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With the holiday season around the corner, we’re happy to confirm that the first 2011 Xperia™ smartphones will be upgraded to Android 4.0 starting from end March/early April 2012. The first smartphones to get the upgrade are Xperia™ arc S, Xperia™ neo V and Xperia™ ray. Soon after, starting from end April/early May, Xperia™ arc, Xperia™ PLAY, Xperia™ neo, Xperia™ mini and mini pro, Xperia™ pro, Xperia™ active as well as Sony Ericsson Live with Walkman™ will get their upgrades.
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End of April the earliest?
It makes no sense to give the update later to the original Neo. It's a more expensive phone that the Neo V and it's more similar to the Arc (S). Also the original Arc is second priority to them.
And everyone here at XDA are starting to enjoy SE ICS alpha already, with AOSP coming soon after. If 4.0.3 being legit, we might have that by end of this week. Dont get me wrong, I love the support from SE but the official roll out for the public could be faster.
If it's that late, it means that they're going to make some serious improvements. I guess I can wait.
What I'm guessing is that they are working on a new set of ICS apps for their 2012 ICS line-up of phones, which will probably launch starting February to April. Then they will port those apps and ICS onto the 2011 line-up.
I've been pretty content with the SE apps like music, contacts, calendar, etc so yes, I would agree - improved, ICS optimized versions of those apps would definitely worth the wait.
Keep pushing near-AOSP alpha/beta builds to the developers and we can have the best of both worlds. Proud SE customer.
april huh? well, i think i can wait..
for now, let's just enjoy gingerbread
hellocng said:
What I'm guessing is that they are working on a new set of ICS apps for their 2012 ICS line-up of phones, which will probably launch starting February to April. Then they will port those apps and ICS onto the 2011 line-up.
I've been pretty content with the SE apps like music, contacts, calendar, etc so yes, I would agree - improved, ICS optimized versions of those apps would definitely worth the wait.
Keep pushing near-AOSP alpha/beta builds to the developers and we can have the best of both worlds. Proud SE customer.
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I'm guessing that they will update the Nozomi to ICS first, and we have to wait for no good reason
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If it's that late, it means that they're going to make some serious improvements. I guess I can wait.
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I'm on the same boat.
I'd rather wait, because alpha version was somewhat disappointing.
So if there is to be newer kernel and cool ICS UI, I can definitely wait!
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yuck ,, really bad and disgusting news ... i wanna vomit !!
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yuck ,, really bad and disgusting news ... i wanna vomit !!
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Really I thought se had been good with updates, it's not that far away at all. ;-)
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From what I gather, most phones will get ICS around that time.
For example, SGS II ir rumored to get it at Q2 2012.
There's already an alpha officially published and another version leaked
so I hope we will have some ROMs to play around until then.
Some additional features by Sony Ericsson coming in ICS release
- We’re looking into making it possible to create groups in the list of contacts.
- We’re planning to ship both the Ice Cream Sandwich vanilla gallery app and our own Sony Ericsson gallery app. They both include some great features, so it will be up to you to use the one which fits your needs best.
- It is our intention to include the popular swipe to write feature, currently available in our Gingerbread software.
Open source archive is also available now -
http://developer.sonyericsson.com/wp/2011/12/22/thanks-for-the-feedback/
i guess they wanna sell new ICS phone before releasing it to rest of us..
but thats just a monrh before google release a new android
From all their recent actions I gather that they have started showing great respect to users. Releasing HAL as open source will vastly help our devs.
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iridaki said:
I'm on the same boat.
I'd rather wait, because alpha version was somewhat disappointing.
So if there is to be newer kernel and cool ICS UI, I can definitely wait!
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I, too, would love a spanking-new UI to go with ICS, but judging by the alpha ROM they released recently, I don't think it's likely.
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From what I gather, most phones will get ICS around that time.
For example, SGS II ir rumored to get it at Q2 2012.
There's already an alpha officially published and another version leaked
so I hope we will have some ROMs to play around until then.
