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[Xperia Z General] Ryland Johnson:
Hi, With regard the water resistant flaps these flaps are an integral part of the water resistant design. If you think about it how else could this important and significant feature be achieved? To be honest the flaps are a chore BUT it is the small price we pay for owning a water resistant mobile.

The HTC one has no such flaps and has wonderful full stereo speakers on the front that sound very nice considering its a mobile phone. The massive pay off will be if the HTC one gets wet through those large speakers say goodbye to 700.00euros. I am trying to introduce here the word compromise. What you find unacceptable others will find acceptable.

I have owned a number of other brands ranging from HTC through Nokia to the latest Samsung and apart from the Nokia's the signal strength and call quality have been poor. I live out in the country in the hottest country in Europe and the call signals are very weak here. I am highly pleased to be able to write the XZ is on a par with past Nokia in terms of receiving and maintain a call signal. This is were the water resistant feature should pay a dividend here, it reaches well over 40degrees here and where do men keep their phones? In our pockets, when we get hot we perspire and that alone has damaged no end of mobiles in this country. I jest not, simply keeping a phone in ones pocket can truly lead to water ingress! Still doing battle with Samsung over their Nexus S that they claim has water damage! I was told a mobile cannot be kept in trousers pockets! Don't set me of on this.....Bloomin crazy country.

The speaker on the XZ is pathetic in terms of listening to ones music HOWEVER I don't purchase a mobile phone to use as a stand alone music centre? Purchase some Sennheiser head phones and the stereo reproduction is amazing and I write that with well over 40 years of top end Hi-Fi experience. Though the quality produced by the XZ speaker is truly awful it does perform its tasks well and the volume levels are as good as most other, but not all, available mobiles.

Overheating? I have read about this and though I have not yet experienced this I can understand it, THiNK! Where is any heat to escape from in a water resistant mobile? The XZ is a marvel in design and specification. Its built like a brick, feels and looks like a quality mobile unlike my Samsung GS3 and Note which look like they came from a street vendor even though they are both superb mobile devices.

I am sorry you have not found the XZ to your liking. Its a bad feeling when that happens. I would ask you though to consider the plus factors with XZ ownership and they vastly outweigh some of the phones less positive factors. No phone built yet is perfect, we have to accept some compromise so its all about what you are prepared to sacrifice, its a personal opinion.

I have yet to find the perfect mobile and doubt there will be one. Design alone being highly subjective.

Kindest regards.
[Xperia Z General] xchasa:
Yeah I don't understand it. I keep getting told to turn it down. It's loud...
[Xperia Z General] fredaroony:
I came from a Xperia TX which has a great loudspeaker and I would say the Z is almost the same. I have not experienced loudspeaker issues or low call volumes like some of the other posters.
[Xperia Z General] anirudhks:
To be very honest I come from all android in shapes n forms I have come from X10 to S2 to Note 1 to Note 2 and one x to XZ to be honest no other phone I have loved so much wiht the design no matter what time of the day I see the phone on desk its looks absoultely beautiful.

I agree there are few cons for the Phone there are works arounds too

Low call volume / Headset / speaker volume? ---> try the zeroinfinity mod its just AWSOME you will double the volume.

Bad display angles ? use the screen calibrator set the hue / saturation to 12 / 220 and the brigtness to about 60% the colors dont washout anymore

Bad Wifi? -- software will be fixed so not a hw fault..

Battery drain ? -- us 2X battery saver ... not Stamina mode as it just breaks the real android need by turning off data, 2x battery gives much better battery to be honest I travel by MRT to and Fro office so I use the phone for about 90 Mins ofvideo and 1 hour of music and 1 hour of web browsing in a day so about 3 hours of screen and cpu i get the phone around 20% at the end of the day which is descent ..

