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[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] LevsOG:
I understand and I take your advice for future reference :) after researching I seen a post from someone relating to my model and that I should try using Sony's Update Service software, not the PC Companion. I followed on screen instructions and my device is now back up and running running on 4.0.4 (sorry if I called it jellybean I am clearly senseless). Everything is working perfectly fine apart from the wi-fi, there is a widget on the homescreen which allows you to turn off services like (data, sync, wi-fi, bluetooth etc etc.) and the wi-fi in the widget is turned on and looks as if it's scanning, when I go into the Settings, the on/off button for bluetooth is highlighted (allowing me to select it on/off) but above that is wi-fi, which is not highlighted, but when I select it, it then opens up and says 'turning on wi-fi' and just remains at that stage.

I kind of gather the water must of damaged the wi-fi component or I may be wrong, is there anything I can do?

Cheers.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] :
The phone might break a while after the water because of corrosion, u should put it in rice or open it up and clean it.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] LevsOG:
Thanks for your advice it's really appreciated :) I think the best we can do is find out if we are covered as this is a contract phone, I'm just worried they might turn round and say 'Well it's your fault, you dropped it in the water.' lol, but we'll see eh?

Thanks again!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] :
They wont fix it, youvwill have to pay to get it fixed. The water indicators is already messed up by the water and I bet it have staryed to get a bit weird inside too.
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vicuong909:
I've just flash the PAC rom. But I face a problem about facebook hmome. I installed Nova launcher and it works well. However, with FB home, the system doesnt recognise it as a launcher but a app. Any suggestion to solve this problem?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaanaysubar:
Hello mates Im using 2 kernels but I just want to use the siyah's kernel how can I delete other one ?

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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Glebun:
you are using one kernel. siyah
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Striatum_bdr:
You can't use two kernels. Impossible. Only one boot partition, and I've never heard of a dual boot with two different kernels. When you flash a kernel it replaces the actual one.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaanaysubar:
Ahh okay thanks :) it was wroting +pardus ... I thought so . Thanks anyway
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaanaysubar:
For what ?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
He means there is a thanks button you can press if you're so inclined
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaanaysubar:
lol :D
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaanaysubar:
Well , thank me for thanking you then lol :D

There is a button for that too ;) hahaha
[One (M7) General] trickyhenry:
Hey is anyone with a htc one willing to rub it all over (except the glass) with some steel wool or something similar? The beveled edge looks great and shiny...

What would the one look like?

Worth a go or has anyone got any insight into why it wouldn't be a good idea...
[One (M7) General] spmode:
That's an awesome idea, post pictures when you do it..
[One (M7) General] Nokiacrazi:
Video while you do it, stills before and after would be great OP, thanks :good:
[One (M7) General] ianford10:
Yeah I'll give it a go.

Oh hang on, just engaged my brain and thought why the hell would anyone do that to there super new £500 phone.

Seriously you get one try it and report back.
[One (M7) General] mr.r9:
Guys, can somebody place a torch for 5 minutes on the One for me?

OP, what in the world are you asking? NOBODY will do what you requested.
[One (M7) General] scotcruz:
I had to read this post twice.. lol :D

Why don't you rub it and let us know how you get on
[One (M7) General] ryanp1983:
Hi guys, would anyone mind running their one over with a car just to see how flat it could go?

Worth a go or has anyone any insight into why it might not be a good idea?
[One (M7) General] honorstudent:
i wanna see that too. ahahaha! i remember someone did that on the htc sensation before. i just dont know if its worth it on htc one. :laugh:
[One (M7) General] Angandi:
I could not imagine that it looks good, you would never get it like the edge I think ...
[One (M7) General] jayquinten510:
It would look brushed, but matte instead of shiny I reckon
[One (M7) General] backfromthestorm:
Come back in a couple of years and they'll all look like that.
[One (M7) General] hlenforcer:
if you make it right, it will look like this:

Desire HD polished to chrome design
[One (M7) General] spiderjerusalem:
It probably isn't a terrible idea if you like the shiny look. I love the way my one looks now but if it were scratched up at all i would give it a shot.
[One (M7) General] Riyal:
I may not be familiar with this but on a personal POV. I don't like it :D It looks like one of those brandless china phones I see
[One (M7) General] Hunt3r.j2:
Hey is anyone with a htc one willing to rub it all over (and the glass) with some sandpaper or something similar? The beveled edge looks great and shiny...

