yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HaileyB:
I called and the lady was very nice ( a first) She said that she would send me and email with the new phone info within 24 hours and that she understood my frustration. She also said that they would change me the taxes for the new phone but credit me the taxes for the first one No mention of a restocking fee or the phone being backordered. So lets hope TMo doesn't find a way to screw this one up!
[Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Inc-Roid:
Do you have to pay for the return shipping and insurance?
[Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abhinav.tella:
I didn't UPS did not tell me if insurance was paid for by TMO, crossing my fingers.
[Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HaileyB:
Update. MyTmobile Account shows that they 1. have my shipping information wrong. and 2. Are going to charge me $25.00 for shipping the new phone. Uhh, no. I'm going to call tomorrow. Silly me for thinking Tmobile would do anything correctly.
[Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abhinav.tella:
Overnight shipping charge, I got that too.
[Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rsohne:
To all shipping phones back to t-mobile. Make sure you keep all tracking info. You should also add insurance. I returned an iphone 6 plus a month ago and they still have not found it. I am arguing with them on the eip which they charge me monthly even though i do not have the phone. Again, make sure you track add insurance and signature before shipping back.
[Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shook187:
I'm having the same issue, btw insurance means nothing because item shows as received.
[Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Myst3ry:
so things to look out for are...

- Light leak

- purple/Bad/Noisy Camera Performance

- red spot on Camera

- cosmetic damage

...anything else?
[Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abhinav.tella:
Well mine if you looked very carefully you could see its frame was indented towards the LCD near the power button, leaving less gap there, just imagine if it cracked there on a hot day because the glass expanded.....
[Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HaileyB:
I am sending back the original phone I pre-ordered. TMO sent me a shipping label and all I have to do is drop it off at UPS. Instead of having them ship me a new one I just went into the store and bought a new one. They will refund me the charges of the first phone when they receive it in the mail. What I noticed in doing this however is that the phone I purchased in store was of much better quality. The cosmetics of the phone were seamless, no light leaks, no purple camera and the battery seems to last WAY longer than it did on the one I pre-ordered. This makes me wonder if TMO rushed manufacturing the Pre-order devices and that is why there are so many issues with them? Either way, I am SOO happy I went and bought a new one in store. It's fabulous!!
[Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abhinav.tella:
I called my nearest store, no stock, they said maybe tomorrow. I guess I will wait for tracking and stick to the mail order.

I'm glad you got a good one, enjoy!
[Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrgizmoe:
My bottom speaker started making a "crackling' noise followed by a 2 second hiss. Im taking it back to the store tommorow, I didnt order it online, hopefully they will swap it out.
[Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abhinav.tella:
Bad news, for reorders. They have no idea/estimated time when they will even get inventory, I just called.
[Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abhinav.tella:
I cancelled my mail order, my store received Z3s today so I will just pick one up in the store as a "new purchase".

Update: picked it up in store, charging right now. Will check camera and for light bleed at night.

Update 2: No pink spots or light bleed.
[Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abhinav.tella:
I went to T-Mobile again because of a gap (no light bleed) issue, they opened 5-6 phones before they found me a perfect one. Now they are going to open all of their stock and check for this. They may end up shipping a lot of phones back to Sony.
[Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonathan3579:
I'm just a few days into owning my Z3 and I'm now extremely bothered by the light leaking from the edge of the screen and the body. Is this normal for this device? I doubt the store will readily exchange it for me without trying to charge.
[Xperia Z3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abhinav.tella:
Read my previous post, this is NOT NORMAL. You paid good money go back and ask for a good one. They won't charge for a defect. My local store is going to open all the Z3 packages and check for gap issues, and send a lot of them back. Testing for light leak is harder though, as you need darkness. My phone first one had light leak, but no gaps issues, second had gap but no light leak, third one is a gem.
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kponto:
I have a I9505 which had 4.2.2 version. Then, I have rooted it and installed Teamwin Recovery. I had this for almost 1 year; some weeks ago, I decided to upgrade it to 4.4.2 kitkat.

Then, I flashed the full stock ROM (I9505_ZTO_GHI2) got from Sammobile. After this, I realised that I don´t get to access recovery mode anymore. It´s not a volume button issue, since when I press the 3 buttons together (vol up + home + power) and keep them pressed for some seconds, I can see a small "recovery mode" or something similar in the display in blue color, but then, when I release the buttons, it boots in normal mode.

On the other hand, I get to access download mode normally (vol down + home + power).

How can I solve this??
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DeepankarS:
Well you dont have to keep the buttons pressed.

When you press the Volume up+center button+Power button.

Release them when the phone starts and shows the Samsung i9505 screen.

In a fraction of a second press the volume up and center button for a longer duration and you'll see the recovery.

