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[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Redeque:
Today I dropped my phone for the first time :eek::eek::eek:

The so called aluminum frame was instantly damaged and to my surprise it was paint that chipped off.

Underneath there is just a hard kind of plastic.

I looked all over the place for a replacement frame but can't find any.

Anyone else with this problem?
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prometej-zg:
First of all, greetings to everyone on this forum, this is my first post here.

I have a black Xperia SP (C5303), and have the same problem. Mine dropped on the street from my hand and although was in his leather casing, somehow dropped on the only side without protection. Was very suprised when I saw that 'alumium' frame was very damaged (damage looks like on your phone) from dropping only 1+ m of height inside of a protection case. The good news is that nothing else was damaged.

The phone is great for my needs, but I'm still not convinced with quality of aluminium frame. Probably this is the price of his weight. Before had Samsung Galaxy S Advance and dropped him accidently only once but without even a scratch.

I was very upset with the damage, but because of its black color it is not as visible as on your white model, so for now I won't be searching for a replacement frame... Hopefully won't be dropping him too much.

Greetings.
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whitemamba:
Yep it happens, even when I am charging, when the charger scratches the coat on the port, the paint will be chipped off.

Luckily I bought a black one, and the problem is not so bad and visible. :p
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Prm593:
Bro i thinks its chrome finish that have came out take it to the service center tell them ur prob and btw i have dropped my sp today and voila nothin happens surprised to see this thing surprise..!:D but this thing wouldn't happen to me..maybe its because my sp is black..and keep it carefully now bro or its will ripped off by small pressure..
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Redeque:
Quite a disappointment. My previous sony phones where solid as a rock.

It looks easy to remove though with the two screws. What you guys think
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sss2sssss:
I dun think so ,u can see these pictures I forward from other forum (it's dropbox link )

http://db.tt/tKT3eVMr

http://db.tt/hoJDZIz2

http://db.tt/p65IhPP4

http://db.tt/qqhjEzFq

http://db.tt/XVXppyCM
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sennyqtek:
I have this also but smaller from putting on a hard case. No more hard cases for me!
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abdic88:
What about using nail polish of similar color, or a car paint and small brush?
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] technaudio:
Looks like you kicked it down the street!
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 4529355:
I think it only happens to white models, on a Spanish forum there is another user with the same problem (paint chipping off)

http://www.htcmania.com/showthread.php?t=668090
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dhiman33:
Now I regret choosing the white model, I have paint chipped off around the data cable port,stereo out, and also around power button :crying:
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abdic88:
There are replacement frames on ebay for like 10$.
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Redeque:
Link please
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sennyqtek:
And are they easy to install?
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Wytosandroid:
Look at this http://www.ebay.it/sch/i.html?_sacat=0&_from=R40&_nkw=replacement+xperia+sp&LH_PrefLoc=2&LH_BIN=1
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Redeque:
Thanks a lot for the link. Not sure if I dare to replace it though. Kind of need a disassembly video first...
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snurrbo:
I recommend using a good soft case like the one below.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Matte-TPU-S...DA_Cases&var=490159410395&hash=item2c6ffb4d1c
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] landes:
Same problem in my Spanish SP... Shouldn't this be solved by Sony? aluminium frame is not made of aluminum, isn´t it?
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PacManX8:
I have also the same problem on my SP. is it normal?? Sony has to replace our frame with a better one.
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alphaz1:
I'm very disappointed with this ****ty paintjob, my hpone is barely 1 month old and it already got chipped paint on a several spots on the frame. I thought the frame was aluminium because every review I've read said so.... even if it wasn't aluminium, the paint shouldn't have come off so easily. i read sony used water-based paint, maybe that's why.
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Redeque:
Did anyone try to replace the frame yet?
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SunnyChrono6:
If you send it in for some under problem under warranty, they will replace it. I believe it's aluminium inside, though. Mine got scratched a little harder and while I don't have any pics, I'm almost certain it's a black kind of aluminium because it got scraped off to different levels at the same spot. Hard to explain :P
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Redeque:
I should send it in I guess.

Understand what you mean.

