yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Xperia Z1 General] risogalo:
Like I already mentioned above - this problem occurs with screen protector/case & without!!

And after updating to 4.3 I could see slightly improvements! :)

These pictures where taken with the intention not reflecting the light from my fingers!!!

So you can see I already tried almost everything!! :(
[Xperia Z1 General] risogalo:
But also in general I expected a better performance of the camera!!

The HDR Mode can only be used with still objects!!??

Who came up with this s**t!?

With my mothers iPhone 4s I can take better HDR pictures!! :( :(

but anyway, is there any solution? Do you think Sony can solve this problem (by replacing my phone)?

Because I already talked to the Sony Support, and they said that I should update my phone or doing a reset!

So the support wasn't that problem-solving! :( :(
[Xperia Z1 General] eclyptos:
It's not Hardware or Software related, can be with software improved but the main reason is the position of the flash, it's too close to the lens. [MENTION=5328043]Kirkymole[/MENTION] already said this. Some people do not take in consideration this issue because with some settings can be improved the quality of the pictures but I actually do not paid a lot of money to waste my time to set up my camera all the time to avoid the white marks on my pictures. Nobody can said I am wrong if I said this, if the flash will be far away from the lens we will get better pictures in low light.
[Xperia Z1 General] Vengeance66:
Try with reduced Exposure. In Manual mode you can decrease the Exposure. I tried with decreased Exposure and the picture was way better.
[Xperia Z1 General] One Twelve:
Can you use flickr or dropbox to upload the originals ?
[Xperia Z1 General] risogalo:
I tried to send you a message cause im not able to post links yet! Did you received it?
[Xperia Z1 General] One Twelve:
Yes here is the link if others want to see them.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0ualb3s8g3vbomz/OxYqmXwU3E
[Xperia Z1 General] One Twelve:
See this

thread

on the sony board.

One of the posts intriuged me..

can you confirm whether any of the above is relevant in your case ?
[Xperia Z1 General] SleemLDJ:
I have the white version and have this issue as well. I've been taking most of my pictures without flash anyway and they turn out great.
[Xperia Z1 General] nikola1970:
Guys just clean lens and flash area well an you are all good! Just try it and report results please! :)
[Xperia Z1 General] olokos:
This actually never happened to me. Either on initial firmware nor 534 nor 290.

Wysłane z mojego C6903 przy użyciu Tapatalka
[Xperia Z1 General] risogalo:
So I tried everything out (again), and I came to the conclusion that the issue is caused by the reflection of my finger... but this time i held my phone like an idiot, and captured the photo with the physical button!

Nevertheless i can barely see a white area i think the problem is solved now...

Thank you for your help!! :o
[Xperia Z1 General] risogalo:
i'll try that too!

Thanks man! :o
[Xperia Z1 General] eclyptos:
Never happen to have white ghost in the pictures?
[Xperia Z1 General] One Twelve:
No need to be embarassed, i've seen this same problem crop up a number of times, its good to have some understanding as to why it happens :)
[Xperia Z1 General] olokos:
Nope. Never. I've done quite a lot photos already and never had this issue.
[Xperia Z1 General] eclyptos:
Are you sure you using the Xperia Z1? :D :laugh:
[Xperia Z1 General] olokos:
Lol, of course I am... I can upload a few pictures with flash later if you want. Macro mode. Tapatalk fails to upload them for some reason.

Wysłane z mojego C6903 przy użyciu Tapatalka
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] tahdor:
I installed google calendar thinking that it will update the existing calendar. But it crated another instance of calendar. So I uninstalled it. Now the native calendar app does not sync to google calendars.

When I go in calendar app Settings->Calendars->"Calendars to Sync". I do not see google calendars (only device and my exchange cal). Then I hit ok. I hit Calendars to Sync again, This time I see google calendars but un selected. I select those and hit ok. I still do not see the google calendar events.

When I to calendar app Settings->Calendars->"Calendars to Sync". Again the google calendars are missing. Then I hit ok. I hit Calendars to Sync again, This time I see google calendars but un selected. I select those and hit ok and still no google calendar.

I have repeated above cyle many times no effect. I rebooted the phone, I went to settings, all apps, calendar, stop, delete data. Nothing seems to work. I checked in Settings ->Gooogle->Sync. "Sync Calendar" is selected.