What would the one look like?

Worth a go or has anyone got any insight into why it wouldn't be a good idea...
[One (M7) General] CiDhed:
If you could take it apart you could make it look pretty good with a small DA and this.
[One (M7) General] ferincr:
If with this finish scratches up how long do you think it would last without scratches if it's polished to a mirror finish? ;)
[One (M7) General] FastPete:
I wouldn't run wire wool over my £300 car with, let alone my One!
[One (M7) General] whmcal:
Maybe try it on a demo model in-store. Let us know how you get on

Currently interchangeably using HTC One, BBZ10 and Note 2
[One (M7) General] CiDhed:
All you would have to do is buff the scratch back out. That is the great thing about metal.
[One (M7) General] bgdwiepp:
On an ipod I did a similar thing to this;

You use 2000-3000 grit sandpaper and brush in only one direction, you tape out the pattern before hand.
[One (M7) General] coupetastic-droid:
Damn! What Ipad is that? Looks as thick as a damn book lol. Nice job on it though.
[One (M7) General] nerdAFK:
Not with the steel wool though

I polished my Sensation, and it looks fantastic.

Following the instructions offered by “WhiteSites” on"http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1184568" and "http://blog.whitesites.com/HTC-Sensation-4G-Chrome-Polished-Frame__634471425817343750_blog.htm"

Sandpaper and metal polish cream are needed.

I guess the ONE should be even more gorgeous after being polished :cool:
[One (M7) General] spitfire2425:
Could someone take a blowtorch to an HTC one then shoot some bottle rockets and other assorted fireworks at it and tell me how it looks? I bet it would look awesome.
[One (M7) General] trickyhenry:
Best idea yet.... Might be worth a try :)
[One (M7) General] whmcal:
hows about wet 1200 sand paper for repairs?!

Had some irritating and ugly dents in top right and bottom left corner (edging and speaker facing) after phone fell flat on face onto concrete during first week of ownership nearly 2 months ago (see photo 1). I didnt use wired wool but 1200 wet sand paper to smooth down the aluminium sides and remove the majority of dents. As you will see from pics 2 to 4, it has improved with imo, not much of original edge design being compromised.
[One (M7) General] omar302:
Did you sand the chamfered edges only? or also the front (speaker side)?
[One (M7) General] whmcal:
Chamfered edges mostly but also sanded edge of front - speaker (as three small chips were visible there -top right corner). After sanding and buffing, you have to be looking closely for a difference to see any difference :)

I suspect finer sandpaper would have done an even better job though.

Currently interchangeably using HTC One, BBZ10 and Note 2
[One (M7) General] nerdAFK:
Dude it is an iPod:cool:
[One (M7) General] coupetastic-droid:
Lol my bad. I thought I read iPad. And the way the pic was taken, makes it look big.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slyviper1700:
Is it possible to increase the power output from the xperia z micro USB port so that it can power an external hard drive and USB 3 pen drives via an otg cable. Any help will be appreciated.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Maddhouse:
Some laptops cant even power a external HDD they need aux power supply so on that then no, to power the whole lot is out of the question, phone will become to hot and battery with shoot down best way it to use a powered usb hub i think
[MDA, XDA, 1010 Software Upgrading] cbr654:
Hello All,

Pleas help. I am unable to upgrade my radio stack currently A20.10 to T-Mobile 6.24. I get the following error:

ERROR: GetConnectionType - An existing connection was forcibly closed by the rem

ote host.

error getting connectiontype

BTW. I am not able to access the BOOTLOADER!! I also tried using XDA Tools to fix but it did not work. I get the follwing error:

C:\Program Files\XDAtools\binaries>bootloaderfix.bat

C:\Program Files\XDAtools\binaries>pnewbootloader bootloader_v5_15.nb0

'C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.