First you have Grey (silver) paint then black coating and under that is shiny aluminium.
[Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] panjgoori:
i think i should be careful with my SP as its also in white color.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrzzzak:
Hi,

my Xperia Z got damaged and I need to ship it back for service repair. But I already rooted it so I can't apply my guarantee atm. So my question is how to roll it back to the original state that nobody can find out? The problem I am having is that half of my display got cracked (itself - seriously!) and is not responding to any touches (just right half). So after I turn on my phone I am obviously stucked on my own maze lock unable to unlock it. Also I am not able to log in via my google account to prevent the maze lock (can type but the crack is near the button Send so I am not able to send my credentials). Rotating the display doesn't help either. Luckily, I installed CWM recovery which uses only hardware buttons so I should be able to use WIPE DATA/FACTORY RESET option which will wipe the maze lock so I should be able to connect it via Sony Companion. But then I am not sure if I would be able to roll it back to the original state after. I don't know what would WIPE DATA/FACTORY RESET do to root and CWM. Is Sony Companion able to repair/restore my phone to the very original state? Would CWM still be installed on the phone? Would I have a root?

Here is a list of things I did with my Xperia so far after rooting:

- Uninstalled Sony Movies app by Titanium Backup (I didn't backup my phone before - stupid).

- Upgraded to SuperSU Pro (don't think it matters)

- Installed CWM

- Flashed [SOUNDMOD]PureXAudio (I am still able to revert this via CWM and and the stock audio flash)

So I am looking for a best way to restore my phone to the original state before I will send it to the service. My phone is from Japan if it matters to kernel or firmware. If you would suggest me to use some kernel/firmware could you provide me a link please?

Thanks in advance!!!
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DrKrFfXx:
Not tricky at all :cool:

Rooting does not invalidate your warranty. But if you are outside of Japan, and your phone is japanese, you won't be covered by warranty anyway.

If you still wanna get the phone back to original, just flash with Sony Update Service. If SUS detects modified software and refuses to flash, which it probably will, you always could flash with flashtool.

Flashing will bypass the pattern unlock and rewrite everything back to stock.

If there is important info you might wanna save before flashing, connect a mouse to the Xperia Z and use it to unlock the pattern.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrzzzak:
Are you sure about this statement? I've always read it MIGHT affect a warranty.

Why? My phone was ordered from Japan, came from Hong Kong, was delivered to UK by my gf and will go back the same way...

How can I flash via flashtool? Where can I get kernel/firmware?

I do not posses a mouse with micro USB :(
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DrKrFfXx:
Yes. Taken many rooted Xperia devices to service.

OK, I thought you were taking your phone to a local Sony Service. Warranty is only valid on the country the phone was bought.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2275632

USB OTG cable comes in handy.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shoey63:
If warranty is denied, claiming user neglect, then root doesn't matter - you will have to pay. If they believe screen cracked by itself and honor warranty, then root also doesn't matter as rooting won't crack the screen :p
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fish droid:
just flash the orginal firmware via flashtool

rooting your phone does not void your warranty .. unlocking the bootloader do
[Sony Xperia Miro, Tipo (Dual), J, E] UltraGamerHD:
Hi!

I'd just like to ask the xda community why there are hardly any mods/roms related to the Xperia E. Most of the threads are pertaining to either the tipo, miro, J. Why not E Guys?

Is it because the phone useless or what...
[Sony Xperia Miro, Tipo (Dual), J, E] 2010matej:
I think that one thread like this has been made 1 month ago! Report it ,so admin will delete thread.

There's no developer man! Phone useless? No it's not. Only reason is,that there's no developers! Remember that! We can't do anything to change this!
[Sony Xperia Miro, Tipo (Dual), J, E] KDB223:
True.. Feels like our phones are discriminated or something:(
[Sony Xperia Miro, Tipo (Dual), J, E] zzztidurvirus:
Who said theres no dev work on E yet? You people should be thankful that E got placed among Tipo, miro, J, and not someplace else. Even rooting E is hard, with constant updates from Sony. About custom ROMs, you got cm, and dual sim runs fine too! Not like tipo dual, if youre lucky, even one sim works is good.

Sent from [MY-PRK-MJG] Awesome Paradox Tipo ST21i
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LostAlone:
Hey guys

After a notable absence of Android in my life I'm heading back over with a TF300T. Now, as you may guess from the title I want to talk about my various connection options and draw from your experiences with the device to help me make the right choice in terms of getting my new baby online outside my house.

Obviously I could have gotten a device with built in modem but nothing really turned my head in terms of price and stuff, and as I recall just buying a device that just does what you want it to do already isn't really the Android spirit; half the fun is getting there.