Any body know any remedy ?

Thanks in advance.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] tahdor:
Replying my own post. Got it working. I had to go to settings->Apps->All Aps. Now delete data and disable "Calendar" and "Calendar Storage" apps. Then enabled those again. Now google calendar was working, but exchange calendar stopped syncing. I deleted the exchange account and added it again. Now everything is working.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] starterz:
This worked great on an Xperia T3. Thank you.
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] BGentle:
Tx a lot

My problem was a bit different, I have 4 google calendars and one was missing in the app...

I tried your method and it worked perfectly

it was on a french XPeria Z3 compact

the name of the apps in french are "Agenda" and "Stockage de l'agenda"

Tx for this precious help,

BR

Etienne
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] dcaceres89:
Thanks dude, you are the best! solved my problem at least!
[Sony Xperia Z Ultra] rehbstar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26TeXEX8W_c
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phaneendra_gowda:
I guess many of them having the same question including me ,when there will be one click rooting software will be coming for android 4.3 (.290)....If anyone having idea please do share with us ...thanks
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shem2409:
Most likely this will NEVER happen. It is too difficult to find a root exploit and if there is an alternative solution there simply is no point for developers to waste their time on that.

Here is a rooting guide:

[YOUTUBE]1aq9YTlfCgc[/YOUTUBE]

NEXT TIME ASK YOUR QUESTIONS IN Q&A SECTION !!!
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eclyptos:
Too easy! :laugh:
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tonian1878:
4.4 is just round the corner. may as well wait for that
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shem2409:
And how does that change anything? Rooting 4.4 will most likely be achieved in exactly the same way. So you might as well get root now and then just flash a prerooted version once 4.4 comes out.

One click rooting solutions are provided only when an exploit is found in a firmware. The newer the firmware the harder they are to find, that's why its easier to just use an already discovered one in lower firmware version by downgrading.
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tonian1878:
Why look for an exploit in 4.3 when most of us will be upgrading to 4.4 within the next 2 months. alot of work looking for an exploit in what is really a temporary firmware for us and could very well be patched up in 4.4, like 4.2 to 4.3 was.

May as well wait for 4.4 and then look for the exploit
[Asus Transformer TF700] lartomar2002:
I am using Cromix 5.2.3, Stock browser and Asus and Google keyboards. Today I was trying to reply to an article in TechCrunch. I noticed as I was typing no letters were appearing in the comments box. I have noticed this same behavior on other sites as well but never have I gotten frustrated enough to post here about, but today I did.;)
[Asus Transformer TF700] flhthemi:
Happens to me all the time with a stock 700. Have to back out of the browser and start over. I usually just get up and go to the PC and give up on this tablet.
[Asus Transformer TF700] berndblb:
That happened to me once - now if only I wouldn't have this severe case of CRS....

But I believe it was related to ad blocking. Do you have anything like that installed?
[Asus Transformer TF700] lartomar2002:
Yes I do, adaway. I 'll try disabling it and see what happens.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] RizzzO:
Hey all

I have a problem with my M3000, and it's pissing me off.

It seems as if the internal clock doesn't keep running once the screen is turned off.

Example:

I go to bed at 11.50pm, after setting the alarm to 06.00am, I turn the screen off and to go sleep. I wake up at 08.00am, angrily grab the phone, turn it on. In the upper right corner, the time of shut-down (11.50pm) is displayed for about 2 secs. Then it jumps to the actual time (08.00am) and the alarm starts ringing...

What the heck? I mean, this is something quite annoying, am I really the only one with that problem? Btw, my wife has the same model, bought it the same week, and has the exact same problem.

The orange people didn't know what to do. I never unlocked it or changed the rom, the phone is in original state.

