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[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Café King:
If I flash a modem, some works, some dont. The ones which isnt working gives me unknown baseband and unknown imei, but that can be fixed by flashing a working modem.

It's the same when I flash stock firmwares. Some modem works, some dont. Just like above... Make any sense?

/CK
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShadowLea:
Hmmmm, either something goes wrong during the process, or there's an incompatibility somewhere.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xclub_101:
As a general model-related piece of information for Note 3 - I believe modems and the bootloader itself can not be (successfully) written from outside "trusted/secure zones" - in other words you need stock recovery at least for that to work. In download mode it should also work but again there are extra security checks there on the signature.
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Café King:
Update:

Talked to the operator today. There were no errors or recent work on their towers near me...

/CK
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ShadowLea:
That's what we always say, too, when a customer asks. It's generally a lie. Particularly when the maintenance was supposes to improve things.

Did you install anything in your house that might cause interference? Router, microwave, something that covers the wall closest to the tower, a wallpaper with metallic components? New isolation? Or possibly neighboirs closer to the tower that did? (In my neighbourhood, when my neighbours between me and the tower open their windows, I get 3G. When they close it, nought. Oh the joys of reinforced concrete... )
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] recDNA:
I carry my note 3 (Hyperdrive 7 android 4.3) in a pouch. Something periodically turns my screen to full on, phone gets hit in pouch, and battery burns very fast. I cannot ID the app using the usual battery watching apps. Is there a way to specifically determine what turned the screen on? Thanks!

Sent from my Hyperdriven Note 3
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] recDNA:
I also have a gear 1 watch in case that matters.

Sent from my Hyperdriven Note 3
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zach1928:
Hi all, this is my first thread so please excuse any noobishness.. I've got a tf300t and it is quite slow. I've done a factory data reset and that fixed some of the ills and I've disabled a good amount of stuff but it's still not as fast as my One X. My main question is this- will a custom Rom make it quicker? I have Been thinking about CM10 but if it's not going to be faster, then there is no point.

Thanks!

Sent from my HTC One X
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zlazaar:
The answer is : Yes it will remakably be

You have the choice between many roms and kernels. And some combinations give incredible results.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zach1928:
What are some top ones that have stable releases? CM 10.2 is the only one I can think of

Sent from my HTC One X
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zlazaar:
I suggest you start with CROMI-X v5.4

It's stock based, stable with many performance tweaks.

And if you want to jump directly to kitkat, follow links in my signature.

Envoyé de mon GT-I9190
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zach1928:
Thanks! Do you know of a good guide for this?

Sent from my HTC One X
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zlazaar:
There are several in this forum. I recommend you read what you find and judge for yourself which is more clear.

The more you learn, the more you avoid unpleasant surprises ;)
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zach1928:
Lol that's true. I have found some guides for both and one for CM is really simple IMO. What's the difference between CROMI-X 5.4 and CM 10.2?

Sent from my HTC One X
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dataonly76:
am thinking of installing the kitkat rom however got stuck at booting into recovery mode. I have unlocked the bootloader downloaded from the austek webpage, and my tablet is working fine right now but if I fastboot and then select recovery mode i get taken to the screen your describing- the open droid with the red exclamation mark triangle with the error message? cannot by pass this to flash with TWRP 2.7.1.0? any idea why?
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zlazaar:
The screen with 3 icons is fastboot mode, you don't have to choose any icon before flashing TWRP

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We can say that CROMI-X is your actual stock ROM on steroids. There are many additions like performance tweaks, optimized kernels, useful apps and even ads blocking. Also the installer gives you the choice to install only what you need.

CyanogenMod, currently in version 11 : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyanogenMod
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zach1928:
Are the custom roms specifically tweaked for each device?
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zlazaar:
Yes, provided to take them from the corresponding forum.
[Transformer TF300T Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zach1928:
Okay cool, I'm going to try it this weekend I think. Curious- how do the Kit Kat Roms work? As I understand it, they are more or less jury-rigged for these devises that don't have a stock Rom

Edit:

Also, do chromecasts still work with custom roms?