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Q1 is the release date for ics official by samsung not Q2.
mpf.. i don't really care about waiting IF they hold up on what they are promising.. the alpha rom just has the old boring launcher but i think it won't be present in ics.. i guess when they release it half a year after the source code got released there MUST be really major improvements so guys: just WAIT !
Sony just revealed that remaining 2011 xperia smartphone will get upgraded to ICS 4.0.4 next week, except Xperia PLAY(poor u) in order not to affect gaming performance.
NXT series will get the upgrade in the order of S, P, and then U.
Now, we are happy to confirm that the remaining 2011 smartphones; Xperia arc, Xperia neo, Xperia mini, Xperia mini pro, Xperia pro, Xperia active and Sony Ericsson Live with Walkman will start to receive their updates starting from next week.
This software upgrade will be Android version 4.0.4 and the good news is that this latest version will also be made available for Xperia arc S, Xperia ray and Xperia neo V users, who received Android 4.0.3 the first time around.
In regards to Xperia PLAY, after extensive in house testing with our developer teams and working with our partners, we have concluded that a consistent and stable experience, particularly with gaming, cannot be guaranteed for this smartphone on Ice Cream Sandwich – therefore, we will not make the Android 4.0 upgrade available for Xperia PLAY.
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http://blogs.sonymobile.com/product...ream-sandwich-rollout-for-xperia-smartphones/
heihei_ivan said:
Sony just revealed that remaining 2011 xperia smartphone will get upgraded to ICS 4.0.4 next week, except Xperia PLAY(poor u) in order not to affect gaming performance.
NXT series will get the upgrade in the order of S, P, and then U.
http://blogs.sonymobile.com/product...ream-sandwich-rollout-for-xperia-smartphones/
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Thanks for giving such a great news..
yea.. i saw xperia s running 4.0.4 few days ago..it was damn smooth though..
I was wondering the same question how will Sony fix the gaming problem on ICS for the Xperia play? And there is the answer may it be just for now, no ICS for play until the gaming problem is solved. Great news for my Arc S
is there any particular date for ics to come???
and thnxxxx for the news
bec just had a rom of android 4.0.4 and now only i had put the stock .62 fw for the ics
And Gud news is tat 4.0.4 wil be available for Arc S, Neo V and Ray which got a buggy 4.0.3 update. ;-)
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Finally! I've been waiting for this for a while now and was jealous of the arc S, which received the ICS update earlier.
I'm hoping for a 'smooth' experience with 4.0.4. Any idea if we'd be getting a newer kernel?
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I really hope they fix the touchscreen issues. And the gaming issues too.
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daniel090588 said:
I was wondering the same question how will Sony fix the gaming problem on ICS for the Xperia play? And there is the answer may it be just for now, no ICS for play until the gaming problem is solved. Great news for my Arc S
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probably this is the decision made by sony and the game vendors
This decision was also verified when we received similar feedback from the developer community; both experienced developers and advanced users, along with game content providers following our ICS beta ROM for unlocked Xperia PLAY smartphones.
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xtacy! said:
Finally! I've been waiting for this for a while now and was jealous of the arc S, which received the ICS update earlier.
I'm hoping for a 'smooth' experience with 4.0.4. Any idea if we'd be getting a newer kernel?
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yes.. maybe kernel version 3.0.8..
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yes.. maybe kernel version 3.0.8..
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previously sony said ICS will still run with the obsolete kernel 2.6.32 in order to release ICS as quickly as possible in January. i just hope after 4-5 months of development they can release a 3.0 kernel in the near future.
we also see xperia s running ICS with 3.0.8 kernel, hope Sony or some skilled developer could port it to xperia arc?
It is rather quick to get a new kernel up and running, but it takes a lot of testing and validation to make it stable and run with the modem, get a good battery performance etc. Quite some effort has been put in to the Sony Ericsson 2.6.32 kernel, to make it as stable and reliable as possible for the 8255 platform, and we do not feel that the user benefit of a new kernel would justify a later release date.
http://www.xperiablog.net/2012/01/0...unchanged-kernel-for-android-4-0-ics-release/
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P.S. some people asked in sony's latest blog post about the kernel but Sony hasn't responded yet.
