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[Xperia Z General] easycure1974:
Sv: Sony screwed up the Xperia Z

I have an Xperia Active with removeable battery and it can be under water so of course it is possible

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[Xperia Z General] :
And yet if the battery only lasted an hour and the benchmarks were on par with the G1, I'd still take it over the Samsung iPho... er... GS3
[Xperia Z General] fhsieh:
SO-02E user here.

With bloatware removed/disabled, the Z gets 20600+ on AnTuTu (if you really care about benchmarks). Always take reviews of demo units with a (very big) grain of salt: there's usually tons of widgets and background apps that affect benchmarks; and scores are also affected under constant usage (repeating tests over and over, without giving the device time to cool/idle).

Battery is very good. On standby, there is minimal battery drain. With screen use (wifi+display, news, browser, videos), I'm seeing about -15%/hour, about 6+ hours. Out on 3G/LTE, I would expect a solid 4+ hours. YMMV depending on your needs, of course. If you use it so much that you need a removable battery, just get a portable charger instead. Not much bulkier than a spare, and you can use it without rebooting the phone. As for replacements, just do it under warranty as previously suggested.
[Xperia Z General] darth5zaft:
Xperia V have removable battery, acro s have a camera button.

So we know sony can do it. Theres plenty of best of sony that not in this smartphone. But still it the best smartphone to date.
[Xperia Z General] SmallsXD:
I guess ppl didnt put on the back cover securely and wanted Sony to cover their water damaged phones.

Also when ppl hear waterproof/resistance..1st question..can I take pictures underwater? So i guess they dropped support for camera buttons on waterproof phones to stop idiots from diving in a pool to take under water shots for hours. If it is useless submerged then it would not stay submerged.

People hear "water resistance" but not "water resistance at a depth of 1ft for 30mins".
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garycanfix:
Hi can anybody help on the flash player for android 4.1.1 jellybean, i have just got this new tablet (GEMINI JOYPAD 9.1> MOD No gem10313bk 16gb-1gb-bt-rkdual, my problem is, if i go on to web site like ???????bingo.co.uk[/url] and log in, when i click to play bingo it says missing plug-in and will not run, but i can watch a film from the same site, flash player is running in firefox and yes i have ticked the box in settings for the 3rd party etc etc, according to what i have found by the net they say> " Your device has a Tegra 2 platform running Android 4.0 or higher. Flash support is not enabled " i have installed opra/firefox/firefox beata but still will not work, can any body please tell me if they are wright or can i down load a plug-in for it to work.

thank you to all that reply.

gary:crying:

PS: THE BINGO SITE IS FOR R LASS NOT ME.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] japseye:
Firstly apollogies if posted in wrong place - dont know where else to ask.

My Brother bought me one of these for Christmas http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mini-computer-Android-tv-box-1G-CPU-4G-Flash-3USB-host-1SD-slot-/140854373918

Desperately looking for Root for this device for obvious reasons. If anyone can shed any light on this or point me in right direction then thanks a lot.

Features:

Android 2.3x (upgradable) operation system with higher performance.

Rockchip RK 2908 CPU, 1GHz speed performance

Built-in WiFi: 802.11b/g/n.

Support Ethernet cable for Internet.

Support SD card up to 32GB.

Easy one-click firmware upgrade from SD card.

Support network 1080P HDMI videos.

Talk on Skype all you can (when use with ext webcam)

Easy file sharing within the LAN or via cloud server

It is a perfect combination of HD media player, computer, digital photo frame, game console, and Internet set-top-box.

Support Social Network, you can share information with friends on Facebook, Flicker, Twitter, or uploading files onto YouTube.

It allows you to watch movies, listen to music, view picture albums, play games, read news, chat with friends easily.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] japseye:
Well after much trial and error I finally managed to root this device. The main problem I had was not being able to get adb over usb. Probably a driver problem or usb ports themselves. I did manage to get wifi connection to the box using a program called Moborobo but still no adb.

I tried using GingerBreak-v1.00.apk without any luck then tried GingerBreak-v1.10.apk which thankfully worked, many thanks to dev for that.

