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[Sony Xperia ZL] Rodrigo Vilhena:
Mornign, actually my doubt is if I update to CM 10.1.2 by OTA, if I loose the FXP?

Because I flashed FXP 227, than OTA asked to update to CM 10.1.2, so I did, but I was afraid to loose the FXP work!! :silly:
[Sony Xperia ZL] Option58:
I have same doubts :) Though this breaks forum rules and this is spamming :)

Z - If you love waterproof.

ZL - If you love to take your phone with you in your pocket. Because it is much smaller.

I am afraid Z is too big for me. I think I am going for ZL.

Please PM me, and after eranda sees this moderators please delete mine and erandas posts.
[Sony Xperia ZL] Rodrigo Vilhena:
Mornig,

I did a fast search but did not founded, but I think, DSP manager did not work to bluetooth.

I tested to phone speakers and it works just fine, but when I tried to change the bluetooth settings nothing hapens.

Is that normal, or just I'm having that problem?

Thanks a lot for attention!!

Have all a nice day!
[Sony Xperia ZL] rioferraz:
I will test in my car today, but from what I know it does not work. Even the stock rom many configs do not work via Bt.

[]´s.
[Sony Xperia ZL] sats.mine2k4:
I have used both Z and ZL...

I would suggest ZL over the Z

Advantage of ZL

1. One handed usage is very good. Overall handling is greatly improved. Handling the Z is a pain with all the flaps and square design.

2. Equal camera, display, look and feel.

3. Offers unlocked LTE for AT&T, Rogers etc

4. A bit cheaper than Z...

General disadvantages of Z and ZL:

1. You will need to root and install CM10.1 coz the factory build is VERY VERY laggy even with 4.2.2 update.

2. Both have the WORST 1080p display in the market...

3. Audio quality over headphones is not great...

If i were you i would wait for the Xperia Z Ultra (if your ok with the size....:))
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
Audio quality is fine over headphones provided you don't use ****ty headphones and you properly EQ your music. I EQ it with poweramp's built-in equalizer and the music sounds as good as one can expect from a smartphone with no external DAC.

As a sidenote, I even managed to make the ****ty headphones that come with the device sound decent enough even tho they're still quiet as hell (which is due to the small size of the driver which you cant really do anything about).

So no, sound is not bad.
[Sony Xperia ZL] sats.mine2k4:
I don't DISAGREE with you sir... I am using Google Music + bose(@ office)/beats(@home).

I compared Samsung galaxy S4, HTC one, Sony Xperia Z and ZL with the above set

Results

1. HTC One

2. Galaxy s4

3. Sony xperia Z and ZL....
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
The HTC's hardware DAC is a tad better than the ZL's so it should sound better straight out of the gate. Samsung's is merely adequate, as is the ZL's.
[Sony Xperia ZL] Rodrigo Vilhena:
Morning,

I'm using poweramp's, as suggested devilsshadow, and the program can change the bluetooth equalization, but the stock DSP is not able to do that.

I like to use Sony Unlimited Music, and I'd like to change some stock bluetooth equalization, is there some program that can do that?

I'd like to change bluetooth stock equalization.

Thanks a lot for attention.
[Sony Xperia ZL] dbolivar:
Hi Rodrigo, you can try ViPER4Android, the sound quality is great and it is system-wide, works with any application and supports headset, speaker and bluetooth.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2191223
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
Or you could give this a try. As far as I recall, its system wide as well https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.noozxoidelabs.eizo.rewirepro

Sent from my C6503
[Sony Xperia ZL] lacordaire:
Hi guys, I am using CM10.1.2 on my phone. I also have a Morphie power juice that provides 5V at 2.1A but it is not charging my phone. Another thing I figured out is that I need much more time to perform a full charge compared to stock. Can I do something to fix this?

