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Petition To Sony Releace KitKat (Update Sony Xperia M to Android 4.4 (KitKat)

WE ARE ONE​THE UNION IS STRENGTH​
"For:
Sony Mobile Communications :
Kindly update Sony Xperia M to Android 4.4 (KitKat) as soon as possible and please be quick enough as it is fast approaching its 18 month update period's end. Even if update period ends at least update the device to Android 4.4"
SIGNED HERE PLEASE: https://www.change.org/petitions/so...ony-xperia-m-to-android-4-4-kitkat?lang=en-US
THANK´S
NOTE: IF YOU THINK THIS IS USELESS, PLEASE NOT GIVE YOUR OPINION

Excellent, hopefully something will be achieved...

Petitions are useless, you should have learned that by now

rizla2 said:
Petitions are useless, you should have learned that by now
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Exactly
Still signed

Sad but true,but im full of hope,i am belive i japanese

Really, petitions? Unlock bootloader and flash customROMS with kitkat and you're good to go. If you don't want, shut up with the petitions non-sense, xda is not a place for signing petitions or to even spread about it, makes the community stupid. Don't you think?

I guess this is useless. Xperia M has sony support till November so we can except something. There were also some rumors that after M2 update sony can release kitkat for M.
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KitKat update for M2 is on the way, accordig to some googleing SP also may get 4.4.2 but M is not on the list, tho i found something that KitKat for M might be in testing, or at least in consideration. I really hope well get some kind of update, at least for app2sd, as M2 will recieve support for it with KitKat update. That was officially announced by Sony...

Response from sony

jimenezhidalgotavo said:
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is a difference between official Sony(the company) and some very active people running a site called Xperia Blog which keeps people up to date with Sony developments.
These guys/gals at Xperia Blog have their finger on the pulse of Sony, but don't believe they speak for Sony.
Sony has, just announced(updated support pages to reflect) that phones like the Xperia T TX and V will have Android 4.3 as their final Sony release.
The Xperia M is still in it's 18month(more of a guideline than a rule ) support honeymoon period, with time on it's side for future developments.
Fingers crossed.

Android Bob said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is a difference between official Sony(the company) and some very active people running a site called Xperia Blog which keeps people up to date with Sony developments.
These guys/gals at Xperia Blog have their finger on the pulse of Sony, but don't believe they speak for Sony.
Sony has, just announced(updated support pages to reflect) that phones like the Xperia T TX and V will have Android 4.3 as their final Sony release.
The Xperia M is still in it's 18month(more of a guideline than a rule ) support honeymoon period, with time on it's side for future developments.
Fingers crossed.
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Exactly! sony has not said no

but they didnt say and straight yes either. so all about KK on XM is a hearsay for now i'm affraid

In my opinion a petition against sony or any oem for releasing a new software (hotfixes and such excluded) is useless, because they need to develop it and their programmers want to get paid. If they want to release it, ill be happy, when not, ill still be happy, because it will be still useable (i still use 4.1 and im happy with it)
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signed
don't think this works yet hoping so signed :good: it. And yeah we can unlock bt and install kitkat roms but we can't make it work exactly like Sony original release with Sony skin and apps.

there is no reason for not signing this petition, come on everyone!

adi2500 said:
In my opinion a petition against sony or any oem for releasing a new software (hotfixes and such excluded) is useless, because they need to develop it and their programmers want to get paid. If they want to release it, ill be happy, when not, ill still be happy, because it will be still useable (i still use 4.1 and im happy with it)
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It is not probable but it is possible they will release KK...

Just updated Update Center.
Only for xperia apps update or maybe Kitkat possibility :what:

I'm not really okay with this. You can't rush something while it's in development, or else it will result in bad quality. Perfection requires time. It's the same thing how developers hate being asked for ETAs for their ROMs. It's not an easy thing to do and it would be better if we would just wait.
But it wouldn't hurt signing this petition...

I would rather see 4.4.4 than 4.4

Xperia M updated mooted soon...maybe.
I was about to grumble about the lack of Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy (BLE) support and reading through the posts I came across the following Sony forum post.
This would indicate a forth coming update if the post is taken at face value....and maybe BLE too. :victory:
These comments/post should always be taken with a pinch of salt, but the BLE issue has been known for a few months and Sony did say(as posted) they'd investigate... plus a lot of forum poster have really strong armed Sony(bless them) on this.
Does Xperia M support Bluetooth BLE?
So, maybe affirmative action and software upgrades are no more than a well documented problem away.
More than likely not Android 4.4, but nice to know we are still on Sony's radar and that they're thinking of us.

