Sony Mobile the maker to the famous Xperia line of Android Smartphones has many different Xperias they need to update.

There are two ways that Sony delivers to the update to the Xperia phone.


Update Method One is OTA (Over the Air)

You can go into your Xperia and find the “Settings” button.

If you scroll down to the bottom you will see it says “About Phone”, click on that.

The top button should read “System Updates”, click it.

It will may say “Your system is up to date”, however you want to look lower down and see if you can find the “Check Now” button.

When you click it, it will check to see if your device has the 4.2.2 update available.

If you have an update available it will give you the option to “Update Now”.

Update Method Two is PC Companion

Occasionally a notice will appear on the top of your phones status bar that says Sony Xperia Update Available.

When you click it nothing happens!

What you need to do to update your phone is connect it to you laptop or computer.

Then you need to install Sony PC Companion software which you can find here.

Once you install Sony PC Companion you need it to detect your attached phone. Sometimes by disconnecting and connecting your phone to your computer will make it show up in PC companion.

Then follow the instructions in Sony PC companion to install the Update for your Android Xperia.

It may take as long as 30 minutes for your Sony Xperia to receive and install the new Android Update so only do this when you have time to spare and you will not need your phone.

After the update is installed, your phone will reboot. It can take 5 minutes just for your phone to reboot!

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Here is a quick explanation of the meaning of ROOT, FLASH, ROM for android.

Your Android phone is running a version of android that was made by your phones manufacture, specifically for your phone. When Google releases a new version of Android your phone manufacture will decide whether or not to create an update for your phone. If your manufacture decides not to create an update for your specific phone and you desperately feel the need to upgrade your phones operation system, here is how its done.

Before you flash or root your android, you want to check for manufacture updates for your phone here.

In order to upgrade or change the android software on your phone or tablet, you first need to “ROOT” the phone.

To ROOT a phone is similar to cracking a phone. It is way of getting “superuser” access.

For example if you bought a locked phone, you can not use it with another carrier unless you crack it. Once you have access as a super user, you can Flash the phone.

FLASH – Flashing a phone is like changing from Windows Vista to Windows 7

ROM – The software your phone is now using. CyanogenMod for example makes software for different phones.

The ROM that is currently on your phone is usually the one that the phone manufacture installed when they made the phone.

Hope this makes things as clear as mud

Watch this video for more about flashing android phones.

It can happen to anyone, you are not the only one. You place your Android phone on the shelf and next thing you know, your toothbrush is upset and decides to hit your Android phone and make it land in the toilet. Or you decide it would be a good idea to watch a video in the bathtub on your Android Nexus 7 and it splash it falls in.

So how can you fix a waterlogged Android phone or tablet?

Step 1. Take off the cover of your Android phone

Step 2. Take out the battery

Step 3. Dry off everything with a towel.

Step 4. Get a Rubbermaid container, just large enough to fit your phone inside of it.

Step 5. Find some rice. Any type of rice. Brown rice, white rice, Uncle Ben’s Rice, Generic rice and put some in the rubbermaid container.

(How much rice? Cover the bottom of the container)

Step 6. Place the android phone inside the container and close the lid.

Step 7. Wait for 24 – 48 hours and your Android phone should be dried out, inside out.

Why does this work? Because Rice absorbs water. Any water or vapors that seeped into the phone will seep out into the rice.

Android is a general operating system that has been around for many years and you can find phone that are 5 years old running android. If you take a 5 year old Android phone and compare it to the iPhone 5, yes, the iPhone will be so much faster.

But let us compare Apples to Oranges (or shall we say, Apple & Androids).

If we take the latest Android phone like a Samsung Galaxy S4 and compare it to a iPhone 5 you will see that Android has already far surpassed Apple.

Here are the main differences between the two phones:

The Samsung Galaxy with Android has a faster CPU, more memory, a better camera on both sides of the phone, and even comes with the ability to add a mini sd card. So instead of paying an extra $100 for more storage space on your iPhone, Android users can just pay $15 for a 32GB mini SD card from Amazon.

Android Apps are plentiful nowadays and your are not tied into using Apple specific software. Many apps that cost money in the Apple App Store are free on Google Play. Like the very popular chatting app called Whatsapp, Apple users must pay $1 and Android users get it free.

So if you really want the latest and greatest smartphone you are better off going with an Android that came  out last week. If you want the latest and greatest Apple then just go buy the one that has been sitting in Apples warehouse for the past 6 months.

Please share this with all uneducated smartphone users out there! You will save yourself much worthless arguments about which phone is the best!

The Galaxy Win runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean with a 1.2GHz quad-core CPU, a huge 4.7” TFT screen of WVGA resolution (199ppi pixel density). It has a 5MP camera that shoots D1 video, a 0.3MP front-facing camera and a microSD card slot. The battery has 2,000mAh capacity. Awesome! It will be available in two colors, Ceramic White and Titan Gray. The Samsung Win will be coming to multiple markets in single-SIM and dual-SIM versions. Samsung has yet to disclose pricing and availability.

Stay tuned for more details about what looks to be a promising phone for use Android and Samsung lovers!