The Official Xperia S thread

[ragnarok95]

My point is, full charge on the go for what?

 

[pker88]

My point is, full charge on the go for what?

different ppls different life
so different charger different needs
hahah

 

[ragnarok95]

different ppls different life
so different charger different needs
hahah

Haha true too la bro.

 

[pker88]

It does not matter whether the mobile charger is for full/half charge since there are many mobile chargers in market, cater to many people of different views.

People have choices - choose a lower capacity & get half charge or choose a higher capacity & get full charge. Unless you are have budget, then its another story.

haahha bro rssd speaks logical hahhaa

 

[XiHamKueyTiao]

The tap tap app does not work well on my xs. I saw on youtube it works great on a htc phone.

Also, I dont like the idea of the proximity sensor running & sucking juice while in sleep mode.

Yup same. Tried it out just now, very unreliable performance on my XS. On default sensitivity, more often than not it doesn't work. Didn't try the other sensitivity settings before uninstalling.

 

[Igene]

I'm a long time android user, so I do know my way around it, I've moved 3 android phones so far, and this is honestly the most frustrating one ever.

But anyway, the main thing is that I use my headset way way too much, so I can't use this phone cos it isn't compatible with any iphone enabled ones, and I've only found iphone enabled ones with mics at the kind of quality I'm looking for so far....

Can see how frustrated you are when you need to sing song on the move. Or is it listen? Anyway, the only Android phone that give me this stupid earphone problem is SGS. That's my 3rd Android phone. When you plugged it, it maciam like you want to go sing Karaoke. Cannot hear vocal liao... I am using UE SuperFi vi. Except for the Magic, which I sold before I got my earphone and this stupid SGS, the rest of the phones work just fine. The mic works. The button also works. Press 1 time to sing, 2 times to backward, press and hold to go forward and so on. All good. No volume control on the earpiece though.

 

[DoraemonBoi]

so far my longest battery use is 15 hours :O

 

[DoraemonBoi]

Can see how frustrated you are when you need to sing song on the move. Or is it listen? Anyway, the only Android phone that give me this stupid earphone problem is SGS. That's my 3rd Android phone. When you plugged it, it maciam like you want to go sing Karaoke. Cannot hear vocal liao... I am using UE SuperFi vi. Except for the Magic, which I sold before I got my earphone and this stupid SGS, the rest of the phones work just fine. The mic works. The button also works. Press 1 time to sing, 2 times to backward, press and hold to go forward and so on. All good. No volume control on the earpiece though.

Samsung earphone dont work on xperia s at all...

 

[DoraemonBoi]

China Sony Xperia Neo L running Android 4.0.3 leh... ICS...
Sony Mobile announces Xperia neo L for Chinese market | Xperia Blog
So should be soon for Xperia S!

 

[cloudaeris]

is anyone else experiencing the huge battery drain during idle?
while under load the battery usage seems normal, but the phone could drain more than 20% power during 6 hours overnight while i was asleep, even with background data off.

as mentioned in xda, someone's frozen the com.sonyericsson.android.wakeup,

which he claims to only slows down the switching between gsm and 3g mode, but this trick should improve the constant fast drain of the power. they also mentioned that improvements should be seen if you chose the network as WCDMA or GSM only, instead of WCDMA (preferred) and GSM mode.

though im yet to try this myself.

 

[ragnarok95]

Yes. He is right. Switch to GSM ONLY and my battery didnt drop much overnight, that is more than 6 hrs or ard there.

I can reproduce this defect 100% of the time anyway.

 

[Lostsouls]

China Sony Xperia Neo L running Android 4.0.3 leh... ICS...
Sony Mobile announces Xperia neo L for Chinese market | Xperia Blog
So should be soon for Xperia S!

Note the last picture where the launcher looks the same as what we have now. I hope they can change the launcher's design or whatnot....

 

[cloudaeris]

Note the last picture where the launcher looks the same as what we have now. I hope they can change the launcher's design or whatnot....

true haha, i hav an xperia play, n i tink even after upgrading to ics, the overall design (home, icons, ui) would look the same, but only with added ics features.

gone through some searching, n i've actually installed the apks extracted from xperia s, n now, my Play has some of the cool looks from XS, like calender, music player, home, tools widget, phonebook, call log, etc.

 

[lucianara]

Yes. He is right. Switch to GSM ONLY and my battery didnt drop much overnight, that is more than 6 hrs or ard there.

I can reproduce this defect 100% of the time anyway.

Didn't drop much is about how much? My battery drop 3%/hr on idle mode on WCDMA preferred/GSM but have just changed to GSM only. So trying to have a gauge.

 

[PsyNidE]

Yup same. Tried it out just now, very unreliable performance on my XS. On default sensitivity, more often than not it doesn't work. Didn't try the other sensitivity settings before uninstalling.

i use the easy detection setting

 

[PsyNidE]

i bought one at it show $23

Gotten the Sony CP-2L from Mustafa Centre @ $49 ...

 

[ragnarok95]

Didn't drop much is about how much? My battery drop 3%/hr on idle mode on WCDMA preferred/GSM but have just changed to GSM only. So trying to have a gauge.

Recent last few nights on GSM from 100 to 95/94%. Recent few nights on wcdma/gsm from 100 to 75/74%.

 

[blacksmith]

Changed to "WCDMA only". dropped from 100% to 98% for 2.5 hour (mainly standby, screen on for 3 minutes only).

 

[ragnarok95]

My advice will be..

Don't worry too much abt the battery usage...

We buy a phone to use...not pay money to buy worries...

It's a fact now smart phones are battery hunger devices...that's why we call them smart..

lol

 

[carlover76]

My advice will be..

Don't worry too much abt the battery usage...

We buy a phone to use...not pay money to buy worries...

It's a fact now smart phones are battery hunger devices...that's why we call them smart..

lol

True, when you get Dual Core processor phone, you already worry about the battery life and indeed that our Xperia S has a better battery life compared to Samsung S2 or Note so imagine when your processor has been upgraded to a Quad Core and your battery technology cannot catch up with the processor technology and speed.