Xperia SP - 12.1.A.1.201 - Changelog

All Set..

All the Bugs have been fixed and the phone is running smoother... Now Sony deserves a great thanks from all of us. But they must confirm the KK Update for our device (Doesn't matter when they give the update).. Anyways Great Update!!

I still experience screen flickering but it's not annoying

I have rooted the rom
I made a backup of my ta partition and I unlocked my bootloader
I flashed doomkernel and I installed supersu fix
flashed stock kernel again
relock bootloader

samarth05 said:

All the Bugs have been fixed and the phone is running smoother... Now Sony deserves a great thanks from all of us. But they must confirm the KK Update for our device (Doesn't matter when they give the update).. Anyways Great Update!!

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The Sp wont get KK, its official now i guess :/ (just search for Xperia Sp 4.4 in google actuality)

spicx212 said:

The Sp wont get KK, its official now i guess :/ (just search for Xperia Sp 4.4 in google actuality)

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there are no official words from sony so wait..i still think we will get it.

antkalaitzakis96 said:

there are no official words from sony so wait..i still think we will get it.

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Yes there is actually...

www(dot)ubergizmo.com/2014/04/sony-xperia-sp-will-not-get-official-android-4-4-kitkat-update/[/url]

spicx212 said:

Yes there is actually...

www(dot)ubergizmo.com/2014/04/sony-xperia-sp-will-not-get-official-android-4-4-kitkat-update/[/url]

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Sony's pages are still showing under investigate..just wait..most Sony agences don't know a thing.

antkalaitzakis96 said:

Sony's pages are still showing under investigate..just wait..most Sony agences don't know a thing.

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Ya, You're Right.. There is still a bit of hope we can keep from Sony.. Still Fingers Crossed:fingers-crossed:

bravia engine still does not work

Received in Pakistan
Now Downloading

bravia engine still not working

The only remaining problem is just the bravia engine on album app. Rest is fixed:good::laugh:

RAM Bug is not fixed, it keeps frozing, crashing, slowing and bugging all the stuff that runs on this phone. Clean installation, really sad.

Salo-S said:

RAM Bug is not fixed, it keeps frozing, crashing, slowing and bugging all the stuff that runs on this phone. Clean installation, really sad.

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Did you do the full clean installation? Like software repairing on pcc? Let me know if the BE2 album app is works after repairing software

full instalation, wiping and cleaning all the stuff. I flashed the FTF using flashtool64, my bootloader is unlocked so i can't test the Bravia Engine 2 right now. Tomorrow i'll update a XSP BL from an friend and i can test it if BE2 is working. I hope it works

nice thread hopely more reviews be posted here.

Salo-S said:

full instalation, wiping and cleaning all the stuff. I flashed the FTF using flashtool64, my bootloader is unlocked so i can't test the Bravia Engine 2 right now. Tomorrow i'll update a XSP BL from an friend and i can test it if BE2 is working. I hope it works

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Mine is locked bootloader but my BE2 album seems not working i've rooted mine when it's on .254 . Let me know if your friend XSP's BE2 album is working

Still some bugs are left...

Rushaan™ said:

Question - What's new in 0.201 ?
Answer -

There is nothing new in the themes and appearance.
Bugs have been fixed
LED Bug - Fixed
RAM Bug - Fixed - Now there is about 300MB RAM free
Bravia Engine - Not sure / Needs to be checked
Overheating - Fixed
Battery Usage - Fixed
Touch screen response - Fixed
Screen Flickering - Fixed
Camera - Worked for me even in 0.266 so there are no changes in my phone. Other users can leave their comments below and I'll update this post.

Pros-
Stock ROM - Warranty will work
Available Ram - Available RAM Is sufficient for doing most things.
No risk of bricking
Cons -
Root not available

I know this is not very good looking, but I am not very good at making threads.
Hope you guys will understand.
Thanks
:highfive:​

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Bugs not Fixed :

1. Installation/Uninstallation progress bar graphics bug still available (How silly of Sony not to fix this small but annoying bug. It's really shameful)
2. There is still screen flickering bug when waking up the screen (if stamina mode is enabled)
3. Still i can't see any Bravia Engine in album (If anybody has the time then please double check this)
4. White Balance setting still returns to default if phone is rebooted (both manually and by force reset)
5. Still there is lag with scrolling and problem with navigation button transparency in a specific menu (Settings -> Xperia)
6. I don't know if this falls into the topic but i backed up my save game data using Helium to my external sd card but now i can't restore my save data. It says 'there is an error occurred when restoring game data' .... Have not faced this problem before. Any ideas ?

Bugs Fixed :

1. Volume slider graphics bug when using custom theme
2. Rhythmic Led bug in walkman when volume is full
3. Battery life seems to be improved by a little margin
4. Ram management seems to have improved a little bit but can't be sure though because i had lots of apps and games installed before and now its an empty phone
5. Screen flickering only happened to me when i tried to wake up the phone from deep sleep during the use of stamina mode in previous firmware and it's still the same to me. I don't know if its a bug or not but according to the op, it has been fixed
6. Never had any problems with overheating even after heavy gaming for like 30-40 minutes but the op said so himself that it has been fixed so i guess it's good

It really seems like Sony has not been listening (again) to their consumers complaint. I have been a hell of a fan of Sony Ericsson since the days of T610 but this might as well be my last Sony phone. They are very poor in providing software updates, rom optimizations and bug fixes which is not to be expected from a brand like Sony. After all these complaint, they have just fixed a small number of bugs which is very disappointing... And um sure that if they provide kitkat for XSP after all, then it will be a very buggy one and we wont even get a bug fix update because our 18 months of support time will come to an end by then

guys do i need to uninstall recovery to be able to receive updates through ota?