Thanx for any help

RizzzO
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] elyl:
See http://xdaforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=43692
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] ZinYaka:
Hello! im brand new here, i have a serious problem with the xperia sola, recently my brother moved countries so he gave me his old phone because mine sucked, lol. Anyways the phone was running very slow so i googled around on how to fix it and blah blah and ran into a thread saying i shoud just restore it to factory settings. After i did that the phone was still running very slow, was getting tired of it and was about to just throw the goddam thing out of the window until i was browsing settings and went to "about phone" i noticed that under "Model number" It says C6603 and was confused and even asked my brother and he had no idea what i was talking about, i googled and found that "C6603" was another xperia phones series, "Z" which im sure you all know what phone that is, but i have no idea because i know basically nothing about android because i always used iphone2. So what im really asking is, could this be the reason why the phone is so slow? is it possible that my brother installed a different OS on it or maybe he bought it like that? and is there a way to change it back to the original model?

Here is more of the info of the cellphone (if needed)

model number c6603

android version 4.0.4

kernel version 3.0.8- vengeance -1.24+rachit@rachit-inspiron-n5010) #32 smp preempt thu feb 28 10:42:02 IST 2013

build number project gx 2.5.1 stbr

Thank you very much in advanced!
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] ZinYaka:
Also when i plug it in and pc companion recognizes my device, it says ¨xperia Z¨ haha so yea i guess that confirms my brother did some sketchy **** to my sola
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] Wresrex:
i keep getting a continuous error message stating , Unfortunately, Nfc service has stopped. this started after i tried installing the wallet workaround.

my galaxy is on version 4.3 vruemk2, any help would be appreciated.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] k1mu:
There are no working wallet workarounds for the factory stock MK2 ROM that I am aware of.

However, if you'll let us know what workaround you tried to use we may be able to help recover.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] bqw371:
I had the same issue.

Vzw s4 mk2 safestrap hyperdrive rls12. I had to recreate slot 1. Haven't tried the update again.

---------- Post added at 10:13 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:46 PM ----------

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2540196

This is the Google Wallet NFC fix ( tap to pay functionality ) method that I tried unsuccessfully. I used kies to reinstall mk2. Rooted, installed safestrap, installed hyperdrive RLS 12. Setup HD12 as active in ss and setup the ROM letting the phone sit 10+ minutes before reboot after configuration as described in the original post. Next up, booted into recovery, installed the NFC zip, fixed permissions and rebooted the phone. Instant NFC force close on startup... Over and over. factory reset and reinstall of the ROM didn't fix the problem, I had to recreate slot1 in ss.

The above steps happened after the same NFC force close issue occurred after trying this same fix on my original rooted, safestrapped mk2 operating system. Hence the reason Kies was used to factory restore the device in the first place. So basically I tried twice and was unsuccessful both times.

The zip file from the original post was removed and the thread was locked before I could post this information. I had to reset my phone twice but wasn't upset because the author never stated that the hack would specifically work on the mk2 bootloader with safestrap.

I hope that helps. If anyone can point me in the right direction to get Google Wallet tap to pay working on the vzw s4 mk2 bootloader , please do let me know by responding to this post.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] k1mu:
Every time I tried to point out to the author of that "fix" that it didn't work he got upset. However, it's been reported by some that they got it to work on Hyperdrive. I wasn't ever able to get it to work, and it always killed wifi. I'd suggest not using it on an i545.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] mhannah3333:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/bm6r5nnah3hjz0u/dbSGS4_GE43_R141Wallet.zip

Here is the fix your looking for.

Before you flash this:

Remove any remnants of google wallet from your phone. That includes uninstalling the apk and removing its data from /data/data.

1. Flash in safestrap recovery

2. Fix permissions.

3. Reboot

4. Enjoy tap and pay

---------- Post added at 09:59 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:40 AM ----------

The fix i posted above works flawless on my vzv sgs4 mk2 stock rom.

---------- Post added at 10:11 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:59 AM ----------

If this NFC fix kills your wifi as it has mine you must edit the following line in your build.prop to read "false"

Ro.securestorage.support=false
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] macxlx:
Hello,

I have gt-n5105 (it is Note 8 but samsung made this product only for Turkey (the communication taxes over here it costs too much). So they block the calling feature then it can pass from custom as a non-communication device. But messaging service (SMS) is not blocked). So i rooted the device and flashed emk3 kernel and one of the geek78's roms xxcmh2 (v4.2.2) to activate the calliing feature (It worked).