Ps: the power juice is working and it is able to charge my son's iPad.
[Sony Xperia ZL] jerpelea:
FXP229 released
[Sony Xperia ZL] rmont:
What is the difference of this release compared with the CM available in get.cm?
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
Does auto-brightness work on this version of CM?
[Sony Xperia ZL] andjohn:
No one has ever answered this...I've asked this before.
[Sony Xperia ZL] Q.Entity:
Indeed. It seems the case that we must be all asking for something nobody wants or can answer. I am assuming is the same stuff.

Shame. Love the ZL but development for it has not been very popular.

Guess will have ro wait until Honami ships since I was never keen on the Z. There is a lot more development there.

Sendt fra min XPERIA ZL 6506
[Sony Xperia ZL] jug6ernaut:
Development has been poor? We have nightly CM releases and you say development has been poor? What does it take to please you ppl...
[Sony Xperia ZL] Q.Entity:
This is NOT what I said. I said not very popular when you compare to the Z. I never said poor.

Sendt fra min XPERIA ZL 6506
[Sony Xperia ZL] jug6ernaut:
True enough, not sure what i saw. My apologies.
[Sony Xperia ZL] Q.Entity:
No worries :)

Sendt fra min XPERIA ZL 6506
[Sony Xperia ZL] andjohn:
I believe he meant that we don't have specific development for this phone. A symptom is the lack of the fixed brightness issue. Nightlies doesn't mean it gets attention. :)
[Sony Xperia ZL] darkevangelion:
Hi, excuse me do you recommend installing the latest cyanogenmod nightly or stable, i read the changelog, but i have a lot of question about the comments, etc.

I see you have more experience on cyanogenmod, for you nightly its better right?? for the new features, i read some nightlys go to stables, but im not sure.

well thx for advance, and sorry for the noobs questions.
[Sony Xperia ZL] rtimoff:
Using the latest nightly about 24 hours for now. Very stable so far. Only issue is auto brightness.

Отправлено с моего C6503 через Tapatalk
[Sony Xperia ZL] Option58:
Wait...no bugs...only brightness??

Anyone confirm?

How about stable official CM?
[Sony Xperia ZL] Q.Entity:
I have been using the official CM 10.1.2... the only thing I found not to work is auto.brightness. obviously, this is based on what I use.

Sendt fra min XPERIA ZL 6506
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
Stable CM10 is called stable for a reason. All cm-based roms for the ZL are rocksolid and bugfree except for the auto-brightness issue that nobody has managed to solve yet.
[Sony Xperia ZL] jug6ernaut:
I concur.
[Sony Xperia ZL] p0ft:
Hey guys just want to be clear, the auto brightness issue is what?

Cause here the only issue I experienced so far is that somehow the brightness won't change to anything below 75% you can change the slider, but the backlight stays the same.

Auto brightness works (l can see lux readings changing and all that using the lux app), but suffers from the same brightness issue, anything below 75% is exactly the same light intensity.

Thanks in advance, I hit the search button, but i'm at work right now and can't dive into a lot of threads.
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
That's the brightness issue. The sensor only works from 80~% and up. It works but you have to fiddle with it a bit. Not really an "issue" but more of an annoyance.
[Sony Xperia ZL] jerpelea:
FXP230 released
[Sony Xperia ZL] Rodrigo Vilhena:
Good morning guys,

What Gapps are recommended to use with FXP?

I'm using CyanogenMod 10.1.x	4.2.2	- 20130301 from http://goo.im/gapps :confused:

Thanks FXP for the good work and for your attention. :highfive:
[Sony Xperia ZL] Kali-:
ZL Light Sensor seems to report very low value compared to all other Z
[Sony Xperia ZL] devilsshadow:
The strange thing to note is, after a bit of usage it reports accurate values. I've had mine go to 1520 lux (i think that's the value before max). But the lower steps in the brightness settings still don't register.
[Sony Xperia ZL] sats.mine2k4:
Can you please tell me the exact steps as to how i can make the brightness work?
[Sony Xperia ZL] jerpelea:
FXP231 released
[Sony Xperia ZL] p0ft:
Is there any fix for the brightness issue? It's kinda hard to use this phone outdoors with brightness not working well.
[Sony Xperia ZL] sturmtruppler:
Not yet, but mithun46 is working on it, hope he can fix it.

