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[Xperia Z General] stefanve:
I'm wondering if the BE is at fault here since this an video run time test and other reviews that did different types of test or just used the device seemed happy. since the BE engine works dynamically it could be a real possibility hope gsmarena will do a test with and without the bravia engine
[Xperia Z General] hebbe:
let's wait and see how the battery behaves after a few charging cycles.

btw, stamina-mode is impressive. having it on standby for about 8 hours it just lost 1% of battery.

been using the phone for nearly 13 hours (8 nighttime), and about 2-3 hours of heavier usage (wifi, downloading, installing and testing some apps), i still got 78 % of battery. (50% brightness, no lte).

and the display is really awesome, at least for me. I REALLY LOVE THIS DEVICE. best phone i've ever seen (although i didn't got a hold on the new htc one yet).
[Xperia Z General] JPWOA:
After reading this part and thinking of One X...I had to laugh :laugh:
[Xperia Z General] Droidyou:
I got the device yesterday and I freaking love it!
[Xperia Z General] dibdin:
That's good to hear. Can you tell me when viewing webpages if the whites are pure white or if they have a slight yellowish look to then??
[Xperia Z General] kyogiro:
While HTC had very poor battery life performance with the One X, they really improved in this area since early 2012. The One X+ is among the best and the Butterfly, sporting a lower capacity battery (2020 mAh) et than the XZ, has a decent average high performance (lost than the One X+).

There was a real step up too from Galaxy S2 to S3 and Note 1 to Note 2.

In the meantime, Sony didn't make any significant progress since 2011.
[Xperia Z General] Droidyou:
I find them pretty pure white!
[Xperia Z General] maverick1103:
Same I lol'd!
[Xperia Z General] DakiX:
Here a further comparison. Lumia 920 vs. Xperia Z (dropbox view):

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/90i1o3jncscc09q/MgazTMthq2/Lumia 920 vs. Xperia Z#/
[Xperia Z General] :
Bad viewing angles? Lumia looked horrid compared to the Z.
[Xperia Z General] namezlezz:
From what i see the Xperia Z destroyed the Lumia 920, even if we dont count the resolution,,,
[Xperia Z General] LordManhattan:
Excellent collection! Do you have another device to compare with? Like a more popular phone like S3, iPhone, One X or something? Maybe a family member or friend?
[Xperia Z General] DakiX:
yes have I already posted:

XZ vs. iP5 - https://www.dropbox.com/sh/eqy3iswifh5tnbz/PuUIhUIgjF

XZ vs. Note 2 - https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jgs34k9xn8a1pe6/rIXxaDjUSA
[Xperia Z General] JPWOA:
How do you know? Do you have one?

Has far as I'm concerned, from hebbe stats is way better than any device (except the Note) ;)
[Xperia Z General] kyogiro:
I didn't say the XZ has a necessarily bad battery life, I was responding to an alleged affirmation saying that it has and if it has (which has been pointing out by some reviews, not all of them), it would be "normal" and expected (plus, you can add the fact that the XZ has some premium features) since it never has been one of Sony's strong suit during the past 2 years.

The stamina mode has to be one of Sony's answer regarding that (again, not saying it's not working).

I'm waiting for the Gsmarena battery life test.
[Xperia Z General] omersak:
Thanks, these are with BE2 on, i presume?

Quite nice apart from all the blue.
[Xperia Z General] orenxda:
Just each time you power it on and use it on a table, laid in front of you.
[Xperia Z General] AntonyStark:
That one finger 50+ woman with an iPhone style of using a phone, OK.
[Xperia Z General] LordManhattan:
I'm still really really unsure about the screen. Can someone with the device make a video or something that actually shows how the screen is? Most videos I've seen are really short and doesn't go into details. It's more like "Hey ho, this is the screen and it's not that good. Bye".

- Film from all angles

- Adjust brightness from min to max etc.

- Show the black levels outside of the gallery (without the bravia engine) from all angles

- Use a good camera

With most new screens today, it looks like the icons/colors are floating on top of the glass (typical AMOLED/HQ LCD IPS screens has this effect). Is it the same with the Z? If so, try to capture this on video/photo.

