[Q]Bought Xperia S, a couple of questions! - Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion

Let me make it straight forward. I bought the xperia S yesterday despite the screen resolution and the price really with xperia V and xperia T out here, the price has gotten lower.
1. Is it worth the trouble of unclocking bootloader and flashing a rom (if there's any decent one) which can make significant changes to battery life performance and is 99-100% stable? I have had Zte blade, Nexus S, Desire HD and i ran custom roms on all that but as being new to Sony Ericsson, i was wondering if there's a decent rom out there which would give significant boost to the performance over the stock firmware?
2. If yes, then gimme some names
3. Overall comments on the performance of the phone. I did realize that the soft keys are somewhat troublesome for someone who's coming from another phone and it less responsive at times but it is bearable.
4. Any must haves for the xperia s?
Thanks in advance!

pannekoek28 said:
4. Get root access. In the android development page there is a thread called bin4rys method. Use that.
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Is it really worth rooting?

Yes,its easy
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shad0wboss said:
4. Any must haves for the xperia s?
Thanks in advance!
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For must haves, check out: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2106759
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Need suggestions for a new rom

Hi everyone,
I am a ROM dev and I wish to create a new ROM for Xperia S. I have so far noticed that AOSP looks are not very popular in this forum, so I want some suggestion from the people of this forum.
Thanking you,
abcdjdj
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I would die 4 this one
CM10 with the following mods:
Xperia NXT Lockscreen
Xperia media apps (walkman, sound enhanscements, gallery,download music info)
Xperia status bar and launcher
Xperia camera
Btw with the recovery of stock ics kernel o at least a recovery that works ok, not like the other ones that mess up everything with the partitions and cache.
And that's all i can think about right now. :good:
Ive been trying to gather those myself but its almost impossible as i always end up with a bootloop.
Uh um, I would prefer to develop on a stock base. Also, we are any way going to get official JB so no point in theming CM10 to look like stock right?
Thanks a lot anyway
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I'm an ion user but if you're going stock based I'd just like something that's fast and smooth. My current stock ics slows down all the time. If you make a fast stock based rom that works on locked bootloader me and a bunch of people would be super happy.
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How about making stock bravia engine to work for cm rom ??
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Peter_95 said:
How about making stock bravia engine to work for cm rom ??
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I believe that is not possible - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2171082
As the above link says, pimp my rom **should** work.
How about helping rayman to develop pure cm10.1 rom ?? So the development of the rom will be faster and will be the best rom .... Pure CM is the best rom i think and many people use it to based their rom, because the development is daily and many user reporting bugs ....
And now it's only on v4 going to v5 ..... I think you will be busy to develop that rom
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Maybe u can develop rom on stock kernel, with out need to ub, bcoz some people like me dont want lost drm key. And i hope u can make for acro s to bcoz development for acro s very slow, not many choices...
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abcdjdj said:
Hi everyone,
I am a ROM dev and I wish to create a new ROM for Xperia S. I have so far noticed that AOSP looks are not very popular in this forum, so I want some suggestion from the people of this forum.
Thanking you,
abcdjdj
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Well i must say i appriciate your work, nexus, for XS, cause people with locked bl are left with no choice between sony and AOSP, i think you will have a bunch of users when v.2 comes out, also when JB comes. Only thing that stoping people to decide for your rom is. FW.55 base instead 45, 50 . Cause they already rooted on those FW and it is much simple to do, cause no need to use flashtool, and not riskig warranty because then can revert on carrier braded Fw in chase of trouble,
Any way i realy hope that you wont give up nexus xperience, i have been searching for it long time
Or try porting Cm , pac,...on LBL especialy for people that cant unlock BL,like me, i would unlock it if i could, and there are many folks in same situation
Poll added
Hi guys,
Thanks for all the suggestions. I have come up with some ideas. Please participate in the newly added poll so that I will know what to build. Also, I will be able to make roms only for Xperia S/SL as I don't have any other devices. Sorry. [ Unless someone manages to port it of course ]
Thanking you,
abcdjdj
Odp: Need suggestions for a new rom
Maybe you can make CM9 for locked bl? It's easy and fast. A lot of people will appreciate that
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Vaith said:
Maybe you can make CM9 for locked bl? It's easy and fast. A lot of people will appreciate that
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Agree
Seems to be very interesting, but it would probably be quite buggy. Here check this - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2112616
Multiview like in galaxy note 2 for xperia s/sl
if possible can u develop a rom with the multiview functionality available in galaxy note 2...it has also been ported to galaxy s2 without official help so i guess its not impossible for a screen size of our mobile??
coolice123 said:
if possible can u develop a rom with the multiview functionality available in galaxy note 2...it has also been ported to galaxy s2 without official help so i guess its not impossible for a screen size of our mobile??
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That would be quite difficult and apart from being difficult, apktool has a problem with our phone's framework-res.apk and hence whatever you do, after modifying framework-res.apk, the phone bootloops. There is a work around for that using a binary diff program but it would be extremely difficult and time consuming.
Hy i have been thinking for a while and wanted to suggest you to take look in xperia neo development section, for rom called jjdoctors hybrid i used that rom when i had Neo, and its awsome,support both BL statuses, i think you would have a great response, and many users in XS section
What do you say?
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Hy i have been thinking for a while and wanted to suggest you to take look in xperia neo development section, for rom called jjdoctors hybrid i used that rom when i had Neo, and its awsome,support both BL statuses, i think you would have a great response, and many users in XS section
What do you say?
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It looks quite similar to my Nexus rom
Its NOT AOSP.. Its a Hybrid of Sony and AOSP ROMS...
This ROM will give you a COMPLETE AOSP Experience.. You wont even know if its based on Official Sony ROM...
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And bootloader is not a problem at all. Actually speaking, all custom roms based on stock ics **should** work on both bootloaders.
abcdjdj said:
That would be quite difficult and apart from being difficult, apktool has a problem with our phone's framework-res.apk and hence whatever you do, after modifying framework-res.apk, the phone bootloops. There is a work around for that using a binary diff program but it would be extremely difficult and time consuming.
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Do a search on the forum
I'm modding framework-res without any problem...
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niaboc79 said:
Do a search on the forum
I'm modding framework-res without any problem...
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Of course I had searched a lot. Ticklefish and a few other guys were also wondering why my framework-res.apk was bootlooping. Thanks for the link anyway.

