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[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gregbradley:
Apologies, I was just trolling and could not resist it.

;)
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ahomad:
the earpiece is where the LED light is, at the very upper edge of the phone. You need to put the phone slightly below your ears to have very good sound (not below your whole ear, make the edge of the phone to the middle of your ear, easier to move it down while the other side talking until you get the best sound). I remember it took me a while to figure it out the first day I got the phone.

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there are couple of settings you could play with to improve the sound quality. The water-resistance of this phone reduced the loudness of the speaker, but you could try un-checking the Clearaudio+>go to sound enhancements>settings>check xLoud and try with and without Clear phase. Also try to modify the equalizer to your taste. When I compared my Z1 with my wife's SGS4, I can't see much differences, the SGS4 is a bit louder but that doesn't make the sound of the Z1 very very bad unless you have a defective unit.
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shawnhalu:
not really. it still ok to me
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Belbesi:
same here :(

Did you find a solution for that problem coz I have the same and I don't know since a week and it's killing me!

Just let me know what you did for it?

Thanks!
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eclyptos:
... a bit of distortion. :)
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SamerAlkayyali:
xperia z1 speaker issue

I got my Sony Xperia Z1 just 1 month ago and noticed that there are 2 speakers but only one that works, about the quality of the speaker sound I have no problems with that.
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RGadelha:
Zed 2 has 2 speakers, I think Zed 1 doesn't.
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eclyptos:
It not have 2 speakers.
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iamvyshak:
Speaker Issue

The Z1 has two halves for the bottom speaker though covered by the mesh you wouldn't be able to differentiate. However only one half is the speaker. The other half is the microphone I am guessing. (Correct me if I'm wrong about this) How I figured this out is when I covered both halves individually while playing music. After the KitKat update my major issue has been the ringtones and notifications playing thru the earpiece rather than the speaker which makes it practically impossible to notice the phone is ringing. Anyone experiencing this?
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 180490:
a friend of mine has this problem after 4.4 ftf flash, if i reboot the phone everything is ok , sound plays corectly, but after a few calls and notifications, everything plays on earpiece :(
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kimura_cl:
Hello, Newbie here :p

Exactly same problem here after applying KitKat Update of Sony in my Xperia Z1 6903 :crying:
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] omar300:
are there rumbling noises in the speaker?

did you wash your phone lately?
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aooga:
This is the only phone where you can say this and not sound like an idiot :)
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] omar300:
LOL im so used to of the idea. this didnt even cross my mine. you are right. it does sound very weird. who washes their phone? We Sony user :D
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XperiaNazi:
Hello guys! I was wondering if it was possible to somehow flash a black original psp wallpaper. or a better was to put it.. is there a way to customize the colors in the live wallpaper setting? im talking about the 12 or 13 colors they have. I want to edit one to make it black. anyone know how I can do this? my phone is rooted.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arsham x_play:
I think it's possible but I don't know how :D
[Galaxy Ace S5830i Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rabin Jamakatel:
Hey geniuses,

I am using cm7 on my s5830i. While trying to enable bootsound with terminal emulator after the command ( sh bootsnd.sh) it shows mount:cant read etc/fstab no such file or directory. Can anyone help me please. Thank you. :cool:
[Samsung Infuse 4G] asia745:
I have an infuse that works great except for the fact that everytime I plug the usb into the phone it shuts off the phone. The phone is factory I have not altered it or anything. I have tried multiple cables and different ports on my laptop and desktop. The battery is stock like I said it only happens when you plug the usb cable up to the phone while the phone is in normal mode. It does not occur when in download mode or recovery. I just bought this off of ebay is this a simple fix or should I just send it back. Thanks in advance and be gentle this is my first post. If I posted in the wrong place my apologies.
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] btjoker:
Guys. I had a very big problem here. My phone is just off the charger for about 10 min but the battery drops to 97% already. And I checked with the stamina mode which the battery only last for 18 hour and standby time only less then 2 days. Any idea about this? and any way to fix?

Thx.

Jol by J - Z1
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] homer285:
How long have you owned the unit? I found mine needed a few charge cycles to become more stable.

One strange thing I have noticed is that whilst charging the notification light turns green at 90% for some reason, has anyone else noticed this?
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] btjoker:
Hi homer285. thanks for your reply. I had it for about a week only. So is it better I make some cycle charge for it to make it back to normal?

Thx.

Jol by J - Z1
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] auchengyu:
that is normal for all Sony devices.

90% to 100% is green. below 90 is orange. and below 10 or something is red.
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ahomad:
for the first part, the battery dropping so quickly, can you provide another screenshot for the battery and the apps working, to see which app consumed more battery. I usually charge my phone before going to sleep and after waking up ~9 hours later the battery drops from 100-96%.