Sony Xperia ZL C6503, rooted, 4.2.2 Stock
[Sony Xperia ZL] AndroidBR:
OT: Hey guys I'm pretty sure this is NOT the thread intended for us to comment on apps not functioning properly on our ZL, but... Has anyone else tried to use Talkatone recently? I'm getting absolutely no sound while I'm attempting to place calls. From both speakerphone and handset. Any ideas or fix for it? Thank you!
[Sony Xperia ZL] jerpelea:
sorry for long delay FXP232 is uploading

enjoy
[Sony Xperia ZL] kuramaenvy:
thanks!
[Sony Xperia ZL] nostupidthing:
sorry to interrupt, any plan to release for zr as well? :D
[Sony Xperia ZL] AndroidBR:
FXP my friend, I was just wondering... Are you planning on updating the thread with more information about the Android 4.3 specific flashing instructions, such as how to properly upgrade from 4.2 to 4.3 based ROMs, new Google Apps, URLs and stuff?

Thanks for everything! Cheers! :beer:
[Sony Xperia ZL] jerpelea:
FXP234 released
[Sony Xperia ZL] jerpelea:
i am planing to create 10.3 threads for all supported devices
[Sony Xperia ZL] AndroidBR:
Thanks dude! Take your time, we know you're a busy guy and we all appreciate the effort you've been putting into this (and many more devices). You're my hero! Have a great week! :thumbup::D

Wow! It's interesting (and sad) to see that the Z thread has had 322,000 views and the ZL just a lowly 31,000 views... :(
[Sony Xperia ZL] jerpelea:
FXP235 released
[Sony Xperia ZL] sergsinger:
When I use headphones I can't answer a call because I can't hear caller and caller doesn't hear me. Is this onle Nightly problem and in Stable releases there is no such issue?
[Sony Xperia ZL] sergsinger:
Which wipes I need to do? System, cache or dalvik?
[Sony Xperia ZL] LenAsh:
All of the above.
[Sony Xperia ZL] jerpelea:
FXP236 released
[Sony Xperia ZL] p0ft:
guys, what about the brightness issue, does it still occurs?
[Sony Xperia ZL] sergsinger:
Waiting for fix...
[Sony Xperia ZL] jerpelea:
FXP237 released
[Sony Xperia ZL] jerpelea:
HAPPY NEW YEAR !

We are entering in 4-th year of FreeXperiaProject existence and from now build number will be FXP3XX

3 indicates year (we started from 0)

XX week﻿

FXP301 released!
[Sony Xperia ZL] ej_424:
Is this for unlocked bootloader only?

Thanks
[Sony Xperia ZL] ATRIXXIRTA:
YYYYAP!
[Sony Xperia ZL] jerpelea:
Our new website is up on http://freexperiaproject.net/

new FXP305 released

enjoy
[Sony Xperia ZL] TRF-Inferno:
Do a logcat of disabling and re-enabling the radio, perhaps that may help the developers pinpoint the issue.
[Sony Xperia ZL] ShotSkydiver:
I've been having the no radio issue as well... with anything AOSP. There was one time I was actually able to get full radio, I'm not sure how, but it was after doing a clean flash of AOKP and then flashing the CM10 boot.img from this ROM. However, ever since, I've never been able to get radio. It might have something to do with the fact that my phone's model is C6502, vs. the reported model in the CM10 settings of C6503. Will pull a logcat later today.
[Sony Xperia ZL] ShotSkydiver:
Got it connected again! Did a clean re-install of the latest ROM, and upon the first boot, there was no GSM connection like usual. Then, when it was trying to connect to wifi, it rebooted itself, and the data was working! Hopefully it stays that way.
[Sony Xperia ZL] anirudh412:
All these years on XDA and I dont know how to get a logcat. Can you tell me how please? I really want CM10 on me phone
[Sony Xperia ZL] rmichaelj:
^^^ http ://www.xda-developers.com/android/comprehensive-guide-to-adb-commands/
[Sony Xperia ZL] nX3NTY:
How the ROM? Smoothness wise as compared to stock ROM? Anything work/not working and bugs to report? I'm looking forward to flash this but I have yet to unlock the bootloader
[Sony Xperia ZL] anirudh412:
I dont know if I did this the right way. But I am attaching the logcat of enabling and disabling Airplane mode. Let me know if anything else is needed :good:

