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[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] millicent:
Coming from same m7 to z5, I think there are reasons still for you to like this phone. Ideally, as I did myself, you'll test it out for a few days and decide for yourself.

Myself, I have decided to keep it.

That being said, we're all aware there's no perfect device, however there's the good enough for 1-2 years for the scenario you use it most device. If the nexus 6p had a slightly smaller brother at around 5" that would've been my perfect device. So obvious second choice for me was z5. If you can live with its size, and, as I also tested a lil bit that device, I'd say, without a case, 6p feels really good in hands, I'd strongly recommend it.

Coming back to z5.

The only thing you might miss about your m7 are its speakers. With that respect though, I guess it's hard to find another phone today, other than waiting for another HTC phone that is. Z5s camera app is also a bit slowlier to open up, it's faster once in ram.

Otherwise, everything about z5 is better or much better than old m7, including camera, responsiveness, much faster browsing, Bluetooth range and sound quality is better, Wi-Fi range also wider. Overall experience, at least for me, irl meets and even exceeds my expectations. Z5 even comes with a tap the screen to wake feature! Awesome.

The only moot point is the battery life, only marginally better, I'm afraid. I am almost certain that the biggest culprit is the famous cell standby lollipop issue, however didn't root yet to confirm.

That and hopes for better manual controls in camera app is why many impatiently await the mm update, however, I advise against buying in the hopes a software update will fix or improve on anything..that is, buy this phone if you like it the way it is today.

Of course, if you could wait for our opinions here after the update, that should help you with your decision.
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gm007:
Speaking about battery life with normal usage not gaming only Facebook,Whatsapp,browsing and little music its very good.50% auto brightness.
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bloodfire1004:
I didn't bash you personally, I just said that "you see what you want to see" which basically means that all of us have our biases. I've liked the Z series from the Z1 so to me, going to the Z5 has been a good upgrade from my point of view, and I'll take it over other phones out there (note: I am not saying that the Z5 is better, I just prefer Xperia line-up over others)

If you already read the "is it worth it?" thread from before and already had an inkling that it wasn't worth it, then why even bother asking for others opinion on our Z5s then bashing us when we share that we don't have any complaints?

Where in that post did I attack you for not choosing the Z5? Did I say "hurr durr then go back to your M7 or whatever"? No I did not, because I respect other people's decisions and paraphrasing your answer, what works for me might not work for other people.

I just gave my opinion simple as that. No need to get defensive about it.
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rfgamaral:
What? I didn't bash anyone nor anyone's opinion on the subject. Someone suggested me a thread to read as a reply to my question and I did just that. After reading the thread I came to the conclusion that this phone doesn't feel like the right choice for me and that's all I've stated. Please quote me where I was rude to anyone or where I bashed anyone's opinion.

A friend of mine has that phone, I don't really like it's build and it's way too big for my taste and hands.

The speakers are great but I don't really use them that much, just to show off the phone. So I don't think I'll miss them... As for the camera app, is it slower than the M7's? Cause that would really be bad to snap a quick picture...

I believe all that, it's just that a few things are still giving me second thoughts about the device.

Really? I thought it would be a little more than marginally better since it's a much higher capacity battery.

That's the thing... I have some issues with the phone in it's current state and they could be fixed with future updates, or not, I don't know that, so I don't know what to do. Well, I really wanted to get a new phone before a trip I'm taking next week. If I don't get one before than, I'll probably wait until the phone dies on me to buy a new one (or another trip comes along).

Thanks for your detailed opinion.

That's very good, thanks for the report.

But that's my problem right there. I'm an HTC fanboy, always been, but I'm not biased and I don't say that everything else besides the HTC phones are not worth it. I came to the Z5 for a reason, because I believe it's a contender to replace my HTC, it just has a few issues that bothers me a lot. I don't see what I want to see, I see what it's in front of me. Some issues that everyone knows they exist that are clearly a problem for me, but not for you and others. Nothing is perfect, everything will always have a problem or two, they might be significant to me, but not to you or anyone else. That's how it is.

