was a secret Sony fanGIRL anyway )
[ This Message was edited by: randomuser on 2012-06-24 07:45 ]
Even next to a GS2 the GS3 isnt that much faster. I think we're at a point where there's not much that can be added in terms of speed anymore, these phones are already seriously fast, where it begins to matter is for how long it stays like that though, after you've loaded the apps, games and media you want and have had it for a few months, this is where im interested in seeing how the Sonys do in ICS, as with the old ones the launcher would have to reload and RAM management would go downhill and a format would be needed eventually, im hearing a lot of horror stories with Arc S on ICS, i hope the NXT phones like the XS wont do this.
Posted by RandomCarpet
On 2012-06-24 12:00:14, Muhammad-Oli wrote:
On 2012-06-24 09:50:13, admad wrote:
On 2012-06-24 01:44:53, S4k1s wrote:
On 2012-06-24 00:17:11, Muhammad-Oli wrote:
What are you supposed to do if your Xperia S freezes up? The non-removeable battery means you can't rip it out and restart like with other phones. Last night my Xperia S froze under some very light internet usage and I couldn't do anything but wait for the battery to run out.
Now it's on charge and the only sign of life it is showing is the red charge LED is on. It won't start up. Is my Xperia S dead?
EDIT: Ok, I think the battery was just very dead. It just suddenly flashed into life. Still... is there any way to avoid scary moments like this?
[ This Message was edited by: Muhammad-Oli on 2012-06-23 23:19 ]
read the (f) manual.
At page 133 (Eng) it says
To force restart your phone
1 Press and hold both the volume up key and the power key for five seconds.
2 After your phone vibrates once, release the keys. The phone restarts
automatically.
To force a phone shutdown
1 Press and hold both the volume up key and the power key for 10 seconds.
2 After your phone vibrates three times, release the keys. The phone turns off
automatically.
Hmm I wonder if that would work anyway, after all, when phone freezes, means it can't really accept any command, just like on PC, we can press and hold ctrl+alt+del many times, it still don't guarantee restart. The one and only true restart is to cut off the power for short time (remove the battery or press "restart" button). Does this mean Xperia S doesn't have an restart button, and the only means to do so is this lame combination of keys and hope it will work?
[ This Message was edited by: admad on 2012-06-24 08:50 ]
Yep I guess we have to hope it works. When mine froze last night, the screen and transparent strip were both lit and no input made any difference. I wish I had known to try the reset key combination then!
Of course it works, it's still a hardware reset. There is absolutely no reason to doubt that it will work
The RESET button on (older) PCs does not cut the power either, it sends an NMI (non-maskable interrupt) to the system and the button combination for resetting the XPERIA S uses the same mechanism, it has nothing to do with the Ctrl+Alt+Del mechanism.
[ This Message was edited by: RandomCarpet on 2012-06-24 11:41 ]
Posted by doministry
Yes of course this restart method works.
I can confirm that.
Posted by S4k1s
Pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del = software reset while pressing a reset button/key = hardware reset.
The volume up/power key combo on the Xperia S is a hardware reset and will therefore always work as expected :]
And yes it works, I have "tried" both
[ This Message was edited by: S4k1s on 2012-06-24 13:02 ]
Posted by Muhammad-Oli
Okay so the list has been updated:
http://talk.sonymobile.com/thread/42096
My SI number is in there but I plugged my phone into my laptop and it says I have the latest software still. How do these work? Does it mean sometime today I will get the update or what?
EDIT: Should I be concerned that my SI number from the back of my phone does not match any of the numbers shown in the service menu? My SI number is apparently 1257-0884, but that's not mentioned here at all:
[ This Message was edited by: Muhammad-Oli on 2012-06-25 10:37 ]
Posted by lemmy31
No update in the UK still........my SI numbers on the back of the phone and in the service menu are different aswell
There are numerous reports on the Sony support site of people who have there SI number listed as able to upgrade but still cant
Posted by Muhammad-Oli
On 2012-06-25 12:16:16, lemmy31 wrote:
No update in the UK still........my SI numbers on the back of the phone and in the service menu are different aswell
There are numerous reports on the Sony support site of people who have there SI number listed as able to upgrade but still cant
Thanks, I'm glad I'm not the only one. Thought there must be something wrong with just my phone.
Posted by >500
@Muhammad-Oli
When I got the ICS update for my Neo V, it was only when the SI number from the BACK of my phone appeared on the Sony list. The SI numbers in the service menu do not match, and had nothing to do with the update...