Then i decided to buy a multimedia dock for my note 8 and i did some research about compatibility and i have learned that multimedia dock is only work for 4.1.2 firmware (actually i realised that there is no option in settings about docking on 4.2.2 firmware. Yeah they forgot to put that option lol :P). And now im thinking about going back to 4.1.2 (its also geek78's xxbmf2 rom) but i am facing with a dilemma because i love the some features of 4.2.2 like travel live wallpaper on lockscreen. And i am wondering that if i make a flashable (together or seperate) zip(s) of the Travelwallpaper and TripAdvisor applications -because they work together- via app2zip application, can i flash these zip files on 4.1.2 in recovery mode properly -i mean without brick the device?

Sorry for the amount of dashes and parenthesis and my bad english :)

I hope that i expressed my problem clear :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] St Veronus:
Phone was rooted and running CM10.2 nightlies just fine. I had to encrypt my phone for work email, no issues. I now want to change ROM's to a TW because of WiFi Calling.

So here is what I did:

- I did a TWRP (2.6.3.1) backup before starting

- Advanced Wipe Dalvik/Cache/System/Data/Internal Storage as well as Format Data to remove encryption

- Downloaded SWARMROM, flashed ROM, Modem, SuperSU.

Flash went good, rebooted with T-Mo splash and boot animation. Before I can do anything, I get a prompt to "Enter your PIN or password to use the encrypted device memory". My old password doesn't work and it won't let me in. All I can access is Emergency Call.

I have even formatted my external drive thinking it might be what is still encrypted, re-ran the install process, but same result.

I did trip the KNOX counter somehow, if that matters.

Any advice?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] mrhughy:
Go back into recovery and restore your backup, reboot and remove encryption, use titanium backup for app data
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] St Veronus:
The backup doesn't have encryption. But there is somewhere on the phone that a Stock ROM is detecting encryption from. I can go to any Cyanogenmod 10.2 ROM, but not a Stock or even OMNI.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] St Veronus:
Finally got it.

ODIN root66 Stock ROM, reboot to encrypted error. Boot into factory recovery and wipe/factory reset, then wiped cache for good measure. Rebooted and it came up without the encryption prompt. Let the WiFi Calling commence.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Androidious:
You saved my arse today, THANK YOU! I have been out of the flashing game for some time now so I was getting stuck when I had the same issue as you, but thankfully, now it's back to normal, phew!
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] talkativecarpet:
My GT-P5110 is running CM 10.1.3 and currently when I shut it down, it will reboot. If I shut it down again after the reboot it will stay turned off. I have formatted the tablet and reflashed CM but the issue still occurs. It's not a major issue, more of an annoyance, and i'll report it to the CM team but google hasn't turned anything up so thought here would be the best place to maybe find a solution or workaround.
[Galaxy Tab 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sharingan:
try wiping cache in recovery { nothing else }
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] buelldozer:
I bought my Nexus 7 2013 shortly after they were available and it was a good device until the release of KitKat. After the KitKat OTA it's been a piece of junk.

After the KitKat OTA it developed a problem where the tablet was on but the touchscreen was unresponsive. The only way to fix it was to shut it down by holding the power button. Eventually it started being stubborn and I'd have to power cycle it several times before it would clear the Google screen. That gradually progressed to having to do a system reset before it would come back to life.

On December 15th it finally refused to go past the Google splash. Attempting to boot into recovery also left you stuck at the Google logo. At the time I tried the WUGFresh tools to do a stock recovery and while I was successful in unlocking no amount of flashing / formatting / erasing would give you a normal boot or a recovery screen.

I sent it off to ASUS on 12/17 and got it back this past Monday (1/13). It worked fine until Tuesday night when once again the screen was unresponsive and I had to shut it down by holding the power button. It's now stuck at the Google screen and no amount of flashing / formatting / erasing using FreshWug or fastboot directly via command line has brought it back.

Here's what I've done so far:

Spammed flash-all at least 6 times

fastboot format of /boot /system /userdata /cache multiple times

Multiple runs of WUGFresh

Flashed 4.4.2 and 4.3 images

What else is there I can do aside from sending it back to ASUS?
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] Michealtbh:
Does it boot to bootloader?
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] Pandae:
As Micheal said, can you get to the bootloader? Do all of these commands go successfully?

fastboot erase boot

fastboot erase cache

fastboot erase recovery

fastboot erase system

fastboot erase userdata

I don't use Wug's tool, preferring to do things from the command line so I know exactly what's being done and to see error messages.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] LinearEquation:
This
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] buelldozer:
Yes to all of those, I just did them again to verify. FYI WUG opens a command shell as it runs fastboot so you can see what it's up to.