I had a doubt that how is this possible..
No new firmwares certified from PTCRB..
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rampraven said:
I had a doubt that how is this possible..
No new firmwares certified from PTCRB..
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Ya.. I was wondering that too..
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I had a doubt that how is this possible..
No new firmwares certified from PTCRB..
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That does not mean anything. Sony released 4.0.2.A.0.62 for all Arc devices but do you see it on that site as certified?
FINALLY! I can't tell you guys for how long I have been waiting for this update..I hope that my Xperia Arc will finally be smooth now
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That does not mean anything. Sony released 4.0.2.A.0.62 for all Arc devices but do you see it on that site as certified?
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Yes, for the Arc S.
http://www.ptcrb.com/vendor/complete/view_complete_request_guest.cfm?modelid=20152
I think if they certify a release for the Arc S then it can include the Arc, and vice-versa.
They should atleast then give us the sources of the final stock ICS kernel...
Finally!
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That does not mean anything. Sony released 4.0.2.A.0.62 for all Arc devices but do you see it on that site as certified?
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err, yes i did
http://www.ptcrb.com/vendor/complete/view_complete_request_guest.cfm?modelid=18648
Desire HD, Galaxy S, Xperia Arc is almost the same specs.
Galaxy S and Xperia Arc has a stable version of the official CM9.
However, Desire HD does not have even the nightly version.
http://download.cyanogenmod.com/?device=ace&type=nightly
Kernel related i think.
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fis324 said:
Desire HD, Galaxy S, Xperia Arc is almost the same specs.
Galaxy S and Xperia Arc has a stable version of the official CM9.
However, Desire HD does not have even the nightly version.
http://download.cyanogenmod.com/?device=ace&type=nightly
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The key is they almost have the same specs. There will not be an official CM release for DHD untill things are working. Right now the biggest hurdle is the camera, but there are other smaller issues and tweaks to be made before they will release an official version. I am running an unnofficial CM10 build by Randomblame that I like quite a bit atm. Things feel like the are progressing pretty quickly, so I have hope we'll see a strong/stable JB build in the coming weeks.
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Desire HD, Galaxy S, Xperia Arc is almost the same specs.
Galaxy S and Xperia Arc has a stable version of the official CM9.
However, Desire HD does not have even the nightly version.
http://download.cyanogenmod.com/?device=ace&type=nightly
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They already stated that then only devices that will get an official CM build are those with ICS official updates. Without it all we will get is kang builds which are not bad at all
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zelendel said:
They already stated that then only devices that will get an official CM build are those with ICS official updates. Without it all we will get is kang builds which are not bad at all
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But aren't Galaxy S did not have official ICS updates? Are they just pull the hardware driver from its sibling Nexus S? CMIIW
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But aren't Galaxy S did not have official ICS updates? Are they just pull the hardware driver from its sibling Nexus S? CMIIW
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Yes it is because the whole galaxy series is so close that they can make things work unlike HTC
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Desire HD is not complete even CM7
http://download.cyanogenmod.com/?device=ace&type=nightly
Sony is working with FreeXperia team, Samsung has a relationship with Cynagenmod team.
I think HTC is reluctant about the CUSTOM.
The sales of HTC fall as expected
Where is CM9 for HTC Desire HD (was running Icecoldsandwich)
If HTC are not going to continue to support this phone ... they should at least release the source code to the CM & Kang teams who continue to develop for this device.
Come on HTC lift your game!
How is it that Opensource development teams in there spare time can achieve more that the dev's who created the device????
Its they can't but xda is your best bet
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fis324 said:
Desire HD is not complete even CM7
http://download.cyanogenmod.com/?device=ace&type=nightly
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Yes it is. Look at the stable releases. You have CM 7.2.0 which was released June 15th,
It's a shame though. I never like Vanilla Android (and CM) until ICS. HTC Sense is the reason why I always stuck to HTC phones. However, with the UI advancements in ICS and JB, I would happily drop HTC Sense. Looks like that will never come to fruition on the Desire HD though, as there won't be an official CM9 or CM10 unless we get the source code from HTC first.
