yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Xperia Z1 General] TheCraig:
I haven't noticed any camera improvements. Still a lot of noise. Superior Auto is still 8mpx.
[Xperia Z1 General] slim207rc:
Don't understand why you have noise!

Superior Auto, no flash, through a Window.. Perfekt picture, can't complain a bit!

sent from the 1
[Xperia Z1 General] TheCraig:
I've taken a few more pics out of the window at night and there is a slight improvement. I'm not sure if its just luck or whatever but the noise is still there and its still more than my Galaxy S3 had but its an improvement.
[Xperia Z1 General] slim207rc:
That's strange, I just cannot confirm.that! I have both devices here and the Z1 does not have 1 picture with noise, no matter what setting I use.

May just have to clean the lens

sent from the 1
[Xperia Z1 General] zlays:
Does this one shows NFC icon when turned on?? :)
[Xperia Z1 General] mm79k:
No Arabic!
[Xperia Z1 General] Luinwethion:
I just took a few pics with different ISO and in automatic before and after the update, the noise level for each ISO is the same, as is the great performance in super high ISO (6400), very noise but outstanding for a mobile camera.

No :) (thank God... I hate the NFC logo)
[Xperia Z1 General] mobde3:
Badly

:crying:
[Xperia Z1 General] DooMLoRD:
thanks for the link I am mirroring it on one of my servers :)
[Xperia Z1 General] nalab1:
Does the bluetooth ACTUALLY work on this? As I had severe issues with it on 290 release..ie it would not work with handsfree on my car audio whereas 4.4.2 did....
[Xperia Z1 General] DooMLoRD:
here is a mirror:

c6903_14.2.a.1.136_generic-bal.ftf

ONLY FOR C6903!!
[Xperia Z1 General] elander:
C6906

Hi, can we flash this on a C6906? if so, would it be any side effects? such as no 3g or something like that?

I understand this wouldn't brick a c6906, would it?
[Xperia Z1 General] ilmorga:
Except for white balance i really can't see nothing new in this update. And by the way xposed doesn't work anymore.
[Xperia Z1 General] jmgg2k:
[MENTION=2784807]DooMLoRD[/MENTION], can i flash this ftf on 6902 ?

What did you do to flash it on your 6902. Thanks
[Xperia Z1 General] DooMLoRD:
its only for C6903!!! please DO NOT CROSS FLASH ON OTHER VARIANTS!!!
[Xperia Z1 General] tallguy_uk_98:
Just updated to 1.136 and get a strange symbol when booting up, only appears for a second or so but never seen it before, anybody any idea what it is?
[Xperia Z1 General] TheCraig:
Yeah.. this will probably brick a C6902. Just be patient, the only thing worth flashing for is White balance. I wouldn't be surprised if it was ported to the C6902 soon.

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I've saw it too. I never noticed it in 290. it's strange.
[Xperia Z1 General] jmgg2k:
I have UB on my 6902. I flashed this ftf without kernel and baseband. Went to a bootloop. Flash again .290 ftf and restore my cwm backup.

The only thing that bothers me on .290 is the memory leak. Hope that this update fix that
[Xperia Z1 General] MohammadAG:
It's been about an hour, no memory leak so far. No gurantees yet.
[Xperia Z1 General] nb31b:
mobile data icon?
[Xperia Z1 General] Kurotsuchi:
many thanks buddy :)
[Xperia Z1 General] Luinwethion:
I had this icon in the last firm, I think it only happens when your phone is connected to Wifi, but it can't access the internet trough it. So it will use 3g or 4g
[Xperia Z1 General] Konvict64:
It's the lte icon! Remove system-overlay and it will disappear ;)

Envoyé depuis mon Xperia Z1 C6903 utilisant XDA premium app
[Xperia Z1 General] megatooth:
Can we root on UB with advanced kernel and then flash SuperSU?
[Xperia Z1 General] slim207rc:
i have noticed a difference, because my album is loading the thumbs again and nothing is hanging anymore!

thank the lord :)

and somehow, my yellow hue is gone even without touchung the white balance:D:D:D:D

Also noticed that wifi has improved, got.full connection now where it use to drop every time! So releafed!
[Xperia Z1 General] kantk20111:
Just flashed the update...and forgot to backup my pictures. I lost all of them. I almost threw my phone down in frustration. I'm an idiot.

