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[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Jliax:
I've installed it as well now, so far everything seems to work. Auto brightness is indeed buggy.

To get it installed I had to do a few things:

- Extract boot.img from the cm12 zip and flash it with fastboot

- boot into recovery (power up) , the recovery is _EXTREMELY_ hard to read. It looks like a black screen but if you look closer the brightness is set to minimum or something. Turn off all lights (LOL) and flash cm12 followed by gapps.

- unlock developer options to enable root
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] nelvinchi:
MultiROM support requires some work to make the z3c a compatible device - androplus kernel (v19c) has the required kexec-hardboot support for multirom, but multirom manager doesn't support the z3c and no multirom custom TWRP... I would have a go at porting Multirom, but I don't know coding with C very well.... If anybody can code in C, there is a porting guide by the dev here: https://github.com/Tasssadar/multirom/wiki/Porting-MultiROM :(

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I had the same problem, tried three times (even shut myself in a really dark room to see if i could read the recovery logs!) - I started thinking the issues must be with accessing my external sd card (mount issues?), so I moved the cm rom zip to internal/sdcard0 and flashed again, it worked perfectly! Done the same thing with Gaaps, worked!

We really need TWRP (or CWM) as the cm recovery is a bit pants (no offence intended to CM), no nandroid backup/restore, mount tools etc).

I have spent about six hours playing with and "customising" the rom - I'll post my experiences/issues soon...
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] mick711:
Translate

Thanks

A lot of big update on next nightly , I

I would like to know how translate CM12 ?

I find this for CM11 : https://crowdin.com/project/cyanogenmod

but nothing for CM12 and no files strings.xml here : https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_device_sony_z3c

Thanks
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] onesun43:
Looking forward to all those changes. I'm tempted to try this as a daily driver for a few days, but the brightness is driving me a bit nuts having to set it manually. Don't see any fixes listed for it in the next nightly.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Sethi1985:
I installed and seens all fine. Couldn´t install using TWRP from AndroPlus Kernel. Needed to flash the CM boot.img and than try to read the recovery menu lo/

But all seens fine, so far :)

For next, nights, all i need is wipe cache/dal and apply update like now?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] AndroidenKalle:
The problem seems to be fixed in nightly 20150211.

Gesendet von meinem Xperia Z3C
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] broduderson:
Despite the "NO SERVICE", do you actually have service? Mine displayed that for a couple minutes one time but I did indeed have service.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] mariotme:
I do have service while displaying no service on lock screen
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Raptor270:
I found a problem with landscape.

Every app i switch to landscape mode makes my navigation bar disappear and i can't do anything to get out of the app which is pretty annoying for apps only working in landscape

[IMG="Screenshot"]http://i.imgur.com/y9KXVKT.jpg[/IMG]
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] dzejmsbond007:
How is the 20150211 doing, guys? Any serious bugs?

As for the incoming call lag - I have read somewhere that disabling Nuplayer in developers options might help - anyone tried it?

I am still on stock but eager to flash CM as soon as it is stable enough...
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Zwulf:
This bug is still there with 20150211, sadly. I'm constantly checking CM changelogs hoping to see it being fixed but still no progress on this... :(
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] tankos:
Currently on 20150211, received a call which worked perfectly. No loudspeaker activated.

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Confirm I had the same bug in google play movies yesterday. Don't know if it was just on 20150210 or an intermittent bug as unable to replicate today on 20150211.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Zwulf:
[MENTION=4110561]tankos[/MENTION] Did you clean flash or dirty?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] tankos:
Dirty flash.

Interestingly, after mucking about phoning in and out I'm back to hearing static on both receiving calls and dialling out. Will try a clean install with the next nightly...
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Zwulf:
Me too, maybe this will fix it. I have to do this anyway because theming of the status bar won't work anymore (sticks to one theme even if choosing another one, stock theme -> reboot won't help).
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] tankos:
Newest nightly still has static on phone calls. Dialer possibly slightly less buggy but only tried a few calls. Also of note, tried a clean install of 20150211 and then updating using CM updater, this didn't work (wouldn't enter recovery, just rebooted) . Manual flash of 20150212 over clean 20150211 worked.

