The X8 is not getting 2.2 or 2.3 - XPERIA X8 General

It's official, the X8 will not be getting any android updates whatsoever beyond 2.1
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xda's good developers.., we're counting on you!

But why??? WHY ????? OMG!!!

EL_BELLACO said:
But why??? WHY ????? OMG!!!
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No idea, ask sony phaggyson, I guess they think cheap phones with great hardware that are more than capable of running 2.3 still wont get them good money even if they update it..
fkn companies, this thing is way better than the wildfire i can't get my head around why they don't wanna update it.

You're a bit late there.

You can use a custom ROM (for example the Racht's ones) to upgrade your OS Android to 2.2 or 2.3.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=914513

umm.....i threw my phone today in trash....
feeling relaxed!!
in future...i will never buy another SE product!
Goin to buy HD7 or any Nokia+Microsoft product...
but Android/SE.....
NEVER AGAIN!!

That's actually quite absurd! Bad idea Sony!

Custom ROM has some bugs so it is not fully FROYO and GINGERBREAD but it is in evolve so we will have good custom ROMs in future but BE PATIENT!

mohakrastogi said:
umm.....i threw my phone today in trash....
feeling relaxed!!
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Can you tell me which bin it's in? I'll go pick it up...

Troute said:
Can you tell me which bin it's in? I'll go pick it up...
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Haha! Now you will get a fine for throwing your phone in the bin It's not environmentally friendly
Sent from my X8 using XDA App

Phone with lower CPU can have froyo installed on it. X8 should be sufficient running froyo, either it cost lot of money to support X8 or SE think why should support 'old' series when they can make money from new one with upgrade OS.

mohakrastogi said:
umm.....i threw my phone today in trash....
feeling relaxed!!
in future...i will never buy another SE product!
Goin to buy HD7 or any Nokia+Microsoft product...
but Android/SE.....
NEVER AGAIN!!
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Good for you!
I wanna sell this piece of $hit used before it gets any cheaper and save for a wildfire.

mohakrastogi said:
umm.....i threw my phone today in trash....
feeling relaxed!!
in future...i will never buy another SE product!
Goin to buy HD7 or any Nokia+Microsoft product...
but Android/SE.....
NEVER AGAIN!!
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I agree. This was my first smartphone, so I had no idea what I was getting; I just wanted a dirt cheap android phone I could mess around with. With all the mods, hacks, and especially racht's custom ROMs (I couldn't believe how crappy the stock ROM was compared to those) I've been able to experiment with, I have a much better idea of what I want out of my next android phone and what it will be capable of. As for SE, you're right: never again.

Agreed. I've just installed my first ROM (2.2.1 CM HACKDROID v0.12) on my X8 and there is no way i am going back to the original!! Works great apart from a few setbacks like vibration not working, unable to move apps to SD and locks on its own sometimes while i'm using it. But having said that it's still much better than the stock OS!!

hey mister, where did you got the screen shoot? can you provide a link? why rather give a screen shot either than link?
if it is true, i will never by SE product anymore, i will rather choose I-Phone 4 either than xperia x8

Thinking of getting this.

using rcht's rom... its awesome!!!

Related

I just took this photo 10 minute ago...

