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[Xperia Z1 General] One Twelve:
Also you did not mention whether this is a 20MP or 8MP photo.

I wondered whether there was any advantage to taking a 20MP shot and oversampling on a pc to a lower resolution. Whether that may produce a better photo that in-phone as pc has more processing power and also more time to work and produce a better quality image. I understand that the oversampling is a chip level implementation so its quick whether any advantage can be gained doing this in post is unclear to me atm.

The thing about exposure is if there is enough light or the sensor was more sensitive then would those halos, artifacts etc be less. You got those artifacts because perceived light was lower than ideal. I might take a worse shot than you did with that picture where it could be even more pronounced. If there was a way to lock exposure like on other cameras do we get a better shot or not.

The answer which you do not want to hear is i would try to avoid that window during framing the shot. Its too hard to fix without a fill flash.

As for capabilities of Z1, i look forward and hope to see manual shutter speed control. If you compare with procamera on lumia that's the only parameter missing in the sony manual interface.
[Xperia Z1 General] logzz:
I had exactly these problems on the new .257 firmware so I changed back to the older one and what a difference the older one I have found to take much better photo's then the newer .257. I know a lot of people will disagree and say the 257 is much better but on my z1 I have found it to be the complete opposite
[Xperia Z1 General] jluster:
Yes, I do: "ISO 250, manual, slight +EV, 8MP 4:3" :)

The other thing about exposure is, however, that the best way to establish the (non-scientific) usability of a camera is to aim it around and take pictures of things the way people would, then look at them and ask yourself: would that make me/them happy? Heck, go to Walmart and print some glossies, whatever, find out if you can make photos you'd share.

Lumia's HDR stitching is more accurate and it doesn't fall off along the edges in luminescence. Where the Z1 has it beat is in color retention in lower lights, though.
[Xperia Z1 General] One Twelve:
My mistake :o

Would like you to comment on the other areas of the photo. Since you did not mention it do we assume the three areas are the only ones you were not satisfied with. For me the cluster around the window indicates a backlighting problem. underexposed subjects etc. Though i have to say you got a very well exposed photo there. So as to make me think this is the best that one can expect under the circumstances.

Will you tell us how you took that photo, back light scn mode or spot metering ?
[Xperia Z1 General] miki_69:
Here is another old vs new fw camera comparison:

http://www.soyacincau.com/2013/10/2...a-performance-compared-after-software-update/

In this particular photo, I don't see any improvements:

Cheers,

Miki
[Xperia Z1 General] One Twelve:
Here's one comparison with the c6903

.534

.257

DIfference is subtle, slightly cleaner in the .257
[Xperia Z1 General] gioiellino:
I have not this... but unfocus area
[Xperia Z1 General] LJE:
I thought I was the only one.

Kept reading everyone say the new firmware was a big improvement for the camera but every photo I took looked grainy. I took a photo of 2 of my boys yesterday in low light. Had -ev and it was the first 'decent' picture I had taken since I upgraded the firmware.

Then I realised that one of my kids was sharp/clear, but my other boy sitting beside him was out of focus.

Maybe he moved slightly and because of the longer shutter speed it caused the problem?

Although that's still only one good pic out of maybe 50.

It's not a big deal, I'll just downgrade the firmware after work as before the new firmware every photo was great.

Low light as well as sunny conditions the camera was a boss.

Another thing, my viewing angles are perfect.

Why do some Z1's look **** when viewed on a slight angle AND benefit from a newer firmware, and others look no different when looking at the phone almost flat AND suffer after a firmware upgrade?

When I check out my pics/videos from a mad angle the screen is bright as ****. I've seen footage where the phone is tilted and the screen looks ****. Definitely not the case with my phone.

Have they all got different parts in them?
[Xperia Z1 General] logzz:
I am starting to wonder if they do all have different parts I can confirm there is a difference in screens as I bought two z1 phones just for compare and I found one had a better screen with more contrast and saturated colours. And the one with the better screen had a slightly better camera too. But this new firmware really pissed me off for me it was a huge step backwards the camera I found to be a lot worse as I have said earlier. The battery life on the new firmware I found to be pathetic and also the screen colour I found to be worse. The only thing it did fix was the screen going all black but back light staying on. How ever I got random reboots twice on the new firmware.