Haven't had any issues with themer but only really use materiaL from playstore... :)

Also slight barrelling of photos persists... :(
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] m0d:
Has anyone got issues of time resetting after reboot? (Date and time)

Also,

At times when I answer a call my phone goes directly to loudspeaker, but clicking loudspeaker icon on screen mutes the call (I cant hear anything).
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Zwulf:
No issues with time... Loudspeaker problem is known but not fixed yet.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] lawonga:
Recovery

Did anyone else have any issues with booting into recovery/updating as of the 2/11/15 nightly? What are your steps to fix this?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] tankos:
I had the same issue. Interestingly I've noticed on the last 2 nightlies that the led doesn't light up during boot to indicate when to press volume down to enter recovery. Not sure if the 2 are related. For last nightly I just used power + volume down and applied update manually.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] maluc:
I have no idea why I can´t get into Recovery anymore? What´s my problem? I have 11.02 installed......mhhhhh. ADB falshes the boot, but on rebbot it says there is no device?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] lawonga:
How are you applying the update manually? Fastboot? Can you provide more detailed instructions so I can try?

I tried to flash the 2/12 boot img and the same thing as 2/11 happened.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Oli_83:
I got fed up with the CM recovery, I've switched to TWRP. Download it from androidfilehost (sorry cant post a link as I'm a new user!)

Flash it with Rashr from play store, I've been using it for the last few days at it works fine with CM12. Even gives you the ability to make/restore backups :D
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] nilsja:
had to remove CyanogenMod again because of loud speaker bug

That's a pity. Would like to test it more in everyday use...
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] firsty:
Very nice this! indeed! :) Love it! Not alot of bugs on my end, but theres always room for improvement. I too have the issue described with the Dimmed Notification LED. Anyone found a solution to this? Otherwise, battery seems to drain a bit faster than stock. But havent found the reason for it. All in all, the best rom for the Xperia z3c! Great job! And keep them CM Updates coming :)
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] maluc:
Hey, twrp works perfect. Update also! Thanks a lot for your hint!
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] mauroalpha:
After the update to day 11 release my phone doesn't go no more on recovery and also in bootloader. I've tried every app but it doesn't work..I've flashed twrp with rashr but it still doesn't work..

any suggest? what i can do?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] broduderson:
Look at the post literally above yours.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] mauroalpha:
Man, as i've wrote, RASHR doesn't work. It install TWRP but when i click for boot to recovery it doesn't work. No purple led at all everything i do. I'm confused.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] C2fifield:
PSA from CM

http://www.cyanogenmod.org/blog/public-service-announcement-sony-cm12-users
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] maluc:
# Install "Rashr"

# Download TWRP from https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95916177934520172 here

# Install "Kernel from memory" and select the "twrp"-Image

# Reboot

# When the Sony Logo apperas wait about 1-2 sec then press Vol+ and hold it down for 3-4 sec.

# Now you are in "twrp" and can flash and backup whatever you want.

If you flash the new CM12 nightly you have to repeat the process above, if you want to update again, because on 13.02 the recovery dont´work also, neither the automatic update from the menu. Don´t know where recovery left :confused:

:good::good:
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] 2mal16:
Xposed arrived for Lollipop :)

http://xdaforums.com/xposed/official-xposed-lollipop-t3030118

would be nice to hear if it works.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Raptor270:
it wont let me install the required zip in CM recovery
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] scottjb:
Even though I don't see the LED I can still get to recovery. Power off, power on and start tapping the volume up button. It still goes to recovery (for me it's CM recovery).
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] jeff5891:
Anyone able to get USB audio working? I tried it in my ford focus and failed
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] crxmax:
need a little help guys. i got the phone rooted with keeping the drm keys method. i had everything working until i tried to install the rom here.

i think the problem came on this step: "- extract kernel from this cm12 zip (boot.img) and flash in fastboot / fastboot flash boot boot.img"

i followed the instructions and when i flashed the new rom now the phone will not boot =[

edit: also, i can not get into recovery mode. when i try to go into fastboot mode i get a blue led light and black screen
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Oli_83:
I had this problem at first too. I had to unlock the bootloader with Sony to get it working, but as far as I'm aware, I should be able to restore the drm keys as I have backed them up. The bootloader needs to be unlocked as CM12 uses a different kernel.