For the second part, this is normal. the estimated battery gives indication depending on your usage (so yours will be different than mine). while standby is where your phone is not being used and thats why it is longer although it is quite little, my phone at 62% and says 3 days and 2 hours in standby mode.

if I didn't answer your question, please explain further but other screenshots would help as well, thx
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shrugz:
I noticed this when charging mye phone the last time too. Maybe it is not quite calibrated yet? I did charge to 100% then totally drained it though, after charging it the first time out of the box.
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] btjoker:
Hi ahomad

Thx for ur reply. Attached is the photo of my battery usage for this morning.

I do understand what they mean but for the first few day usage my stamina standby time is up to 3-4days, just don't know what happen it dropped for used about a week.

And is it just the normal status or is it better to make some calibration for battery. If so, what is the best way to do that.

Thx.

Jol by J - Z1
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ahomad:
you might have been playing games heavily (assuming the second app using most power is a game) thus the estimation was lowered as the phone assumed you will play more games in the coming days.

But from the picture you attached, you do have quite good battery as you were playing heavy game for 40 mins while having LTE on yet the battery dropped 9% which is really good

just ignore what the phone is telling as long as you don't see real world weakness of the battery performance. these estimates are never real just to give an indication
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TechSilver13:
So is it really the 20% cheating scandal? I don't think the difference in ram would be 5k but maybe I am wrong.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lalit Patil:
Don't rely on only one Benchmark Score.Try comparing in other apps also.

Btw does this benchmark tests really matter ?.

Many people just overclock their devices & ram and try to increase their scores and after test they again come back to normal one. :p

Hit Thanx If I helped U - Its frEE :rolleyes:

Bootanimations-MDPI

Post Your DevicE History HerE.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xcaliburpcs:
Samsung did something to the note 3 to make sure it runs a 100% during benchmarks

http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/new...alaxy-note-3-to-boost-benchmark-scores-427161
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] droid_<3er:
No brah. G2 will never have the lag of Crapwiz. Rest assured that Antutu doesn't mean anything.

Bro, Antutu is useless nowadays...so many fake device leakers and Samsung results that the test means literally nothing. And yes, the 20% cheating scandal probably had something to do with it.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Evilmonstertruck:
View attachment 2305380

I have got 35k score before. But they vary.

What I'm curious about is if the extra gig of ram on the note if it will eat up more battery. Cuz this battery is just insane
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] meld:
2 benchmark in a row always get 36k

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[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WizeGuyDezignz:
Lol this is a funny thread. It is already known that Samsung is cheating the system with the Note 3 for benchmarks because the un-optimized joke of Touchlag wouldn't score in the range of other optimized Jelly Bean devices if they didn't cheat it.

Use the Touchlag UI on the Note 3 and compare it to the G2 and then tell me which one is faster in the real world.

Samsung has turned into Apple.... A joke.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zoide_:
Wow! What ROM were you running?

Thanks
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Amentia:
its weird

I really find it odd that i sometimes get 35k max. But i just tested and look at this....
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spinninbsod:
I only get like 30 thousand average on cm 10.2 you must have the furnace kernel
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Allein8:
I saw the sprint model has night mode but att doesn't, does tmo model have it?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Nvrenough:
Don't see it on mine
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] xxmelissaxx:
I guess this is the closest we get?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Allein8:
Wonder why only Sprint (maybe Verizon) have Night Mode and other models don't. From the reviews I've read, it is a missed option for taking low light photos and makes a difference that smart stabilization doesn't match. Added golf shot? but remove night mode, seems odd.

Anyone know if it is possible for a ROM to be made for the TMO version, but using Sprints files or just the camera app software?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] itsjusttim:
Yes, you can pm your favorite rom developers or .apk modder to just get the application.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Pedro2NR:
The TMO version has it. You have to hit settings first to access it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Gwanatu:
Where? I don't see night mode mentioned anywhere in settings.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] kabuk1:
I think it's called smart stabilization for us.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Pedro2NR:
Click on settings first and follow my screen shots
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] quad150db:
It was already discussed that TMO has Smart Stabilization in a post before yours.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] SiliconS:
Does anybody know of a way of extending the Universal's keyboard backlight duration longer than the highest option of 10 secs? My eyes are hurting trying to see the keyboard at night. :shock:

Don't want it a lot. Maybe 20 or 30 seconds? Perhaps this is a registry setting?

TIA :)
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Paul. W:
Dont even need to change a registry setting mate :)

Go to Start > Settings > Buttons

Then click on the Backlight tab, it brings up the options here to either have the light sensor enabled or disabled, and also how long you want your keyboard backlight on for :)
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] Paul. W:
Sorry

read ur post wrong

Only realised myself the highest option is 10 secs!

