yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Xperia Z2 General] yuskhayru:
1. Call quality issues: Yes, this problem is there since the microfon is at the bottom of the phone. Its not a software problem, i also having the problem when talking with someone. The solution i made, talking with my hand covering the microfon OR i had to use a handsfree. This is Sony mistake of the build Z2(bottom microphone). Sad, theres no other solution.

2. Camera: Dont have much problem about the camera. Yeah, we have some people reported that the camera was abit lag from the previous sofware version, but the camera is still good and i dont have much problem about it. About the noise, i also dont hv so much problem. I can take picture well and ive compare my picture with my brother's iPhone 5s, and yet he said my picture taken from my Z2 is more better then his iphone.

3. Battery: Depend how u use your phone, but for me this device has the best battery life ever! Im also a heavy type user, but 1-2 days is already enough for me.

4.Heating issues: This is normal when u always playing games or multitasking with non-stop usage of ur phone. I dont experience this problem coz im not playing game with my phone.

I hope this will help you a little. :fingers-crossed:
[Xperia Z2 General] Abdl:
Really?? Never knew there could be another location for microphone apart from the bottom, except for the one above which is used for video recording. Pardon my noobness. So is bottom not the ideal location for a microphone?
[Xperia Z2 General] gamer649:
With the call quality, I have experienced a lot of problems. Some say turning off noise suppression helps. Personally the best fix I have found is using a custom ROM (eXistenZ) as niaboc79 provided a fix what works (Sony, you could learn a lot from the community).

Re: Mic location. With how big the phone is it is stupid how low down Sony positioned the mic. A better place would have been next to the bottom speaker (the sides) or just above the bottom speaker. It really needs to be higher up and on the front side (like the low price phones they make)
[Xperia Z2 General] yuskhayru:
Sorry, i think u missunderstood what i mean actually. I cant explain it clearly to u, my english is so bad. Look at the Z3 main mic, at the front-bottom instead the Z2(bottom-bottom). The Z3 mic more closer to our mouth when we speak. So when talking on the phone, voice from the Z3 is more easily to be hear then the Z2. I hope this will explain, otherwise i need someone to help me. Sorry for my bad english. :fingers-crossed:
[Xperia Z2 General] gamer649:
I think you explained it perfectly. I didn't realise the Z3 had this and that is what I was describing in my post before yours :P
[Xperia Z2 General] yuskhayru:
That microphone location on the Z3 likely due to complaints from the Z2 users. I think everyone including me didnt expect this the day we bought it. Right? :p
[Xperia Z2 General] statickiwi:
I had to turn off the noise suppression on my z2 as the volume is low as well.
[Xperia Z2 General] Abdl:
Wow! i never thought anything will make me flash a custom rom on a snappy and fast ui like that of xperias(its fast and responsive ui is actually one of the reasons why i went for the sony:D)....but if doing so will bring an end to my nightmares then im all in.

Ok i have a few questions for you please coz i want to be sure im doing the right thing before i proceed....

http://xdaforums.com/xperia-z2/development/rom-existenz-ultimate-1-0-5-light-dark-t2835196 this is the link to the right existenz rom right?

And the fix you were talking about,is it based on your personal experience or it was stated in the changelog?

If it happens im going to flash the rom,i will definitely need a backup,can you please suggest any automated way of doing so? coz i have lots of apps and apps data on the internal storage. I would prefer a general backup and restore that will return the phone contents to their former places like nothing has happened,:D

Thanks alot
[Xperia Z2 General] gamer649:
That's the right ROM. The fix was first provided by niaboc79 in v3.1.0 (I think) or maybe it was an add on. Either way I flashed the file what contained the fix as people kept complaining they couldn't hear me. From then on I have had no problems at all, I think the fix was also included in every version since the fix was provided.