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I'm not getting notification of incoming calls again after flashing 20150213..... Anyone found a fix for this yet?

Have reverted back to 20150212 and seems to work again.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Zwulf:
Fastboot mode is not a recovery. The blue light indicates that you are in fastboot mode actually. You have to go on with PC while connected to the device.

Unlock bootloader with flashtool, then fastboot the boot image ("fastboot flash boot boot.img"). Follow the further instructions of the thread. It will work with unlocked bootloader.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] mauroalpha:
Kernel from memory bricked my phone...this is not kernel, is a recovery..I've solved my problem flashing boot in fastboot mode and then, from cyano recovery, flashing cm 12 again - thanks anyway :) (and i've just read the page of public-service-announcement-sony-cm12-users )
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Matteo Mazzu:
I was curious about the ram usage and the battery life :) And how does it perform in the picture capturing? Thanks ;)
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] scottjb:
Although subjective and depends on your use, I find battery life to be good, about on par with my HTC one M8. Pictures are pretty bad, probably because I unlocked the boot loader without backing up DRM.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] 2mal16:
That's not the reason, software ist just not optimized yet.you can't Run cm 12 with intact drm keys since restoring them will relock your bootloader.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] scottjb:
That's encouraging, thanks.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] 2mal16:
Well this changes of course when lollipop is officially released :) Then you can expect workarounds that hijack sonys software and restore stock capabilities as we have seen for kitkat.

The most anitcipated thing though would be the raw image support which lollipop supposedly brings, that changes the game ofc. Right now you dont have any downside without DRM keys except warranty issues.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] scottjb:
Even more encouraging!
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] zoome9:
Reverted back to stock sometime earlier this week (build 02/06) because of BT issues. Is that still a problem with recent nightlies?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] firsty:
Is it just me, or is the Auto Updater not rebooting to recovery after downloading the cm-12-20150214-NIGHTLY-z3c - extracting and ABD'ing the boot.img. ?

And theres still an issue with the LED brightness and audio engine wakeup ( Sound seems dim at first, and sometimes notification audio is skipped, almost like it is in hibernation and cant always get out of it ) , cant seem to find it in the fixlog or changelog either :)
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] nelvinchi:
From http://www.cyanogenmod.org/blog/public-service-announcement-sony-cm12-users

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Public Service Announcement: Sony CM12 users

Due to a change introduced this morning to our BusyBox source, to flash a new nightly moving forward you must do a one-time manual process.

Download tonight’s (2/14) nightly, unpack the zip and use fastboot to flash the boot.img.

Command:

fastboot flash boot boot.img

This will allow you to resume the normal update process. Sorry in advance for the hassle, but this was a necessary change for how mounts are handled in BusyBox. As Sony devices use a combined boot and recovery.img (no separate recovery partition), fastboot is the only way to workaround this latest change.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] firsty:
...

" extracting and ABD'ing the boot.img. "

Please read my post :)
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] nelvinchi:
My bad! :eek:

Please accept my apologies! :silly:
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] firsty:
No worries bro :) you just tried to help. And the admins pointed med to the correct Q and A tread ;)
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] PherChe:
Still bugued?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] nelvinchi:
I haven't tried OTG, but the other old bugs are fixed.... :D
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] kyasu:
FOTA TWRP 2.8.5.0 for z3c (aries)

I have made twrp 2.8.5.0 recovery for flashing on fota partition.

This is just packing the zImage of CM12 and the ramdisk of Fota TWRP 2.8.5.0 recovery for amami <http://xdaforums.com/sony-xperia-z1-compact/general/fota-twrp-recovery-amami-t2909719>,

plus default.prop modification: 'ro.product.device' is defined as 'z3c' ('ro.build.product' is defined as 'aries').

