Hello, I write to you all Arc owners because you have to know the truth!
With the last ics (and also gingerbread some apps) the phone is really slow opening simple apps like the gallery, the telephone dialer, and more things you perfectly know. The incredible comes now! I installed the xperia S ics apps, launcher etc, and incredibly all works like a charm. The gallery is incredibly fast, the telephone dialer opens very quickly, the launcher don´t have lag etc....
This is a Sony strategy to make us think that the arc is outdated and buy a new phone.....it´s a shame! Sony do the things right with 2011 xperias!!!!!!!!!!
we will need more feed back on this! cause its really getting very annoying to wait every time you want to dial a number!
for me it takes around 3 days after a restart when the dialer starts to lag..so i used to restart the phone every 3-4 days to make everything smooth again ..anyways xperia s ICS apps looks promising
Strange, my phone became slower once I installed the Xperia S ICS apps. Especially the dialer.
can i have the post from where to install the apps for Xperia S.
and a tutorial will also be appreciated !
philansel7 said:
can i have the post from where to install the apps for Xperia S.
and a tutorial will also be appreciated !
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1725189 - Here is the post mate. Just flash the zip through recovery.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1725189 - Here is the post mate. Just flash the zip through recovery.
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Man this is F**king crazy. just installed it and now i can say that my ARC ICS is as smooth as gingerbread. How come that this made my ICS experience so good. its so smooth and no lag. I've have rooted my arc and i've deleted all the bloatware but it was still laggy.. now it's like ice on water.. so f**cking smooth.. try it and you wont regret it.
the album gallery, phone apps, contact apps and messaging apps is just great.
It is true, the Xperia S ICS launcher makes it much smoother now on old lovely Arc (LT15i), so I recommend everyone to try it. It is not just wishful thinking it really makes a difference. :good::good:
But I have a bug when I receive a call, the screen goes black for 3 seconds before I can answer the call, but I dont know why yet (Stock .431 firmware with Trinity kernel and Xperia S ICS launcher). :crying:
Letter to sonymobile:
I´m an angry Xperia Arc user. Like other users i have been here giving feedback, requesting new things, but i see nothing..........xperia arc is laggy, slow, have and old kernel, etc. What happen with the galery? It´s pathetically slow, and the same for the music player when it have to load the covers, the launcher is not fluid and not to talk about the ics telephone dialer.
What makes me laugh is that yesterday I install in my arc the xperia s ICS apps, and what surprise! the gallery works super fast, launcher with no lag, walkman with equializer, mega bass, more and beautiful widgets, the phone dialer opens instantly and many other features.
Sony this is the promise of been updated 18 months? What Xperia arc users have done to deserve this?
Why the xperia S software works better on a 2011 telephone? Very bad sony!
Why don´t you install the new software in the 2011 phones by default, you have it already created!!! But no, you have to give us very bad optimized software, yes I understand this is an strategy to make us buying a new phone....this is the time to take note sony! Give us what whe want.
Would love to see reply from Sony!
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Sony is playing their cards really well.making us believe that our ARC \ S is outdated & our hardware cannot handle ICS.The Xperia S ICS apps work really fast & with efficiency on our ARC \ S.Lets say for example Sony's latest models Xperia Miro , Tipo.these handsets r running 800mhz processor & Adreno 200.& to think these r getting the ICS out of the box.how is that possible ??? & seeing this i think the X10 community will be in a RIOT(i just moved from X10).
Our Handsets r more than capable of running ICS.
Sony disappointed me for sure.I think they did not even put in decent effort to build ICS for Xperia 2011 line up.they want us to think our phones r outdated & want us to buy their new "SONY" branded handsets..
Shame on u SONY !!!
Marketing strategy dude!! the dirty strategy!
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Letter to sonymobile:
I´m an angry Xperia Arc user. Like other users i have been here giving feedback, requesting new things, but i see nothing..........xperia arc is laggy, slow, have and old kernel, etc. What happen with the galery? It´s pathetically slow, and the same for the music player when it have to load the covers, the launcher is not fluid and not to talk about the ics telephone dialer.
