Sony Xperia S

BionicRasher

batistuta9 wrote: »

does anyone know if anything can be done with the photos looking washed out when uploaded to a computer compared to the phones screen?

It's really really annoying, nearly defeats the point of the phone having that good a camera.

They look fine on my PC - I know the phone screen is better than my display on the Laptop but they look great to me

batistuta9

tui0hcg wrote: »

They look fine on my PC - I know the phone screen is better than my display on the Laptop but they look great to me

seriously?

mine don't look anywhere near as good, bright colours & skies especially

BionicRasher

ya - quality is good but I agree they don't look as good on the PC screen as they do on the phone. This i think is down to the fact that the phone has the best screen I have ever seen and its way better than my PC screen. I am sure if I could get a comparative PC screen with the same DPI or whatever then the phot would look good on that too

sonic.boom

Any one here on METEOR ?

Can yo tell me whats yours SI number ? ( my is 1257-45 )

I updated to ICS using SEUS , then i Flashed back some GB.

Thats mean i am not anymore on rom version designed to my region, network ETC .

Does anyone have a stock GB ? for our region ?

BionicRasher

Having an issue with the new Album app in the ICS update

I can only see some of my Picasa albums. Sometimes I get 6 or 7 albums in the list then when I go out and come back in to the app I see only 3 albums and sometimes none at all. I have over 40 albums so its a little strange.
Anyone have a fix?

batistuta9

tui0hcg wrote: »

ya - quality is good but I agree they don't look as good on the PC screen as they do on the phone. This i think is down to the fact that the phone has the best screen I have ever seen and its way better than my PC screen. I am sure if I could get a comparative PC screen with the same DPI or whatever then the phot would look good on that too

The different screens would have a bit to do with it but in my case anyway i'm talking a major difference in some photo's

a lot of people seem to have noticed it. This thread here http://talk.sonymobile.com/thread/36192?start=0&tstart=0 talks about it, there's more too but i haven't had time to read them yet, and it seems the bravia engine might have something to do with it, also their saying the photo's are saturated more on the S

They're saying as well photo's look better if you take a screenshot of them or transfer them via the HDMI cable. I haven't tried either yet

i transfered them with AirDroid, which way did you use out of interest?

BionicRasher

batistuta9 wrote: »

The different screens would have a bit to do with it but in my case anyway i'm talking a major difference in some photo's

a lot of people seem to have noticed it. This thread here http://talk.sonymobile.com/thread/36192?start=0&tstart=0 talks about it, there's more too but i haven't had time to read them yet, and it seems the bravia engine might have something to do with it, also their saying the photo's are saturated more on the S

They're saying as well photo's look better if you take a screenshot of them or transfer them via the HDMI cable. I haven't tried either yet

i transfered them with AirDroid, which way did you use out of interest?

Uploaded to Google+ and also just drag and drop via USB connection or through the Sony software on the PC is the way I have transferred them. I must have a look on my HD TV later and see if I can spot any major difference

sean1141

picked up mine 2day. 409 for an unbranded and unlocked one. just need to get ics installed now!

batistuta9

tui0hcg wrote: »

Uploaded to Google+ and also just drag and drop via USB connection or through the Sony software on the PC is the way I have transferred them. I must have a look on my HD TV later and see if I can spot any major difference

Did you get around to looking into this?

I viewed the pic on my TV too but theirs no difference with them there, colour wise, there's a bit of a issue with the image being stretched or something though.

Damoedge

Hi All,

Just to let ye know there is another new ROM that can be installed on locked boot loaders Iv been running it for the last two days and its excellent very very fast, stable and the battery life is unreal!!

Its based on ICS stock firmware and kernel and its tweaked big time.

If anyone needs help on how to do it just pm me

Linky:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1775022

sean1141

What is the story with the tags? Should they be included with the phone?

Damoedge

sean1141 wrote: »

What is the story with the tags? Should they be included with the phone?

Yea you should get four of them, if you didnt just go back and ask for them

Damoedge

If anyone is thinking of forking out about £30 on the Sony 850 charger don't bother....try this instead:

Charger:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/UK-3-Pin-A...item4d026fff77

Along with this cable:

http://dx.com/p/usb-data-charging-ex...00-black-91141

So for about £5.50 you have a faster charger compared to the 850 for a quarter of the price! full charge in about 70 mins!

Linky:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1807695

marcbrophy

Speaking of chargers, here's a bit of a stupid question!

Will using the 2 Amp (2000 mAmp) charger cause problems for the XS battery?