ERROR: ITReadProcessMemory - Unspecified error

Unable to find flash info offset, cannot disable bootloader writeprotect

C:\Program Files\XDAtools\binaries>

PLEASE HELP SOMEONE.

THANKS!!!!
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aanon03:
Short version first: I am trying to use the "back to stock" feature of Nexus Root Toolkit to flash a factory ROM to a soft-bricked Nexus 4. I get to a Window that says it is "booting up your freshly flashed stock device" but then nothing at all happens.

Longer story:

Today I used the Nexus Root Toolkit (NRT) to unlock and root my Nexus 4. NRT is great software and helped me through all the stages.

After I rooted successfully and restored my apps etc, I tried using an app called custom android font switcher to achieve some language related aims (installing Khmer font). Anyway, straight after that the phone restarted and I have been stuck at the X logo ever since (hours).

Now I've gone back to NRT to try and use its "back to stock" feature to recover my soft-bricked device. My phone is in bootloader mode. I have downloaded the appropriate factory image direct from google, pointed NRT to this. It gets past the next stage (hashcheck). Then it say please be patient while your file is extracted. Then it says checking fastboot status and finds the device connected. Then I press OK to flash the device. It opens a new command window titled "flashstock.bat" that says it is "booting up your freshly flashed stock device, be patient etc. However, nothing else happens either with this window or at the phone. There is no further action, even after 20-30mins. I've tried this several times.

Can anyone suggest anything I could do to help the process complete? Should NRT work for a Nexus 4, or do I have to look instead at adb / fastboot?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aanon03:
Found solution

Found solution, feel silly but am posting it here in case it helps someone else:

The factory image file I had downloaded from Google should have had a .TGZ extension but had been saved with a .TAR extension by my download manager (Internet Download Manager).

When I renamed the file, the process completed successfully. I can only assume that NRT "thought" it could unzip the TAR file, but could not actually extract any content out of it.

All the best.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mariosraptor:
Install adb in your pc and learn how to use fastboot commands.

It is easy and safe to mess with your phone and future android phones you might buy.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eqjunkie829:
All you really needed to do was fastboot flash the system img. The font you flashed was installed there, then wipe cache and reboot.

Sent from my Nexus 4 using Xparent Cyan Tapatalk 2
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bubu23:
whssssup!!!

i see friends with galaxy 3 the gui and the touch so smooth

why our phone is not smooth but always little laggy?

is it the rom?

or the gui?:(
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alexp999:
Nearly every phone I have had is laggy at the start. Give it a few updates and it should iron most of it out.

It also depends what you are comparing on eeach device, what is running in the background and how demanding the widgets are on the home screens.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Akiainavas:
After over 2 months with the phone.... what lag ? Seriously, what lag ? And it's not a sarcasm or anything, I have honestly never noticed any lags on my phone - I am using just one widget and less than 10 icons though
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] G1_enthusiast:
probably the rom...S3 lag too when it first came out.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ogzon:
I am using Xperia Z now more than month.. And I came here exactly for that reason and to see does anyone else have similar problems.. Switching trough screens, launching apps - it's all more less OK.. But I have terrible (and I mean TERRIBLE) lag in keyboard.. It is soooo annoying !!! Anyone else have similar problem and do you guys have any solution for that ?

Thanks
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shadowboy23:
With the keyboard I only get lag when typing a reply in forums. But other than that I don't get lag.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xchasa:
What he said...
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] decadan1977:
No lag here. This is a case of what the user has running on his phone. What background apps is running.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nazrin313:
The only lag i get is when switching between home screen albeit very minor thou and not enough to be annoying. Thou, i have like 5 pages filled with widgets and apps folders
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slyviper1700:
I never get lag on the homescreen. I only get lag on some apps not optimized for the xperia z
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ligerblitz:
I'm not getting any lag at all. Been a month I've had this phone.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bubu23:
first thx all for replay :)

second:i see that not all the people know what is lag,i show to my friend today the features with lag and he told me its not lag.

strang....

anyway for those who got lag i try the doom kernel with 1836 max and 384 min with govenor interactive and its way better :o

the batt life suck but i can handle that .
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soulzero:
Coming from a S3 and S3 4G I can say this phone is definitely faster.. Less lag..

