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[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] alancstan:
I am a newbie here, just joint the community not too long ago. However noted that all the good cooks went missing? Previously, every month there be a number of new roms being released? However, lately not much of new roms being released? Where have all the good cook went? Will here be a 'ghost' town especially with the forthcoming Kaiser?

Just my 2 cents of opinion?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] esseff:
I think they finally realised there is more to life than a stupid phone.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] chrisjasper:
Oooh, you'll catch hell for that one...;)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] TooSharp:
I think with WM6 being released, it has taken the punch out of some of the cooks fun\obsession. Also there has been several good kitchens released that allow for just about anybody to cook their own rom just how they want it. Check out the Pandora thread it's great!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] wpbear:
I hope they reappear for the Kaiser.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] Bram87:
Pff...What the hell are you doing here on this forum, if you think most of us dont live a normal life, like we are all nerds or people with no life.. because most of us like to modify our phone..

Look in the miror, you will see the person with no life..
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] alancstan:
Bro Bram87,

Please don't start flamming over here.... just a discussion wil do. Everyone here loves their Hermes!:)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] shanetheclassic:
waiting for wm7...
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] Sleuth255:
The real reason is that the production WM6 release is very stable & fast
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] Kevlar-Source:
Some cooks are still here... We still have some Betas... That means LIFE :)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] fil:
Err i think the cooks are here, its just all the roms out there dont really need any improvement now?

if you try a few of the latest ones, you will see you'll have very little rom related issues, so no need, to cook, and improve the roms!

:P
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] alancstan:
fil,

Yes I do agree, the current batch of roms are very stable and fast. But however, I do find that a cook is always a cook, whereby the perfection will never take place, always challenging till the end!

my 2 cents of opinion...:rolleyes:
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] vp3G:
Pardon me? :confused:

I'll agree with the others... it's getting pretty difficult to improve on the Hermes ROM at this point. Working on it, though. :D
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] chymmylt:
Aside from the facts that there are some excellent chefs still in the hermes kitchen, that the roms are probably near completition for WM6 etc - I think what drove a lot of the cooks away was a combination of the constant flaming that seems to go on in the Hermes forums - I typically find most of it pretty funny but reading through some of the other forums I am always surprised how there is nowhere near as much flaming going on. That and I think they got sick of people complaining there rom broke this or that when it was something stupid the person did and didn't follow the instructions or do a simple search for the solution. I could easily see how that could put somebody off of releasing to the public something they worked so hard to make.

Regardless of all that, there are some great chefs about - VP3g, Schapps, Duttythroy, Dutty (I think still puts out roms), JasJamming (though he doesn't realse them here any more - somebody usually post a link when he does). If I forgot to mention you or butchered the spelling of your name - sorry - not intentional ;)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] dahui9:
I think the cooks on here are doing an excellent job! the problem is Microsoft now is starting to do some sh** right and making a fast rom for our phone. I've tried every rom on xda that I could find at least once to test them. It's just getting harder for the cooks to cook better roms when they are working with the software that is released and taking their time to help us.

Just remember its like the military the stuff they've have for 10 years is just new to citizens. its kinda similar with wm6 just give em time and until then enjoy the awesome roms that we have!!!!

.... or you could build your own if your that risky.
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[Xperia Z5 Compact General] kevinwu128:
Now that we've confirmed that even the new sony z5c will lose your DRM keys if you use the Sony official way of unlocking.

As most people have tested, the phone camera seems to be okay right now.

If you have any problems that is due the unlocking bootloader, can you please post it here so people can make a judgement if unlocking is worth it or not.

Thanks :)
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] RiTCHiE007:
Where is the proof of losing your keys? And dont come wit hthe z3 info like people did last time.
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] AndroPlus:
To test DRM key lost:

1 - X-Reality

1. Turn off X-Reality

2. Open Album and take screenshot after open vivid photo like flowers

3. Go back and turn on X-Reality

4. Open Album and take screenshot of same photo as 2.

5. Compare it on your PC, you will notice color difference if DRM key is not wiped.

2 - Camera's noise reduction

1. Take photo at dark place (under the desk?)

2. You will notice a lot of color noise when you enlarged the photo if DRM key is wiped.
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] yannik~:
Did you test this yourself on a Z5 or where is this information coming from?
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] AndroPlus:
No, I only tested on Z1,Z2,Z3,Z4 Tablet.

This test method is valid for all older devices with DRM protection, so if someone can prove it you can say Z5 variant doesn't loose DRM key.

I don't think Sony changes their policy for Z5, though.
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] chesterr:
+1

I am pretty sure your DRM keys will be lost if you don't back up them with locked bootloader root. Which we'll have to wait for a while.