Sent from my HTC One X
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Jakob M:
Hi there,

the alarm on my Wizard has started to go of on the wrong time (1 hours to early)

Ive had this isse before and solved it by a hard reset however Id really like to avoid that again due to alle the programs I have installed.

The only changes that has been made recently to the clock is related to summer/winter time (1 hour back)

Is there any way to check whats been saved in terms of alarms ? I have only in the standard alarm screen one alarm selected.

What to do ?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Rutter:
I wouldn't bother with the inbuilt WM5 alarm. I has loads of problems with mine - and imo it's shocking! I also think it's shocking that Microsoft can't get a simple Alarm function to work reliably - but nevermind...

Anyway, I downloaded and use an app called 'AlarmClock' which I found free.

It works a treat - and no more worrying whether the alarm will go off....
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mokaigutti:
Hi all,

What's up with the z2 primary cam? I've got a nexus 5, an lg g2, a galaxy s3 here at home aside from the z2. The camera pics seem to be comparable to the nexus 5 or g2? I was expecting a lot better being all the branding and the megapixels at its disposal... The images seem to be drawn on sandpaper( grainy on zooming) I don't get why... being the hardware is present am I the only one with this issue or is this a software thing that needs to be fixed? Any cam mods that solve this? Cybershot mod or the xposed mod?

Thanks a ton in advance, I'm worried I'm the only one with the grainy images...
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] omg_penguin:
I was similarly surprised when looking at the photos that I take with my Z2... However, I think it's understandable. In Superior Auto mode, the resolution is only 8MP, so that could be why your images are looking similar to that of the N5 and G2... If you switch to manual mode and up the resolution to the full 20MP, the pictures are quite clearly much higher quality. You can zoom in after taking the photo and not lose much if any clarity. As for the graininess, you have to remember that they're fitting 20700000 pixels into an area of about 1cm^2, so they're going to be tiny pixels. This means not much light will reach them. Hence why HTC have gone for a 4MP main camera, but with much bigger, more light absorbing pixels to focus on getting the minimal amount of grain, whilst sacrificing some resolution (on the M8). So in short, there's nothing wrong with the camera, the reason it's grainy is because it's ultra sensitive to low light conditions. To get amazing high resolution images with the Z2, you'll need a well lit, well balanced environment. It's a good camera, but it is designed for great photos, and that means perfect environments are required. If you leave it on Superior Auto, it will take photos that are just fine and hold up to scrutiny against those of the Nexus 5 and LG G2, they just can't hold up to all the branding and advertising that Sony have been giving, since you are unlikely to get the perfect picture taking environment in every day usage. I suggest putting the camera on Manual mode and fiddling with the in depth settings when lining up a shot. Don't push it all the way up to 20MP as you lose the ability to do HDR or Stabilisation, but at 15MP with the correct exposure and ISO settings, the photos can look incredible.

Hope that cleared things up, and sorry if it answered none of your questions x'D
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] feis:
Most of the time superior auto produces just as good quality as 20mp manual, and no its an insult to compare camera to g2 or nexus5, its way better
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mokaigutti:
Agree with what u said but the superior auto I find takes better snaps than the max resolution in most cases. And the reason why I'm disappointed is that it is indeed comparable to the other two, which indeed is an insult!

So everybody gets the grainy images on zooming then? And is this fixable via a firmware or software update?
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] One Twelve:
Put up some originals so we can see what you mean.
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mokaigutti:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5whd6h9620kemdu/DSC_0036.JPG untouched pic here... Is this the best I can get? ( I have 3 more similar shots, this is the best one of the bunch)
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crzykiller:
The G2 with the camera mod available to it produced incredible photos and when I got my z2 I didn't really notice a difference other than the extreme amount of postprocessing that sometimes makes photos look like absolute crap... I just wished there was a way to remove all the processing of the image so we can tweak it ourselves
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] One Twelve:
You can try to get slightly better with manual and iso 50, yours was iso 84 but the difference will only show up in zooming.