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Then I loled 5 minutes in front of this joke !
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$eriusly, SE...
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old news is old
They should change their name to $ony €ricsson.
Marketing ****...
freco said:
They should change their name to $ony €ricsson.
Marketing ****...
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Yes, that's the way I'll see them now, it will be hard to trust $€ now
That's just good business.. any business would do it.. I'm fairly confident in saying that they're not building phones just for the fun of it!!...
If Apple do this with another thing...
Oh!Wait!
Jobs always do something like this !
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English forum.. so err.. yeah post in english so we can all read your post!
its not necessarily a marketing ploy to get more money, if anyone here has done any research or read about it they would know the x10 HD is the exact same phone as the x10 (hardware n all) it just has 2.1 (which supports hd video recording).
and obviously since the 2.1 update is supposed to come out next week they will be advertising it like crazy since its something people have been waiting for.
BULL3TPR00F said:
its not necessarily a marketing ploy to get more money, if anyone here has done any research or read about it they would know the x10 HD is the exact same phone as the x10 (hardware n all) it just has 2.1 (which supports hd video recording).
and obviously since the 2.1 update is supposed to come out next week they will be advertising it like crazy since its something people have been waiting for.
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Exactly. I don't get what the big deal. It's just a rebranding, just like how the HTC Magic was renamed the Magic+ here in Canada by Rogers when it got its Sense UI.
pointless thread, close it please :\
BULL3TPR00F said:
its not necessarily a marketing ploy to get more money, if anyone here has done any research or read about it they would know the x10 HD is the exact same phone as the x10 (hardware n all) it just has 2.1 (which supports hd video recording).
and obviously since the 2.1 update is supposed to come out next week they will be advertising it like crazy since its something people have been waiting for.
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If the point of marketing isn't to generate more money for your company, then what is it?
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Guys chill out! This should be considered great news for X10 owners, simply because if SE advertises the same X10 after the upgrade to 2.1 as a new phone. This means it will likely be upgraded to Froyo! Therefore, if it gets 2.2 you will also get 2.2 right ?
So actually this is good news, and it will be a pleasure if this device gets Froyo, because it rocks already! By the way if you don't mind me asking, where exactly did you capture this picture?
I also see it as a marketing strategy is simple you add something different to the existing product and ready .. thousands more sales.
but that comment you said you opened my eyes and you're right .. if Sonyericsson sell it as new phone is very possible that give new upgrade for the "new buyers"
Let's hope so! would be great news
sorry my bad english
Yes.. We can expect 2.2 at Q4 2024 from $€.
Good thought anyway.
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Translation (short of).
My God... what ash.... Tragic.

Why is the DEV section for the Epic so shi**y?

is it due to not a lot of people having the phone ? inexperienced devs? even the roms that exist have one thing or another that doesnt function properly...there only seems to be one solid rom for sure and the rest are just ehh...just trying to figure this out im coming from a device that had so many roms i didnt know what to do and on this side theres really only 3 or 4 choices. is this a froyo deal?lack of people with the units or what?
My best guess would be most devs are waiting for froyo to drop since it should be soon.
pyroswithoutfire said:
My best guess would be most devs are waiting for froyo to drop since it should be soon.
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i was hoping this was the case
twoeleven99 said:
i was hoping this was the case
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Its tuff to dev something knowing froyo us coming. I started my theme to be used on my rom but decided not to cook a rom. It well be easy to port my theme for use with froyo. A 2.1 rom ported to 2.2 us hard. It would be easier to start from scratch with a froyo build
Sent from my Emotionless Beast of an Epic using the XDA App
twoeleven99 said:
is it due to not a lot of people having the phone ? inexperienced devs? even the roms that exist have one thing or another that doesnt function properly...there only seems to be one solid rom for sure and the rest are just ehh...just trying to figure this out im coming from a device that had so many roms i didnt know what to do and on this side theres really only 3 or 4 choices. is this a froyo deal?lack of people with the units or what?
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Its the same thing that happened with the moment, almost no dev support. 1 because its a Samsung, 2 because it was the second 4g phone, 3 because its $50 more.
The Evo community is thriving though.
Look at the Moment forum on sdx-developers, then look at the Hero forum here on XDA. Same thing for the Epic vs Evo.
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i was just asking a question...thanks for the answers fellas
I really hope people will develop for Epic, I really enjoyed the ROMs on Evo. But I liked this one better, hope I didn't make a big mistake! Oh well, I haven't even rooted this one yet, maybe Ill just give it a rest for a while. I know my wife will like that. Don't mean to insult the devs, you're all we got, just wish more people had this phone.
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I really hope people will develop for Epic, I really enjoyed the ROMs on Evo. But I liked this one better, hope I didn't make a big mistake! Oh well, I haven't even rooted this one yet, maybe Ill just give it a rest for a while. I know my wife will like that. Don't mean to insult the devs, you're all we got, just wish more people had this phone.
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I concur, in a perfect world this phone (which I am getting tomorrow) would be so great that I wouldn't flash rom after rom for little things such as percentage battery mod or something. I would flash roms because it looked slightly different than the previous. and always felt like something was missing. I hope i can just be satisfied with the roms and such that are available for the Epic.
Don't worry u will have plenty of devving for epic. It will not be as much as evo though as evo has much more devs and is more popular and has been out longer. But we will have quality not quantity and after froyo we will see more devving. Most devs don't wanna waste time if the update is coming in less than a month (hopefully).
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[ATTN] Sense 2.1 coming for Hero?

