![]() ![]() And, as it turns out, the firmware version situation is even worse than I originally thought. However, after doing so, Update Service reported to me that no firmware updates were available: In this case, I needed to first power off the phone, then hold down the Android 'back' button while connecting it to the laptop over USB: Which also explicitly listed the Xperia Play as a supported handset: Internet research suggested that I might have better success if I manually dismounted the phone's microSD card before connecting the Xperia Play to my laptop, but that attempt only led to an endless circle-cursor on the phone's display upon USB tether, until I pulled the plug (manually broke the USB connection). ![]() The only option that the phone did give me was to remount it, an operation that inevitably led to a connection failure notification, and an encouragement to (fruitlessly) repeat the multi-step attempt: I was then prompted to change the phone's connection mode:Īnd then switching it in to MTP (media transfer protocol) mode.an option that the phone didn't even offer to me: After installing it on my Windows Vista Ultimate-based Dell XPS M133 laptop, a tediously long process which also installs a suite of device drivers, I plugged in the Xperia Play (after first ensuring that the handset was not in USB Debugging mode) and all seemed to go well at first: Also offered were a multimedia sync program called Media Go, which again seemed redundant with that same feature in PC Companion, and a Mac OS X-tailored functional twin of Media Go called Media Sync. It includes (among other things) firmware upgrade capabilities, as does the seeming functionally redundant Update Service program. The PC Companion utility was the one that I'd already used before: There, I found four different software packages available for download, three of them Windows-based. Already familiar with Sony Ericsson's upgrade software from my previously mentioned X10 mini experiences, my next strategy was to hit up the company's support website. ![]()
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