Anyway, once I calmed down, I checked it out. Seems the same as .290, a bit snappier in some places particular loading the album and camera app using shutter. Picture quality looks the same. White balance app is AMAZING and much better than any 3rd party app as it changes the navigation buttons as well. Overall a solid update.

Completely unrelated, does anyone know where I can download the stock Sony pictures that came with the phone? I like using some of the pictures as my background and since I lost all of mine I'm wondering if I can download it online. Thanks for any reply!
[Xperia Z1 General] Gitaroo:
Looks like just a bug fix update, can someone check the ram usage when you first boot the phone?
[Xperia Z1 General] aP!2:
can someone post the antutu score here? ;)
[Xperia Z1 General] jmgg2k:
[MENTION=2011359]MohammadAG[/MENTION]

any memory leak after all ?
[Xperia Z1 General] MohammadAG:
No leaks yet :)
[Xperia Z1 General] guybrush2099:
hmmm.....maybe it can keep the full root with supersu survival mode, converting supersu in a system app, because it's a minor update of the same Androd 4.3
[Xperia Z1 General] Vengeance66:
PM me your email, I'll send them to you. :)
[Xperia Z1 General] feddexx69:
Am I correct to assume that since there's no certification we can't expect a widespread rollout for this .136 soon?
[Xperia Z1 General] BeetoCarvalho:
System no mount R/W - R/O, root no 100%.
[Xperia Z1 General] LJE:
Probably feels faster opening your album because you deleted all your pics

;)
[Xperia Z1 General] chunlianghere:
those who hav flashed 136, possible to try reproduce the touchscreen problem by going to service menu, touch screen test?

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do i need to worry about the baseband version on whether it will affect on my country LTE/3G?
[Xperia Z1 General] kantk20111:
I loaded it up with new photos before I checked that ;), still it seems faster.
[Xperia Z1 General] fgar82:
I had so many problems with BT that made me put it aside nd never use it, So after the update Wow connected in 1 attempt and never lost conniction ,

So far so good :)
[Xperia Z1 General] bronxdude:
can't wait for this to be rolled out globally
[Xperia Z1 General] brapicoco:
Yeah been waiting for this one, any improvements for those who have the touchscreen issue? Thanks a lot. Will flash it immediately if the problem is gone
[Xperia Z1 General] nizarnoor:
OK. Firstly, I've actually never been bothered by the touchscreen issue, even though I did the test (on .290) and discovered that there was indeed some touchscreen issue. But it just didn't interfere with anything I do with the phone so I didn't complain.

Anyway, I've flashed this new firmware and did the same test again and I can say that the problem is gone. :good:
[Xperia Z1 General] brapicoco:
thanks for the update dude, I really appreciate it. Issue bothers me when gaming and browsing so if you can test it further I will really appreciate it. You can send me a pm on your observations. Thank you very much.
[Xperia Z1 General] mynameisjon:
Does root with UB work on this version?
[Xperia Z1 General] chunlianghere:
i jus flashed it n did the test on the touchscreen problem.

i would say alot of improvement n alot better.

but the problem do exist on my 1st n 2nd test after a very long long "line" drawn, but disappeared awhile.

did 3rd (with charging) n 4th test, however the problem was gone. i keep drawing the line until it was a total mess of "lines". :D
[Xperia Z1 General] feddexx69:
Really hoping the touchscreen issue is gone, not a gamer here but a swype user and currently is unusable. Thing is the way to reproduce it is tricky at times, still with high hopes.
[Xperia Z1 General] brapicoco:
Thanks mate for the quick and detailed update. Have you checked also if the touchscreen will produce continuous broken lines when lying on your bed or a sheet? or flat surface. Mine happens a lot on that and especially even browsing photos and gaming. Renders my z1 totally useless..
[Xperia Z1 General] chunlianghere:
i tested on a flat surface, with skin pasted on back.

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anyway i jus play dead trigger 2, n the problem comes back. :(
[Xperia Z1 General] brapicoco:
Thanks mate, now I have a slight hope of making my z1 work and useful. I'll download the FW later :)

EDIT: ok so I just downloaded the FW and have not flashed yet. if the problem is still there then no point in flashing
[Xperia Z1 General] ermond012:
So the RAM is still the same of. 290? I'm sorry for my elementary query but what happens to the phone if the whole RAM is consumed?
[Xperia Z1 General] olokos:
If anything runs out of ram then it crashes - like bluescreen on Windows ME. Android keeps closing apps and prevents the RAM for being used up when it's nearly full. (It's not exactly how it's done, because it's a lot more complicated, but it's simplified so you and I, lol, could understand.)