Now on the other hand my friend bought a Samsung note 3 and the camera on that performs far better then the xperia z1 also. Im starting to wonder weather I should change to a note 3 as im starting to feel im just wasting my time with sony. The software engineers they have working on the firmware updates need to be shot. How hard can it really be to make a good firmware???? What is sony doing???? I suspect they will never get it right for everyone because of different parts being used all the time.
[Xperia Z1 General] LJE:
You bought 2 Z1's so you could compare the screen?

Really?
[Xperia Z1 General] logzz:
yes and they both had a very similar serial numbers but the screens were different, I have sold the other one now tho and kept the better one.
[Xperia Z1 General] jonmorris:
I've never had two phones of the same model with screens that look identical side by side. I'm sure the same applies to other displays and also TVs, which is why anyone in graphic design will pay to have monitors calibrated properly - and when you have video walls, these also need to be calibrated so one panel doesn't stand out.

But on their own, it's hard to tell which screen is 'right' or not.
[Xperia Z1 General] dexterxda:
I love my Xperia Z1. I have nothing to complain about aside from speaker and viewing angles which could be better, still it's not bad and improves on the Z. And the viewing angle issue seems to be less visible when you play a video. The only thing the camera is lacking is optical image stabilization. The focus is sometimes hit and more miss too. But overall, pictures are stunning for a phone (even in low light) but maybe I don't set the bar high enough. I've had the old and new firmware, was already happy with the old one and now I am happy with the new one. I quickly compared pictures with an iPhone 5 and it's easily on par.
[Xperia Z1 General] neilmc1983:
I had 2 Galaxy S3's and the screen were no where near the same even though all the display setting were the same. One was crisp, the whites were accurate yet the other one looked blurred and the colours gave off a brown tint.

Manufacturers othen have multiple displays in their phones due to suppply issues.

Totally possible the Z1 has more than one display in its line up.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fix_it_2000:
I flashed the Rom to readd the missing navigation buttons on the tablet and now I am unable to get wifi working.

Has anybody got a ROM or Backup I can reload to at least get my wifi working

I tried restoring to stock rom but the Rock drivers will not see my device and so I an only able to ADB and flash from SD:eek:
[Galaxy Note 3 General] zroice:
So you want to keep (knox) warranty and still use root?

Well there is RDLV and the "forbidden" Tool for that, BUT you will still have SELinux on enforcing mode, which means you don't have full control even with root. While technically most things still do work, they might work a lil different or need a different approach.

Lets collect our findings here...

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First of all, remounting system with apps like solid explorer does not seem to work.

A workaround for this is to run the following command in terminal or through quick terminal etc:

/system/bin/mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /system

This command gets through where other methods fail. Once you have mounted the system writable like this, you can go back to your root explorer app to delete things etc on system partition. Solid explorer gives me error messages still when I delete apps from /system/app/, but they still disappear / get deleted.

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This also brings me to my next workaround:

To delete system apps and not just freeze them with Titanium, you need to remount system like above and then delete the apks from the /system/app/ directory. A reboot should then remove everything else related to that app afaik. (like the /data/data/ of the app etc.)

Titanium on the other hand gives me an error when I try to delete a system app, even after remounting system to rw.

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If you want to edit things from your system partition, like build.prop etc. Copy them to your sd first and edit them there. Then mount system rw, and create a backup of the file you are editing. (make a copy and just append "_bak" or smth to the file name) And finally copy the sd file over the corresponding file in system. Make sure you check permissions before and after you copied everything and edit them if they do not match up.

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My final Tip for now:

I noticed that most root methods on SELinux (this includes RDLV and the forbidden one) use install-recovery.sh to start su as a system daemon which handles all the su requests. (as far as I understood it at least).

Well we can also use this file (or create an install-recovery-2.sh in /etc/ which gets called by the first one by default when you got the root) to run init.d scripts or other stuff.

