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[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hellscythe:
its designed to be dust proof and waterproof with the flaps closed anyway

derp
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aliguu:
lol my brother in law order this phone and after powering it up and using it for 10min, it heated up like what alot of us experienced, and he thought it was a DUD and return to Sony...

so yea try explain that to someone that never had such 'heating' experience with his iphones/blackberry etc, that its 'normal'.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Teknohtc:
Water resistant not waterproof ;)
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hellscythe:
Just had a look on the sony website lol

woops, my bad.

thanks for the correction :3
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hellscythe:
the main turn offs on this phone, IMO is

heat issues,

washed out screen ):

Although the washed out screen could possibly be fixed by a colour calibrator...
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kristianity77:
I too have noticed the audio jumps from music on a SD card. It plays fine for about a minute, then there will be a pop of silence, that lasts for maybe a quarter of a second before resuming. My card is a class 4 Samsung Micro SD so assumed that would be fine. Will try a quicker card when I get hold of one. But even still, Class 4 should be more than enough for playing MP3s from I'd have thought.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] van2z:
Maybe you should try another player. I had these jumps in walkman app (no matter where the music was stored), but i didn't notice this problem in playerpro with dsp pack.

Looks like these jumps are caused by default system audio decoder, not by memory cards.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreamville:
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Has anyone been able to sort out the recorded video playback problem where the video only plays in landscape mode and not portrait?? It's getting really annoying not being able to see the video the way I want and instead a scaled down landscape mode :mad:

White Xperia Zzzz
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kristianity77:
I might try that. Trouble is, i REALLY like the ClearAudio that the walkman player has. I think its THAT good in making mp3 sound absolutely stunning. And I've not noticed any settings to allow Clearaudio in other areas of the phone, unless im missing something?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] schaggo:
Could be that you were holding the phone in a weird/unclear angle when taking the video.

The orientation of the phone is stored when taking the video. On playback the video gets rotated accordingly, so that you don't see it sideways or top-over-bottom. If the sensor readings were wrong/off/unclear when you started to record, teh video will playback tilted. For example you were filming sideways laying on the ground or in bed, or you were filming the sky and held the device over your head, the phone will possibly encode the recorded video as 90° tilted. Take the on-screen icons as a hint, which direction the phone will record in.

Could this be your issue? My recorded movies, also when recorded with other devices, play back correctly. I always look out for this though.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Christopher583:
I faced few problem with my XZ, no sure if some of the apps I've install may cause the problems.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] van2z:
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No, i'm afraid that only walkman can use clearaudio. It's like built-in feature, that only native sony's player can use.

The sound is still very good in other players, in my opinion. But i never used any of these software features like clearaudio, bass boosters and equalizers; so maybe third-party players will sound worse to you.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmenbalek:
Hi,

I have only the problem with LED .(1)

Bull**** !
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rickO:
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Poor LTE reception compared to the iphone 5.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreamville:
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It's definately not that. I always view which way the icons are showing before recording so I know but when video is recorded in portrait view (the icons are all in portrait dimension) I record the video and playback but it's played landscape with black blocks on each side of the video which means it know's it's been recorded in portrait however chooses to play it back in landscape. When I record in landscape mode it works perfectly fine, the playback is in landscape with no black blocks on each side. Is anyone else having this problem? I will probably do another reset but this is my third time resetting back this phone to original *sighs*

White Xperia Zzzz
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] schaggo:
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Which player do you use to play back your videos?

And I dont suggest a wipe, it most likely wont change anything.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Charms:
Afternoon all!

Think I've got one not listed here......

If I lauch the camera from the shortcut on lockscreen, when I try to open the setting menu or veiw the gallery), it seems to crash the application and return to the lockscreen. Any one else got this?

Have tried a factory reset, but bug still persists.

http://youtu.be/XlE52rNr1Vw
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] must.sayim:
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Do you have a pass code on the zee
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreamville:
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I use the player that's used to playback the video? :-/ I haven't installed any 3rd party playback applications

White Xperia Zzzz
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] schaggo:
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Try DICE Player, VLC or MX Player. All available for free in the Market. Apart from the fact that they play almost anything you throw at them, they should deliver a superior playback experience and a ****load of settings to chose from. You will also be able to configure image rotation settings as well as motion sensor based rotation if you wish.

Personally I use DICE and VLC, many recommend MX as well.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xboxvn:
My problem is about wifi signal :( It's too weak when I'm in my classroom :( Xperia TX is good than my XZ :(
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hellscythe:
Anyone else's google maps preventing the phone from sleeping?

mine says it kept my phone awake for 4 hours
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crazy CS:
Camera LED light/flash is off centre.....http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2195662
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hellscythe:
Is this seen as a "problem" or just designed that way?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crazy CS:
Maybe. But it does look ridiculous and sticks out like a sore thumb.