Android 7 Nougat for UMI Z

Hi guys,
because this is one of the most asked questions, I wanted to keep this thread with the most actual information.
Announcement from UMI through Facebook on 2017 02 08
https://www2.pic-upload.de/img/32656168/2017-02-10_12-17-45.png

Hi,
That answer was written by me. Until now that's all what we know but hopefully it can be released much sooner. Unfortunately, nothing is certain yet.
We'll inform the community as soon as we can promise at least an approximate release date.

bencebacsi said:
Hi,
That answer was written by me. Until now that's all what we know but hopefully it can be released much sooner. Unfortunately, nothing is certain yet.
We'll inform the community as soon as we can promise at least an approximate release date.
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So I guess you work directly for UMI as a software engineer or community manager?

gersp said:
So I guess you work directly for UMI as a software engineer or community manager?
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Yes, communication and a bit of marketing. Sorry but you cannot expect engineers to pop up here.

bencebacsi said:
Hi,
That answer was written by me. Until now that's all what we know but hopefully it can be released much sooner. Unfortunately, nothing is certain yet.
We'll inform the community as soon as we can promise at least an approximate release date.
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The question was written by me. What a small world haha.

Does anyone know what last update did? Minor bug fixes and 200mb.

Darkshade18 said:
Does anyone know what last update did? Minor bug fixes and 200mb.
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=71042851&postcount=7

New info: The Nougat update is expected to be released in early April.

Nougat
Take that exit the Nougat soon to the UMI Z all waiting.:Boa:
bencebacsi said:
New info: The Nougat update is expected to be released in early April.
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Source Codes
bencebacsi said:
New info: The Nougat update is expected to be released in early April.
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I have not seen many UMI brand phones which have released source codes, but I was wondering if you have any plans of releasing the kernel sources and/or full sources for this device.
I am looking to buy this phone, but I would like to be able to compile my own kernel and ROM for the devices I own

dont be waiting for nougat.i have a z3+ with nougat and in android N everything is worse than mm

The new Ulefone Gemini Pro was presented last week on MWC 2017.
http://www.stuff.tv/my/features/ulefone-gemini-pro-almost-carbon-copy-iphone-7-plus
This phone also has a X27 SoC, but it is already running Android 7.0.
So Mediatek released Nougat-drivers for X27 a few weeks ago to Ulefone.

Iceman66 said:
The new Ulefone Gemini Pro was presented last week on MWC 2017.
http://www.stuff.tv/my/features/ulefone-gemini-pro-almost-carbon-copy-iphone-7-plus
This phone also has a X27 SoC, but it is already running Android 7.0.
So Mediatek released Nougat-drivers for X27 a few weeks ago to Ulefone.
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This makes me sad.

Well its quite possible some dev could work some magic , bet the main boards are not too different from a reference board by mediatek , umi spec has well known components for screen and camera so possible to hack a port from same soc or even just tweak a few drivers and swap kernal ...we need a dev

Are there any sources out?

Demetris said:
Are there any sources out?
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Not from UMI, there are phones with mtek socs running nougat , there seems to be phones with other components the same running nougat. So the ingredients are out, problem is cooking this into a working ROM would be a big job.
I recall when mm came out my HTC had a hacked together version that worked quite well, but the source for loli was out so there was a starting point.
Linage os would clearly be the place to start , find a mtek soc based ROM an hack I guess, beyond me , but someone who understands could prob work something

Not in a million years
Sent from the Island of Venus

I hope they release soon so we can get you a customized rom, because the original is leaving to be desired, its customization is very bad. Congratulations to all programmers who are interested in customizing a rom for our Z.

Looks like it won't be too long now till 7 beta ....

Waiting anxiously ....
kfasheldon said:
Looks like it won't be too long now till 7 beta ....
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I will take brother to come soon, I can not wait any longer. Congratulations one more time. Best of all XDA has no equal.

ETA for official Android 9?

That's really embressing that LG didn't make any solid statement and gave an ETA for Android 9 while others are already rolling out...
Someone have an internal info about ETA?

Amirt85 said:
That's really embressing that LG didn't make any solid statement and gave an ETA for Android 9 while others are already rolling out...
Someone have an internal info about ETA?
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Theoretically it will be released in January or February but nothing confirmed from LG. It probably takes so much time because Android 8.0 treble support is not as good as 8.1 so they have to rework it.

Android 10 release DATE for Daisy

I made a conversation with "UK" Xiaomi support, and they said "We also don't know the release date either but we hope it will come around early/before 2020"
And I know that someone published android 10 update will come this week/month etc, but it won't. This release date could be true for Mi A3(even they said it will come like in October).
Please and please do not ask questions about this, other news are completely wrong, please believe me. If you are a member of Telegram, you can see my screenshot also.

mihhut said:
I made a conversation with "UK" Xiaomi support, and they said "We also don't know the release date either but we hope it will come around early/before 2020"
And I know that someone published android 10 update will come this week/month etc, but it won't. This release date could be true for Mi A3(even they said it will come like in October).
Please and please do not ask questions about this, other news are completely wrong, please believe me. If you are a member of Telegram, you can see my screenshot also.
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So you want us to believe you ( a totally anonymous poster on the internet) over other totally anonymous posters on the internet? Is that what you're saying?

well, its aaallll just rabble anyway. nobody knows yet.
i contacted uk xiaomi helpdesk, person there swore its due in 2 weeks max, that was 3 weeks ago
it comes when it comes. there are good a10 roms here that works good after some tweaking. i use gsi version as a daily driver for weeks now.

Well so far I'm the only one who's been right ? so believe me fellow anonymous strangers

Miui 11 update came last week on my other device and it has almost every Android 10 features...