I don't have tested it yet but I will put the code below once it works...

tbd

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hopefully we find a way to turn off this selinux enforcing mode while keeping knox warranty at some point.. - xposed framework might be the answer but not sure - in theory its able to overwrite all methods used by apps. (but I guess selinux above xposed still in system rights and therefore cannot be affected by it?)
[Galaxy Note 3 General] zroice:
And another one:

Don't like this big n clunky user interface? The DPI for the Note 3 is set to 480, thats for old people! If you have want things a bit more refined and more "space" on the screen, edit your build.prop (like I mentioned above) and set the "ro.sf.lcd_density" value down.

I used 360 instead of 480 and that seems perfect to me. It looks like 240 DPI used to look on the Note 1. - You could try 320 or 400 as well.

If you want to set the dpi of individual apps, install xposed and the app settings module. (I would still set browser to 360 or even 320 dpi, 400 is just too much - the adress bar is so damn huge still)
[Galaxy Note 3 General] dallastx:
Glad to see you still at it homie. Kingoapp is great. "Google kingoapp" anyone needing help. Just don't post any links please.

Sent from Heaven.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] zroice:
Definitely try out at least the dpi change to 360 or 400, that one is golden =). (nothing special but still..)

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so far I haven't found anything that does not work at least with a workaround. Some apps do not work as supposed, but thats because they havent adapted yet to the new environment as far as I can tell. And yea, you cannot edit the selinux stuff or turn it off (at least not easy) but thats it. What I did not yet try, which is for risk-friendly people only anyway, is to mess with the efs folder. (you can change your devices mac there, good for privacy concerns hehe). Could be that selinux blocks that one as well, but other than that most things work alright. Just no custom recovery yet, but this could maybe be made possible through the install-recovery.sh file, telling it to start up a custom recovery but not actually flashing it hard onto the device.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] dallastx:
Reboot apps I can't get to work. You know the apps that restart phone, bootloader etc... Even through the side 4 button mod. I can only reboot through factory restart. Pressing the power button and using the default restart button.

Sent from Heaven.

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Yea I always do DPI changes for Gmail , browser, settings, and few other apps

Sent from Heaven.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] zroice:
aww yea youre right - I havent got any app to reboot the phone yet, only the normal reboot through the stock power menu works for me. Didnt try terminal yet.

Maybe not "reboot" but "shutdown -r now"
[Galaxy Note 3 General] TheAvatar:
The 4 way reboot menu from Wanam's xposed module works fine for me if you wanted to check that out.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] JohnnyRebel:
I got one. Enter download mode by powering off. Then hold volume_down+home+power then press volume_up when promtped. Ok now this is what blows my mind. Everyone says pull battery to exit. I did this and the center off my screen looked messed up for about 8 seconds and I thought there must be a better way. Guess what to exit just hold power by itself for about 10 secs and you reboot out of download mode. Great easy way to check counter and no longer have to remove case, battery, etc.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] dallastx:
Yea i tried it but didnt work... It may of been conflicting with other apps. But what root method are you using?

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Yea i have always got out of download mode on Note 3 by just holding power button.

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Only reason i wouldn't change the DPI for everything because some apps will look crazy. Then you will have apps also like the play store that may not work correctly.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] zroice:
good finding! (lol i couldve came up with this myself lol - holding power long enough always does a forced reboot).

I noticed too that when you pull the battery that sometimes you get lines on the screen - really scary, thought I messed up my device but after like 10 seconds or so they disappeared. But definitely something you want to avoid!

Holding down power to exit the download mode instead of pulling battery from now on.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] ultramag69:
I use Rootr Browser Pro... I can delete things out of the system partition and write into the system partition (after setting it for root privelege in settings and supersu) however I can''t just overwrite files.... The file I wish to overwrite must 1st be deleted or renamed,usually with .bak. Haven't had to use terminal.

