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[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] cdh1001:
Though this thread is a little old, I found my way here after suffering from the persistent voicemail notification symbol, too.

Being a n00b, I'm still finding my way around my XDA, but it's perhaps worth remarking that the .cab install discussed above prevented me from sending texts (I got the 'Error synchronizing' and 'Your text message could not be sent' notifications) so had to remove it. I guess this was because I didn't heed the warning about developer certs! Be warned!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] raburton:
Which cab file did you install? I'm guessing the one near the beginiing of the post, in which case I'm not suprised you have problems. If you installed an old hacked version of a system file it's not likely to work out well.

Have a look at post 128, you'll find a proper fix there.

If on the other hand you had been using that one let me know and I'll see if I can debug the problem.

Richard.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] Mike D:
This is more WM6 related, than pure Hermes, but I'm having this VM icon problem on my HTC Wizard.

I'm unable to get any SMS at all; when I try to send I get a box coming up "The phone is not ready try again in 15 secs". I cannot access GPRS either, despite putting in al the settings again. When I attempt to go into Settings>Personal>Phone I just get the keypad coming up and "The Phone is Off"

Any ideas anybody, will the VM cab files work OK with a Wizard?? - sorry, but not much on the Wizard forum about this problem
[Xperia Z2 General] waleed.619:
So i've been torn between this phone and note 3 , i was about to take the xperia side but got worried when i compared the development for both devices , it seems like the xperia z2 roms got bugs with the camera not working and other issues....what do you guys think ? is there a steady development for this phone and bug free roms (paranoidandroid,carbon,cm ,...)?or should i go for the note 3 ?
[Xperia Z2 General] kersey:
I'm very satisfied with Sony's stock rom. It has far less unnecessary bloatware compared to Samsungs Touchwiz so personally don't feel the need to use anything other than a rooted stock rom with Xposed modules, and lets not forget how great a device the Z2 is.
[Xperia Z2 General] tuktukscotty:
I've been a diehard Samsung fan for years. I've had galaxy S, S2, S3, S4, S5........ Note, note 2, note 3, note 10.1 and note 10.1 2014. This is my first Sony since the smart phone revolution and I can honestly say I'm really impressed. I've only had it about 3 weeks and have not rooted it or anything. The only thing I have done is debrand it. It's great for playing games. The camera is fantastic. But most of all, battery life compared to any Samsung phone I've had is absolutely amazing. I used to get 1 full day out of my note 3 and charged it every night (the most battery life I had left at the end of the day was 30% and that was with only light use). I charged my Z2 last night for the first time in 3 days. Battery usage one the 3 days consisted of a few hours of watching YouTube videos, a couple of hours of playing games ( RollerCoaster Tycoon & asphalt 8). Checking in/posting on Facebook throughout the 3 days, and about an hour of surfing the Internet. I only have two complaints about the Z2 and they are, tap to wake is hit and miss at best, and the flap to cover the charging port wouldn't stay closed but I fixed this by giving it a good clean with a baby wipe. I always have the same brands in my devices so now i'm changing from my note 10.1 to Z2 tablet.
[Xperia Z2 General] francanna:
I have had a very similar story and experience. Samsung phones and tabs for years and now Z3 Tablet Compact and Z2. I am happy. Did not mod anything, but neither could I with Samsung Note 3 because of Knox...

Note 3 is a very good device, has a wider screen and a stylus, but this Xperia are way out faster and have a great battery ( let me say that for the same usage it goes on for the double of time...).

Camera here is less good for point & shot but generally better. Important is also water resistance and the possibility to use the phone with gloves and even a normal pencil (I find it useful when it is cold).

Samsung roms are full of functions that you won't find here (reading mode, block mode, car drive mode, apps for kids and so on), but everything is far from being quick and responsive.

In Xperia Z2 everything just happens when you click.

Moreover, ultra stamina mode is perfwct when you are with a mere 15% or 10% and can still call and text for one day.

In conclusion, two good phones. I am happy with my change from Note 3 to Z2.

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[Xperia Z2 General] xarfrost:
I have used S2, S3, S4 and always been a Samsung fan. But lately I grew tired of the bloatware they keep on adding, the near useless features and their plastic build. The only thing that preventing me from buying Sony Xperia was their awful screen from Z to Z1, its only a TFT LCD screen compared to AMOLED from Samsung. Then came Z2 with IPS LCD display and from that moment I bought one, and never ever been disappointed. The UI is faster, less clutter, less bloatware, the camera is awesome, as well as the audio quality. Premium finish, glass front and back and metal on the sides, Noise cancelling headphones (its a steal!) and waterproof as an extra!