Come on it shouldnt be hard. Even their heavy bloated miui phones took Android 10 update. Our phone is pure Android. It shouldnt take much time.

perfect_ said:
Come on it shouldnt be hard. Even their heavy bloated miui phones took Android 10 update. Our phone is pure Android. It shouldnt take much time.
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Yeah but they don't really like maintaining their AndroidOne devices I suppose.

Android 10 Upgrade

According to Xiomi, Mi A2 lite won't get Android 10
Is it true ?

Please at least make an effort and look at other Android 10 threads on the forum before making the exact same posts as said threads.
Here's the full lowdown:
- Xiaomi have to provide Android 10 to our phone as part of the Android One program.
- We don't know when we'll get it.
- The Xiaomi support agents definitely don't either.
- It has been shown many times that the support agents either don't know about the Android One program, the concept of Xiaomi doing ROMs that aren't MIUI or even the existence of the Mi A2 Lite Vs the Mi A2 (which are separate things).
- Please for the love of any and every God, either stop asking here and the Xiaomi support about it and use a custom ROM or just sit and wait and be patient like the rest of us. Thank you.

Stop worry or ask about Android 10 guys.
I agree with the first comment.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Xiaomi/com...e_to/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

xiaomi should fire those customer support. what's the use of having a customer support channel that doesn't provide accurate information?

jaboneros said:
xiaomi should fire those customer support. what's the use of having a customer support channel that doesn't provide accurate information?
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I also think that having a customer support that has little knowledge about its product is leaving a bad impression to us, at least they should foward our question to someone who can help more...
Altough i am thankfull for security updates, my phone is still working great, and android 10 will come, but when, no one knows yet...

It's because the job of the customer support is to help out with base level questions about a device, and Xiaomi's support will mainly be focused on and assuming the question is about MIUI rather than anything else since that's their primary version of Android that 90% of their phones run. This level of customer support wouldn't know a single thing about unannounced device updates, primarily because this kind of information is just never divulged to them in the first place. I wouldn't be surprised if most of what they come out with is just pure guesswork because they don't actually know.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Xiaom...on-Geekbench-running-Android-10.452870.0.html
Looks like something is happening

DonkeyKonk said:
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Xiaom...on-Geekbench-running-Android-10.452870.0.html
Looks like something is happening
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I think that's a custom ROM. No indication that's stock

Alex, those are custom roms. I checked them all.

Stop the Fake news

Bundy12 said:
Stop the Fake news
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Donald, is it you?
Sorry, couldn't resist

ohwarumbloss said:
Donald, is it you?
Sorry, couldn't resist
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Donald ****?

picopi said:
Please at least make an effort and look at other Android 10 threads on the forum before making the exact same posts as said threads.
Here's the full lowdown:
- Xiaomi have to provide Android 10 to our phone as part of the Android One program.
- We don't know when we'll get it.
- The Xiaomi support agents definitely don't either.
- It has been shown many times that the support agents either don't know about the Android One program, the concept of Xiaomi doing ROMs that aren't MIUI or even the existence of the Mi A2 Lite Vs the Mi A2 (which are separate things).
- Please for the love of any and every God, either stop asking here and the Xiaomi support about it and use a custom ROM or just sit and wait and be patient like the rest of us. Thank you.
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After the confirmation from Xiaomi and seeing screenshots from Geekbench, we can say that Mi A2 lite update is in beta state and would probably be releasing update in the end of Q2 2020 (April).

AzeemAli86 said:
After the confirmation from Xiaomi and seeing screenshots from Geekbench, we can say that Mi A2 lite update is in beta state and would probably be releasing update in the end of Q1 2020 (March).
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What confirmation from Xiaomi? Again, the customer support don't actually know when it'll come out. Those Geekbench screenshots were for custom ROMs, not the official update.
This said, I agree that it's probably in beta and will be out in Q1.

picopi said:
What confirmation from Xiaomi? Again, the customer support don't actually know when it'll come out. Those Geekbench screenshots were for custom ROMs, not the official update.
This said, I agree that it's probably in beta and will be out in Q1.
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Why not Q4 2020
Which rule forces Xiaomi for Q1? I cant see any rule for Q1.
I think Xiaomi forgot us and for the Android 10 update thing they still didnt even started to work on it.
But i have big hope for 2020 Q4. We will get Android 10 update with Mi A4’s Android 11 update.

picopi said:
What confirmation from Xiaomi? Again, the customer support don't actually know when it'll come out. Those Geekbench screenshots were for custom ROMs, not the official update.
This said, I agree that it's probably in beta and will be out in Q1.
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Why would they be custom ROMs? Custom Android 10 ROMs were available since long ago for our device, why would've notebookcheck wrote an article about it just now?
We might get just a sec. patch now, but it'll be out soon, I agree on that.

dSERiES said:
Why would they be custom ROMs? Custom Android 10 ROMs were available since long ago for our device, why would've notebookcheck wrote an article about it just now?
We might get just a sec. patch now, but it'll be out soon, I agree on that.
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I can say the truth but someone will make fake version. So its better to not know. I dont want to see fake results. Because this will cause fake hope.