Xperia S or Xperia Ion

I'm have been looking around for a new phone to replace my Samsung Galaxy Ace and came down to these two phones i.e. Xperia S amd Xperia Ion and I'm really torn. I can't make up my mind at all.
As you all are users already, I would like to get some insight into these two phones, the things I'm looking into are :
1)Developer community support (custom roms and stuff).
2) Battery life under moderately heavy usage(I won't mind charging once or twice daily)
3) Screen- contrasts, blacks, whites
4) I think the Camera is basically the same? Right?
5) All the reviews I've read have complained about the capacitive keys on both of them. How is it in reality? Is there a learning curve to it?
Any input would be highly appreciated. No trolls please.
Thanks.
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I think all ions are locked bootloader so therefore the development is limited
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jonathanpeter said:
I'm have been looking around for a new phone to replace my Samsung Galaxy Ace and came down to these two phones i.e. Xperia S amd Xperia Ion and I'm really torn. I can't make up my mind at all.
As you all are users already, I would like to get some insight into these two phones, the things I'm looking into are :
1)Developer community support (custom roms and stuff).
2) Battery life under moderately heavy usage(I won't mind charging once or twice daily)
3) Screen- contrasts, blacks, whites
4) I think the Camera is basically the same? Right?
5) All the reviews I've read have complained about the capacitive keys on both of them. How is it in reality? Is there a learning curve to it?
Any input would be highly appreciated. No trolls please.
Thanks.
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1)Development of XS is more than ion
2)ion's battery is bigger than XS , it must charging once a day if you use an android phone.
About screen and camera, i have not used ion, i dont know
the capacitive keys......i only want to say it's not hard to use
Ben36 said:
I think all ions are locked bootloader so therefore the development is limited
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You're wrong!
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Yes, I think ARNOB is right. It can be unlocked I think.
ARNOB, how's the Ion?
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At&t ions cant be bootloader unlocked, the rest can.
Ion has bigger screen and sd card support. Developer comunity is a lot bigger for xperia s. Capacitive buttons work fine on the ion(on mine i need only one press). Personally i was going to go for an S but choose the ion instead.
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Yes, I think ARNOB is right. It can be unlocked I think.
ARNOB, how's the Ion?
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Well, I've used a galaxy ace as well as both Xperia S and Xperia Ion. So here's my conclusive answer.
1. The community is very big for the Xperia S but in terms of mods and everything, ion is no way left behind.
2. Xperia Ion HSPA has a better battery imo compared to the LTE variant(due to 4G) and Xperia S.
3. Xperia S is said to have a larger dpi resulting a sharper display though I couldn't really feel the difference. While the Xperia Ion has deeper blacks, larger screen.
4. Camera is fully identical.
5. The capacitive buttons for both have no issues. But you might need a week to get used to it as its quite different from Samsung.
Hope it helps
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I don't know. Maybe I'll go for the Xperia S.
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jonathanpeter said:
I don't know. Maybe I'll go for the Xperia S.
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Welcome..
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[Q] No custom ROMS on ZL????