If you're not zooming in a 3.5MP photo will be sharper still.

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Do you have a similar photo from those cameras. It's best to take a shot of a similar subject, same angle and lighting conditions and let's see what you are comparing with.

s3 & n5 are 8mp so are comparable. The g2 makes 13MP so you should reduce it to the same resolution as what you are comparing with.

I don't see a lot of grain in this picture with iso 84, zoomed in at 100%. Grain starts at 400-800 and beyond.

When the light goes down the others will struggle to keep up. They won't match video of z2 with the s3 coming the closest but stabilisation on the z2 will beat it. Z2 is a general purpose camera.

But those cameras have f2.4 or a half stop smaller apertures so this means more of the background will be in focus behind where you focus with the z2. This is the tradeoff for better bokeh and low light in video. But it only applies if you focus on a subject that is close.

Can you put up a 20MP photo, try to take it with the on screen button instead of camera button as this reduces camera shake. Let's see how good your lens is.
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pepeo123:
xperia z1 ad z2 have poor processing algorithms. since the release of xperia z1 sony improved the image quality, but still needs improvements.

the grain in the pictures is NOT because of the tiny pixels, the xperia z2 has 1.175u pixels, larger than the 1.12u pixels in galaxy s5 and s4 for example, and both of them doesnt suffer from that level of grain and noise. if you take into consideration that sony has a bigger pixel, bigger sensor and resolution, wider aperture lens (can capture more light) than any other android smartphone and produces pictures comparable with an iphone 5 or gs4 with 1/3.2 sensor and f2.2 camera its a big shame for sony.

at 20mp you will have even more noise and grain. when shooting at 8Mp, the phone downsample the image utilizing the better pixels to provide a better picture (similar to what nokia does with its pureview lumia 1020 41Mp camera). shooting in manual mode is better for properly adjusting exposure, white balance and ISO, but the processing itself is the same, so apart from those parameters, nothing else will change

you can see the advantages of the big sensor and wide aperture lens in very low light videos for example. it produces much brighter and lower noise videos than others competitors, but the imaging from sony is terribly inconsistent. there is grain, noise and alias everywhere and and blur smeared inconsistently in pictures. and you can easily notice it in any picture taken with z1/z1c/z2. videos also suffers with lots of aliasing

with android L and the new and much improved camera API, lets hope from better camera firmwares from sony, and with DNG support, at least 3rd party camera apps will support it. then maybe we will have good quality pictures without the terrible post processing from sony
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mokaigutti:
I guess the post processing is the problem. If I flash aosp or aokp the Google camera will use the stock processing right? And not sony's? Will that be better?

I'll try with the manual mode enabled and play with the iso as suggested as well.

And the 21mp are marginally worse than the superior auto so there isn't a point in uploading that... Ill upload pics from the 3 phones with a similar subject as suggested by today or tomorrow at the latest!

Thanks a ton for the feedback guys!
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] One Twelve:
File sizes of z2 are larger than z1 so there is less processing in z2. The numerous complaints i saw with z1 picture quality are very few with z2 largely because auto in z2 does a better job. What does auto do better in z2 ? the same thing people did in manual with z1, use the lowest iso possible.

If you want consistent then you have to go with manual. No two ways about it.

Then you need to have a pretty good idea of how the sensor works in varying light conditions. You need to take loads of pictures to better understand which settings give the best picture depending on light. This is the same with any camera for that matter, assuming these others even allow some sort of manual intervention to begin with. With the g3 or moto x there is nothing, iphone is only marginally better in allowing exposure setting.

Don't want to do that ? then you will be taking 2 or 3 shots to get it right.

Try comparing a 20MP pic with the smaller resolutions of the others and see how much more you can zoom. There may be more artifiacts in some situations but details will be better preserved. An 8mp iphone 5 cannot have the same details as a 20MP from the z2. In the same way as 13MP from the g2/s4 or 16MP from the s5 will have more detail than a 8mp auto from z2.