Titanium backup is by far the easiest way to backup your data. Back it all up to the external SD card (this can be done in tb. Menu>Preferences>Backup Folder Location>Navigate to the external SD card and create a new tb folder. Upon installation of the ROM you can install tb and then restore your backups (you may need to re-navigate to the tb backup folder in tb).
[Xperia Z2 General] Abdl:
Woow this is great. Thanks alot mate. I will flash at my leisure and report back.:good::D
[Xperia Z2 General] sandulea:
About the other caller not hearing you, if it doesn't work you should replace your phone, if you bought it new. I read that call quality was a problem in some earlier models,, the same problem that you and I experienced.

When I went to buy mine in the store, they had 2 available. I got one, put my sim card in it, and called someone, who told me that they can't hear me very well. Without leaving the store, because I wanted to return it right away, I tried disabling noise suppression, playing with the volumes, but nothing worked. I got the other available Z2, made a call, the other person said they could hear me fine, so I got that one. Unfortunately, this one also has problems, the lower speaker is distorting a bit at higher volumes (no sound mods), but I only found that out at home. I may replace it again someday.

So I say it's just poor build quality, and if the existenz rom doesn't work for you, you should try to get it replaced by the shop or Sony. We shouldn't be the ones trying to repair mistakes that Sony made. Nonetheless, I really love this phone.
[Xperia Z2 General] Abdl:
The thing is people can hear me talking but not can not get what im saying so they are always asking me to repeat myself and its super annoying ?. Just finished making a call with a friend and I had to yell before she could hear me, and that actually provoked me!!! I really regret buying this phone!!!!

As for returning it, I can't do that hear, no any sony store. Once bought its yours forever! What a piece of crap arrrghh!!!

PS. I dont think mine is the earlier model coz it shipped with 4.4.4 Not sure though
[Xperia Z2 General] Si_NZ:
Several things you can try in order to understand the problem better:

Try a headset, just to see whether the problem is to do with the mic (software or hardware).

Try a recording software to see what it sounds like for yourself. Try different environments, noisy and quiet.

Try talking over Hangouts for example to see if the quality is any different.

There's a setting for the amount of noise suppression applied, try the quiet environment setting or turning it off completely.

I guess you are probably unlucky, as I've never had people complaining to me about the voice quality.
[Xperia Z2 General] Abdl:
If tried recording with an app and it was superb so I suppose its not a hardware issue.

Anyways I have flashed the existenz rom and I'll be testing for the next couple days, although so far so good. I really hope lollipop update will bring a fix to this, sometimes I prefer to remain stock.
[Xperia Z2 General] zodiac100:
Call quality... I've never had anyone complain about not hearing me properly on mine so I can't help you. It could just be that you have a small head and so the mic placement at the very bottom doesn't help you at all lol.

Camera.... The superior auto mode is notoriously poor. It usually cranks up the iso and exposure producing very noisy photos. To get the best results, use it with manual controls. It's not difficult. You have the basic settings. Exposure, white balance or colour temperature, and iso.

For exposure, you can leave it at default most of the time only adjusting when really needed.

White balance has five options. Auto which I strongly recommend not using in daylight. Use the sunny or cloudy options.

The key really is ISO, this is where the auto mode does most of its damage by cranking the value way to high.

Under daylight and florescent lighting, use the lowest value of 50 mostly but no higher than 100. For incandescent lighting say coming from a bulb or lamp, use iso 200. ISO is basically the sensors sensitivity to light, the higher this value the more luminescent noise is present. In general, never go above 400 unless you're in a really dark room and don't want to use the flash. And when you use 400 it's advisable to drop the exposure value down a notch or two or three lol

Its really simple, just play around with the settings. In order words adjust them until what you see in the viewfinder closely resembles the scene you're trying to take.

Unfortunately the Sony auto software doesn't come anywhere close to that on the iPhone but with manual controls, it spanks the iPhone. It's a great camera especially on 4.4.4 which I recommend you return to. Maybe hold the phone higher up when calling so your mouth is closer to the mic.