Wysłane z mojego C6903 przy użyciu Tapatalka
[Xperia Z1 General] brapicoco:
As far as I know, Android devices kill applications automatically if RAM runs very low. phone will slow down if RAM runs very low and if RAM is consumed phone will restart. That is the simplest explanation I can give.
[Xperia Z1 General] ermond012:
I see. Thanks for the replies. I was thinking of updating my phone to. 290 as the pictures of .518 aren't good. But just worried that the RAM in .290 decreased, correct me if I'm wrong. Right now only have 600+ available RAM.
[Xperia Z1 General] brapicoco:
on the same firmware you have I have 1.1 free RAM now on .290 I only have 700+
[Xperia Z1 General] espe0:
hi I've had /or still have yellow hue issue -but I figured out whats the problem

main thing in this case could be black-dimmed surface on screen -yes its hardware

sony gives kind of display equalizer to reduce this blackness -BUT ...I think that dimming is little screwed up

becouse It should has dimmed in good quality gray scale but it isn't

the dimming surface has issued yellowness/brownnes fill which gave us beautyfull yellow hue

for example reboot your phone and see how this display-equqlizer turning on

for me white balance gave a little bit warmer corours

but scale of my hue on that poor viewing angles makes dimming hue in half of the screen
[Xperia Z1 General] nalab1:
Did you try connecting to your car audio and using handsfree?
[Xperia Z1 General] jatinrungta:
Every System has arabic language!

remove this from build prop or any ro.product.locale.excluded

ro.product.locale.excluded=ar_EG ar_IL fa_IR iw_IL

voila arabic is now there :D
[Xperia Z1 General] AntiDroid:
free RAM = wasted RAM

thats something android user should keep in their minds ;)
[Xperia Z1 General] MohammadAG:
That sentence is way too overused.

Free RAM is wasted RAM when it's not being occupied by apps. RAM filled by system leaks or stuff like Samsung's bloat is wasted RAM since it has no use.

.290 wasted RAM, this doesn't (or hasn't for quite a while).
[Xperia Z1 General] artpra:
Flashed it yesterday and can`t find any difference vs previous rom except white balance settings. Must be bug fixing (under the hood) release.

Interesting note:

I have sharp panel with yellow tint, when installed white balance settings ported from asian Z1 on rooted 14.2.A.0.290 it changed colours right away upon its launching. All sliders were at zero, default position and tint was gone. With this firmware phone booted with yellow tint, launching white balance settings did nothing and I had to move blue to 210 value to get the same look as with ported version with zeroed sliders.

One thing makes this rom a no go for me - it`s the way it handles special national characters in sms. It does not have option to turn them off in settings, it does not change them on the fly but switch sms length to 70 characters upon entering any special one. Other than that all is fine, fast and stable.

I`m waiting for Central Europe release and flash it right away.
[Xperia Z1 General] xperiarcs:
My White Balance is Sucking :eek: And My Volume is little from .290..

i had flashed white balance mod (z) on .290, it was better.

and can i root 136 ?
[Xperia Z1 General] azam426:
i dont agree with this. if free ram is wasted ram then why apps using wasted ram?

free ram is like a place holder.. whenever apps need more ram the free ram will assist there.

So you cannot say free ram = wasted ram, because everybody saying that.

Just use your mind once.
[Xperia Z1 General] Ezzady:
I flashed this firmware yesterday and do some testing. Apparently, Touchscreen is quite responsive than the previous .290. I had no issue for white balance setting on my device. I noticed that camera got some minor improvement when it goes into 5sec preview. Unlike the previous .290 got some hiccup on 5sec preview. That is all.
[Xperia Z1 General] funky0308:
I agreed but with a just minor correction.

We need free RAM, absolutely, exactly for that you already said but to complain if you have "only" 400,500,600 or even more MB free is just ridiculous.

That only means your system is working fine and all apps took their memory.

If consumption for memory increase, apps still have enough memory to take.

To have more free RAM don't keep apps you never use, if you edit some pictures, large videos or large zip files, restart device after that to free RAM (if system fails to do that automatically)
[Xperia Z1 General] artpra:
Touchscreen issue is still here, sadly.