It does look like its produced to be off centre: http://media.bestofmicro.com/8/B/369659/original/Sony-Xperia-Z-FCC-Teardown-3.jpg
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hellscythe:
Does it actually create an issue with the function of the light or anything?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scott2121210:
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For me personally i think that the camera is not to good. I have tried a variety of settings but my pictures look washed out with an opaque appearance. I have read similar reviews to this and can only hope that an update will rectify said issues.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marcgear:
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Not got that on mine black version
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] warnbroom:
How can AMOLED consume more power than TFT while it doesn't use back light ?? Do you really understand the mechanism of how both work ?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hellscythe:
i thought amoled had back light on the individual pixels?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] exmatproton:
1. No problems

2. No problems

3. No problems

4. No problems (yet)

5. No problems

6. No problems

7. No problems, even with playing CPU intensive games and benchmarks

8. Wifi problems and overall connection problems. Sometimes it just resets.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hellscythe:
really? the top of your device never gets warm or hot except playing games? :S

hmmm....i might have a defective unit then....mine gets warm/hot taking photos and going through the UI
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RedSpiDer:
Hello. I just got my xperia z yesterday and so far I love the phone:), the only issue I have is that the phone gets warm when using it for some time. I've read through the forum and I see that most people have this issue, but some don't . my question is if this is a issue with just some phones or is a general issue? I'm asking because I can still replace the unit, so is it worth it to send it back and wait for another one?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] schaggo:
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No backlight doesn't mean no light at all. As when you look at your AMOLED display, you don't see sheer darkness. Nope, you see light, as the actual term actually suggests: Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode. And yes, I understand how AMOLED works, in principle.

I'll try to explain what I know and believe is right: energy consumption of AMOLED displays depends on the picture displayed. The darker the image, the less energy consumed as less/no light has to be emitted from the single pixel/diode. Whereas bright pictures mean the opposite. I believe we look at more emails with white backgrounds, web pages with white backgrounds, Whatsapp & Co. with a rather bright backgrounds, sms apps with white backgrounds, Facebook app with white backgrounds... well, you get the idea. As the consumption of AMOLED displays rises over-proportionally the brighter the picture gets, the average consumption of an LCD should be below the one of an AMOLED display in todays average usage scenarios. I stand corrected, but am quite sure of the correctness of my statement.

No. No backlight but the pixel itself is a diode emitting light. The pixel itself glows, if you wish.

It's not an "issue", it's the Snapdragon S4 Pro platorm producing quite some heat when in use. All Snapdragon S4 Pro powered devices will be "warm devices". If this bothers you, you may switch the Z for something else but you should probably evade Snapdragon powered devices.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RedSpiDer:
Okay. Then it should`t be an issue...One last question about this , I installed an cpu temperature control app and it gets around 38 C when browsing the web, watching movies, etc. And about 45C when playing games. Are these values ok? I searched online for the operating temperature for the S4 Pro and I couldn`t find anything :( .
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RoChinu:
The 45 degree number has me worried as well to be honest. Though if you think logically about it then there shouldn't be need to worry. Obviously the phone has been thoroughly tested while playing games and if the temperature caused real damage to the device they'd never have brought it to the market. It isn't something new (the heating up) I experienced this in my XPERIA S as well when playing graphic intensive games like MC3 and N.O.V.A. 3.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RedSpiDer:
I`m not sure what to say, I saw a post on android authority , I think, about the Nexus 4 (which has the same SOC) and it said that it shut down when the it reached 60 C, so this might be ok/normal for the S4.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RoChinu:
I'm wondering how they managed to get it to 60 degree but hey look at it from the bright side if they'd reach numbers above that you could possibly have a semi cooked egg every morning for breakfast just by putting your phone in the cooker. (waterproof feature makes perfect sense now). :good:
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] schaggo:
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The cpu can get hotter, the other components cant.

Sony put thermal throttling safeguards in place, your device cant overheat, it will clock down when getting hot. This may interfere negatively with your experience at that time, for example slow downs while gaming or so.

Gesendet von meinem C6603
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] must.sayim:
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Well . Every phone have to overheat in some times take for example the iphone 5 or the s3 those phones over heat. The xperia z has a s4 quad core pro. This will make it overheat more than the other cellphones. likewise its processor Brothers the nexus 4 or the dna.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LL Southside:
Hey I had the exact same issue overhere with the Z The camera causes the phone 2 freeze and restart after its been adressed... i sent mine back after just 8 days .. I havn't found anyone who had the same problem until now.. wish i found ur post earlier !!! still havnt read the whole tread yet but are there more people who have encounterd this problem ???
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Veloxin:
Smartphones now-aday's are just getting warm, some are getting pretty hot. As the devices keep functioning normal, what are you people whining about. I mean, look it this way, if there is going much presure in the bloodflow in your body, you'll get hot also. When there's taken more power from the smartphone, it gets hot!