What makes me laugh is that yesterday I install in my arc the xperia s ICS apps, and what surprise! the gallery works super fast, launcher with no lag, walkman with equializer, mega bass, more and beautiful widgets, the phone dialer opens instantly and many other features.
Sony this is the promise of been updated 18 months? What Xperia arc users have done to deserve this?
Why the xperia S software works better on a 2011 telephone? Very bad sony!
Why don´t you install the new software in the 2011 phones by default, you have it already created!!! But no, you have to give us very bad optimized software, yes I understand this is an strategy to make us buying a new phone....this is the time to take note sony! Give us what whe want.
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how did you get megabass ?? i have only the equilizer
philansel7 said:
how did you get megabass ?? i have only the equilizer
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I think he ment ClearBass ...
arpith.fbi said:
Marketing strategy dude!! the dirty strategy!
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I feel played, the phone wasn't cheap
redskilldough said:
I feel played, the phone wasn't cheap
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its ok dude..as long as we have good developers we shouldnt worry about anything.
Be happy that you have world's most best looking phone
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I think he ment ClearBass ...
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yeah LOL clearbass !! got it from another post and flash it via CWN and now i have surround, equilizer and ClearBass.
Can someone please tell me if the camera can shoot repeated shots now with ICS?
And also, is this build stable? Cause i've seen some people saying that the phone lags with ICS.
mojo22 said:
Can someone please tell me if the camera can shoot repeated shots now with ICS?
And also, is this build stable? Cause i've seen some people saying that the phone lags with ICS.
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No it does not shoot repeated shots, buy you can download the app called fast burst camera lite from the market that does. Also if you flash Arconium 4.0 and Trinity kernel V1.6, then flash the Xperia S apps you will have a nice fast and stable ICS.
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Letter to sonymobile:
I´m an angry Xperia Arc user. Like other users i have been here giving feedback, requesting new things, but i see nothing..........xperia arc is laggy, slow, have and old kernel, etc. What happen with the galery? It´s pathetically slow, and the same for the music player when it have to load the covers, the launcher is not fluid and not to talk about the ics telephone dialer.
What makes me laugh is that yesterday I install in my arc the xperia s ICS apps, and what surprise! the gallery works super fast, launcher with no lag, walkman with equializer, mega bass, more and beautiful widgets, the phone dialer opens instantly and many other features.
Sony this is the promise of been updated 18 months? What Xperia arc users have done to deserve this?
Why the xperia S software works better on a 2011 telephone? Very bad sony!
Why don´t you install the new software in the 2011 phones by default, you have it already created!!! But no, you have to give us very bad optimized software, yes I understand this is an strategy to make us buying a new phone....this is the time to take note sony! Give us what whe want.
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it's a marketing strategy
if all 2011 xperia phones get the same software as those 2012 xperia phones
then there will be no selling points for those 2012 xperia phones
marketing is not just only about giving what customer wants, but also making customer wants.
but now it seems that sony just p*** us off by just porting some of the xperia S apps on gingerbread to ICS without optimizing them (while those news phones have new apps, e.g. dialer, walkman), some stock apps remains the same except a polished icon (like the stock alarm, music player, etc) i bet the xperia S apps on ICS are optimized for ICS
it's not the first time that sony p*** users off, everything marketing campaign (all early birds receive almost no promotional offer), releasing arc S at the same price of arc ~6 months after arc was released. sony makes beautiful phone but doesn't do beautiful marketing
Related
http://mobile.engadget.com/2010/08/05/dell-streak-with-android-2-1-update-exclusive-preview/
With all these fake videos nice to see one from a trusted source
Dell are idiots...no 2.2..
hollllllyyyyy snappppp!!!!!!cool...waiting for the release...thx m8 for sharing!
better than F**K all ......................................but not that much
seems a bit sad when i can run 2.2 on my HERO!
To tell you the truth i don't mind getting 2.1 it will give me something new to play with whilst we are waiting for 2.2
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To tell you the truth i don't mind getting 2.1 it will give me something new to play with whilst we are waiting for 2.2
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Same here, plus Im using ADW launcher now with the droid X theme (looks great) which kind of negates a lot of the Dell stuff already and gives me loads of layout and UI options and portrait everywhere. So the things I really need now to make it a great experience is a better dialer. Keyboard fix - though I will prob install HTC multitouch, and most importantly proper multitouch which I assume this 2.1 build has.. which will finally allow for a decent gaming experince with emulators etc. I was actually quite happy with the camera interface, but the HD video is a big plus.
