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[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Howlbeck:
So do I ;o)

But I didn't manage to get Xposed working without bootloops (yet !)...

Not sure exactly where I mess(ed) up but neither using your own thread nor seras nor the countless tips and hints on this topic seemed to work for me (.726 US currently). Nevermind, will start from scratch again if I can find some time. Currently I try to avoid to reboot. Well, surely there will be some comment on no risk no fun, but that would be too OT now :p

Anyways, there are always two sides of the coin and always have been with every increase of Android version in the past, I don't blame those who'd like to stay on KK till LP5.1 is available. I don't doubt a bit that we will get it for the Z3c, even if it takes ages for Sony to get it going. I currently see what 5.1 can do on older devices, it's running on my old S2 and you can actually use it for about 8 hrs till the battery is drained, but I think this is an issue of both batteries I own for it. Old and used meanwhile :) Snappiness and usability is awesome on this old device. Period.

Going forward I'm eager to see what 5.1 can do on the Z3c, I won't go back to KK for sure.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] FcukBloat:
check my thread again, i added a whole customized fw pre debloated and with xposed integrated, you can't fail with it you just need to flash one single zip.. never had a single bootloop :o it works for all people who tried it ;) i suggest you to clean install it to avoid importing problems.. so full backup, try it with clean install, if you don't like restore your previous backup.. nothing to lose ;)
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Esben Ludvigsen:
I miss widgets on the lockscreen and that's about it..

Memory acting up sometimes..

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[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Howlbeck:
Will do, as mentioned I'm not sure where or what did go wrong either way :D

---------- Post added at 11:04 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:59 PM ----------

IMO that's not a bug and no missing feature - if my phone is locked, I don't wan't it to show anything but the frigging time when I turn the display on via power or any other button. That's the main reason for a lockscreen for crying out loud :confused:

You could make it optional for those/you who don't care, but that's still no real justification. In my opinion.

//edit: forgot: it is already optional, but obviously too much for anyone... Jeeez...
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] difto:
Thats your personal preference, personally I had a flashlight widget ob lockscreen so that I could quickly turn on the flashlight without typing my code and looking for the widget on the home screen. In addition on Lollipop if you disable notifications on the lockscreen you don't even get the notification led to blink. If you enable them without showing the contents of messages you see "app... Secret content/ app2 secret content" very professional...
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Esben Ludvigsen:
Well doesn't all have to be what you don't want...

With kitkat installed I could control music while being locked.. Maybe that's just the app developers being lazy..

I used to being able to check my calendar.. That's history..

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[Xperia Z3 Compact General] scoobydu:
...if you want to keep ‘hi-res audio via usb’ ... as its gone in Lollipop.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] hyne:
After first upgrade to lollipop, i'm also frustrated without the lockscreen widgets. But it turned out, lollipop's notification is very useful.

Try Calendar Notify Agenda Status. And the notification bar run well with "money lover" app.

For me, to be able to see my calendar on my lock screen is a must have. It's caught my attention to my agenda schedule, because of the bar color behind the text and the color integrated well with your google calendar.

Mini app notes from sony, always stay at my lockscreen as a quick reminder / to do list

Also i can quick add my expenses from lock screen or status bar with the money lover app
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Howlbeck:
Now a bit OT here - but :good:

Just started from scratch and: xposed & no bootloop ;)

Thx a bunch, much appreciated !
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] difto:
Spotify can still be controlled from the lockscreen, the controls appears as a notification with buttons, so yes it can be done but only as a notification.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Esben Ludvigsen:
I don't use Spotify as my provider supply my music needs [emoji6]

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[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Howlbeck:
Touché, and going further OT now... :)

That's not my point though - coming straight from Samsung where you have tons of options if it comes to roms and stuff...

For our Z3c there possibly won't be any rom other than prerooted, customized, self debloated versions and some CM stuff that will or won't be working the way they are supposed to.

Just saying that Sony seems to be doing something right at least if it's that hard to get it rooted first place. You may get tons of different opinions about lockscreens - I can understand the music guys, but a calendar on it ? Seriously ? What do you need a lockscreen for then ? Lazyness.

Nosy as we are nowadays, I don't like the idea having the phone on my desk, me having to rush out in a hurry and all that's needed for everyone to see by a click on the power button is my schedule... Maybe that's not your scenario, but there are people who do take something like this seriously.

Just saying - they could make it optional, but I doubt they will.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] FcukBloat:
glad it worked for you too ;)
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Esben Ludvigsen:
It's not possible to make a Android version fitting everyone's needs [emoji6]

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[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Starlith:
I wished I read this thread, lollipop is so damn ugly on this phone. I mean that blue bar at the top, did some colour blind guy design this crap? The only good thing is the keyboard. All the colours look so bad.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] istux:
You can revert to kitkat any time with Flashtool.

