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[Xperia SP General] joesnose:
another unhappy customer

crappy screen, constant lag!!! my samsung s2 and nexus7 2012 blow this thing away. i have ordered a new phone and am actually looking forward to smashing this thing with a hammer!
[Xperia SP General] tomzzi:
Same here... I hate my XSP. Battery life is bad, buggy update, 4.4 cancelled... I need new phone but don't know what to buy. I am considering XZ3C but its Sony.....
[Xperia SP General] ironshadow2:
Yea, the worst part I thought the phone is very good and and comes near the s4 when I bought it, because of the benchmarks. This is the last time I trust benchmarks. I have got my phone since 1 year and I think I will wait for the note 5 .
[Xperia SP General] penn.gwyn:
For the money the XP has very decent specs. Yet somehow no matter which ROM I use there always seem to be lag issues. My wife's S2 performs much better in that respect even though its specs are somewhat lower.

I noticed that greenifying background apps help a lot to reduce lag in day to day usage. But still whenever I do some multitasking, e.g. switching to a music app while tracking my run using runtastic, the phone lags.

It would be very interesting to find out why the SP with its more than decent specs is so laggy.
[Xperia SP General] uh oh:
del
[Xperia SP General] Spasik:
So

Ever since i saw this phone i was like MUST HAVE THIS :D

When i finally bought it last year it was huge upgrade from xperia mini pro that i has.

But as time passed i was seeing the flaws that i cant unseen.

UNRESPONSIVE DIGITALIZER OMG SO BAD - any custom rom and sometimes even on STOCK

The hw seems good, i dont know where the problem is but this phone is just too slow, i think it is because of slow internal memory.

I cant affort upgrade so......

Running RR 5.4.0 Finally working well...... (still ram problems like any other rom on this phone.....)
[Xperia SP General] rdlegy:
Yes the hardware lied to me too. I had a phone with 15k on antutu and ran smoother than xsp. I sold it yesterday. I don't have much money so I will buy a budget device like lg l bello or lenovo a6000 and they will still be better than this xsp.
[Xperia SP General] le grande magnetto:
yea, we all have something in common.
[Xperia SP General] thewild:
I'm very happy with my XSP now, but I had to do a lot of cleaning on the ROM.

Out of the box experience is bad, I must admit.

I tried custom ROMs and none of them really satisfied me. I got back to stock rooted (.207), removed all Sony apps and a lot of other system apps I don't use. Now battery life is very good and even multitasking is OK. I have ~320MB free RAM after boot. I installed Xposd to have all the nice tweaks that custom ROMs provide.

Having to tweak the phone so much to get it to work is not acceptable for an average customer, but I am happy with my XSP because I did it.

Also note that i bought my phone in July 2013 for 320€, and at that time it was a very good deal. Best hardware for the price.

So I am not unhappy at all, but totally aware that this phone is not a good deal if you stick to out of the box experience.
[Xperia SP General] Spasik:
For someone this phone can be ok, but the digitizer problems are just a disaster for android phone like this.....

I am probably not buying sony phone again, but only reason for that is really poor software support :(
[Xperia SP General] LittleGreenSony:
you guys are lucky

My xperia SP is boot loader locked by my carrier (EE) have tried every rom available to get good performance. So I'm back to stock with xposed.

Anyway 1gb of RAM should be fine, and would be fine, but the xperia SP doesn't have 1gb of RAM, 185mb is used by the baseband processor, leaving 839mb for the OS. Oh wait that isn't optimised. Darn only 256mb for the user. Great thinking Sony.

Also you give it 720p how is the CPU going to push the OS. Give me strength.

System UI works hard... Typo because the screen responsiveness has stopped. I meant hardly working.

The camera well that produces more noise than the speaker.

The aluminium "co-molded" chassis The metallic version of chipboard. The back of the phone that flexes inward and disintergrates due to the amount of times I've had to remove it to hard off the phone

These kinks that our phone has, make it for me.

