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[Sony Xperia ZL] dmeerpa:
Hi

After 3 weeks I got this annoying problem. The external plastic layer that makes the cover mat is peeling off my phone on both sides (front and rear).

I brought it back to the store (Phone House Germany).

For me it's just a production problem, the glue that is detaching.

But the shop pretend it's my fault, and doesn't want to repair it for free, neither change the phone.

The are asking 335,72 EUR to repair it.

When the problem occurred I also had several reboots and sometimes the phone was very.

Both phenomena occurs even when not using the phone. I had reboots at night when sleeping. Or the phone became very hot in my pocket.

My suspicion is that the glue is detaching due to the phone becoming to hot.

My question is, are there other people who also have the problem with the cover that begins to peel off ?

In attachment you can see a photo of the cover.
[Sony Xperia ZL] kickthefreak:
i didnt find any issue because my XZL is white,

why its your fault man ? i think that is product defect.

can you give more picture, front side.
[Sony Xperia ZL] dmeerpa:
That's what I'm asking the Phone House, prove me that it's my fault (the have to due to article 5 point 3 from the Directive 1999/44/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 May 1999 on certain aspects of the sale of consumer goods and associated guarantees).

Article 5

3. Unless proved otherwise, any lack of conformity which becomes apparent within six months of delivery of the goods shall be presumed to have existed at the time of delivery unless this presumption is incompatible with the nature of the goods or the nature of the lack of conformity.

But I can not send any more pictures. My phone is already since 18-5-2013 at the phone house (repair center w-support.com GmbH).
[Sony Xperia ZL] Sirence:
I've seen this before and I think phone house has too, that might be why they don't want to repair it. This happens if you get some cleaning agents on the phone. Some window/glass cleaner does this. You either got some on your phone directly, touched your phone with some on your hands or put the phone on a surface that has just been cleaned with some.

A friend had this problem and also send the phone back. Either way, the seller has not to pay for repair.
[Sony Xperia ZL] kickthefreak:
oh i see this is why the problem happen on black version, because white version is flat on the back and made by plastic :eek:
[Sony Xperia ZL] Sirence:
I'm just a bit confused since he said it's peeling of at the front and the back. My front is made completely out of glass, I don't see what could peel of there?
[Sony Xperia ZL] kickthefreak:
maybe he mean peel off the screenguard on front.
[Sony Xperia ZL] A320232:
Don't give up. It's definitely not your fault. Do you have authorized SONY service centers in Germany? Here in India, we have them, although the staff over there are incompetent and pathetic. We go directly to the service centers to get the faults corrected. If they are really hell bent on proving that it's your fault then head to the consumer forums and lodge a case against them. This is unacceptable. Btw, does it look that way only when you view from one particular angle?
[Sony Xperia ZL] danieldp1990:
wow its the first time i see that on a phone, if u said that it happens when it gets hot, it can be a battery problem as your phone is restarting. dude that really sucks, now that i saw that i wont change my white ZL to the black ZL..... dont give up SONY must replace your phone.
[Sony Xperia ZL] Sirence:
Neither Sony nor phonehouse has to pay when someone gets chemicals on their phone. And those picture sure looks like he did. Maybe he even cleaned his phone with some cleaning agents since it's not only one spot but several. Getting worse when hot could be a reaction of the chemicals in the cleaning agents.

I am sure most phones don't react well to chemicals.

If Sony has to start paying when people don't treat their phone the right way they'll have to stop selling phones at all pretty soon or they'll end up broke.
[Sony Xperia ZL] dmeerpa:
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No I didn't touch any cleaning products at all. Not at home or to clean the phone.

The problem started during my vacation. I was at a hotel where I do not have to clean or work.

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No not at all, its really a very tine film that's glued on the plastic cover at the back and front of the phone.

In front I mean the very fine edge around the screen. It's not really visible but I can feel it, that's it became rough.

It's from every angle visible. The black cover is in fact very glossy. It seems covered with a very thin plastic film to rend the cover matte.

