topic Re: Downgrade Xperia U to Gingerbread. in Other/General

Downgrade Xperia U to Gingerbread.

lalitj — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 08:22:13 GMT

Guys n specially Sony Team plz tell me whether the Local Sony Service Center can Downgrade my updated(ICS) Sony Xperia U to my old Gingerbread as i m totally dissatisfied and disappointed with the ICS update.

The major Disappointing factor is the 1) CAMERA, which was one of the reason i bought Xperia U, but after ICS update its quality actually detoriated, lot of noise, poor processing and image improving, delay in capturing and the camera after switchin on if u move camera its something like motion! i didnt like it.

2) Even the brightness is very low( i guess this is the one reason how sony improved battery life!!)

3) appearance is great but overall ICS slowed down the gadget.

4) some benchmarking apps showed my Xperia U above well known Smartphones.(Proud Feeling!!!)

5) ICS introduced the walkman audio player ( still the older player was better)

6) by removing Gallery option Sony made this Smartphone TOTALLY MESS!!!! previously each pic n vid was segregated in folders.

7) lastly i cant understand why sony does this, why cant the Birthdays mentioned in Contacts Sync wiht Calender???? this option was in my old Sony Ericsson K750i.

SonyEricsson(now Sony) was the best Brand for me, but nowadays i feel everything was good till SONY had Ericsson Attached with it. SONY Plz. dont disappoint us.

Thanx

Re: Downgrade Xperia U to Gingerbread.

iyer_vignesh — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 08:24:36 GMT

i have led notification problem,i think we should wait till the next ics update comes out with all the bug fixes:smileyplain:

Re: Downgrade Xperia U to Gingerbread.

lalitj — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 08:26:34 GMT

ya, some guys did factory reset, it solved their LED Prob. U try.

Re: Downgrade Xperia U to Gingerbread.

iyer_vignesh — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 08:34:14 GMT

tried it 3-4 times,it seemed ok but after some time the same problem begins

Re: Downgrade Xperia U to Gingerbread.

Arnab — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 08:55:35 GMT

its mostly some app hindering the notifications.

Re: Downgrade Xperia U to Gingerbread.

Markettingg — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 09:05:07 GMT

My led notification works fine

Re: Downgrade Xperia U to Gingerbread.

Sam — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 23:45:41 GMT

You would be best to speak with your local Sony Xperia Support Team regarding this:

http://www.sonymobile.com/global-en/support/contact-us/

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Re: Downgrade Xperia U to Gingerbread.

lalitj — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:54:22 GMT

Today i visited Sony Service Center, they told me irrespective of Warranty i have to pay for Downgrading Android( ok!) but they said the required software is not available to them, probably it will be there in next week.

Not bad!

Re: Downgrade Xperia U to Gingerbread.

Andryush1 — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 11:06:32 GMT

Do it yourself in flashtool, it's only ~3 clicks! Ofcourse only if you have a backup of your original GB software. If you don't care about your previous GB version, you can download and instal diferent GB ROM which you can find on the internet.

Re: Downgrade Xperia U to Gingerbread.

JonasFilipe9 — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 22:30:41 GMT

Really guys. You don't need to do all that.

1) First, try this: go to settings,programming options, force GPU composition (the descriptions is "Use 2D hardware aceleration in applications").

If you don't notice any difference I really suggest you do a factory reset. Why? because there's a huge difference between the two Operating systems so you should do it. I did it (and the factory reset) and it really made the difference!

So to do it, make a backup copy of all your files first. Then go to settings and do the factory reset (you can choose if you want to keep the files from your supposed card like images, videos and musics).

After the reset restore your backup. You should be given a warning message that some files cannot be restored. See the details and take note of the apps you had installed. Cancel the backup and install those apps one by one from the play store.

Start the restore again and now you should notice that there's no warning now so you can proceed normally your backup.

Now go to settings and repeat step 1).

Voilà!!!

You have you Xperia U much quicker! It really worked for me, and the smartphone is so fast as with Gingerbread!

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Re: Downgrade Xperia U to Gingerbread.

Arnab — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 05:57:16 GMT

force GPU can cause instability with incompatible apps. Its not advisable for everyone.

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Re: Downgrade Xperia U to Gingerbread.

lalitj — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 11:55:59 GMT

Hey Frnds,

Yesterday i successfully Downgraded my Xperia U to Gingerbread by visiting the local Sony Service Center.

Now i m happy with my Xperia U.

Re: Downgrade Xperia U to Gingerbread.

Arnab — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:04:39 GMT

good to hear that you are enjoying it.

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Re: Downgrade Xperia U to Gingerbread.

spv_86 — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 21:15:34 GMT

This is the correct answer, I just registered to point this out, I backed up

with sony companion, reset the phone to factory settings, and restored form sony companion.

After that my Xperia with ICS, this time working fluently.

PS: some Apps couldn't be restored, but the important data did, just download again the apps.

Re: Downgrade Xperia U to Gingerbread.

JonasFilipe9 — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 21:23:25 GMT

Me also, I've just registered to say how my Sony became better lol

But i'm having some problems with wi-fi connection. when it's on much time i can't turn it off, it just starts to work properly after reboot :S

Re: Downgrade Xperia U to Gingerbread.

JonasFilipe9 — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 21:24:37 GMT

still no problem to me...

Re: Downgrade Xperia U to Gingerbread.

Arnab — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 09:31:37 GMT

I worked so much with wifi. Please check the links given here to see if they help.

http://talk.sonymobile.com/message/312915#312934

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Re: Downgrade Xperia U to Gingerbread.

woody2013 — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:31:13 GMT

thank you kindly for this info , i followed your advice and now my phone has dramiatically improved and i now have also regained/unhidden my 3d camera functions and albumn.

thanks again :smileygrin:

Re: Downgrade Xperia U to Gingerbread.

rajasrireddy — Sat, 26 Oct 2013 11:22:13 GMT

how much they charged for u in downgrading ur xperia u mobile

Re: Downgrade Xperia U to Gingerbread.

dicktrinidad — Sun, 28 Sep 2014 17:01:54 GMT

I tried to check the option "Use 2D Hardware acceleration in apps" and i noticed a bit different with my xperia u... it bacame faster...as of now. i will try to observe in the next few days.

Thank u very much for the info