Sadly Dell screwed up with the software from the beginning and now they are rapidly losing potential customers with all this waiting around. The custom taskbar has its plusses but they would have won big if instead of wasting time customising the UI they launched this awesome device with a stock froyo build from release and then added custom touches, anyway lets hope 2.2 is on the way as the performance improvement would be great.
The point is we are supposed to get flash which needs 2.2 whens that gonna come next year?
please masters, please developers, do something
get the interface of X10 i.e. contacts, dialer, page shifting etc. on HD2.
this android based interface looks amazing .. i want my HD2 look same. can you'll do something about it?
jacktackle said:
please masters, please developers, do something
get the interface of X10 i.e. contacts, dialer, page shifting etc. on HD2.
this android based interface looks amazing .. i want my HD2 look same. can you'll do something about it?
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maybe i would post this into android development thread ...
It looks quite nice but is not smooth, it stucks and when you´ve been using it for a few days you stop using it because it´s just esthetics.
it would need some heavy modification is it is designed for 854x480 however our devices are 800x480
buy a x10
I had an X10 for tho weeks! It was the MOST RETARDED phone I've ever used! Its UI is slow as a turtle, its camera is of low quality, and mostly the sound is too low! even the dialer is slow! I'm so happy that I've sold this piece of junk! the Samsung Galaxy-S is another dimension! with Froyo it flies!
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I had an X10 for tho weeks! It was the MOST RETARDED phone I've ever used! Its UI is slow as a turtle, its camera is of low quality, and mostly the sound is too low! even the dialer is slow! I'm so happy that I've sold this piece of junk! the Samsung Galaxy-S is another dimension! with Froyo it flies!
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well that should answer that ..on to the next one ..lol
x10 is built with 1.6 ... that's why it'll be extremely hard (if not impossible) to get it's interface on froyo.
Hey guys, is it possible to have the new Sony Ericsson Live With Walkman stock ROM for the X8? The new Timescape looks quite nice and the Walkman app has changed tremendously and you can also change the theme now like the thread bubble colour and background colour in the Messaging app. I hope that it can be done really soon
What I can promise is that I'll port Xperia Active apps for SE look and feel to FXP CM7 ROM for max stability. Porting will start tomorrow, when I get Xperia Active system.sin.
Something like this is already available for X10, Arc and Play - CM7 ROM with SE stock apps by Achtojan - CM7 speed with the beautiful SE 2.3 style.
Also, if someone has got Live with Walkman firmware, please PM me.
That looks interesting
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look interesting Blagus
Sounds interesting! Would it be only thematical changes in media player etc?
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Sounds interesting! Would it be only thematical changes in media player etc?
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Well, mostly thematical, but with the actual Active's/Live's apks.
I do it mostly because I really miss a lot Play's UI.
And yeah, it'll be based on FXP CM7.
woah nice 1 Blagus, cant wait. Does this mean we might be able to get the FB discovery app where we can share apps,music and so on?
Maybe which one do you prefer? Active or Live with Walkman?
both please. I would like to see the phone again with the same feeling when I turned it on.
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both please. I would like to see the phone again with the same feeling when I turned it on.
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Combination is what I was thinking about.
Of course, boot animation, notification bar, everything, plus the smoothness of CM7 ROM
Blagus said:
Combination is what I was thinking about.
Of course, boot animation, notification bar, everything, plus the smoothness of CM7 ROM
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yh, it would be nice to have a mixture . Have you begun on this lovely project?
That would a great combination
http://blogs.sonyericsson.com/produ...gn=Feed:+sonyericsson/products+(Product+Blog)
Fresh from SE, proper confirmation!
"We can today confirm that we plan to upgrade the entire 2011 Xperia™ portfolio* to the next version of Android known as Android 4.0 or Ice Cream Sandwich. We are working on merging our current Xperia™ experience with the new features in Android 4.0. More detailed information regarding this upgrade, timing and global availability will be communicated in due course here on the blog."