I read that thread after creating this one when someone responded to me with the link for it, hadn't notice the thread before. And I didn't bash your opinion or anyone else's, I simply stated this phone was not for me. Where is that bashing anyone?

I just didn't like the "you see what you want to see" and the "Wasn't expecting other than this lol". I got defensive because comments like these, if you really think about it, are uncalled for.

To finish, I appreciate everyone's opinions and everyone is entitled to one and I respect them. I just don't think the issues that this phone has (at least for me they are issues) makes it a possible phone for me to replace my current one. That's all, not bashing anyone's opinions or that you don't have any complaints, that's fine :)
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phazonclash:
To sum up my experience so far with the Z5: Great hardware, sub-par software. I've encountered many bugs and issues with my Z5 I've never seen with my Note 3 and OnePlus One running Temasek's CM12.1 rom.

Sony needs to step up his game with its Marshmallow ROM
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rfgamaral:
Would you say that the software problems are due to Sony extra stuff or they are in the Android core? I mean, if there was an AOSP build for the Z5, would those bugs be gone or not really?
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phazonclash:
I couldn't say. I've disabled many built-in apps (pm hide) I don't use/need, and I'm still experiencing different issues:

-Bluetooth sometimes loses its connection in my car (didn't happen with my Note 3 and OnePlus One, so the culprit is the Z5 and not my car)

-Auto-brightness doesn't always work. At some point I just disabled it.

-I notice UI lag and stuttering in Lollipop (in the Settings menu, when I open the Notifications Center, when I open the Recent Apps menu, etc.) that I didn't have with my Note 3 and OnePlus One running CM12.1 (Temasek's)

-For a reason I can't explain, Wifi Thetering doesn't work and always fails when I enable it. It always worked with my previous phones, same provider

-Ultra Stamina Mode messed Android badly 3 or 4 weeks ago. After I disabled it and restarted my phone, many apps "dissapeared" and I couldn't open them anymore. That problem has been reported by many users in the last months, and I experienced it. I had to factory reset my phone

-From time to time to time, some specific apps that were perfectly stable on my previous phones running CM12.1 will freeze and require that I kill them. Most of the time they will work perfectly again when I re-open them, but in some cases I had to reboot the phone to be able to launch them again.

My phone isn't rooted, my bootloader is still locked and I'm not using any "mods". I'm on latest build (200) but the same issues were present in the previous builds too. I Factory Resetted it multiple times, tried different firmwares (Flashtool), etc. but it didn't resolve these issues.

Still love the phone (hardware wise it's a thing of beauty), but the Sony firmware is underwhelming and has issues. To be honest, at this point I just hope to see some AOSP roms in a near future to replace the stock rom. Let's hope Marshmallow will fix some of these issues.

I don't hate this phone, but in its current state, and based on my experience, I wouldn't recommend it.
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rfgamaral:
Thank you very much, that was very insightful :)
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spaha-bih:
Well I am very close to buy Xperia Z5, somehow it is the best choice because I am buying it from my provider.

But what bothers me is the camera (currently owner of the Lumia 1020), speakers (now I now that Z5 has dual front stereo speakers, but I want loud speakers, and I am very pleased with the speaker on the Lumia 1020) and last thing, since when I buy a phone, I am going to keep him at least for two years or even three I would like to see more custom roms. Now this is my first Sony device (eventhough my father had one or two over ten years ago :D ) I don´t know the situations with rom development with the Xperia devices, I had Galaxy S i9001 before I bought Lumia 1020 back then in 2013 I think, I would like to see custom stock roms, like Samsung has, or if it is possible root with locked bootloader? I am sorry but I forgot some things about android.

Also I hope Sony will release Marshmallow update right when I bought the phone.

Cheers
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lambo16:
Here's my opinion.

I think it's a nice phone. Well built, nice design, nice hardware.

However, I don't think it lived up to it's hype. The camera being the best in the market isn't that true.

It's a good camera, don't get me wrong, and I don't think any the S6 or 6S beat it but the Z5 doesn't beat them either. Low light performance is a bit dissapointing. Like I said, didn't live up to the hype.

Now software. I don't have any problems with the software whatsoever. I don't understand why people complain of stutters and such, it's buttery smooth for me.

