yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kanemari:
have a look here:-

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2785089

and here:-

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2791761

i cant honestly tell whether they are 16GB or 32GB, since some of them dont specify. As far as I am aware, if you update to an old UK or EU version (like 10A) you will get an OTA update to 10E pretty soon afterwards.

if you arent sure which one to flash, theres probably someone that is worried about the same thing in the comments of the thread somewhere that had their question answered. i havent read through the whole thing yet so sorry cant help you there.

good luck!
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Redline:
All good, thanks for the help man! :D
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kanemari:
http://downloads.codefi.re/wolfgart/LG_G3/D855

there is an EU 32GB flash in there. 10A and 10E.. i would go for 10E :)
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Redline:
And would I be right in assuming this would be updated fairly regularly?
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kanemari:
well its a personal web hosting... hosting sites always change for whatever reason. i would get it now while its there, cos who knows whether it will be there tomorrow. dont know whether the owner will keep it up to date regularly, but you can always read the forums to see when new updates come out.

the unbranded EU firmware is a popular one and will probably be one of the most frequently updated, so once you are on that you can probably get the OTAs as they come out too.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Redline:
Sweet. Thanks so much man! :D +1
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] bigworm82:
So my photon Q is rather old. Shocking I'm sure. Recently the screen has started behaving very oddly. Flickers, sensitivity is weird, blacks out etc..

I thought perhaps flex ribbon due to keyboard sliding and closing but now I think may be digitizer or the lcd. I"m leaning towards digitizer becasue when it does work it looks perfectly clear. But there will be the one time i push the power to check if I have anything and nothing happens. Reset it and can see the screen wants to do something but can't decide what. Reset over and over and eventually boots up fine.

Digitizer?

Thanks for any info.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] bigworm82:
Anybody able to chime in
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Die Bruine:
Flickering screen can't have anything to do with the digitizer. The digitizer is just there for input.

It could be that the connector is a bit loose on the mainboard. The way the Photon is designed I wouldn't think it's the ribbon. I could be, but very unlikely. Anyway it's worth looking into the connectors and just to be sure the ribbon as well. But that would take a full dismantle. The connector is just 5 minutes work.

Next time try booting into recovery. If that goes well (and regular boot not) i'm pretty sure it's a hardware problem (GPU).
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] bigworm82:
When boot in any mode Ican't see anything.. A fading circle of grey lines runs vertically down the front. Sometimes after many reboots it fixes itself though. Good to know not digitizer. So take apart and check ribbon and maybe replace LCD likely?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Loader009:
I wonder if it is possible to simply replace the LCD if it's defective or if you have to replace the whole LCD-digitizer-speaker-etc set (which is expensive).
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] bigworm82:
I ordered a replacement lcd screen so will find out. I also ordered the digitizer and flex cable.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] bigworm82:
So i'm thinking it may be more hardware involved than screen inolved. When it does work everything is usable and it works fine. This is only about 10% of the time at this point. Otherwise it boots up to show some vertical lines traveling down the middle of the screen but only in a circle in the middle of the screen that fades as it gets close to the edges. I'll try taking apart tomorrow night to see if ribbon and what not looks ok. But so far i've invested about $70 into parts and i'm thinkin about just snagging an S5 for $100. I will miss the keyboard though although I can hope that like the s3 and s4, the s5 will get a keyboard attachment. Thoughts?
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Die Bruine:
If I remember correctly the LCD comes with the ribbon and camera connected. The digitizer is connected via a ribbon to a board in the top of the front panel. You could try to disable the pin. When the phone doesn't seem to work, reboot and try calling yourself. If it rings, there's something wrong with the screen and not the phone.

If there was something seriously wrong with the phone, it wouldn't boot. But that's just me guessing/assuming.

My daughter's Photon has had a digitzer replacement twice. And it looks like it's been used to play football. But that one still rocks. No quirks or any strange behavior for that matter.

What I'm trying to say is that the Photon is a decent piece of hardware. A family of four, we all have a Photon. Three of which have had their digitizer replaced and one an LCD (scratched it when replacing digitizer).

I swapped my Razr HD for an Z2. It was time for a new corporate phone. So that, and the camera, is the reason why I went for a Z2. My options were 930/G3/S5/Z2. S5 is not my cup of tea. The G3 has no ruggedness whatsoever. The 930, apart from WP maybe I should have went for it.

