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Sony Xperia Sola and 3D Games/Apps

Sat, 26 May 2012 21:24:58 GMT

Hi, i bought my Sola (in italy it's called Sole) and today i bought the first three games on the Play Store. They are Fifa 12, Pes 12 and GTA III and I installed also others free 3D games from Gameloft (like Asphalt 5 and Temple Run). Finally the result is that in some situations with Fifa 12, Pes 12 and Temple Run the screen goes black for a while and then it reappears frozen for some seconds with the game in pause. Then if i go to tap on Resume Match the graphic it's very lagged and it goes black again after few seconds or totally frozen(but i am able to exit the game and use the phone normally). I thought about RAM problem because i tried it after a killing process operation and it takes more time to present the problem. Someone who tried or have an idea about this problem ?

Re: Sony Xperia Sola and 3D Games/Apps

Sat, 26 May 2012 21:29:44 GMT

Update: I used for 40 minutes StabiltyTest v2.4 from Play Store and it shows no errors also if it presents many lagging situations(every 5/6 seconds during the test). I suppose even more that is a problem of not enough RAM.

Re: Sony Xperia Sola and 3D Games/Apps

Uliwooly — Sat, 26 May 2012 21:32:02 GMT

if you have a lot of heavy apps running will create issues like this, also if you have

taskillers

antivirus or

battery defender

Uninstall them, they create more harm than it helps

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Re: Sony Xperia Sola and 3D Games/Apps

Sat, 26 May 2012 21:43:02 GMT

Ok i just removed Mc Afee Security (that was pre-installed), advanced task killer and the softwares to test the phone functions. I just ran GTA III now and i experienced "only" the lags problems, actually also with FIFA 12. The black screen problem seems to be solved. Now there is only the lag problem. I think that the Mali-400 MP it's enough to run that kind of games, isn't it ?

Re: Sony Xperia Sola and 3D Games/Apps

Uliwooly — Sat, 26 May 2012 21:50:47 GMT

that and it doesn't have enough RAM

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Re: Sony Xperia Sola and 3D Games/Apps

Sat, 26 May 2012 22:04:20 GMT

Update: It was definitely Mc Afee Security(pre-installed by Sony).

I'm sorry if i am posting different messages but i am trying now all the set ups to have a more specific diagnostic.

I saw in GTA III more options for the video and bringing it in a less good graphic(actually just a bit less) it has no lagging problems.

Obviously this smartphone (like almost all the smartphones) are not designed to play(for that we have Xbox360, PS3, PC, PSP, PSVita and others stuffs), but I recommend all to uninstall that kind of softwares to enjoy in the best way all the features of this fantastic smartphone. (It is more reactive also in the menu and animations)

Really thank you for your advice uliwooly! (and sorry for my not perfect english!)

Re: Sony Xperia Sola and 3D Games/Apps

Uliwooly — Sat, 26 May 2012 22:07:40 GMT

Anytime. the McAfee app was pre-loaded few months ago, why? I don't know why, but it's useless, as you can see it creates more issues than it solve. same goes with taskillers

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Re: Sony Xperia Sola and 3D Games/Apps

Sat, 26 May 2012 22:18:39 GMT

I think that this is the big difference from Apple devices. On Android you have more liberty, every brand does the own modification and provides different software bundles, different homescreens and different hardware. That's absolutely right and great for the customers who have a great variety of choice. But finally what you have it's only: less stability and less security.

I hope that Sony(that probably is a great brand at the same level of Apple)solves all the bugs of their phone(or provides no bundled idiot programs, and a light version of its AndroidMod for smartphones under the 512MB of RAM)because they are greatly well manufactured with excellent materials and beautiful to use and to see.

Re: Sony Xperia Sola and 3D Games/Apps

Uliwooly — Sat, 26 May 2012 22:23:18 GMT

with ICS you get to delete them also you can root your phone -> install titanium backup and delete the bloatware (pre-installed apps)

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Re: Sony Xperia Sola and 3D Games/Apps

Sat, 26 May 2012 22:41:11 GMT

I think i will wait the official ICS release from Sony. I will evaluate their work on the new Android version and then if is necessary i will root my phone like i made with my previous android phones. Honestly after some months with the rooted phone and some roms tried, the best ROM was always the one released by the manufacturer

Re: Sony Xperia Sola and 3D Games/Apps

Uliwooly — Sat, 26 May 2012 22:47:05 GMT

I hope the ICS for this phone it's stable and bug free, since it only has 512MB of RAM there are issues with that amount of RAM.

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Re: Sony Xperia Sola and 3D Games/Apps

Sat, 26 May 2012 22:59:14 GMT

Honestly i don't know. I saw some chinese tablets and they worked greatly with ICS also with 512MB ram (one of them with the same GPU of this phone) but with a 1,5ghz dual core processor. I think it can work well but in a lighter version modified especially for it (and xperia U) by Sony. If it will have the same preinstalled useless programs I think it will be a disaster.
(Besides McAfee Security "Bugger" there is for example a program named Recommended with simply relinks to Play Store, three buttons to acces the Camera,a program named EA Games totally usless cause without any game in it, PlayNow another almost void platform). I think that Sony released some of these things to have a "future uniqueness" on their mobiles(like Nokia did with NGage, or Nvidia with TegraZone), but actually totally useless(I think that NGage is not more supported now and TegraZone from two years only has like 20 apps dedicated.....)

Re: Sony Xperia Sola and 3D Games/Apps

Uliwooly — Sat, 26 May 2012 23:10:49 GMT

I think the facebook inside xperia is part of this issues.

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Re: Sony Xperia Sola and 3D Games/Apps

ryan515 — Sun, 27 May 2012 15:08:43 GMT

i am planning to buy this phone, is it good? how about the camera quality of this phone?

Re: Sony Xperia Sola and 3D Games/Apps

Uliwooly — Sun, 27 May 2012 15:12:34 GMT

you should read above so you can know some of the limitations this phone has.

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Re: Sony Xperia Sola and 3D Games/Apps

ryan515 — Sun, 27 May 2012 15:28:00 GMT

well i found some site where they test the camera quality of the sola, i think it's pretty good for a 5mp shooter. My GF have the Xperia S and somewhat i'm not impressed with the quality especially in low light situations. But it's fast though when playing games or apps.

Re: Sony Xperia Sola and 3D Games/Apps

Uliwooly — Sun, 27 May 2012 15:39:59 GMT

yeah the Xperia S it's fast but the camera umm not so good

does she has issues like this

http://talk.sonymobile.com/thread/36192

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Re: Sony Xperia Sola and 3D Games/Apps

ryan515 — Sun, 27 May 2012 16:36:37 GMT

i don't know but she told me that when she watch videos on their Bravia LCD it's very clear, i'll try it when i get a chance and share it with you.

Re: Sony Xperia Sola and 3D Games/Apps

Uliwooly — Sun, 27 May 2012 16:37:59 GMT

thanx

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Re: Sony Xperia Sola and 3D Games/Apps

Sun, 27 May 2012 17:01:28 GMT

I can confirm, on the Bravia LCD you have a sensation of pleasure because the colors are more vivid and bright! I will write in a future post a link with an album created to show you photo shots from the Sola