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[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] jewelkobayashi:
Sorry and never mind if it is irrelevant, but I also used to think that the auto adapt was not working.

But under usual circumstances, it is very hard to detect. At least for me, this was the case anyway.

Under settings > brightness I have the slider bar set to just a notch above dimmest, in order to increase battery life.

I found out 2 ways that it is indeed functioning.

I was under a counter at a bar the other day where there was very bright LED spotlight. When I walked away while browsing into the unlit area, I saw the screen dim. In over a month's use, this is the first time I noticed this active screen brightness adjustment (due to this extreme circumstance)

I happened to look in GSAM battery monitor and under screen, where all my power consumption was normally in ''DARK'' category, I found some usage under DIM and MEDIUM as well.

Thinking about it, in over a months use, not once did I find it difficult to see the screen because of the Dimness. But unlike my other previous phones, I never saw an exaggerated adjustment to lighting conditions. So it has been doing its job adequately, and in retrospect, effectively to make the screen lit 'just' bright enough....
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] julz:
I actually find the camera quality to be OK and am pretty impressed with the superior auto mode. I'm coming from using a HTC One X which has a pretty good camera too and I don't have much of an issue with the Z Ultra's camera. Sure it doesn't have a flash but flash generally makes your photos look **** anyway - I rarely used flash on my One X if I could avoid it.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] KonW:
my biggest issue now is the sucking balls camera

compared it to my same 8M iphone4s and galaxynote ,, i was aghast at how horrible it is that at first i even doubted it was a defective one,,,

anyone, just try to shoot a book page and compare it to anyother 8M phone,, it REALLY SUCKS
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] SUPERUSER:
with the stock sony camera app yep it sucks, but with another app the camera is pretty much as good as the iphone 4s I had back in the days
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] KonW:
what app do you use
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] SUPERUSER:
right now im using the stock android camera running carbon rom.

But I tried some others like the lenovo camera app, Camera FV-5 (didn't pay for it, shh!), and the camera app ported from the Honami
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Lex_from_Belarus:
Camera is very-very-very bad with any app. Noise is very big, very much mistake with color and etc.

Sony Company is very bad company, because the older smartphones from others Companies have more better camera.

My next smartphone - NOT sony!!!

We must say all together to Sony that it has deceived us!
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] KonW:
Yeah, for my next smartphone, I'd rather buy some cheap chinese brand,,,I was actualy considering Oppo find 5 before sony's xperia z commercial caught my eye,,

bought this phone becuase of my trust in sony , in it's fame as a world class giant, one of the best in electronics deveices,

but then ,

what i got is this kinda of ****fest pile of garbage,,

the software sucks with crucial bugs(autobrightness dont work, SOD, fake hang, etc) that to this day sony still fails fix, build quality and screen is meh or average to say the best, camera sucks fking balls, and all the stupid add-on functions sony hyped so much about only worsen the expericen to no ends(x-bravo, x-reality or whatever it's called), the only ,only good thing about their software is it's not as boated as touchwiz so it's far more snappy and fast(which may only due to their lack of efforts put into bettering it so only little is changed from the original android)

well,,,

in other words,,

Sony, u suck.

I dont know how the fk can you possibly think you can even compete with samsung with this kinda of quality, let alone Apple,HTC,Motorola,etc,,,you cant even win against many cheap new starter smartphone companies in china, were it not for your well-knonwn brand name and history in the business.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] AntiLazarus:
Oh Jesus dude, sack up. You sound like a Samsung paid troll. The software does not suck. Yes, there are a few bugs, but no real big ones. At least I haven't had any problems. Plus, if it bothers you so much, spend the 5 minutes it takes to root and unlock your bootloader, and install one of the fine custom ROMs we have in the development sections. I used the CM 10.2 ROM, it works great. I'm using Paranoid Android now, works great, and I've used Carbon a lot on my Nexus 4, it works great. At least Sony makes this easy for you to do.