Battery life. This is what most people buy Xperia devices for, right? Well the battery life certainly beats most flagships out there but again is not as good as Sony say and still a downgrade from the Z3. I feel like this has something to do with the SD 820.

Fingerprint scanner still needs a lot of improvement I.M.O. Most people say that it works fine but if my finger is a little bit moist it will not work.

I think the phone is worth the money, but at this time of the year all the new flagships are coming out so it might be worth waiting for them.
[Xperia Z5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PhoneMatrix:
Recording videos in 4k is a problem on this smartphone yet.

It gets very hot! :(
[Mogul, XV6800 General] hAvAAck:
Sorry, but I can't find this out anywhere. I want to change the color of the text that my softkeys correspond to, but I can't find any documentation on where these registry values are located. Any help is appreciated. This is only for the bottom "title bar" not the top, as I've already located the top.

Thanks.
[Mogul, XV6800 General] utexascg:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER>SOFTWARE>MICROSOFT>TODAY>KEYS

112 is the left soft key. if you want to customize the right soft key create a key called 113. Inside 113 create a new string value and title is "Default" and set the value as whatever you want to call it (ex. Messenger).

create another string value with the title as "Open" and set the value as the path to the executable file you're wanting to open.
[Mogul, XV6800 General] hAvAAck:
I had seen that reg tweak somewhere before, but it didn't address the color of the soft key text. I appreciate the response, but is there another value I can create that will change the color? Or a different area? I tried using UI tweaker but I'm blind, and someone pointed it out to me. Thanks.
[Ascend Mate 7 General] blitzkriegger:
This is a TWRP Backup of the Middle East Marshmallow OTA (B511) for TL 10 International Version:

Link:https://mega.nz/#F!i1QkjLrI

Decription key:!Rj6Iw_--xg8vABPi76NxeQ

Place the file within TWRP>BACKUPS folder in your SD card.

I did a factory reset via TWRP pior to backing-up and did not notice some of the apps (Most Google Apps and some stock Huawei apps like Compass, Mirror, etc.) went missing. So after restoring the back-up, you may restore those missing apps by doing the following:

1.) Download the Stock MM recovery

2.) Boot to fastboot mode then flash the stock recovery.

3.) After rebooting phone boot to stock recovery mode.

4.) On stock recovery choose "Wipe Data/Factory Reset". Once back on the phone will regain all lost apps/icons
[Ascend Mate 7 General] Serch1:
Hi! Link mega crashed! ?

Enviado desde mi JAZZ
[Ascend Mate 7 General] awzx_77:
link not working please check before post
[Ascend Mate 7 General] rakrakrak:
Link works.It must enter the decryption key: !Rj6Iw_--xg8vABPi76NxeQ
[Ascend Mate 7 General] Bassofondale:
Hi is only for TL10?
[Ascend Mate 7 General] Bassofondale:
Work very fine TL09
[Ascend Mate 7 General] pasil.pt:
I tried several times on TL10 international version, but when rebooting system always got stucked on huawei logo screen. Even waited long periods with no effect.

Any hint?
[Ascend Mate 7 General] nozeback:
did it work for you, because i tried it and had the same results, if it didn't, would you mind telling me what you did to make your phone work again please

---------- Post added at 02:34 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:18 PM ----------

did it work for you, because i tried it and had the same results, if it didn't, would you mind telling me what you did to make your phone work again please
[Ascend Mate 7 General] pasil.pt:
I can't remember well but i think I went into recovery (TWRP) to restore a backup

If you cannot go into twrp recovery either to restore a bckp or to flash another rom you need to go into the fastboot procedure, flashing img files from PC. But yoy can see this procedures on other threads
[Ascend Mate 7 General] peter_dizai:
urgently need Stock MM recovery,plz

hi,thanks for the guide,I urgently need Stock MM recovery and I cant Find it,unfortunately my device has no recovery and most unfortunately it was on MM,After boot loader unlock, I flashed another recovery which seems to be incompatible and now device has no recovery,tried more than 10 recovery but none leave me a chance,please upload a stock MM recovery if possible.
[Ascend Mate 7 General] chudy_85:
Here

https://mega.nz/#!w15xjZxL!0-alMyU4RgsxQ6K6FjOPZna-piQLXODLE0QarKtdVCg

Send from ?
[Ascend Mate 7 General] ogre del:
Looking for the stock browser apk from b331. Any chance someone has a link
[Ascend Mate 7 General] chudy_85:
Here https://mega.nz/#!Z9gjRJpR!iJmlBWIFRLhhDRIFu3--FoxkAj6Pc6wZCuajDZ7WKZw