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Doubtful. Or put it this way. i've yet to see someone make this claim in the z2 photo thread. For the simple reason that 3rd party apps cannot access iso setting in the camera libs. best camera app you can use is stock. The xposed mod allows to take auto in 20mp instead of 8mp. This i've seen to actually work. if you need it.

Whatever complaints people have about processing its better in the z2 than it is in the z1 when it came out. The only time i've seen the z1 do better is when there were lens issues with the reviewer's z2.

Just to check if the lens is ok. I've seen samples where 20MP are not as sharp with some models as others. See the pictures from this

post.

. Or even from an earlier post

here

.

Download the pictures from both posts and do a 1:1 compare, there is a subtle but noticeable difference between the two. This is a hardware defect and causes a softer than otherwise photo. You only see it in 20mp, 8mp will mask it.

What is the manufacturing date of your model ? should be in the format 14wxy, you will find it printed on a sticker under the micro-sd tray.

yeah let's see the difference.

bear in mind that doing this sort of comparison on a sample size of a few pictures is tricky at best. Yes, in some instances some photos may be better, but what does it mean. You'd have to take many photos to draw a conclusion that this or that model is better than another, that too only in certain situations. Koreans tend to do more sharpening in their photos & videos which is perceived by some to be better. Debatable.
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pepeo123:
yes the z2 pics are indeed larger (some are actualy 2x larger) probably mostly because lower compression. there is also processing changes too like you said, but both of them still badly processed. http://blog.gsmarena.com/sony-xperia-z2-vs-z1-camera-comparison/

when i mean inconsistent, i dont mean that the camera is inconsistent trough various pictures(wich is, in superior auto, like you said, but can be solved shooting in manual adjusting correctly the parameters if you have enough knowledge in the equipment you are using, like you said too), i mean inconsistency in the picture itself. the picture is not uniform, it has random blured areas like if the lens was astigmatic or myopic giving the impression of a defocuesed image in some random areas (im not talking about the defective lens gsmarena unit)

http://www.gsmarena.com/piccmp.php3?idType=3&idPhone1=4238&idPhone3=6144&idCamera2=30013

http://www.phonearena.com/phones/ca...ng-Galaxy-S5,LG-G3/phones/8323,8202,8347?st=2

http://www.phonearena.com/phones/camera/Sony-Xperia-Z2,Samsung-Galaxy-S5,LG-G3/phones/8323,8202,8347

yes at 20mp you will have much more deatil thanks to the much larger resolution, but when i mean it was a big shame, i mean that at 8mp, the xperia z2 has comparable if not worse pictures in some cases than iphone 5 or lg g3, gs5, etc even with all those hardware advantages of it. and this is again caused by the processing. lots of grain, noise, alias, blur, too high contrast, etc, etc, etc (yes noise can be reduced using lower iso in manual, but when i mean more noise, i mean more noise in the same iso settings as the competitors)

an interesting thing to note is that if you compare raw pictures of the nokia 1020 with the jpeg ones from it for example, there is a HUGE diference between them, and nokia is know from doing really good processing in cameras in general. so this makes me think how much extra performance can be achieved from the z seris with it great hardware
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mokaigutti:
I'm just worried this could be a hardware issue, mine is a 14W21 phone. I'm gonna do some extensive photo sessions and if they don't work out maybe try a replacement
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] One Twelve:
ok, i checked the 20MP manual mode shots at 100% and can say the z2 shot is visibly better than the z1 if you look at the balcony railings left of centre and building detail right of centre.

gsmarenas z2's lens does not have any issues that i can notice. I don't know if the z1 lens is ok though.

Yes, i see the underlined bit at 20MP with the z2 , but check out the SA of the iso chart from gsmareana (phonearena did not have SA images to compare)

http://www.gsmarena.com/piccmp.php3?idType=1&idPhone1=6033&idPhone3=6144&idCamera2=30013

Much clearer to see the chart in SA than 20MP isn't it. Note that you see same blur with 20MP here too.