For the blue screen you're talking about, it is the stock recovery (samsung stock recovery) :)
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kponto:
Thanks DeepankarS!

It worked!
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DeepankarS:
Anytime mate! :D

But remember..now you have A Knox enabled bootloader. So flashing anything custom (recovery/rom) will trip it to 0x1 and it cannot be set to 0 again.

Tripping the KNOX counter is considered to be a void warranty signal in some countries.

But as I read, your phone is a year old..flash that thing and make it awesome :P

But still there are ways in the i9505 to flash custom roms without tripping knox.

Happy flashing :)
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tmaclax013:
To keep this short and sweet I was basically looking for an app or tweak(I am rooted so it can require root access) that allows me to choose a couple of pictures that will change the wallpaper whenever I wake up or unlock my device. It can change the lock screen or the home screen or both. I just kind of want to play around with something. I know that "Wallcycler" exists for IOS so let me know what you guys got? :good:
[Xperia Z3 General] hanime:
Regarding the recent issue Sony Xperia Z3: pink spot in the middle of the pictures, I would like to gather more information about the phones that are affected. Perhaps we can find a model or batch that is worth looking at, etc.

Please let us know whether you are experiencing this issue or not, and which model you have (e.g. D6602, D6603, D6606, D6616, D6653, etc.). Please post in the thread as well:

- Which background (gray, white, brown, etc.) are you seeing the pink spots?

- Do you see the pink spots in your photos?

- Do you see the pink spots on the screen while aiming the camera?

- Do you see the pink spots in manual or auto mode?

- Do you see the pink spots in both front and rear camera?

- Do you see the pink spots when using flash?

- Screenshots?

Thank you in advance for your efforts.
[Xperia Z3 General] abhinav.tella:
I do not have a spot per say, its very mild but diffuse. I only see it after taking a picture.
[Xperia Z3 General] admad:
I don't see the problem on my unit. I'm on D6603.
[Xperia Z3 General] viking2.0:
I dont have the pink spot but i get a very noticeable pink circle when i use the flash. Without flash i dont see anything. I have d6603
[Xperia Z3 General] hanime:
So international versions have the magenta/pink spot issue?
[Xperia Z3 General] artlov:
D6603, but I can't understand affected it or not. Screenshot attached.
[Xperia Z3 General] hanime:
Yours clearly have the pink spot issue.
[Xperia Z3 General] gregbradley:
Thread already exists here

Thread closed
[Off-topic] grvris:
I used to work online but now my yahoo answers are ghosted so, the answers with are not shown.
[Off-topic] Rahul³™:
Wut?

Sent from Marican Bacon Cannogen fone running initial build of TurbanCMRom
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] QA Bot:
Q&A for RepeXpersiS™ Z2 Edition 5.0.1.A.G.Y ||||Real Z2 Experience|||[1.9.14]

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Before posting, please use the forum search and read through the discussion thread for RepeXpersiS™ Z2 Edition 5.0.1.A.G.Y ||||Real Z2 Experience|||[1.9.14]. If you can't find an answer, post it here, being sure to give as much information as possible (firmware version, steps to reproduce, logcat if available) so that you can get help.

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[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] YocoGy:
Problem with Viber

free call not work
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] versus0531:
hi guys, maybe someone have mirror for this rom? Because i have 10kb/s speed on download
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] ibrahim zakar:
xpria acro s

can i install to xpria acro s ??? :D
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] bubu23:
i tried all the time to watch streaming in the media player

like

mms://

but the media player find the streaming but only audio is on

the video i cant see why?

do i need codec or somthing???
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] jeeva:
playlists in wmp

can someone tell me how to add my songs which are in the storage card to the playlist so that I do not need to go down to the file explorer?

What I did was the following!!

I added the songs to the library but nothing seems to be there! But there are 128 songs it has searched///

i know i am missing somethng out there but what I do not know///
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] jeeva:
streaming

In my case, i get the video but not the sound>>>> Interesting.... I also used mms:// location to load the video file... Windows Media Player 10 for mobile is not the same as that of windows-xp one ... however, they should not miss the basic things...

any ideas boys and girls... on this issue..
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] ChaoticDruid:
Hi, in you media player options, go to the network tab, and set it to 128 or higher, and uncheck detect internet connection speed, it should play video then.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] bubu23:
your the best its working

thanks my friend
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] jerob:
thank you also. It works great
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thedailynathan:
Just picked up a used phone, and I'm curious if there's a way to check if it's been rooted before?
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pricey2009:
I think you want to check if the bootloader has been unlocked.. This degrades the phone.
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thedailynathan:
How would I be able to check that?
[Xperia Z3 Compact Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pricey2009:
Dial the following

*#*#7378423#*#*

Then go to service info, configuration
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] daboyal006:
Anybody think best buy will get this on Thursday? If anyone has experience with droid launches in best buy..