HTC Wildfire S
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Qualcomm MSM7227
HVGA
Android 2.3
HTC Sense 2.1
woah, could well happen if some talented dev gets hold of it
The specs of this do match the Hero pretty well, although I doubt the camera will ever work. Hopefully I'm wrong though.
If i don't manage to sell my hero until this one is launched, I'm all with you guys
radu you are a god! haha
if you could do this it would be incredible!
I cant wait
Here is compare to this two phones http://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=3777&idPhone2=2861
Here's to hoping there is a newer kernel in this one that may be of use to reimer...
Lol
Thats one rubbish little phone, not bad for a starter android, but HTC really did let me down this year, as my upgrade falls in april when all the new handsets came out, looks like its the Atrix or some other 2 core CPU,
Back on track, Yes the specs do look a lot like are little heros, a part from the better screen, and slight bump in cpu and ram, not much diffent, hopefully it will be ported, thing is, iv not used sense for ages since late 2.1 roms, and not sure if it will slow down are cpu/ram.
Also a lower battry at Li-Ion 1230 mAh are heros is Li-Ion 1350 mAh,
But hopefully im wrong !!!
Another issue I thought of aside from the camera might be the software, it's probably designed to utilise the extra RAM, like that Gratia/Legend port Sense might close after opening a resource intensive app. With some luck and skill from a talented Dev this can probably be sorted, I think.
Sent from my HTC Hero using XDA App
The tittle of this topic is well not logical, I thought it ment sense rom android version 2.1 XD maybe change it to sense rom 2.3, or something. I really though, another last year bumped topic XD
sorry but hero is using sense 2.0?i thought it's 2.1
Sense version <> Android version
Sent from my Hero using Tapatalk
rdejager said:
The tittle of this topic is well not logical, I thought it ment sense rom android version 2.1 XD maybe change it to sense rom 2.3, or something. I really though, another last year bumped topic XD
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Pot, meet Kettle.
If you read it and check the spec on the first post you can clearly se its sense 2.1 ANDROID 2.3
Shouldnt we be trying to get devs or help devs get the camera going for sense 2.2 before we try sense on 2.3......
Aaaand it's here!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=974481
Have anyone tried it yet?
I'm trying to flash it.. but it's really really slow when it's copying files...
Hmm... Seems the system-partition is too small..
mljjlm said:
Have anyone tried it yet?
I'm trying to flash it.. but it's really really slow when it's copying files...
Hmm... Seems the system-partition is too small..
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You could notice it is for "Desire" and for "Hero"
kabadahija said:
You could notice it is for "Desire" and for "Hero"
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Pretty sure it's from the "Wildfire S"-dump that means mdpi, and with a hero-kernel I thought I might have a shot, but I dont know how to repartition the internal memory, as the system-partition isn't big enough..
Wll if the system partition is not big enough, you want to install that on the SDcard? that would make the system pretty unstable if you ask me.
I only have a class-2 2GB sd-card, so I don't think that it would be a good idea

Official Android 2.3 on X10 by Sony Ericsson

Sony Ericsson now announced to update X10 from 2.1 to Android 2.3
so its look that all the functions fully worked in x10 after it, because the custom rom of 2.3 is not working properly.
as camera is not working and others.....
the pictures are attached....
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Link to support will be apreciated But this was already known...
A few months late to the party buddy, this is yesteryear's news
Hello all
This news is good but look at the work of XDA developers...
They made a lot for rom same as CM7 and Tnmiui, i actualy use cm6.1.3 and a will use CM7.
I didn't think that sony ericsson made best rom than XDA developers.
So i just wait XDA developers use the rom 2.3 of SE to made better rom...
Sorry for the english, i'm french... ^^
Are you f*cking serious?
I hate this forum lately, too many morons
The OP still has a long way to go.
kozxmartt said:
The OP still has a long way to go.
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hahahahaha
That pic is awesome
fiscidtox said:
Are you f*cking serious?
I hate this forum lately, too many morons
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Lol, devs here also create great ROMS. But he is a little bit right, if you want a really bug free ROM, SE will provide that. It will take our Devs a little bit longer to provide such a bug-free version. I'm not saying ther aren't good. They are even VERY good. I couldn't do it better.
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Lol, devs here also create great ROMS. But he is a little bit right, if you want a really bug free ROM, SE will provide that. It will take our Devs a little bit longer to provide such a bug-free version. I'm not saying ther aren't good. They are even VERY good. I couldn't do it better.
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Agreed, but the point of this thread was like "omg look at the news!!"
I'm just so sick of people not reading, or not bothering to search.
I see it soooo much, and it gets to me
IMO the best rom will be when we customize the SE 2.3, remove the junk, enable JIT if it won't be and similar stuff...that will probably be the daily ROM for most
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Agreed, but the point of this thread was like "omg look at the news!!"
I'm just so sick of people not reading, or not bothering to search.
I see it soooo much, and it gets to me
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+1000
Btw there is a nice pic for the topic starter I found
For those asking for the weblink
http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/support/phones/xperiax10?cc=gb&lc=en
It was in the picture
The OP still has a long way to go.
[IMG]http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj182/kozxmartt/evolution.jpg[/IMG]
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Hahahahaha awesome!
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Astral07 said:
IMO the best rom will be when we customize the SE 2.3, remove the junk, enable JIT if it won't be and similar stuff...that will probably be the daily ROM for most
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IMHO the best rom would be a CM7 rom, with all the x10 2.3.3 theming and dialer, phonebook, sms, etc. base apps =D
Sure that would be easy to port since they are both gingerbread and we should get the GB kernal in our update.
non-operator customized phones? what does this mean? will I get the update if I'm locked on o2?
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non-operator customized phones? what does this mean? will I get the update if I'm locked on o2?
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I think if you flash your phone with the global generic firmware, then you can get the update.
Hey, go easy on the OP. What a nice way to introduce a new user to the community. So much hate in this forum nowadays...
Really.. you guys all need to take the good with the bad.
Learn to correct them and move onward.