Doh!
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] BrettS:
Yes, there is a registry setting...

HKCU\ControlPanel\Backlight\QKeyLedTimeout

Change it from 10 to whatever you want. I originally set it to 60, but found that was way too long. I've got it set at 30 right now and that seems to be working well for me.

You need to soft reset after making the change before it will go into effect. Remember to turn the device off before you soft reset to make sure the cache is flushed and your change is saved.

HTH,

Brett
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] CJSnet:
What about a way to change the sensitivity of the keyboard light sensor? We all I think find it not sensitive enough, and when it's too dark to see the keys, it still doesn't come on.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] SiliconS:
Perfect! Thanks a bunch. :D
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] ice_coffee:
My light sensor does not work, I thought it was a firmware glitch !! does your keyboard light sensor work ??????????

O2 XDA Exec UK

also at full brightnes does your screen dim slightly when the keyboard lights up !!!
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] SiliconS:
In what way doesn't it work? Are the keyboard lights always on or always off? At night, in the dark, do the keyboard lights come on when you press a key? Have you got the ambient light sensor enabled in the Control Panel?
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] mikeycrawford:
I thought my light sensor wasn't working either when I first got it, not realising that you had to tap a key before it would light up.

I was also one of those that didn't know where the stylus from the box went (it was the spare)
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] ice_coffee:
Thanks for your reply, I have since hard reset and gone for corporate mode, and it has started working originaly in a pitch black room no matter what key I pressed, it refused to light up.
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djsnoopyxxl:
Hi.

Can someone send me the stock data folder of the Z1.

I need somethings for my Rom

Thanks
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oxidil:
I want to discuss 2 things

1. Who wants to upgrade galaxy from S4 to note 3 and why?

2. If someone has already did this, what is perdonal experience? Whats improvement and is this upgrading really proved a good decision?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donalgodon:
I'd never do that, because it's likely that the Note 3 will ship with Knox bootloader and no way to get rid of it. If all you plan to do is use the device as is, out of the box, then it's probably not an issue, but if that's the case, why are you here? :p
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 2747343:
the note series are nice but theyre too big for me
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oxidil:
Yes big size is also a concern for me too.

Knox is not an issue for me as I also not rooted s4 yet. Samsung has also begun ota updates of s4 which includes knox (discussed in many threads on xda)

Despite of changing model, any other feature of note 3 which one of us should think to upgrade s4 to note 3?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] windozeanti:
I rather upgrade to a Nexus 5 than a Note 3. I am not a fan of touchwiz and I don't need a s-pen for my phone. The size of Note 3 is too huge for me. :D
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] paras:
i feel note series is are very big my hands pained while talking on note 2.Not going for note again
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MohammadAG:
I have an S4 now, but imo, the Note 2 was the best android device I've ever had (and I consider it the best device right now). The S4 kind of disappointed me, so I'll be trying the Z1 when it's available where I live.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S4 (i9500)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ultramag69:
I bought a Note 3 yesterday, gotta wait for delivery but I'm not gonna just throw away a good phone either. Knox is a worry but then the S4 is gonna get these new bootloaders sooner or later, especially if you ewant to update the firmware to the latest...

Samsung need to listen to these forums as a large amount of their custom is generated by us. Word of mouth is a powerful selling tool and to be honest I'm starting to think it might not be a good idea to upsell this brand if they go the way of Apple...

There have been a lot of put out people in the UK where the Note 3 seems to come with a region lock (even after they activate with regional sim it won't accept another country sim card), now sorted by Chainfire but requiring root thus giving you warranty void from Knox...

Thankfully I live in Australia. No region lock but that's a trade off with expense....
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oxidil:
Here is another rumour. Galaxy S 5 may be launched in January 2014

Check this

http://www.unwiredview.com/2013/10/...+UnwiredView+(Unwired+View)#readsoruce_bottom
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rl421403:
I will probably not go with Note3 or S5. Because of many things I am hearing in last couple of months.

Samsung devices are great and I love my S4 but I could not use my phone in fear that Samsung will not respect warranty. Samsung is finding many different/new ways to void our warranty in flagship phones.

I personally do not care much for warranty for damages that I am responsible for. But if there is a manufacturing defect then I expect them to offer warranty regardless of rooted phone or not.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PanNet:
You are wrong, you have regional lock. My s4 at the beginning works fine with my irish sim card but after ugraded by OTA stopped working. I asked Samsung what is going on and I have been told that Samsung gives warranty only for Australia and Oceania Region warranty. It is my last Samsung mobile.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oxidil:
Knox is past. See this link

http://www.sammobile.com/2013/10/14...-released-doesnt-affect-knox-security-status/

But again for N9005. No support for octa core
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saywhatt:
+1

Even I, myself, of considering on switching to HTC because of the said reason you have stated.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] windozeanti:
You might want to think twice about HTC, their customer service and quality of the phone is not up to standard. :p
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rl421403:
Not specifically HTC but choose any other manufacturer. They are doing better job than Samsung to keep their customers. Why does it has to be a company on top to start acting like a**hole and treat their customers like sh*t.