hey guys!!!
i am keen to get a ZL soon.. and hell yes i prefer the ZL over s4 or HTC One.. but i just checked out the forum & noticed that not major development has taken place yet.. be it custom ROMs or MODs.. wherein Z's forum is full of it.. that puts me one step back.. will ZL get less development than Z??? I would really want to stick with a phone which happens to be modded & developed... Its strange to know that ROMS for Z & ZL would be different as both of them are practically the same phone apart from the outer curvature & 2-3 tiny features... any takers to explain this to me??
Also battery life means a lot to me.. wanna know from the users as to how is the battery performing.. I am on HTC OneX at the moment & the only think i dont like about this phone is the battery life... need ur input guys!!! pls help!!
The ZL hasn't been made available globally as the Z did, so give it some time for it to pick up in popularity. The Z had an entire month head start on the market, and the ZL was only available two weeks ago.
Would some devs care to chip in as to whether developing for the ZL is any different than developing for the Z?
AW: [Q] No custom ROMS on ZL????
I think most dev will code for Z, because that is the advertised flagship. Nevertheless I hope that Mods and Roms can easily be ported from Z to ZL.
There is a first Cyanogen Port, although the ZL isn't released yet in many parts of the world. Samsung maybe won't get it years after release.
And you don't need 238 different ROMs, you just need one that fits!
If someone would help get me started I'd make a Rom for the ZL. I made a stripped down and buildprop changes Rom on the Samsung mesmerise which is the cdma version of the galaxy s back in early 2011. But I'm not sure where to start now :/
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I'll release XZL Revolution Rom for you guys soon just let me know who is interested in my rom
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krabappel2548 said:
I'll release XZL Revolution Rom for you guys soon just let me know who is interested in my rom
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I'm in. The only thing that really needed on ZL is voltage control because the phone gets quite warm during prolonged operation. I don't like it. I see DooMLorD making custom kernel for the Z and I hope he will make one for ZL as well. But since he is busy with life that may take some time...
krabappel2548 said:
I'll release XZL Revolution Rom for you guys soon just let me know who is interested in my rom
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Wuhooo!!!! Am in!!!
krabappel2548 said:
I'll release XZL Revolution Rom for you guys soon just let me know who is interested in my rom
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Me also there waiting.....
drlalitbida said:
Me also there waiting.....
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Ok, expect a release before the weekend
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krabappel2548 said:
Ok, expect a release before the weekend
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Finally wait is going to get over
seeing so many Roms for xz but nothing for zl
eagerly waiting
AW: [Q] No custom ROMS on ZL????
So what's wrong with sony stock? Performance? Functionality missing? Or just flash-addicted...?
sturmtruppler said:
So what's wrong with sony stock? Performance? Functionality missing? Or just flash-addicted...?
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There is nothing wrong with stock ROM. Only thing is we need more customisation like voltage control and such. Stock Xperia Launcher suffers from lags from time to time. I just use stock 4.2 Jelly Bean launcher and works much better than Xperia Launcher in terms of smoothness and responsiveness
sturmtruppler said:
So what's wrong with sony stock? Performance? Functionality missing? Or just flash-addicted...?
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Basically flash addicted
one more thing is customization like
status toggle bar options
black theme especially navigation bar
small on screen buttons which is really annoying as accual screen size is less than 4.8 or something
camera tweaks etc etc...
krabappel2548 said:
Ok, expect a release before the weekend
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Thanks looking forward to it...
krabappel2548 said:
Ok, expect a release before the weekend
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any chances of releasing ccustom rom .......
drlalitbida said:
any chances of releasing ccustom rom .......
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Why don't you give CM or AOKP a go? I know the camera is non functional as of now, but asking the dev again and again is not going to get you anything. He has his personal life to take care of too.
drlalitbida said:
any chances of releasing ccustom rom .......
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I have 2 weeks off from now so I have time to work on it
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looking forward for some development.....
people r releasing roms for s4 which is no where in picture for atleast next 25 days
and this phone which was released almost 1 month ago doesn't hav a single custom rom
r developers not interested inthis phone or something else.
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krabappel2548 said:
I have 2 weeks off from now so I have time to work on it
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thanks krabappel2548 waiting since a long time
drlalitbida said:
people r releasing roms for s4 which is no where in picture for atleast next 25 days
and this phone which was released almost 1 month ago doesn't hav a single custom rom
r developers not interested inthis phone or something else.
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Yup, and more annoyingly this is the sister of the popular Xperia Z, and not even a single custom kernel is available