Another handy tip, in the CSC folder, rename the customer.xls to customer.xls.bak and then a new option will be available in the settings/device/lock screen menu to add app shortcuts to the lock screen

if you add this code to the others.xml file AFTER <FeatureSet> and BEFORE </FeatureSet>

<CscFeature_Sip_UseSymbolInCMKey>true</CscFeature_Sip_UseSymbolInCMKey>

<CscFeature_Sip_EnableSymbolInSecondary>en_GB;en_U S;de;fr;es;it</CscFeature_Sip_EnableSymbolInSecondary>

You will then enable sub symbols on the default keyboard.

Works a dream...
[Galaxy Note 3 General] zroice:
wait a minute - the 4 way reboot does work for you? Are you on Knox 0x0 still? And SELinux status enforcing? For me no "reboot" apps seem to work. They all just try to reboot (and SELinux denies it then most likely)

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one other problem occured: when using xprivacy and deinstalling an app the system locks up. Can someone confirm this?
[Galaxy Note 3 General] khaytsus:
Why do people insist on DELETING apps from system? Just use pm disable, sheesh.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] zroice:
The xprivacy lockup also happens with user apps deinstallation. Just want to make sure its not me or my setup but xprivacy thats causing this. I turned it off and it works, turn it on, device hangs on deinstallations.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] Black Moon:
Yeah, thanks for the tip. I used xpose app setting to set my nova launcher to be about 400. I will try modify the build.prop then.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] dallastx:
Ok so what i did to quickly update to mj4 since it is now live. "you will lose root and everything on internal storage so back it up"

Be sure make COPY of backup of your titanium folder if use NOVA be sure to do a backup of your current layout. Copy these folders to your EXTsd. Remove card afterwards.

I was rooted so i kept getting "Cant up dated Modded system". Even unrooting i cant getting Modded system. I use almost the same root method as OP uses called kingoapp "cant provide links so google is your friend"

Anyhow.. i wanted to make sure i didnt trip KNOX and grew impatient for an update.zip. I didnt want to flash anything through ODIN, so i figured would use Kies.

Kies will see your phone as already updated. At the top of the app if you click tools then "firmware and initialization" Kies will override whatever is on your phone and update to mI5. This will take about 30 min but much quicker then trying to download the entire stock firmware from hotfile.

Once your phone is up go ahead and go to to settings on you phone and system update. Update will run and restart your phone. You are now on the latest firmware mj4.

Reroot and reinstall SD card. You are now rooted on latest update.

Notes - I tried everything to try to trick system to thinking its not modded including unrooting. Nothing worked reasoning i resorted to flashing through Kies.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] zroice:
Ohh theres an update? Well I bought a 2nd note today - couldnt resist it was 500€ only (they usually go for about 550 here). And mine had some display issues... gonna sell the first one and keep second - screen is better. Anyway, I got to redo everything now and restore the "old one" to stock.

To restore stock safely I would always suggest using Kies and doing a forced firmware update like dallas described. I read that flashing the same firmware twice with odin can already trip knox. (at least if you were tempering with the system)

But note that this will most likely update the bootloader of your phone as well.

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Now I got the old bootloader on my new and still branded n3 - can someone explain what the difference actually is to the new bootloader? I mean both don't allow SELinux permissive, and both can be rooted (at least with the "tool")?

On S4 etc I understand that new firmware version introduced knox, and that there was firmware out without knox, but if you upgraded once you couldnt go back. But there are no knox free firmwares for the n3 are there? (I mean stock ones)
[Galaxy Note 3 General] dallastx:
Yea go ahead and do all your updates then root. I think the update may me just for Sprint N900p.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] valtersboze:
so there is still no way to get rid of "enforcing selinux" without tripping knox counter?

need this only to get my OTG cable to USB OBD working, seems SELinux is blocking serial usb communication :/
[Galaxy Note 3 General] TheAvatar:
Sorry for the late reply. I was Knox 0x0, used Root De La Vega, installed xposed framework then grabbed wanam from the play store. Just had to enable it and it was all good.
[Galaxy Note 3 General] joytest:
Hasn't anyone tried the app Quick Boot ?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.siriusapplications.quickboot&hl=en
[Galaxy Note 3 General] geek78:
I use it. Why ?
[Galaxy Note 3 General] zroice:
yea it was a problem on my "old" note3 only - seems the kingo root I had there was not really fully working - or it was because of the updated bootloader
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] abz_y2k:
when i install any programs it automatically saves on the phone is there any way of saving files n programs on sd card?
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] westentertainer:
hi i have a Google se rom on my phone are there any themes about for it cheers for your time
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PiPoLiNiO:
Welcome.

