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[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ffp.:
The problem is if they return a phone with the same problem.
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eclyptos:
They should be aware about this issue even on the new device so at this time they probably will check that but if they return a phone with the same problem, I will send it back again like many did. Someone had to replace the phone 3 times and I will do the same.
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ffp.:
IYeah, you will be a long time without your phone though. I think I'll wait a bit since i rarely get the error and actually only when i try to reproduce it. How bad was yours?
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eclyptos:
What I can do, I want a fully working Z1, I paid for it.

I was able to reproduce the problem in many ways, Touch Screen Test, Opening the phone with Patterns, Scrolling Pages or with Launcher instead of switch the page it was opening the applications and at last when I was gaming at one point the touch stopped working and I had to wait, so this made my mind to send it back. On daily use was all ok but in some circumstances was frustrating.
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stianly:
i had the problem with cm11. and when I retored to stock then the problem was gone:S
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ffp.:
I'm on stock and I got the problem.

Today for the first time I got the problem when writing on handrite. So I thought about using my phone warranty to get anotehr one. But it don't always fails when i do the method to reproduce it. So, how do you test if your new phone is working and how do you prove that it isn't? I mean what if i take the phone to warranty and it works?

And for you who already changed phone, it is working?
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ghostman2:
For me after the 3rd change is working now, here is what i did: i recorded the error and send it togheter with the phone. They saw the video and changed imediately.
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ffp.:
Did youu made the method to reproduce and it didn't failed? For how long do you have the 3rd phone?
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ghostman2:
It fails sometimes but i tried at least 4 times to reproduce the problem... I reached 1 and a half week with 3rd phone, everything so far so good!! :D
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ffp.:
What you mean with "it fails sometimes" and "so far so good" ? Did it failed or not? Or it failed but only when you tried to reproduce?
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ghostman2:
When i say sometimes it fails is because i cant reproduce the problem, i tried 5 times for example but Just 3 tries i was able to reproduce it. When i say so far so good it means that is working perfectly, no problems anymore.
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Clownzer:
Has anyone noticed this issue on the Z1s?
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eclyptos:
Are you kidding? I hope Sony fixed this in new devices if not it's a kind of joke.
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Clownzer:
No I wasn't kidding it was more of a question to the masses. I was asking as my Z1S arrives today.
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eclyptos:
So test it and see by your self and if the issues still there even on new Z1s you should open a thread to inform the people about this.
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ghostman2:
Oh man God bless you, if your Z1s come with this issue it will be a disaster, 2 generations of problematic phones....... But im optimistic, its impossible that they launch a phone with the same problem.......
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dlads:
This problem only occurs (for me anyway) when the phone is laying on a flat surface, if it's in either of my hands then it's fine.

Strange that my last Z1 didn't have this issue, I read that lowering the pointer speed in language and input can help with the issue but it didn't for me, I suppose I'll just keep my phone in my hand if I need it.

To reproduce the error, place the phone on a surface (wood for example) then open your phone to the lock screen and use a circular motion but don't let go of the screen, if it unlocks then that's a break in contact.

Next replicate the issue while holding the phone in your hand, same circular motion on the lockscreen and it shouldn't unlock.

Make sure you don't have a case on at the time.

It's just a theory at the moment but my guess is that a particular material would be able to fix this issue if embalmed around the handset, so certain cases could actually help this issue.

I am also using a screen protector, just the one that came in the box, been put on perfectly, not a dent or bubble or blemish.

I'm running Monx's 4.3 rom with Doom kernel and my bootloader is unlocked, with a factory unlocked handset.
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ghostman2:
2 weeks now, everything just perfect, no more touch problems. ;D
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] misterlouis76:
Hi everybody!

I own a Xperia S (so you will ask why do I post in this topic for the Z1 - I'd like to buy this phone in a few weeks) and I've also this touch screen problem.. So I don't think it is Z1-related, and Z1s might be concerned (xperia s : beggining of 2012, xperia z1 mi 2013.. Bravo Sony!), but I don't hope !

[MENTION=4540343]ghostman2[/MENTION] : So after the 3rd replacement you got a fully-working touchscreen ? That's better than nothing, but they could have fixed the problem 1st time.

I really wanted to buy this phone, but if the problem is still persisting..
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ghostman2:
Yeah, now its perfect, but instead i sent my z1 to repair i tried ti change the phone but i was unlucky and got 2 problematic ones, so at the 3rd try i tested it inside the store and is all fine...