Build/screen quality: here is where your post gets really irksome; you're complaining about the build quality? Really? This is in the top two or three of the best-built devices on the market, and one of the others is the Xperia Z1. If you complain about the build quality, you are objectively wrong. Even the few negative reviews of this phone on the web have nothing bad to say about the build quality. So maybe you got a lemon or something, but barring that, you're just wrong.

Same story with the display. Sony may use a panel lottery here, I don't know, but most Z Ultras have incredible displays. I know mine does, and most reviews praise the display. Again, this has nothing to do with opinion, you're just wrong.

I and several other people have managed to get quite good pictures out of the camera, so saying the camera "sucks fking balls" just reveals your incompetence. Seriously, it's not that hard to get good pictures out of this thing. There are also other camera apps you can download for free to play with. It's not the best smartphone camera available, but the Exmor RS is a good sensor, and imaging is one of the few market categories where Sony does pretty well. They are widely respected for their imaging prowess, so once again, you're just wrong as far as the actual sensor goes, though the processing is not the best. But then again, this is more of a tablet, so it needs to be compared to tablet cameras.

This is easily the best phone I've ever seen or used in my life--it certainly puts Samsung to shame in the looks and build quality department. Though some of this is of course subjective, a lot of your claims are just flat wrong, and overall your whole post just smacks of someone who was disappointed in some respect with the phone, so out of anger they just trashed the whole thing. Get a grip.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] SUPERUSER:
Go out on the street, walk in to best buy or whatever that is a local store for you and buy A CAMERA!! There are no phones with good enough cameras to replace a tiny little camera unit inside a phone!
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] KonW:
youre right, im just in rage and trashed the whole phone,,

if the camera was even an average rather than this piece of garbage,

if the so-called x-reallity wasnt only making your video more blury and look less bitrate,,and messing around with it only gave you other things like sod or fake hang,,

i may have praised this phone along with every other aspects of it

yeah you can flash other custom rom but it's the same for every other phone, so when im discussing about the quality of the software what's the point of telling me i can flash other rom? when you buy a car and complain its chair, window or tires are too bad, does anyone tell you that you can change the window or tires to defend it?
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Lex_from_Belarus:
Did you have sometime other smartphone? No? I see that! Because even in my older S3 camera more better! And with S3 I don't need other camera.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] SUPERUSER:
In the last five years i have had the SE Z600, SE W600, two- red and silver SE K610, SE P910, Nokia 5610, a black iphone 3G, Iphone original, HTC Desire PVT4, Two Black Blackberry Bold 9900, a black Samsung Galaxy S2, a white Iphone 4S, a white HTC One X, and a black Sony Xperia Z ultra. Some with good cameras and some other with not such good cameras.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Lex_from_Belarus:
Do you want say that the camera in ZU is good?! It's terrible! May be in 4s and S2 camera was more better then our ZU!
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] YawningCat:
For Me The camera is good enough.I think this is a bug on sony camera because when i use lenovo camera app is awesome :D

Hope DoomLord Will Get An Z Ultra Soon
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Lex_from_Belarus:
With Lenovo app camera very bad too. May be drivers is the problem of our model and of course, curved hands of programmers of Sony :)
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] LordManhattan:
Yes, i just can't understand how a mobile camera in a 6.5mm thick body doesn't take the best pictures in the world. My almost credit card thick DSLR camera that i have in my house back in Narnia takes fantastic photos! I'm baffled! Bad Sony! Why can't you use the time machine you have, and get some new tech from 2018? It can't be that hard! :eek:
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Lex_from_Belarus:
In lenovo 6,9 mm, it have 13mpx and FLASH!!!
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] LordManhattan:
Sure, but did you really think "wow, no flash! I guess Sony worked really hard on the camera!" Nope. Don't forget that a lot of people are highly unintelligent, and some of them are clearly present in this thread.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Hogyoku:
The thing that annoys me the most is the camera quality they could have done a better job ... And the fact that the dock is pretty useless as the lock screen doesn't rotate i think that's retarded.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] KonW:
1.take a pic with iphone 4s, and take one with this phone, (same 8M pix.),(take a colored page of a book for extra obvious results, and yeah you can even set the camera mode to "for documents" on XZU, and no it's not the problem of focus, it's focused 100% right on the texts )

