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I've noticed, since flashing ICS my internet is pretty temperamental.

Upon a restart it works, after a while it just seems to stop.
Tried airplane mode to force a reconnect to the phone tower, doesn't work.

Tried a simple disable APN, nothing.

Any suggestions?
 
Tyseyh said:
I've noticed, since flashing ICS my internet is pretty temperamental.

Upon a restart it works, after a while it just seems to stop.
Tried airplane mode to force a reconnect to the phone tower, doesn't work.

Tried a simple disable APN, nothing.

Any suggestions?
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Did you do a clean install when you flashed ics by wiping everything ?
 
Yep that's right, try getting your internet and mms settings sent through from your provider, if that fails then maybe a repair install through sus.
 
Well, the internet works, then stops. even though it is connected and i still get the H symbol.

Maybe it's just an Orange thing with really bad timing? :P
 
Hi all,

Thought I'd post my experiences with the ICS update for the Xperia S (Lt26)

I flashed it three days ago using the below firmware and flashtool

LT26_6.1.A.0.452_Generic_CH_1257-3740.ftf

No problem with that, all done. Wiped my phone and memory back to factory before to ensure a clean install. So with all that done, I sat down to play with the new features.

What can I say, ICS is pretty good, i'm not going to say its rubbish, I had no problem with battery life, noticed no difference between GB and ICS in that department. Really liked some of the added features, especially the ability to disable apps, I could finally disable all the facebook and google+ rubish, hate how phone companies automatically presume you want this crap built into your phone, if I want an app for it, I'll download it. The settings layout is done very well and there is a lot more options to tweak your phone to how you want it.

But for some reason, after a couple of days, I just found the little things starting to annoy me, dont shoot me down for this, i'm not saying there good reasons, there just my reasons! I'm a bit of a control freak, so I have my screens set to how I like them, I was willing to change a bit, but not much, the new youtube app screwed that all up! The difference in the keypad layout, the dreadful change to the gallery, you cant select individual folders, it just shows you everything and you can only arrange by date, no 3D album shortcut, Camera seemed sluggish and not as responsive. Mostly, just the general feel to everything, I just wasn't enjoying it.

So flashed back the Gingerbread, and now i'm happy again, I will flash back to ICS once my local (UK, 3 network) update is released, just to see if there is a difference, but I doubt there will be, I've played with my wifes HTC on ICS and it just feels better, I dont know why sony feel the need to mess around so much, atleast Timescape seems to have disappeared. Does anyone know of a release that will just be stock ICS that will work on an Xperia S, or is that not possible.
 
Tyseyh said:
Well, the internet works, then stops. even though it is connected and i still get the H symbol.

Maybe it's just an Orange thing with really bad timing? :P
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You could always try and flash one of the other ics roms from xda and see if that solves the internet issues, there's 3 others to try, might work
 
At the time of posting I had no Internet with the exception of my phone, but now that's changed, I'll give it a look.
 
I think it was an orange issue, seems to of sorted itself out now. The battery is still sucky though.
 
Tyseyh said:
I think it was an orange issue, seems to of sorted itself out now. The battery is still sucky though.
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i'm on t-mobile (who share alot of the same network as orange now), and i often get similar issues where my phone would have the h symbol to say it's connected, but the internet was totally unresponsive. it's not just this phone, same thing happened with my wildfire s, and my nokia before that (although, with the nokia i only had gprs, so could have just been reeeeeaallly slow).

sometimes i found it helped to disable mobile internet, wait a minute then re-enable it.....although sometimes you do just have to wait until it starts working again all by itself :)
 
I'm just wondering now if your phones are automatically switching back and forth from orange to T-Mobile and back again, my xs wasn't doing this and losing signal at home but when I looked at the networks used by manually scanning for networks all the orange networks were crossed off so I selected each orange network to register my xs on oranges network and now my phone swaps as it should in a low signal area, just a thought guys.
 
Del1701 said:
I'm just wondering now if your phones are automatically switching back and forth from orange to T-Mobile and back again, my xs wasn't doing this and losing signal at home but when I looked at the networks used by manually scanning for networks all the orange networks were crossed off so I selected each orange network to register my xs on oranges network and now my phone swaps as it should in a low signal area, just a thought guys.
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Aye mine swapping as it should. like i said though, sorted itself out now. Pretty bad timing id say wouldn't you?
 
Fishyweb said:
Does SUS do anything that PC Companion does not? I.e. is there a reason for installing both?
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Well in sus you connect your phone in flash mode as you would with flashtool and if you update using sus then it will do a clean install so it is recommended that you backup before you flash with sus. Sometimes though updates will appear on sus before ppc.

Over on the sony support forum someone is again saying that of this morning ics is out for si number 1257-3114 which is uk generic, can anyone confirm this ?
 
You can't mess it up, if there's no update it will tell you just like pcc and give you the option to quit ;)
 
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