Posted by Ferreira29
Guys, this will be a bit of a noob question, but how do I turn off the Live Wallpaper of this device? I have the Xperia P, so the way to do it should be similar...
Thanks!
Posted by goldenface
On 2012-06-25 17:22:31, Ferreira29 wrote:
Guys, this will be a bit of a noob question, but how do I turn off the Live Wallpaper of this device? I have the Xperia P, so the way to do it should be similar...
Thanks!
Can you not choose a picture from your gallery and set that as Wallpaper?
Posted by Ferreira29
Yap, thanks!
I just thought that perhaps there was a way to have the Sony Wallpaper without the live animation. But that works for me as well!
Thanks
Posted by Muhammad-Oli
On 2012-06-25 14:09:06, >500 wrote:
@Muhammad-Oli
When I got the ICS update for my Neo V, it was only when the SI number from the BACK of my phone appeared on the Sony list. The SI numbers in the service menu do not match, and had nothing to do with the update...
Thanks for confirming that. Unfortunately though, my SI number from the back of the phone IS in the list, but I still can't update. I'm not the only one though so hopefully Sony fix their mistake soon.
Posted by Maratonmannen
My SI number (1257-6087) is not in the list, but I could do the update via SUS to 4.0.4 this morning.
Posted by Muhammad-Oli
Yep mine was made available today. I updated earlier.
I have to say, this isn't much different to Gingerbread... It looks a bit cleaner and nicer but overall it's pretty samey. Even the 'new' Walkman app is pretty much the old music app with a couple of small changes.
Cool that I now have ICS, but this wasn't worth the daily checking for updates.
Posted by Arne Anka
On 2012-06-25 11:28:04, Muhammad-Oli wrote:
My SI number is in there but I plugged my phone into my laptop and it says I have the latest software still. How do these work? Does it mean sometime today I will get the update or what?
More info from Sony on this matter from their own forum.
Hi,
Unfortunately it seems that some users have problems to update their phones to ICS even if their SI number is in the list. We have located some issues and we're working on fixing them as soon as possible.
So if your SI number is listed for the ICS update but you still get the message saying that your phone is up-to-date stay calm we're working on it. We will come back with more info soon.
BR
Johan
Posted by lemmy31
Still nothing for my white UK simfree model 1257-3113
Posted by Ranjith
Update Available for me here in India.1264-4177.Updating right now
Posted by Ranjith
Updated!
Posted by ofiaich
That's great Ranjith!
let us know what you think about the update!
I'm patiently waiting for my update
Ofiaich
[ This Message was edited by: ofiaich on 2012-06-27 19:28 ]
Posted by Ranjith
@ofiach
Still playing around.Many nice touches with the update but im coming across few rough transitions.eg.clicking Home button while on Facebook takes a moment before the home screen 'refreshes' the contents :-\\.Also seems like the Soft touch keys have gone back to their old sensitiveness.
Face unlock is a fun add
work well so does the pattern unlock.Video library is good too but cant get the vid to minimize while multitasking like in S3.isnt this an ICS feature?
Overall the scrolling seems to be smoother though.Web browser has nice updates too.All apps and games working fine.
Posted by smclion102
On 2012-06-27 19:07:01, Ranjith wrote:
Updated!
Not bad India got there update quick
Posted by ofiaich
@Ranjith
thanks! Still no update here!
I wonder if there are differences between countries..
Ofiaich
Posted by doministry
On 2012-06-28 06:07:08, Ranjith wrote:
@ofiach
Still playing around.Many nice touches with the update but im coming across few rough transitions.eg.clicking Home button while on Facebook takes a moment before the home screen 'refreshes' the contents :-\\.Also seems like the Soft touch keys have gone back to their old sensitiveness.
Face unlock is a fun add
work well so does the pattern unlock.Video library is good too but cant get the vid to minimize while multitasking like in S3.isnt this an ICS feature?
Overall the scrolling seems to be smoother though.Web browser has nice updates too.All apps and games working fine.
So you mean the homescreen redraws all the icons...
Can you see how much free RAM you have?
Posted by reclo
Hello
Would I like to know if one among you uses ear-phones different that those from origin, which and the noticed evolution? Thank you.
Not yet of update to ICS in Belgium either….
Posted by doministry
On 2012-06-28 14:01:31, reclo wrote:
Hello
Would I like to know if one among you uses ear-phones different that those from origin, which and the noticed evolution? Thank you.
Not yet of update to ICS in Belgium either….
I use Sennheiser CX 215 and I just recommend them,
they're brilliant.