So it came down to the Z2. To be honest I'm looking to trade it when the Z3 compact arrives. We'll see.

[MENTION=4724631]Loader009[/MENTION]

Digitizer is a part, board for speaker is a part, the speaker itself is a part (adhesive, watch out, btw 100% the same as Droid4), and the LCD is a part on it's own.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] bigworm82:
Going to open up my phone tonight after work. I was bored and was just playing with the keyboard sliding it open and closed a bunch and now the screen looks perfectly clear.. although sometimes it will still black out and I have to reboot it a few times to get it back. I feel its more a connection inside like you stated earlier. I love my Photon and really don't want to have to get a non slider phone. New phone's are so friggin huge lol.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] Loader009:
The good thing is, the PQ has gotten pretty cheap, so you might want to get a used one at ebay if the part to replace is too expensive.
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] CornholioGSM:
flickering screen (backlight) is not lcd problem.

for 70% is it problem on mainboard - backlight ic. This problem is caused by using unoriginal charger.

and 30% flex problem
[Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE] schmandroid:
I had my screen become un-responsive etc, it was due to a crack in the ribbon. Swapped it out & all ok.

Easier to swap the whole screen assy than to change the ribbon, but depends on what spares you have/can get.

You'd need to have a good look at the ribbon for any damage.

Sent from my SIM-modded Photon Q
[General Questions and Answers] valueseeker77:
Hi,

I broke the screen on my Nexus 5 while on a long holiday. I can still see about three quarters of the screen but the touch screen is basically busted, and as a result, I can't unlock the phone to get the data off. I backed up 90% of the photos via Dropbox but there is one week of photos I couldn't upload and there are also some really nice videos I'd like to get off.

Is there any way to sync to the file system without unlocking via the touchscreen? I don't think I have debugging disabled (I'm not particularly development savvy) so not sure what my options are...

I have a little time before I need to send the phone to LG for repair, so I'm willing to mess with this a bit and learn whatever I need to learn. I think I saw a thread somewhere detailing how it's down for the nexus 4 but not sure if it's applicable to the 5 as well...

Thanks
[Xperia Z2 General] 5teve:
Just Received in Aus.. via update centre

Adds folder play - Hooray!

Steve
[Xperia Z2 General] azian_advanced:
no update yet here (Canada).
[Xperia Z2 General] stanley08:
Get it from here mate - https://www.mediafire.com/?pmdqzttovnx6anq

Cheers! :)
[Xperia Z2 General] vanillacoke1:
Browse by folder is great.

Still no fast scroll.. Not so great.

Installed force fastscroll through xposed installer and that still doesn't resolve it. Strange since before fastscroll did randomly appear, rare but it did.
[Xperia Z2 General] skycamefalling:
Most important:

You can now use the Widget in non-Sony launchers. YAYYY!
[Xperia Z2 General] El.Guaje:
If Sony did the same to Photo, Clock, Weather and it would be great!
[Xperia Z2 General] Alaa | Google Android:
no update yet here ( Bahrain ).

Yes

Also i hope, to add make a new folder in the media apps

and move any picture or video or music in any folder
[Xperia Z2 General] AlanDS:
How many of you got Walkman update via Update Centre? Mine still not showing the new update.. I am on German generic rom..

I can install the apk posted here. But still wanted to know why the update is not showing by itself...
[Xperia Z2 General] NetSkill:
Seems like something is messed up with update center in. 314 rom, i installed back my factory rom. 402 and i got update for walkman, album.....
[Xperia Z2 General] Nobleman1:
Here also not -> Poland.
[Xperia Z2 General] AlanDS:
Those who received update via update centre plz specify your firmware version and customization number… It looks like there is some problem with update centre on 314 (D6503)
[Xperia Z2 General] NetSkill:
I got mentioned walkman update..i have.402 fw Vodafone DE (1281-2629) previously i was on. 314 Russian generic build and i haven't had any updates
[Xperia Z2 General] 5teve:
Vodaphone Aus - .402 firmware - bootloader unlockable - yes - not rooted
[Xperia Z2 General] chaud:
Just realised i am having this problem as well. Xperia Z2 singtel firmware :(
[Xperia Z2 General] AlanDS:
Now its time to head towards sony support forum and report this problem.. Update centre looks like broken on 314 for D6503…
[Xperia Z2 General] El.Guaje:
May be not. I just have notification about Sketch 4.2 update. But where's the album, movie and walkman update I wonder.
[Xperia Z2 General] rodrigo081089:
I have that notification too. But nothing about the album, movie or walkman
[Xperia Z2 General] V4LKyR:
Yeah, since Sketch is updated via Update Center, there shouldn't be any problem with Update Center on .314. Maybe the Walkman app update is for those on .402 firmware.
[Xperia Z2 General] doministry:
Here as well. Only this Sketch update (I never use this childish app).
[Xperia Z2 General] AlanDS:
Even the 314 users should get recent update for walkman etc… This problem has been already reported in Sony support forum. Hoping to see a fix from sony soon.