The Design Connoisseur's smartphone, remind me to nail it to the wall when I'm done with it.
[Xperia SP General] TheAvengingTITAN:
The phone always let me down but then I found out it was because I was using way too many modules on xposed lol.

I recently unlocked my bootloader and flashed mrcl's CM12.1 with Tangerine kernel (the first ever CM12 based kennel for the XSP and the first custom kernel I've ever used). Everything is incredibly smooth, feels like I'm playing a game at 60FPS.

Here's what I did with the kernel

CPU Governor: Smartassv2

GPU Governor: ondemand

I/O Scheduler: bfq

Here's what I did for speed

1. SD Maid Pro :D

2. Z3's Xperia Home (believe it or not)
[Xperia SP General] lvints:
Do you have a good battery life?
[Xperia SP General] thewild:
What are your problems with the digitizer ?

I don't have any. I play some games, so I believe I would have noticed.

As for RAM, it is not that much of a problem once you've cleaned the ROM. I can play games like Asphalt 8 without any issue.

Anyway, I agree that the stock software is very bad, but the hardware is fine IMHO.
[Xperia SP General] rdlegy:
Whatever you do you will not able to make it normal. I sold it and bought a lenovo a6000. The lenovo is faster even tho it has 20k on antutu, you install apps extremely fast and you have much better display, it is not heavy as a nokia like the xsp was and overall even tho it has 20 k points on anututu it does the job better
[Xperia SP General] TheAvengingTITAN:
Excellent battery life.

---------- Post added at 12:21 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:17 PM ----------

The SP with CM12.1 gave me a score of 27000+ and everything is blazing fast. I actually compared this side by side with a Z2 and Z3 and I can say, the SP is as fast as them with the new ROMs when It comes to installation and multitasking.

Sad to see you left the XSP. But at least you're happy with your lenovo :)
[Xperia SP General] TheAvengingTITAN:
I took this when my phone was overheating, so this is the lowest score I got on AnTuTu with Android 5.1
[Xperia SP General] thewild:
Antutu is antutu. It relies a lot on gaming performance for instance, and the XSP is good at 3D games. It does not rely much on storage performance, and XSP is not good there.

But you say that you can't make it normal and I have to disagree with this because mine is behaving perfectly, on stock (cleaned) ROM.

Even battery life is good. (one day with quite heavy usage, Waze, Ingress, podcasts over Bluetooth...)

Good that you like your new phone anyway. My XSP will soon be 2 years old, and I think it might last another year.

I have about the same score with stock 4.3 (26.819 actually), default io and scheduler.

But benchmarks are. just benchmarks.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] FastEddie422:
Hi all,

I'm trying to help someone fix their S4 that won't boot past the Verizon logo. I had rooted the phone probably a year and half ago but I never put a custom recovery or rom on the phone, as they mostly wanted to be able to use adblock, greenify, etc. The phone has been degrading slowly, lots of "SD card has been removed" errors, and now it simply won't boot past the Verizon logo. I have tried to boot into the stock recovery and clear cache with no luck. I don't want to wipe data if I can avoid it for now.

I was wondering if someone could point me to the proper CWM or TeamWin file and the best way to install it. I'm not sure if a custom recovery will even help me get it booted at this point but I figure I might have a little more luck over using the stock recovery. Any advice is appreciated, thanks.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] ericmtnbkr:
Do you know what the phone's baseband is? Chances are it's not MDK so that means to CWM, TWRP, etc. Take out the battery, put it back in and then boot to download mode then try and flash a new tar in Odin.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] FastEddie422:
I don't unfortunately. I rooted it about 1.5-2 years ago. I don't remember quite well but I don't think it's been updated since, I think I froze the update notification whenever that started popping up.

Flashing it in Odin will erase all data, correct? I don't know if I have another choice at this point, just curious.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] silver03wrx:
Sounds like you need to odin the stock tar. Reroot and proceede from there. Yes it will wipe user data.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] 0nix:
Hi all!

I have been cruising through forums for a few days already and have not really found any solid information regarding root of the Galaxy S3 (SGH-I747M) with a baseband version I747MVLUFOB1. Any help or direction will be much appreciated!