2.compare

3. admit and be horrified by how bad the camere on xperia z ultra is , feel the horror from now on every time you take a pic with XZU

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could you share that lenovo camera app pls, definitely and desperately would like to try it out
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] SUPERUSER:
have u tried to plug in the usb cable to the charger? ;) :good:
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Hogyoku:
Are you for real ?
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Lex_from_Belarus:
Lol?
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] LordManhattan:
Well duh! I know the camera is ridicoulusly bad, but that's not the thing now, is it? The thing that pisses me off is that people complain AFTER they've bought the device. Did you really think that the camera would be any good? Did you not read ONE review? The camera sucks, and i knew that before i bought it. If you want a good camera, buy a different device. The Ultra is NOT a camera phone and Sony doesn't market it as a camera phone either. I won't go to a car dealer, buy a Nissan Leaf and when i get home, i go "WTF! Where are the wings?!" or "where is the V12 engine!?"

So, to dumb this down even more:

- Xperia Z1: Camera phone

- Xperia Ultra: Business phone

Note: I'm not shouting at you, i'm shouting at people in general.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Lex_from_Belarus:
Do you really mean that for business people need not good camera? You don't understand that the TOP smartphone must be better then other models smartphones on model line, for example Note3.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] AntiLazarus:
Here are two pictures I have taken. I admit, they're not the best-looking things in the world, but I just don't see how they're THAT bad, compared to the average mobile camera. They're certainly nowhere near bad enough to deserve KonW's crazy ranting. I don't understand why all of a sudden, everyone's a professional photographer, either. Are you people doing magazine covers, or something? If so, why are you using a phone?

http://i1028.photobucket.com/albums/y349/ryanpmcc/MollytheDog.jpg

http://i1028.photobucket.com/albums/y349/ryanpmcc/DSC_0003.jpg
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] elpresidente20:
.....if you need a good camera, buy a professionally one....camera on a smartphone is NOT the important thing. it will still do the job.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] YawningCat:
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could you share that lenovo camera app pls, definitely and desperately would like to try it out[/QUOTE]

It Have On Xperia Z Ultra Theme Thread :D

Hope DoomLord Will Get An Z Ultra Soon
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] KonW:
it's like i bought a Nissan then i found it cant even go over 100 KM/H because the engine was too ****ty, yeah i didnt buy it to run it like a sports car but ...

well,,,, i guess it's no point *****ing anymore of it now,,

seems now that everyone knows how im raging about it and treats me like an extremist,,, : /

just hope sony could make it better in their next update (and it's not a hardware issue),,
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] natispain:
It is the true. camara sucks. I like my ultra but is a shame that Sony put this camara in THAT phone.

For business or for whatever, in that century we need camara every day, I cant carry one smartphone and a camara every day just in case.

And in a smartphone that costs 700 euros it is a lack of responsabillity from Sony to their clients.

If that is only software it can repair it, if it is hardware...

I dont understand why it takes so much time to Sony to reply and correct this issue.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Jaime360:
I agree that the camera sucks. Yesterday I took a picture and said, wtf? I couldn't believe it was so bad. I've tried different apps and it improves a bit, but it's still horrible. The battery is the other thing that isn't great, but for me, besides those two things, this smartphone is great. I'm positive that the note 3 has got a much better camera and a much better battery, besides the 3gb of ram, but I'm tired of their cheap plastic.

Enviado desde mi Xperia Z Ultra usando tapatalk 4
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] xene68:
Really, if you had taken the time to check some reviews before you bought it, you wouldn't have expected a great camera. Ive had no problems with the software and to overly complain about such a small feature as is 'autobrightness' is just whinging unecessarily.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] forger7:
I can't read it anymore: anywhere people think that megapixels say anything about camera quality. They don't. Comparing two cameras by the number of megapixels is just dumb. Before using the Z Ultra I had an iPhone 4s, too and yeah they share the number of megapixels but the iPhones camera is just way better, especially in low light. Cameras are compared by sensors, manufacturers and stuff, megapixels are a way to market devices and you just follow this stupidity.