Overheating hasn't been a problem for me for a while especially after 4.4.4. There was the 4k problem but that's largely resolved. I can shoot 10 min videos no problem now.

Battery life as you said is excellent even though worse on 4.4.4 but I believe that's because of the increased brightness. On older firmware, it maxed out at 420 nits but now it goes up to 520 nits. Also the z2 unlike the z3 has a very warm and colourful panel. Probably the most colourful lcd panel ever produced and that takes it toll on battery as well. That's probably why Sony toned things down considerable with the z3 series to make good their 2 day promise but I hate cold displays and one of the main reasons I'd always recommend the z2 over its newer sibling. Well that and the fact that it's camera is also more consistent at focusing in lower light and the fact that it's much cheaper.

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[Xperia Z2 General] Abdl:
Well said. I would surely play with the manual settings. Thanks
[Xperia Z2 General] Abdl:
Well.it seems like ExisteZ rom has done the job....for now at least :laugh:

Thanks guys.

One more thing :D

The magnetic port coming off from the phone when using the sony charging dock. Is it a minor problem or majority of z2 owners face it. Is there any fix for it? Im thinking of ordering for one:confused:
[Xperia Z2 General] _delice_doluca_:
I live in Turkey and never had a single call problem. Normally my speaking voice is lower/calmer than a regular person and yet no problems here. However, recently I was working at an airport construction in Saudi Arabia where reception was really bad (Saudi Arabia carriers are already very bad at reception even though they advertise they have 4G, it could not even compete to edge speeds most of the time) and had many sound issues including my sound not going to other side or other side's sound not coming to me. So better take signal quality into account.

As for the battery life. A small detail that possibly every "previously - iPhone - owner" should remember. In the Apple world, if you want to make an app that works with an online account and has to connect to Internet timely, than you first have to connect it to Apple servers. When a notification or email or anything arrives you are actually notified from Apple services. So, since every app is a member of Apple services, in order to see what news there for all of your accounts; what your phone has to do is connect to Apple only. All the news, notifications and necessary Infos are directed to you from one single point. According to this it doesn't matter how many accounts you have installed on your phone (Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, local accounts etc..) the phone still be waken up by Apple services when necessary thus saving battery life.

On the Android side, every App has their freedom. Google has it's own service called Google cloud messaging but not every account has to use it. So imagine your phone sleeping in your pocket but making many different timely checks to different targets to get notifications from different accounts (be it a game, or another service, maybe a magazine). That means, the more account you have installed in your phone the more possible you have a couple of your accounts making connections to different targets to get their news thus causing your phone to make more connections than at the iPhone.

Sent from Xperia Z2
[Xperia Z2 General] Si_NZ:
I've been using a third party magnetic charging cable for a few months now, I haven't had any issue so far. Can't say about the official Sony dock. In my opinion, the dock is a huge waste of money when you can simply buy a magnetic charging cable for 1/10 of the price. Plus, who's stopping you from building a dock with a magnetic charging cable yourself :D
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garlnt:
Hi,

I updated to lollipop a few days back.

Since the update the phone battery dies in few hours even in idle mode

I hav tried keeping gps off wifi off, location off

I also disabled google play store, maps, play services etc.

Better battery stats and gsam monitor show that the massive drain is due to "android system", which causes massive drain.

it keeps cpu awake for long.

I have images now showing the same.

pLEASE help
[Android Apps and Games] aryanabla:
Cubox is now on Google Play Store.

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The aim of the game is simple, drag the Cubox through the puzzle so that you get it to fall through the blanks. It's possible to roll the Cubox off the rock, so be careful! In order to pass the blanks during steps, the bridge should be opened by using related buttons. Also, challengers must move the Cubox as quickly as possible to get the highest score.

Let's see what are fundamental themes of Cubox ;

✓ Reaching to the finish button within minimum time and with minimum number of move

✓ Opening the bridge by using the button to pass through

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[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] darling2790:
good rom for Dopod 818/830:PDAMobiz Prophet WM6 V1.00

I find it very good so far!

