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Xperia ray Official Thread |
myavu
Joined: Apr 09, 2007
Posts: 73
From: New Delhi, India
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GB in RAY rocks again. I disabled the Live wallpaper 'Grass' and set it to 'No wallpaper' (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=no.wallpaper and see the results
Cheers!
Xperia Ray, W760i, S500i, W810i |
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bluke424
Joined: Sep 29, 2011
Posts: 23
From: Romania
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Just upgraded my ray to the official 4.0.3 that came out today.
First thoughts:
+ it has all the goodies that Sony bragged about and they all work great
+ UI is nice and smooth if there aren't many apps running
+ new camera app, now we have an on-screen shutter button (you can switch back to the tap-to-snap feature if you want)
+ now we can uninstall that useless Wisepilot app (among with 3 others), after a fresh install I had like 330MB of free internal memory
+ battery life seems better, I used the phone for 50 minutes for setting up and some light browsing through wi-fi, all that with 11% of juice left
+ the new browser is super fast compared with the old one and also looks a lot better
+ on screen keyboard seems more accurate, not a single typo so far, might be just placebo though
- UI is a bit laggy sometimes (let's say, if you have a lot of apps running)
- screen capture is gone
- some widgets are buggy
I'm from Romania and the update is available here as well, also my phone does not appear in this list and it still got the update. |
Shino03
Joined: Dec 22, 2008
Posts: > 500
From: Pearl of the Orient Seas
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any improvements in the image quality?  |
bronxdude
Joined: Sep 19, 2006
Posts: > 500
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On 2012-04-14 00:09:52, bluke424 wrote:
Just upgraded my ray to the official 4.0.3 that came out today.
First thoughts:
+ it has all the goodies that Sony bragged about and they all work great
+ UI is nice and smooth if there aren't many apps running
+ new camera app, now we have an on-screen shutter button (you can switch back to the tap-to-snap feature if you want)
+ now we can uninstall that useless Wisepilot app (among with 3 others), after a fresh install I had like 330MB of free internal memory
+ battery life seems better, I used the phone for 50 minutes for setting up and some light browsing through wi-fi, all that with 11% of juice left
+ the new browser is super fast compared with the old one and also looks a lot better
+ on screen keyboard seems more accurate, not a single typo so far, might be just placebo though
- UI is a bit laggy sometimes (let's say, if you have a lot of apps running)
- screen capture is gone
- some widgets are buggy
I'm from Romania and the update is available here as well, also my phone does not appear in this list and it still got the update.
how about the music player? how does it look like? does it have the clear bass feature? |
bluke424
Joined: Sep 29, 2011
Posts: 23
From: Romania
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On 2012-04-14 05:22:24, Shino03 wrote:
any improvements in the image quality?
Well, so far none that I can see. Chroma noise and oversharpening are still there. One thing I noticed is that the files are bigger now, around 2.5-3 megs to be specific.
On 2012-04-14 07:44:20, bronxdude wrote:
how about the music player? how does it look like? does it have the clear bass feature?
It's exactly the same music player, it doesn't have the Clear Bass feature. |
arcmhyke
Joined: Jan 12, 2003
Posts: 334
From: Philippines
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To take a screen shot you need to press power + volume down 
Quick Question, when you updated to ICS are all preinstalled apps updated too? like
>Facebook
>Google Map
>Google Play
>Adobe Flash
>Youtube
>Gmail, Search
Thanks
Phone: Sony Xperia TX LT29i
Camera: Cyber-shot DSC QX10
Speaker: SRS BTV5 Wireless Speaker
Headset: MW1 Smart Wireless Headset pro | MH EX300AP |
Arne Anka
Joined: Nov 05, 2003
Posts: > 500
From: Sweden
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On 2012-04-14 00:09:52, bluke424 wrote:
- UI is a bit laggy sometimes (let's say, if you have a lot of apps running)
I hope you know that with ICS you can now disable apps and services you don't use/want to preserve RAM usage. |
bluke424
Joined: Sep 29, 2011
Posts: 23
From: Romania
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On 2012-04-14 12:54:40, mhyke wrote:
To take a screen shot you need to press power + volume down
Quick Question, when you updated to ICS are all preinstalled apps updated too? like
>Facebook
>Google Map
>Google Play
>Adobe Flash
>Youtube
>Gmail, Search
Thanks
Power+vol. down did the trick, thanks.
You need to update those apps manually as they're all outdated (just like Gingerbread). |
bluke424
Joined: Sep 29, 2011
Posts: 23
From: Romania
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On 2012-04-14 13:14:55, Arne Anka wrote:
I hope you know that with ICS you can now disable apps and services you don't use/want to preserve RAM usage.
Thanks, I only knew that you can close running apps. |
arcmhyke
Joined: Jan 12, 2003
Posts: 334
From: Philippines
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np, thats too bad, thanks
another question, did you try using nena mark? Because i read somewhere that sony included adreno drivers for their ICS.
Thanks
Phone: Sony Xperia TX LT29i
Camera: Cyber-shot DSC QX10
Speaker: SRS BTV5 Wireless Speaker
Headset: MW1 Smart Wireless Headset pro | MH EX300AP |
bluke424
Joined: Sep 29, 2011
Posts: 23
From: Romania
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On 2012-04-14 14:44:52, mhyke wrote:
np, thats too bad, thanks
another question, did you try using nena mark? Because i read somewhere that sony included adreno drivers for their ICS.
Thanks
I didn't run any benchs yet, but games seem to run worse than before. Shadowgun is pretty much the same, but GTA III lags and freezes a lot. |
3_nity
Joined: Jul 25, 2008
Posts: 187
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approximate standby time there was a lie....
another application for a fool....
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djin
Joined: Jun 13, 2007
Posts: > 500
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Can any one post a video of official ics on ray? And how does it really effect the phone? Also is it easy to type on the ray?? A friend of mines wants to get it, but i think it might be difficult for messaging..
Xperia T + N 96 R.I.P Desire  |
bronxdude
Joined: Sep 19, 2006
Posts: > 500
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On 2012-04-14 07:44:20, bronxdude wrote:
how about the music player? how does it look like? does it have the clear bass feature?
It's exactly the same music player, it doesn't have the Clear Bass feature.
awww. too bad. i was hoping for a makeover. 
did the soundd quality improve? |
bronxdude
Joined: Sep 19, 2006
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mhyke - tol, can you post here or let me know if our ray is already upgreadable? salamat |
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Posted: 2012-04-06 13:19