I added z1 into comparison in phonearena's chart, can you see the difference between z1 & z2.

http://www.phonearena.com/phones/ca...ony-Xperia-Z1/phones/8323,8202,8347,8000?st=2

z1 is less blurred but the compression is much more than z2. If you try to reduce the size of the image in phonearena, the z2 image remains blurred but if you look at the SA, its much more clear as shown in gsmarena.

Underlined bit is somewhat true in good light, but not in low light.

Why the pictures look better, requires explanation of what better means. Did you see DxO's

tests

. compare z1, 5s, s5 & z2 on 7 parameters for still photo. Exposure, ontrast & Noise is very well controlled in the Z2. Artifacts is the only parameter where the Z2 trails the others. To notice that you will have to zoom into edges to see it. Not very apparent without zooming.

Exposure and contrast

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90	Apple iPhone 5s

88	Sony Xperia Z2

88	Samsung Galaxy S5

85	Sony Xperia Z1

80	LG G2

Colour

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82	Apple iPhone 5S

82	Samsung Galaxy S5

80	Apple iPhone 5

77	Sony Xperia Z1

76	LG G2

74	Sony Xperia Z2

Autofocus

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84	Sony Xperia Z2

81	Apple iPhone 5S

74	LG G2

73	Sony Xperia Z1

69	Samsung Galaxy S5

Texture

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83	Sony Xperia Z2

78	Samsung Galaxy S5

69	LG G2

66	Sony Xperia Z1

59	Apple iPhone 5S

Noise

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84	Sony Xperia Z2

84	Sony Xperia Z1

83	LG G2

78	Samsung Galaxy S5

70	Apple iPhone 5S

Artifacts

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91	Apple iPhone 5S

89	LG G2

83	Samsung Galaxy S5

74	Sony Xperia Z1

68	Sony Xperia Z2

Flash

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85	Sony Xperia Z2

84	Sony Xperia Z1

83	Apple iPhone 5S

82	Samsung Galaxy S5

72	LG G2

DxOMark Still Photo (overall rank)

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81	Nokia 808 PureView

81	Sony Xperia Z2

80	Samsung Galaxy S5

78	Apple iPhone 5S

77	Sony Xperia Z1

77 LG G2

These are the differences observed after

analysis

of over 400 photos.

This is something we will only find out when android L comes out. having said that the oppo find 7a can output raw images from its 13MP sensor, and its a sony one to boot. Lumia 1520 can already output RAW.

The question that remains to be answered is, what is the shot to shot turnaround with RAW in a mobile phone. Without dedicated image processors that specialise in it things will be slow.

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So that is not an earlier build. i don't see anything to worry about given what little you have posted so far.
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pepeo123:
yes z2 is superior, i dont know right now since this review was done in older firmware and both z1 and z2 received some firmware upgrades and z1 is even in 4.4.4. the good new for z1 owners is that its possible to port the camera apk. for z1 like they did with the 4k mod, and therefore things will be the same

exactly, regarding the blurred areas, SA is better than 20mp downsampled to 8MP, and this could mean 2 things. either sony is using diferent processing, or the downsample algorithm is doing its job right. or maybe both. either way, this shows that sony has work to do

yes in low light the phone really shows its big sensor and wide aperture lens advantage, pictures are brighter and capture more, while others have darker pictures and less detailed, although the focus in low light is terrible, something that is possible to be corrected using manual mode. low light videos z2 crushes its oponents too, other phones look like they are in a darker place lol

yes, oppo, lumia 1020 and lumia 1520 can output raw and use sony sensors

maybe taking raw pictures is even faster, since it just takes the picture but doesnt process nothing else like it would do with JPEG,or maybe it could take longer because since its a large file, saving would take a little bit longer but? i really have no knowledge in what i am talking about here, so this is purely an speculation made by me
[Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mokaigutti:
I was being dumb by comparing the images on the respective phone displays... On transferring them to my laptop the z2 has visibly better images overall, especially low light :) this is the good news... The bad news is the presence of graininess on full zoom. This is normal? (spoilt solid by previous phones, Sony satio, Nokia n8, and the best one n82)