Sony Mobile releases new Ice Cream Sandwich firmware for 2011 Xperia phones
21 August 2012 by Olav Hellesø-Knutsen Sony Mobile today announced that it has released an updated version of the Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich
Today we updated a Xperia Arc we have lying around in the office with a new ICS update from Sony Mobile The update does not include the new Walkman, Album or Movies apps which the Xperia P saw last week. We have not been able to find a release note for this particular update, but the new Android 4.0.4 release for the 2011 Xperia models are said to remove bug fixes, improve performance in addition to other improvements. The next Xperia smartphones from 2011 receiving the new Ice Cream Sandwich update are Xperia Arc, Xperia Arc S, Xperia Neo, Xperia Neo V, Xperia Mini, Xperia Pro, Xperia Active and Xperia Ray. An availability notification for the update will be sent OTA to these smartphones starting this week. On our Xperia Arc, we had not received the notification yet, but the Sony update service was ready with the update and let us install the new ICS firmware this afternoon. Alternatively post this in the Esato forum Please sign in to your Esato account to leave a comment regarding this article  jplacson11 years, 8 months agoXperia ray 4.0.4 update already out! 
hope this update improves the performance of the music player!!! everything is working great for me on my mini pro ICS... but the music player can not seem to handle the music I have...I do admit I have over a thousand songs....but when i try to scroll the to a particular album and open songs the app just crashes.....so using winamp now which seems to browse the songs just fine. really hope they fix the music player as i really like the inbuilt one Xperia Arc and Arc/S models here in Canada get the update as well. Xperia S is end of September (at least in Canada) 
On 2012-08-21 19:54:09, kewsvnet wrote: hope this update improves the performance of the music player!!! everything is working great for me on my mini pro ICS... but the music player can not seem to handle the music I have...I do admit I have over a thousand songs....but when i try to scroll the to a particular album and open songs the app just crashes.....so using winamp now which seems to browse the songs just fine. really hope they fix the music player as i really like the inbuilt one Hi kewsvet, what micro SD card are you using? Is it a class 10? I had issues before with the Class 2 that my xperia ray came with, switched to a Class 6 from Sandisk, seemed to solve them. Also try Poweramp Music Player, instead of the stock player. The interface is quite similar to the stock one, but added gesture control and more audio settings. im still not convinced that ics update will be good, im happy with the silky smooth of gingerbread!
As for music player I highly recommend cloud skipper and it's free too! does all what poweramp does. I have 32gb class 10 in my neo v runs like a dream! Thanks chunkbeats! Will try cloud skipper!
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