yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] ulysse34:
Nice find!

Now, the following bugs have to be fixed to make it suitable as a daily driver

-When in call, the earpiece mode doesn't work - speaker only

and eventually

-Unable to start camera app using the physical camera button

-The battery seems to take much longer to charge

By the way, anybody knows when CM will switch to LP 5.1 ?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Burakki:
Hello, do you know if the new kernel 3.10 is coming for the cm 12? Perhaps with the release of cm 12.1? Thank you all!
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] PherChe:
How stable is it cm-45-20150323-NIGHTLY-z3c ?

Is it fixed call speaker? or what is the "big" bug existing?

Thanks.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] barramas:
plz xreality and vivid mod for cm 12:confused::confused:
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Calvat:
It's been spoken in another thread but the camera is so-so. I wouldn't say 'bad', because bad to me is having a camera that takes a picture at 240p... lol...

I was out and about today getting a certain something and took the wrong train, wound up in the wrong place, but the place was nice so I figured for the first time ever I can actually use the camera. :p

During a sunny day, no effects or tweaking. Just camera, aim and snap. Image has been resized by half.

In a dimly lit room, no effects, tweaking or flash. Just camera, aim and snap. Image has been resized by 3/4.

Edit: I can't find a place to upload the full image without it automatically resizing, but there's some serious noise levels going on. I'm no person to care about the quality of a camera, these pictures are good enough for me, but the noise in the full thing is really noticeable.

Edit #2: Nevermind, attachment also resizes.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] tomcatoggo:
Thank you very much!

Can you tell how well the Pictures depict the "original" (your eyes... even though this is also very relative) colors of the objects? I also don't care that much about the picture quality... in terms of noise... but I don't like, if the colors are completely unrealistic.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] jumpycalm:
Installed the 3/25 build, speaker issue seems to be resolved. Although the sound is still a little bit loud, but at least you can toggle between speaker and earphone.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] edcarsky:
mines work well now... currently using my device as my daily driver... its pretty awesome already... thanks guys, keep it up.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] ilovecoding:
Problem

Hi everyone,

I have been getting trouble with my Galaxy Note N7000 to upgrade it to Loolipop. The situation is this one:

I have the Cyanongen Recovery and if I try to power up the phone I got a not-end loop with the Cynnomened logo.

If I try to "Apply update" in the recovery, every .zip file I'm trying to install I get:

"E:cannot load volume /misc!"

I don't know I to do ! It seems I can't do anything !
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Calvat:
This is the Xperia Z3C forum?

It looks washed out a bit, not a huge thing. Just a little, like, 5~10% fiddling with saturation. You could maybe turn on HDR to fix this.

The bigger issue I have with the camera is its stablization/focusing. When trying to take pictures of some things it doesn't like to focus on it if there's a lightsource in the shot and you need to be pretty still with it to take a shot.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Piricho:
Look at the straight lines on the "roof" and edge of the platform. It is not a straight line. This is like an inverted fisheye lens. Only reason i didn't keep this as a daily rom. Speaker was also an issue but seems to be fixed. Hoping for a camera fix soon :)
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] _katho_:
Those are some really terrible pictures.

Someone gotta get the Sony binaries running. :)
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] fusk:
I don't really know the difference. But i would like to switch to CM12 as soon as proper recovery, ota updates etc. have been sorted. The sony extras can wait a bit. However, rooted stock isn't exactly running badly. But CM12 does have some nicer features i'd like to get back.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Calvat:
As long as it doesn't come with the bazillion of Sony apps and 'background' things that come with it!

The reason I changed to CM is always because of all those small things that the phones always put in the background (Are those binaries? - When running say, SDMaid to see active apps, there's always a tonne of Sony ones running in system.)

Also tried to flash 328 and failed. 327 flashed fine though.

Edit: My ringtone not saving is still persisting, this is a pretty big issue for me since I've missed phone calls because "Orion" is so quiet even on full volume.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] cyphomatic:
I use Google Camera and Google+ Photo's with auto-enhance.