Anyway, this leaves me with a number of imperfect options for data connections:

My phone will happily tether up to the tablet and because my network are cool dudes I can do that for free. Problem is that doing so means I can't make/recieve calls and texts while I'm tethered up and since I want mobile data love when I'm out of the house working that would seem to not be a great idea.

Secondly I could jump in with a mobile wifi thing, but I'm really not keen to get a another contract to make that happen and the amounts of data I'm likely to use (literally just web browsing for now and forever) are somewhat low and somewhat infrequent, making this seem to be a pretty bad useage of money. Also with devices offering 'Up to 5 hours of battery life'; well lets just that's not going to last me long enough to be useful.

Finally, I can grab a 3G USB stick and duck tape it to the device. It's the right stuff for my requirements, but it seems kinda non-trivial to hook up a USB device to the undocked tablet and certainly it seems totally unrealistic to wander around holding the tablet with usb adapter, then modem dongle sticking six inches out of the bottom. At worst it'll fall out, at best I'll break it. In the dock this looks great, assuming it'll work in the standard USB port, but outside it just seems silly.

My hope really was that I'd be able to find a cable that'd go from the propitiatory connector (Bad Asus!) to female usb so I could potentially stick the dongle flat against the back of the tablet without noticeably increasing it's footprint, but that seems unlikely. I've seen a guy on youtube who can make such a cable, but it takes soldering and that's somewhat outside my abilities.

So what kind of approach had you guys taken and what experiences have you had using this kind of ghetto-interweb solution? The key is to find the right add on that will let me still use my phone properly, that will give me long endurance but also minimal hassle... A bit of a reach really, but maybe I'm not thinking of all the options.

Apologies if anyone thinks this is in the wrong place, my XDA-fu is a little rusty but I'm pretty sure I'm in the right place. I've googled around and while I can find plenty of stuff telling me all the ways to hook the internet up, no-one seems to be answering what way I should approach making it all happen.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sbdags:
Best choice for me has been a mifi. Look up a Huawei 585 or 589 and plug in a sim and away you go. You can get some very cheap rolling monthly contracts these days for data only plans.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LostAlone:
How have you found the battery life to be in practice? Can I leave the thing switched on and get some reasonable proportion of a day out of it? My hope really is that the battery estimates they give are 'x hours of actual internetting' instead of 'x hours of being switched on'. If it'll just quietly sit and stay connected for most of a day then that'll probably be fine, but if I have to finesse the thing on and off all day long just to get past lunch time that sounds pretty bad for my situation.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] sikmyduk:
ok im h_boot 1.19 with dirty racun s-off with the latest radio firmware on latest meanbeam rom. which ruu would I use to go back to completey stock ?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] JManekia:
You can use this tool. It'll take you completely stock, including unroot and S-on.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=39327557
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] wogeboy:
My T999 volume rocker button popped off today while cleaning.

Looks ok but not sure how to put it back in.. a certain direction it should face? The bottom has very slight differences from one end and the other.

I looked for pics or video but all I get are S2 or text directions

Disregard.. I think I found a video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo93EF7rVIw
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 ROM Development] kulapica:
It is not a unzippable format.

That's with the himaupgrade.exe .

I have upgraded to 2.20 WWE.

I missed the keyboard so much as the built-in one is so ugly.

Thank you very much.

K
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RandyB201:
Hey, all.

I have created a blog to keep track of my progress on building Android 2.2 for the Nook Simple Touch.

Although you may or may not be interested in this specific device, I could use your insights from experience with other devices!

Thanks in advance for the info here and in the university. I am sure it will be very helpful.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nickflores555:
just picked one up myself, if you are really going to build something i will be happy to test.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] idoit:
Looking at the charts and design images at your blog, I am willing to chip in and help you with hackeries too. Quite newbie in Android scene but can find my way out. Please update us as soon as you came up with something. :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aiamuzz:
Anythink cooking ?

Recently purchased my NST(glow) ... rooted and android layer enabled.

--- Sent from my DROID Pro ---
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] Crsdr37:
Hey guys sorry if this is the wrong section just thought I would share the wireless charge mod. That I recently installed in my 2012 Altima! Works great through the Samsung Protective plus case.
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] lambstone:
Nice one.