Thanks and GoodBye D:

Hello and GoodBye fellow GT540 user Cus it has arrived .....
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It has been a great 2 years of memories of all of us learning and hacking together! I will still be here helping out but of course it will be less often (or will it?? )
Thanks area
Dont worry if your name is not in here I STILL REMEMBER YOU!!!!
Mur4ik!
Mike!
PcFighter!
Airbus!
Devswift!
Miroslav_mm!
aw man tooooo mannnyyyyy nammmeesss!!!!!
And of course
Tejas12!
eoghan2t7!
Andreas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
.... of course there is more!
EVERYONE HERE WHO MADE THIS ALL POSSIBLE!!
goodbye my friend and have fun with gs2
Oopppps forgot you my friend!
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Oopppps forgot you my friend!
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no problem
wish i could get a new device too i'm thinking everyday of sending my phone to LG will they repair scratched screens and half-destroyed buttons for guarantee ?
As I said before its sad that ur activity is gonna decrease.. but I wish u all the best with your sgs2.. remember look after it like your son (a friend of mine got it and after a week he dropped and cracked the screen...) so be careful!!! Lol
Again, you were one of the best guys here on our forum... Thanks for all your contributions to our device...
Bye!!
goodbye
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no problem
wish i could get a new device too i'm thinking everyday of sending my phone to LG will they repair scratched screens and half-destroyed buttons for guarantee ?
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Btw my volume buttons were almost dead.. I opened up the case and pulled the buttons out a bit.. now my buttons work great, especially volume buttons.. soon I'm gonna post some sort of simple tutorial for that...
Just a lil warning to whomever might change to a galaxy phone anytime soon, ITS FREAKIN THIN so thin that its scary to hold >_< so scared i might drop it... (not planning to mod this anytime soon, stock ics is good enough for now i guess so... more time here )
Im sry cause you are leaving :'( Best wishes try to make some rom for that S2 and try to not brake it after 2 weeks like my friend did :OO you are best person i ever met here and you are great contributor
but i still dont understand one thing....
why did you rename yourself to grift ?
edit: now you have 350 thanks :'D
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Btw my volume buttons were almost dead.. I opened up the case and pulled the buttons out a bit.. now my buttons work great, especially volume buttons.. soon I'm gonna post some sort of simple tutorial for that...
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Would be cool
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yeah, i have move on too.
using sony xperia s now,, but i still have my gt540 as back-up. my gt540 is still running fine, and with data connection (only occasional wi-fi), my gt540 easily last 2 days
though there are some offers for my gt540, i wont sell it. it's my first android phone, i'll keep it till it die itself (or i lost it somewhere )
I have to say this phone Is a true boss, not many armv6 phone has gotten spent many versions of amdroid 1.6 2.1 2.2 2.3 4.0 !!!!
The same will be happening with me soon..
For I am also getting an SGS2
Have fun with your new phone, you'll be missed.
See you man, have fun!
Bye
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Bye.. ... Welcome back!
Hehe so that's your second galaxy..
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Hehe so that's your second galaxy..
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So do you have the international version or the US one?
No LTE in Singapore and its unlocked.(telcos not allowed to lock phones here)

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