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[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dante501:
What software are u running? Still not 4.2.2? I am on almost 10 hours with screen being on 46% and still have 36% battery left. So I really don't understand how ppl get so bad battery life. I always thought the xperia z had excellent battery life.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DrKrFfXx:
Screen time?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreamville:
On 4.2.2 screen on time on the s4 was 6hr 20mins the last time I recorded...whats your on screen time? I normally get about 4hr30, maybe 5hours if I push it with set to low brightness but then you can't see the beauty of the display

EDIT: I should make myself more clear..I'm on 4.2.2 on xperia z and I get 4hr30mins screen on time with 30% brightness whereas I get 4hrs30mins on screen time on the s4 with 100% or if I set the s4 to 50% brightness I get 6hrs easy

Xperia Z Vanilla
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dante501:
Not to bad and still juice left so I should easy hit the 5 hour mark on screen time.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DrKrFfXx:
Not bad. I usually hit 5.5 to 6 hours undervolted and 30% brightness.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreamville:
See my edit above...what's your screen brightness set to? I think we have similar battery life tbh

Xperia Z Vanilla
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dante501:
That's my point. I always got really excellent battery life on my xperia z even better with 4.2.2
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DrKrFfXx:
This is the last time I kept track.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zunido:
Great design and features + water resistance = WIN!

Awesome phone, love the minimalistic design, the water resistance and overall features. Don't regret buying it at all!

Camera could be better, I have a bit of envy of the Lumia 1020 on that regard. I was a Nokia guy before buying my Xperia Z, I think the Z could have been a bit more rugged (the soft plastic in the corners is already a bit dented), my previous Nokias where tanks.

Other than that, bought it unlocked in hopes that I can load other OSs into it (e.g. sailfish or ubuntu) just for kicks. Future will tell if this will be possible.

A small sour point is that Sony is not supporting the unbranded UK Xperia Zs... so I'm now planning on flashing some other firmware.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dante501:
Well 6 hours is pretty decent so where is the issue? Also remember the battery is smaller in the xperia z and last pretty much as long as the s4 battery. So that means if the xperia would have the same size battery it would outdo the S4. I guess ppl always forget that the xperia z has a smaller battery.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Grozos:
I do because of the battery life..
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreamville:
Not true since you're comparing underclocked , 30% brightness to an s4 100% brightness stock firmware. how is that similar battery life? No way it would out do the s4. Android is just more optimised on s4

Xperia Z Vanilla
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DrKrFfXx:
I didn't ever mention it was similar.

But 100% is overkill if you ask me. Mom's level. They gave me this phone... Still has factory settings at 100% brightness.

I'm not saying I didn't wish for a couple of hours more of screen out of a charge, but I'm yet to find a day where I'm able to find the time to be browsing or doing stuff on the phone 8 plus hours out of the 16-17 hours I'm awake.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dante501:
Well I am on a stock 4.2.2 rom since I don't have my bootloader unlocked and of I get 6 hours roughly on a smaller battery and the s4 gets a little bit more on a bigger battery just imagine how much u get on the same size battery in a xperia z.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sea2605:
The Z has one extremly bad construction fail:

The backcover is only glued and nothing pushes it inwards...so after a while one of the corners on the back (often camera corner) comes off...and there goes the waterproofness... Happened to both of my Zs and I read a lot about others also having this issue... Its clearly a material/glue AND construction fail... I'm waiting for a petition to join...!

But all in all this phone is amazing tech wise and looks beautiful. That made me buy the second Z (first got waterdemaged because of this glued backcover...I only washed it, no diving...)... But I can already see the same corner lifting up...

Edit:

Btw I didn't and don't wash the second one...although waterproofness was a very great feature in my opinion and also made me buy this phones...
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreamville:
My comments wasn't towards you :)

Xperia Z Vanilla
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] genoboy:
Love my phone. Bt i cant seem to find someone who does rooting services for my phone hehe
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dante501:
Rooting is easy install a 4.2.2 rom and then use doomlord easy root.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rekoil:
Mate, what are you doing with your phone! Do you mean to say that you voluntarily put your phone under a stream of water

after

having discovered that the corner had lifted up? Take it to a store if this happens to your second XZ, this is obviously a manufacturing defect, even if it is a common one. (This isn't happening to mine, although I've only had it since the end of may)
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xchasa:
Never been more happy with a device..

Not only am I fully impressed with the phone, it's the first time I haven't been hanging out for some new release to come.