Maybe "fix in the software update" mentioned by sony mod [MENTION=354113]talk[/MENTION].sonymobile is not this one but future update. I hope so.
[Xperia Z1 General] brapicoco:
they mentioned that they will have a fix on the next official update. Fingers crossed. I think they just said that to shut the mouths of all those people who are complaining. Issue is there and they just keep silent and just mask it.
[Xperia Z1 General] artpra:
Here it is: h t t p ://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/Xperia-Z1/xperia-z1-touchscreen-problems/m-p/518847#M13448

You are right, it clearly says "next".

But, as I can see that it isn`t solved with 14.2.A.1.136, is it "next after new" or "next to never"...
[Xperia Z1 General] [NUT]:
Oh boy, here we go again...

Stop bashing Sony guys... seriously. The update regime they have on their firmwares is just about perfection, here is why:

Every development iteration will fix some bugs and sometimes introduces new bugs because of poor testing of the applied fixes. They have to stop the development phase at some point and then hand the release to the test team to see if it is acceptable enough for release. Between the start of development and handover from devs to testers to be tested is a set time frame, there is a name for it: The 3D Method (Deadline Driven Development).

I'm not saying it's the best way to do it but it also allows for something the Xperia Community was craving for back in 2011 and prior to that... frequent updates!

The 2011 line had 3 updates in total, from which the update to ICS was the last one, which actually introduced more bugs then they ever fixed in the GB ROM updates...

I'd rather have this and have some bugs fixed every month, opposed to an update once or twice a year... this way they will get the chance to fix whatever bugs get introduced with every update too and because of the way Sony 'sonyfies' Android, updating to 4.3 and eventually 4.4 is much easier for them with the monthly updates to prepare the devices for the bigger steps up...

Yes, bugs are annoying... but give them some time to fix them all and be happy that they at least solved some bugs instead of sitting on all of the fixes for a year to get a 'perfect' release.
[Xperia Z1 General] brapicoco:
I'm very well informed of that and sorry if it sounded like I'm bashing Sony. It just ticked me off that even repair centers don't acknowledge the problem and dont want to replace the faulty z1 with touch issue. Only hope is that a software fix which they have mentioned will solve the problem.

It really is frustrating to have a faulty unit, I'm planning to root my phone and see if tweaking the screen's sensitivity will solve the problem.

Again, I don't want to start a flame here. My sincerest apologies.
[Xperia Z1 General] kantk20111:
I'll tell you something, these poor customer service experiences aren't isolated to Sony. HTC did it with their purple tint phones, Samsung did it with their screen 'black screen blob' phones, etc. They didn't exchange it even if there was a hardware problem. Is it acceptable? No, but people who just bash one company for it are insane. These aren't isolated to only one company. Actually, in that regard, I think Android OEMs can learn a lot from Apple who almost always exchange your phone if you have a problem no questions asked.
[Xperia Z1 General] nalab1:
... The update regime they have on their firmwares is just about perfection

Oh yeah? Is that why they completely ruined the Bluetooth stack on .290 and prevented the hands-free from working in my car? It was working fine on .257 and when I contacted them they more or less informed me it was the fault of my car audio system... So according to Sony...

If the software goes up a point release 4.2.2 -> 4.3 I have to either -

Buy a new car OR

Buy a new audio system...

NOT!!!

If they had done any regression testing on the software they would have found the problems in the Bluetooth stack and fixed them BEFORE the .290 software was released!

Also, people are reporting Bluetooth issues connecting with Sonys own equipment!
[Xperia Z1 General] feddexx69:
completely opposite situation for me. bluetooth was crap on 4.2.2, my car system would drop calls at 2 seconds, frequent connection problems, 4.3 solved all of this. I personally prefer this update scheme Sony implements rather than Samsung's where if you want to have bugs fixed, better hipe they are huge bugs because otherwise you'll have to wait for 4.4, 4.5 etc
[Xperia Z1 General] artpra:
I`m not bashing Sony, I`m reporting a real issue which still isn`t resolved - it`s my customer right.

It affects MANY users, maybe all of them (but some, not power users like we are, more casual ones - are unaware of it) and when Sony guy is telling us after many weeks of silence that it will be fixed in the next FW and when it is not, I think that it`s natural to post about it here on xda in appropriate thread. And it has nothing to do with their "update regime" or "release cycle", it`s all about communicating with customers.
[Xperia Z1 General] kingchristy123:
Did you receive Ota or flash it?
[Xperia Z1 General] jatinrungta:
Well nothing is perfect. With a new firmware some bugs are gone and some are created. Frequent updates are better and what's still better is wiping data when flashing a ftf :)

Edit:: at least Sony does not have to take back update like Samsung. They released 4.3 today and after a week there was 4.4 with no new ui or stuff

