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[Xperia Z General] tuska46:
Here is the right point fellas :D

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Hi All,

Thanks for great views and reviews here. I am newbie in the forum. I am just going tomorrow to pick my first ever Android device. Namely the XZ is going to be my investment after some years with Apple Iphone3/4. After considering and reconsidering .. Following and reading carefully different perspectives and thoughts i am totally looking forward to get the device. I know that this is not the correct post to talk about it but is anywhere here a place that can make understand from the basic level how to root the device and what are the likes/dislikes of making this.

Looking forward to hear from you guys and to put my points of the device.

IPAD2/IPHONE4/BLACKBERRY 9990 owner

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[Xperia Z General] tomo100brt:
To all you that are talking against XPERIA Z.

It is not a water proof but water-resist. XPERIA Z can hold up to 1 m of depth for 30 min (IP55 & IP57 rating). Sony says: "...Xperia Z is crafted to be water-resistant, dust-resistant and tough enough to handle whatever life has planned.

How can we be certain? In order to get the high IP55 & IP57 rating, we submerge Xperia Z under water for 30 minutes – and make sure it’s good as new when it comes out. It’s also resistant to water jets!".

IP55 - Limited dust ingress protection / low pressure water jets from any direction

IP57 - Limited dust ingress protection / immersion between 15cm and 1m depth

So I can take it to the beach and I can be sure that if it drops in sea (after sea when I come home I had to hold it for 5 min in fresh water) or wather (lake or river) nothing happends. And I can take videos under wather if I want (just 1 m of deph). I think that is more important. My friend has SGS3 and he cleans his device every time droplet of sea comes on his toucscreen. Every walkout to the beach is a big risk to his SGS3. About rain I don't want to talk because it is ridiculous.

I had all Sony Ericsson and Sony water-resist phones (C702, XPERIA active, XPERIA go, XPERIA acro S and now XPERIA Z). XPERIA go was the most tough device of those devices. Now I don't care if my device is dusty or wet. So don't talk to about water-resist, endurance and is it important or not. I'll ask you is it important when your phone drops on the floor or in water.
[Xperia Z General] websh:
i was surprised to now that the battery life is better than the SGSIII

actually more surprised with the lag

is there any lag in the interface other than the camera ?
[Xperia Z General] tomo100brt:
I don't see any lag in camera. It only takes a bit longer to open it. 2 second is still quick to me, but a liitle slower than on XPERIA T.
[Xperia Z General] OsiBasi:
For every samsung fanboy. - Shouldn't you compare the Z with the galaxy xcover2 - it's one of samsungs (early 2013?) devices also with IP57.

But it looks like a toy and has the specs of a 2011 device. Bravo samsung, real impressive phone lmao.

I'm coming from an S2, it broke from WATER DAMAGE, got it replaced with an Arc, which also fell in water (but still works fine).

This choice was obvious.

Now I get water on this phone intentionally wiihoo :).
[Xperia Z General] alexpraga:
If you create a link at your launcher, I'm using Nova, with a fast capturing activity, is less than half a second to open camera in superior auto.

Sent from my Xperia Z
[Xperia Z General] tuska46:
Hi guys,

I am so excited today!!! .. Going to to pick up my first Sony .. XZ :)

Can wait to see my usual apps such as TomTom, Spotify etc working on it

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[Xperia Z General] DDRMSTRPRO:
Glad to be joining the family. I'm coming from a neutered ATT SGSIII and this is my second international phone (Had an International SGSIII as backup, sold). Can't wait to get back to my roots. You'll see me floating around the forums quite a bit.
[Xperia Z General] doministry:
I can only say I use mine for a month and will stay with it for another year.

No need for anything else... Great phone.
[Xperia Z General] phantom4u:
amazing phone and im totally loving it despite the low speaker volume.. not that much noticeable once you get used to it
[Xperia Z General] kalo88:
My speaker volume is quite loud, I regularly have it on about 20% and it's blasting the tunes out!
[Xperia Z General] LosserKlosser:
How much screen on do you get? I'm on stock ROM and stock kernel with root. I have a lot of kernel wakelocks and I love the device but I think battery drain is rather heavy.