Best phone at present for my use.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AgtPower:
I live in Switzerland but the online Xperia support gave me an address in Aachen, where I wrote two letters without getting any response. Really disappointed here with Sony and if they leave me hanging here it'll be my last Sony product. I was happy with my Sony TV, DSLR and PS3 but this kind of product quality and support I cannot support.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dante501:
I contacted the Germany sony support online directly on there site online chat and they helped right away. I don't know what to tell u.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matticitt:
I do not regret buying this phone. I knew about all the downsides to this device before buying it and still decide to give it a try. Sure, screen is not as good as in HTC One, camera isn't as good as the one in SGS IV, but I still love other features and If you buy a dock for charging (as I did) those flaps are not an issue and waterproofing is really useful and I love it.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bengal:
For me, wi-fi connectivity sucks..

Verstuurd van mijn C6603 met Tapatalk
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shiftywicket:
I love it, have to say I love it.

I find the image quality could be better though this has improved with FV5 and Zoom FX
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] THUDUK:
Upgrading to 4.2.2 sorted this problem for me
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tomah:
No regrets....... until one of my friends got the HTC One, now I hate my phone.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shoey63:
No regrets. Couldn't give a shyte about HTC 1 or SGSIV
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stiffi2011:
I have regrets...now.

I was singing hte praises even in this very thread I believe. So many issues have me changing my mind, however.

The biggest is the SD memory failure. I had it once and lost pictures of my daughters birthday. That cannot be replaced. I have a new card and so far so good but I am always worried it will happen again. I am one who backs up weekly anyway, but in that one case where I had a failure I was in between backups.

The other issue is terrible Wifi. I lose connection in 1 room where almost all other phones could get a signal. I have an unlimited data plan but I'd rather use wifi when I'm home.

I have all but given up. I have a "mostly dead" (Princess Bride), lol Galaxy Note that I got cheaply. If I can revive it, I'll go back to it and sell the Xperia Z
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] venky716:
Unlock BL, PACMan, undervolt and they lived happily ever after ....
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bengal:
Phone like this should work properly right out of the box or at least after a first update..

Verstuurd van mijn C6603 met Tapatalk
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PNuT.:
google drive?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AgtPower:
So glad I had dropbox camera upload on when my Xperia Z fried my card
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rayenvs:
Same here. Thank god for dropbox. Still haven't had any issues so far.

Only thing I can't quite grasp is why some people think that the Z hasn't got the same value as the htc one , the s4 and some people even think that the iphone 4s and or 5 are better then tha Z.

Even the galaxy s3 is getting better praises than the Z
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nanohearted:
For me, I felt kind of like regret but it's not certainly because of Xperia Z. As I came from using iPhone 4, I honestly think that XZ cannot match to that period of iPhone 4 while there was no rival during its period. Nowadays, newer models of phones are coming out every month and so I think we should be just happy with what we are using right now.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dante501:
It's brand awareness. Everyone talks about iphone, s3, s4, htc one. No one about the sony even thought it is a great phone. Same with the LG 4x HD great device and gotten no love because it has not samsung or htc on it.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rayenvs:
Still think that people underestimate the sony phones. No other phone can be used to make underwater video's and or pictures. The only thing is the sound quality is not optimal.

Best phone I had so far and i had the s1,s2, s3 and note 2
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dante501:
Well there is the Samsung active s4 that also is able to make pictures and videos underwater.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AcoAlex:
From my experience over the XZ I just wanna say that its absolutely amazing & stunning beautiful :cool: Sony did well with the Z :cool: one thing i really would like if the Z had specs and build of the Z Ultra...god damnn that would have been the perfect victor :beer: peace-out all ;)

baby-bad-boy Xperia Z
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rayenvs:
Yes i know but that is a spinoff of the s4. The Z is the flagship of sony
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] colts187:
I agree the LG o4xhd was a great phone indeed.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DesertHawk:
I have no flaws with my phone. Love it
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abdopac:
No not at all ^_^
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lojak29:
I just got this phone today my first Sony phone coming from Samsung the whole operating of this device is just born to me it is not easy like touch with and it seems like flashing ROMs is not just a simple is downloading a zip in flashing recovery

I have a locked bootloader but I am rooted with TWRP so I am unsure if I can just simply download a rom and flash it like you would any other Samsung or HTC device with a locked bootloader
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] twiztidnutzzzzz:
Love the phone all around however if I would have known that tmo locked down the bootloader I would have probably got something else...

Everyone phone I've owned has been s-off. so I been having withdrawals :(
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skinsfanbdh:
+1 if i had known the bootloader was unlockable(or at least no dev willing to put in the work to unlock it even with someone paying $400 for a dev to do it) i would have kept my htc one. i never would have thought an android phone would be unlockable.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] glukasil:
I regret....in 3 days after I bought xperia z they announced zr....i need waterproofing more than anything else....otherwise great phone
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lojak29:
Phones good as gone..tomorrow'biggest regret yet...battery life is worse then...the cheapest metro pc's phone...

Keyboard sucks... Ui is ugly like LG.