I hope there will be a way to root with locked bootloader. But with Marshmallow, you never know since it was bit difficult to get root and SU in beta stage.

Hope there will be vulnerability :D
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] kc1:
I don't use the cameras much and don't have a playstation, but can confirm that after unlocking so far

- backup & restore doesn't work (automatic or manual)

- over the air updates don't work

- updates via PC companion don't work

(Annoying, I wish

1. I hadn't so enthusiastically unlocked it

2. There was a way to re-lock it
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] Sebi673:
I know that feeling.... I was so happy when I unlocked my Xperia Z and then camera went to the toilet. But DRM restore worked around the drm keys and made the phone functional again. It supports a large array of xperias so maybe there will be a version for Z5.

I'm now lurking here with my xperia Z hoping to see a bootloader friendly root method. Without root, xposed and drm content working the Z5 would be useless.
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] dillalade:
Yep this happened to me on my z1c days.

Didn't research DRM enough to appreciate the value of them.
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] RiTCHiE007:
hope you learn from this but lucky you can update the phone wit htyhesony flashtool.
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] ripdajacker:
I have noticed ****ty low noise performance, but I just assumed it was because phone cameras are ****ty in general.

Good to know it's software.
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] tania247260:
Video does not work properly (95% broken) after unlocking bootloader

I have unlocked z5 compact bootloader. evrything works properly but I have relocked bootloader again but now video option in phone does not work . Its almost broken. Any solution????? I have decide to send to the service center
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] jeremux:
Hi,

sorry but it's too late.

You lose your DRM Keys (forever) when you unlock your bootloader.

That's why people wait root access before unlock bootloader.

With root access you can dump TA partition (DRM Keys).

Your service center can't restore them.

The last solution is that a developer finds a way to bypass these keys.
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] tania247260:
It was really shocked for me but Need to find out some solution for this problem. Hope some one can help me
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] RiTCHiE007:
You cant yet so if you want to get it fixed you need to by a new z5 with drm keys because you lost yours
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] tania247260:
Service center has changed the motherboard/ mainboard of the phone
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] Sopur:
but what does DRM have to do with the photo quality? (Isnt DRM digital right management?)

Kind regards

Sopur
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] bubimir13:
Because of BIONZ and legally protected postprocessing algorithams.
[Xperia Z5 Compact General] thesebastian:
Camera sucks anyway (unless you used xperia Z for a long time). Maybe not the sensor. But the firmware is bull****.

Sony should stop worrying about this DRM keys protection and start to focus more in quality assessment

Sent from my E5823
[XDA Assist] lilbear1967:
stuck in update now will only turn on and off. shows lg logo then off the logo then android the off, how do I fix this no hard reset tried that. is there a way to install from sd card or adb. phone will not connect to computer. can you help?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andy_d0:
Helium still the best way when considering my Note 4 is locked?

it did not work perfectly when I move from my Samsung s3 to the note but not sure if Helium is really my only option

I definitely want to move over my sms/mms
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ragavbpl:
SMS's are synced to google I believe if you are using hangout.

For my backup restores I use Titanium backup, but remember that it'll only backup/restore system and apps settings and data and no personal data like images, sms, contacts etc. But if you have google backup setup transfer should be smooth for photos, sms, contacts etc.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andy_d0:
Hey thanks. I used to use titanium but don't anymore since I thought it needed root to work properly?

I use hangout for sms. How can I be sure it gets transfered over?

And Google Backup?

Sent from my Note 4
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ragavbpl:
I think hangout syncs all your messages automatically to the cloud. I can say this as per my experience of before and after rooting my nexus 5 on android 6.0. For root I had to wipe clean my phone and after root, hangout automatically synced all old SMSs back to my nexus 5. So I think before wiping out you can try to install hangouts on some other device and sign in with same ID that you have on Note 4 and see if your messages appear on new device. I think that would be the best way to check.

Or else use an app like - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestore

And by google backup I meant google account's sync service. If you use google photos, use backup option to move all photos to google and it'll be available on new device when you sign in with same account on new device using google photos. And all your contacts and other preferences are saved by google account so its matter of logging into the new device with same google account and checking how many things you were able to restore. For remaining like music and videos move them manually.

There is no easy way of moving everything to new android device in Android ecosystem unlike iOS where iTunes does everything for you (but again if you are jailbroken, even iTunes cannot sync everything).
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chevycam94:
I cant help with SMS/MMS, thats why Hangouts is great. BUT, I can help with the application data. I just pushed out a new version of my script, which, among other things, adds support for backup and restore of app data. Might help you out here.

http://xdaforums.com/nexus-6p/development/tool-android-job-box-v1-00-t3233482
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nekromantik:
Titanium Backup is only way to transfer SMS without using Hangouts.