I do not expect anyone to do this, but it would help a lot of people.
[Xperia Z General] thejosetree:
Xperia TX with ClearBlack panel has a better display than Xperia Z :good:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWmi2Qh6J-Y
[Xperia Z General] LordManhattan:
That might be, but i'm not looking for a mid-range device.
[Xperia Z General] Al Gore:
Yesterday I went to the store again to take a better look at the screen. I had two friends with me, they were standing by my sides and while I was using the phone I asked them both several times how the viewing angles were. Both always said "good, I see everything perfectly".

Viewing angles were indeed iphone-like, much better than on another Xperia Z I tested two days ago, this is strange (though not surprising considering how 50% of users and reviews say the screen is mediocre and another 50% say the screen is great).
[Xperia Z General] LordManhattan:
So we're gambling now. Some people might get rubbish screens while some will get good ones. That's even worse :p
[Xperia Z General] Al Gore:
Maybe it's a brightness setting thing. To be honest I totally forgot to check it. First XZ was straight out of the box so it had factory brightness setting and yesterday I used a demo unit used before.
[Xperia Z General] ck.chunkeat:
That would be helpful but i think viewing a screen from a screen will still make a difference...So,for those who are interested,i think its best if we take a look at the phone ourselves with our real eyes...:P
[Xperia Z General] chong81:
When I tested out the sets at the store, the severity of the viewing angle problem varies according to what is being shown on the screen. It seems to be especially bad with content containing a majority of white, and light skin tones.
[Xperia Z General] finoqq84:
Demo set

From all the comments seen, it seems that its the demo sets at the shops that peopl are complaining about. The actual sets that people have bought said that the screen is beautiful. Am i safe to say that?
[Xperia Z General] Al Gore:
I checked angles when I was at the homescreens which were the same obviously.

Not really.
[Xperia Z General] belek1979:
look at two xperia s service menu screenshots of the one market:

my friend:

http://files.myopera.com/belek/files/screenshotservice.png

my:

http://files.myopera.com/belek/files/Screenshot_2013-02-24-22-06-02.png

what the hell?

mine looks better in photos, videos, android menu etc...

the same issue with xperia z?
[Xperia Z General] LordManhattan:
Does he use the same theme as you? (I have no idea if the XS has themes like the Z btw.)
[Xperia Z General] ninetwozero:
What exactly are we comparing? :)
[Xperia Z General] LordManhattan:
His friend's menu is grey-ish and his is black. That shouldn't show on a screenshot if it's a hardware error, soo.. strange.
[Xperia Z General] ninetwozero:
Oh, gotcha. Are both running the same software versions? Like you said, a hardware issue wouldn’t manifest in a screenshot. :)
[Xperia Z General] antipesto93:
Did you both use the same method of taking the screenshot? the filenames are very different
[Xperia Z General] belek1979:
the same theme, the same rom, same settings (BE, brightness...), at this point no root and locked BL...

mine looks more vivid everywhere...

yes (power button + vol down) - he renamed a file

so maybe like in Z - no screen issue but kernel/software issue?
[Xperia Z General] SirRobin78:
Sorry if i´m a little bit offtopic but how did you get the NFC symbol in the status line? On my z i´ve activated NFC but there is no symbol...like in the other screenshot.
[Xperia Z General] belek1979:
its xperia s (ICS) - it is just a compare of the issue... ico appears when NFC is activated
[Xperia Z General] kbadone:
I saw the xperia Z at Jumbo Electronics in Dubai Mall and from what I have seen the screen looks gorgeous! I don't know what the hell everybody is complaining about! Its the best looking screen on an xperia phone to date.

For those who are curious, the phone will be available in Dubai on Feb 28 for 2500 AED ~ 680 USD, it will come with a free 32GB micro SD and an unknown free gift from the store. Model # is C6602
[Xperia Z General] LordManhattan:
Looks like a software issue. Like i've already said; a hardware defect won't show on a screenshot, and if i post a screenshot of my GNote with a SAMOLED screen, you won't see the difference in colors, since you're watching it on your LCD computer screen.

You'll have to take a photo with a camera (in a dark-ish room without a flash)
[Xperia Z General] robt772000:
Does this help anyone

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=38434782#post38434782
[Xperia Z General] LordManhattan:
Damn...Why couldn't Sony just give us SLCD 3 instead of ****ty TFT. I turned my Desire HD on again today to check out the screen again. It has a TFT screen like the XZ. Can't compare the overall quality like resolution and stuff like that, but damn the colors are so so aweful. The Desire HD's screen was just fine when it got released, but that's like 3 years ago, and we've seen a lot of really really nice screens since then. And Sony decides to put this garbage in their flagship in 2013. Fantastic. But i guess i'll just have to wait for the XZ to hit the stores so i get a chance to take a close look at it myself (and compare it to all the other screens there).