For a normal user like me, I don't understand what is the real benefit of having a flash counter in our phones or efuse or region lock. But these are pretty good excuses for Samsung to void our warranties. After going through faulty/broken AMOLED screen topic, I am afraid to put my S4 in jeans pocket. Usually I keep my phones in front jeans pocket (all previous phones) but now if I mistakenly put my S4 in pocket out of force of habit, I am like oh sh*t, I put phone in pocket again.

They should invest the time and money on quality control and better products, then such silly tricks.

Although I am hearing good things about Note 3 and S5, I am strongly considering to buy Nexus 5, Oppo or some other Chinese manufacturer.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] windozeanti:
Don't get me wrong, I am not happy with Samsung built quality as well, it is really not acceptable to use cheap plastic on a "flagship" phone. The glass seems too fragile and I am getting paranoid as well when the phone is in my pocket. Yeah, about the efuse? Looks like they are copying Motorola now. :eek:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oxidil:
Thanks guys for your feed back.

I am now on note 3
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] komsa:
i am not considering this as upgrade......it is heavier (40g) device with the same screen resolution streched from 5" to 5.7"...........RAM memory is 3GB vs 2GB but for me that's not enough.................:laugh:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oxidil:
Once you use it, you ll feel it's not so heavy.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RichieRich84:
You are mistaken about HTC. I have had my T-MOB HTC ONE-S since it came out over a year ago with no problems. It also runs the UI just as fast as the S4. Only way to notice a difference between YOUR 4S and my phone is in screen res and size, if you are a hardcore gamer then the ram, Metal vs. plastic, 8mp better camer UI vs 13mp. Beats audio vs. no audio enhancement. Sd card slot or no slot. Every thing is going cloud bassed so sd cards dont really mean nothing any more. So really the difference is minimal. Now since I have modded my phone its on par with your S4. I have a S4 its UI is built for a blind grandma I swear if you dont put a rom in it and touchwiz is flat out ugly an damn near useless. I let my mom use my S4. My Htc one S is what I carry Its the ideal size and thinness. Its all about the UI and size for most. Id pick a Sony Xperia z over any Samsung but I already got the stupid S4 Now for customer service call Dell, Motorola or Sprint then you will think different about Htc service. lol :victory:

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Nicely Worded
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RichieRich84:
Also would like to mention that the benchmark tests out their samsung cheats in them and cheats you with a special scripts to give extra power during benchmarks only and not to you. Thats about the dirtiest thing I seen a mfg do.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Neeero:
S4 is fair enough for me... maybe upgrade to s5 not for note3 :highfive:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c0diac:
I was thinking about note3 upgrade but the more I read the more z1 comes in the mind

Also flagship device in plastic is just bad...

GT-I9505
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OuncE718:
Honestly I don't think the Nexus 5 is worth giving up the Nexus 4 just yet unless you are in dire need of the 32gb space which I guess most of you are. I think I'll hold on to my Nexus 4 for one more year and then make the leap to the Nexus 6 or whatever they'll call it.

I think Google will support the N4 for at least one more year and if not we always have these lovely devs.

What are y'all thoughts? PLEASE NO TROLLING OR DISRESPECTFUL COMMENTS

Edit: I accidentally posted this in the wrong section. It should of been in the GENERAL section
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vandizzam:
I think it's worth upgrading for the camera and the fragility of the Nexus 4.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 1slow4G:
is it out already?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OuncE718:
I guess it depends on what features are most important to you but to me the next Nexus must blow this phone completely out of the water before I trade it in. I mean don't get me wrong but I would of definitely purchased the Nexus 5 if I didn't have the Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/1...-32gb-storage-8mp-ois-camera-photos-and-more/
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dethrat:
Completely agree. As for the fragile thing you only hear from the complainers. You never hear from the happy people.

Look after your phone and you'll not have a problem. Never understood how phones end up in toilets is it really necessary.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OuncE718:
I take very good care of my phone, maybe a little more than I should but I understand the people that need the EXTRA durable phones. This phone isn't for a Mechanic, construction worker, laborer etc.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OuncE718:
I don't know if you're being a troll or if you're serious but no it isn't out yet but we do have a good amount of proof of what to expect.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dethrat:
I get that but I wouldn't say any large smartphone has any building site in mind. That's what those cases that are bulky and look way over protective for the everyday person are for