If you want to buy just test it inside the store, pick the phone and see if will appears any problems...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ladkvayo:
Dear Friend

I have xperia arc s, LT18i, Build no.4.1.A.0.562 with 4.0.3 Android version,

Can I flash my mobile with Super Jelly Bean 8.0 Main Rom, that is given in below link in this thread,

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=47645856&postcount=1911&nocache=1&nocache=1

Pls upload screenshot for flashing mobile, so we can easily flash.

regards

Amit
[Galaxy S 4 Active Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
First few things: I've searched already, can't find any similar threads that actually help. I have the international version. I was running the CM10.2 Rom prior to 'the accident'. I will put a bounty on this if I have to.

There's a bit of a story to this so I'll go over it all - not sure what's relevant.

I've been running out of storage for days, a 64GB SD card is in the mail. I currently have an 8GB one as well as the internal 16GB, both of which were near full, but the external one had relatively more than the internal one, so I decided to use foldermount and link2SD to move some space over. That all went fairly well.

This morning I got invited to the Aviate Beta launcher, which looked interesting. Tried to install, didn't have enough space. So I decided to make a backup of Nova, go into the play store, uninstall nova to free up space and then install Aviate without leaving the playstore. It worked, turns out I don't like Aviate much, so I worked backwards. Uninstalled Aviate, went to install Nova. Not enough space (idk how). Uh oh.

So I deleted some less-necessary apps that I could reinstall later. Not enough storage. Notification comes up in the bar along the lines of "storage critically low, device may malfunction". Now whenever I attempted to enter settings, the process crashed. Great. Simple fix, flash a NANDroid back-up in CWM. I can't remember what the message was, but there was something wrong with the back-up.

Wiped everything and tried to flash CM10.2 from the external SD Card but it wouldn't mount. Data also wouldn't mount. I tried several SD Cards ( ie about 10, different brands, sizes, classes, etc out of hope). So I decided I'll open up and Odin and just re-do everything per /showthread.php?t=2387980.

Turn the phone back on, stock Jelly Bean lockscreen was there, and once unlocked only the notification bar was there (no launcher). So I used different versions of Odin, different cables, downloaded the image several times, etc etc. Nothing fixed it. In fact, it's worse now. after booting past the Samsung logo, the screen just goes black now. smh

Can anyone help? It would be extremely appreciated. It's also a time sensitive issue as I need the device for work on Monday.

Sorry if I've missed anything. Yes I'm a noob, but you great people at XDA have helped a lot of people out before so I'm hoping you can help me.

Thanks!
[Galaxy S 4 Active Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Sorry to bump...

... getting pretty desperate. $50 for anyone who can provide information that leads to the fixing of the device by the end of the day (AEST). Paypal or bank transfer. PM me or post below.

EDIT: 101 views and no-one knows anything? If you know it's unrecoverable, please say so.
[Galaxy S 4 Active Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Devo7v:
I'm going to assume you have the i9295, but have you tried Kies? I want aware that there was an Odin package for your phone.
[Galaxy S 4 Active Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Yes, the i9295 - the international version. The Odin md5 can be found on this thread: /showthread.php?t=2387980.

Sorry if this sounds rude (it's not, I just don't know how to use kies) but what's that supposed to do? I can't find a way for Kies to fix anything... I tried this thread: /showthread.php?t=1984717 but when I have to enter my phone model (GT-i9295) it says "Please check the model name and enter it" and closes the pop-up window within kies. Any more help?

Thanks for trying so far.
[Galaxy S 4 Active Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Sorry for bumping but i need this fix. $100 to the first person who can fix this by Monday.
[Galaxy S 4 Active Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
I can't possibly believe that no-one knows how to fix this, or at least whether it's fixable or not. Is anyone willing to answer my question?
[Galaxy S 4 Active Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bartbig:
Check this threads or ask the guys who helped me there, they are Awesome

So after boot you get an totally black screen? Only theorigial Samsung boot logo before it turns dark?

I had this problem twice, but can you tell me if you start the phone after the dark screen do you have sound (like the phone still works, but only no screen) or nothing?

The first time i had sound, need to say that i never solved this problem, re-installed stock firmware, (recovery still works, you only need to know wat to puch) Unrooted my phone, and send it in for waranty, They send me a new phone, never know what was the problem, it can be o broken screen, but i never believed it totally... check this thread for that: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2363185&page=9

The other time i had this i installed a other CWM Recovery Version, i had one installed, but some problems with it, installed an other version, after Reboot the Same Samsung Logo...Dark screen, installed this CWM: http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2464887&d=1387533161

Good Luck with it M8
[Galaxy S 4 Active Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mythi:
Here is something that could/couldn't help you...