I just installed BetterBatteryStats today and I will monitor a full charge screen time tomorrow.

Sent from C6603 using Tapatalk2
[Xperia Z General] gtrab:
Around 140 minutes of on screen time. Stock ROM and all, just disabling 3g when not required and autobright
[Xperia Z General] LosserKlosser:
By the way, to the people who reads this and is considering if they should get the device or not:

It's fast. It runs very well. Responds quickly to input. Opens Chrome and Google Now noticeably faster than Galaxy S2. You can feel this is a powerful device in daily use, not just in benchmarks.

It's rather heavy and fits well in a medium/big hand of a man. For a woman it can be a little bit too large to handle with one hand I guess. Still feels good holding up to your ear, not like a giant board like the Galaxy Note 2.

Stock contacts and dialer is close to Android stock and T9 search in contacts supports country specific special characters in contrast to Samsung dialer. Stock dialer support individual ring tones per contact. Overall contact section is very good.

Stock texting app cannot disable incoming text preview in notification bar. More options like individual notifications and privacy box should have been included. I use Handcent SMS because of this.

Not much bloatware is included, this is a big plus.

Camera is good. If pictures are important to you, get a real camera with optics.

Screen is good but coming from S2 AMOLED I have to adjust to it.

No costum shortcuts on lockscreen. No toggles for torch, 2G/3G/LTE. No reboot option in power menu.

Gallery not impressive, kind of messy. Am using QuickPic instead. Using Aqua Mail instead of stock mail.

Keyboard and launcher works quite well, looks nice. Nice widgets. Better than Samsung IMHO.

Overall a device that takes a few days to learn to love because of screen and size, but a device that feels very natural to use after a short time. Higher appeal to experienced Android users than newbies because of the lack of flashy bloatware.

Some minor software shortcomings that we can hope Sony will fix with updates soon.

Sent from C6603 using Tapatalk2
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 0blivian:
So i have followed the guide using Qemuroot and Root_with_Restore_by_Bin4ry_v26 So i kept trying all day and nothing seemed to worked the user user app was installed but nothing was showing up on it and the app was not working correctly so i kept on trying and trying. And then apperently i backedup the device inside the system with the noneworking superuserapp inside it so now every single time i do factory restore it restores with superuserapp installed. I am still attempting to root the device it is currently 7.2.0 because of Root_with_Restore_by_Bin4ry_v26 i am un able to update it and unable to root is agan because the tools are not detecting the device anymore even tho the computer still recognises it and the device works perfectly. Please how do i remove the superuserapp from inside the system? Is there a way i can intall factory manually. And why wont the adb find the device anymore? Please help :crying:
[Kindle Fire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jma9454:
Pretty sure this is in the wrong forum. I would point you to the right one, but I don't know what device you have.

sent from The Muffinator (it's a kindle fire running cm10.1)

using Tapatalk 4 beta, and loving it!
[General Questions and Answers] BAoxymoron:
My itunes recently lost all playlists and I was wondering if I could take the synced playlists from either my phone or my google music profile...I know I could do it manually but I'd rather simply find the .pls files. Does anyone know a good way to go about doing that. I should note that some of the playlists were put into my phone using isyncr
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] lstocky:
is anybody out there running an XDA II with apple macintosh os x?

I've a friend who's awed by the XDA II but are we limited by support for Windows with this thing (usual Microsoft story) or what?

many thanks

lstocky 8)
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] imberyh:
No problem with a mac.

