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[Sony Xperia ZL] rookie93:
I own an Xperia ZL, bought on Oct 2013, initially, yes, i had an issue of the phone going into deep sleep and being unable to wake. That was on 4.2.2. Activating stamina mode made the sleep of death problem even worse. And back then, the battery was only able of sustaining a day's moderate usage. But since Android 4.3 was released for the ZL, all those problems have been cleared. Now, the phone performs as smooth as the Z1. it has all the camera apps as well which i think are great. Stamina mode runs very well as it should be , and no more battery drain issues. As for your query as to sudden shut down, i think its because the battery overheated. Yes, the phone can run quite warm, if you do hardcore games for long periods, like say, 45 minutes non stop , i personally have never experienced sudden shut down's before. DO also note that if the ZL gets into the occasional freeze or deep sleep, it has an advantage over the Z- a hard reset button beside the simcard slot. On the design front, there is something interesting to note of the ZL's frame. It feels different to that of the Z. the Z's frame is plastic, but the ZL's frame(for the white version) feels metallic(likely aluminium). when you try using your finger to scratch it, the Z's frame is rough, but the ZL's is smooth and hard.
[Sony Xperia ZL] Rei Zazie:
Yeah, I think I did aware that overheat battery is also causing the phone to sudden death. But what I found were quite horrifying, because after the sudden death happen, they cannot turn on their ZL unless they put it to wall charger, some of them also experienced their ZL bootloop even they didn't root it yet. Many of the ZL users fixed this kind of problem by replacing the battery. These problem occurred after the sudden death of the ZL. Are these for real? I mean, getting in touch with replacing battery means this is a ridiculously hardware problem.

I'm wondering is this still happen nowadays with ZL users?
[Sony Xperia ZL] rookie93:
well, in my country only C6502 is available for sale. mine was fine. and people that i have come across generally, never had any problems with their ZL's... so perhaps this might be regional/model issues? try seeking for comments from local people who own a ZL to see what its like. Sony Mobile's support in my country is absolutely horrible. i'm not sure about yours, but the service centre here is very very very poor in service and timing. So i definitely wouldn't want a Sony phone which would have issues.
[Sony Xperia ZL] Boosted_01 R:
Got my C6506 (new) OCT 2013.... no hardware issues..... the odd software issues here and there (Google TTS crashing, running the .569 version)....... most irritating thing about the C6506 is its 1-2 months or so lagging in updates.......
[Sony Xperia ZL] ATRIXXIRTA:
I have a C6506 too. I've had mine for just under a year. And no issues for me except the black dots on my pictures. I'm just praying I don't get the power death issue as well. I've even pulled out my old Motorola Atrix and got it flashed with a solid ROM, just so I have a backup device in case.
[Sony Xperia ZL] kumar abhishek:
Called customer care in india. Xperia ZL is out of stock and no more in production. :eek:
[Sony Xperia ZL] Chonwey:
Had that sudden power off issue, still my phone was without warranty so I had to change the battery. Reasons are: horrifying battery quality+hard gaming, played like 4 horus/day for 2 weeks and the problem begun. ( no clocktweaks at all! )

If you buy a phone WITH warranty, and it's truth the fact that the phone's production stopped I totally encourage you to do so, best case scenario you get the problem and get switched for a better model ( if you check sony's support forum you'll see some exchanges for "Z" or even "Z1" models ). Worst case you get the problem on 366 day and you buy a new, cheap by then, battery; not such a bad thing, the phone will keep on working for +20 bucks or so
[Sony Xperia ZL] einfachgaer:
I'm owning my C6503 since mid April 2013. Never had a sudden power off. Since June 2013 I haven't been on the stock firmware and never had any hardware issues.
[Sony Xperia ZL] Sw33t_Lov3r:
Go for it! :P

I've had my ZL for a bit more than 4 months now. It was rooted from its first days till some weeks ago that I flashed stock 4.3 to it. Now it's working better than 4.2, but it's un-rooted. (Hoping for a rooting method for when 4.4 is available, please [MENTION=2784807]DooMLoRD[/MENTION]!!)

Never had any issues of any kind. Solid, big yet compact and beautiful looking device, now at a very good price.