Send from ?
[Ascend Mate 7 General] chudy_85:
New link thanks to [MENTION=7233018]Blue.Ember[/MENTION]

https://mega.nz/#!e1BmGBKY!xoGZ2s-AbUyg2khj98e-veul95_KU0esstyK4SmqtiM

Send from ?
[Elephone P8000] fillippe:
My Elephone P8000 had always been a bit slow to wake on pressing standby button. The same thing has occurred in stock room and Eragon. Does anyone have similar experience or know of any causes?
[Elephone P8000] stonedpsycho:
I have only had this problem on the stock rom but on the latest Eragon rom the wake is instant.
[Elephone P8000] fillippe:
OK. I've have flashed latest Eragon. I'll give a bit more time. But if it doesn't happen to you then it may be part of my setup.
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] Jaybee2016:
RK31888 unit Malaysk ROM -> What's the purpose of the speed button (rocket symbol)?

If I press the left button in the notification bar quick settings, the radio seems to reset. The car brand logo is shown immediately, but it never boots up. I have to reset it manually.

What's the purpose of this button? :confused:
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] michael08071984:
same here
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] halloj:
Clear the cache.
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] Jaybee2016:
Will try. But I still wonder what the button is for?
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] halloj:
It clears the cache. Cache is a part of the memory system in Android. Like RAM in a PC.

I.e. it clears a part of the memory system for a smoother ride.
[MTCB Android Head Units Q&A] Jaybee2016:
Thanks a lot! Didn't expect such a special function at that prominent position. Good to know!
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] MrHollywood:
Hello again everybody!

So today I have a way for you to modify themes that are from official samsung theme Store, the method is hard and it does take a lot of time so bare with me.

First of all you will need a rooted device, obviously lol

Also you will need to have, root explorer and xploer. Now for the stepes:

1- Open root explorer and go to Data > App

2- You will see many many folders for the theme, in my case I will modify something in the home screen so the folder should have your theme name and then home and the end like this ( minuhome.FranceParis.home-1 )

3- Open the folder you will find an apk called base.apk

3- copy that apk and paste To somewhere else

4- Open explore and find the copied Base.apk

5- modify the things you want, for an example I changed the folder Look, I took a folder icon, renamed it To .qmg instead of .jpg then renamed that icon exactly like the folder icon For the theme, then deleted That old One and replaced it with the new one. ( do the same with any icon you want in any base.apk)

6- Open root explorer, take the new modified base.apk and replace it with the old one, set permissions And then reboot.

If it didn't work On the first time then apply the theme then apply another theme And then apply the theme again.

This may not be the best way, but it's the only way to modify them so far.

Do not copy my method on any place without my permission!! Thank you.

Hit Thanks if you liked it! :)
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] Kill-Switch:
Thank you for the tutorial ��
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] MrHollywood:
My pleasure bro! Thank you For your feedback. :)
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] anildinc1:
Flash version please

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[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] MrHollywood:
I am sorry, what do you mean by flash version?
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] anildinc1:
to take to deal with direct flash

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[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] MrHollywood:
You can't flash them, that's a method to modify themes that come from samsung theme store for note 5 roms.
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] constantine23:
How to modify only wallpaper and other images in theme
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] MrHollywood:
Go to the same place, find a folder named your theme and then wallpaper like this ( minuhome.FranceParis.wallpaper ) you will find an apk inside called base.apk go inside, then go inside res And then you will find 3 wallpapers, one for homescreen one for lockscreen, one for Sview cover.
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] constantine23:
I know that as I have done that Before. ..But what about the settings page,contacts page And other pages wallpaper...How to change them...bcoz for changing wallpapers of homescreen,lockscreen and s-view we don't have to modify an apk we can simply change it Through settings...
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] MrHollywood:
You will find other folders but instead of having wallpaper at the end, you will see contacts, settings, home...etc
[Galaxy Note 3 Themes and Apps] eltoro5:
How to make icons stay?