Look here: http://www.pocketmac.net/

regards,

Holger
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] maltloaf:
i looked at pocketmac but it wasnt fully featured enough for me (and expensive). Instead, I'm running windows 2k under virtual pc 6.1 and that talks to my xda via USB cradle perfectly using activesync.

maltloaf
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] lstocky:
bearing in mind other posts:

- have you actually used pocketmac imberyh? your opinion?

thanks again 8)
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] Timewolf:
I've downloaded the demo version but it doesn't recognize my XDA2 :(
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] imberyh:
I´m a former missing sync user and had big problems with that tool. After converting to pocketmac all my sync problems are gone.

My opinion: a great tool - installing third-party apps is a mess, but syncing works great.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] Timewolf:
Missing sync works with XDA2?

Is possibile to share Mac internet connection to use internet via bluetooth on XDA2?

Thanks
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 General] samerfam:
please........

hi maltlaof, I need you to tell me where to dowlaod the virtual Pc 6.1 and what exactly do I need other than that to make activesyc work on a Mac. My friend just bought one T-mobile and is in a terrible mess. Thanks a million.
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 Accessories] johannch:
Hi all,

I'm working on a very special project 8) . I'm trying to send my XDA II screen to a bluetooth headup display.

This bluetooth device does not support BT security features like authentication or encryption. There is no default PIN code.

It works fine with my old Ipaq which can make a connection with the device without soliciting a PIN but my XDA II still ask me for a PIN code ... :?

Is it possible with Windows Mobile 2003 to use a bluetooth device without using a PIN code ?

Thanks in advance !

Johann
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 Accessories] cruisin-thru:
I think it needs the pin to bond, at the moment the xda2 is brain damaged in the bluetooth department, hopefully an upgrade will appear soon that will address the issues. Have you tried 4 zeros when prompted for pin?
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 Accessories] johannch:
Is this problem specific to Xda II ? :roll:
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 Accessories] cruisin-thru:
I believe it may be, the fact that it works with the ipaq which uses the Widdcom bt stack and the xda2 uses the Microsoft stack which supports very little would indicate it is.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wong93:
i've seen a function in s4 where you can swipe pictures back and forth without even touching the screen

is this hardware related or software related?? cause i'm thinking of getting note 2 cause of its size and the pen and s4 specs are not really worth an upgrade from note 2, and i would really like to have the floating swipe thing.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Blackwolf10:
hardware related it's called Air gesture and uses a sensor
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] j510:
Sounds like software related to me
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sohebq:
This is not hardware related, this is pure software feature. The front camera detects hand gestures and responds accordingly

sent from: The New S-Pen :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] barondebxl:
Wrong, it is hardware related. There's a sensor up top of the phone that recognizes air gestures and allows interaction. Think about it, how else could it be?

Smart scroll ( when you tilt the phone and the front camera sees your eyes and scroll up and down) and smart pause ( when you watch a video and you look away and it pauses) is also hardware related, well front facing camera related. The S3 will be capable of smart scroll and smart pause when Samsung release it but won't be capable of the air gestures because it lacks the sensor to recognize the hand movement.

On the note phones, it works with the Wacom digitizer and the S-pen interaction.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RockRatt:
Probably not completely true here. I have used an app on my SGS3 that does control some things with just hovering the hand over the screen called Wave Control. It is basically only used for pausing,playing music etc. but it shows that even the sensors in the SGS3 can do things by hovering/swiping over the sensors.View attachment 1878599

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Now I am NOT saying the SGS3 will work as good as the SGS4 but I saying it does already work on the SGS3 to some as sense of the word. So WHEN the SGS3 gets the software and or firmware for those sensors updated to the same android version as the SGS4 we MAY have the same functionality built in. I am sure the sensors in the SGS4 will do it better? but until we actually have the phone in our hands we will not know for sure and until they are running the same software. So it is ALL speculation at this point. Plus I think I remember at the unboxing event they mentioned it as well working on the SGS3.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] barondebxl:
Does the app that you downloaded work for every android phone or just galaxy phones? And I'm pretty sure the S4' s sensor is the one that makes the air gestures possible. Otherwise what is its function?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RockRatt:
Not sure what other devices it works on. I just know that it works for music. Plus looking at the pic you posted up IF the two sensors on it that are used for the gesture it may be that the SGS3 uses the same sensors as the sgs3 has those two (or looks the same at least as far as location of them). I would have to look up what sensors the SGS3 shows in a pic to know for sure. There is a FREE version to try out. I did the paid version. I haven't used it much but I saw the potential and wanted to help out the dev. He is here in xda.