You can directly flush CM12.

Installation:

fastboot flash recovery fota-twrp2.8.5.0-z3c.img

Download:

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95916177934529111

Previous Version:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=58530843&postcount=217
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] edcarsky:
Guys, I’m ON and OFF in CM12, had to return to STOCK ROM due to call issues, what are the status of the audio call via phone speaker and loud speaker I know is working but little bit buggy, though, anyone guys works this concerns in latest build, pls update us, thanks.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Oli_83:
Is anyone else having trouble with incoming calls? I doesn't ring on the phone when somebody tries to call on the last couple of nightlies. :(

It works on 20150212 - called it from my other phone and there's a delay of about 2 or 3 rings before it flashes up on my z3c but at least it tells me someone is calling.

20150213 and 20150214 - it rings on the phone I'm calling from but I get no notification whatsoever on my z3c that someone is trying to call.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] firsty:
Did you flash the 14. Nightly's Boot.img manually?

Works well for me atleast. No issues except the audio delay problem. Audio seems to wake up from hibernation and then sometimes wont play on notifications.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Anthony25:
Performances drop when activating encryption

Hello,

The UI lags when enabling encryption seems to be fixed with the last nightlies (20150214) !

Edit: it's not completely fixed in fact. You have to enter the passphrase before it changes the language or it will be laggy.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] 1Chef:
Thank you for this great ROM so much better then stock Sony loving lollipop its stable as well :). Couple of problems the default cm recovery is causing the storage/emulated/0/0/0 etc bug any way to fix? Will flashing the twrp recovery stick after a normal (no boot.IMG flash) install? Also having problems connecting to my university's WiFi I think it uses eduroam security, never seen this problem on any ROMs before. Thank you for your help and keep up this great rom.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] maluc:
And the best is the battery life. My Phone´s on and on - day three right now and I´ve got a few percent left :) CM12 rocks!
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] NicholasPeckham:
Camera/DRM Issues

Hey. I was wanting to install the most recent nightly. I am a big user of the camera and was just curious if you all have seen any lack of quality with CM12? Thanks.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] m0d:
The short answer - yes.

As an old user of first x10minipro who loved the camera, I can say - The camera is not yet up to where it should be for the hardware we have.

Most changes, if not all, for z3c are done by free xperia team, cm and aosp.

In aosp camera has not yet been fixed, while cm uses an older version as a workaround so the camera is not yet at full potential.

Hopefully soon we will get some good news.

If you still want to check it out: try open camera app, it has more options than standard camera
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] firsty:
Not the best quality atm. I agree. But the speed of it! Its awesome.. The Sony original Camera app was so slow. Miss the button though :(
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] kuzcoTheGreat:
I guess that means that the camera button to launch the camera app does not work? Can't you fix this with tasker?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] firsty:
Havent tried with tasker. But thats a great idea :) if it detects it, it should work. I get haptic feedback from pressing it all the way down, when the phone is unlocked. But no feedback when the lockscreen is activated, or on halfshutterpress. So theres definitively something working somewhere :)
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] RealitySwitch:
And in Europe, your warranty remains intact.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] 2mal16:
Well good Thing I live there then :) but are you sure because in theory modified software can damage hardware ,eg overclock, if done the wrong way.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] RealitySwitch:
I had this happen when I had a go at this out of curiosity. Very confusing until I worked out what had happened! Of course, then it was very tedious; I had to go through the unlock process again and then reflash everything.

If you do get yourself in this position and need to re-unlock, remember that each Z3C's IMEI is printed on a little pull-out tab in the SIM area.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] 2mal16:
Jeah or you can flash stock firmware and look up the imei in the status menu option in about phone options. you will have to boot up your phone anyway in order to root.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] RealitySwitch:
The onus is on Sony to prove that the damage was caused by the modified software.

I personally can't understand why people would want to overclock a phone, or anything else battery powered, but even if you do, it'd have to be provably the cause of the phone's demise.