HTC really are killing themselves. Once industry leaders, they are now lagging far far behind. Sort of like a 100m runner competing in a marathon (sorry, I've been watching way too much of the Olympic Games)!
fis324 said:
Desire HD, Galaxy S, Xperia Arc is almost the same specs.
Galaxy S and Xperia Arc has a stable version of the official CM9.
However, Desire HD does not have even the nightly version.
http://download.cyanogenmod.com/?device=ace&type=nightly
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becoz it was never officially released by htc
fis324 said:
Desire HD, Galaxy S, Xperia Arc is almost the same specs.
Galaxy S and Xperia Arc has a stable version of the official CM9.
However, Desire HD does not have even the nightly version.
http://download.cyanogenmod.com/?device=ace&type=nightly
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Specs mean nothing. It is all hardware, driver, kernel related. You have to remember that drivers for a lot of hard ware is not open source so they have to be built from the ground up. Without kernel source it is a lot more difficult.
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Specs mean nothing. It is all hardware, driver, kernel related. You have to remember that drivers for a lot of hard ware is not open source so they have to be built from the ground up. Without kernel source it is a lot more difficult.
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However, Xperia Arc has been updated to Android4.0, But Galaxy S hasn't been updated to Android4.0.
Why does Galaxy S have the official version of CM10? And GalaxyS is officially supported by AOKP, But DesireHD is not supported by it.
fis324 said:
However, Xperia Arc has been updated to Android4.0, But Galaxy S hasn't been updated to Android4.0.
Why does Galaxy S have the official version of CM10? And GalaxyS is officially supported by AOKP, But DesireHD is not supported by it.
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Because the nexus is a galaxy phone. All the galaxy phones are alot closer then HTC phones. You can take most of the stuff from the nexus and it will work on the galaxy s with only minor changes to the kernel and coding.
Also you have to remember that HTC big thing is Sense. They want every HTC running it so they are not huge supporters of AOSP.
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fis324 said:
However, Xperia Arc has been updated to Android4.0, But Galaxy S hasn't been updated to Android4.0.
Why does Galaxy S have the official version of CM10? And GalaxyS is officially supported by AOKP, But DesireHD is not supported by it.
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I can't see why you don't understand. The Galaxy S is pretty much identical to the Nexus S. They have the same CPU and GPU. So the CM team pretty much had the drivers for the Galaxy S when the Nexus S source code was released.
Thank you for your reply.
I see.
CM9 for DHD
zelendel said:
Because the nexus is a galaxy phone. All the galaxy phones are alot closer then HTC phones. You can take most of the stuff from the nexus and it will work on the galaxy s with only minor changes to the kernel and coding.
Also you have to remember that HTC big thing is Sense. They want every HTC running it so they are not huge supporters of AOSP.
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now that desire HD has got a fully working unofficial rom ported from incredible s, where the camera works great which was the actual reason that was stopping the CM team from building a CM9 for DHD.. cant they build one now ? :fingers-crossed:
If I am correct, you can't use a Sense kernel on a ASOP kernel. Although having the Sense kernel will help, you can't plop in a Sense kernel on a ASOP rom. If those CM10 betas get any better, then CM may start official nightlies. The main problem is all internal, how the phone manages RAM and especially using the SD Card is relatively unstable compared to a Sense Rom (most people consider it very stable but CM wants everything to be somewhat perfect and truthfully it kinda is unstable).
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If I am correct, you can't use a Sense kernel on a ASOP kernel. Although having the Sense kernel will help, you can't plop in a Sense kernel on a ASOP rom. If those CM10 betas get any better, then CM may start official nightlies. The main problem is all internal, how the phone manages RAM and especially using the SD Card is relatively unstable compared to a Sense Rom (most people consider it very stable but CM wants everything to be somewhat perfect and truthfully it kinda is unstable).