Good news indeed, let's just hope they leave the sleek, modern ICS UI relatively untouched. It'd be a shame to drop the UI back into a Gingerbread-era style.
great news but,i think SE will keep the xperia style not pure ICS style.
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great news but,i think SE will keep the xperia style not pure ICS style.
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I agree with this
tyrand3 said:
great news but,i think SE will keep the xperia style not pure ICS style.
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Better just hope we get root then. It would be a shame, the Xperia style is just so bog-standard and unremarkable. I don't see how any group of UI engineers could possibly look at the ICS styles and decide that their faux-3D-everywhere, 90's looking UI is the better option.
But then I don't work for Sony, so what do I know?
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great news but,i think SE will keep the xperia style not pure ICS style.
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But still, I bet it'll look very different than how it looks like right now. It's more "SE adapts to ICS" than "ICS adapts to SE", if you get what I mean.
doomed151 said:
But still, I bet it'll look very different than how it looks like right now. It's more "SE adapts to ICS" than "ICS adapts to SE", if you get what I mean.
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yes just like x10>arc
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yes just like x10>arc
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It's an interesting point because if you look at their modifications they made to Honeycomb on the Sony Tablets, it's more just a sprinkling of SE. If they keep the mods tasteful like that, I think they'll be on to a winner.
****ing great news I'd say.
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****ing great news I'd say.
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Hope it doesn't create issues for my rooted, bootloader-unlocked 4.0.1.A.0.283, because I had recently read about someone having had his rooted phone go into a boot loop after updating through PC Companion. Still, I would hate to lose root, so I hope somebody comes up with a rooted ICS image that can be directly flashed to the phone.
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Hope with the new Ice Cream Sandwich, there's a new XPERIA experience, because the current XPERIA UI is plain, old boring.
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Hope it doesn't create issues for my rooted, bootloader-unlocked 4.0.1.A.0.283, because I had recently read about someone having had his rooted phone go into a boot loop after updating through PC Companion. Still, I would hate to lose root, so I hope somebody comes up with a rooted ICS image that can be directly flashed to the phone.
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Hope with the new Ice Cream Sandwich, there's a new XPERIA experience, because the current XPERIA UI is plain, old boring.
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I don't think the XPERIA UI is boring. For me, right behind the new ICS UI, is the most beutiful UI for android I ever seen.
oh my god that's so damn good news !! :O
as said earlier, I don't really understand why people say things like : " the XPERIA UI is boring, plain etc.. " if you don't like the styles of sony, why did you buy an xperia phone first away, and second .. you could have seen how the xperia ui(TS UI) looks like before purchasing the phone imo. so stop complaining about things like that and just be happy that we're all getting ICS on our arcs !
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oh my god that's so damn good news !! :O
as said earlier, I don't really understand why people say things like : " the XPERIA UI is boring, plain etc.. " if you don't like the styles of sony, why did you buy an xperia phone first away, and second .. you could have seen how the xperia ui(TS UI) looks like before purchasing the phone imo. so stop complaining about things like that and just be happy that we're all getting ICS on our arcs !
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I'm not saying it's a bad UI. I think it's FAR better than stock Gingerbread. HOWEVER, I think most people will agree the ICS UI is much sleeker and generally nicer than the Gingerbread SE interface. I find it hard to imagine Sony being able to significantly improve the ICS interface, but we'll see
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Better just hope we get root then. It would be a shame, the Xperia style is just so bog-standard and unremarkable. I don't see how any group of UI engineers could possibly look at the ICS styles and decide that their faux-3D-everywhere, 90's looking UI is the better option.
But then I don't work for Sony, so what do I know?
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you didn't say that?
doesn't matter to me as we know sony won't even provide the new FW before CM9 so i'll be using that one instead i think
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I'm not saying it's a bad UI. I think it's FAR better than stock Gingerbread. HOWEVER, I think most people will agree the ICS UI is much sleeker and generally nicer than the Gingerbread SE interface. I find it hard to imagine Sony being able to significantly improve the ICS interface, but we'll see
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Yes, waiting for that. A completely new SE's style for ICS .