Edit:

More info. Usb is not available over cable but it is available through adb over wifi (after rooting)

Stock Rom

download the firmware file through the following located at:

http://hansontech.mycloudnas.com:8080/cgi-bin/filemanager/

User name/Password: surbox

\surbox\Surbox 900 Firmware\2012.07.26, and download update.img ( only for 2.3 OS version)

Write update.img to SD card. Turn box off and insert SD card then reboot. Follow instructions.
[Galaxy Note II, Galaxy S III Developer Discussion ] joeldroid:
Hi Guys,

I'm building a more usable toggles for Samsung Galaxy Note II

I'm modding the stock toggles to add more options and and customization through phone settings.

I'm stuck and desperately need someone's advice. I need to do 2 things

1. Add flashlight and airplane mode toggles. (I know blocking mode is a better alternative but some people like me prefer to sleep with the radios off at night, to save battery and our health).

2. I want to disable the animation which happen when you pull down the notification bar and quickly the quicksettings (toggle) buttons move from left to right. I need to disable this feature.

If anyone of you have any ideas please give me a helping hand.

Running WanamLite 2.4 XXDLL7 in Samsung Galaxy Note 2

thanks a lot :)
[Galaxy Note II, Galaxy S III Developer Discussion ] garyd9:
First a request: please edit your post title to not look like a prodct name. (See the section guidelines sticky post.)

Secondly, can you give some more information on what you are doing? Perhaps some details on what you are editing, etc. (Currently, your post looks like you want someone to make mods for you... I don't think that's your intention, which is why I'm suggesting that you give more technical detail.)
[Galaxy Note II, Galaxy S III Developer Discussion ] joeldroid:
Sorry, changed the title.

I have already made the following edits...

1. Changed the notification bar background to pitch black from grey.

2. Removed battery percentage symbol (only symbol)

3. Changed toggle button background to pitch black (from blue so now they look much better)

I'm lost on the section of adding airplane mode/ flash light mode.

If anyone has done that please give me a heads up on how to acomplish as I'm totoally clueless on where to begin. I have done loads of modding to SystemUI.apk but kinds lost in this area.

I can share the apks, I dont want anyone to make any mods but give me an idea on what to do...

Thanks...
[Galaxy Note II, Galaxy S III Developer Discussion ] emprize:
have you try trace the quickpanel xml?
[Galaxy Note II, Galaxy S III Developer Discussion ] garyd9:
I'm not sure your level of development experience, but are you aware that adding new functionality to the toggles is a VERY different task than changing some colors or graphics?

Most of the mods I've seen that do this actually bring in a separate apk file for the toggle bar, and then modify the systemui smali to use that alternative toggle bar. One of the most common (at least from what I've seen) to be added to TW is Lidroid's quickpanelsettings (see: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1289896)

Gary
[Galaxy Note II, Galaxy S III Developer Discussion ] DAGr8:
Well this gives me the opportunity to remind everyone that lidroid isnt the origin of this mod.. actually team obssession were the first to introduce it and we werent using any specific apps nor ressource files for this and tsm (team sbrissen mod) were the first to use an app to manage these toggles that was then re-used / re compiled by lidroid...

@op I suggest you have a look a jkay ' s systemui last I checked he was using a systemui that didn't require external resources so you can add only the specific one you need on your xml and the relevant ones in smali side and of course the resources its looking for...

Hope that helps
[Galaxy Note II, Galaxy S III Developer Discussion ] jetset:
I wish this was a product already, cause I miss the exact same functionality and the animation annoyed me right from the start.

Any updates on this??
[Galaxy Note II, Galaxy S III Developer Discussion ] aamir123:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2032614

This guide will get you the wanam toggles with the settings app for these toggles. It gives you a choice upto 23 toggles which you can reorder, delete, whatever! Also if you can do this mod then you will be able to incorporate that app into settings very easily. Just search how to add app to settings on google.

Hope if works out for you and don't forget to thank wanam!
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BioOdyssey:
First - Hi all, long time reader but this is the first time I've needed to start a thread - so sorry about my first post being a problem/Q!