Mine is getting hot when playing a game, Buy a case or something if you have fingers that are very sensitive to heating. Anyway when my phone is getting hot, it still keeps functioning normal. If it stays functioning, I'm not whining! :)

Its a Quad-Core processor. Put your finger on a PC-CPU when you play games. you will freakin burn your fingers! Its normal.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] olokos:
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I've had a ball with my friends about putting scythe mugen on the mobile cpu in order to o/c it :D

It has never happened though, we were just laughing about it :P
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hellscythe:
so you reckon phones will get to the point where heatsinks are installed? :eek:
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MrBackoffice:
No major issues ... keep cool

1. LED not working for SMS, whatsapp etc *UPDATE* Working for me

2. Stamina Mode sometimes not turning on/working *UPDATE* Working for me

3.Music stored on SD card jumps for some users *UPDATE* Working for me

4.Sleep of death where screen refuses to turn on for some users, *UPDATE* Hasnt happened to me yet, its been about a week

5. Google services chewing battery for some users, although this isnt a specific xperia z issue.. *UPDATE*, not happening to me either.

6. A FEW users have reported some dead pixels *UPDATE* I don't have any.

7. A FEW users report device getting abnormally hot *CONFIRMED* Using my device for a few minutes and it does get very hot...

8. I can confirm wifi strength is not too good....

1. No LED issue. in active STAMINA Mode no LED Notifigation. Sony should think of changing that with next update.

2. No issue

3. No issue (using a 32GB Samsung Class10)

4. Not happened to me

5. found that Google sometimes drain, by trying to Switch GPS on/off several times in a Minute. corrected Settings in Google and Phone (Gps localisation off) . Since then no Drains at all. (7h30m off the charger today, 1 phonecall some whats app some sms, and still 99% Battery remaining)

6. no dead Pixel( I havn't seen one, so tiny...)

7. No Boiler plate. If stressed, it gets warm, as it gets. Heat of CPU and GPU Need to go somewhere while CPU is on load. No abnormal heat.

8. No issue with WiFi. Works perfectly in 2.4GHz and 5GHz range. Seen some bigger range while Stamina off, but not a very big difference.

9. No issues on LTE yet. Have not got yet experience on other bands yet, Only 800 and 1800 MHz available in my place

Some Comments from my site on those, that are :crying: all the time:

I have seen several devices as an early adaptor. Blue Angel, X75000 & with that unlucky Microdrive, HTC HD2, and now the XZ. Most of ussues will vanish through Updates over time. Be Patient. This XZ is a real nice Piece, and one of the most stable things I've seen in that early state. LED not notifying in Stamina Mode is bothering me, but ok. If I Need to have LED Notification, I swith off the Stamina and have some few minutes less battery time. So what? OK, the sudden death is an issue, but I heared this will be fixed on next update (seen official 437 update on Sony page for the C6602 that should solve it. Guess, that for C6603 will follow shortly.

So Keep cool and relax.....:cool:
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] manish.t92:
In my xperia z everything is better but WiFi signal is not strength.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deejayscorp:
Nothing major just few bugs with my xperia z

A common problem that I face with my xperia z is the wifi connectivity (A general problem with ICS & Jelly Bean android phones). It fails to connect the router at times and disconnects and reconnects automatically the other times. Most of the time it says authentication problem. (Wi-Fi sleep policy is off).

It gets really hot very quickly, specially when I am surfing the internet or playing games like Real Racing 3.

The battery on normal use is really good even with 3g on, it would last the whole day with continuous texting and facebook. But when connected to wi-fi network or playing a game it drops quickly.

In the notification bar, the battery percentage icon and aswell as the alarm icon disappear most of the times.

The widgets like recent calls and weather widget sometimes take sometime (like 6-8 seconds) to load when swiping around the screen.

While sometimes downloading image files with *.jpg extension using stock chrome browser it would automatically rename it with *.jpg.jpeg, though the image would open in the album but you you wont be able to use it as wallpaper or for any other purpose. Also some of my image files (not downloaded but transferred from PC) which were view able before on the phone when i started using it, now are being shown as damaged files.

A problem that i faced with data management is when you disable few apps from using background data like play store and when you enable them again, they wont work unless and until you don't restart the phone.

One major problem is the vibration: It does not work when you keep the whatsapp on default vibration (you have to change it to short or long) and similarly with hotmail app the vibration will not work when set on default vibration and with hotmail app you cannot change the vibration mode except for switching it off (remember: the default vibration mode for the phone is switched on).