EDIT: Got it to work. I think the phone keeps thinking its in airplane mode. Bought up the restart menu and it still showed me "turn off airplane mode" even though it was turned off. So I clicked on that. Then proceeded to restart the phone. Working fine now.
[Sony Xperia ZL] ShotSkydiver:
It's fantastic! Other than a non-working camera and one time where the entire phone slowed down to the point of needing a hard reset, this ROM is super fast and smooth.
[Sony Xperia ZL] anirudh412:
I agree! For me the only gripe is the really long time (well, if you call 2 seconds really long :silly:) it takes to wake up the phone.

Oh and also, the GPS icon in the quick setting becomes greyed out once you toggle it on. GPS works perfectly however.
[Sony Xperia ZL] anirudh412:
EDIT: Just had the phone completely die on me. Wouldnt start up and had to press the button underneath the flap to restart it. Was listening to music, when a call came in. After I hung up the phone wouldnt respond at all. I would provide a logcat, but I dont know how to get it for something that had happened a while ago.
[Sony Xperia ZL] clubtech:
Anyone with the 6506 can confirm this is working for him?
[Sony Xperia ZL] ShotSkydiver:
This has happened to me a few times randomly. The whole phone just freezes and only a reboot with the reset button fixes it. Thank god for that button.

Another "bug", the brightness slider is messed up, it only adjusts the brightness when you get to the very highest setting, everything before it doesn't actually change anything.

Oh, and notification sounds will occasionally be choppy and stutter when the phone is locked.
[Sony Xperia ZL] anirudh412:
I literally logged in to report these problems :laugh:

Also, i found the stock launcher to be choppy at times. Using Apex and everything is fine
[Sony Xperia ZL] anirudh412:
Found a mjor bug that makes this ROM unusable for me as of now. When the phone is asleep, i.e. screen switched off, and a call comes in, the screen becomes unresponsive and the phone itself hangs for a few minutes. DOES NOT happen when the screen is awake and a call comes in. One time I got a popup say 'The Activity Phone is not Responding' or something along those lines. This and the problem with no reception seem to point towards the radio, am I correct?

Including a logcat, hope it helps
[Sony Xperia ZL] Nimche:
I am on Originally Sony firmware and had this issue once already. i could be a bug with Sony?
[Sony Xperia ZL] apascual89:
I just picked up my ZL 6506. I was looking at the Xperia Z thread, are these builds using Kalis qcom_audio_caf? Or the Cyanogenmod one?
[Sony Xperia ZL] apascual89:
Yes working

the only thing is the network is showing "maritime" instead of ATT. Does anyone know what that is?
[Sony Xperia ZL] jerpelea:
FXP214 released
[Sony Xperia ZL] anirudh412:
Where can we get a changelog? Also, not my intention to sound rude, but it would be great if the devs would be a little more active on the forums. The Z forums have devs regularly chiming in with current issues, challenges and whatnot.
[Sony Xperia ZL] apascual89:
https://sites.google.com/site/projectfreexperia/download/progress

The FreeXperia team releases once per week. They even have a countdown on the website :D. I believe the Z forums are more active with devs, because they just happen to actually own that device. All the work being done for the Z by FreeXperia, codeworx, Entropy, etc will benefit us also.
[Sony Xperia ZL] anirudh412:
Posts like these really make me curious what was typed in the first place :D
[Sony Xperia ZL] apascual89:
I originally did a build with the new camera fixes and it didn't work, but then I realized that I had extracted the proprietary files from the phone rather than use the files from https://github.com/TheMuppets/proprietary_vendor_sony . For the camera to work I had to pull in the changes made to The Muppet's repo and make a clean build and it worked.