I've not had my Nexus 4 long, but have got some pretty annoying Wi-Fi issues. I've searched for answers but it seems that people have different Wi-Fi problems and I just wanted to see whether my issue was a common one and, if so, is there a fix on the horizon?

My issue is that I can connect to some routers but not to others (work, home, most open networks)... when I connect it simply says "saved, secured with WPA/WPA2" but wont then connect.

Phones running stock 4.2.1 with franco kernel r28 and the things I have tried are:

Resetting routers

Assigning static IP address

Wi-Fi direct from my Nexus 7

Cleared cache from recovery

changed the Wi-Fi band from 'Auto' to 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz

Flashed new kernel

Very frustrating and because of my signal the lack of Wi-Fi has made me go back to my old phone while I wait for a fix... which connects perfectly to the networks (S3 running CM 10.1)

Is this a 4.2.1 issue - as seems to be the consensus with other Wi-Fi issues or possibly a hardware issue?

Thanks for any info!
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paulrawr:
There's one fix you've not tried which might work for you (it didn't for me). You would have to be rooted though, which is going to system/etc/dhcpcd and changing the permission on dhcpcd-run-hooks to read and execute from "others". This help some people out but turns out for me that my router isn't compatible with my phone. (DSL-2780).
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sirbagin:
I've noticed that some of the mobile devices(eg iPhone 3gs, SGS2) are quite sensitive to wireless channel which your router/ap broadcast on.

Try manually switch to channel 6 or 8 that solved my issue - I don't believe in incompatible routers usually problems are related to config.

It is more complicated with an access to the public WiFi as you can not modify the setup.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BioOdyssey:
Ok, thanks for this I will give it a go and let you know.

I have tried this on the routers which I am able to change the channel of and it didn't change anything.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BioOdyssey:
Just to update.

I've now tried this and still can't connect to the affected Wi-Fi networks, probably going to have to wait for 4.2.2 to see if that fixes it...
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chad_Petree:
I had troubles connecting to my wifi network here in my house, which worked pretty good with my galaxy nexus, what i did and worked was deactivating the option "avoid poor connections" in wifi advanced settings, you should give this a try
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sandozer:
Fixed it for me

Thanks Chad, it was driving me crazy the constant data drops I had when trying to listen to streamed audio in XiiaLive Pro. Which worked flawlessly with my old HTC Desire.

Did as you said, and perfect now.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chad_Petree:
Glad I could help :)
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cenonmin:
I too have wifi issues with my N4. We have several phones at home - an HTC Aria and believe it or not the SGS1, SGS2 and SGS3!

All of them connect with no problems. My brand new N4 will see the router but refuses to connect until I toggle wifi on/of serveral times in succession, sometimes 6-8 times!

I have avoid poor wifi disabled but it does not help :(

I really hope El Goog fixes this asap as it is very frustrating.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Censura_Umbra:
I've had this issue forever. Android phones hate low or overcrowded signal. Though my nexus 7 always works fine. Makes me think it is the lack of WiFi antenna strength
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] casonswag:
Its a 4.2.1 issue

http://androidheadlines.com/2013/02/nexus-users-reporting-wifi-problems-on-android-4-2.html

NeXus⁴ using XDA Premium
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] luizorlandi:
Nope, i have a 4.2.2 and its same think
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anas_ammar:
i have a problem in my nexus 4 wifi ... it don't connect automatically to wifi network ,, i have to turn wifi off and turn it on to connect !!! any solution ??:confused:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BAZZI_US:
How often do you reboot your phone? I used to switch it of every night, when I was going to sleep.

The last few days I tested what happens, when I do not switch of the phone, but let it run as long as possible. Of course with charging the battery.

What I experienced with stock ICS 4.0.4 (XWLQ2) is, that the modem seems to become kind of unstable. Wifi needed one restart with switching to flight mode, but then was stable until the end. But the 2G and 3G once hang up with no signal showing in the display. Flight mode fixed that. And today the phone was stuck at 2G eventhough there was 3G available (do not doubt that! ^^). So, I tried flight mode again, but this time it didn't fix it. So I decided to restart the phone after 77 hours and 31 minutes.