Sent from my C6833
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Lex_from_Belarus:
In S3 8mpx and in ZU 8mpx. S3 release in 2012, ZU - 2013. In S3 and ZU sensor produced by Sony. The Samsung S3 camera is good and bad in Sony ZU! why did this happen?
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] SpyderTracks:
If you read this thread you'll see that it's the processing of the image that's the issue, not the sensor.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Lex_from_Belarus:
How did you know that? this is just a guess! Sony this never wrote officially!
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] SpyderTracks:
Urm it's a bit bloody obvious when the file size is so small! :banghead:
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Lex_from_Belarus:
It's a funny, but we don't know true. I know one thing - camera is very bad.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] SpyderTracks:
:banghead: :what: :thumbdown:

I can't say anymore without getting offensive.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Lex_from_Belarus:
I can say, that you speaking without facts. it's only bla-bla-bla. Or may be I missed something?
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] SpyderTracks:
The FACT is, the image file from stock Sony camera is around 2mb eg. Highly compressed... As stated previously in this thread. FACT
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Lex_from_Belarus:
The size of image in this question is not main problem. Sensor or driver working not good. Many noise, mistake in color rendering, not sharp picture and etc. It's the problems not the image size.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] SpyderTracks:
When you compress a file, you effectively remove pieces of it and sew up the gaps, hence all the issues you just moaned about. If we were able to see a raw image file it would be a decent shot.

Anyway, I've had enough of trying to enlighten you, you'll have to evolve some other way :p
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Lex_from_Belarus:
Lenovo camera app doing size more then stock Sony app, but snapshot come up same very terrible.

What's the meaning of Sony doing higher compression for low quality???
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] forger7:
Lex_from_Belarus, as I've told you before megapixels say nothing about camera quality, yet you still say "look two cameras with 8 megapixels but one is worse than the other". The camera built into the Z Ultra is simply not good. That's the matter why pictures are bad. Megapixels won't say, again, anything about the quality of the camera.

Additionally the default camera app is set to save pictures at 5MP, you can change that though.

Sent from my C6833
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Lex_from_Belarus:
I know that MPX say nothing. I compare two similar camera. They both made by Sony. Did you understood?

P.S. When i bought ZU, I immediately selected 7 mpx. And as you written MPX say nothing.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] LordManhattan:
Guys, please stop it :p This will only end when someone gets banned, or a mod closes this thread.

Conclusion: The Ultra's camera SOFTWARE (read: processing) is incredible bad, and i think everyone agrees.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] elpresidente20:
Phone has alot of features....I like especially stamina mode....I charged the phone and left it for 8 hours over night on battery. When I checked I still had 98%. Camera is not important...I doubt that everyone is an expert and have to rely on the phonecamera....does the job and that's all that matters.....
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Lex_from_Belarus:
Should be noted, that we don't know what the problem with camera. "software" is our guess, otherwise how can we explain that the sony immediatly has not made normall camera?
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] LordManhattan:
Explain what? Why Sony implemented an OK lens, but paired it with ****ty software? I have no idea, but i hope Sony will fix it.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Lex_from_Belarus:
Explain why we don't have normal camera. Is the Sony don't have experience in the production of smartphone and camera?
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Reaper82:
If you're buying a phone to take DSLR quality pictures, you're going to have a bad time.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] hamdogg:
perhaps a better question is...

how they get the ice cream into those ice cream sandwiches???
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] Lex_from_Belarus:
It's not actually bucause we waiting KitKat :) I hope with normal camera.
[General Questions and Answers] amrahaniss:
while I was intalling the jeelyblast v3.0.3 (android4.1.1) on my samsung galaxy mini pop plus I also tried to flash the core plenus v2 but I couldn't and a message appreared saying error (status7)intalation aborted

I found a post on a forum that was saying to try another cwm but after trying multiple cwm's, it was still the same thing

do you have an answer please ? what can I do to solve this !
[General Questions and Answers] CLINTZ9:
Are you sure it's for your phone if yes

Go to the folder META_INF > COM > GOOGLE >

ANDROID open the updater script with notepad++ then remove the get prop lines n repack the zip your good to go :D

Hit thanks if I helped :D
[General Questions and Answers] amrahaniss:
I did it but now the phone don't want to turn on it stops in the picture of samsung galaxy mini gt-5570i what do i have to do now ?