These are minor bugs which i think can be sorted/resolved in the next update. Apart from these I am really happy with my Xperia z xperiance!!
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] r2001uk:
Thought I'd contribute to this thread as I've decided to send my Z back and try a HTC One:

1. LED not working for SMS, whatsapp etc Works for me. Different colours for different notifications

2. Stamina Mode sometimes not turning on/working Works for me.

3.Music stored on SD card jumps for some users Not an issue for me. Got a Samsung 32Gb Class 10 card for comparison to those of you having trouble.

4.Sleep of death where screen refuses to turn on for some users, Hasn't happened to me.

5. Google services chewing battery for some users, although this isnt a specific xperia z issue.. My battery is getting chewed but it's not specifically Google's fault.

6. A FEW users have reported some dead pixels No dead pixels.

7. A FEW users report device getting abnormally hot Confirmed for me. I thought it might just be the charging, but it's been pretty hot most of today. Slightly worrying to be honest.

8. I can confirm wifi strength is not too good.... Definitely confirmed - the wifi is atrocious compared to my SGS3. Struggles to maintain signal when I'm upstairs at home and as a result of constantly trying to reconnect, the battery gets raped.

I'm getting rid for 2 key reasons. Terrible wifi and disappointing waterproofing. The wifi issue is explained above. As for the waterproofing, I was hoping to play music in the shower. That was my main reason for deciding on a waterproof phone. Turns out that as soon as you get a splash of water on the phone, the speaker muffles up and the volume cranks right down. I literally had it under the shower for no more than 3 seconds before the sound changed.

Since the phone can't do what I bought it for, I'm now heading over to the HTC camp for a more solid phone with a better processor, sound and display. I have no intention of rooting so I don't mind if HTC are as crap as they used to be in that department. Also, the increasing number of crack reports has me very worried.

If the HTC turns out to be guff, I'll just have to deal with it until the next Nexus iteration!
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shiruba2013:
I have a problem!

Unlike my Acro HD and my Sony Mini... I can't find any way to take a freaking Screenshot on the Z!

Power + Down button? No.

Hold Power Button for menu? No.

In fact, I have never tried to shut it down - but it occurs to me that I don't know how to do that either!!!

I can hold the power button down all day and nothing happens, except that when I let go, the screen turns off.

Is there some secret setting I need to know about? Or is this a SO-02E specific issue?

Searching on-line, it seems power+down is supposed to work, but most of the results I saw were junkie, so I have a feeling someone's been copy-pasting pages for other models and changing the model name only...

I am sure this is an obvious thing with a simple solution, but I have no clue right now!
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hellscythe:
hold power then hold down. make sure you don't hold power for too long or else you bring up the menu

or you can hold power and a menu comes up
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] merlinlcb:
My device is the polaroid PMID703c and i have to no avail been able to find anything on how to change its mac address can i do something in build.prop editor?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] merlinlcb:
some quick feedback would be nice thanks for any help anyone can give me
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zelendel:
No you can't change the Mac address. No way I have ever found to do it. Nor is it condoned here.

Wayne Tech S-III
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] merlinlcb:
I apolagise I was just curious thanks mate
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FinancialWar:
my S2 is currently running 4.1.2 and rooted with SiyahKernel S2-v6.0beta6, I have a 64GB Sandisk Micro SD formatted in NTFS and mounted with NTFSSD, I can access all the files on my SD card with file explorer and watch movies store on the SD card with no issues.

However, I still get a notification icon of "Blank SD card error", and when I connect the phone to the computer, only the phone storage is detected.

How can I fix this?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soccerfan6789:
Not sure why this happens. Here are your options:

1) Try to format it to the default which i think is FAT and leave everything else alone

2) Look at the thread for the specific kernel and see if others are having the same problem.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bogdan1980:
That error appear in google many times.

Galaxy powered by GM @ Dorimanx
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FinancialWar:
Most of the Blank SD error has nothing to do with me, those are issue like corrupt SD card etc, mine is about NTFS mounting on rooted S2 running Jelly Bean.

is there anyway to fix this, I can't find a solution
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FinancialWar:
it's seem all I need to do is disable Android's Auto mounting because media scan is draining my battery.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FinancialWar:
Fixed myself, No thanks to XDA
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mattemer:
FW, do you mind me asking how you fixed? I'm having the same issue now on my wife's gsii, and to backup everything she has on her SD card would be quite the pain, so trying not to reformat it. I verified everything's still on the card, and it works fine when in my phone or the desktop. But I keep getting the "blank SD card" error. Any assistance would be appreciated.