Apps and the system itself was stable and smooth until the reboot.

What is your experience with long uptimes and erros summing up? Preferrably with stock ROM.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PINki92:
Right now 250hours uptime. On latest stock rom. Its really stable. Before I often had to restart almost daily.
[General Questions and Answers] sims34:
Hello, I want to open YouTube videos with the app itself, not to play it with the flash player. It worked on other custom roms but I don't know why it doesn't work here.

I have MIUI 3.1.11
[General Questions and Answers] erbil gazette:
try use app tubemate:)
[General Questions and Answers] sims34:
what should i do with an app that downloads videos from youtube..
[General Questions and Answers] Wrizzy:
Hi XDA-developers

I've decided to root my phone, but I am completely new with this. I know there are alot of tutorials and videos, but I simply don't want to make any mistake.

That's why I am asking for help from you guys. I'd like to talk with someone that knows about rooting and ask some questions while rooting my device to prevent any problems.

If you want to help me, feel free to add me on Skype: aetheryte

Or if you don't have Skype, let me know how I can contact you.

Thanks in advance,

Wrizzy
[Galaxy Note II, Galaxy S III Developer Discussion ] sponix2ipfw:
:crying: --> **Ultimate GS3 sudden death thread** :crying:

Just wanted to link to a prior thread with some information/testing that as been done. Completely understand if you nuke it because it doesn't meet the proper criteria or is way to noobish to be posted here. Anyway, just though it _might_ help, so giving it a shot..
[Galaxy Note II, Galaxy S III Developer Discussion ] Oranav:
So I decided to do a small RAM dump after all.

Before the patch, 0x5C7EA reads FD F7 C2 FA, which is "BL 0x59D72".

As I thought, they replace a function call to the new one.

I will dump function 0x59D72 later this week.
[Galaxy Note II, Galaxy S III Developer Discussion ] odewdney:
So it looks like the new function calls the old function, and then if it returns ZERO then in goes into an INFINITE loop?!?

Seems like an odd fix, maybe self presevation?

Oli
[Galaxy Note II, Galaxy S III Developer Discussion ] Rob2222:
WELL... after I changed to XXELLA stock firmware and stock kernel in 01/13 my 06/12 SGS3 had the _first freeze ever_ on XXELLA. Maybe its completely unrelated and was only a random thing.

But, could it be, that this fix temporary (until reboot) locks the eMMC in a bad situation to avoid damaging internal data structures?

But then in this cases you get a phone freeze, cause the eMMC is temporary unaviable so the phone crashes until you reboot it. But it avoided eMMC data structure damage.

Sounds not very logical, but when you have to fix a problem and only have a few bytes to patch it (cause it must be run on every emmc-start), and the problem only occurs on a hand full devices (out of millions) then it is maybe acceptable to have a freeze instead of a dead eMMC in that rare cases that it occurs.

But this is only a idea... don't now if it is like that.

BR

Rob

PS: Oranav, thank you very much for your effort.
[Galaxy Note II, Galaxy S III Developer Discussion ] Oranav:
Right, haven't spotted this. Thanks for the observation.

Self preservation sounds possible.

This could be possible - this patch looks like a quick and dirty fix, so maybe they didn't have the time to properly fix this. Instead, they just avoid the bug absolutely (with the cost of data corruption).

But I don't think this would cause lockups - I believe the chip has a watchdog...

All in all, I think the best thing we can do right now is to dump the whole firmware out of it. I will do it soon.
[Galaxy Note II, Galaxy S III Developer Discussion ] Bäcker:
there is also a chance that this is just a temporary workaround to prevent further bricking - until there is a final fix.

As of now we asume that this is the fix as it directly adresses the eMMC in concern, but all this is just based on asumptions.
[Galaxy Note II, Galaxy S III Developer Discussion ] ivan4o5:
I think we can prove that the fix is actualy locking into loop ,but you must risk your phone :/ . If you are in ->

1) Flash back to older version without the fix

2) Wait and pray

a) If your phone dies --> the guys were right about the fix and the loop

b) If it stays alive ,then ...