Mainly this phone has terrible terrible battery issues. The only thing it has going for it looks pretty nice

Sony needs a lot of...time to...figure out phones and android.. before they compare to...HTC or galaxies

SONY Z EPic....Fail

No wonder you can't resell them...Noone wants one.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingvortex:
The people complaining about the non unlockable bootloader on the C6606 could have found that out before purchasing the phone with about 2 minutes research on the general section.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=43491278

That thread has been there for a month.

Also, blame T-Mobile for that in any case, as they would have been the ones to request that the bootloader was locked down.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] golfgtiedition30:
I completely agree. Before I got this phone I read through the forums here to find all the info I needed.

I discovered I can unlock my bootloader and root very easily and there were plenty of good roms to flash.

I previously owned a Samsung so Sony mobile was new to me. I find the XZ to be far superior to any Samsung in terms of build quality and looks.

Overall I love this phone and have no regrets at all.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] radlink14:
Returned mine for a zl , was super happy until voice issues came along. Returned for s4 and do not regret whatsoever.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] G1_enthusiast:
lol 2013 flashback

http://www.phonedog.com/2015/01/13/sony-reportedly-considering-sale-or-joint-venture-mobile-division

I did say this company was a POS
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingvortex:
What an awful article. Click bait based on half baked rumours and extrapolation from an article on Reuters that is itself based on more rumours from "sources" and opinions of people not connected with the business.

The only thing from the Reuters article that can be paid any credence is the comment from Kaz Hirai himself about running parts of the business with caution. A pretty standard comment when questioned on loss making divisions of any company. This doesn't mean any sale is imminent or likely.

You seem to have a bias against Sony for some reason, but it was a little unnecessary to bump a near 18 month old thread to post unsubstantiated rumours about the mobile division being sold in my opinion.

Be happy with whatever other device you moved on to and don't worry about the Z! :)

Sent from my C6603
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DastanShaikh:
No way to regret... It is Awesome phone....

If someone called flaps a messy problem... Use dock to charge your phone and bluetooth stereo headphones...

In my opinion it's best phone... :)
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmindset:
Nope. I love it
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Thewiruz:
Hello

I have seen a hack somewhere where the back button and the other two buttons are moved to the left side in Cm 10.1

Been searching the whole Internet.

Skickat från min GT-P5110 via Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eushaun99:
Its no hack my friend. Its somewhere in settings -> system -> navigation bar. You can change the positions if those buttons and add another button if you want.
[Design, Prototyping, UI, Graphics] Thoum:
Hi everybody!

I'm making my first multi-launcher theme, and actually trying to create my apk.

I saw a UI that perfectly fits with my expectations and that is used in a lot of themes apps. A lot of different developers use it so, i think it's a pre-created template or something like that.

Sadly, i don't manage to find it anywhere, searching with google search per picture, per words, on xda, etc...

So, does anyone know where it can be found or if it's not a pre-created UI (see attached file)?

Thanks in advance!

(french guy, trying to do my best in english, sorry for possible mistakes)
[Design, Prototyping, UI, Graphics] Faiz Malkani:
Hi

Are you referring to the Cards UI?

If so, that is super easy to implement.

Download this 9png and set it as the background of the view for which you want the Card style : http://db.tt/q7xTkXaX

Then, add an 8dip padding on all sides

That's it!

:)

Sent from my Nexus 4
[General Questions and Answers] joho5:
I keep getting the Facebook beta app instead of the common current one. I never signed up to be a beta tester and even went through the trouble to join the group recently to try and un join the group to maybe reset something.

Still no matter what I do my phone keeps giving me the beta Facebook app.. Which I don't prefer.

Any ideas on how to stop this? Its like a silent update...when I delete the app and redownload it, it'll be normal for like 5 minutes and then it changes.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] buzz_lightyear:
Hi all,

today in the morning, in my usually empty head, suddenly appeared this theory:

There is still one thing on my mind, probably i cannot just "eat the leek" that Micro$oft requested to delete translation of THIS page from THIS THREAD.

What could be so interesting about StrataFMD's registry settings, that they don't want us to know???

They are:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\BuiltIn\StrataFMD]
"Key"="Drivers\\BuiltIn\\StrataFMD"
"Flags"=dword:00000004
"CompactionCritPrio256"=dword:ffffffff
"CompactionPrio256"=dword:000000ff
"ReservedBlocks"=dword:00000004
"IsPairedFlash"=dword:00000001
"WriteBufferSize"=dword:00000040
"SectorSize"=dword:00001000
"BlockSize"=dword:00040000
"MemLen"=dword:01f00000
"MemBase"=dword:a0080000
"Dll"="msflash.dll"
"IClass"="{A4E7EDDA-E575-4252-9D6B-4195D48BB865}"
"Profile"="MSFlash"
"Ioctl"=dword:00000004
"Prefix"="DSK"
"Order"=dword:00000002

So the most interesting for me is this:

"MemLen"=dword:01f00000 <--- 31MB
"MemBase"=dword:a0080000 <--- !!!