It's that film that came lose. Every where that it has been removed the phone is now glossy black. The glossy black plastic looks very cheap :(
[Sony Xperia ZL] danieldp1990:
well if its my phone and sony dont want to replace/fix that i would take off all that plastic or buy a black housing. and just replace the back part.
[Sony Xperia ZL] dmeerpa:
After 4 months I got my phone back...but still not repaired. The way I was treated by The Phone House has made it for me a matter of principe.

They keep saying the damage was my fault.

Following article 5 point 3 of 'Directive 1999/44/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 May 1999 on certain aspects of the sale of consumer goods and associated guarantees ', they need to prove it. During this 4 monts they never did. They send me away with a lettre coming from Sony Xperia Support Germany where they state that they damage was caused by a cleaning product or other chemical.

If they think in German that Belgian are stupid, then they are wrong. I studied industrial informatics and I did had courses in physics and chemistry also. So I know that you need special and expensive equipment en products to conclude such thing. They didn't even look at they extreem heating problem of the phone. That may be an software issue, but the phone should be shut off before it becomes burning hot.

But I got one luck, my professional client is the Belgian Federal Police. I already contacted yesterday some of my relations at the police and monday he will look if the cover can be investigate by a forensic team of the federal judicial police. In that case I will be able to prove Sony and the Phone House that no chemicals where found on the cover. And that they were lying. And in that case I will let them sue for fraud.
[Sony Xperia ZL] iggut:
That is one weird problem. I have had my phone for over 5 months without any cases or screen protectors and it is scratch free and not peeling.

...did you spill caustic acid all over it?

Joking aside might be a manufacturing defect as from the 3 people I know that have had this phone for a couple months without these issues.
[Micromax A110] gaurav247star:
CANVAS 4 BOOT ANIMATION WORKING FINALLY WITH AUDIO ..

HERE ARE THE INSTRUCTION :confused:

DOWNLOAD BOTH THE FILES BOOT ANIMATION AND AUDIO

1. COPY BOTH FILES (BOOT ANIMATION AND AUDIO) IN SYSTEM / MEDIA

USING ROOT EXPLORER ..

JUST THAT'S IT VOILA NOW CANVAS 4 BOOT ANIMATION AND AUDIO ROLLING OUT IN YOUR CANVAS 2 :laugh: :laugh::victory:

HERE ARE THE LINKS

CANVAS 4 bootanimation.zip

http://d-h.st/sIT

CANVAS 4 bootaudio.mp3

d-h.st/ZVx

PS. IT IS CHECKED BY ME IT IS WORKING FINE.. NOTE IT IS NOT A CWM FILE.. ;) :good:

:D :cowboy: :o ;) :cyclops: :good: :laugh: :victory: :cool: :p :good: :good: :good:
[Micromax A110] Matthew_Farrell:
This works fine but the animation and the sound are completely out of sync.
[Micromax A110] gaurav247star:
buddy i think that's micromaxs' fault . both animation and audio are original no editing...

m glad that it worked for you
[Micromax A110] Sam Solomon:
Bro,Where is my Credit for porting it? Its extracted version of my CWM Patch :silly:
[Micromax A110] gaurav247star:
lol sorry missed it
[Micromax A110] Atharkhan101:
Links not working.

Can you please provide me the Original boot files of Canvas 4 as in my case, the audio and animation wont go together like 5 sec delay.
[HTC One X+] alex5213:
I have an AT&T unlocked htc one x+ that i want to use with prepaid T-Mobile sim card, do i need to change the original AT&T Rom that comes with my phone to be able to use it with T-Mobile or i need to change only the APN settings ?