The flaps neednt be removed if yo have a doc , I am sure spending 800$ for a phone you wouldnt moan to buy a 25$ dock to charge , use bluetooth headset and you wll never need to open ur flaps... keeping it water resistant all the time.

over heating ? nope people are wrongly giving this message the phone gets hot max to around 45degrees yes it makes you feel hot coz the cpu area is close to the glass and the heat gets out that way take the note 2 or a htc install the temp monitoring app it will show u the same temperature just that phone has lesser ventilation due to water resistance the heat is transfered out,

Over all I am very happy with the phone with a small concern for battery... except that you wil not regret investing in the phone..
[Xperia Z General] Andrewtst:
Install PureXAudio mod, it will satisfied you. :)
[Xperia Z General] kthalejo:
no disrespect for the op but i think it's either you love ipoop or samstool:D
[Xperia Z General] 23Six:
If your talking CPU temp, mine hits 65-68°c on a regular basis both with and without undervolt lol when charging/browsing/taking pics.

45 battery temp though is nothing extraordinary its just the design which you've explained so people need to calm down a little bit.
[Xperia Z General] Andrewtst:
65°c and above??!? Something not correct with your phone.

My phone never reach over 50°c.
[Xperia Z General] CHUPACAPRA71:
wow u really hate that device! my xz is working really good.

if the flaps are driving u crazy, buy an docking station, then u just have to open them if u want to flash another rom (u should do that then u would find out how amazing this device is) ,and its not the battery thats overheating its the cpu and just some app's will cause this problem! i also dont know why u think the sound quality is rubbish? mine is, i would say NORMAL. so if u want to get rid of it sell it and use a no brain no pain phone!

sorry my english is not the best anymore

regards arno
[Xperia Z General] ShortOnMyDo:
Is not only waterproof. It's also dustproof. And those two makes it absolutely worth it. I destroyed my share of Androids at my 'dusty' work environment and for now the Z is holding up perfectly. After a whole week of dust eating in my overalls, he takes a bathe with me :D and comes out, as out of the box he came with....Xperia Z is the best Android for me......
[Xperia Z General] Zrile:
Having lost 2 phones already due to water problems I think it's def worth it.
[Xperia Z General] zippy01:
My XZ is water damaged haha all the years I've had a phone and never have I dropped one in water. I unplug my ps3 controller and it dropped off my knee into a bowl of water :( still seems to work ok so although the sensor next to the charger port is red it might have just made it lol
[Xperia Z General] RoChinu:
You're giving people the wrong impression. It's water and dust resistant, not proof! Huge difference between the two...
[Xperia Z General] ShortOnMyDo:
I'm glad we got that out of the way! ......

---------- Post added at 07:38 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:32 PM ----------

I'm glad we got that out of the way! ......so People...listen to RoChinu..forget what I said ...I'm sorry for giving the wrong impression to thousends of people...it's resistend...and not proof...please forgive me..
[Xperia Z General] [NUT]:
I can only agree on the less then perfect WiFi signal regarding b and g WiFi but it isn't all bad from my experience, n WiFi is rock solid and fast all the way...

I never had a phone with a better web experience as this one, 3g, hspda and hspda+ signal has never been so strong for me... And I only swapped phone...

I can only disagree with all remarks concerning speech volumes, I have mine set to half volume and still people around me are able to follow my conversations in 2way :eek:
[Xperia Z General] androline:
This is to damn true buddy !
[Xperia Z General] robogo1982:
Wi-Fi reception can actually be improved (with some root wizardry).
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] NSatya:
My mobile Sony Xperia Neo L is not getting switched on. It got turned off on its own. My mobile was under the below explained situation before it stopped working.

1. I was getting alerts saying - LOW PHONE MEMORY IS AVAILABLE delete some data. It had 43 MB left in phone memory.

2. Memory card was also full the day before.

3. I was not able to install any applications.

4. Since I have activated the auto update for few applications like Whatsapp, google maps etc. For them also i used to get alerts saying - INSUFFICIENT STORAGE IS AVAIALABLE TO UPDATE the software.

5. I always keep Wi-Fi on in my mobile. (If any open Wi-Fi is available mobile will get updates)

6. Battery was more than 30% charged.

All of the above may be the reasons for software problem.

No time in the past phusical harm happened to the phone, Since i bought in 2012 August.

I had gone through Sony Support Center to repair, but still it didnt worked.