Or just wait for someone to create a mod that make it look better.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Sadman Khan:
Can you just please change the theme instead of whining? Set it to Red or White. Preferably white.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Starlith:
Sorry Mr Sadman but I'm allowed to be a critic.

This lollipop isn't all that is cracked up to be even with a theme change this material design business of goggle is rubbish and I'm sure everyone knows which quick settings menu was simpler to use. I do like the keyboard, settings menu has so much room and is unnecessarily big for a small screen. Now I can see why it took Sony so long to release having to try and work within material design. Material design should only be treated as a guideline not gospel.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Sadman Khan:
You're allowed to be a critic yes. But you CAN change the colour and it's AS easy as that. Before blaming Sony i think you should dig into the features first. So does the white theme still look ugly to you or does it hurt your eyes? I'm sure it doesn't. Not to mention, there will be many more themes in the future and you will be able to set any colour you want.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] FcukBloat:
I agree UI is terrible, that persistent blue bar not changing with some apps (blue and orange with tapatalk for example.. my god!) but I appreciate other things, so I think I'm staying with LP :o
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] istux:
Right, the blue bar is disgusting, but the "close all" button (the original one, not the modded) is the worst thing ever seen on a Sony device.

Why, why??? :cyclops:
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] FcukBloat:
yes right forgot it! :p never seen something so awful before :D

luckily there are FWs without it, so we can add a much better one via GB :D
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] piratemoon:
lollipop day one

I actually like lollipop after a day using it.

Battery seems the same so far, the volume features are pretty intuitive and it looks nice (white theme) without being over fancy. Feels a bit like getting a new phone for free - just wanted to put this out there to show it's not all negative ;)
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Starlith:
As I said I've already changed the theme colours but it does not mean it is perfect though it does come down to personal preference. I've had a Sony phone since Android GB and every update Sony pulled out appeared better and better. This isn't so much a backwards or forward step in the right direction. More like a step to left or right with added features.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] PuffDaddy_d:
Your last sentence pretty much says it all - LP is the first major Android release that seems to offer little in the way of performance or function. All major releases before it seemed to give the users something that made their phones noticeably better.

As for material design in general, I feel like it's implementation is similar to iOS 7 when it was first released. Everyone hated the bright, colors and flat designs. It made their phones look like a child's toy. Material design seems to elicit the exact opposite response from critics - who all praise it as clean and beautiful. I personally could do without it and do not find the bold colors to be desirable. Some elements are nice, but over-all, I could just change the theme of my KK icons and be done.

I'll wait until 5.1 is released and simply skip 5.0
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] sumon511:
ditracting enough.i need a pure black.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] vikingsail:
Thanks for the info but seriously? This is what SONY provides with its hardware (there are two DAC inside the phone). A software/firmware update shouldn't affect this..
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] scoobydu:
You seem to be missing the point, 'seriously'.

The feature was there in 4.4.4 and is not in 5, where I use this my second phone to solely drive my Chord Hugo external DAC.

I can assure you, the Hugo sounds better than the DACs in the phone :)
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] difto:
As I understand this is not an hardware feature, it is the phone which transfer digital data through USB to an external DAC who then convert it in analog signal.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] scoobydu:
Not clear whether it needs some hardware feature to do this, but the option is a software kernel driver to allow the phone to transfer the sound from DSD or FLAC out through the USB port to the external DAC and its full resolution.

The option allows this to happen for all apps on the phone, whereas on other phones this can only be done by one specific music player.

So with this option you can use any player that supports hires flac, to output to the external DAC.

Its a compelling feature, so I am surprised Sony have removed it from LP.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] w4lkm4n:
Yep agree with this,the settings provide you to use external dac for better sound quality

Oh yap ,i found some issue here after update to lollipop and back to kitkat

It seems some few dac now not supporting since i update lollipop and back to kitkat ,anyone have some issue like this .? ,is there any possibilty that lollipop kernel ,lock this function even we go back to kitkat ?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] scoobydu:
If its any help I restored my backup of kitkat and it restored the functions of the dac support back to how they were.

May need a kitkat reinstall and factory wipe to get back the features.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Jack_R1:
I second that. Got 5 mins of annoyance trying to update Google Services at the beginning, as it didn't show available update until rebooted again. Otherwise - battery life looks even better than before with cool analysis features, the phone is snappy, white theme looks good (I saw Theme Creator for free download on Sony website if it's not good enough) and though not everything is perfect - I didn't find anything that would annoy me.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] nizarnoor:
We can select which apps to show notifications, can't we?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Jack_R1:
If you're answering me - I prefer solving the problem (updating Google Services) to ignoring the problem (muting notifications), and eventually was able to make Google Play refresh itself and show the update.