Edit: Just realized I should of posted in Q&A..Move Mods if possible
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Lw00d:
i hope so..
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] jfriend33:
I hope so too I have two $50 gcs to use there....

Sent from my unlocked consumer edition Motorola Droid Maxx xt1080m.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] daboyal006:
I have a 100$ gift card also lol

Sent From My VZW Note 4 POW!
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] jfriend33:
I got one gc for a tablet trade in and one for a last ditch alternate upgrade, got my g3 for free,

I am too chicken to do a loophole so I'm just gonna sell my g3.

Either get the turbo tomorrow and keep my maxx until we get root, or just wait for root then sell both phones....

Sent from my unlocked consumer edition Motorola Droid Maxx xt1080m.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] daboyal006:
Anyone know yet if best buy will get em? I went to a couple Verizon stores and it looks like they haven't even received their shipments yet

Sent From My VZW Note 4 POW!
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Lw00d:
yes best buy will have them tomorrow. i called my loco best buy they said they have a box full in the back.. but didnt know what memory size they had. until tomorrow.. to call back..

i will be getting mine tomorrow
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Juliann826:
Doesn't Best Buy always sell their phones for full retail + $50ish?

That's the only reason why I wasn't going to buy it there.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] ddaub14:
Best buy price matches I did it with the note 4 they matched verizons price of 699
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] jfriend33:
Ooo nice. Wonder if a movers coupon would work to get 10% off full retail...

U could probably save a few bucks and buy extra gift cards...

I dunno... I'm probably gonna just wait until root is confirmed...

Or just do a best buy loop hole upgrade but I'm pretty sure they won't be able to ship it home right away....

Sent from my unlocked consumer edition Motorola Droid Maxx xt1080m.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] MGK645:
Phone is on Best Buy's website, but only seeing 32GB in all colors, so sad they dont have the 64GB BN. Was planning on exchanging my Note 4 in to get it.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Lw00d:
when to my loco BB this morning B4 work... no droid turbo's instock. sad..
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] itanas:
It's in stock but only available for In-Store pickup, and only 32gb version.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] lramsey86:
I ordered the red 32gig yesterday from Bestbuy with free shipping. It should be here by 11/13. I'll try my old sim (maybe with some trimming) but I don't have high hopes of keeping my unlimited data.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] JTH182:
I wonder when Amazon will get it?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] jfriend33:
Anyone that has Amex, or Amex serve (maybe from softcard), can get $25 off $250 by tweeting #amexbestbuy

You could possibly use a movers coupon or something else to lower the price by ten percent. Shave off additional percentage by buying gift cards...
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] Vivjen:
It's already there, but price... http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00PBU5AL8/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&condition=new
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] JTH182:
Well that's obviously not what I meant.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] humberto103:
Please do update/ slickdeals thread?
[Moto 360] dragn017:
Has anyone made a Facer of the N64 Golden Eye pause watch? I want it bad!
[Moto 360] jspencer89:
Yes its on the Play store "SECRET AGENT WATCHFACE" is the name of the app
[Off-topic] Deleted member 1890170:
My intention was to embed a slideshow within a HTML-page without the need of any browser plugins to show the images, or even worse, to create such a HTML-page with a 3rd-party application I'ld have to pay for.

So I decided to write my own 32-bit "HTML5-Slideshow-Creator" to be run on Windows computers. "HTML5-Slideshow-Creator" is a utility that lets you tansform a picture gallery into a HTML5 compatible slideshow. The HTML5 page produced doesn't require an Internet connection, because the images to be presented aren't located somewhere in the cloud (AKA Complete Loss Of User Data). Hence you can consider the HTML5 page created as a "standalone" image viewer.

Screenshot:

"HTML5-Slideshow-Creator" is realized in MortScript language:

The full project-package I've uploaded here to:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/7ohpbioan7nym46/html5-slideshow-creator.zip

The package also contains freeware "painless", a batch image resizer for Windows (does not require being installed or uninstalled).

What you also should know:

Included to "HTML5-Slideshow-Creator" is the ability to convert/optimize the images.

If image to be included into HTML5 slideshow is of file format

a) JPEG then comments and other useless information (such as EXIF information) will be removed

» The tool used is JPEGTRAN (http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_jpegtran.htm)

b) BMP then it's converted to JPG: BMP files are normally uncompressed, and the compression options available are not very powerful, making the format a poor choice for distribution over the Internet.