Could any one help me to solve the problem ?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] :
Even sony can't help you how can we help you :rolleyes: ?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] NSatya:
Through sony support center i had upated the OS. In fact my phone was having latest version of OS than what I had installed through Sony.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] cherry676:
One last try you can give... Connect your phone to the charger and check if the led turns on.. Or else connect USB to the phone... While plugging it to the computer, hold the back button.... Check for the led light to turn GREEN... If this happens, then nothing wrong has happened to your phone.. Else no one can help you... PM me for further help..
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] NSatya:
I have done as you said, LED light turned green... If there is no problem, y it is not getting switch on ?

I really appreciate your response. :)
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] motorazrv3:
AW: [Q] Sony Xperia Neo L not getting switched on

If led turns green than install flash tool to your PC, download latest ftf file for your phone and flash the ftf to your phone. But flash not whole rom parts, only flash kernel within that ftf.

Gesendet von meinem Galaxy Nexus mit Tapatalk 2
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] NSatya:
Thanks for your reply, could you please provide the steps to do what you said..
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] sumitverma1:
If u from india then u can call me I can fix ur problem. Just dwnld flashtool and firmware of neo l then flash it
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] LoneWanderer:
and why should he flash only kernel??
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] NSatya:
Kindly provide the giudance, I am not in India now.. Explain the steps how to do..
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] cherry676:
it doesn't matters where you are... Download flashtool... Install it... Then you need a firmware file for your phone... Go to http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2047914.. Download whichever firmware file you want... .587 is recommended... If you want you can have .631 also... after downloading the .ftf file, place it in firmwares folder of the flashtool installed folder... open flashtool.. Click on lightning icon.. It will ask 'flashmode' or 'fastboot'.. select flashmode... Then select the .ftf which you placed now.. Uncheck 'no final verification' option... Then connect your phone to the PC by holding the back button on ur phone... After the flashing is finished, switch on your phone... its done..
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] ghennn:
I have the same situation here and i tried the above but the green led light is not turning on. Does it mean there is something wrong with my phone? I do need help with this asap. Thank you in advance!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] cherry676:
Switch off the phone.. Hold the "back" button and connect your phone to computer.. The LED should turn GREEN... It means that computer is recognising your phone.. Otherwise there might b some problem in the drivers or in the phone.. I cannot help you unless you can explain what you did before your phone entered into such state...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] svahmeds:
sony Xeperia neo L Mt 251 not turning on

I have done as you said, LED light turned green... If there is no problem, y it is not getting switch on ?

I really appreciate your response.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] cherry676:
If LED is turning on, then its a good news that your phone is not dead. If nothing is getting displayed on the screen, then you might have fried up the internal circuitry. I have ended up with it. It cost me 25% of mobile's cost to get it repaired again.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] svahmeds:
i can't turn on my cell sony xeperia neo L mt251

Hello

I can't turn my cell phone Sony Xeperia neo L MT251 please some on can help me
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] cherry676:
Flash a new ftf file. There is a guide for it. Phillip Wu's thread has all the steps. Go through the steps about flashing new stock firmware.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] mohans26:
Xperia Neo L bricked :(....

Hi All,

I think i have bricked my xperia neo l to a pretty bad shape.....Please help me ...

1)I rooted the phone sucessfully with the kit developed by DoomsLord

2)I installed the cwm recovery, took backup.

3)I did not flash the kernel but went ahead with the ICS revolution ROM Xperia NEO L:crying:

4)Installation of ICS went fine but the phone was stuck in the boot mode. Sony screen used to come and device used to boot......

Here is the stupid part..

5) I tried to go to recovery it didn`t work.. I thought maybe the kernel is a problem..I used the ICS kernel and flashed it.

Nothing works now...When i connect my cell to the laptop windows says device not recognized..I am trying to go to flashboot mode not working...Is there a way to fix it ? If yes please provide me any pointers...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Pippo Mandiri:
Dear friend.....

First,charge ur device at least 2hours....

When u charge ur phone,try to read carefully every step how install the custom rom u want....