( I tried to install the rom again but nothing still the same problem)
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Limeybastard:
Just wanted to know, when talking to folks on the phone ( coz it is a phone as well, right? ) I get the earpiece to clip or pop when the volume is too loud. Is this normal? I would have thought the software would have prevented this from occuring, or is it that my earpiece is duff? However, when I put the volume lower the pops and cracks go away but then I cannot hear the other party very well as its not too loud.

Do me a favour, next time someone calls you put the earpiece to max volume and come back with results, thanks.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] istealstuff:
Im trying to flash this rom I like. Its the nowizASOPmod rom. But when I flash the rom the wifi doesnt work. People say to flash a new kernel but what is a good kernel for it? And if I flash a new kernel can I get the old kernal back? (Im using stock kernel)

Heres the link for the rom.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2446861
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] ParkerParker:
Try a few, kt has been good for me :):beer: SPH-L720

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2288309Use

use this for all your tweaking /mod/kernel /rom ect needs,, good stuff :) stock kernel

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2303917

Ps if you decide on KT go here for some incredible setups!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2393708

LOL OK one more thing once you have it all running awesome throw R7 at it and you will be in go mode! :thumbup:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2411161
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] churchey360:
If the wifi don't work on a rom i wouldn't even use that rom.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pixellegolas:
Hi guys! Followed the simple guide of flashing a miui rom>

Install:

-1. Put MI-ustone-UIVxx.zip on Internal or External Storage

-2. Goto Recovery and Install MI-ustone-UIxx.zip

-3. Reboot to Recovery

-4. Goto Wipe Menu->Advanced Wipe and Check everything except USB OTG and SD (or what you want;- )

-5. Install again MI-ustone-UIxx.zip

-6. Wipe Cache/Dalvik after successfully install

-7. Reboot & Enjoy!

(Give it time to boot !)

I have rooted phone, places zip on internal. Installed the bootmanager that you install with a .apk file...XZ recovery? In that app I chose boot into recovery and worked. I then Installed zip file. Wiped some stuff and then wiped cache&dalvik. I went back to menu and tried to install zip again but did nothing. I then pressed BOOT and BOOT TO RECOVERY. After this I am experiencing black screen and bootloop. I press volume- volume+ and power etc but just get vibration on phone and nothing else.

What to do now?

Update: Trying to flash recovery with fastboot but getting error:

FAILED remote: command not allowed

Update: Downloaded stock 244 rom and flashed it and now phone is back to normal but no root :) So what was wrong?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] loadaverage:
it is really sad that this phone has no

usb mass storage (UMS)...

feels like a step backwards to me,

and i like the xperia solution of having

an internal storage, plus an "internal sd card",

plus the actual (external) sdcard.

this made UMS possible and easy,

and this is what LG should have done.

it is ok, that LG ditched the external sd card,

but killing UMS makes my life much harder.

all the wifi based solutions (like using an

ftp server, or the built in "wireless storage",

which is samba based, meh) need a router

and often being often on the road i need

to access the files "offline".

being on bsd, i cannot use PTP, MTP or the

LG provided software, any other methods

of getting/putting files without using wifi,

not needing a router?

ps. my notebook does not have bluetooth either...
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Itsaback:
I don't have a link for you, but San Disk Connect wireless storage might be the best option. IIRC the 16 GB is $49 (USD) on Amazon. Uses micro SD cards. They have other versions too.
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raikol:
Otg cable
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] gpoint:
Hello! Is there any way to put a direct shortcut to activesync via bluetooth?

I mean, not a shortcut to activesync then I need to click tools/connect overt bt. What I would like is a direct shortcut so when i click it it directly makes the connection.

Thx in advance for any advice =)
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Dandie:
I don't know of such a commandline switch, but you could help yourself out with using a macro tool like MortRunner. There you can save a macro set including stylus taps etc.