Cheers!
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] audit13:
Although I am not 100% sure it will, maybe you could flash a custom recovery and flash supersu from recovery.
[AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III] Mindreder:
I just rooted my Koodo S3 (g2can) using the instructions found here: skyneel.com/2014/06/how-to-root-samsung-galaxy-s3-sgh-i747m-easy-steps.html?m=1

Hope that helps.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] diabl0w:
I just flashed the radio image from 21.12 firmware with RSDLite and saw an amazing increase in 1x signal! from about -120 dBm to about -95 dBm! ... thought I would share this info BUT I AM NOT SURE IF THIS HAS A NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES ... AFAIK, worst comes to worse, you can just reflash the updated baseband

EDIT: okay so dont do this... it disables the ability to turn on wifi, dont know why

EDIT: logs tell me wifistatemachine: failed to load wifi driver... maybe if there was a way to implement the new wifi drivers into the old cell radio image or vise versa. Also, thread post should say 1x not 3g
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] gqskrub:
Why are you worried about 3G signal?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] diabl0w:
Because a signal change from 120 to 95 could add hours of battery life if you are getting a bad signal in your house... cell standby is sucking up about as much power as my screen
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] adrynalyne:
Do you not have LTE in your house?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] diabl0w:
I do, but what would that help? I would still get power drain from 3g scanning unless i disabled it... and phone calls dont run over LTE so that would not be a fix. I would love if someone had a solution for me, but am I wrong about any of this?
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] diabl0w:
can someone check 3g and LTE signal strength before and after toggling advanced HD calling? I got the same -120 to -95 increase in signal and I think that is essentially what I was doing by downgrading the radio image to pre-VoLTE
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] adrynalyne:
Because 3G isn't active when LTE is.

Phone calls also don't run over 3G, they run over LTE, or 1x.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] diabl0w:
I was under the impression that 1x was 3g? And i just tried to make a phone call on LTE only and it doesnt work, so I am sort of confused now

Edit: I guess i shouldve thought about what VoLTE meant, and how i had it toggled off.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] adrynalyne:
1x is voice only, 3G is data only.

Generally speaking (sans dual radio devices), one cannot run at the same time as another which is why Verizon never had voice and data at the same time before LTE.

I've found much better battery life with VoLTE on, if the LTE signal is strong.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] diabl0w:
Thank you! I've had it off for so long because I didnt care about the voice/data feature but now Ill have to try it out since I understand how it operates. I have a stronger LTE signal than I do 1x signal so im hoping it will help. I also toggled mobile network mode to LTE/GSM because it now only scans for LTE as far as i could tell so it may save some battery by not worrying about the 1x signal... just speculation
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] adrynalyne:
If you are really brave, set your radio to LTE/GSM/UMTS and try that out.

I *believe* that should work only on VoLTE, and would turn off 1x.

I believe you can set LTE only with a google play app too.
[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] diabl0w:
Yes that is what I meant when i said LTE/GSM... I dont see why it wouldnt work. Advnaced signal status app is only registering LTE so i guess thats a good sign
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] gdmlaz:
you are getting under 2 hours of screen time that is horrendous
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] parmend:
Looks like I'm waiting for the note 5
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] wase4711:
are those stats without taking the ota that is out, or did you take the ota?

also, there will be alot more updates once the phone is actually released on April 10th, so at this point, these stats dont mean much
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] ayemprady:
Yes these stats are with the OTA installed. Folks are saying that there is a wifi bug in 5.0.2 which drains battery.. Not sure when will 5.1 come.

The only thing that is consistently a problem is the battery.

The numbers of the last charge are with power saving mode ON.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] elracing21:
I agree. I've had the phone for a day and the battery sucks. Albeit yeah it's been a day and I'm coming from a one plus one and a note 4 before it. I'm spoiled but it should be better.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] wase4711:
thanks for the info

what I meant is that t mobile will push some updates a day or 2 after april 10th, when more mainstream people have the phone and report these issues. Did you try uninstalling the system monitor app, and see if that helps the battery? I heard that helps alot..