Yes, although development is significantly slow in Sony team, but even by using stock rom, battery life is superb, giving me 2 days like a piece of cake. You dont need a removable battery anymore. Existenz rom is good enough for my Z2. Not that Note 3 is bad, its way better if you multitask a lot and a bigger screen.
[Xperia Z2 General] waleed.619:
Yeah the multiwindow feature on the note 3 is really tempting.... Is there such mod for the xperia?
[Xperia Z2 General] francanna:
The only devices on which I have really used multiwindows were Note 8 and Note 10. In my opinipn even a 5.7" is too small for a useful multiwindows use.

On Xperia you have useful miniapps. Torch, browser, inbox and some other (limited) apps that you can play in windows.

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[Xperia Z2 General] Akhayev:
If you asked me i will tell you to get lg g3 everything much better than z2 and note 3 the camera and screen the battery on z2 better than g3 but everything else better on g3
[Xperia Z2 General] Jiyeon90:
Whatever you do don't get the g3, it lags, overheats, has bad battery compared to z2, no stereo speakers, no waterproof, no premium feeling, screen is dim and it's not as vivid and it also has halo effect.. The list could go on forever

Sent from my SGP611
[Xperia Z2 General] Invicta:
i concur, Z2 is alot better than the LG, grab a black z2 and combine it with a spigen crystal clear and youre good to go
[Xperia Z2 General] dryla:
Xperia Z2 is the best phone. I never had better. :good:
[Xperia Z2 General] yuskhayru:
Get it when u are ready for it. :)
[Xperia Z2 General] doministry:
I have my Z2 for almost a year now.

Still seems like new really.

I recommend it.

Stock ROM still flies.
[Xperia Z2 General] waleed.619:
What do you guys think about the navigation buttons being on screen ? i have an impression that it will take away from the actual screen size specially that the navigation bar is not transparent
[Xperia Z2 General] kunaltyagii:
its actually better than hardware keys as the google now experience is better with software keys, also you have 5.2" real estate, even after navigation bar you get 5" which is same as most of the other phones on market. and navigation bar is transparent, just the keys are visible which hide in background depending on app or get reduced to three dots.
[Xperia Z2 General] Envious_Data:
Oddly i find the onscreen keys fairly nice

I originaly thought they were enoying and a waste of space but it feels like hardare keys with the Z2, Exept they disapear in games, movies and youtube (apps simular :D )
[Xperia Z2 General] neconox:
Hello,

Is the call quality comparable with other smartphones? I just read about some issues with the voice quality in phone calls with some older firmwares. I didn't find some information about new software versions.
[Xperia Z2 General] dakunclear:
I myself have never had an issue with call quality or anything for that matter and I've had the phone for about a month and half now....came from a note 3 and the only thing I miss is the ir blaster lol the note 3 was a glitch fest and touchwiz constantly crashed (common issue). Never have I felt the need to flash a Rom on the z2 which is a nice change
[Xperia Z2 General] waleed.619:
are there certain models that can't be rooted ?
[Xperia Z2 General] Envious_Data:
no

all Xperia's can be rooted one way or another

typically i just unlock my bootloader and install recovery and then install root via recovery but most people prefer to keep their warranty within grasp
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] antisomnic:
I would like to install a T-Mobile Rom or at least the flash the modem files on a Verizon S4. I switched it to T-Mobile prepaid and I feel it would have better service if I did that. Is this possible? I tried flashing basebands and a rom (i don't remember which one) and it didn't work.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] serio22:
You won't get better service. Only thing you can do is update modem for YOUR device, and make sure you have correct apn. Flashing rom is possible I believe but don't know the procedure, try searching the verizon forums
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] antisomnic:
If flashing a T-Mobile rom won't help then I won't even bother. So updating the modem for my device may help reception for another carrier even though the baseband is for Verizon? Unless my understanding of modem/baseband is wrong. I thought that was what told the phone how to communicate with that particular carrier.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] serio22:
It may to some extent, but modems are not interchangeable with these devices
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sswagonman:
I have got my note 4 rooted and currently have twrp installed. I want to install cwm but every time I try by either Odin or flashify it just stops doing anything and won't install. Any ideas?

sent from Dan's galaxy
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[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] HD2killers:
sorry，how to do it

have fat32 and double ext4,and your recovery 2.8.1,but noot to boot it .use the cLK 1.2.5.1
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mosi hd2:
you should use DirectSD method to install this rom (with a special clk)

Sent from my NexusHD2
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rayosx:
Just wondering if any of you sometimes have had any weird sound as distorted / cracked or garbled when phone is ringing or in any notification sound?

Problems found by some users and me:

Crack, Garbled or distorted on notification or incoming calls (ringtone) even on some games.