The size looks OK to me, because that's the size of flash chip, but how about its location (a0080000)?

According to our Himalaya Memory layout WIKI PAGE StrataFMD is using base address, which is in RAM.

Somewhere in the msdn i've red, that by default OS assigns first contiguous block of RAM as free memory. If your RAM is not contiguous, you have to specify it in config.bib (Platform Builder) to be recognised as RAM.

So if the StrataFMD is assigned base address which is overlapping RAM address region it makes our RAM non contiguous...

Example:

|<-----------------------128 MB RAM----------------------->|
|<---RAM start--->|<----Strata----->|<----Rest of RAM----->|

That would mean, we can use the first chunk of RAM.

That makes me believe, it is the reason why we cannot use the whole RAM as in wm2003. If we could somehow shift the base address of Strata chip maybe we will get the whole RAM back to OS.

But this all is just my theory and it is probably not true...

I'd like to ask you guys and girl (at least the one i know, that it's here.. :o) ) to post comments to this theory and to say what you think about it.

THANX

buzz
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] istana_pulau_es:
why don't you pm 'the one you know' buzz?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] xda2jojo:
deleted

hehehe...maybe you got it BUZZ!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] buzz_lightyear:
Re: deleted

i'm not quite sure... mamaich just said, that it is not right... hmm...

buzz
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cr2:
What is wrong with this address ? mickey$oft wince always maps the ROM

at the bottom.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] IMate->WM2k5:
Hi there,

I'm totally n00b here so pls consider this ;)

Just ideas...

Let's offset the Strata by changing MemLen to allocate more RAM or by changing MemBase to 0 to position our Strata at the beginning?

and one more, what if we play with LoadFlags of StorageManager\AutoLoad\MSFlash so we can find maybe "load as RAM" not as disk flag?

And what if we disable MSFlash and will use our RAMDisk instead? So, the Image Updater will copy the OS image to our RAMDisk instead of Flash?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] buzz_lightyear:
try it, but that doesn't really work...

buzz
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] amalkaedbey:
Guys i'm a new memeber so i hope i will use the right terms :

this post is intended to let u know what is happening in my device so that we can undestand more about how this OS works( windows mobile 2005)

I installed Magneto dowloaded from this site's ftp

i expected to have no ram

but insted when i check the memory settings i have 62 MB storage and 56Mb for programs

even though i installed ramdrive which gives me 96 Mb of ramdrive space

i'm trying to understand ram and rom distribution and usage in the device

cause even if i coldboot i don't lose any data or any setting (except time the clock resets)

now i know that what i said does not make sense:

96 +62 +56 > 16mb (Extedend rom capacity )+ 128 Mb ram

i fist thought that this was a miscalculation (bug or so)

then i started to copy data (mp3s) into my root directory i was able to copy 60.84 Mb into the an mp3 directory in the root (not storage , ramdrive or storage card )

i tried to reset , hard reset (power + reset) , go to bootloader mode the hard reset and even the 2005 hardreset (power+CAMERA+NOTES+reset)

they are still there also contacts and all other databases

only time resets

to 1 september 2003

when i tried to copy 80 mb of data (mp3s) to ramdrive

the device froze and a simple reset was the solution but all data copied was erased .

i found out later that any reset does erase the ramdrive (ramdisk)

so it is eather a bug in the ramdrive driver/software or that the physical memory (ram) was actually full : the device froze at almost 16 mb copied

then i tried to delete the data from the root

my memory was free again only 4 mb used out of 62

i tried to copy to ramdrive and the device froze at almost 16 mb too

so i think it is a problem with the ramdrive driver ( is it ?? please reply if same problem occured )

i took some snap shots to prove what i said

other wise the os is wonderful

i just can't change the splash image

Hope that i can be of any help cause i always rely on yours so thank you
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ramram:
Ram Drive cab file was created in aim of the bug, lack of ram, storage and it was meant to be used as a Storage. You flashed your device with the right rom so don't use the RamDrive! What's really missing is about 10 megs from the RAM Chip.

We're expecting a new modified rom soon from Buzz that combines the Extended ROM and Storage which they are 1 chip partitioned.

Buzz we're still waiting 8)

Thank you.

Ram!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] amalkaedbey:
You are Right Ramram

Many things lead to my confusion

first i didn't know how to hardreset the device

and maybe i read somewhere (in this forum i guess) a theory that said that WM5.0 is not using ram for storage (using some kind of Rom )... bla bla

to cut a story short

i found the extended rom unlocker

i was able to change my splash images

etc

there are few other problems i'm having with WM5.0:

Persave is not working (maybe because storage is now nand disk)

Activesync(in the device does not notice if the device is removed from cradle

thought i think they must be discussed in an other topic i'd like to know if these problems can be solved

thanks