The ICS update just kills the Xperia U in terms of performance, it forever laggs & hangs & is painful to use (It cant handle the ICS version update as I have now updated to it twice to confirm this & on both occasions had to send it back into the repair centre to revert it back to - although still not perfect - the more manageable Gingerbread.
So frustrating being stuck with this phone now as had it longer than a couple months and cannot return which was simply for the fact that there were updates in the pipeline being promised to fix the phones problems with its Gingerbread & inevitably the eventual promised ICS release so of course I hung in as still liked the phones design and compactness (And at the time thought to be value for money).
Now cant use sitting there waiting ICS and instead stuck on Gingerbread which still has its own problems of phone freezing and app crashing .. Grrrr so irritating (And all Sony Support keep telling you is to RUN the REPAIR process from their Companion software, I have honestly done this about 10 times since having the phone for 4 months on botht he ICS & Gingerbread versions, and again the same problems persist - I'm exhausted from configuring this phone over and over again!!).
I'm going back to the phone store I bought it from to return it now to them for the 3rd time, and will be bring all my examples & logged dates of the Phones functionality problems & failures with me to state a clear case of 'not fit for purpose', as I'm definately not gonna be leaving with this phone again thats for sure!!
Heres a couple probs still persisting on the Gingerbread version I expereinced this week alone:
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Received call whilst listening to music, but there was no usual ringing, but instead everything just went silent and saw on the handset an incoming call. (I ignored the incoming call, and when it stopped ringing the music didn't come back on, although it showed as playing ?? (starting & stopping the app didn't resolve the issue - nor force closing the music player, eventually had to reset the phone).
Later on received another call whilst listening to music, everything went fine & I answered the call ok and got to about the first 5 seconds of my conversation with the caller before it dropped them ? (They where calling from a landline and I wasn't moving with my phone ??
(but interestingly now the music at least returned post a call which it didnt earlier)...will keep an eye on the dropping call thing.
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listening to music and browsing twitter, many times a distorted disruption to the music whilst browsing the twitter newsfeed. Eventually the phone rebooted itself.
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Latest is when trying to open the likes of BBC Iplayer, or FaceBook or even my Gmail (random Apps) but 50% of the time the 'FORCE Close' App prompt is displayed and the App fails to start untill trying again (Sometimes a 3rd time).
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Does anyone elses Xperia U distort the music your are listening to whenever your bring it out of Standby i.e. push teh Power button to turn the screen on?? (Grrrr soo irritating having this blast of discomfort through your earphones!!)
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