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Bugs on xperia go

andyactive — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 20:25:03 GMT

First bug is that the light sensor does not adjust the screen brightness, despite it being on in the settings. It just stays at the brightness the bar is on. (light sensor works since I have tested it in the service tests.

Second issue is that the fast capture is really not fast at all. Acording to sony advertising, it is "just over a second". Yeah right, mine takes about 4 seconds after the action on the lock screen is initiated (on second attemp is faster but if you have not used the camera every hour, itll be slow). Infact probably the same speed as manually selected the camera after unlocking.

Third issue, Micro sd cannot be used to store apps! Its treats its own phone storage as micro sd space. Phone memory is 1.5 gb of its internal storage and sd storage is 3.6gb of internal storage. My micro sd works fine, it gets read fine and can save pictures etc onto it, it knows that it has 14gb free but does not use it for sd storage.

Fourth issue (kind of, more of a lack of testing), on video mode, on the camera. the first setting you click on (top left), opens up a box which says "video" and nothing else. What is the point of this setting? Get rid of it and put something from the menu there which actually does something,

fifth issue (minor one), clicking on the pictures in the photo widget, brings you to a black screen (doesnt freeze the phone, back or home will take you out of it) and it usually works on the second attempt.

Cheers, I hope someone replys to these.

These issues were all found within one day of use. Makes me wonder it sony even tests their products.

Thanks.

Re: Bugs on xperia go

Jeff — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 12:39:22 GMT

1) This works only in applications that support this, as designed.

2) This obviously can depend on external factors (running applications, available memory), how was it in the beginning?

3) When you are in SETTINGS > APPLICATIONS > MANAGE APPLICATIONS do you not have the SD card tab? If you only have the Downloaded tab, when you select an application, do you not see the "Move to SD" button? Let me know!

4) This is the standard camera layout, no plans to change this.

5) Did it always do this? It might be a conflict.

Hope this gives you insight.

Re: Bugs on xperia go

andyactive — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:10:31 GMT

Hi jeff, thanks for the reply.

On a second look the automatic screen brightness seems to work (its alot less obvious than the active and does not go dark enough in a pitch black room).

Ive installed a task killer which is set to kill apps every half an hour so I dont think bloat could drag it down and maybe I was being alittle harsh, obviously its faster in well lit areas maybe around 2-3 seconds but still a far cry from the 1 second promised.

The SD card tab does not use its sd card but phone memory.

As you can see here a 16gb is installed with plenty of space, but it doesnt see it as sd storage and instead uses itself:

As you can see, it uses 4gb of its internal storage as SD storage and the SD cannot be used to store apps, what is going on?

And the video camera mode setting seems so silly.

On video mode, the top left icon here:

Re: Bugs on xperia go

andyactive — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:15:12 GMT

takes you to here:

Juest seem like poor design tbh, reminds me of those old sybian nokias.

Yeah it did always do that with pictures widget but its no biggie that one.

thanks

Re: Bugs on xperia go

asplundj — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:40:52 GMT

I have the exact same problem. The on SD card tab shows the internal memory and I haven't figured out how to get the apps to be installed on the SD-card

Re: Bugs on xperia go

andyactive — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 15:12:38 GMT

Yeah there seems to a big issue with this phone regarding to the SD storage, every second topic on these forums is something related to issues with the sd storage.

Sony must take note.

Re: Bugs on xperia go

Orel — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 16:20:35 GMT

I found a free workaround to access the SD: Total Commander. This program is very popular on PCs. Now it is in a version for Android.

direct download

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Re: Bugs on xperia go

Jeff — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 18:40:27 GMT

For all those experiencing the issue with being unable to store applications to the memory card on the Xperia go, please reply to THIS POST with your software version (SETTINGS > ABOUT PHONE > software version build number).

I would like at least a few different versions before we forward this issue to the appropriate team.

Re: Bugs on xperia go

asplundj — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 18:55:42 GMT

My version is 6.0.B.3.162

Re: Bugs on xperia go

asplundj — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 18:56:39 GMT

But this doesn't help you to install apps on the SD, right?

Re: Bugs on xperia go

andyactive — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 18:57:07 GMT

6.0.B.3.162 here

Re: Bugs on xperia go

Orel — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 23:12:09 GMT

Right.

Re: Bugs on xperia go

JohnSt — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 01:10:27 GMT

I don't know how anyone can say that the auto brightness works. It doesn't do anything useful at all. If I set the brightness to 50% and turn on auto brightness, nothing happens. If the room is dark, it's super bright, if I'm outside, I can't see anything on the screen. I always have to go into the settings and change it manually.

Please don't say that it works if I can see the number change in the service menu. I'm talking about actual use. Either the phone itself does not support it and it's designed solely for third-party app use (not that I've seen anything where it works), or it's completely broken.

Re: Bugs on xperia go

andyactive — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 10:03:22 GMT

It seems to work for me (somewhat). If I am outside in bright light and cover the light sensor with my finger the screen slowly darkens but it taKes a long time to do so. And it doesn't remember the brightness it was on. So when you lock and unlock the screen, it goes back to when the slider is on thus it seems really bright in a dark room and it doesn't seem to increase brightness only decrease.

Re: Bugs on xperia go

asplundj — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 13:46:58 GMT

I can't say it works for me either

Re: Bugs on xperia go

Sindikato — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 23:03:38 GMT

I have 6.0.B.3.184, and SD Card(external mem) is useless when it comes to applications. You can only use the SD card(external mem) as storage of your files.I hope Sony can fixed this.

Re: Bugs on xperia go

asplundj — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 14:37:46 GMT

According to Total Commander. The internal memory is mounted as /mnt/sdcard and the SD-card is mounted as /mnt/ext-card perhaps that's why the phone thinks that the internal memory is the SD-card

Re: Bugs on xperia go

Sun, 05 Aug 2012 09:10:38 GMT

Same problem software 6.0.B.3.184.

Another problem is the incall volume that is very low on this phone. Even on maximum setting it is hard to hear the person you are talking to in a noisy environment which has never been a problem with other phones I've used. Maybe you could update the software to make it possible to crank up the volume higher, because I don't think the problem is the earphone itself when i try it through the service menu it actually produces quite good volume.

Re: Bugs on xperia go

Sun, 05 Aug 2012 16:10:15 GMT

I have the same problem with the Xperia Go not detecting the MicroSD Card as external storage for apps. Build number: 6.0.B.3.184

I bought the phone yesterday, and got a 32GB MicroSDHC for it. Please fix this Sony.

Re: Bugs on xperia go

Unk — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 11:26:23 GMT

Same bug with the SD card. I moved Kindle application (sttings/applications/manage applications) to the SD card (have 16 GB card installed) and it showed up on the "free" 4 GB internal memory. To be able to read books with Kindle, had to movve the books to the kindle folder in the internal memory loosing even more space (because you can't set up Kindle to read from SD card, but that is their problem...)

Build number: 6.0.B.3.184

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