I had originally typed something to the effect of "Why don't the fixes work for the ZL..... :crying:"
[Sony Xperia ZL] anirudh412:
Ah, now that satisfies my curiosity :D Gracias
[Sony Xperia ZL] apascual89:
I guess we now have nightlies!

http://get.cm/?device=odin
[Sony Xperia ZL] championswimmer:
use fxp builds for better audio experience... till.. maybe a few more weeks
[Sony Xperia ZL] Q.Entity:
Still not in ROM Manager ot Goo but it is a start... Just go in Recovery and flash the zip, right?

Sendt fra min ZL 6506
[Sony Xperia ZL] establown:
remote control can be worked on cm ?
[Sony Xperia ZL] jerpelea:
FXP weeklies and cm nightlies are test releases

don't expect in this stage to be 100% functional and bugfree

i have FXP on my daily phone for mode than an month testing various things and improving

if you want to help us please fill found bugs on FXP bugtracker and please specify fxp release number of cm nightly release date (cm bugtracker can not be used for nigtlies)

thanks

J
[Sony Xperia ZL] jerpelea:
in the future

YES
[Sony Xperia ZL] jerpelea:
finaly fixed from 216
[Sony Xperia ZL] establown:
how to change the height of navigation?
[Sony Xperia ZL] Bin4ry:
We are currently looking into the support of the RemoteControl Apps. To get you some idea:

1.) We try to make it running

2.) If it runs we look if we are statisfied

3.) If we needed prebuild stuff (like here IRRemote.apk and such) we need to ask @ Sony for permission

So we are in state 1 now. But from what i can tell you -> i personally prefer the ZL over the Z because of the IR, so when i have time (usually weekend) i continue research on IR again. Definatly it is our goal to get IR running, but most "problematic" state will be 3 -> because if there are legal issues then we will have problems with Sony .....

But first lets see. Please be patient, we will inform here on progress.

Regards
[Sony Xperia ZL] establown:
Thanks a lot.

waiting.....

btw, how can i resize the height of the navbar. Is it possible?
[Sony Xperia ZL] anirudh412:
Bin4ry himself on ZL forums!!

Good to hear from you man :good: Does your preference carry over to your ownership too? I mean do you have the Z or the ZL, thought it was the former :D

Its great to have you guys ditch Samsung for Sony btw.
[Sony Xperia ZL] AndroidBR:
That's right anirudh412! It's really awesome seeing so many recognized developers stopping by, giving some input and sharing their brilliant ROMs, apps, etc, with the rest of us (non developers)! It's incredible when I see so many great devs turning their backs on Samsung and switching over to Sony's top of the line Android smartphones... It's a dream come true to me, really. I can speak for myself, after being with a Samsung smartphone for over 2 years (SGS i9000, heck yeah! Thank you Pawitp and Stratosk) it was a pretty scary step forward, you know, getting a Xperia ZL without knowing if the rest of the devs would follow... I'm glad and relieved that I didn't ditch Samsung all by myself! Haha!

Questions directed to FXP or anyone else interested:

I'm currently running latest official CM 10.1 Nightly build (04/17/2013) on my ZL

1. Where do I report bugs? (bug tracker, I know, but I'm not that savvy...)

2. Why isn't there a specific thread for the official Xperia ZL CM 10.1 builds? Are you planning on merging FreeXperia Project and official CM 10.1 for the ZL into a single ROM?

3. I found this Changelog for Odin's CM 10.1 Nightly Builds, you might want to add that to your OP! ;)

Thank you for everything!!!!!!! :D

Cheers!
[Sony Xperia ZL] championswimmer:
no nightly has bug tracker support for CM and thus for odin too you cannot use jira now.

bugtracker for FXP is in FXP'S signature. (code.google.com/p/freexperia)

also since FXP team maintains CM on Xperias this thread is as good as an official CM thread.

unofficial FXP builds will continue running forever. because thats the way it is. :)

the FXP team has more freedom in adding experimental changes to fix bugs in different parts of the source without thinking of if it breaks other devices. but code submissions on official CM tree doesnt go through as fast.