Sent from Tapatalk on Sony Xperia Z2
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bradm23:
I am very confused. I pushed the newest OTA to my phone today and it appeared that It over wrote my customer recovery with the CM recovery. When I got home, I used my laptop to push the philz.img to my phone through fastboot. It installed and recovery booted and I was able to re-flash superSU.zip to re-root.

Now, every time I go into my recovery, it boots into the CM recovery vs Philz and for some reason I cannot get into my bootloader. When I reboot-> bootloader from my reboot screen, it brings me directly to fastboot vs the bootloader. Can someone please help me out. Why do I no longer have a bootloader and how can I get my recovery to stay?
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zephiK:
When you see the gray CyanogenMod icon with the gray words "Fastboot Mode" that is bootloader mode ( http://i.imgur.com/VUjyuKs.jpg )

If you want your recovery to stick go into settings -> developer options -> update cm recovery (uncheck it) and then flash your recovery in fastboot mode or by using flashify.

Activate developer options by settings -> about phone -> tap build # 10 times -> back -> developer options if developer options is not enabled.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ddggttff3:
The bootloader option is suppose to bring you to fastboot, that's the purpose of the bootloader reboot option.

As for recovery being over-written, in developer settings just disable "Update CM recovery" and reflash your recovery. It should no longer be overwritten when any new OTA's come out.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bradm23:
Thanks so much! I re-flashed philz in fastboot once I checked the setting in dev setting and it finally stuck!

As for bootloader, I guess I was just pictured the stock android on where is shows a bunch of phone info, and then says fastboot, recovery and reboot underneath
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zephiK:
Yeah I prefer how the Nexus 5 styles the bootloader. It looks way better and its nice that you can use it to navigate to reboot to various parts of the phone (phone/recovery/bootloader/etc)

A lot of people migrating from N5 to OPO
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fahadxda:
Im thinking of buying a moto g. but lets say if I hard bricked my moto g can you unbrick it???:confused:
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] bobbyelliott:
Just picked up a Vario II on T-Mobile. It's fantastic. Best phone I've ever had.

I have two small problems. When I connect to the Internet using GPRS/3G it works fine but if I subsequently disconnect and then try to re-connect, I can't. Sometimes I can connect twice in the same day but usually I have to switch off and back on before I can re-connect. Is there anything I can do to fix this?

Also, I have installed a micro-SD memory card (512Mb) and it works fine - but I can't get my camera to save photos or videos onto the card. I can change the settings in the options - but it "forgets" my settings and resets to main memory every time. Again, any ideas how I can fix this?

Cheers. :)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] MikeChannon:
As far as camera problem goes see this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=284574

Mike
[Xperia Z2 General] dberladyn:
Hi,

I recently bought the SONY Z2. I was happy with it until today, my fourth day of ownership. Don't get me wrong, I like SONY products, but every single Sony item I buy leaves me with regret. In the last four years I've spent close to $10,000 on Sony items.

Ok... so the Sony Z2. I was hesitant at first, but I ended up making the plunge. I've been happy every day until today. I think the phone is a really good phone, but those stupid flaps that cover the ports leave a lot to be desired. I didn't like flaps on my Sony tablet, but they've proved to not be a problem after 3 years of ownership. In light of this, I ignored the Sony's choice of using flaps only giving them a brief moment of disapproval. Well, today I am giving them a lot more than a brief moment of disapproval.