New Xperia S update coming in the form of 6.2.B.1.XX

Good news
Back in June, we reported of a new Sony Xperia S (LT26i) firmware update that was rumoured to arrive in early July. Well obviously that did not come to pass, but apparently a new update is still on the agenda for Xperia S/SL owners. Sony pretty much confirmed as much on the official support forums, saying that it will have build version number 6.2.B.1.XX. There’s no ETA for the update, but we’ll keep our eyes peeled.
Source: http://www.xperiablog.net/2013/08/0...-1-xx/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook
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gravtec said:
Good news
Back in June, we reported of a new Sony Xperia S (LT26i) firmware update that was rumoured to arrive in early July. Well obviously that did not come to pass, but apparently a new update is still on the agenda for Xperia S/SL owners. Sony pretty much confirmed as much on the official support forums, saying that it will have build version number 6.2.B.1.XX. There’s no ETA for the update, but we’ll keep our eyes peeled.
Source: http://www.xperiablog.net/2013/08/0...-1-xx/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook
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So,over all of the S,SL,Acro S,and ion...only S will get a fixed update?Screw that,Sony didn't say it is only for Xperia S :s
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Don't thank me. It's because of amount of death threats I sent to their dev department and sophisticated insults to their support policy I posted on their facebook page.
good to read these news.. lets see if they will give us a good update
prohibeat said:
Don't thank me. It's because of amount of death threats I sent to their dev department and sophisticated insults to their support policy I posted on their facebook page.
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Ok, I won't
UchihaDareNial said:
So,over all of the S,SL,Acro S,and ion...only S will get a fixed update?Screw that,Sony didn't say it is only for Xperia S :s
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Well the pòst was on the XPS forum, what phone do you think they're talking about?
Main > Sony Xperia™ support forum > Xperia S/SL >
I hate those rants!
What about Acro S? D:
Isn't Sony going to release an update for Acro S and ION also?
Wow! Thats a good news! I guess the 1080p video rec and volume up bug will be fixed in this 6.2.b.1.xx update
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denslife16 said:
Wow! Thats a good news! I guess the 1080p video rec and volume up bug will be fixed in this 6.2.b.1.xx update
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Im almost willing to bet it will still be choppy a bit
And instead of volume up not working that will switch to volume down
mariovp said:
Isn't Sony going to release an update for Acro S and ION also?
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Sure they will...most of Xperia S users only think that Sony will only fix the problems in their phone (Xperia S) only because they (Sony) did reply and respond inside SXS forum...talk about typical Xperia S user that think of their own importance and forget about the others (Xperia SL,Acro S and ion)...
Sorry if my message is kind of a little rage message...I'm quite mad because some SXS user only think about only their phone's problem will be fixed
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We'll see
This update will well be the last update we are gonna be receiving.. Since Qualcomm have stopped work for S3 chipset devices.. We won't be getting official 4.2.2.. Same case like HTC One S.. Sad that Qualcomm too rejecting the good handsets.. Damn these companies..!!!!
UchihaDareNial said:
Sure they will...most of Xperia S users only think that Sony will only fix the problems in their phone (Xperia S) only because they (Sony) did reply and respond inside SXS forum...talk about typical Xperia S user that think of their own importance and forget about the others (Xperia SL,Acro S and ion)...