After that...

-Flash full firmware via flashtool (flashmode)

Let ur phone on first...

And after ur phone works,its up to u maybe u want to continue another step to install custom rom u want....

But dont forget to flash the custom kernel recommended by the dev first before u do another step....

(flash custom kernel via fastboot)...

Hope it help and good luck.....
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] mohans26:
well..

Thanks for the advice ..But Windows is not recognizing the phone..When i try to flash and go into flash mode ..Pressing the back button and connecting..The flash tool says device not connected
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] cherry676:
Remove and re-insert the battery. Do not start the phone. Re-start your computer. Install the drivers for your phone again. Install fastboot and flashmode drivers as well. Now try to connect the phone and check it. Sometimes it does work. I have a played with my baby (Neo L)..:laugh:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] mohans26:
No luck...

I have tried the method..The window prompt says " The device has malfunctioned...blah blah...can not recognize the device..."

Are there any other alternative methods ?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] karanrajkapur:
Updated the flashtool drivers?

say no to Drugs and ICS! :D
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Pippo Mandiri:
Oke then,are u sure ur battery not empty yet?

Only my opinion,please charge ur device about 2hours.....

And dont forget when u flash it,connect when tje screen command u to connect,not earlier......
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] mohans26:
hmmm...

Dear Pippo, I think you are correct..my phone is not charging at all and even if i connect the battery is not getting charged.

It seems the charging wont work on this phone, i have ordered an universal charger to charge the phone.

Anyone knows any other way of charging ? I dont own any of other sony cell phones.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] ItsNick:
http://www.sonymobile.com/gb/tools/update-service/

this works for me and my friends everytime
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] sushantp606:
phone isnt getting switch on

Well my problem is diffrent , i was trying to root my xperia neo l ... after flashing neo v kernal .. its dint start .. even after that first step doolord shows something is being killing procedure.. finally no its showing "deamon started succesfully " and thn stucked ... i have been waiting for last 45 minutes... and even still phone is nt getting on.. wat shall i do .. its been 6 days ..
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] svahmeds:
sony Xeperia neo L Mt 251 not turning on
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] mang109:
Hi newbie here i have had a similar problem like the first post in this thread. Now that i have tried the way you mentioned it here, i am getting a prompt to put my phone in debugging mode. Now how am i suppose to do that if i cant switch on my phone. Please Help :confused:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] kedar a.k.a. 3K:
:good:

dude you cannot use any other kernel for a specific device;although neo l and v are similar the difference in their kernels is vast.

you may consider to flash the stock ftf for neo l as it has the stock kernel included in it

and you do not need to change the kernel to root just install adb drivers in pc and use eroot
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] rjbaraiya:
If the green light is flashing then it should not ask you to put your phone in debugging mode.

Just follow the steps and do it again. I am sure it will work and do flash whole rom (remove the final verfications checkbox tickmark)

then you will be prompted to connect your phone

for that- remove battery. Then reinsert it, hold the go back button and plug in the usb cable.

Also make sure that proper drivers are installed for your device( if not then flashtool has a folder in the directory where u installed it named 'drivers' and there is a setup file from which you need to install your device specific drivers. Do this and i am sure you will be able to flash your stock rom.

Hope this helps :D

Hit thanks if this helps :)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fierceeagle2003:
Well it's a great question, yes you need it for mobile data (internet ) but if you have a 3G widget, it can save you amazing battery life, and still get texts and phone calls. But it comes with a price, if some one sends you a picture, it won't come through. But hey it's a small price to pay for that battery life that we in the android world are always fighting for..
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] atar9500:
i found for a weeks on xda forums and did google search and i did not find any s3 music player that works with cm10.1, is there any zip flash or apk file that works with AOSP roms for SGS3??

thanks
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] t0kgrumps:
Nope, Just use a jelly bean themed sammy rom and your problem's solved. It will be kinda hard or impossible to port the s3 music player to cm roms (p.s please move your useless thread to the q&a section and not here)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DangerM55:
My phones come back from Samsung after being sent off for repair in some sort of diagnostic mode. Does anyone have any idea how to sort it, so that I donj't have to send it away again? it shows up on the home screen, and displays 'on top' of the app menu etc - it's a right pain in the backside!