Here I am at work, I pull the Z2 out of my pocket and guess what? One of the flaps on my fourth day of ownership is missing. My work area covers nearly a million square feet so I am very unlikely to find the flap. Thinking back to my initial distaste of the whole idea of using a flap to cover a port, I immediately blame myself for accepting a high priced item with a poorly designed feature. I am unhappy and I am doing the whole face plant in my palms over this. Why SONY? WHY?

My work environment is extremely dusty, which is one of the reasons I bought the phone. Now I can only imagine the dust this thing is going to fill with. I bought the phone very slightly used, so there's no warranty. I can only imagine walking into the SONY store, paying $30 for the part, $20 for a shipping stocking fee and having several hours of a couple of days wasted on this stupidity.

Once more SONY, I am unhappy. Your products are always the same for me. I pay a lot of money for a brief period of happiness only to find out that you don't update software, or to find inherent design/software flaws that you wont admit to or fix, or you outright design something like these flaps which don't hold up well in the real world. Yes, the real world. Some of us have lives were products we use need to able to stand up to minor abuse. Not all of us work in clean climate controlled offices where we can baby ourselves and our devices.
[Xperia Z2 General] ghostofcain:
Wow, yet still you've spent $10,000 on products that constantly dissapoint you.
[Xperia Z2 General] Lawido:
http://dx-box.com/black-micro-sd-si...over-plug-replacement-for-sony-xperia-z2.html get one for $12,99 yourself and save.
[Xperia Z2 General] ramordep:
Get a magnetic cable for charging, i am using magnector btw. Very hassle free ime
[Xperia Z2 General] MADNJPN:
Haha !! Yess! Another person with same point of few! I agree, I've been a SONY fan since childhood, started with SE V600 and my last phone was Z1, every year I purchased SONY flagship phones and what was miracle in the beginning , was nightmare in the end, the overall design is good but really these flaps, that " unscratchable gorilla glass" screen as it turned out to be scratchable with soft cleaning cloth : | , also all these slow software updates and unoptimized camera .... c'mon sony ... SONY was first because of quality not quantity ... what's the point of releasing a new flagship twice a year without optimizing it ... they just fix old phone problem in a new phone which costs 600$ and will probably have same problem .... First time in my life I moved to HTC One ... and I really miss SONY but I know that I'll spend another 600$ and will cry in a few months ... SONY you make tons of money and you cannot put a simple magnet charger in the box? let alone HDMI cable .. is that fair? I understand you mate this sucks ... and same design over 2 years now ... do something guys ....
[Xperia Z2 General] apollostees:
Don't stress it dude. Many phones have little small breakable pieces.

But, as Lawido stated. Those are easy and relatively cheap to replace.
[Xperia Z2 General] guggaburggi:
You should try use other brands as well. Sony isn't the only good brand there is.
[Xperia Z2 General] dberladyn:
I do use other brands. In fact, my first purchase with Sony other than cameras was probably four or five years ago. When I first bought Sony, I wanted to believe they were good because I like brand loyalty. Stupid I know and I kept up with them only to start finding that they pushed out products that they didn't follow up on. I wouldn't touch Sony for home theater aside from TV's and Projectors. I'm a Denon fan.

My two Ps3's and Ps Vita, no complaints other than they don't play mkv files, etc. Plenty of updates, I just don't use them, good for the niece/nephew.

Camera's though, Sony for sure. Yes, there are other good, perhaps better brands but I'm happy with Sony. Although I do admit, the WiFi feature of my NEX6 could be a LOT better.

Sony reader, I am happy. It works well for what it is.

The Sony Dash, Sony S1 tablet... seriously lacking in support. In fact, I felt abandoned with the flaws and that's exactly what Sony did.

My $2000 TV. Nice picture, but again abandoned as far as updates to software.

My Z2 phone, I am happy with it, but... the stupid flaps....

Honestly, I will probably buy from SONY again, probably never again retail. Waste of money on the mark up, especially when I now view their products with a jaundiced eye. Yes, there are other good brands. For personal reasons I won't touch them. Samsung for example, I just can't.