A problem to resolve is to delete Thai keyboard!:)
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] darling2790:
:)

After all, most use it in English or Chinese, not Thai
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] darling2790:
PDAMobiz Prophet WM6 V1.00 is easy to turn dead?

In the first half day of using it, it is excellent! But after that, it is easy to be "dead" while running some program,say while searching for contacts! And even after soft reset, it can't be opened smoothly!

后来我发觉，开机很容易死机 [/quote]

我也发现存在这个问题！是不是与自己安装的一些软件冲突啊！我正在查找联系人时死机了！半天起 不来！:ma d:
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] datakhim_79:
Dear Darling,

Mine is Dopod 818 Pro,

Can you share with me how to upgrade to WM6, Please?

Please?

Thank's

Khim
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] darling2790:
My Pleasure，you can reach me by darling2790@hotmail.com

Best,
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] xtanatos:
Can you also help me to upgrade to WM6 ?

If mail you using your mail.

Thanks in advance
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] bsmllh99:
dopod pro 818

HI,

Would really appreciate if you can help me with the upgrade to WM6.

If you have the steps, that would be great. My email bsmllh99@hotmail.com .

Thanks in advance

Dopod Pro 818

IPL - 1.0

SPL - 2.0

ROM - 2.15.13.27 WWE

ROM DATE - 03/09/06

RADIO - 02.19.21

PROTOCOL - 4.1.13.09

OS - 5.1.195(BUILD 1487.2.0.0)
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] bsmllh99:
Thanks

Manage to upgrade mine after going thru' threads...

it was really time consuming especially if you are a newbie like me.. anyway.. have manage to upgrade mine to WM6.

Thanks
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] bigproblem:
i need the IPL, thank you :)
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 General] sopheaknhek:
Please send me link to upgrade dopod 818pro to wm6 .

sp.nhek@gmail.com

YOur kindly,:)
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] EVOQUE:
so the phone was 50% charged befor but in the morning i have no response. i thought phone discharged? then plug charger but no red or green light indication? no response on pc? power and vol up down keys What is it?
[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] Heisenberg:
Leave it connected to an AC charger for 24 hours and try to power it on again. Try normal power on, and the bootloader combo (power + volume down), and try both of these combinations with and without the charger connected. Do not touch the device at all during the 24 hour period.

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[AT&T, Rogers HTC One X, Telstra One XL] EVOQUE:
didn't try couse take it to service before posting here. on service they dont tell me nothing couse i spoke with manager. boot and rom stay the same. Thank anyway for replay.
[Nexus 9 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dacek:
I was wondering if anyone knows of a screensaver app for the N9. I'm looking for an app that can cycle through things in full screen, like a screen saver, but cycle not just pictures. I was hoping for something like my calendar, current weather, stocks, breaking news, etc... ? Anyone know if something like this exists. I know i can accomplish all this through widgets on the home screen, but was looking to run something full screen for ease of viewing.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HtconeUser1:
Hello recently i was trying to flash a rom and i accidently bricked my Htc one. Now i can only go to the bootloader i have no recovery installed and adb debbugging is turned off. Do you have any idea how i can fix my device. Pleaseee HELP!!!
[Samsung Galaxy Star] Aakarsh99:
I am uploading my kernel for galaxy star duos gts5282 which support swap but please keep in mind that i am not a developer and i have not developed this kernel but i just have a stock samsung rom which supports swap .

Please keep in mind that i am not responsible if your phone dies due to this kernel.

LINK- http://www.4shared.com/file/41O59ccGce/boot.html

I have taken this from my cwm backup file (the boot.img file ) and to flash this kernel first take a cwm backup then go to the cwm folder which is probably in your phone memory and go to the backup you had taken in there you will find a file called boot.img now delete that file and replace it with the boot.img file you downloaded and reboot to cwm and restore.

and am using this ramexpander-

LINK- http://www.4shared.com/mobile/hiBPk5Ddce/comswapitexpanderde-1.html

If it works for me it should work for you.