In case that i need to change the Rom which one do you recommend for T-Mobile to use LTE speeds ?
[General Topics] tashik19:
This is for the first time, a camera which can record 720p video in cm10! This is the best camera for cm10. It takes photo as well as video. Photo quality is also very good! :cool:

This camera has been ported from LG camera! :D :D

Download the file & flash it from CWM. :cool:

Enjoy all!! :laugh:
[General Topics] antooonn:
Thank you!! :D
[General Topics] khalisz:
Good video, it's incredible. :victory:
[General Topics] bbrad:
*face palm* Cm10 records 720p just fine if you can't its your rom specific dude.
[General Topics] phatmanxxl:
Anybody flash this yet? I'll wait on it.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] TenKoX:
Hi guys,

Could someone tell me the detailed score (RAM, 2D, 3D graphics...) of the Ehndroix ROM (for the Samsung Galaxy S Plus i9001) with Antutu Benchmark?

Thank you!!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] mrjraider:
Flash and try for yourself :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] :
You could ask for that in the right thread of the Ehndroix version you want to know it for.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ou812bkewl:
CAUTION! Do not attempt to apply this package to a GS4 running any other firmware version than MF3. Doing so causes a brick that cannot be recovered from yet.

This is a resurrection package for Odin3 which is meant to restore an AT&T SGH-I337 to a working state after installing the OTA for I337UCUAMF3 and reinitializing/downgrading with Kies afterward. This causes the "PC--> triangle---> Phone" download mode boot loop. This condition cannot be recovered using Kies at the time of this posting.

This is shared "AS-IS" for those of us who just want a phone that works again and in no way makes me or anyone else responsible for what could happen when using Odin. It's a risky business.

1 - Go here to download and install 7zip: http://www.7-zip.org/

2 - Make sure that you have the latest samsung drivers installed for the SGH-I337 for AT&T

3 - Download "Odin307.zip" and "MF3_BTL_FIX.7z" attached to this post and unzip them

4 - In the "Odin307" folder that you just unzipped, open "Odin3.ini" in Notepad

5 - Change ONLY the value for "PhoneBootUpdate" from "0k" to a "1" making it "PhoneBootUpdate=1", save and close.

6 - Run "Odin3 v3.07.exe" and place "MF3_BTL_FIX.tar.md5" in the "PDA" slot.

You should see this in the white box at the lower left corner:

Enter CS for MD5..

Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..

Please wait..

MF3_BTL_FIX.tar.md5 is valid.

Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..

Leave CS..

If it fails the MD5 check, DO NOT continue. Delete the ".md5" file and the 7z archive, download the fix again, unzip, and restart from step 6.

7 - Use the three button combo (VOL-, HOME, and PWR buttons, then VOL+ at the first screen) to get into download mode.

8 - Place your phone (and laptop if your using one for this) on a table so that you won't be compelled to move anything during the next step.

9 - Plug in the USB cable to your computer and GS4. You should see a Com port display in the top portion of the Odin3 window. You might have to wait a few seconds for automated driver install before seeing the Com port come up.

10 - Click "Start" and calmly tip toe away from the keyboard. This process should take 20 seconds or so, then the phone will reboot into the Samsung swirly boot animation.

This process was done on a laptop with Win 7 64bit using the Samsung drivers installed along with the latest version of Kies.

The boot loader files come from the posted CFG file in this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2357039

The boot loaders were packed and hashed with a script program called "TAR.MD5_PACKAGER".

This package includes the following boot loaders from the OTA:

aboot.mbn

rpm.mbn

sbl2.mbn

sbl3.mbn

tz.mbn

The Odin zip is from AdamOutlers Odin stock thread.

Update: No package changes whatsoever, just an update on recent findings. Apparently, this package also works in the case that TWRP recovery is accidentally flashed too. I have no idea why. See here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=46075550
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] circasurvives:
OMG!!!

YOU'RE A F*CKING GENIUS!!!!!!! How did you figure it out?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ou812bkewl:
Takes one to know one! :D

In my research into this, I found this post: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=43485829 which pointed me I'm the direction of this Qfuse boot loader security feature. As long as this "Qfuse" value is greater than or equal to the boot loader currently on the device, the boot loader won't lock down and cause a halt during the boot loader part of the flashing. If you tried to downgrade with Odin 3.07, it doesn't flash boot loaders unless the ini file is edited.