Edit: Just browsed Quora for (TN)TFT Vs IPS and came across a great post. (source: Quora)
[Xperia Z General] Maedhros:
It is a decent screen - but no doubt the HTC One and the DNA are superior.
[Xperia Z General] LordManhattan:
Sure, i guess it does the job, but i can't ignore the fact that every single screen out there that's 0-2 years old are looking so much better. I guess i can just ignore the XZ and move on, but i don't want to :p I really really want it, but...*insert rage face*!
[Xperia Z General] omersak:
I'm in exactly the same situation. I really want it bad but will only decide after seeing the screen in action myself.
[Xperia Z General] metcard:
I think putting a sub par screen with well below average viewing angles and contrast will bite Sony in the ass.

I might give the z a skip and hope Sony get their shhht together next time.
[Xperia Z General] Ambroos:
Considering the huge amount of pre-orders in Europe and sales in Japan I'm quite sure it won't be a problem.
[Xperia Z General] Al Gore:
The screen is fine. Yes it may be worse than HTC's but on that pic HTC looks way better because of Sony's grey UI
[Xperia Z General] maverick1103:
My god this thread is like a roundabout, we're just going around in circles!!

People should hold their judgement until they see the phone, rather than judging the screen from photos etc!
[Xperia Z General] hebbe:
agree. and what for one person ist the crappiest screen ever, might be for another person the best screen ever seen. it's a personal point of view if the screen is good or not.
[Xperia Z General] lordgoata:
Indeed - which appears to be quite obvious from the jet black blob that is on the Social icon ... at least I assume that to be part of the icon and not an error on the image, but I don't know what the icon looks like in reality ?
[Xperia Z General] belek1979:
you can fight if good amoled is better then good tft or good ips... but Z display is objectively weak... of course resolution and size make an impression, but if compare to others it looks awful:

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Sony-Xperia-Z-screen-comparison-more-camera-samples-emerge_id38887

Z I was using few hours was much worse then S. no vivid, no clear white and no brightness
[Xperia Z General] Al Gore:
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[Xperia Z General] dibdin:
Viewing angles look pretty decent going by that video, though that wallpaper is not the best to have showing off the display.
[Xperia Z General] Warren.D:
I don't know why people are freaking out about veiwing angles. I used to never even think of them before I pre'ordered my Z.

Personally, if i watch tv/films and my tv or monitor is skew-wiff. I have to then get up and adjust so it faces me directly. It annoys me cos i sit down, get comfortable and then notice the tv is facing the seat next to me. Lol
[Xperia Z General] Wh1techapel:
I've had a play on this phone, and watched a movie trailer in 1080p. The screen looked fantastic to me!
[Xperia Z General] Warren.D:
Me too. Been to 8 different shops now. I think the display is brilliant. I currently use amoled, not good. Samsung even changed the status bar to grey because of burn in.
[Xperia Z General] Shasarak:
Assuming it was one of the videos pre-installed on the phone, you can't tell anything from that: it will have been specially tweaked to compensate for the deficiencies of the display. Phone manufacturers always do that: if the screen (say) pushes all the colours towards blue then the demo videos will be pushed to red to compensate; if the screen has lousy black-level the video won't contain any generally-dark scenes, and in scenes where there are small areas of black the rest of the scene will be made as bright as possible to give the illusion of good contrast; and so on.
[Xperia Z General] maverick1103:
I think we get the jist that you don't like this phone and will not be buying it, everything you have posted has been very informative I'm not knocking your knowledge, but it has all been too negative....so like I've said before don't but it and leave us who will buy this fantastic device in peace!

Peace out! :good:
[Xperia Z General] :
Nothing wrong with the display other than it being extremely power hungry but guessing updates with optimise it better.
[Xperia Z General] Maedhros:
So you want to live in blissful ignorance?

Geez... and I thought humanity was better then that :(
[Xperia Z General] Al Gore:
I read 40 pages of a big Russian forum today and most of the users agree that Sony use two different screens for XZ. I think so too because the difference I've seen in two models I tested and the 50/50 split of reviews and users prove it to me.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] sweetboy02125:
I haven't used snote for awhile, today when I open the app or extended from Mini note when pulling Spen, The App keeps crashing. I tried many things: reboot, clear data, reset permissions in CWM, none of them works. Any other ideas?