» The tool used is BMP2JPG, a small MicroSoft utility - requires MicroSoft .NET framework.

c) PNG then it's optimized, i.e. the size of the file gets losslessly reduced. The resulting "crushed" image will have the same quality as the source image.

» The tool used is PNGCRUSH (http://pmt.sourceforge.net/pngcrush/)

Of course image optimization is optional, you can enable/disable it.

HOW TO MAKE USE OF "HTML5-Slideshow-Creator"

You unzip it, locate folder "html5-slideshow-creator"

and then therein simply run "html5-slideshow-creator.exe". That's all.

After "html5-slideshow-creator.exe" has done its work

you can deploy the ZIP-file created.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] charliemopps:
So I had my Verizon HTC One M8 rooted and that was enough for my needs. I didn't mess with it further.

Well then Verizon started pestering me with update notices for... what was it? 4.4.3? Anyways, I got sick of them and hit "OK" next thing I know my phones in a 1 to 2hr upgrade cycle with no warning. I was on call for my job! Then, when it came back all my root apps were disabled... you know the story.

So the only option to re-root it was sunshine.

Now I'm getting pestered with the same notices again to go to 4.4.4

They are really bad. I can't even unlock the phone. They are in your face and obnoxious. I can't get rid of them. I don't want to let Verizon make my phone even worse. Any advice that doesn't leave me shelling out $25? Can I call Verizon and pitch a fit? I DO NOT WANT THIS.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] thewagdy:
You can install a custom ROM and those popups are blocked automatically. I recommend the new Clean Rom

---------- Post added at 12:35 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:34 PM ----------

It is mostly stock and should be exactly what you need.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] charliemopps:
I cannot install a rom. I lost Root with the last update and do not have S-off. I didn't even know what S-off was until that update. It's extremely irritating to have to keep up on this nonsense just to own a smartphone.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] riot1031:
Sunshine should have given you S-OFF. Also, you should be able to run Sunshine in the same phone again without paying again.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] berndblb:
If you used Sunshine on 4.4.3 you are S-off and bootloader unlocked. If you currently have root you flashed a custom recovery and then SU, right?

So you have everything in place to just flash a rom and be done with it.

Scrosler's CleanROM is just like stock, but de-bloated of most of the VZW and some of the HTC bloatware.

If you want pure stock flash his stock rooted 4.4.3 rom. Nothing changed to the original firmware except it's rooted and the SD write protection removed.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] charliemopps:
No, I did not use sunshine.

It was the only option, I did not do it. I'm poor.

I was hoping there was some option to gain root without it. If not, I'm just screwed.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] LibertyMonger:
I am s-off and on Viper ROM and I am being pestered with the update as well. It even downloaded it for me without me knowing. Then it forced me to select a time to install it so I had to pick 12am so I have to figure out how to dodge this nonsense, i am waiting for the newe Viper to update to 4.4.4
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] santod040:
Just flash this until the next update where that nag will be removed.

No more nags...
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] jimyv:
if you're still on 4.4. 3 use weak sauce to temporarilyroot then use a root explorer and delete your OTA updater files or rename them. and I'm not positive of this but from what I thought I understood it depends on your hardware version whether or not firewater will work and that is the free s off version.this is my first HTC device alsobut I am a root user so that is what I look for in the only way to have permanent forever root on an htc is to S OFF when you first get the devicethen it doesn't really matter what happens after that you can always flash su to get root on any new update after you flashing your recovery..

and just FYI no none of this is necessary just to own a smartphone only if you're trying to be smarter than your smartphone then in that case I guess you have to work for it ie free hotspot or IE ad blocker ect. and everybody here already understand those types of benefits involve maintenance and your own research and time especially with the latest devices. sorry is it just me butI had already read most of the m8 forum by the time my MA got here I researched very thirdly on which phone I even wanted to get which ushered me capability and S OFF or permanent root before I even purchased the phone and already knew the wrist before I even took it to the computer for root for the first time. good luck ..bTW if you do get temporary root and want to move or rename or delete the update file that you downloaded so it will not actually go through it is in. /cache/fuma . just search how to disable your OTA updater per the firmware you are on with and do while you are running your temp root.
[Verizon HTC One (M8)] yakayu:
It sounds like smartphones may not be for you, get a old dinosaur phone and you won't have to "deal" with updates.

What do you think pitching a fit to a CS rep will do? They don't have some magic button to stop your phone from receiving updates.

Either take the time and learn more about flashing and rooting and do it yourself or pay the people that have taken the time to figure out how and ask thoughtful questions to other people and get help along the way.

Advice: Sell your phone on Swappa and get something that's already flashed with cyanogen, or accept the update and suffer through the horrible indignity of allowing your phone to be updated to 4.4.4 and getting the stock flashlight that should have been there already.