I am not sure/not tested this so i am not responsible for anything that happenes to your phone

1.DOWNLOAD A STOCK FRESH SAMMY ROM FROM SAMMOBILE

2.Use odin3.7

3.Open ODIN AND CHOOSE PDA THEN CHOOSE THE FIRMWARE YOU EXTRACTED /DOWNLOADED

4.Now flash the firmware

5.When reached at the state you previsouly in reboot to download mode again and do step 3 again

6.Now download the pit file from HERE

7.In odin screen make sure 3 buttons are checked F.rest time , auto reboot , REPARTITION

8.Now choose frimware in pda

9.CHOOSE THE FILE YOU HAVE ALREADY DOWNLOADED FROM ATTACHMENT IN SIDE THE PIT BOX LIKE THE PICTURE UNDER

10.hit start and let the device flash like normal

11.it will auto reboot ...hope this fixes your issue

THE PIT FILE IS CALLED i9295.pit and is from here

HERE IS SOME INFO ABOUT PIT FILES

What are pit files ?

What do pit files really do ?

NOTE: I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE IF THIS WILL MAKE THINGS EVEN WORSE :o

make a try and let me know
[Galaxy S 4 Active Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zepoy:
try this too..

When my DATA is not mounting, i feel bad as well for in my case, i can't do what mythi's solution by flashing PIT file and stock rom using odin, coz my usb port isn't functioning anymore.. in short, my phone is just charging and not syncing to PC anymore... what i did is go to cwm, tried to mount /data there but gives me an error... what i did next is format /data and /data/media (/sdcard) then flash the new cm11 KITKAT they just finished building... reboot, waited for 2 min or so, boom my phone is back to life..
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cerberusiscute:
Same as title...
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chochiwpg:
I chose one of the themed ones from the below link. Works great and looks great IMO

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2519733

I also recommend Chomp SMS from the Play Store, lots of customization with that app. :good:
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SprigganMaster:
I use Textsecure.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ben36:
8sms
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HenryDCase:
Hangouts as it works great for sms and picture mms to both cell and Hangouts/gtalk. Once Google Voice is fully Integrated I'll be very very pleased.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iPsychoGeek:
Hello sms is pretty good. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hellotext.hello
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hellrespawn:
Hangouts, nice and simple.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Inverted AOSP messaging

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[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zepius:
sliding messaging - handles my GV number
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jhealy:
Textra

Does anyone have an app that has .gif support via text?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tagratt:
+1 for 8sms simple, basic, works.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skttrbrain:
+1 more for 8sms. It's a port of the AOSP SMS app, but with a lot of extra features. Plus it comes with a dark skin, so the people using the inverted AOSP app should also give it a try. As a bonus, the dev is also extremely responsive to feature requests.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
What are the extra features that you think "make it"?

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[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cephaus:
Textra. Pretty ****ing good. native quick reply support also.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] skttrbrain:
Quick reply via the notification bar is probably the single best feature, in fact I'd say it's the single feature that sold me on it the most. Plus since it's heavily based on the AOSP SMS app, it feels a lot more Android-y than others like Ninja or Textra (which is far too iOS-y for me) do.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Decimation:
NinjaSMS I like the HALO style pop-ups
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danarama:
Hmmm. I already have that ...

Installed it...

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[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cerberusiscute:
Thank you guys for the replies!

I am going to check out 8sms
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] _MetalHead_:
AOSP mms
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] P.Mobile:
8sms!! FTW!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] genescuff:
Another vote for 8sms. It has some good features (quick reply, delivery/read reports, different led settings, custom vibrate pattern, just to name a few) but keeps a really clean, simple look.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BTG-XCELL:
Tried using Hangouts for a while, but just didn't like it. Moved on to Hello SMS which has a great UI, but it felt very basic and concerns over privacy policy and them spamming you to text your contacts to download Hello had me uninstall it. Been using 8sms ever since and it's probably what I'm going to stick with, stock-like experience and very feature-rich.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
I use Hangouts, nothing's wrong with it.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] charesa39:
Ditto.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Web_E:
Going to give a try to 8sms.

Don't kill me for the following sentence :P

Using gosms (patched with lucky patcher to get rid of ads.. excessive ad) with google UI ICS Theme
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GavinMazey:
Been using 8sms since I got the phone. Works great
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] havy15:
Another 8sms user its really great love the features and love the way its simple . also quick reply is snappy and has a built in led changer :)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aagvain:
used 8sms for a while. right now diggin textra
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Trel:
I use ChompSMS currently.

I just was emailing the dev last night and they fixed the issue I was having on 4.4 (which was it was masking the name in the notification pull down as if privacy was turned on even when it wasn't). I'm betting that fix will hit the market soon if anyone else is having it.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pwrmedia:
Using Hangouts w/ no issues; looks like they fixed the MMS headaches that were encountered early during the SMS integration late last year.