Anywhoo I reflashed kot49h (manually) and got the same result, stuck at Google. If this thing wasn't still under warranty I'd snap it in half and light the two halves on fire.:mad:

Any other ideas?
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] Pandae:
What if you tried a custom recovery and custom ROM?
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] buelldozer:
So I ran through the procedure once more last night and it worked! After about 20 minutes the tablet rebooted on it's own, displayed the working android and then booted up. I guess you just need to reflash 22 times? :confused:
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] cobyman7035:
any updates? is it working fine now? any random reboots? god i hated that on my 1st nex7fhd, im on my 2nd one, its and perfect aside from the 'low speaker volume' stock
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] Dakura:
Might be an hardware issue, don't get stuck with software too much, send it again until they replace it.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] danvee:
I'd be interested in what ASUS did to it.

Did they include a list of parts replaced, etc?
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] userdelroot:
I'm also curious.

As long as the flashes are done correctly it should boot fine.

However, I had a similar issue flashing stock.

The fix was to flash stock. Boot.

If it boot looped restart and wipe dalivik cache and cache and reboot. It should start then. just an FYI...
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] cobyman7035:
If u get boot loops = lemon, it will develop those anno ying reboots

Via my NeXus™ 7 FHD on Tapatalk⁴ Pro
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] buelldozer:
So it did it again but following the previous directions I was able to unloop it immediately the big story though is WHY it was looping.

I have a minisuit BT keyboard / case ( http://www.amazon.com/Minisuit-Blue...=UTF8&qid=1390433882&sr=8-3&keywords=minisuit ). The thing is dynamite and I love it and it worked great! The keyboard has a low power battery saver state so after you don't use it for a few minutes it basically goes to sleep until you tap a few buttons and wake it up.

I went a week with no issues but I wasn't using the keyboard. When I did finally use the keyboard I would stop typing and let it go to sleep as I always do. When I tapped a few keys it would wake up and then wake up the N7 and it's screen but the screen would -not- accept touch input. I had to hold the power button down and force the N7 to shut off. When I powered it back up...BAM...LOOPED.

It didn't do this before the Kit Kat upgrade. It's obvious that something is wrong with the BT stack in 4.4.2 and when a HID goes into a low power state it hoses the touch input. Since the touch input is hosed you can't shut it down correctly and the file system corrupts, likely the /system partition.

If I use the N7 without the keyboard it's perfectly fine.

userdelroot I couldn't clear dalvik on mine because I couldn't boot to recovery. All boot options lead to a Google Loop.
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] mookdawg7:
I have had exactly the same experience, basically. Just got mine back from ASUS, worked for about a day, and then BAM, back to the same DAMN thing! I think you may be on to something about the BT stack. If there is any common thread to both my breakdowns, its that my Nexus got screwed not long after i paired a BT headset with it. Its late and I'm frustrated as all hell so please forgive my short rant. So what to do? Do I send it back to ASUS and hope they actually replace it this time? (The invoice I got back from them was very strange incidentally. I couldn't tell what they did, except among four parts listed, they seemed to replace a "cracked, broken screen" which was not the way it was when I sent it to them???!) Or should I just keep reflashing and hope it takes, as it seemed to do for you? But then can I risk pairing my BT headset again?! This sux.

Update: Woke up this morning, turned it on, and it booted up! WTF? Not complaining I guess. Taking it easy this time, unlocked bootloader still of course, but holding off rooting, and not going to pair any BT with it for awhile. Although its kinda BS I should have to try it this way...
[Nexus 7 (2013) Q&A] buelldozer:
It's at it again but this time time I wasn't using my keyboard (I quit using it thinking that was the problem).I'm attempting to unloop it again using the same procedure as before. Use of the BT may aggravate the problem (it certainly took longer to glitch out this time) but it's not the whole problem.

I didn't have these problems before the 4.4 update so I'm rolling back to 4.3 for some testing.