If you download then please press thanks.

CREDITS:- AVINABA DALAL for his help in the flashing process
[Samsung Galaxy Star] Aakarsh99:
Here are some screenshots....
[Samsung Galaxy Star] sayakshinobu:
how to flash

any help in how to flash it?a cwm backup boot.img is 10 mb while every stock flashable one is 8.7 mb.and i cant flash this one putting in a zip.

help t3snake,shade sk
[Samsung Galaxy Star] corphish:
If this is a CWM backup file, then keep in clockworkmod folder in sdcard, then boot to recovery, go to backup and restore and select restore (provided its a CWM backup file).
[Samsung Galaxy Star] sayakshinobu:
But it is only the boot.img not the whole backup

hit thanks if you like my work
[Samsung Galaxy Star] Aakarsh99:
Listen to avinaba dalal

If i helped you please press thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Star] rag555:
Thx bro its working 4 me.:thumbup:...but plz .....plz ..... make this kernel stable 4 jellykat rom because stock rom lags & it can't run some games lik gta v c/sa...or tl me which custom rom is stable for ur kernel...:rolleyes:
[Samsung Galaxy Star] T3snake:
this isnt cwm flashable use flashify or adb to flash em (our device doesnt hv fastboot so dunno is adb method is gud for us)

Also mention the source of boot.img.....

is it ur device or did u find it somewhere
[Samsung Galaxy Star] Aakarsh99:
Its my device as said above that am no developer

If i helped you please press thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Star] Aakarsh99:
If it lags then use ramexpander and seeder

It will remove lag

But i can't make anything because i don't know kernel development (not yet).

If i helped you please press thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Star] Aakarsh99:
Take a backup of your own and then in the backup folder replace thdm boot.img file with the one posted above. Then reboot to recovery and restore. It should work

If i helped you please press thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Star] rag555:
Its not lik lag it hangs if I click (just single click) left or right analog button or any button it jst keep turning and moving itself for som tim. Then stuck. (late & long touch response )
[Samsung Galaxy Star] Aakarsh99:
What rom are you using and is ramexpander working?

If i helped you please press thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Star] rag555:
S it works on a'mod stock deodexed prerooted rom and svenilla & I think it works on my rom too because these all XXANA2 build

Do u ever played gta games on ur rom bcause these games works good in j'kat t3romv2 xperia2 & fakitkat but I cnt play it on stock deodexed & svenilla
[Samsung Galaxy Star] Aakarsh99:
I use stock rom which i rooted and it works gr8 except that i havent actually tried playing gta and other games on it

If i helped you please press thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Star] corphish:
[UNTESTED]Odin flashable tar.md5 for this boot.img

I have created a odin flashable file for this boot.img, however, I did not test it, so if you gonna use it, at your own risk.

Download - here.
[Samsung Galaxy Star] LehKeda:
Thanks , but what will i can do after use this file ? or what does swap mean ?
[Samsung Galaxy Star] corphish:
You can use a part of your memory (internal/external) as RAM.
[Samsung Galaxy Star] Aakarsh99:
Thank you avinaba for creating this

I myself need this and i will test it

If i helped you please press thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Star] Aakarsh99:
The site says "access denied"...

Please upload on a different site.

If i helped you please press thanks
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DEREKTROTTER:
Hi,

im trying to help someone root his S5 the easiest way possible as i cant get to him and he's not too computer savvy. Some sort of 1 click method would be great as i can talk him through it.

Does anyone know if towelroot.com still works for it? Or is there something similar

UK version if that matters

thanks in advance
[Galaxy S 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alan-B:
Hi,

towelroot works fine, but you need a stock 4.4.2 and install the boot NE2 (To Odine) have to get to the root...

it keeps knox to 0X0.