★♡★ AT&T Galaxy Note II ☆♥☆
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] Darkshado:
Did you change anything in your CSC files? To be specific, the /system/VODB/ folder. I had that issue while porting N7105 ROMs the first time to the T889V.

Check logcat/ddms for other possible clues.

Good luck,

Darkshado
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] sweetboy02125:
i added more hidden feature in other.xml (in CSC) but not inside VODB folder. I tried to restore system files from an earlier CWM backup (when Snote works) but no LUCK. Hmmm not sure what causes. I hate to re install everything just for Snote, I may install alternative Note app then. Grrrrr

Can anyone extract Snote app so i can try to side load it?

Thanks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note II] koreancanuck:
The files you added probably made it crash. If you install a clean wiped rom, it shouldn't have any more crashes.
[General Questions and Answers] mitch101:
Hi XDA. I have a really goddamn huge problem. My One Touch T10 needs a stock ROM. I installed a JK CM10 Pascal2 oc1104 20121203 kernel with Oma Odys Loox JB CM10 4.1.2 v1.2 ROM. (Sorry for full name, just in case.) This ROM. Sucks. Seriously, it comes with a bunch of stuff that I don't need or don't work right. For example, Nova Launcher cuts off some things. It's horrible! The camera doesn't work either! Sorry for the rambling. I just really want this fixed. So if anyone out there has a One Touch T10, Stock ROM, please back it up and send it. Also, I googled it, and found nothing, just the Alcatel phones. Well then, thanks XDA, and I really hope someone has a backup. Thanks!

EDIT: Also, I can no longer download things to internal memory, so I had to go out and buy a 16GB SD card. I can't copy stuff over from USB. I tried all the drivers recommended, including the Alcatel ones. It shows as a Loox (FFFFFFFF-) but when I go into it in My PC, it shows nothing. I tried USB Mass Storage, MTP, and PTP. It doesn't show up with the Connect Mass Storage thing either. Thanks!

If in wrong thread, please move it, or I'll do it or something. Thank you.
[General Questions and Answers] mitch101:
Bamp. Please guys! I really need it :crying:
[General Questions and Answers] britishway:
Hey, I got stock rom, I've just root the tab. How can I backup the rom for you?
[General Questions and Answers] mitch101:
EDAT! Install Clockwork ROM Manager from Google Play. I'm pretty sure from there you can select to backup the stock ROM. Copy it over from the SD card or internal storage with USB. Then upload.
[General Questions and Answers] Sm0ker18:
Mitch101, were you able to get a stock rom for your alcatel t10? I am also looking for a stock rom for my unit
[General Questions and Answers] Russel_Nash:
Need it too

Hi,

I need a copy of the stock rom too. Got it. (And problem is fixed)

Got my T10 messed up before recovery was installed and I could make a backup myself.

Thx
[General Questions and Answers] mornebuzz:
T10 Stock Rom

would be cool if you actually told everyone here also looking for it, where you found it. thanks buddy.
[General Questions and Answers] neilaeron:
need it

where is the stock rom?

I want it to
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jkoolb10:
I recently updated to the newest build of aokp mako and now something is wrong with my media/gallery. None of my old images are showing up from the gallery app -- screenshots, downloads, camera, foursquare, instagram, etc. They all are still in the same folders they used to be (ie, storage/emulated/0/DCIM/Camera) and they can be viewed from file explorer but not gallery. If I take a new picture or screenshot, it goes to the same folder AND shows up in the gallery now, but not the other pictures still. I have used Rescan Media and other apps like that and it still hasn't done anything.