Can you do some comparisons with these functions?

Maybe better to get other binaries working like iphone, htc m9, etc.

They have the same camera but better processing management?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] woonjas:
Issues I've seen sofar with the 20150331 build

Off the top of my head, nothing that really stands in the way of using this as a primary phone, but would be nice to get fixed.

Tap-to-wake: works since 0319, but with ttw enabled ocasionally the touch screen becomes unresponsive (for example at boot-time if not logged in within 30 seconds, or when a call comes in). Disabling TTW appears to have fixed this for me, but I' d love to have it enabled and not have the touchscreen become unresponsive

Smart Unlock: Works fine for trusted devices, but not for trusted locations.

Cyanogen Updater: upgrade shutsdown phone instead of rebooting into Recovery/Upgrade. Manual boot and pressing volume up when led turns pink/purple-ish (I have colour issues ok? :p ) will work around it.

Camera button does not launch phone app - some report it does take pictures if camera app is opened, but I have not checked this.

P.S. nice touch on the 'Powered by Microsoft' bit in the updater for April 1st :)
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Calvat:
I would like to test some of the stuff that the posts above are asking for, but I can't install CM-402 this time.

Footer is wrong; Signature verification failed. Installation aborted.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] tocirah1:
I installed 402, and I'm not 100% sure if it's because of the install, or a bad XPosed install, but it broke pretty much everything for me. I got bootloops and data deletion.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] flintfirewalker:
What gives? Microsoft? Is that April fool's joke?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] meinnameisthase:
402 made big trouble here too. After wiping the cache partition after install, and it's been running fine since then.

Edit: same with 0403.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Calvat:
This has been prevalent since the start I think. It's the same on 404. You can't open it with pressing / holding the button, but in the camera app itself, it takes pictures rather than tapping the screen.

Tap-to-wake works in 404, and I don't use it so I can't do a long run test but when booting up the phone the tap to wake and responsiveness was fine right away.

I can't test your other two since I disabled/delete them from the start and intend to keep them off.

I also found out the reason behind my Ringtone not saving itself between reboots/shut downs. It was on the external (SD) card.

When I rebooted to check, I noticed that the ringtone wasn't there at all right after reboot. When I closed and opened it up, it was there - my guess is the phone needs time to read what's on the SD Card.

I moved it over to the main storage and now it sticks between reboots. My notification sound was always on my main storage, explaining why it stayed.

I downloaded both of those apps so I'll give some photos a go later on today.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] cicci0:
The first post indicates these bugs.

No one has been solved?

Receive audio is really serious ...
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] landal:
I opened a bug about this: https://jira.cyanogenmod.org/browse/NIGHTLIES-930
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Calvat:
I wouldn't go off the first post anymore if I were you. The last update to it was January 28th.

Like the calling app is never laggy to me, the rest I don't know about. I don't know what BT stands for.

So I went and did them just now, but I can't do Google+ Photo's (Picasa?) because I don't understand it and I don't care to learn how because it looks like a cloud based uploader and I do not like those. Here's the pictures of just CM Camera and Google Camera.

Google Camera, Outdoors. Image size halved.

CM Camera, Outdoors. Image size halved.

Google Camera, low light. Image size halved twice.

CM Camera, low light. Image size halved twice.

I didn't use flash for any of these, and my examples of low light would be bad if I used flash trust me.

I can definitely see what Piricho was talking about with the slight fish lens effect on the low light one. It's a 3DS, those things aren't curved at the top like that.

Maybe I just took bad shots but in every single one of these outdoor ones, the focus is bad or the noise was really bad. There's a lot of noise in a lot of them.