Some of the things it can do.

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[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] i9100g user:
S4 has a sensor for that,meaning hardware related .

sent fromXperia sT21i

Everything stock
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTRagnarok:
There's a dedicated "Gestures sensor", so it's a hardware thing. You might achieve similar effects with the front camera or proximity sensor on other phones, but I doubt they'll be as good.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vijai2011:
If you mean the two dots on the right side next to front cam,Its an IR proximity sensor.Even the very old SGS has it and almost all mid range phones too.May be samsung made it a better IR proximity sensor by doing some changes to make it adapt to gestures.But on the base line,It is again just a IR proximity sensor.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] barondebxl:
The galaxy S 4 has one extra sensor up top that the S3 doesn't have. It's the gesture sensor.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vijai2011:
No...look closely and you can see 2 dots on almost from s to NoteII.

The one on the left of ear piece in s4 is Light Sensor...So all s4 has extra sensor on top is Light sensor.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] barondebxl:
Yes, but check on both sides of the ear piece, there are 2 sensors on the right of the s4's earpiece and one on its left side. the others only have the two on the right side
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vijai2011:
Yeah...That is what I clearly stated one pair of sensors on right is proximity which all devices have and the new one on the left is Light Sensor which only s4 has.

Edit:It seems that you quoted my post before I added the extra info...sry
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RockRatt:
I would like to see the same kind of pic for the SGS3 to clarify the ACTUAL sensors for comparison View attachment 1883599

But the TWO on the right look the same as on the SGS4 and then has the addition of the other one on the left. So until I see an actual breakdown of the sensors on the SGS3 I am just plain confused.

Are the two sensors on the SGS3 Right side of earpiece a proximity sensor and light sensor? Or is it a proximity sensor and what is now called gesture sensor? If that is the case where is the light sensor on the SGS3? I looked around a bit but didn't find the same kind of sensor location breakdown for the SGS3. I JUST KNOW hovering works/swiping works on the SGS3 and I think I remember the Samsung event actually making a comment it would work on the SGS3 as well.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] barondebxl:
It's cool. Ok but according to the Samsung sensors pic, the gesture sensor is on the right and the proximity one is on the left.

edit: my bad, the proximity is also on the right.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RockRatt:
Looks like the SGS3 has the light sensor (rgb) and proximity sensor. So this would mean on the SGS4 they moved around the sensor locations and added the gesture sensor. View attachment 1883633
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vijai2011:
Must say at this point,it is difficult to break sammy conspiracy untill someone knowledgable breaks the sensors apart ;)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] barondebxl:
True lol. I was just about to write some kind of explanation but it didn't sound like I was going to make sense. I'll search it and share it :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] salil.bajaj:
It's absolutely hardware related,no doubt.

It uses the a special sensor to grab the gestures!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vijai2011:
Proof?After reading the whole story,Its not so nice to come back to the starting point.Nothing could be said by normal users until someone cracks open the sensors in s4 and explain them.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] __NBH__:
It looks like other apps sense how many times you wave across the sensor and perform the action you set. The S4 knows if you are waving left or right so its doing something differently.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTRagnarok:
I don't see where the confusion is. The S3 has two sensors on the right. One is an ambient light sensor for the auto-brightness. The other is the proximity sensor. Both of these are standard sensors found on smartphones.