How many knows there is a problem Note 3 purple glow in low illumination. It helps to adjust the contrast of the program at the 8 Screen Adjuster. Unfortunately, there is still notification of its action, and this program is blocking the installation of any application does not work on the INSTALL button.

Is there someone who could do the script / mod to change the contrast to 8, as in this program?

Regards

Wysłane z mojego SM-N9005 za pomocą Tapatalk 2
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Slappy_G:
Sorry if I'm missing something, but I have never seen a Contrast option in my GN3 settings... What setting specifically are you trying to get changed? Can you tell us the exact set of steps to get to that option?

If you're referring only to the Screen Adjuster app, all it does is place a colored overlay on the screen.

We may be able to help you with more information.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] soupmagnet:
Thread closed
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Meraklis56:
I have missed lot of news about custom roms that are not stock-based. Did they make to use s-health (or even the camera.apk) to any rom besides touch wiz?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KruseLudsMobile:
I know the Adobe Flash Player is supposed to be deprecated and no longer supported, but what about accessing websites that require it? Does the Adobe Air that is in the play store work for this?

Sent from my Galaxy Note III; Previous owner/hacker of Galaxy S III, Galaxy Nexus, Droid X, HTC HD2, HTC Touch Pro 2, HTC Tilt, HTC 8525, O2 XDA II, O2 XDA.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KruseLudsMobile:
Sent from my Galaxy Note III; Previous owner/hacker of Galaxy S III, Galaxy Nexus, Droid X, HTC HD2, HTC Touch Pro 2, HTC Tilt, HTC 8525, O2 XDA II, O2 XDA.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KruseLudsMobile:
I've got the file in my downloads and under security I turned on the ability to install apps from places other than the Google Play Store. When I try to run the file downloaded to install it, I get a Window with two buttons; Cancel and Install. When I click on Install - nothing happens. The Cancel button works but not the Install button. What gives?

Sent from my Galaxy Note III; Previous owner/hacker of Galaxy S III, Galaxy Nexus, Droid X, HTC HD2, HTC Touch Pro 2, HTC Tilt, HTC 8525, O2 XDA II, O2 XDA.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RollsReus™:
Mhm. Did not know that you could get it for 4.X at all. Thanks :)
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KruseLudsMobile:
If you could help me figure out how to install the freaking thing I would be ever so grateful.

Sent from my Galaxy Note III; Previous owner/hacker of Galaxy S III, Galaxy Nexus, Droid X, HTC HD2, HTC Touch Pro 2, HTC Tilt, HTC 8525, O2 XDA II, O2 XDA.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RollsReus™:
Just scroll down to the Android versions. Download and install it. What seems to be so hard?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KruseLudsMobile:
I use JuiceDefender and I had to disable that to install the FlashPlayer. Long story unless you are a heavy JuiceDefender user...

Sent from my Galaxy Note III; Previous owner/hacker of Galaxy S III, Galaxy Nexus, Droid X, HTC HD2, HTC Touch Pro 2, HTC Tilt, HTC 8525, O2 XDA II, O2 XDA.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RollsReus™:
I've used JD, but probably not as heavy as you. I've never used it om any 2.X ROMs so I dunno how it works with Flash Player on those. Isn't there a setting for most things including Flash Player? I think you could manually customize the settings instead of using the presets.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] lthary:
Anyone have the MovieTube v3.1 apk to share? I can't find the app in play store any more:(
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] SEscobedo:
Just use XBMC.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Themes and Apps] graydiggy:
You won't find the app in the play store and you won't find it here. What you are asking for is access to the ability to watch copyrighted movies for free. That is warez and warez is not allowed on XDA. Please do not ask for this stuff.