Sony has new features with android update not just the build version!
[Xperia Z1 General] nalab1:
New features are all well and good but if they are at the expense of screwing-up BASIC FEATURES such as Bluetooth, that were working, then they are not worth having...
[Xperia Z1 General] eclyptos:
[MENTION=4904057][NUT][/MENTION] whit that sentence you make enemies! :laugh:;) but I understand perfectly what are you saying and I agree with you but I want to say just this, is not about how many bugs will be fixed with the new FW release or how long we have to wait for the update. We know You as Developer and Sony Developing working hard to release best what can be so issues like Ram: Ok, fine, it's a bug can be fixed, Bluetooth Problem: ok, a bug sometime working sometime not, can be fixed, WiFi pair to TV: No option to streaming media, fine, we missing the option, can be fixed, Multitasking Menu: Ok, the apps closing even if you come back to them via menu and they restarting, can be related to Ram, I don't really care about this issues because I know they can be fixed soon or later and I don't use them very often so is not bother me a lot but I got Touch Screen problem and this is really bad and frustrating, this kind of issues ruin the opinion o Sony device very badly because this affect daily use and all the time when you try to use the Z1 the issue show up and it looks like faulty device. Today we don't know yet from Sony if, maybe for negligence, this is related to Hardware or Software. So my point is, exist different issues but some of them are not acceptable at all from a respectable company like Sony.
[Xperia Z1 General] Geoffxx:
so who is currently getting this update through PCC

can we stay on topic please
[Xperia Z1 General] soulzero:
Free ram is wasted ram sentence is crap. For example, my galaxy S2 and S3 had 1gig of ram.

I never had any issues with my S2 because it had less bloat ware and app sizes were smaller, it NEVER closed any background apps. True multitasking, not even the biggest games.

But my S3.. As soon as i put it in background and returned it had to reload the whole thing.. My ram was always full, even with a fresh install with no apps installed.. Heck, even freezing apps with titanium didn't work. Just too much crap on the phone.. A disaster.

The Z1 is well ok with ram, apps WILL reload, but after a long time. Big games will reload after a few minutes though, so it isn't perfect. Ram was better on 4.2.2 then on newest 4.3 though.

Can someone say if it's better on this new update?
[Xperia Z1 General] eclyptos:
Nobody.

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Yes, it is and is confirmed.
[Xperia Z1 General] [NUT]:
[MENTION=4115062]brapicoco[/MENTION], [MENTION=3721363]kantk20111[/MENTION], [MENTION=1285847]nalab1[/MENTION], [MENTION=5341707]feddexx69[/MENTION], [MENTION=5642598]artpra[/MENTION] and [MENTION=1030880]eclyptos[/MENTION]

I feel and hear your pain, but if one has issues and the other has none or sees them solved with an update while having them in a previous release, it is exactly why Sony is unable to fix them beforehand ...

It would mean the Sony test team will have to:

A: own every single BT device imaginable, including the car stereo's,

B: have eon's to test them all in ALL possible use scenarios and

C: retest everything which get 'solved' by the developers in the mean time, which takes us back to point B;

When will the update ever be released then? In a few months? Or would that take more then a year? Oh hold on... in the mean time Google released Android 4.5, 4.6 and 5.0 ... Will it make sense to finish what is already outdated or will you restart all that work to rebase on the latest? If you do ... then the test team will have to start at A again ... oh wait ... Android 10 got released, rebase again?

Would ANYTHING get released at all that way?? Not all issues are Sony's fault... yet they try to fix them anyway... but all these fixes will have to be re-evaluated with every rebase on the next Android version... which in turn possibly introduces yet more issues.

The test team is there to make sure the device is doing what it is supposed to do: work in daily life with a general use scenario. From there on the other issues will get solved with incremental updates.

Don't forget Google introduced a new BT stack in 4.3, introducing the support for low power devices and much much more...

IF Sony would have fixed all the issues in 4.2.x (and I am not saying they did) they will most certainly have been undone by the update to the 4.3 code base.

It's IMPOSSIBLE to have something 100% bug free within an acceptable term for development and testing AND stay on track with the latest version of the base OS.

Have the cake and eat it?
[Xperia Z1 General] @ARC-S@:
Just flashed the ftf and everything's fine. If you are on 290 and don't want to lose your apps and data, untick the data option on flashtool before you flash it. White balance working properly here and I feel no difference in performance or application but the white balance app.