Will work between any Android versions and types as long as you use the XML SMS backup option.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NCguy:
I thought helium transferred sms, just not mms?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andy_d0:
OK guys. I'll try to see what happens when I load hangouts. I didn't realize it was backing up sms. I did use titanium back when I had my S3 rooted. That worked perfectly. Helium - yeah I lost mms

Chevycam - so it's just a tool that does adb backup? Works on any phone regardless of root status?

Sent from my Note 4
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kgeissler:
I used ADB backup to transfer my data from my Nexus 6 to my 6P.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NCguy:
How well did it work? Did you copy everything?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zephiK:
Backed up everything from my prior phone via Titanium Backup

Save to computer

Cut and paste onto the 6P

Restore.. although this time around, I restored only the apps and not the app data so I can start clean.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kgeissler:
Worked well.. Once I logged into the 6P, I let Google download all my apps. I then restored the backup, which restored most of my data. It did not seem to copy my Nova Launcher settings, so I had to copy that manually. It also does not copy Bluetooth connections, so you will have to set those up again. Overall, I was pretty happy with it. I didn't want to root the phone, so I didn't do a titanium backup.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NCguy:
Ouch. Certainly better than nothing but my Nova is huge with all my apps. I guess knowing this you can export/import the nova settings
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chevycam94:
Yes, it's independent of the device connected. Root doesn't matter. But be aware, in order to back up APPS, you need root. Backing up the App DATA does NOT require root. Apps won't back up, even with Titanium Backup, without root.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andy_d0:
So my experience...

1) Hangouts doesn't backup sms or at least it doesn't seem that it does. Used SMS Backup and Restore and that seems to have done the trick

2) I tried using Helium but I'm not sure what drivers to use so gave up on that

3) If Google is backing up app data in Lollipop, it has to be bare minimum. Honestly, I'm not sure what it actually did backup

4) I realized that I really don't need the backup besides SMS. It would have been easier to handle transferring stuff sure but there are only a handful of apps that I wanted to transfer settings over and they all had options to Export settings.

Oh well. Hopefully the new backup on Marshmallow will hopefully provide a better experience. It did ask while setting up the phone whether I want to do a restore through NFC from another phone - it just neglected to mention that it's not a Lollipop option
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NCguy:
Almost no apps use API 23 which is required for the new Google backup. Only choices are helium or adb backup
[XDA Assist] KiToNaS:
Hello... I can't post reply on note 3 development forum even though I have more than 10 posts ! what's the problem?
[XDA Assist] KiToNaS:
waiting for a reply...
[XDA Assist] KiToNaS:
solved !
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abraxo:
I find it quite unprofessional to have people pre order a device in September and have them arrive 2 months later. How can you announce your best phone ever (for both companies) and be so woefully prepared for the demand it might incur? I'm having second thoughts on getting the phone since I have no idea when I might receive mine since Google and Huawei have yet to get their act together in rolling out the product
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rufflez2010:
Have you tried buying any previous nexus? By far the best release yet!

Doesn't your pre-order have a date? That would be the latest you would have your unit shipped.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] [hfm]:
No, I'm OK with it.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] galaxys:
Yep, best by far. Especially after being involved with the 4, 5 and 6 failed launches!
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Scyntherei:
This is my favorite so far. No issues thus far. :)
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] luciferiusXI:
Best handling it this way rather than having people refresh the page every second because product went out of stock within 2 minutes of release.(previous nexus releases)
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] M@XLOL:
Very happy.

Order date: Sep 29, 2015 1:05:16 PM CDT Estimated delivery date: November 10 – 12, 2015.

Phone will be delivered to me tomorrow.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arcanexvi:
Ordering process yes. However... Shipping order is jacked up AGAIN. Ordered 9/29 within 15 min of link going live. 32GB Graphite. There are people with tracking information that purchased 10/21 and have shipping confimation while mine sits in processing purgatory. Card was final charged 3 days ago. Still hasn't gone anywhere. This happens to me every year.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fatboypup:
Almost as bad as a Best Buy launch ....
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mastrgamr:
I don't mind this release style at all. I really don't see what OP concern is. Google has turned a 'quickest to order before servers crash' to 'just order and be patient, we won't charge you'
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elnrik:
Disappointment? That would imply I had expectations which conflict with what was promised. I have no such expectations.