But you have to consider; if you are a guy or a girl that spends most of his/her day outside (with little to no rest-to-recharge possibilities) you will need a battery bank of at least 5000mAh to go with you so you can really use yor ZL the whole day without compromises. Otherwise your ZL will die on you in +-8 hours of usage due to the high screen brightness you need when you're outside a building and you won't be able to play anything. Ha

The ZL's battery -now- can last up to 12 hours under moderate usage on the go, and up to 22 hours if you have a job that needs you to concentrate and stop touching your device for 8 hours, in such cases you only touch your device for little moments till your working day is over.

All in all this is a great device; fast and powerful enough for any task. Its camera and all is good. But I'll get a 10000 mAh battery bank as soon as I can cause I feel that way I can really make this babe shine that splendid screen, and not to have it at low brightness because of the battery. But that's me. Why 10000 mAh? Cause the 5000 or 7500 ones are almost as big and heavy as the 10000 one, and just a little bit more expensive. Reasonable, huh? And I can carry one anyway.

I hope this helped you.

- Leonardo.

Pd: Soon I'll be posting my trick for the ZL's screen, to make it look almost like the IPS screen of the G2.

And the black version is better looking for me.
[Sony Xperia ZL] Rei Zazie:
First of all... Thanks for all the replies guys.. I really appreciate all your feedback and suggestions.. :)

So apparently, the newest 4.3 firmware works flawlessly without such power death issue as far as you know right? Because actually that problem I've found seems like when ZL is still several months after released and looks like still not getting this newest firmware update... That's why I need to confirm whether there is still such problem for newest ZL out there...

Thanks for the suggestion about black color btw, I'm actually planning to buy the black one... :D

And for other members that haven't shared their experiences in using ZL, I really hope you'd share.. because I'm like a lost girl at a forest, I need to know if I really should buy this overwhelming device.. I would really appreciate all of your feedback, guys...

And thanks in advance once again.. :)
[Sony Xperia ZL] 100rabh7791:
I bought my zl on 19th nov... had no sudden death issue or anything like that ..bt i had black dots in my cam ... i noticed it aftr 2mnths of usage ... went to service center ..they replaced it n gave me a brand new phone ... working fine till now ... its been almost a month now ...

i agree to everything the Sw33t_Lov3r said about the battery.
[Sony Xperia ZL] viskon:
I have a Galaxy s4 and my wife has the ZL. The ZL is a bit wider than my S4, so I find that I have to use it two handed more often than the S4. The screen viewing angles are terrible on the ZL. This is a problem when my wife is trying to show me a photo sitting across from me and all I can see are washed out images. Camera and battery life are average at best. On the positive side, the ZL screen is very good in bright sunlight. The software is excellent and Sony's Small Apps are a nice touch.

Edit: The ZL has the black dots in the camera, which is really poor quality control from Sony.

Edit: To the OP, I would not recommend the ZL.
[Sony Xperia ZL] sarobi:
Width of ZL is 69,3 and S4 is 69,8. How's yours ZL wider :confused:
[Sony Xperia ZL] Rei Zazie:
Now that you mention it, I just know about the ZL camera issue..

Thanks for the feedback.. :)

I know that ZL actually has several disadvantages, but I dont really mind if they're about hardware that not really affect the performance, as long as it is works like it should be.. :)

That's why I aimed for ZL, because I don't have anything across my mind beside ZL that has those performance.. Now that I found some more issues, I don't really know what should I buy with similar performance and price if not ZL.. :confused:
[Sony Xperia ZL] viskon:
Dang! You're right! I held them up one on top of the other, and the S4 is wider.

Not sure if it is because of the sharp corners, but with the ZL I seem to have to stretch my thumb more.

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The LG Optimus G? Or a Nexus 4? Or Nexus 5?
[Sony Xperia ZL] Rei Zazie:
Nexus 5 has better CPU performance.. But there is no SD card slot..

Optimus G pro e985 actually good but, it is still quite more expensive.. and I dont know whether it got 4.4 kitkat update...:confused:
[Sony Xperia ZL] ATRIXXIRTA:
Where are you making your purchase? Somewhere online?