I tried several launcher: Launcher Pro, Go, Launcher 7, but finally I return to "Sony Ericsson Home" and stick with it.
But still hope that SE will let us customize the UI more. the current theme function is quite useless.
And also waiting for an upgrade on Sound quality of Music player, add support flac/ape too, want to use the default music player too
Fix the noise for camera
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I'm not saying it's a bad UI. I think it's FAR better than stock Gingerbread. HOWEVER, I think most people will agree the ICS UI is much sleeker and generally nicer than the Gingerbread SE interface. I find it hard to imagine Sony being able to significantly improve the ICS interface, but we'll see
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but is an ui that dont combine with the style of our phone, plus the ICS ui is based in amoled screen, black color all the way to save battery and super LCD likes the ones on the arc consume more battery trying to display black color
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but is an ui that dont combine with the style of our phone, plus the ICS ui is based in amoled screen, black color all the way to save battery and super LCD likes the ones on the arc consume more battery trying to display black color
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Why then have SE made all the apps dark greys and blacks? The stock ICS UI is largely white and light blue. Look at the stock apps. There is FAR more light styling in stock ICS than there is in any of the SE custom apps.
Edit: Also, an LCD displaying black uses no more power than white. I have no idea where you got that from.
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but is an ui that dont combine with the style of our phone, plus the ICS ui is based in amoled screen, black color all the way to save battery and super LCD likes the ones on the arc consume more battery trying to display black color
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what a conclusion lol. totally fail .. it's true that superAMOLED displays black colors better and save battery, but that doesn't mean that LCD can't do so LOL
great news. wating for the ARC realese.
Hey all, I was in John Lewis playing with the new Z2. I noticed that the live wallpapers were really slow and the transition between pages seemed a low frame rate. No way near as fluid as on the Galaxy Notes. I was a bit surprised, surely as the latest and greatest device it can eat any live wallpaper for breakfast?
I was planning on buying the Z2 LTE but I was a little put off by what I saw. I closed down all the running apps on the device but it was still not smooth. I put on the stock water drop live wallpaper and it ran even more stuttery than on my Nexus 7 (1st gen)!! Surely that can't be right.
I expect my Dualboot Games live wallpapers to run buttery smooth on my next tablet!
Was that just a freak occurrence or is that just how it is? Hopefully one of you guys can put my mind at rest or I will pass on this one.
Forget this stupid stock launcher. Totally irrelevant.
I don't understand how people judge a device by preinstalled crap.
Install another launcher (Nova, whatever), and there you go.
Live wallpapers are battery eating, superfluous s**t anyway.
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Forget this stupid stock launcher. Totally irrelevant.
I don't understand how people judge a device by preinstalled crap.
Install another launcher (Nova, whatever), and there you go.
Live wallpapers are battery eating, superfluous s**t anyway.
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What is there to understand? I had to judge it on that cos it was a display model in the shop. I cant go customising it lol. Thats why Im on here asking the question from people that own one.
Was it the stock Sony launcher at fault? Is the stock launcher really that bad or is the device just like that regardless? For a premium device I would expect the stock launcher to perform at a decent level at least.
As for live wallpapers being superfluous s**t, that's irrelevant. Its been a feature of the OS for a long time now and I was surprised that the device struggled so badly with it. Like I say with seemingly less performance than my Nexus 7.
I was ready to buy one but from what I saw in the shop it made me nervous to drop £500 on it. So Z2 Tablet owners how is the device performing with 3rd party launchers? Im really expecting it to be silky smooth even with a live wallpaper running (obviously I understand some LWP's are badly made and slow no matter what device).
Any comments appreciated!
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What is there to understand? I had to judge it on that cos it was a display model in the shop. I cant go customising it lol. Thats why Im on here asking the question from people that own one.
Was it the stock Sony launcher at fault? Is the stock launcher really that bad or is the device just like that regardless? For a premium device I would expect the stock launcher to perform at a decent level at least.
As for live wallpapers being superfluous s**t, that's irrelevant. Its been a feature of the OS for a long time now and I was surprised that the device struggled so badly with it. Like I say with seemingly less performance than my Nexus 7.