It's your background processes I think.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bubu23:
what backup process?when i press to see what in my process the square down the phone nothing running everything cleaned
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ogzon:
Not backup - background process.. :)

Same story here.. Everything is closed but my keyboard is unbelievably slow.. I am Samsung user (Galaxy S, S2, S3, Note2) and this is my first Sony device.. I never had any problems like this on Samsung.. I really want to like this phone but I don't understand why such lag.. :(

Battery life is also bad (specially for me after Note 2) but I can live with that.. But having phone which I paid 600 eur and having to ask people to write me on my other number (on iPhone) so I could normally type on Viber and others..Just bad..

PS.

I don't have too much apps installed.. Everything is on stock.. I just rooted phone and that's all..
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xchasa:
Coming from a galaxy s 3 32gig, Xperia Z is way faster, has not had one random reboot or freeze in 4 weeks and has absolutely no lag... homescreen is also smooth.

13-14 hrs between charges with always 4-4.5hrs screen on time used, quite heavy daily use.

The ONLY lag I ever see is opening camera for the first time. A known issue but I can live with waiting 2 - 3 seconds for that.

UK 434 stock, rooted in Australia.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Andrewtst:
I am assure Xperia Z is much smoother than S III as I am S III owner previously. Unless your friends S III is using CM, AOKP, AOSP ROM, then different talk, most phone run in CM, AOKP and AOSP is much smoother than stock ROM.

Some user report keyboard lag? I never had this issue at all.

I am picky on smooth animation, so I know what is lag. :) I cannot said Xperia Z extremely smooth, but it is far better than S III, that one is confirm.

The only slow is when opening Camera, this is slow when open, not lagging issue.

---------- Post added at 02:27 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:23 PM ----------

By the way, I just notice a small change at animation part can actually make the phone much more smoother in animation. :D

Go to Settings - Developer options.

Change the default value of Window animation scale & Animator duration scale both from 1x to .5x

Don't change Transition animation scale to .5x as this will make the animation too fast.

I am picky on animation, so I notice it. With above setting it actually faster a bit and shorten the animation duration, which will reduce noticeable by my picky eye notice on the not enough smooth animation when opening apps, especially opening the Phone from main page and also when pressing the home button to return to home from your last page at main launcher.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Yellow_Racing:
I only notice lag when calling from "call log". it seems to take forever from when I click on the contact to start dialing??
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 008bond:
I don't have this issue. But it's maybe because I frequently clear call log.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davitdavtyan@gmail.com:
Yesterday, I happen to use my friend's Xperia Z and had such a problem with lagging of home screen. And the apps page was slow and really I am not impressed with Xperia Z at all. My friend is willing to sell it as he paid so much money here in Israel and got such a phone whereas his iPhone 4 even has no any problems. I do not know what to say to him. I downloaded Nova launcher but it helped a little bit, still laggy.

p.s. I did cleaned up everything and no synchronization is on, nothing running in background ans so... I checked everything and it is strange...I do not like Sony now anymore. I insisted my friend to buy Sony but now he is so unsatisfied that I feel bad and cannot do anything about it. he put so much money that could buy new iPhone 5 without lagging and no problems.