There are some great deals here ---> http://www.clove.co.uk/smartphones/bargain-deals
[Sony Xperia ZL] Rei Zazie:
well I actually planned to buy at the supplier within my country, Indonesia.. I dont have credit card... :laugh:
[Sony Xperia ZL] ATRIXXIRTA:
I found this site. Its based in Indonesia.

Do you have, or are you able to get a Visa Debit card?

Its a card that acts like a debit, drawing money from your own accounts, but you can use it for online purchases instead of a credit card! :P
[Sony Xperia ZL] Rei Zazie:
After some further researches,, seems like the Sudden Death problem still exists and even more people experienced it.. I think I will decide to change my aim from ZL n look for others.. I actually love how ZL perform its performance, but if it has such hardware problem, I think I will have a bad time even just imagining I have to send it to the service centre within a week since using it.. :)
[Sony Xperia ZL] sarobi:
Each manufacturer has certain percentage of defect phones, including Sudden Death issue. Not necessarily if you buy another brand that you won't have problems;) Buy a phone that you like, you want and hope you won't be among those with problems :fingers-crossed:
[Sony Xperia ZL] 100rabh7791:
well if u buy a phone with warranty then u should have absolutely no prob with it
[Sony Xperia ZL] Rei Zazie:
Thanks for this advice... I simply agreed because there is no phone works perfectly... :)

Actually I'm not worried at all if the phone has its warranty.. :)

No offense at all, but I was just thinking if I buy it, why do I have to send it back to the service centre after using it only around 2 weeks or less since the problem exists even before I bought it... :(
[Galaxy Ace II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Samwix26:
Hi :)

1) How to move apps to the

PHYSICAL

SD card (with all technic) ?

2) Is it possible to save pictures & downloads in

PHYSICAL

SD card ?

Thanks :)
[Galaxy Ace II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ACE2_99:
And another thing exfat support means that I can install a 64gb sdcard on my device

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[Galaxy Ace II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Samwix26:
Up
[Galaxy Ace II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jereksel:
1. You should check out app called "link2sd".

2. There are Xposed modules for that (unfortunately I forgot their titles): http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2656338.
[General Topics] ruso1515:
Hello, on my GPS device does not work. GPS test signal never found. ,, In view, in use 0,, my second the same machine finds the same spot 5 satellites without any problems. ROM version of the device on which GPS is not working is U8825D_newbee_4.01.14.16_release_b7b4bf8647_4.0.4_10002_V2.5, I tried to install several ROMs but did not help. Ask me what to do.

Thank you very much.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tbkarthic:
hai friend i have see in flash tool write memory. that showing videocon a24 mobile chipset detail mtk6572 ram size external ram 256mb/2048mb internal ram size 128kb internal memory size 512mb/4gb how to repartition? can you guide me? thanks

please find out suitable rom for it

sorry fo my bad English
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vithlani2:
How this problem is created??? Have u played with ROM?
[General Questions and Answers] tngultimate:
Hello guys:fingers-crossed:,my phone is hard bricked. It is no responding at all. Cnt connect to odin, cnt boot, cnt go to recovery mode and othr:crying::crying::crying:. Can someone tell me how fix?:oI will be very thankful:good:
[General Questions and Answers] slogger001:
service center

give it to service center :p

does ur phone connects to flash mode or fastboot mode :)
[General Questions and Answers] tngultimate:
cnt connect to flash n fastboot mode:crying:, but give to service center needs money:(.
[General Questions and Answers] newronaldo@7:
Try to make an home made usb jig,It'll force your phone to go to recovery mode

Press thanks if I help you
[General Questions and Answers] slogger001:
difficult

Look ur phone is neither connecting in flash mode nor in fastboot mode ,so u can't do anything ,u have to change ur motherboard I think so
[General Questions and Answers] souvikmaji:
what's that " usb jig"?

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I have htc desire 728 dual sim and I have same problem......please buddy help me out otherwise my one & only phone will become a trash...please help me
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AzurA86:
my S3 worked just fine with my BURY 9056 but my new I9500 wont

my phone gets a request to give access to the contacts , i approve but nothing happens

im also having some problems when calling through the car headset, things doesnt sound right and distorted, again, only with this phone

could this be related to the modem version on my phone ?
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] jerbear294:
This is PAC-ROM, a heavily modified CM11 based ROM for the US Sero 7 Pro!