Doesn't matter the volume level, it's not happening because it is at max level and came a distorted sound, that is not the problem.

It fixes the problem turning off and turning on the phone, so this problem comes intermittent and barely..

I'm pretty sure that could be an android os bug or sound driver bug but still I want to confirm with some of you.

We have 2 Nexus 6 at home, my wife and mine and both of us have experienced the same weird sound issue rarely times and not often, so I don't think that is a defective hardware but I am not sure.

1st Nexus 6 phone Lollipop 5.01 , Stock and rooted

2nd Nexus 6 phone Lollipop 5.01, Stock, Not rooted.

Please advise.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garyHal:
I don't know if I am experiencing similar problem is you but it is during my phone ringtone.

I have Dione as my ringtone. When somebody calls me, it sounds like my speaker would crackle/pop for a second and then the ringtone would start.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jhorton014:
I have our as well. Especially when playing games like civilization.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rayosx:
I have not paid attention when my phone rings, but on notifications sometimes I get that horrible crack or distorted sound.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rayosx:
I don't think that is a bad hardware batch that we received, let's wait for more users to answer our concerns
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] binqker:
I too get distortion sound. specially when on call. hmm? hardware issue maybe?
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jtwlbz:
I've seen so many speaker issue. More likely its design issue.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rayosx:
Seems very weird to be hardware issue, I haven't experienced on calls, just from speakers on notification sounds and barely I have this issue, sometimes everything is fine, so I wouldn't assume its hardware.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rayosx:
I don't get convinced that is design issue the distortion sound problems come sometimes and very weird. If it was design issue we had the problem always.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zetsumeikuro:
Might help if you list @ what % volume you experience the audio issue. I have zero distortion on my speakers even at above 50%. Movies, notifications, phone calls all sound great on my end =].
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rayosx:
At max. The problem is that distortion from notification sound it comes intermittent, it can happen once in a while, it is not always. That is on my end even on my wife phone it does the same. Isn't that weird?
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ricey1986:
I have noticed this also, it is like a crack just before the actual notification starts to play.

I used to get it all the time on the Twitter app when loading photos (load a photo, go back leave it say 10 secs and load the same photo), it annoyed me so much that I changed my twitter app to just get rid of it.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hazzo31:
Obviously is software. Sometimes even it doesn't come out. For example the facebook pop sound when you refresh the news feed. Going to RMA the phone for other issues, I'll let you know if in my new one there is the same problem.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dabarr:
I am having similar problems. I get massive sound distortions all the time. When listening to music, watching videos and playing games. It sounds like a vinyl witch scratches and hurts my ears. I had created another thread but nobody seemed to have the same problem. Is anybody here witnessing something like that as well?
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gmiterek:
I was having the same problems (at least I don't notice it any more). What I did notice it seemed to always happen when you double clicked on your notification from the lock screen. It was really starting to bother me as I paid a fortune for this phone and it shouldn't have this. Anyway's, I think I found a fix as I don't seem to have the problem any more (it's been 3 to 4 days). I went into sounds and chose other sounds and disabled the screen locking sounds. It seemed to have work. I do have the touch sounds disabled to, but when I only had that on it still did the distorted sound. I'll re-enable it and see if I still get the distortion. I'll post later on.

---------- Post added at 11:00 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:38 AM ----------

Are you getting this through the speakers or through a headset. Mine is working great for music or video playback. I also don't blast it either, that could be it.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coldcrush390:
I'm getting that same issue. Even when I get a call it distorts and it only seems to do that when my ringer is on full blast... It sounded horrible.. It almost made me wanna switch back to my M8 GPE edition.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dabarr:
For me volume does not matter. Also, it is irrelevant if I use speakers or headphones. Same thing happens.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rayosx:
Seems software issue, driver on android os
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rayosx:
Please Keep us posted, we need to check what the problem is
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rayosx:
Ohh well, I don't know what to say but we are not alone
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bataga:
The pop or crackle noise I've noticed is part of the notification or some of the ringtones. It's like a "drum" that's part of the sound. I hear it through my headphones.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rayosx:
FYI,

Many of you that have this issue, I'm positive that it is not hardware defect.