Sorry if my message is kind of a little rage message...I'm quite mad because some SXS user only think about only their phone's problem will be fixed
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You have to think about something. If Xperia S won't get updated, what are the chances to update Acro S, sl or ion? Zero.
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sudhindrakv said:
This update will well be the last update we are gonna be receiving.. Since Qualcomm have stopped work for S3 chipset devices.. We won't be getting official 4.2.2.. Same case like HTC One S.. Sad that Qualcomm too rejecting the good handsets.. Damn these companies..!!!!
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Nothing stop you to use custom Rom or aosp kernel with stock Rom, maybe XSp Rom( like ported HTC Rom)
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Forzaferrarileo said:
Nothing stop you to use custom Rom or aosp kernel with stock Rom, maybe XSp Rom( like ported HTC Rom)
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Could you please unlock my bootloader unlock disabled phone then? Just asking...
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donjamal said:
Could you please unlock my bootloader unlock disabled phone then? Just asking...
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That's impossible
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Thanks for understanding.
And yes, this is keeping me away from flashing PROPER Custom ROMs, which means that some people (incl. me) will have to stick to 4.1.2 forever...
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I actually prefer 4.1 ROMs on xs coz they're much more stable compared to 4.2. I have had battery issues with 4.2 ROMs on xs. Hope Sony release a faster, more stable and more efficient 4.1 rather than 4.2. Lets not forget xs runs on over 2 year old cpu.
[OT]My Wildfire S runs with CM10.1 nearly better than with Stock 2.3.5. But let's not forget it has a CPU that was already 2-3 years old when it was released (ARMv6 generation). [/OT]
Just saying...
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Forzaferrarileo said:
Nothing stop you to use custom Rom or aosp kernel with stock Rom, maybe XSp Rom( like ported HTC Rom)
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But bro, if they give an update to 4.2.2, custom roms will obviously come good.. Atleast if they release sources, that would help devs to build a stable one soon.. But they don't.. And obviously i would choose custom rom over stock anytime.. And what XSP ROM(ported HTC) are u talkin bout bro??

Hello people,looking to buy xperia ion

Hi there all of u
I want to buy xperia ion hspa
But i have seen people complaining about the battery life and camera lens not shooting properly and lags on scrolling
Please help me out
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Rawwr said:
Hi there all of u
I want to buy xperia ion hspa
But i have seen people complaining about the battery life and camera lens not shooting properly and lags on scrolling
Please help me out
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I recommend you to buy the Xperia S. Because of the better battery life and developer support.
Nothing wrong with a Ion. I really like mine. There are some bugs in JB but nothing you cant get around. A unlocked version would be best.
zackspeed said:
Nothing wrong with a Ion. I really like mine. There are some bugs in JB but nothing you cant get around. A unlocked version would be best.
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There's nothing really wrong with the ion but let's say something is better.
Thanks for the info
After going through this forum
I have decided to buy xperia s
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Rawwr said:
Thanks for the info
After going through this forum
I have decided to buy xperia s
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Good choice.
Basically Xperia ion and Xperia S is same,4.6 inch screen for ion which is bigger and use much juice,but with 1900 mAh battery it's A-okay...
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