Here's a portion of the CM Camera, Outdoors image, except cut so it can remain the full resolution. You can see the noise pretty easily, and the top left shows more of that fish eye lens thing. On the right side you can see it being really blurry (Which near the center of the shot)

You guys' results will probably vary because I don't really tinker or care much for camera quality. I can see the noise in these but I'd just have or triple downsize these images anyway because if I was showing them to someone, I'd have to zoom out or resize them to see the full image anyway.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] supermanlovers:
I have some issues after the 05.04. Update with Gapps (Youtube, Hangouts).

I tried to reinstall this Version http://www.androidrootz.com/2015/03/download-android-50x-lollipop-gapps.html

But it wont worked.

Is there another version of Gapps?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Calvat:
The original post with the Gapps link seems to have been removed sadly (Why delete the posts?!), but that link you provided seems fine.

Did you try clearing Cache Partition before or after installing Cyanogen? (I do it before)

But is it just Hangouts and Youtube? In what way exactly?

My YouTube works fine, but I don't use Hangouts.

Those aren't necessary programs too though, so you can uninstall them and reinstall them from the Play Store. Should give that a shot.

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Can someone please try the "Turn brightness down to minimum" and tell me if they see a flickering? It seems most prominent on the left.

I want to know if this is a hardware fault for my phone, or if it's just the ROM. I want to turn my brightness down lower than half but then the screen flickers and I'm afraid it's damaging the display.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Arfman:
Thanks, camera is still unuseable judging by these photos. Too bad.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] V1k70r:
There's one issue that occurs in both the official nightlies and the CM12 build from the freexperia team, and that is browser scrolling. Sometimes the browser tab sticks after a fling. In order to scroll down you need to move the page down by your finger, flinging is impossible. It happens in every page you will load in that tab, but when you open a new tab everything will be normal in that tab.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] gibihr:
I know it's an annoying question,but is anybody updated on the in call unstandable problem with volume and noise?

Edit : tried myself, but still there.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] nerdofhats:
trouble installing the nightly

So, this thread has been open on my desktop for a few days while I was reacquainting myself with Cyanogenmod Installation. My last android device was a terrible ZTE phone that became usable as a result of CM7, so I bought a S0ny phone without fear of cruft - I could always put CM on it. I lasted less than a week on the stock ROM. So, firstly, thank you to everyone who's contributed to this thread!

Now for my whiny complaint...

I first tried (by confusion) to install doomlord's ClockworkMod image for the z3c/aries, which works very well until you need to actually flash a CM nightly image (it's looking for z3c, or D[numbers], but the device identifies itself as aries).

I have since re-understood these instructions:

and flashed the actual CM kernel image from the latest nightly onto the phone. I can boot up and get the CM recovery mode screen, and run the full wipe. However, I then get stuck trying to apply the update.

I have put the image on the SD card, but when I try to access the external storage it doesn't seem able to read the filesystem (I get an "install failed" error before even choosing a file.) The old ClockworkMod recovery worked fine for that part, and failed later.

Are there updated instructions for doing this? or is there just something funky about my micro SD card?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] smonist:
Try putting it on the internal SD card? Or maybe your CM zip is corrupted?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] meinnameisthase:
Have you tried via adb from your computer?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] :
I sometimes also experience problems with recovery and flashing images. My best advice is to use ADB and fastboot. Its way easier, quicker and (at least imho) less buggy and stress-free.

It always used to work for me like this :)
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Calvat:
Try an older version of CM. I've posted about having installation issues with certain versions of CM, so it could be the same for you but showing in a different way.

When trying 'older versions', always jump down like 2 or 3 each time until one works - that's what I do.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] nerdofhats:
Thanks to everyone who replied!

My debug attempts will go in the following order:

1) adb (the current configuration - s0ny/wiped image and CM kernel - won't even boot other than recovery, so if I can fastboot/adb my way there this will go much faster) - I will need to find out exactly how to do this, but someone saying it's possible is a good start!

2) revert to clockwork mod kernel and try using the s0ny driver to access the internal storage (I have avoided this so far because of the faff of using the proprietary driver)

3) try an older CM nightly - if I can regression test my way to working out when SD card broke in recovery, that's probably phase 1 of solving that bug.