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Correct. And about the galaxy s and xperia arc, they have team hacksung and freexperia project working on every Samsung and Sony device. We HTC users have devs committed to a certain section, usually their device
Our maintainers, attn1 and kali- have both moved on. Maybe that's the problem lol
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I think Desire HD is getting too old. Using it 2 years now, however i'll keep on doing as long as it works
Guys, sony seems to be really pushing development and supporting it a lot here in the community as well. Not sure how many read this article, really interesting:
An Official Alpha Release WITH Kernel Source? Who Does This Sort of Thing? : http://www.xda-developers.com/andro...th-kernel-source-who-does-this-sort-of-thing/
androidindian said:
Guys, sony seems to be really pushing development and supporting it a lot here in the community as well. Not sure how many read this article, really interesting:
An Official Alpha Release WITH Kernel Source? Who Does This Sort of Thing? : http://www.xda-developers.com/andro...th-kernel-source-who-does-this-sort-of-thing/
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That's really great of Sony, but shouldn't this really be an alpha of 4.2.1 at this stage? Samsung already released their official 4.1.2 and are now working on bringing 4.2.1 to our phones. Not really sure whether this qualifies Sony as a "terrific" OEM.
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Samsung [...] are now working on bringing 4.2.1 to our phones.
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Do you have any evidence at all to support this?
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Do you have any evidence at all to support this?
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Well, not any hard evidence, no, but why would they not be?
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Well, not any hard evidence, no, but why would they not be?
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sony takes tad bit more time for sure, but atleast they dont release softwares in hurry with massive bugs like bricking isssues, and security exploits etc. etc and then release more updates after that to fix those
and also samsung released half done sources..
sony takes slight more time, but never has those issues. they release alpha builds and also sources along with that, which is fantastic!
sony is catching up for sure..
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sony takes tad bit more time for sure, but atleast they dont release softwares in hurry with massive bugs like bricking isssues, and security exploits etc. etc and then release more updates after that to fix those
and also samsung released half done sources..
sony takes slight more time, but never has those issues. they release alpha builds and also sources along with that, which is fantastic!
sony is catching up for sure..
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Yup. Seriously, I'll take Sony's well-polished ICS over Samsung's half-assed cobbled together JB 4.1 any day of the week.
Xperia T was the longest I've lasted with stock on any phone in quite some time, despite the fact that it was running ICS when every other device I owned and still used was running CM10.1...
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Yup. Seriously, I'll take Sony's well-polished ICS over Samsung's half-assed cobbled together JB 4.1 any day of the week.
Xperia T was the longest I've lasted with stock on any phone in quite some time, despite the fact that it was running ICS when every other device I owned and still used was running CM10.1...
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SEMC/Sony ROMs have always been well polished and very stable... i have used them on Xperia X10 (QSD8250) -> Xperia Arc (MSM8255) -> Xperia S (MSM8260) -> Xperia T (MSM8960) and they just keep getting better
their GB ROM was ROCK solid...
Honestly I would go back to GB on my SOLA only because some apps are incompatible is what's stopping me.
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That's really great of Sony, but shouldn't this really be an alpha of 4.2.1 at this stage? Samsung already released their official 4.1.2 and are now working on bringing 4.2.1 to our phones. Not really sure whether this qualifies Sony as a "terrific" OEM.
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Exactly.
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well the xperia tipo gets android kitkat (4.4) and the specs are weaker than the xperia play as far as i know i fell that someone will port it to xperia play.:fingers-crossed:
xdarkmario said:
well the xperia tipo gets android kitkat (4.4) and the specs are weaker than the xperia play as far as i know i fell that someone will port it to xperia play.:fingers-crossed:
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yes we will. fingers crossed.
im fell that we will get 4.4 soon
as nickholtus may get an xperia play soon
and he did a great work for getting cm10 working on xperia play and he made on of the first cm10 build
i think he can solve our problems
achotjan may also get an xperia play soon and thats another hope
but i may leave xperia play section before seeing 4.4 running on my phone
It would take someone who really knows what they're doing to port 4.4 to the Xperia Play. I wouldn't get your hopes up.