I was ready to buy one but from what I saw in the shop it made me nervous to drop £500 on it. So Z2 Tablet owners how is the device performing with 3rd party launchers? Im really expecting it to be silky smooth even with a live wallpaper running (obviously I understand some LWP's are badly made and slow no matter what device).
Any comments appreciated!
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Are you complaining about the launcher or the wallpaper? If it's the launcher, I barely see any lag at all. For the wallpaper it will depend on the wallpaper, the tablet is very powerful with a decent graphics chip, but if whichever wallpaper you are using is badly coded it won't make a difference.
When the tablet in the shop was fresh out of the box, it's no wonder that it was lagging. For instance, the media scanner will run and other first-time apps and background services will be started. An Android device is always only at it's real snappiness a few hours after first start.
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When the tablet in the shop was fresh out of the box, it's no wonder that it was lagging. For instance, the media scanner will run and other first-time apps and background services will be started. An Android device is always only at it's real snappiness a few hours after first start.
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It wasn't new out the box, it was on the display. They had rows of demo units on display. I closed down all the apps too. There was a lot open from people playing around with it.
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Are you complaining about the launcher or the wallpaper? If it's the launcher, I barely see any lag at all. For the wallpaper it will depend on the wallpaper, the tablet is very powerful with a decent graphics chip, but if whichever wallpaper you are using is badly coded it won't make a difference.
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It was more the wallpaper. I tried the default Android water ripple one and it was really slow, slower than on my Nexus7. Also the standard Sony wallpaper. Swiping through the screens it just wasn't as fluid as the Galaxy Note also on display. Must say it shocked me a bit.
Do you own one? Im after gauging what its like for people that actually own one. Because I know what I saw on display but I only had a short time with the device. I am asking what its like for you guys that own one. Is it smooth and fluid with 3rd party launchers? Do live wallpapers slow it down a lot? I know there are badly made LWPs but Im talking about good wallpapers, does it handle them ok?
I had been waiting for the Z2 to come out but after playing with it Im having second thoughts. I want my next tablet to be hassle free. I dont even want to be flashing roms, Im fed up with that, I want it to be slick straight out the box.
Im considering one of the Tab Pro's or even a Win 8 Pro tablet. I played with a Sony Tap 11, I know its a different device altogether but that thing impressed me! Its so light considering its a full i5 PC.
Slick straight out of the box? Seriously, take an iPad or a Windows machine.
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It was more the wallpaper. I tried the default Android water ripple one and it was really slow, slower than on my Nexus7. Also the standard Sony wallpaper. Swiping through the screens it just wasn't as fluid as the Galaxy Note also on display. Must say it shocked me a bit.
Do you own one? Im after gauging what its like for people that actually own one. Because I know what I saw on display but I only had a short time with the device. I am asking what its like for you guys that own one. Is it smooth and fluid with 3rd party launchers? Do live wallpapers slow it down a lot? I know there are badly made LWPs but Im talking about good wallpapers, does it handle them ok?
I had been waiting for the Z2 to come out but after playing with it Im having second thoughts. I want my next tablet to be hassle free. I dont even want to be flashing roms, Im fed up with that, I want it to be slick straight out the box.
Im considering one of the Tab Pro's or even a Win 8 Pro tablet. I played with a Sony Tap 11, I know its a different device altogether but that thing impressed me! Its so light considering its a full i5 PC.
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Yes I own one, I've had no problems with lag of any sort.
Thanks Jai23, I will take that on board.
Hasenbein that's funny but sadly true!
I am going to have a think about it and try get another demo of the Z2. What I would really like is the latest Asus Transformer that comes with Tegra 4 graphics. That's the kind of graphics grunt I know I would like but they don't do an LTE version for some reason.
The Adreno 330 in the Tablet Z2 has at least (!) as much "graphics grunt" as the Tegra 4! If you notice lag, it's not because of the "graphics grunt"!
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Gizmodo Review - they say the same: Simply forget stock launcher crap, install another, be happy with a really great tablet!
http://gizmodo.com/sony-xperia-z2-tablet-review-hardware-triumph-softwar-1565712780
Ok guys, based on your replies I will go give the Z2 another demo. Especially now I've learnt that the Tap 11 isn't 4G.