In the announcement event, they simply said "later in October" concerning ship dates. During the preorder process, everything was clearly spelled out. How could I be disappointed? My only expectation is that the products I ordered will arrive safely by the time they indicated.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MoeDaddy:
I'm pleased with the order process this time around. As for delays well that is common on pre orders these days. I'm just happy that I got to order, much better than trying to catch a one or two minute in stock window like in the past.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] divinewisdom:
Disappointed, nah. one of the biggest tech company in world can't handle preorder. How the hell do you sell out preorder? Just take the damn order and give a 4-5 weeks eta. Don't tell me you can't get huawei to make your phones in 5 weeks.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cpt.Schaaf:
I'm rather disappointed that Germany was not a part of the countries that could preorder it first. I simply don't get it...
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Slimgym20:
It's a pain yes. But it happens this way every year. I'm just surprised they haven't fixed it much over the years. I'm waiting on a Frost 64GB - No one has gotten a Frost yet, so we'll see if the ship date is hit, Nov 2.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] combat goofwing:
http://gizmodo.com/if-you-ordered-a-nexus-6p-and-it-hasn-t-shown-up-good-1739119538
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] versd:
Like previous people have mentioned. Most (if not all) of the Nexus launches were pretty terrible.

I wasn't expecting much so no .. not disappointed.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kyocere:
I ordered, was given an estimated ship date and it has shipped early. I call that a success.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Heisenberg:
You do realise that these were

pre

-orders, right? This is exactly how the concept of a pre-order works.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d3sm0nd:
Dissapointed, yes. The roll out in the US might be not that bad. But there are other countries besides US. ;) In Europe we are still waiting to preorder. Such a slow rollout. Google needs to learn from Apple and bring their **** together and roll out the devices from day one.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] letom:
This is so ordered compared to the nexus 4 which was nothing short of a riot!
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] puritan007:
It's not just nexus line that this happens with. People stand in line for a week to get the first Playstation 4 only to find out the site only recieved 3 in the shipment...... Etc etc etc. It is the way of this must have it now world. When I placed on order from Sears catalog by mail with check it could take 3 months before this product showed up on my doorstep and I had no tracking numbers etc. I couldn't even check my bank account to see if the check cleared. Wow a lot changed in 20 or so years... Rofl.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aridon:
Seems like a fine launch to me.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rukawa2k:
I personally don't think it's all Google's fault. It could be the distributing warehouse they are using. Google basically gave the list to the warehouse to ship out, but it's up the warehouse to decide how to ship.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Born<ICs:
.

.

I'm dissapointed in our education system not teaching what pre-order means.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DebauchedSloth:
Seems fine to me. Google took my pre-order, told me about when it would be delivered, then shipped early. What more could you ask for?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Daveoc64:
Are you ignoring all of the orders that have been delayed?

The UK Google Store hasn't shipped any 64GB or 128GB orders and they don't know why they haven't been able to meet the shipping deadlines that have already passed, nor have they bothered to email anyone to explain anything.

It's pretty stupid to tell people that they can pre-order a device, on the basis that it'll be available in a month, only to miss that deadline.

It'd be much better if they waited longer to announce the device, put up pre-orders for a week or so in the future and then actually shipped things on time. It's one of the few things Apple does that I can agree with.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] warplane95:
Yes, a pain yes.

With a corporation of this size, a pre-order should not take more than 2-3 weeks. Waiting 6 week for a device is too much. next years, they will announce the new nexus device and I'll only have mine for 10-11 month.

And i'm lucky to be in Canada, all eastern country have much more trouble compare to us (north american).
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ilostmypistons:
Been through Nexus 4 , 5 , 6 same sh1t different year. Although last year someone figured out how to track the shipping plane which was entertaining
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nate1975:
Maybe there is an issue in the UK. I pre-ordered my phone on launch day, they estimated delivery on November 10-12, and it's out for delivery now.

Seems to have been handled pretty well here (in the US), no idea why they would have promised you that you'd have yours already.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Born<ICs:
Google is sending emails to some for 128gb

http://phandroid.com/2015/10/27/nexus-6p-delayed/
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] warplane95:
well, they should announce the new nexus 6p(2016) now and put everyone in pre-order....

---------- Post added at 10:34 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:33 AM ----------

it depend, you have 9 configuration possible, 4 of them is delayed...

Also, do not forget, only the USA have the 50$ play store gift card
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tech_head:
This is worse than the 5-8 week for an iPhone 6s Plus, how?

They are just getting rid of the backlog after what two months?

So I'll get my phone 5 weeks after ordering. No worse than the 128GB iPhone and likely better.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bigal77:
PRE-order
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d3sm0nd:
http://www.gsmarena.com/some_nexus_...google_offering_25_cash_refund-news-14702.php

FAIL