But I'm not sure that this counts as a mod as it seems like all you did was to cut a hole and stick in the wireless charger.
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] 1454:
IMO, if you put the time and effort into cutting a hole, it counts as a mod. More of a car mod, but a mod nonetheless. But this is just my opinion.
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] darren.wlsn1:
lol,,,,,,:eek:
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] Crsdr37:
Yes sorry a vehicle mod to be proper
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] Crsdr37:
Cut the hole and direct wired to accy with 2amp inline fuse.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikeybabe:
ive got the dreaded 04 imei number on my Samsung s2 after bad flash my wife has the same phone can I clone the imei from the working phone to my broken one if so what software ect would I need
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MistahBungle:
Changing phone IMEI's is illegal in most civilised countries, 'cloning' an IMEI from one device to another is not permitted because each device must have its own unique IMEI. Discussion of same is also not allowed here. Without a backup of the EFS of that particular phone, you won't be fixing it yourself. Take it to a local mobile repair shop or Samsung service centre.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xHausx:
Cloning is illegal and a good way to get both devices blacklisted. Please do not discuss anything about modifying IMEI's here.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] 31stfreak:
Guys, has anybody also experienced this problem? Unfortunately, I made a mistake of upgrading to the 4.3 and had since then lost data connectivity whether it be 3G or 2G. I have searched for possible workarounds but did not find any. I have been reading posts regarding the Nexus 4 losing data connection after the update but not so much for the GNex. I have tried doing a hard reset to no avail. I have also reverted to the 4.2.2 FW but the data connection is still missing. Did another wipe, but without any luck still.

Does anybody have an idea how to solve this freaking mess brought about by the 4.3? I'd appreciate any suggestion. Thanks a lot in advance.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tkirton:
I have a Sprint Galaxy Nexus that I had 4.3 Paranoid Agent on it. It appears that the RIL (which I think controls data switching between 4G and 3G) needs to either be released by Sprint (as it is proprietary) or completely rewritten. There are developers actively working on rewriting the RIL, but no ETA on it.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroidFreud:
So, I got this notification today on my Xperia Z saying

Passback-1.js

Download complete

Now I got this with absolutely no update request at all from my end and I hadn't also recently installed any new app from the PlayStore

Just holding down on the notification to see the App Info says ' Download Manager 4.2.2. something

Google search shows absolutely nothing on this file and I was wondering if anyone else got this or know if it's a legit file?

C6602 running 4.2.2 Build number: 10.3.1.A.0.244

Any help is appreciated! Thanks!
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikaelkj:
Just got the same... Passback.js .. Very suspicious... Running CM10.1
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mikaelkj:
This is what it looks like - and the file.... It happened during the night so not using the phone...

View attachment 2198598

View attachment 2198597
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hellscythe:
hmm, its a javascript unpacker...thats all i got from google
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroidFreud:
Yeah, figured by the.js extension.

Is there any way for any one to see what's inside this JavaScript and what it does.

So weird! And my antivirus isn't picking up anything on it either!

Edit: Just wanted to add, I think the file I got has a suffix -1 because the first time it downloaded I just disregarded the download without clicking on it. Which means it persistently downloaded the file again and renamed it to passback-1.js

If I remember correctly the first file that was downloaded is the same name as attached (passback.js)
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wevie:
Strange, the same file was downloaded this morning on my Xperia Z.. Same fw
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroidFreud:
Anyone find anything online on this file as yet?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mazi1:
I also got this file on.my htc one, deleted it and got it also as passback-1.js.

Has anyone got information maybe also in other forums? Thanks
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MagXDA:
The same behavior. Noticed today downloaded passback.js and passback-1.js.

Samsung Galaxy S4 (stock firmware).

I didn't install any new software recently.

And no information on Internet.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _creator_:
Two Websites here,

One points to an ad on a forum on bf-france

And the other is some project called powerpass on google code.

I'm on CM 10.2 and never got this.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mazi1:
Pointing at passback-js shows the app download manager 1.3.602296. This is in the memory of the smartphone. How can I delete this app? Does anybody know? Behind passback is written pagead2.googlesyndication.com. This leads to a webpage that seems very strange and also information that had to do with virus but on computers. Does anybody know more about this?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lmbeeham:
Googlesyndication

Here is what I found:

"Google is a search engine designed to search for information on the World Wide Web. Information may consist of web pages, images and other types of files. Google achieves better results for many searches with an innovation called PageRank. This iterative algorithm ranks web pages based on the number and PageRank of other web sites and pages that link there, on the premise that good or desirable pages are linked to more than others.

GoogleSyndication.com is a very simple page. It's very easy to reach or answer our any query. You are in need of some image, news , book, article, scholar, any topic its just one click away."

I hope that helps.