We wont know for sure ,but your phone is maybe in the "perfect" condition for the test :/ .

(Sorry if this makes no sence)
[Galaxy Note II, Galaxy S III Developer Discussion ] Rob2222:
@ivan:

Sorry, can't do that. :( Cause of high air humidity my humidity indicator is already a little soaked. Cause of the warranty-repair reports in out local forums I am not sure if I would get warranty. I think theres a fair chance, that they would deny my warranty. Cause of that I don't want to take any extra risk. I am on unrooted stock at the moment, cause of that.

@Oranav:

In our local forum we get some reports about a rising count of locks and restarts on S3's in the last time. Some like my freeze.

It also seems that after a while this problems gets better and even disappear completely.

Cause of that I am thinking, if it could be, that the fix maybe locks the eMMC if it finds a bad data structure, then this locks maybe could bring a phone-freeze (already stated that), and in the same time it repairs the data structure in this block with the bad data structure.

At least this would explain some rising count of freezes with the fix and the point, that the freezes become less and less over time.

I have no idea if it's that way, I just wanted to post it as theory to think about.

BTW, do you think when the watchdog restarts the eMMC that it goes that fast that the phone isn't affected?

BR

Robert
[Galaxy Note II, Galaxy S III Developer Discussion ] Oranav:
The problem is that there are too many theories imaginable, but I can't think of no way to prove them but to reverse engineer the MoviNAND firmware.

Certainly not. Watchdogs are slow, drivers running on a Cortex-A9 are blazing fast.

But I do think Linux's MMC driver can handle device restarts during an MMC operation.
[Galaxy Note II, Galaxy S III Developer Discussion ] odoto:
if those freezes are really caused by the firmware fix, I don't see how the would disappear over time...

I mean if it really is the case that the fix trades data corruption for eMMC survival, it would make sense to see freezes... but depending on what data is affected, they should only be treatable by reinstalling the affected app or deleting its data/cache.

updated theory:

for all we know the error condition where the eMMC dies is quite rare, since most devices have been used for month before they passed away. So under the assumption that the error condition appears randomly and that there is a chance of data corruption every time the condition appears with fixed kernel, we could expect to see freezes and other problems some time after the fix was applied. So that would explain the raising number of freezes reported. Furthermore I'd assume that people getting freezes would try to do something about it, like reinstalling/deleting apps wiping caches and/or data... or even reflashing, thus repairing the corrupted data. So freezes would disappear.

Wait, doesn't most evidence point to the fact that the error condition does NOT appear in a random fashion, since there were no cases in the beginning, and then a lot all of a sudden? Well, it might be that this is just the way we perceive the issue. Maybe there were cases before, but they weren't reported... phones died, people sent them in, got new ones and went on with their lives. But after some time the issue got known... bloggers wrote about it... and so on... people realized their phones died because of a wider problem... voila, steep raise in reported cases. Also the number of dying S3s would simply rise by a rising number of overall S3s, I mean Samsung kept selling phones, right?

But even under the assumption the bug is related to wear-levelling and not random, here is another idea: I have no clue how the algorithms work, but maybe it uses some sort of pseudo-random data to do whatever, with the same seed on all eMMCs... and thus all of them go through the same series of numbers. And now imagine the error condition is only triggered by a specific number or number set (say someone screwed up a boundary condition). Under this theory the error condition wouldn't appear randomly, but after a certain amount of write ops (or something).

Another question I asked myself is: shouldn't there be cases were data corruption does damage beyond all repair except for reflashing?

Well, it might be, but it seems reasonable to assume that it is a lot less likely than user-data corruption, since most critical files on the phone shouldn't be opened writeable (or are on a read-only mounted partition in the first place), hence shouldn't be affected by ****-ups during writes.

Like the previous poster I want to add that this is most likely all bull****... but it is what came to my mind looking for a theory that supports the data we got.