I'm really confused as to what happened and why. After I updated, all of my pictures were still showing up for a while, then they just randomly went away. Any help is appreciated or a point in the right direction!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] InSaNeO1488:
I'm running SS final Rom and I'm trying to flash amon ra recovery and I rename file to PC36IMG.ZIP place in sdcard root and when I try to fast boot it it gets stuck on parsing. If I try to flash the file in recovery it says installation aborted. I'm running clockwork mod recovery at the moment any help?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Diablo67:
Go here and download,these are themed recoveries,just download the one you want and make sure it says PC36IMG.ZIP,put it on your sd card root and boot into bootloader and flash,this wont give you any problems.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] InSaNeO1488:
doesn't work I rename the file to PC36IMG.ZIP goto bootloader and it still gets stuck at parsing
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Evilone69tmg:
May want to try a diffrent sd card if you got one. As this may be the issue. Or reformat your current one, But copy anything you want saved to your pc before doing so. As this will delete everthing.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Diablo67:
1+
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] InSaNeO1488:
so I should reformat and 're partition the sd card? should I also wipe everything and reinstall Rom as well? using SS ultra final
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CRIME INC.:
Before doing that, are you s on, or s off?

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] InSaNeO1488:
s was off before I flashed sensuASOP 2.55 I didn't like that Rom so I flashed ss ultra and now it's S ON what should I do
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CRIME INC.:
Download,flash image GUI, from the play store(it's like a dollar) then download the image file of the recovery you want to flash(should be posted in smelkus's thread) and use the app to flash. Otherwise you will need to get s off again, before flashing.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

---------- Post added at 02:48 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:44 PM ----------

He's the link to smelkus's threadhttp://xdaforums.com/showthread.php...D][1-June-2012] RA-supersonic-v4.3-smelkusMOD

Make sure you download the image file, not the pc36img.zip

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HipKat:
How does flashing a ROM make you go from S-Off to S-on?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jlmancuso:
From what I have gathered he did not flash a rom but he flashed the PC36IMG.zip style ruu. To his bad luck it happened to be on with a newer HBOOT inside it which leaded to losing s-off.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CRIME INC.:
That's what I was wondering. Lol

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Evilone69tmg:
I was going to ask the same thing. :eek:
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HipKat:
Yeah, looking back, that's what I get, too
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] InSaNeO1488:
Flash image gui worked like a charm thanks for your help guys, any good roms that you guys would recommend to try out?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HipKat:
If I were you, I'd go with one of the GB Hybrid ROMs. Try the one in my signature. It's a good one to start with and read my Evo Guide (Also in my signature).
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jlmancuso:
If you want everything to work (front camera, netflix, Wimax, hdmi out) then you can only use gingerbread. If you don't use most of those the list of roms is limitless. They are all pretty good.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] mrjayviper:
I got a Telstra One XL running hboot 2.14. One of the requirements for the new s-off tool is superCID.

I've searched here in XDA and the net in general but I cannot find a tool that will change the superCID on the XL. The guides/discussions I found are for the AT&T One X.

thanks

ps. I've read replies where those with XL tried the AT&T superCID tool and it did nothing for them.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] InflatedTitan:
What IS your cid? Usually if you unlock on htcdev it'll be 11111111
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] mrjayviper:
not in my case

bash-3.2# ./fastboot-mac getvar cid
cid: TELST001
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] E.Cadro:
I think your confused my friend att one x owners needed super cid to use HTC dev because our cid was blocked all other one x cid's could go direct to HTC dev and unlock the bootloader.

XDA Moderator
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] area51avenger:
@op. I have a non AT&T phone too. This worked for me. Only took a couple mins

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1671396

Obviously just do the parts for changing cid. No need to do the HTCdev part

Sent from my VENOMized HoxL
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] dustinhayes93:
Trying to do this also and I can't because it says my HOX is offline in adb
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] area51avenger:
Are you in fastboot? For adb commands your phone must be booted into a Rom

Sent from my VENOMized HoxL
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] redpoint73:
Also try reinstalling the HTC drivers, and just try a different USB port on your computer.
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] dustinhayes93:
I think it might have to do with that new adb stuff in 4.2.2 I remember you have to have the latest adb and allow it to use it or something
[Nexus 10 Accessories] art0605:
Looking for a hard case for the Nexus 10 that's kinda like the Otterbox Defender with the iPad.

This is the closest thing I could find: http://www.amazon.com/Poetic-REVOLU...1361244730&sr=1-2&keywords=hard+case+nexus+10

But it doesnt have a snap on cover, which I also want. And I am not looking for a flip/ folio case.

Any suggestions will be much appreciated!
[Nexus 10 Accessories] orellius:
There are none, literally. Welcome to the club of wanting one.
[Nexus 10 Accessories] art0605:
Well that's unfortunate. My Moko will hold me over for now, but hopefully in the near future there will be more protective hard cases.