P.S. While I'm at it - one of the things the first post mentioned was the inability to get to the menu of the shortcut by long-press, as it was in KitKat. While it's indeed gone, pressing "WiFi" and "Bluetooth" respectively (words under the toggles) takes directly to the relevant settings, avoiding the hassle of long-presses. Personally - I think it's a better, more obvious and more useful solution, so it's a bonus and not an annoyance.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Schumi 01:
Well I tried to like lollipop, i really did, but i really don't like the notifications on the lock screen, I would have prefered them in the status bar just like kitkat, and the quick pull down menu i really didn't like, apart from that it was usable, but those two things made me roll back to kit kat.

It's a shame really.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] mibtnt:
Also. Mirrorlink was broken for me on car decks. I am on latest KitKat and it is working now. On latest lollipop it hanged at connecting.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] difto:
You are right, I discovered it today also.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Sadman Khan:
Just turn off the notifications in the lockscreen.

Settings>Sound and Notification>When device is locked
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Schumi 01:
Thanks for your suggestion.

Does that then put the notifications into the status bar then ?
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Sadman Khan:
The notifications arrive on the status bar like on KK anyway.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Schumi 01:
Thanks, i may give it another try then, i didn't realize you could do that.

Many thanks
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] difto:
Except if you turn off notifications on the lock screen they don't appear in the status bar either and the led does not blink.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Schumi 01:
Yes i just found that out, reverting back to KK as we speak. :)
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Sadman Khan:
I just tried it. LED does work but the notif doesn't appear in the lockscreen status bar. However you can see the notif in the status bar after unlocking
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] jflaco40:
Lollipops white theme is plain ugly, recent apps ui is less practical for me because I catch myself missing swipes on apps I wanna close because of the size difference, I hate the airplane mode and quick sound gone from the power menu, if you're in a music app you cannot change from sound to vibrate or anything until you turn off the app first. It's mainly Google's fault rather than Sony's, you can no longer fast forward or rewind tracks on Walkman from lockscreen, the material design is just plain ugly, also you loose lonngpress shortcuts from quick settings, only WiFi and Bluetooth allow this, the ugly look and the functionalities you loose vrs gain is a deal breaker for me. The power menu functions have long been a stamp of what android is, and kitkat added much functionality to the quick settings notification, and also kept the UI dark simple friendly to the battery and eyes, now all that is gone, Google I wish I could slap one of yall, I absolutely hate lollipop.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] lambdaplus:
Good thread this!! Thanks for starting it...

I bought a Z3 Compact yesterday and the lollipop is all downloaded and waiting to be installed! But before I hit the install button, I have few concerns.

But,

this would be a bummer!

I don't have high res audio files. But, will I be able to send normal mp3 files via USB OTG? I use an Fiio e07k DAC + Amp. I haven't tried it yet on kitkat as well, but would certainly like to have this in Lollipop.

My main worry with upgrading to Lollipop is the battery. Are majority of the ones with L getting atleast same battery life?

Also, I notice on kitkat that certain apps (Eg. Whatsapp) have a black status bar and navigation bar. This effectively reduces screen space. Is this different in Lollipop? On nexus 5, the colours of status and navi bars match the colour scheme of the app that is opened. This gives an illusion of bigger space.
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] bubimir13:
Either youll have a good battery life straight from beginning with LP or youll have to upgrade to 5.1.1. to have it better like mine is right now. Yesterday i had over 5 hours of SoT with playing games and constantly using my phone before i had to charge it, on 5.0.2 i had like 3-3,5 at most with same usage patterns
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] Matrid:
Hey great thread. I've been following the trials and tribulations of Lollipop since it came to Z3 Compact.

I've been avoiding the Z3C update for those reasons. Don't want to root my phone and get involved with flashing etc if possible but nervous that there are big bugs in Lollipop.

However, I'm running out of internal space and the fact you can move apps and their data to SD card is making me want to upgrade.

Over 6 months on, how do people find it? What are the issues which haven't gone away? Importantly for me, is the camera noticeably poorer? is there a problem with GPS not working? And how common are these issues?

Thanks
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] quuz:
Bought a new z3c last week, updated today and it completely killed my gps...
[Xperia Z3 Compact General] istux:
KitKat is still better than Lollipop IMHO.

Marshmallow will be definetely better, so I suggest you wait a couple of months for the official upgrade ;)
[Xiaomi Mi 4] Maarten_dutch:
hello

first my excuses for my bat english but it is my 2nd language

I had much trash on my mi 4 so I decided to format the memory of system one with cwm but I accidentally has formatted also system 2 when I wanted to format data 1 so I didn't had any ROM on my memory after that I have tried to instal zip from sideload but when my mac has finished the sideload from the rom (xiaomi.eu_multi_cancro_5.4.10_v6-4.4.zip and later miui_MI3WMI4WGlobal_V6.4.2.0.KXDMICB_33b4778c4f_4.4.zip) and my device has said that it has installed the system it doesn't automatically reboot so I went to the general menu and rebooted my device but then it remains on the black screen with the mi logo

I have it already solver by side loading the android lollipop 5.1.0 rom from ivan
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] QA Bot:
Q&A for [INFO] Nexus 7 Partitions!