I'll pop back and post what worked if/when I'm successful. Thanks again!

UPDATE:

tried 1), but no way to get the device to respond to adb without something special. fastboot'd the clockwork mod kernel back on and could see SD card, but still not able to use adb from recovery (e.g. to sideload the image).

Next, I'm trying putting the image (which I've verified the MD5sum of) onto the internal storage and will re-use the CM kernel. looks as if, at least on windows, I don't even need the 3rd party driver to do that.

UPDATE 2:

2) worked, basically. Using the clockworkmod kernel, I was able to boot the default ROM, and access the internal storage, and put the nightly build onto the phone. I then re-flashed the latest CM12 kernel, and used the CM recovery to apply the nightly image: I now have Cyanogen! I actually did this twice, because I forgot to wipe. It carried over some s0ny cruft the first time.

Another note: the SD card works fine inside the OS, just not in the recovery.

Final Update:

Thanks everyone for helping, I've now got google apps (from wiki. cyanogenmod .org/w /Google_Apps ) and my phone is working exactly as I wanted.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] veimus:
Try this FOTA recovery TWRP: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=58530843&postcount=217 it has extra default.prop modification: 'ro.product.device' is defined as 'z3c' ('ro.build.product' is defined as 'aries').
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] nerdofhats:
Thank you, as noted in my newer post I solved this by a complex workaround. Thanks for posting an updated vanilla recovery though!
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Calvat:
That's good to hear. Flashing custom ROM's can be such a pain in the hiney at times. Thinking back some years now I remember when trying to root/boot unload with my Galaxy Nexus/Xperia Z and how much I was frightened and panicking that I broke it because of issues or missing steps.

The end result is definitely worth it, providing you don't break the entire thing lol.

Encountered a new bug today,

Playing a mobile game, I got a call. A little box popped up the top over the game, with the number and Decline / Answer. Answered and then an error message about, "com.androidincallui has stopped working", or something. The call was still ongoing but I couldn't hear anything and I'm guessing they couldn't hear me. Had to hang up.

My game also restarted from scratch, and I nearly beat the boss too! (When changing apps, providing you don't swipe it away, it saves your progress. But I didn't swipe it away and it still lost progress)

I couldn't send the bug report out since my Bug Reporter wasn't active. I've had that window pop up on me before when booting the phone but that's about it. It was some weeks ago though, thought it was fixed.

Also is anyone going to take 5 seconds out of their life to tell me if their screen flickers like I mentioned in previous posts? ;_;
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] nerdofhats:
I agree, totally worth it!

I got a call while using the twitter app last night, I thought the pop-up was a weird way of handling it but it worked when I pushed answer. Not an OpenGL app though, not time critical, so I guess it's a different situation. I would say that I've never met mobile games that handle interruptions gracefully, on Android or iOS.

I haven't noticed the screen flickering at all.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Calvat:
Oof, good point.

Did you dim your screen?

It's literally a test that takes 2~10 seconds. Auto brightness off (or on whatever is needed to get that low), put the brightness slider down to 0~10% and swipe away the notifications (Since the notifications create black shades)

It's most obvious on bright colors. I wouldn't have noticed if I didn't have the minimal amount of white on my phone's background that I do.

The best description I can give to it, is that it's like the screen is flickering between 5% levels of brightness, so it's bright then darker, bright then darker, etc. in a flickering manner.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] broduderson:
Are there still problems with phone calls making people deaf in this ROM? I really wanna go back to CM :D
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] meinnameisthase:
Yeah.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Calvat:
Huh? If it's loud can't you just turn the volume down...?

Downloaded CM-416.

Bug: If you have Torch in the Notification Drawer, it wont show. Deleting the icon and adding it back doesn't solve that.

A restart fixes this it seems.