Hello MrHollywood, looks like no one has posted here for a while but I'll give it a shot and hope for a reply/help. Your instructions are great, I've been wanting to know how to do this since my Galaxy S6.....I'm now onto an S8, rooted and rockin' an altered theme thanks to you! I have been able to use another themes icon pack with success, however when I use another theme's "InCallUI" (accept, reject, hangup icons in phone dialer) I cannot get them to stick. They will stay for a duration then default back to the Samsung goofy cartoon icons. I know that restarting phone triggers the reset but it also randomly triggers without restart. I can get them back by applying another theme then re-applying my theme....but a bit of a pain to have to do everytime!

What I have done, as per your instructions, is taken the "InCallUI.apk" out of theme's "base.apk", edited it and replaced. I have also placed that same edited InCallUI.apk into; Data > Overlays > Style > mytheme folder, then changed permissions to "rwx r-- r-w". I use these permission because all the other apk's in this folder use them.

Any advise or corrections in what I'm doing would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iman78:
Hi

PLEASE HELP ME FOR GOD SAKE

SO first install sqlite editor and scroll down to settings storage click it then open settings.db in this part open system(maybe global) and search for "fast" to see a record which related to fast charging and take a screenshot for me i realy need it.

I only want this record not any other solution plz

Plzzz do me this favour my darlings...
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rajada:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5zns7h9deev41q9/Screenshot_2016-01-26-12-20-05.png?dl=0
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iman78:
Tnx but not exist
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Silvers91:
Hi guys

when do you think we will see a new marshmallow update from Google? Will it be anytime soon? Will it be a major update fixing a lot of stuff, maybe changing something? Or will it be a little security update just like the previous one? And what do you think the version will be, 6.0.2, or will they jump to 6.1?

Thread is open for discussion/theories.
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ultraquantum:
I guess Marshmellow doesn't need too much of tinkering to begin with. So, we will be getting timely secuity updates from time to time along with small fixes as and when they are found. One thing is for for sure though, We ain't jumping to 6.1 directly.
[Nexus 5X Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Broken303:
i believe there is a reason not only the latest update was refered to as 'monthly security upate'. also we're beyond that point where every update increases the version number. chances are that we'll stay on 6.0.1, unless google includes a somewhat major feature update.
[General Questions and Answers] nibbo:
Please delete thread. Of no further use.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DroidFox73:
Ok, so my Galaxy S4 mini running Samsung software crashed couple of days ago: apps stopped working, decided to reboot, didn't seem to reboot, or accidentally used power off, turned it on, message 'Android update. Optimizing app x from y. This stopped halfway, and it went into a continuous reboot, showing the Samsung splash screen and the rebooting etc etc.

Some Googleing later I tried all kinds of stuff, but what basically seems to be the problem, is I don't have a recovery partition. When booting to recovery, it just show the blue 'Recovery booting...' screen, half a second or less of what seems to be Android bot loading something (too quick to see exactly), resulting with the Android bot lying on his side, red exclamation mark and 'No command'. And then it reboots.

I have tried all different kinds of flashing, with Samsung software from sammobile.com, I tried Cyanogenmod, but it all fails. Either loading the software fails or after loading a recovery image, it just will not boot to recovery.

Not sure what to do now, any hints are more than welcome..

Cheers,

DroidFox73
[Samsung Galaxy Ace 3] nassim20:
if you understand Russian please come help us to understand.

is this rom stable? is there any bugs?

http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=673267
[Samsung Galaxy Ace 3] nassim20:
no russian around :/
[Samsung Galaxy Ace 3] Sayrian:
Okay... I'm not russian... But I did use the translate webpage feature on Chrome (If you're not using Chrome... What have you been doing your whole life;))

Hope I helped.:good::o