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[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] genericfu:
Filesystem of every partition

In case it's helpful, here's what parted lists as the filesystem for each of the partitions:

/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Nov 12 00:10 SOS -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 -> recovery - UNRECOGNIZED

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Nov 12 00:10 LNX -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 -> boot - UNRECOGNIZED

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Nov 12 00:10 APP -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p3 -> system - ext2

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Nov 12 00:10 CAC -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p4 -> cache - ext4

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Nov 12 00:10 MSC -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 -> misc - UNRECOGNIZED

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Nov 12 00:10 USP -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p6 -> bootloader - UNRECOGNIZED

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Nov 12 00:10 PER -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p7 -> per device calibration - msdos

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Nov 12 00:10 MDA -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p8 -> encrypted userdata - UNRECOGNIZED

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Nov 12 00:10 UDA -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p9 -> userdata - ext4

So if you're trying to fix disk errors (as I was):

e2fsck can be used to repair APP, CAC, and UDA

fsck_msdos can be used to repair PER

Can anyone explain the unrecognized partitions? Are they all encrypted? :confused:
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] 0nova:
Recently, the only app which could enable Here offline maps on SD card stopped working. Now there is no known method to move the maps from Internal to external memory.

Anybody here has moved the maps to SD without the help of Lumia Storage check beta...please share...
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Kar98:
Very maddening. I wish I had noticed that before playing around with TP10 for a day with the plan to revert to 8.1 after. I'm wondering if there's a way to make the .xap file work anyway. Simply sideloading (storing it on the memory card and loading it through 'local apps' in the Store app) doesn't work.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] Amadeus01:
http://xdaforums.com/windows-phone-8/development/xap-source-registry-tool-little-t2933964/page7

http://www53.zippyshare.com/v/52877502/file.html

Maybe this can help you.............
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] seeker4711:
Could you please post a small how-to for a newbie?

Many Greetings

seeker4711
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] seeker4711:
I got a little further, but no success yet. This is what I did:

On a Windows 8.1-x64 system I installed Windows Phone SDK 8.0 and registered the phone for developer applications. Then I could open the solution, build it in debug mode, and deploy it to the phone.

I launched the application and tried to set the registry value, but failed. I did neither have success using the button Write nor the other buttons NrsRuntime xyz.

What do I have to do?

Many Greetings

seeker4711
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vvikke:
Wasup :)

So I got my S6 32gb this friday around lunchtime, and god damn am I happy or what? An amazing phone in every single specc and feature (except from the lack of swapable battery and option to mount more storage if needed). Though there was 1 thing of many that was stuck in my mind; does the S6 have the potential of supporting off screen gestures like the HTC One-phones, 1+1, Oppo and others? Or does this has to do with the chipset (Qualcomm) that's inside the phone? I know there is a trick-app that does this and it's called Knockr, but the main difference is that Knockr leaves the display on with a black screen, while the "real off screen gestures" works when the screen is actually "powered off".

So does this work with the S6, or is it just with new Qualcomm-based phones this works on? And if it works, how do I enable it?

Thanks in advance for answers, especially rich and clear answers! :)
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maxi65:
No! but it supports An air gesture to unlock your device

Hover your hand over your device

it'll unlock the lock screen.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge] tenbender:
Got my Edge Yesterday from ATT. What a phone!! Love it. But I do have one issue that I am not sure what is happening. Went to use my favorite photo of grandkids for the lockscreen and while it works, the picture is very faint and hard to see. Tried different photos with the same results. If I use the Samsung Wallpapers the screen is fine.

If I use the same picture for Home Screen, the picture is much brighter. Not sure if this is intentional or not.

Any help would be appreciated.

Update: Problem resolved.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] sledwrecker:
Hey all, so my 8125 kept reseting the date and time and I couldn't figure out why. After testing I concluded and confirmed that when I would change my battery cause battery (i carry 2) the time and date are lost cause the battery internal is shot. Can I fix it myself? pretty good with electronics.. or can I send it back to HTC? the phone is a year old if that.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] bbobeckyj:
the service manual is available in my sig if you want to see how hard it is to fix yourself
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grant2:
Stock samsung, chrome, opera... none of them have an option to disable plugins.

automatically downloading ad videos is annoying and eats up my bandwidth. Which browser can turn this off?