View attachment 1843012

Thanks!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DangerM55:
It's factory mode apparently
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] emay:
Does anybody know about an application to use my XDA-2 to secure my PC. I am looking for a wireless (Bluetooth) solution, so when I am near my PC the screen unlocks and the disk becomes available.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] deemacgee:
You know... that's a freaking brilliant idea. Please post if you find it somewhere? *begbegbeg*
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] Peter Poelman:
Well... There's a problem though. If I am the attacker, my XDA II pretends to be your Bluetooth device towards your computer. And my accomplice's XDA II pretends to be your computer towards your XDA II. Then we use some short GPS packets to relay the challenge to the bar, and the response back to your PC.

To do this securely you need to measure speed-of-light delay (and calculate how much extra distance an attacker can gain with a faster processor). Mircosecond timings which I'm not sure the Bluetooth hardware and transmission properties will give you.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] pdhenry:
Really? I would think that you could use a PKE method for encryption and authentication - though I've never done it. You and your friend could intercept and forward the messages through your XDAIIs, but you couldn't look at the data nor change the data into something else.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] mdkia:
i think you mean something like this:

http://homepage.mac.com/jonassalling/Shareware/Clicker/

ciao

marco
[Android Software Development] chickenfeeder:
BitTorrent is great. If I could download everything via BitTorrent (legally I mean) then that would be much better. If then everyone else used BitTorrent that would be great. In a BitTorrent client using the protocol you automatically have checksumming to ensure that there are no errors in the download, you have a download manager with resumable downloads, queueing and so on, what's not to like?

I have mirrored all the current SDK bundles and I am sharing them as torrents basically because of what I said above.

Please find the links on my page here: http://www.rorybradford.com/p/android.html
[Android Software Development] hackuletz16:
thanks

thanks for this, really looking for this :):good:
[Android Software Development] -CALIBAN666-:
Thats cool,thx.

-TEAM OPTIMA-GREEEETZ!!!
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mommafish:
Hi people,

I bought a 7" KindleFire yesterday and is very excited to use it. However i discovered i could not install any apps from their store because i am not at the country. I did some research about what should i do and learned that google play can be installed into Kindlefire.

Rooting is a must for googleplay to be installed. So i took a few hours learning how to root. However most of the rooting solutions is not for version 7.3. I do not know which files to download for rooting version 7.3

Can any kind soul show me the steps to root a new kindlefire for version 7.3?

THANKS
[7" Kindle Fire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 5163087:
I am assuming you have a computer with Windows

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2069117

They also have a guide for Mac/Linux I think somewhere in the General thread as well, if you need it.

You can use the same method you root version 7.2.3 with version 7.3.

Good Luck!
[LG Optimus 4X HD] Apotacyll:
Hi everybody,

i rooted my phone yesterday (CM10.1) everything went well i made a back up of the stock rom in cwm so after a day i thought you know what i want the stock rom back so i went to the cwn and i saw no back up from my stock rom:eek: so i made a new back up from the cm10.1

but then i did a hard boot (volume down+ power key) and i wiped all data en factory reset (i thought to get the stock rom back) i rebooted my phone and then the cyanogenmod coms its spins 2,5 times and than i sort of crashes and then a little white screen and then it keeps spinning forever i can do nothing ! the only thing i can do is volume down + power key and there is the lg recovery things ( but there's that where i wiped the cache and factory reset) & i can with fastboot within cmd command i can get in the mobile thing i tried even abn install cm10.1.zip but then i says no androidmanifest.xml i dont know what to do ! is my phone broken?:( if i get in the cwm i can restore the backup and then evrything is fine ! please help me !
[LG Optimus 4X HD] @non4:
Looks like you messed up :rolleyes: no worries, you can fix it by flashing any lg firmware with this guide:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2069723

Sent from my rooted P880
[LG Optimus 4X HD] Apotacyll:
You sir you are my hero !

thank you so much !;)