DISCLAIMER:

Your warranty is now void.

I am not responsible for bricked devices, dead SD cards, thermonuclear war, or you getting fired because the alarm app failed. Please do some research if you have any concerns about features included in this ROM before flashing it! YOU are choosing to make these modifications, and if you point the finger at me for messing up your device, I will laugh at you.

Why decide between Paranoid Android, CyanogenMod or AOKP when you can have the features of all 3 in one ROM?

To flash this ROM you will need a recovery with SELinux enabled. To get one check out this thread. It has links to ClockWorkMod, TWRP and a themed TWRP., as well as another CM11 based ROM, taktiK.

Not working:

WiFi Direct (aka P2P)

Can't format external SD

Netflix

.mkv files (Playback stutters)

HDMI not fullscreen

Downloads

PAC-ROM Build 20140317- http://www.mediafire.com/?lyh6uw4gb7lccy5

None of this was really my work, all I did was download a few device trees and toolchains and compiled them for PAC.

These people did the heavy lifting:

[MENTION=1776875]randomblame[/MENTION]- Creating Jellytime and taktiK,

[MENTION=282573]davepmer[/MENTION]- Doing countless fixes and improvements on the taktiK code,

[MENTION=557282]xboxexpert[/MENTION]- Creating the initial root process and CWM for our device, as well as our first custom ROM,

[MENTION=5094650]dolorespark[/MENTION]- Creating an updated version of xboxexpert's ROM and doing a few fixes on taktiK,

the CyanogenMod team, the AOKP team, the PA team, the PAC-ROM team, anyone I forgot (sorry!)
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] jerbear294:
Changelog

20140317

-Implemented the battery charging animation fix

*Device will no longer completely boot when it's off and the charger is plugged in, charging animation will show instead (EDIT: This might not have worked- A new build will come shortly)

20140311

-Replaced the kernel source with Dave's tree

*This fixes WiFi

Older releases:

20140306

-Replaced all trees with Dave's except for the kernel- it refuses to cooperate

*This fixes A2DP, audio over HDMI and Viper4Android/DSP Manager

-Replaced Linaro toolchain with Google GCC toolchain

*Linaro refuses to build PAC and Dolorespark has assured me Linaro is terrible

20140304

-Initial release
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] davepmer:
Point me to your source code or to your download maybe I can fix the wifi.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] jerbear294:
OP updated, download link added.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] jerbear294:
I'm working on another build using davepmer's trees, but we're running into a kernel issue. Hopefully I just did something wrong when I replaced randomblame's trees with davepmer's.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] alex_is_the_1:
Ill be home tomorrow, so I can flash it. Seen the fix for wifi gonna try it tomorrow. But I'm glad you took on this project. Once again thanks bro

Sent from my GT-S5830
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] jerbear294:
Well for some reason WiFi only works on a dirty flash... It fails on a clean flash, wth?

Wipe data, flash taktiK, install an app, then dirty flash PAC over taktiK. It'll work perfectly then.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] alex_is_the_1:
Ill get some more screens up tomorrow. Are you currently using this rom?

Sent from my GT-S5830
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] dolorespark:
What kind of "kernel issue"? If you're using Linaro (at least 4.83 optimized for the Cortex A9), ditch it - it's bad news.

I built a kernel using it and started getting the same error message over and over again in my dmesg log. After trying a few fixes in the affected code, I added a log message that printed out the values of the variables and macros involved. That got rid of the errors. Let me assure you that is

TERRIBLE

. It means the compiler (or optimizer) was losing track of where it had put things until I forced it to pay attention. In this case, I had an error message to alert me to a problem. Who knows where else it screwed up?

Once I had my fix in place, I ran Antutu and found NO improvement in speed. Stick with Google's GCC 4.7
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] jerbear294:
It indeed was an issue with Linaro. I'm downloading Google's GCC now.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] jerbear294:
I'm currently using the ROM now since I discovered the WiFi fix- PAC is my daily driver right now.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] alex_is_the_1:
I imagine it will be my daily driver as well, does it matter which taktik we dirty flash from? I think I have r11 or r12. I had r11 after updating apps on r11 then dirty flashing PAC WiFi does not work for me.