So, when the boot loader halts with an Odin flash nothing has yet been partially flashed, hence three isn't an emergency download mode screen.

In Kies, however, it seems that the flashing process begins before this Qfuse check is done, causing what remains of the boot loader to detect that a partial flash has occurred. But it can't be corrected because the Qfuse security feature isn't ever disabled, and Kies's firmware serves haven't been brought up to match the current OTA version.

The process here is the only way to recover from this specific situation. It's only the boot loaders that are messed up.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] scott14719:
Do you think the same procedure can be done to the stock AMDL firmware TAR to change it so ODIN will then load AMDL back onto phones that currently have MF3 without failing? I am not on MF3 and don't plan to any time soon so I can not test it.

If it works, people that took the MF3 update, or those who will soon be getting phones with it preinstalled can do this edit to the AMDL firmware TAR and then ODIN AMDL back to their phones to apply root and LOKI.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Slade8525:
i equate MF3 to AIDS.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ou812bkewl:
You'd have to pull what pieces of each tar.md5 file you want out, then add all the pieces back together to a tar and re-hash it to an md5. That would be the simple part, thanks to the tool I used to make the tar.md5 I'm the OP.

The $500 question that remains is once you flash all this, would it boot? If it didn't, would you even be able to get to download mode again? If just flashing a previous boot loader through official channels caused the headaches I've had this week, I would expect that anything Frankenstein'd from different ROMs probably wouldn't boot. I would try it out if I had a JTAG box or another phone to take this one's place, but I don't.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] scott14719:
I'm hoping someone with a JTAG box will try this. Of course, I am just speculating, but I am wondering if the reason (and maybe only reason) that ODIN will not flash the AMDL firmware to a phone with the MF3 firmware is because the checks (the part of the file you modified in the MF3) didn't match the parameters of the MF3 restrictions. In other words, modifying the same part of the AMDL TAR as you modified in the MF3 file might trick ODIN into thinking the AMDL firmware meets the requirements that the MF3 OTA met.

But yea, it could be risky because if their are additional checks with the bootloader itself it will most certainly fail the chain of trust. But the question becomes is the chain of trust in the boot loader what is causing ODIN to fail in the first place.

And then, if AMDL can be successfully reflashed to the phone will the blown Qfuse allow it to function or will the overwriting of the MF3 aboot back to the AMDL aboot not be effected by the Qfuse? I would speculate the Qfuse will still prevent proper function, but I really can't be certain.

So........WOW!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Aou:
I'm basically going to be forced to test this out next week. My sbl2 and sbl3 are at MF3, whereas everything else is MDL. I'm thinking that the files needed to restore the bootloader via JTAG are likely based on MDL (or MDB), so we shall see if my device will boot with these new bootloaders, whatever version they are.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ou812bkewl:
The only files flashed with this are listed at the bottom of the OP and are all extracted from the MF3 update cfg file posted in the Updare thread. Of course, there are more files that are left untouched, so it really depends on what boot loaders you had to begin with before MF3. Good luck with the flash and I hope all goes well. It was actually one of your posts from the last couple days that got me thinking about how to put this together.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] runbuh:
THANK YOU!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] LordGeek:
ou812bkewl

DUDE .. YOU ARE A GOD .. THANK YOU. This fixed my phone :victory:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ou812bkewl:
I'm glad this helped.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] AdamOutler:
If you switch from 7z to GZ format, you can skip some of these steps. Odin supports the Gzip standard. instead of tar.md5.7z, just make a tar.md5.gz

zip MF3_BTL_FIX.tar.md5 -c -v > MF3_BTL_FIX.tar.md5.gz;

You can find more in this guide: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2082951
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] kbatrph:
verizon version?

anybody working on a Verizon version of this?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] phobia09:
Thank you so much for this, I was worried that I was gonna have to send it in for warranty. Saved me tons of time, money, and hassle.:good:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] chrisxrussell:
THANK YOU!!!!