My next tablet absolutely must have 4G. Its surprising there isn't much choice when it comes to 4G on tablets. All top end phones have it but not tablets.
tumpin said:
Hey all, I was in John Lewis playing with the new Z2. I noticed that the live wallpapers were really slow and the transition between pages seemed a low frame rate. No way near as fluid as on the Galaxy Notes. I was a bit surprised, surely as the latest and greatest device it can eat any live wallpaper for breakfast?
I was planning on buying the Z2 LTE but I was a little put off by what I saw. I closed down all the running apps on the device but it was still not smooth. I put on the stock water drop live wallpaper and it ran even more stuttery than on my Nexus 7 (1st gen)!! Surely that can't be right.
I expect my Dualboot Games live wallpapers to run buttery smooth on my next tablet!
Was that just a freak occurrence or is that just how it is? Hopefully one of you guys can put my mind at rest or I will pass on this one.
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I have been using my Z2 with some high res games and have not had any problems, a fantastic tablet.
I have gone ahead and ordered one, delivery Friday.
Its been a long time since I bought Sony. I used to buy nothing but Sony but their build quality and service went down hill and let me down so I boycotted them. Their latest stuff caught my eye though. We are in this together now guys..
tumpin said:
What is there to understand? I had to judge it on that cos it was a display model in the shop. I cant go customising it lol. Thats why Im on here asking the question from people that own one.
Was it the stock Sony launcher at fault? Is the stock launcher really that bad or is the device just like that regardless? For a premium device I would expect the stock launcher to perform at a decent level at least.
As for live wallpapers being superfluous s**t, that's irrelevant. Its been a feature of the OS for a long time now and I was surprised that the device struggled so badly with it. Like I say with seemingly less performance than my Nexus 7.
I was ready to buy one but from what I saw in the shop it made me nervous to drop £500 on it. So Z2 Tablet owners how is the device performing with 3rd party launchers? Im really expecting it to be silky smooth even with a live wallpaper running (obviously I understand some LWP's are badly made and slow no matter what device).
Any comments appreciated!
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I dont see why you wouldnt try customising it. on the demo model in john lewis, I found an open wifi network, logged on with my google account, installed antutu and minion rush and tested them both to see how well it ran (very nice). Then I removed my account from it again. problem is the tab pro 10.1 also ran very nicely!
Also, there are going to be a number of software updates from sony that will fix issues like poor live wallpaper response. Although I too think they are resource hogging garbage!
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Late reply considering that you've bought it but the reason that the store one was laggy was because it had been on for a LONG time. Given it a reboot should have fixed it.
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Hamza Murad said:
@tumpin
Late reply considering that you've bought it but the reason that the store one was laggy was because it had been on for a LONG time. Given it a reboot should have fixed it.
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Yep very well might have been that. I did try closing all in the switcher but maybe a reboot was needed. The poorly optimised Sony live wallpaper doesnt help either. Makes the device look slow! Im happy with it now!
hasenbein1966 said:
Forget this stupid stock launcher. Totally irrelevant.
I don't understand how people judge a device by preinstalled crap.
Install another launcher (Nova, whatever), and there you go.
Live wallpapers are battery eating, superfluous s**t anyway.
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Agreed
tumpin said:
Yep very well might have been that. I did try closing all in the switcher but maybe a reboot was needed. The poorly optimised Sony live wallpaper doesnt help either. Makes the device look slow! Im happy with it now!
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Received mine yesterday, and it is pretty damn nice. I had the TF700 for a while, and it seems so slow compared to the Z2, that old thing.
But you do have to install your own launcher, dont use that Sony crap, not so bad compared to usual stock, but other launchers are so much more customizable, why would you want to keep it stock!
Just waiting for a root option without losing the ability to backup DRM keys...
elbello said:
Received mine yesterday, and it is pretty damn nice. I had the TF700 for a while, and it seems so slow compared to the Z2, that old thing.
But you do have to install your own launcher, dont use that Sony crap, not so bad compared to usual stock, but other launchers are so much more customizable, why would you want to keep it stock!
Just waiting for a root option without losing the ability to backup DRM keys...
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I to am looking at getting this tablet. Anyone using action launcher on it? I own all the paid launchers except for that one.
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