Thank you to the person who posted the link for new flaps. I greatly appreciate it. I am a bit tempted to "glue" it shut but at the moment I only have one magnetic charger. Speaking of which, it seemed to charge slower but I have to test that to know for sure.
[Xperia Z2 General] styxter:
I understand how you feel as I was same boat during my xperia z days. Flaps even though you carefully take care of it. It will loosen upv if you used it daily. Anyway it has a purposed and to protect from water. As of today, there is no technology to protect our phone from frying if water sips inside our phone it actually is a genius of sony to come up this. But it has also hassle to us. So Before I buy z2 I said it to myself no matter what happens i get charging dock. And used it whatever it takes. I really recommend it. I hope sony should supply us with this from high end phone cause it is really a necessity. On the brighter side I think z2 is the overall the best phone in my opinion.
[Xperia Z2 General] lodger:
Having loved my Z , ( i had no problems with the flaps after i got the desk charger) .

i made the mistake of upgrading to the s5, i regret that so much and still use my Z a lot ...

what i am trying to say is the grass ant always greener , defo not on the Samsung side anyway..
[Xperia Z2 General] paullu:
Same feeling like me. Disappointed about sony.I had use three xperia series phone all end with some issues. But I just like sony phone design very much so I still bought my fourth sony phone z2 hope don't become nightmare again. If do, I will never ever buy sony phone again in my life.Finger cross
[Xperia Z2 General] Nobleman1:
First Sony phone after Samsung galaxy S + , i am just shocked how good it is.
[Xperia Z2 General] planoman:
Get a sleeve to put it into before going into your pocket. I use a neoprene sleeve I got for one of my galaxy notes l few years ago and it works fine for my Z2. Just another measure to protect your investment and it was about 5 bucks.

Sent from my Nexus 5
[Xperia Z2 General] G1_enthusiast:
your problem is, you own the Google play edition of HTC one M8. You should have got the sense version. The only thing I regret about the HTC one M8 is, its not totally water proof, I am about to go to boracay philippines so I like something to be water proof.
[Xperia Z2 General] MADNJPN:
Nope! I bought Sense version and it sucked because it had too many things and i converted it to GPE, and now switched to Nexus 5 and I'm very happy
[Xperia Z2 General] G1_enthusiast:
your the first I have heard to say that HTC one M8 sense had "too many things" all of the reviewers says that its as close to stock as you can get.

I guess to each his own :) I love Blinkfeed, its actually pretty useful.
[Xperia Z2 General] ZPaul2Fresh8:
It doesn't matter if you bought the phone used. If it's under a year since manufacturing date then it's covered. I bought mine from eBay "new" but I'm sure if it's not a retail sales outlet then there's no difference. I'm sending mine in for a warranty repair this week. They didn't refuse.
[Xperia Z2 General] Mahdian57:
SONY Great in hardware and Design. :good:

but honestly Poor in Software Distributing.:confused:

and I prefer Hardware!
[Xperia Z2 General] pr0jesse:
just drop it

you can also drop your phone and crack your screen like me...:crying: then it isnt waterproof anymore and you can cut of those annoying things :laugh:
[Xperia Z2 General] Pandemic:
Tell your frustrations by Sony.

What can XDA do about that !

I never had or will get problems with Sony products because i make the right choise !
[Xperia Z2 General] Envious_Data:
Some problems are way over exaggerated for some people

Some people buy a different phone over easy scratching back glass

Weather you can deal with what bugs you is your problem

Now the problem it is, depends

Heating is always a problem in xperias for me but my cpu is always above %50 most of the time,

Thats the only thing that currently bugs me
[Xperia Z2 General] darkz:
I had to send my phone in for service and it came back with the problem unresolved (even though they said the replaced a few things), the camera lens was scratched and the back panel made a clicking noise.

NOT happy.
[Xperia Z2 General] benjmiester:
http://www.cnet.com/news/sony-forecasts-2-1-billion-loss-this-year-due-to-its-smartphone-business/

Sony doesn't make money on their phones. In fact, it actually loses a ton of money.

To the problems above, like has been mentioned before, get a magnetic charger online. They're like $9. I bought a cheapo generic one, it's been fine for 5 months so far.

As far as the "scratching creen", that was a protector that they ship it with. Peel it off right away and use a tempered glass protector. I'll never use a regular protector again. Glass ones are just the best feel, and the toughest. Also only $10 to 30 depending on brand.