ICS on Neo v - Detailed review (updated with 4.0.4)

[#1]

guyz all those of who have already updated to ICS on ur Neo v .. plz post ur reviews

UI performance -

Camera -

Music player -

Calling , Contacts and new dailer -

Face Unlock -

Ram management -

Games-

Problems you were facing on GB solved in ICS -

Problems you are facing on ICS -

Further improvement you want to see in ICS

Improvements you saw in 4.0.4 update

PS - add ur own fields if you want to its just a small format

Don't post unnecessarily please

[#2]

The battery performance has increased for me and u can disable any app u want including the inbuilt ones in Settings>App>All  which saves lot of RAM and unnecessary background apps Overall graphics have improved .

Gaming:   Shadow Guardian lags a bit but Battlefield Bad Company 2 , modern combat 2 and Modern Combat 3 works fine....

Talk has been improved especially for audio chat in which we can chat through the normal speaker  unlike the in GB where it was only through Loudspeaker.

there is a great improvement in the default Browser also.

according to my observation the battery gets charged up very soon compared to GB

i am still exploring things .........

[#3]

Yeah temple run doesnt work properly but Battlefield Bad Company 2 works fine which is also a HD game

[#4]

Xperia gallery started crashing today....even rebooting is not helping...

Please see to it Sony ppl.

[#5]

Thanx man....didnt notice the disable feature...

Its really helping.:smileyhappy:

[#6]

UI performance - Some time faster than GB phone freezes as well as in GB

Camera - It is okay,not as expected from Sony !

Music player -  just change in lock screen notification,everytime freezes while multitasking

Calling , Contacts and new dailer - Dailer is too slow,Calling is same as GB,Contact is improved well compare to GB

Face Unlock - Doesn't work properly some time i have to try for 2 or 3 times to unlock

Ram management - as well as that of GB 320MB

Games- Not tried Yet

Problems you were facing on GB solved in ICS -

Problems you are facing on ICS - Phone freeze while multitasking music player mostly freezes whilemultitasking and Phone reboot many times itself !!!

Phone get heated too much while charging and at constant use.

Further improvement I want to see in ICS :

Improved multitasking

RAM management

Better Photo and Video Capture quality

Unwanted Reboot have to be fixed

Better music player with more option

Call Dailer work slowly have to be fixed

Resizeable widget

[piCool]

UI performance - UI Performance feels like bit better than GB because of the smooth trasitions, handling and switching between process is a lot better than previous.

Camera - Nothing special same as previous but without compression so a disappointment.

Music player - Nothing changed a slight better sound than GB, it disappointed me.

Calling , Contacts and new dailer - Dialer is mush better in terms of operation but its very slow when we first switch in to it, i mean it does takes a lot of time to open it which i hate it the most.

Face Unlock - Its a good feature works quite well but i generaly do not use it.

Ram management - Its a very techincal thing to answer but i found it better than GB.

Games- Sometimes sluggish like for Temple Run, Angry Birds (Default Version Only), Skater Boy evry game has issue with touch and Temple Run got very slower oveall not optimised for Games not Happy at all.

Problems you were facing on GB solved in ICS - Notification panel has lot to offer i liked it, Music player control when locked, we are getting better internal storage, customized programs disabling is very good, better browser with desktop option, pattern unclock is working as it shud be, preview widget option, Background Tasks in Memory with preview and swype right to release it from memory is great.

Problems you are facing on ICS -

     1. Sometimes screen freezes when call comes.

     2. Very slow to contacts or dialer opening.

     3. No seperate favourite contacts option.

     4. Music freezes most of the times during multitasking.

     5. "Temple Run" game not working properly, Sometimes touch freezes for "Skater Boy" game too.

     6. Programmes crashing rate is higher than GB.

     7. Browser crashing most of the time we play you tube in Desktop mode.

     8. Keyboard sometimes works wrong, instead of typing something it types something above or below the desired letter key.

     9. Graphical battery indicator level is somewhat missleading not optimized, I dont know you guys have noticed or not but was accurate in GB.

Further improvement you want to see in ICS -

     1. A more refined touch for keyboard its always feels like over responsive.

    2. We does want a really authentic sound so a music player like WALKMAN” application for high quality audio such as clear stereo, clear bass, VPT surround          sound and manual equalizer is a must.

     3. Animation ON or OFF button is missing please include this may be we get a swift UI :smileyconfused:.

     4. Optimisation for games.

     5. Please resolve everything i mentioned in "Problems you are facing on ICS" section.

Guys this could be the last version we are using for this set and i guess Neo V cant able to handle anymore furture release OS, so we does want this relaese to be a perfect one.

Please carry on you Sony guys i know you are working hard and please make us feel proud.

[#8]

UI performance - Pretty slow but managable.

Camera - Is good.

Music player - Here is something which troubles me a lot. I download a song on my phone or recieve a song from bluetooth, the music player does not read it. If I open the same file from "Astro file manager" it open perfectly. I tried switching it off but the library doesn't get updated.

Calling , Contacts and new dailer - Very slow compared to GB.

Face Unlock - Quite amusing but pain to use regularly.

Ram management - Good.

Games- Decent

Problems you were facing on GB solved in ICS - Searching contacts by dialling phone number or company name.

Problems you are facing on ICS - Most of the applications crash which never happened in GB.. Music player as mentioned above.. The major problem is the antenna. GB used to be fine but with ICS the Wifi signal capacity has decreased enormously. Also there is connection problem with Wifi sometimes. It says connecting and then disconnects and connects and disconnects. Gets resolved if you reboot.

Hope all these issues gets resolved in the next update!!

[#9]

up .. plz update ur reviews guyz

[#10]

whatever .. my thread was lost .. so for the users i can spam also :smileygrin:

[sushantnkiri]

temple run got many updates and finally it works