A bug that's been prevalent since I first got this CM is that choosing the option to "Reboot Phone" never works. It shuts it down, meaning you have to power it on. Never cared much about this to post about it, but I imagine it's probably an annoyance for some.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] broduderson:
Last time I used this ROM there was an issue where when you answered the call it would use the speaker phone instead of the normal speaker and you couldn't switch it back. Even if you turned down the volume, the loudspeaker was still very loud compared to the normal speaker. Also a bug where the mic wouldn't kick in for 3-5 seconds after you picked up the call. Those were the main reasons I went back to stock KK/LP.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Calvat:
You can always give it another try, and if you don't like it go back. Or better yet make a Backup so you can go back even easier.

I can't say I've encountered those problems though.

Which one's the Speakerphone, by the way? Both of them? Because if the call comes from the bottom speaker that's pretty weird. I only get sound from the top speaker. I havn't tried Loudspeaker since I don't want the entire house to hear my calls.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] meinnameisthase:
The volume of the ear speaker (it's not the loudspeaker anymore) is still pretty loud. You can turn it down, however, you have to turn it down for every call. And even on the lowest level you get a headache. Sound quality is poor.

It's definitely usable for daily use, but not it's definitely not yet there where it will be in the end. ;)
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] MattCorbellino:
On latest nightly have anyone experienced HUGE battery drain? If I knew it'd downgrade my Z3C to an iPhone I would have not flashed it D:

Btw tried to downgrade to 3/30 without success, processes kept failing.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] gibihr:
There should be a way to lower incall volume, i have been looking at the mixer_paths.xml, but I am not enough expert of it... do you know where is the line of its volume, at least to try?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] :
Though I'm not quite sure what you mean, the only problems I encountered within this ROM are the following:

1. The before mentioned screen flickering

2. When calling you have to use the loud speaker

3. An incoming call can render the phone unresponsive until a restart

4. No 4k recording

5. Broken AudioFX in bluetooth

6. Unreasonable high energy consumption

It would be nice for someone to confirm number 6 for me. I'm not quite sure about it and also do not have the know-how/tools to test it but thats how I feel.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Calvat:
Oh, good someone else gets this then. Not just me.

I never use Loudspeaker and I find calls to be fine? In fact I can't have it at 100% Ringtone Volume because it hurts my ears.

Depends on how you view 'unreasonable'... unless you've got a car battery or something hooked to it, I don't imagine it ever going anything higher than what a laptop/console/computer would.

No. I just got 416 and my phone's been idle for a few hours now and hasn't drained a single %.

If a CM flash fails, try another one. Any that it'll let you, I find every so often (out of the 20 or something I've flashed now), about 5 or 6 of them failed to flash due to Signature Verification Failure's.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] broduderson:
Hmm. So it seems like there are still pretty much all the original problems. It's a shame that months have gone by and none of these bugs have been addressed :/
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] :
My laudspeaker is always activated from the beginning. When I hit the switch it graphically changes to the off state but the sound is still not redirected through the normal speaker.

I think I formulated that badly, I meant that my battery drains much faster than I was used to in the original Sony KitKat Firmware. My battery used to last for up to three days with my usual consumption, now I need to charge it every day.

EDIT: I also feel like the screen flickering problem had disappeared in some previous nightlies but is back now.

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Does anyone know about the freeXperia AOSP build? The only logical assumption would be that they have those exact same bugs that cm has. Otherwise I wouldn't understand why those aren't fixed yet.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] mick711:
Contact

Hello

Do you know when contact field was corrected ? Impossible to add new contact correctly . I'm french but in english i think it's the same .

Thanks
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] meinnameisthase:
Uhm, no problems with contacts here... Can you post a screenshot or something like that?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] mick711:
Like you can see no field with Prénom just with some I don't understand
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] :
Tu ecrit tous la nom, par example "Thomas blanchard" sur nom.

C'est comme ca en lollipop, ce n'a rien à voir avec CM. ;)

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Tu peut meme appuyer sur la petite flèche a droite de "Nom". je crois que c'est ca que tu cherche.