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If you updated your phone Xperia Z to Android 4.2.2 than you are wrong with saying that it much smoother than S III. No way. I like Sense 5 UI generally and it is fastest and not laggy at all. But I can tell that TouchWiz is way better than Sony's UI.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nbell13:
It's the stock launcher, it's kind of buggy. Install the XZU/1 launcher floating around (called Xperia Launcher 3.0 or something like that, no root required) and it basically eliminates it. Nova and Apex have absolutely no lag at all, but some of the Sony widgets won't work with it (Walkman, Clocks, Weather, etc)
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Andrewtst:
I use in 4.2.2 before, Z still smoother than Samsung S III. The Samsung TouchWiz is smooth in Note II but not that S III international edition which only 1GB RAM that is not enough for TouchWiz.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davitdavtyan@gmail.com:
I realize what you mean but really for me S III is better in terms of being fast launcher. Sony Xperia Z launcher with Android 4.2.2 update sucks. Just check all internet - people talk how to get rid of Xperia Z launcher and put instead Xperia Z Ultra that does not lag.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] kaytar:
No display light, no notification light, no plastic bar keys light. Phone is fully working, but no light.

Please take a look at this picture.

Red arrow - that component is missing from the board.

Yellow arrow - that component is probably burned/broken... i don't know.

Green arrow - there are few tracks with paint exfoliated, but they are not discontinued.

White arrow - this is the flex wich connects the green point (exfoliated) with yellow point. I'm suspecting that the component was very hot and exfoliated the paint from the flex (light sensor) and the red arrow (black component) jumped out. Please open your phone cover and make some pictures with that two component, or if you know, please tell me their names and values. Thanks!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] a.demarco:
hey all, just joined the forum, been lurking for a while, trying to learn about the whole rooting process. i am still not 100% confident on the whole thing, but i am thinking about giving it a shot.

have had a few smart phones, all from t-mobile except for this last one, which is a samsung galaxy s3 from verizon, running android 4.1.2. i have watched a bunch of videos, and read a bunch of threads, but want to make sure i don't turn my phone into a brick by doing this, so i am asking here now.

if i follow the instructions in the video by officialphonerebel for the SCH-I535 will that give me root access? i tried to post a link to the video but since i am a new member the site won't allow me to do that. what else do i need to do in order to delete all the bloatware that comes pre-installed? do i need to unlock the bootloader? or will the process described in the video do that already?

thanks in advance from a dumb union plumber and pipe welder...

:good:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] a.demarco:
Ok, sorry about that, thanks for moving it.

However, you found the time to move my thread, but not to help me? Cool, thanks for that too.

:good:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jmxc23:
1.Does the video show you how to root from 4.1.2 jelly bean?

2. Yes you need to unlock the bootloader in order to flash anything.

3. Most custom ROMs have bloatware removed.

4. The only way to brick your phone is by flashing something meant for another device.

5. Kenny is a moderator so he doesn't really have to help you just moderate the forums which he did.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] SlimSnoopOS:
Kenny moves threads once they are reported so don't go subtly suggesting anything.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] a.demarco:
Thank you for the info. The video I watched said 4.1.2/4.1.1., so I am not sure if they require the same procedure or not.

So after I root the phone, I need to flash a custom ROM? I can't just run an unlocked stock version of 4.1.2?

Understood about the bricking, I will pay attention and read what I am flashing first to make sure it is for my device

This forum must run differently than other forums. I am a supermod over on a motorcycle racing website, and we need to be knowledgable about what we are moderating, and give advice and help the members, not just moderate.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] a.demarco:
I wasn't subtly suggesting anything. I think I was pretty straightfoward saying that in addition to moving my thread he could have helped me answer my questions.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ramdesai:
Follow the instructions in below post

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=35418324

This will give you rooted stock rom.

Thanks doesn't hurt....
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] flyestAC:
follow the directions in this thread >>>> http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2046439 and you will be rooted with an unlocked botloader and ready to flash.

from there you you can stay stock rooted and remove apps yourself. alot of people like titanium back up for that. or you can flash a touchwiz/samsung based ROM that has most if not all of the bloatware removed and allows to add what you want thru the installer at setup. you can find these ROMs in android development. or you can flash an AOSP (android open source project) ROM that is based off "pure google" with developer mods and preferences included. you can find these ROMs in original android development.

backup your phone. i use nandroid and nandroid manager but there are others that may work better for you. only flash stuff for vzw. have fun.