Sent from my GT-S5830
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] jerbear294:
I used R13 since I used the same trees used in taktiK R13. I initially tested to see if PAC booted by dirty flashing over R13- It worked, so I wiped data, and Wifi stopped working. I flashed back to taktiK, downloaded a logcat app with the intention of grabbing the WiFi issue, then dirty flashed PAC... and WiFi worked.

It looks like I won't be able to incorporate some of the latest fixes into this ROM. Dave's kernel fixes WiFi but it won't compile against PAC. I could use Random's kernel, then the only issue we'd have is the WiFi bug and the newly discovered external SD formatting bug (I think that's a bug in Dave's latest builds of taktiK and CM11 as well)

Since the most recent build failed on Dave's kernel I'm downloading Random's again and compiling against that.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] jerbear294:
Uploading a new build of PAC to my Mediafire account.

On other news [MENTION=282573]davepmer[/MENTION] found out how to get his kernel to cooperate with PAC. He's also been working on the P2P issue, so the issue would be fixed in both PAC and taktiK. :)

I will compile with Dave's kernel soon- it will include the WiFi fix too. The fix, though, involves completely deleting PAC source code and cloning it again, so it could be a little while before I get the next build out- I have to redo everything.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] davepmer:
As a side note, at least in my test build of PAC netflix crashes with a DALVIK: HEAP MEMORY CORRUPTION fatal signal 11

Has anyone else tried netflix?
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] Gazoo119:
Nice going jerbear. Thanks. I might give this a try this weekend.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] jerbear294:
OP updated.

Build 20140306 added. Flash it to fix A2DP and DSP Manager.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] dgjenkins:
Should Wi-Fi be fixed in this build as well? I tried a dirty flash with build one and it just boot looped. I clean flashed it just to check it out and it looks nice.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] jerbear294:
WiFi is not fixed yet due to Dave's kernel not playing nice with PAC. My next build should have it fixed though.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] dgjenkins:
No worries, I'll try another dirty flash and let you know if it works for me. Thanks for taking in this project!
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] jerbear294:
Try a dirty flash from R13.

The reason it bootlooped from build one is that everything but the kernel has been altered in some way.

EDIT: OP updated to warn others.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] dgjenkins:
I dirty flashed from Dave's last build. I'll restore my last r13 and try that.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] jerbear294:
Worst case scenario I'll be compiling a version with WiFi fixed over the weekend.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] dgjenkins:
Well, I guess I'll wait for the next version. I restored a nandroid I had of r13, let it boot, went back into recovery and dirty flashed your new build. It would never go past the Hisense logo (and I let it sit there five or ten minutes). Not sure why, on my first attempts when I had Dave's Rom it would boot all the way to lock screen and then re-boot again. Oh well, no more time to play with it tonight. Have to get up early...
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] jerbear294:
No worries, the fix to get Dave's kernel working is to delete PAC and start fresh so I'm doing that now. I'll definitely have a new build before Monday. I won't be able to get a build out today, I won't get home for about 12 hours (Ugh... That's 9 PM here) due to a trip I have planned. The build might complete today but then I have to upload it, download it onto my computer, and test it.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] krsboimo0o0o:
Does this ROM require selinux enabled?

Sent from my Sero 7 Pro
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] jerbear294:
Yes, and SELinux is set to Enforcing by default.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] :
Looks great! Posting so I don't forget where this post is at and because I am downloading taktiK right now to dirty flash?
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] cammykool:
Is this safe to flash over Dave's build
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] jerbear294:
I don't know, but the last person to flash over Dave's ROM got a bootloop.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] jhienk:
OK, so figured I'd give this a try since ived tried all the rest. Tried to dirty flash over r13 and been stuck at hisense screen. Can't get past it and won't boot into recovery. Left it charging almost all day and nothing still just gets stuck at the hisense screen.
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] :
Go run [MENTION=557282]xboxexpert[/MENTION]'s recovery script. Unbricked my tablet a few months ago ?
[Hisense Sero 7 Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Ot] jerbear294:
I'm building a new version of PAC, it will have WiFi fixed so you can clean flash it :)