I wont have my phone until monday, so I cant tell how anything is at this point, but I know things like weird lag, or bad battery is always present in the initial builds when most phones first come out. It wont take a general update to 5.1 for tmobile/samsung to address those issues..
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] ayemprady:
Yes I agree that initial builds might have some issues that may be resolved over time as more people use it.

I do not see any system monitor app which can be uninstalled, which app are you talking about?

I am hopeful that the situation will improve specially on the battery front.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] wase4711:
I dont know where there app is; when I get my phone monday, I will look and let you know..I read in another thread here somewhere that helped a couple of folks with battery issues..
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] ayemprady:
No issues.. 1 weird issue is that there is no way to place a direct dial as a shortcut.. Really breaking my head on this but nothing

Thanks,

Prady
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] wase4711:
yeah, I read that doesn't work on stock right out of the box I know there are 3rd party apps that will allow that..I like to do that too..

I'll do more research and find something that will work..I have used an app for that before, I just cant remember which one it is right now!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] chakra:
Phone wont go into deep sleep, that is the cause of the drain.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] ayemprady:
If not going into deep sleep is an issue then it will not be fixed before 10th April at least. Till then quick top ups should do...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] gunslingerfry:
I am not having the wireless charging problems. I have a Koolpad. Is this with a case?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] ayemprady:
Mine is without a case. Actually the camera bump does not allow for an ideal connection so I keep it sideways but you have to be exact.

Keep Rocking,

Prady

Google+ : https://plus.google.com/+PradamanShorey

Twitter : https://twitter.com/ayemprady

Currently Rocking:

Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge (T-Mobile)

Past Devices:

Moto E LTE 2015

Moto E 2014

Google/LG Nexus 5

Samsung Galaxy S5 (T-Mobile)

Moto G 2014

Samsung Galaxy S3 (AT&T)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] sagarverma:
It has fast charging adapter that saves time to charge to the S6. I am impressed with it as the battery life is worth with great user experience.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] blackout720:
This is my experience with Power saver off and screen brightness around 40%. I also had sync on with auto receive.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] wase4711:
my phone had almost 70% deep sleep last night, but I still lost 27% of my battery over 8 hours, so that's not very good..
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] ayemprady:
Eagerly waiting for a fix as soon as the phone is released to the masses.. 10th April...

Keep Rocking,

Prady

Google+ : https://plus.google.com/+PradamanShorey

Twitter : https://twitter.com/ayemprady

Currently Rocking:

Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge (T-Mobile)

Past Devices:

Moto E LTE 2015

Moto E 2014

Google/LG Nexus 5

Samsung Galaxy S5 (T-Mobile)

Moto G 2014

Samsung Galaxy S3 (AT&T)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] Spauldio:
+1. I compared the battery usage between my S3 and the S6 edge, and the results were bad. S3 3% after 2 hours, S6 edge 13% after the same time.:(

I just did a full factory reset just to make sure there isn't' something fishy going on with the OTA update. How sure are we that there will be an update after 4/10? I'm wondering if I should go ahead and just send this back.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] ayemprady:
Not sure if sending back will help with anything..but if the battery life does not improve even after the so called fix then it's a big big issue..
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] wase4711:
what "fix" are you talking about?

T mobile never guaranteed "battery life" of any sort; its up to each individual user to figure out what they can do if their battery life isn't what you find acceptable.. Either carry an external battery pack, be near a charger sometime during the day, or figure out another way to extend your battery if its not acceptable as is..

Once there is development, I am sure there will be battery saving tweaks on custom roms, but to think that some magical "fix" is coming from Tmobile or Samsung is just silly.

This phone is fantastic, and was marketed as something special and unique because of its design, its size, and other features; it was NEVER sold as a "battery superstar", so I don't know what people expect from this thing
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] ayemprady:
Calm down buddy..

Battery is a problem and is being reported across the board everywhere.

We are users not developers so we don't need to figure out anything. All we are saying is that battery is not behaving the way it should & thats the problem.

Please don't talk about custom Roms. That's something most of the folks don't do. That's upto the individual.