I'd been using the charger that came with the XS to charge it. I think its 700 or 850 mAmp, not certain. Then last week, I got the nexus 7 tablet, and that comes with a 2 Amp charger. I tried it on the phone and it charged it about 60% in around 30 mins.

Needless to say, that's pretty fast, but I was left wondering if long time use would fook up the battery on a phone that it is non-replaceable?

Damoedge

marcbrophy wrote: »

Speaking of chargers, here's a bit of a stupid question!

Will using the 2 Amp (2000 mAmp) charger cause problems for the XS battery?

I'd been using the charger that came with the XS to charge it. I think its 700 or 850 mAmp, not certain. Then last week, I got the nexus 7 tablet, and that comes with a 2 Amp charger. I tried it on the phone and it charged it about 60% in around 30 mins.

Needless to say, that's pretty fast, but I was left wondering if long time use would fook up the battery on a phone that it is non-replaceable?

Well it would fook up the battery over a few years use and i dont think we will have our sxs phones in a few years well i wont anyways.

The battery will draw a max of 1500mA charging as far as i know anything over it just denies, the battery has some kind of on board chip on it to create this limit of charge although the highest iv seen on mine was about 1560mA charging with the set up above.

It also depends on the cable you use, the cable that comes with the phone is a data/charge cable and because of this it also limits the charge, the cable linked above is a dedicated charge cable which has bridged connectors on it just for charge only BUT also has a little switch on it to change between charge and data

Hope this throws some light on the subject

marcbrophy

Damoedge wrote: »

Well it would fook up the battery over a few years use and i dont think we will have our sxs phones in a few years well i wont anyways.

The battery will draw a max of 1500mA charging as far as i know anything over it just denies, the battery has some kind of on board chip on it to create this limit of charge although the highest iv seen on mine was about 1560mA charging with the set up above.

It also depends on the cable you use, the cable that comes with the phone is a data/charge cable and because of this it also limits the charge, the cable linked above is a dedicated charge cable which has bridged connectors on it just for charge only BUT also has a little switch on it to change between charge and data

Hope this throws some light on the subject

Yep, that makes perfect sense to me.
As long as the battery has some sort of in built management of the power it accepts, that makes me happy!

Thanks

JayEnnis

Any idea when ICS is out on vodafone?

BionicRasher

sean1141 wrote: »

What is the story with the tags? Should they be included with the phone?

email - sonytag@sbe-ltd.ie

include this detail and they will send them to you in the post

Details:
1. Name -
2. Address -
3. Contact Number -
4. IMEI -
5. Network -
6. Store Purchased in -
7. Date Purchased -

BionicRasher

JayEnnis wrote: »

Any idea when ICS is out on vodafone?

Check your SI number here - you should have it at this stage

http://talk.sonymobile.com/message/223759#223759

JayEnnis

Should have had it in July.. Any idea why I can't get it?

BionicRasher

is your SI number on the list?

Have you tried connection with a PC and updating that way?

JayEnnis

Yeah it's on the list and it should have been updated 19th July. Just tried through Sony Bridge and it says that my software is up to date even though its still on gingerbread? Also tried through the sony wesbite and the same thing?

BionicRasher

JayEnnis wrote: »

Yeah it's on the list and it should have been updated 19th July. Just tried through Sony Bridge and it says that my software is up to date even though its still on gingerbread? Also tried through the sony wesbite and the same thing?

JayEnnis

It's really annoying me, I've tried through PC suite and the same thing. I'm going to repair the phone. Are SMS's saved to the SD card or the phone memory?

BionicRasher

there are a few SMS backup apps - I use one that syncs my SMS to a label in my Gmail

JayEnnis

Could it be that its a bill phone and so its locked? I really can't figure this out.

marcbrophy

Did anyone try CM10 on this yet (Jellybean)?
CM9 (ICS) was no where near finished the last time I tried it :pac:

flazio

I'm in the same boat, have a Vodafone Xperia S, SI number says it's been available for a month, but both the PC companion and the Website updater say I'm already up to date.
Threw in a query to Sony Mobile Ireland's facebook page and the CPW Geeksquad as they are the company exclusively selling this phone on Vodafone they should know.

ED E

Just flash an official version of ICS guys. You can do it simlocked and bootloader locked. Grab an ftf of CH, UK or NL and away you go. Will remove a bit of crapware too.

flazio

I'm 3 months into a 24 month contract and don't want to run the risk of tweaking with my phone unofficially.