and lastly bbqdroid is not a changelog but merely a list of code changes in cm. ;)
[Sony Xperia ZL] stygian16:
Is it possible to install this without SD Card (directly from PC) I found some guides for but not sure if they are related to CM10.1 / Xperia ZL.. thanks
[Sony Xperia ZL] anirudh412:
Why not just copy it to your phone internal memory?
[Sony Xperia ZL] stygian16:
Sure I can do that, just did not know how easy it is to access and install files from internal storage via Recovery.. thanks

EDIT: Ok I see it's quite simple in CWM but pardon my ignorance, is FXP216 not released yet? I only see up to FXP215 on the CM 10.1 page... thanks
[Sony Xperia ZL] indianx:
can i flash this cm10.1 to 6506 ??:confused:
[Sony Xperia ZL] apascual89:
Yes
[Sony Xperia ZL] indianx:
thanks. You got by chance a link xperia zl drivers so it can be recognized in adb.

i have installed sony pc companion it detects the phone fine but not in fastboot
[Sony Xperia ZL] Q.Entity:
I had the same problem. Look at the Z forum Q and A. Someone replyed to me there.

Skickat från min Nexus 4
[Sony Xperia ZL] indianx:
awesome.it did not work for me at all

Do you know by chance if there is already sim unlock around or do we have to use the unlock service cellunlocker etc
[Sony Xperia ZL] AndroidBR:
There's an app you can download called Flashtool by DooMLoRD http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=39415317#post39415317. After you install the app, you can find a bunch of drivers inside the installed directory (it's an executable file) that will load the selected drivers automatically to your PC. You're going to need them in order to unlock your bootloader ( http://unlockbootloader.sonymobile.com/instructions) and flash the boot.img, both under fastboot http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_odin#Installing_CyanogenMod_on_Sony_Devices.

Got it?
[Sony Xperia ZL] stygian16:
anyone?
[Sony Xperia ZL] apascual89:
It will be released in two days. They release one per week.
[Sony Xperia ZL] indianx:
sorry it does not work on windows 7. it shows up as samsung android phone -> sony adb interface.

when i type in command adb devices the xperia zl is not getting detected
[Sony Xperia ZL] AndroidBR:
Well, I'm sorry to hear that man... I don't know what you did wrong there, but with those drivers from Flashtool by DooMLoRD I guarantee you that I was not only able to push the drivers through and get it to work and recognize my ZL under fastboot on my Windows 7 PC, but I also managed to unlock the bootloader as well, using Sony's official walkthrough. The links and explanations are on my last post here. Want proof? Take a look at the attached photo. ;)
[Sony Xperia ZL] indianx:
Weird it still shows under Samsung Android Phone / Sony ADB Interface

According to:

First, you should confirm that it is possible to unlock the boot loader of your phone by checking the service menu. In your phone, open the dialler and enter *#*#7378423#*#* to access the service menu.

In your phone, tap Service info > Configuration > Rooting Status. If Bootloader unlock allowed says Yes, then you can continue with the next step. If it says No, or if the status is missing, your device cannot be unlocked.

On my phone 6506 it says NO. That means i cannot unlock the bootoader at all and cannot install cm10.1 at all :crying:

According to this thread it says yes for 650x

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2155864

In your phone, tap Service info > Configuration > Rooting Status. If Bootloader unlock allowed says Yes, then you can continue with the next step. If it says No, or if the status is missing, your device cannot be unlocked.
[Sony Xperia ZL] AndroidBR:
Did you get a carrier locked phone with a discount? I believe you have to have an unlocked phone in order to get it to unlock the bootloader... :(
[Sony Xperia ZL] indianx:
if have to use a service right? like cellunlocker.net there is no software solution out yet right?
[Sony Xperia ZL] AndroidBR:
I'm not sure I understand what you are asking... You didn't answer my previous question. Is your ZL a locked phone? If it says NO on the bootloader status. You won't be able to unlock your bootloader.