T-Mobile did not guarantee battery life but samsung did. Then promised consistent, day long battery life & thats not happening.

We have paid $1000 for this phone & it better behave like one.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] wase4711:
very calm, my friend, just stating the facts that no one, including Samsung guaranteed any SPECIFIC amount of battery life, because not knowing what programs ,files, frequency of texting, emails, chatting, you tube useage, etc. and things you do with your phone, there is NO WAY they could guarantee anything. If I am wrong, please post a link as to where Samsung GUARANTEED battery life of any sort..

XDA is a DEVELOPERS website, see it in their name, so, the assumption is, if you come here, you intend on doing things pertaining to development, and/or you are a developer/advanced user, OR you want to learn how to be one. Flashing Custom Roms is the reason that the vast majority of users come here; or to learn how to..

If not, there are many other websites that folks can go to and discuss their particular issues.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] ayemprady:
if there is 1 issue that is being raised consistently by all users & reviewers is the battery, nobody said its the worst but its not how a 2600 mah should be.

fyi, there is a lollipop wi-fi bug which drains battery in 5.0.2, its there even on nexus devices. 5.1 supposedly fixes that bug so we talking about that fix.

xda is a developers website on which all kinds of issues are discussed not only related to development. Development has a separate thread where people discuss all that. This forum is questions & help..

nobody hates their new phone, we just want it to be better & if there is somehow the issue can be fixed.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] aaronc_98:
What is the source for this April 10th update?

thanks,
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] ayemprady:
Nothing official. Just guessing based on discussions here on xda threads.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] gunslingerfry:
I had a weird charging experience when I tried it rotated 180. Said it had been charging but the battery was not charged. Maybe the camera bump is fouling things up.

My issues so far:

Smart Remote force closed. I've not even opened Smart Remote.

While navigating and downloading a book on Audible it soft rebooted.

Fingerprint scanner seems to fail the first time but let me in the second time on a somewhat frequent basis.

Battery life is not amazing by any means. I get a pretty consistent 3-4% loss of battery while it's in my pocket.

After connecting the bluetooth to my car stereo for the first time, it started playing loud static until I turned off the bluetooth.

Youtube randomly crashed in the background. I hadn't used Youtube recently.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] ayemprady:
Wireless charging point is a bit tricky. Camera bump makes things problematic. You should know where and how to put your phone exactly.

I am facing another issue. Whenever I keep my phone back down the heart rate sensor led emits red light continuously. May be small but battery takes a hit by this for sure.

This does not happen when my phone is upside down.

Anyone else facing this issue?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] gunslingerfry:
Oh. Wanted to say that BBS claims that it's in deep sleep for only 72% of the time the screen is off. Not very awesome.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] ayemprady:
Yes this 1 of the reasons of somewhat less ideal battery experience.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] dreamytricks:
Thats weird man that you are getting such low battery backup...
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] gbopanonymous:
Are these good stats? Coming from n5 . this is day 1 after first full charge
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] dEris:
Power save at all? And eww, that font.

S6 Edge
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] iboxfix123:
I change my mind and won't by Galaxy S6 Edge
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] landwomble:
hi all,

been testing quite a bit of software (spb mobile plus, omapclockplus, batterystatus-plugin, etc) and i often find that sooner or later my notifications are screwed - i don't get popups reminding me of meetings etc. i've tried cleaning the notification queue, removing duplicates etc, and always end up doing a hard reset and reinstall of all my software.

this is getting *annoying* - can anyone point me at an explanation of what's going wrong and how I should try and fix it?

ric
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] landwomble:
fixed.

have just used a variety of tools, none of which did anything with automatic deletion. what actually *worked* was using memaid, and searching for all notifications with an action of "NONE" and deleting them all. soft reboot and all appears well.

now, how do i stop this happening again?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] hanmin:
I would like to know too :) But, it seems to be gone so far. It seems like installing uninstalling software will cause this problem?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] heronlen:
Info

Check out here:

http://www.scarybearsoftware.com/cn_overview.html