Visa Declined said:
It would take someone who really knows what they're doing to port 4.4 to the Xperia Play. I wouldn't get your hopes up.
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Agreed, android isn't made with wishes, hopes, and dreams, and that's all we have working on it at the moment.
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well thats not only dreams
nickholtus and achotjan are both great devs that both of them made impossibles possible
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nickholtus may get an xperia play soon
and he did a great work for getting cm10 working on xperia play and he made on of the first cm10 build
i think he can solve our problems
achotjan may also get an xperia play soon
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So you're hedging your hopes that These two guys get an Xperia Play and develope a 4.4 ROM for it?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=2482775
http://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=4233768
Can you point me to a link or comment that says they will develop a 4.4 ROM for the PLAY?
They will develop 3.4 kernel for xperia play
And only thing that mike needs for developing kitkat for xperia play is a working 3.4 kernel
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They will develop 3.4 kernel for xperia play
And only thing that mike needs for developing kitkat for xperia play is a working 3.4 kernel
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You said that both of these guys were getting Xperia Play's, can you link me to a post where they say this?
Chexk think thank 3.x kernel in development thread for that
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Chexk think thank 3.x kernel in development thread for that
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Okay thanks.
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Okay thanks.
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once i get a xperia play i will work on 4.4 and 3.4 kernel.
hopefully everything goes fine, then i will have one soon.
wow.. dats amazing news.. to all the sarcastic jokes being made about xplay and 3.4 kernel.. and kitkat.. hehe..
its not about the Specs. its the Manufacturer. Tipo is SONY. Xperia PLAY is sony ERICSSON. if arc or models such as Ray gets a KitKat, then wed get the update aswell. so Sorry to Burst your Bubbles, but this wouldnt happen, not unless we get a working 3.4 Kernel, then a Kitkat Rom can be Developed.
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once i get a xperia play i will work on 4.4 and 3.4 kernel.
hopefully everything goes fine, then i will have one soon.
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DUDEEEE!!!, i complete my registration in xda just for say: THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
It´s amazing than one dev work in the android 4.4 port for xperia play dude you rock!!!!.
im waiting for that upgrade for xperia play thank´s a lot
Is the phone too old to get now??
Hey guys,
I've always loved this phone, but I'm worried I'm too late to get the device and it will be a pain to use with the newer software out there.
What are your experiences? I see people talking about getting KitKat rom for it, but could it legitamitely handle it? Not to mention, the poor guy doesn't have 4G on Verizon....
Thanks guys.
our phone can handle kitkat very well and better than both ics and jb
i never thought we would get a touchscreen bug for our kernel.. I thot we wud have problems with Wifi.. Bluetooth.. data.. etc.. but I never imagined that the touchscreen would not boot at all only..
me too
hi there, just some words of thanking and cheering! :highfive:
i really hope you will find a solution, now for the funny story ...
i had a SGSIII under 4.4.2 with Boeffla's Kernel... it took a crap (mostly fubar...) as i am a lifeguard and not a phoneguard ... i could not save him ... so i was seeking a cheap phone and i found a Xperia play in a good shape for a ridiculous price ... after a little moment browsing XDA's tutorials...
Unlock BL, Root, FTF .79 flash, Lupus V7, Neo2Play 4.0.4 ... i would never had imagined that a single core scorpion with a single core Adreno 205 would be so smooth and make me forget about a Exynos 4142 Mali 400MP4 ... in PPSSPP and other ... physical PSP buttons are godlike ...
if we can get KK + 3.4 kernel then it will be a REAL rebirth of the Play as the Play 2 ... KK is optimised for device with those specs ... unlike ICS/JB
also ... tipo is Sony, Play is Sony Ericsson EH? what's the point ... Sony is still Sony Ericsson afaik ... oh ... wait unsupported/discontinued device, i see... but that doesn't change the fact that they are from the same manufacturer.
and likely the Play 2 will never see the light... the Vita killed it ... :crying:
so let's have a break have a Kitkat and make our wonderful R800i a R800iV2