Thank you soo much!!!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] lilmikey201:
thank youuu!

now is there any way to odin back to stock because my phone and messaging keeps force closing so my phone is just like a tablet now but freezes every 2 seconds from the popup lol
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ou812bkewl:
Currently, there is no method found to Odin back to stock because Kies hasn't yet been updated to provide the full MF3 update. We just have the OTA. A hard reset should solve your force close problems.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] Ricardin:
LMAO!!! :good:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] lilmikey201:
oh ok i guess ill try that

UPDATE

nope that didnt work
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] kahaips:
Saved my life!

Thanks. Couldn't have done it without this :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] TornSack:
Very helpful

Thanks!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ou812bkewl:
Just as a reminder, this package is for MF3 ONLY. Make sure that you had MF3 on your system firmware before proceeding. Flashing this on any version other than MF3 causes a brick that is unrecoverable until Kies provides the full system update for MF3.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] reddcode:
You guys are genius! Thank you!!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ashamsu:
Dear Member.........

thanks.............
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] afpfelipe84:
Dear experts,

I bought a I337 on ebay, I'm from Colombia, the device came with Fw MDL but it had some incompatibility problems with my carrier TIGO (1900Mhz band) so this device only supports GSM (EDGE) data transfer, I tried using the method for enabling the AWS bands but it did not work, later accidentally I pressed the software update on my device so now I have the MF3 update loaded on my device.

Later I found that changing the modem of the device I could maybe use the H+ data transfer, but now I see my device is stucked in MF3 so I can not load any different modem in the device.

I would ask the experts to help me to find a way to unlock the bootloader to let me flash a different modem to see if I can enable the using of H+ data transfer.

It sucks my device is 4G running a 2G data transfer.

Thanks experts!!!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] KingKwentyne:
Thank you sir on behalf of a friend who had soft bricked his phone!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ddix585:
Mf3 update

hello, i had my att galaxy s4 rooted and running a custom recovery and rom. unfortunately i had to do a warranty exchange on my phone and when i got the new one it came with the mf3 update. i tried to root using the motochopper like notmal and dint work. i did some reading on here ans saw the bootloader was again locked with the update. later i was reading some forums and saw how to root the mf3 but not able to flash recovery or roms so i have a stock rooted s4. my question is, is this post saying if people do have the mf3 update and follow the instruction, will we be able to flash again? if so please point me in the direction of who figured this out so i can send a nice donation!!!!!!:good:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ou812bkewl:
Nope. At the moment, there isn't an exploit found that allows anyone to flash any previous versions of official ROMs, any custom ROMs, kernels, or recoveries on a device after MF3 boatloaders are flashed. As of now, only root exploits have been found. I made this Odin package to resolve a very specific kind of semi-hardbrick.

In the event that you attempt a firmware re-initialization in Kies without having your device plugged into USB, you will be asked for the model and a number printed on the inside of the battery chamber of the device. Upon entering that, Kies will display a message showing that MDL can be re-initialized. The process will fail right at the beginning and you end up with only the option to boot to normal download mode or a error screen download mode.

This happens because Kies's firmware update servers do not have MF3 listed as the current ROM for the i337. There is a forum in the dev section which seems to restore the original recoveries when they get messed up. The one here, however, is ONLY for restoring functioning MF3 bootloaders.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] 5>4:
I (stupidly) tried to use Kies to restore my i337 with mf3 a while back, and your method saved me, or so I thought. I can now get into recovery, but it says no command, wiping the cache fails, and then it gets stuck on the AT&T logo. Is it worth trying your method again, or something at a higher level messed up so I am SOL until a kies update is made available?

Thanks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] ou812bkewl:
You are very welcome and I'm glad that this helped. With that said, you should understand that it is commonly considered bad etiquette to quote the entire OP for a thank you. The most courteous behavior would be to only quote the parts of the OP you have a question about. Thank-you's don't require quoting unless directed at a post other than the OP.

I'm not trying to be a jerk, but it just makes for a much more efficient thread. The more experienced devs/members really tend to like this and might even consider flaming you less often. :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 General] KingKwentyne:
I fully understand and appreciate the info.