The reason is that I have not had this bad sound for several days. My wife today received a call and when it was ringing, ringtone sounded very crappy, again this does not happen often and with the same settings of volume.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FuPete:
I got this too, mostly if I play downloaded music from YouTube (via JDownloader) with Playerpro. I got this bad voice, doesnt matter if I'm using the speakers or a headphone. If I play the same music via YouTube itself it works flawlessly.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rayosx:
We are many experiencing this kind of bug. Hope that Google fix it asap.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ruffain:
its not an hardware issue

i dont have nexus but i recently updated to lollipop i have an HTC and everything was fine untill the update and this sound is so annoying i have deleted all my notification sounds but the sounds from UI still annoy it me its like the white noise of the radio if anyone finds a fix please post here
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hazzo31:
Still happening in some occasions in the new device. Definitively software issue.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jtwlbz:
All has it. I don't believe some people said they don't have this issue. I noticed some units has more some has less. I hope it's software issue( whatever digital audio processing SW, FPGA or DSP ) but to me frankly it sounds like HW issue such as poor analog audio circuitary design after digital audio because I hear the noise everytime when the speaker is enabled.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dgart08:
I just got my Nexus 6 last night and I noticed this bug right away. I get a sporadic white noise coming from the top speaker during calls & after notifications. I also hear crackling and distortion during some notifications and ringtones. I hope it's software related.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fremnet:
I've had this complaint since I got it.

Pops instead of sounds, especially when locking/unlocking, or playing Plague Inc (IE: when you click between menu buttons in the game most of the time it "pops" instead of makes the normal sound)

I suspect it has something to do with over aggressive power saving, or playing sounds before the sound system is fully powered up.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cky2000:
Same here crackle/static/white noise. I've been through 3 brand new Nexus 6's from Google play and a fourth is on it's way and tried it on a 2 display models at T Mobile. They all have had the same problem. Google has said "We've been unable to reproduce this on any of the Nexus 6s that we've tried this on" source: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/nexus/IwOrn3Fj8U0 . I've seen a lot of posts about this and the ones I tried it on all had 90% battery or above. I pretty much flashed everything under the sun and it all the same. I've sent Google (the same tech-support person I'm dealing with) links to every post I read about this problem.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lw00d:
got the N6 last week. i notice this noise only in ringtones and notifications.. volume at 50%.. games, videos, all sound good.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fremnet:
So, I finally got around to recording the popping/clicking sound my phone makes - you can see at 0:24 it actually manages to make the right sound once....

youtube watch?v=kaHNsZZMePw (can't post links yet)

Volume makes no difference, just changes the volume of the pop/click
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wilson289:
I didn't bother reading through your entire thread so if this isn't the same type of problem, just ignore this post.

Anyways, I went through FOUR different phones before I was able to roll a good one on my 5th try. I really believe that this is a hardware problem, you can get AT&T to RMA a new one through the mail, they provide payment for shipping your current device back to them.

Please reference my thread here for more details: http://xdaforums.com/nexus-6/help/nexus-6-speaker-static-white-noise-t2962949
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rox598:
Im getting this too

And on top of it my phone is using a notification tone that's not even in the phone! I;ve set my sms message alert as the hangouts tone and it never ever plays :S wth is this? i've flashed a stock image and it's still happening.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rayosx:
Usually most of customer reps when we have a problem they can't reproduce the bug, the bad thing for us it is that comes intermittent and not often. I updated the first post in this thread for better explanation about our issue whether you want that I add specific links with this issue and other information please let me know and I will be more than glad to update the first post for a better understanding.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rayosx:
I was thinking that maybe could be cpu is at full in some instances and hardware is not communicating ok with software, android os or driver,

I have read that if we are using encryption there is a bug about cpu consumption could cause some slowness issues, compare this bad outcome when a PC cpu is saturated and trying to load a sound or an application and that goes very bad on garbled / paused reproduced sounds.

Who knows :(
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cky2000:
Hey rayosx you can add it if you want. That one post is growing pretty fast. I did get my forth but but the battery was growing..lolol. I opened the box and was like WTF. Of course I tried to boot it but it was shipped with the boot-loader screen on and none of the buttons worked.

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I've tried pretty much all the roms and kernels out there and being encrypted/decrypted. It's all the same result. My ringtones, notification, touch, lockscreen and alarms sounds all have that problem crackle/static/white noise. My videos and music, local or streaming sounds awesome. Bluetooth audio and in-calls sounds awesome too. I really hope it is a software problem, but I don't think it is.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JHadley:
I'm on my second, and will be ordering a third as soon as they're available again. My first had the half yellow half white screen tinting issue. I returned it within 14 days and ordered a new one. The screen is much better on the second, but it has a very loose sounding vibration motor and the crackling top speaker. I'm going to try one more before I give up on the nexus and wait for the HTC Hima.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rayosx:
Cky2000,

Wait a sec, so you have this problem always? My problem is intermittent and barely I have it, if it was hardware I had it always.

Let me know
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ad78:
I have the same issue but I fixed it by installing Viper4Android. I choose super high quality and tweaked from there.