The S4 has both of those + a new Gestures sensor. The light sensor is now on the left side of the speaker. It's also more advanced and can detect different colors of light so it can not only automatically adjust brightness but also things like saturation. On the right side of the speaker is the standard proximity sensor and the new Gestures sensor. They both use IR, so I would assume the Gestures sensor's IR extends out further. .
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vijai2011:
Well...still I dont know if there is a gesture sensor and I wont say there is no gesture sensor boldly.But I think you could also use proxmity sensor for this like,if the finger is on left of proximity sensor,chances are that only partial ir light on left is reflected and if on right partial ir light on right is reflected.So you could practically judge which the finger is swiped.

But in this case It can be hingly in accurate because the light can be real straight line like laser or else the reflected ir light would spread out and fill the whole sensor instead of partial.Also you could use camera but its more impractical and power hungry
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MRBR7:
After flashing a couple of Roms I found my recovery i made of the stock Rom now says android is updating everytime i turn it on.

are using TWRP and wiped Davlec cashe but now restart and upgrading again..

started with about 43 updates and this time after davlesc reset is 80 updates..

Ive only ever seen this when installing Gapps to a new build it does it once..

This recovery never had Gapps on it and shouldnt be doing this?

Ive searched but cant find specific advice on the S3..

Anybody can help?

Thanks..
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zelendel:
This is because your cache is being rebuilt on every reboot. Most likely from restoring a stock rom after using custom roms. This is never a good idea. If you need to return to stock you should do it by Odin. Stock roms do not back up/restore properly.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Glebun:
so this only happens after you wipe Dalvik? That's what's supposed to happen
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MRBR7:
No its been doing it every time i turn phone on for ages.

Just i read somewhere to wipe davlec should fix it.but then doubled the amount of updates after...

anyway i think will re flash rom from odin again should be better.

was just wondering if there was something simple i didnt do..but i guess its cause i came from non stock rom before..

Thanks for answers..
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slaphead20:
Are you sure that somewhere in twrp settings or anywhere else that you haven't set the device to wipe dalvik on each boot?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] freddy1991:
Did you delete some odex files from your system/app
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zelendel:
This has nothing to do with the issue. The issue is that the delvic cache is being deleted on reboot. A full wipe and reflash should fix him/her right up.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xtjx09:
Hello, first time poster, but i've been a reader for quite a while here.

My problem is one that I have seen before, but links are expired... I have no MMS on my Zip from Straight Talk. From the forums, I deem the problem to be that I deleted the stock messaging app, which is APK for that is impossible to find on the web, I tried.

Would someone be able to upload the stock app, and kinda walk me through the permissions to getting my MMS back? I'm running Android version 2.3.4 if that helps.

I really appreciate it.

*update* I did get what I believe to be the correct MMS.apk into the system/apps folder, and I believe the permissions are correct, but it still will not let me install...
[General Topics] zander145:
So first impressions are is is SUPER smooth, fits very well in my hand, and even in my pocket.
[General Topics] zelendel:
Ok and this provides what to the Developmental community? Not much of first thoughts and a screen shot of a benchmark score that doesnt mean alot?
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tanishque italia:
Unlike aokp cm9 doesn't have the option to disable volume adjust sound :(

Want to disable !

ANY SOLUTIONS?

THANKS IN ADVANCED! :D:p:)
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oldslowdiver:
Maybe did you mean this?

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=30725155&postcount=2
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tanishque italia:
No:(..but thanks :D
[Optimus One, P500, V Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VavanL:
Maybe this will help you
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] Ze3rL:
I was just wondering if anyone dropped their phone SGY as much as I did....:laugh:

Share which one was the most devastating throw....
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] sanny5:
No ot in general pleez

This place is for useful guides and discussions

Wat u posted should go in ot or on Facebook

Thread reported

Find some work to do :sly:

Added- too lazy to report :P

SOMEONE report :D

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[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] dnzdeniz:
I dropped my galaxy like 8 times and sometimes (like 3) just dropped from high lenght... But, this phone is special with his case because i never saw a crack or something on my phone :cool:

Sent from my mind...
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] deathnotice01:
4 times,

anyways,

this should be in general not Q/A
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] sanny5:
It is in generel :eek:

And it shouldnt be there :eek:

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