IMO, if I'm going to go w/ a full Google phone experience, i'm going to go w/ as many Google apps as possible to handle basic phone features.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PhilipTD:
Agreed. And, I'm looking forward to ever-increasing seamless integration amongst them, too.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ej8989:
Textra. Simple and fast.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pwrmedia:
Exactly.

Can honestly say that, out of all the phones I've had over the years (particularly the Android-based ones), I've never had a phone operate as smoothly as the Nexus 5.

I've rooted it only to modify the LCD density and flash the bionic lib files for ART, but have had no itch to ROM it up as with phones past. Everything just...works, with the least amount of lag I've ever experienced. I'm not even as pressed about the 16GB storage as I thought I would be, as I've been trained to utilize cloud storage over the last few years.

But I digress from the topic of this thread...

Hangouts is simple enough for what it needs to do, and the UI is fine for my needs. Same can be said for G-Mail, GV, the native mail app, etc...

The only 3rd party app I'm truly going to miss is GrooveIP when it's rumored to lose its functionality mid May '14.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] D33KK:
I love textra!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raymond4:
Evolve sms
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingblind:
I have been using Textra.. Good product and amazing dev support.. give it a try!!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Trel:
I dislike Textra because it maintains its own database of texts rather than use the Android one.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AceKingNYC:
Hangouts, I have yet to try anything else. The only thing I dont particularly like is that I cant edit my hangouts chat peoples from there easily. I feel its easier to edit from Gmail but i dont hangouts chat with many people. mainly SMS and MMS....works as I need
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rbs_uk:
Textra
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yyz71:
Hangouts
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Just tried this out today, awesome sms app, just needs a few more things ironed out
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scottjb:
Why do you say that? When I switch from Textra to Hangouts I see all the same messages. If Textra had its own database, I wouldn't see Textra messages in Hangouts. Am I missing something?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] F4M0U569:
Using holo dark aosp sms as the ones on the play store always seem to have problems. Always something
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nym27jrey:
Hangouts is pretty damn good. If they could merge SMS with hangouts messages from the same person, then it would be perfect.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DefTaker:
+1 Textra - lightweight app, no battery drain, has gif support, group sms...all-in-all, it just plain works. :good:
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] beaver2233:
sliding messaging... lots of options + it's unique.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jalexishg:
EvolveSms best one so far!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Trel:
Do this,

-Install textra, set it as the default app. Let it get set up.

-Send a message from Textra

-Go to any other SMS program, the text will be there

-Switch the other to default

-Send a text via that program

-Open up Textra, that text will not be showing.

While it writes all the texts it sends, it maintains its list of them separately and only imports the android on on install, so the only way to get texts to show up is to reinstall or wipe the app's data.

Normally not an issue, except if you're backingup/restoring texts with a separate program.

It will back up fine, but the restore won't show in Textra.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scottjb:
You're correct. The text I sent from another app did not appear in Textra, but the reply did appear in Textra. Makes it difficult to follow the conversation!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Trel:
Because of that, until they add a way to re-sync messages without wiping all my settings (or just use the Android DB), I can't rely on Textra.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k9cop:
+1 for Hangouts. I see your point. I had a point to make about it, but it's gone. I'll edit this later perhaps. :banghead:
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tokuzumi:
Since my number has been ported to Google Voice, I use that. Once they support gv texts in hangouts, I'll use that.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bhillegass:
Hangouts here.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tripleboolean:
Evolve and Textra are both very interesting. But I always find myself going back to Hangouts. Something just feels right about it. I believe Google will soon straighten all the tiny bugs so I'll keep rolling with it until then.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jhealy:
Edit: I confused Textra and 8sms.

Can you send your own gifs through Textra, the ones you download and save from the internet or just the built in ones?
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DefTaker:
I don't know if I can send my own or not...haven't tried it. In fact, I just now tried sending in the built-in ones and the built-in ones work fine. Looking thru the app though it doesn't look like you can but maybe if you have a .gif file and just attach it as a photo it might go thru? :confused:

I don't know and I don't have any of my own gif files on teh phone so I can't try it.

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Evolve looks really slick with a great GUI but all the reviews are slamming it for being buggy. I may jump from Textra to Evolve though if they can get it stable.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joemon871:
Try evolveSMS :)
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] beaver2233:
it's made by the same people that made sliding messaging, so in that regard it will be updated a lot and these bugs etc will be fixed.
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joemon871:
There has been an update for this app everyday this week so I'm sure it'll be stable soon. It's a little slow to open up but other than that, not bad at all
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] namurt:
sliding messaging for now, until evolvesms matures a bit.

evolve is just so damn sexy!
[Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tokuzumi:
Just looking at the screenshots, evolve looks to have the same interface as hangouts. Is there something that makes evolve stand out, over hangouts?