Some references:

https://fsfe.org/freesoftware/legal/flashingdevices.en.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooting_(Android_OS)#Legality
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] 1Chef:
Okay I've found a weird issue flashing this ROM has changed my Mac address permenantly, does anyone know a way to permenantly change it back I've only found temporary solutions I have the original Mac address. Keep up the great work
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] qwsdert4:
Sorry but when will the hardware camera button be supported? The long press to launch feature is really handy on stock.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] firsty:
I think it will not be supported untill official Lollirom is released. But try to program it using Tasker, as suggested to me above ;) havent tried yet :)
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] PherChe:
So, try or dont try CM12 yet?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] firsty:
Try it :) its supersmooth. But of course its nightly with its limits. But so far.. The feel of it, ram usage and battery. And the lack of Sony apps... Its awesome! Love the easteregg too :)
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] zoome9:
How's the in-calls and bluetooth on recent releases? I really liked CM12. I want to go back so badly, but those are just dealbreakers for me :(.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] firsty:
Well on latest release cm-12-20150215-NIGHTLY-z3c.zip - i do have issues with the In-calls. Sometimes they go to loudspeaker, and sometimes not. When i call out all is good.

Bluetooth seems to work fine pairing to my Polar flow watch. Havent tested bluetooth audio though :(

Notification LED's are still too dim to use, and audio is kinda buggy and the Recovery does not actually Auto-update because it looks for the downloaded update on the wrong SD card :) But hoping for some updates on that one soon :)

Try the cm-12-20150214-NIGHTLY-z3c.zip for the in-calls issue.. for me atleast they worked very well on that release.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] zoome9:
Awesome thanks for the heads up. I've had no problems pairing with my smartwatch. I guess bluetooth audio was what I was more curious about.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] firsty:
Well testing just now, it works atleast with my Jawbone on Bluetooth :) Pairing fine, and audio is fine on both ends for me. Callback function works too ( hold the Jawbone volume in for 2 sec )
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] scottjb:
For Bluetooth audio streaming, it seems to work the first time after a reboot. If I turn off Bluetooth, then turn it back on, I get no audio on the attached device.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] PherChe:
OMG!! I did it!!! I'm happy, atm works fine... just one thing, about the LED is soo thin =/ but it's ok.

loving CM12 =D

About the Music App, is there other option, i dont like at all, i think Apolo is better, but i dont like it either xD.

Missing Walkman app =D
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] firsty:
It's awesome :P Can i ask how your notifications work out ? Are there any delay in sound startup? If you fex go into Options and select a ringtone.. are there any delay before it starts to play? Like its in hibernation ? Im

having some issues that the Sound is low at first, and then full volume.. sometimes it skips parts of the start of a ringtone. Its like its not waking properly up from sleep.

Yeah the LED has issues.. it has to do with the Kernel :( Same issue here.. and its useless for now :(

Hmm i think theres several Music players you can choose from.. I personally use Winamp :P
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] maluc:
Attention

Hi there!

With the latest nightly the bug from incoming calls is back. No one can reach me, it's ringing there but my phone doesn't make any action!

It's the 18.2 nightly.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] broduderson:
No issues here. I dirty flashed from 15.2 though so that could be it. Also, this is the first build I've tried where BT audio actually works. Even after disabling BT and re-enabling then playing music it works perfectly. I haven't touched AudioFX though. I know that's listed as a bug but at least BT by itself is relatively stable. Also noticed that MHL is not supported/working.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] zoome9:
Last two nightlies have some bluetooth changes going on. I'm crossing my fingers :D
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] broduderson:
Yeah, no problems here with bluetooth so far! :D
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] PherChe:
The only bug see it, it is when i play videos from the cm's browser, "back" in nav bar doesnt work, cannot cancel the playing video.

The ringtones works fine, all the notifications work good and ive never lose a call or messange.

I did a clean instalation since feb 14th nighly.

A new general question, wich app from camera do you use?

Thanks
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] broduderson:
So, will installing this also fix the OTA updates? I read about some editing you had to do to get the OTA's to install.