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Should I upgrade to ICS?

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shashank1989
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Should I upgrade to ICS?

What all are the bugs in ICS for Xperia U?

I have read about Wi-Fi,camera(picture quality) issues and notification tone issues.

Is it a good idea to upgrade now or wait?

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narenderreddyn
Visitor

@shashank1989:

If u ask me, there are few bugs in ICS but the smoothness compared to GB is phenomenal.

As long as u don't rely on wifi (like outside your house/your own router). Because I had the wifi issue, it was going numb in a minute, but after a suggestion in the forum i changed few settings in my router's wireless settings, all's fine for me now. But then, u can't do that at your workplace. That's my issue with my mobile.

Battery life is not bad once u turn on "Extended Standby Mode", which apparantly is giving me 9-10 hrs of battery life with quite a lot of messaging, wifi always on, few calls, whatsapp, browsing(lil bit). 

RAM consumption is noticably much more when compared to GB, but then again long pressing the home key, u have the task manager with which u can close the running apps & free up the memory. Not an issue, until u push the device with a lot of multi tasking.

Regarding Camera, I've noticed a tad bit of clarity issue when snapping indoors. But outdoors, it's all fine. One concern though, it's always using 3 Megapixel only, I manually have to adjust everytime that I need full 5 Megapixel pictures, that's a pain really.

That's it, consider the above & if u can live with all those & also consider the great user interface ICS has to offer & then decide whether u want to upgrade to ICS or stay on GB until a stable firmware is released(which won't be anytime soon)

Cheers mate!

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Markettingg
Visitor

The camera is good idk what they talking about and the UI is pretty nice to! & chrome update.

However wifi works fine.

hoshangverma
Visitor

dnt upgrade its too buggy, memory usage is too much, due to which baterry life also reduces, i personaly recomnds to wait.

Arnab
Enthusiast
sajibtech
Visitor

Go for it.. no bugs still now..

Shiv63
Visitor

Updated it yesterday and its working pretty good... Actually smoother than GB!! WiFi, Camera and all other stuff works fine.. Performance is way far better than GB.. But the Only let down was battery! Discharged pretty soon when compared to GB on same amount of usage..

narenderreddyn
Visitor

@shashank1989:

If u ask me, there are few bugs in ICS but the smoothness compared to GB is phenomenal.

As long as u don't rely on wifi (like outside your house/your own router). Because I had the wifi issue, it was going numb in a minute, but after a suggestion in the forum i changed few settings in my router's wireless settings, all's fine for me now. But then, u can't do that at your workplace. That's my issue with my mobile.

Battery life is not bad once u turn on "Extended Standby Mode", which apparantly is giving me 9-10 hrs of battery life with quite a lot of messaging, wifi always on, few calls, whatsapp, browsing(lil bit). 

RAM consumption is noticably much more when compared to GB, but then again long pressing the home key, u have the task manager with which u can close the running apps & free up the memory. Not an issue, until u push the device with a lot of multi tasking.

Regarding Camera, I've noticed a tad bit of clarity issue when snapping indoors. But outdoors, it's all fine. One concern though, it's always using 3 Megapixel only, I manually have to adjust everytime that I need full 5 Megapixel pictures, that's a pain really.

That's it, consider the above & if u can live with all those & also consider the great user interface ICS has to offer & then decide whether u want to upgrade to ICS or stay on GB until a stable firmware is released(which won't be anytime soon)

Cheers mate!

AnDY2
Visitor

Hey this is my post in other thread.

And as for the WiFi issue i have not faced it.

THANKS SONY!!!!!!

The wait has been worth it. Dispite the bashing going on in this forum over last coupla days, You guys have delivered again.

I had updated in the noon and till now have not faced any bugs.

Guys ICS is AWESOME!!! the UI rocks. and is loaded with better features.

Here is to name a few.

1) Better battery management.

2) Better control over pre-installed application as compared to GB. you can disable an app and uninstall some.

3) Better RAM Management.

4) Classy & Slick looks.

5) Better Gmail.

6) Sony Walkman is a welcome.

7) Smart Connect has got more options.

😎 Better customization of walls.

techies19
Visitor

is it true that the flash will be disabled once i updated my xperia u to ICS?

shashank1989
Visitor

thanks frnds for answering my queries....