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[Device Reviews and Information] Winnie&Co:
Hi !!

I agree, this phone isn't the most intuitive at all !!

About your call settings, you can find it in "Phone", hit the verticals dots in the search bar, "settings", "calling accounts", "XXXX-your-operator", and there you are !!! :D

Hope it will help you !

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Little question for all the people who have this phone : can we compare all the "about phone" informations ?

Mine are :

Baseband version : MOLY.LR9.W1444.MD.LWTG.MP.V16.P3, 2015/11/19 16:14

Kernel Version : 3.10.65 root@chenxd #1

Build Number : LMY47D test-keys

Custom Build Version : TDC_1512_20151218_V2.26

I just sent a message to Kingo Root in order to ask for a model support, and I hope everyone have the same versions.... :D
[Device Reviews and Information] Winnie&Co:
Hi there,

I just broke my glass screen (bad gravel, bad!), and after many tears, a light switch on in my mind :

Vchok is just a replica of Snopow.

So, I just order a glass screen replacement, and I'm waiting for it. I will tell you if everything is okay, but it will be nice if we can use these parts !
[Xperia Z5 General] TedNall:
Hey guys,

I am thinking of buying one of this mobiles. They both seems very good, got 3GB of RAM, big display (i want some bigger phone), but.... I am wondering which one have better display and which one got better battery. This is probably the most important for me.

If someone have more experience and use some of this i would appreciate your thinking.

Thanks in advance.
[Xperia Z5 General] PlasmaX1:
Note 4

Luckily for you, I've owned both phones since the month each got released.

Note 4:

Pros- bigger battery ( I've noticed slightly longer battery life)

- outstanding screen

- Pen

- Removable battery

- dont need to turn off phone to remove micro sd

- Ir blaster

- plethora of cases/accessories

Cons:

- Phone sometimes feels cumbersome to use

- Touchwiz sucks

Xperia z5

Pros:

- Sexy as hell

- Waterproof

- Normal screen size

- Camera button

Cons:

- Back gets warm pretty quick

- Doesn't have any of the pros listed for note 4

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Get the note. Every time I use my note 4 for something I notice how much crisper the screen is, and I hate not having that on the Xperia. Samsung did a really good job packing a ton of features in the note 4 and the screen will keep it future-proof longer than the Xperia. I actually prefer the note 4 to note 5. ( buy the unlocked version and install note 5 rom on it, you'll get the note 4's removable back + new software)
[Xperia Z5 General] josephnero:
I also owned both and I should say Z5 screen is way superior to note 4.at least mine.I still have note 4 and can answer questions if you have any.

PS:note is easier to root and flash CM if you care.I had to return my Z5 because of lack of root for locked BL.I'm back to my Z2 and N4 is collecting dust.lol.
[Xperia Z5 General] TedNall:
RE

Man,

Thanks a lot for this brief.

I always think that Sony have better display, probably because I am a big fan of Sony. But now when I see that Note wins bots display and battery I will for sure go for Note 4.

Just one more thing, because i am not that kind good with android and software. When you installed new custom rom to Note 4 you had no bugs or something like that? I found on forums that it can be very bad doing this so i need your opinion?

Thanks in advance!
[Xperia Z5 General] TheWarKeeper:
Lol, comparing an OLED display vs any LCD display and pretending that LCDS can be on par or better than OLED displays is so dillusional its actually funny!

I would still choose Z5 but for different reasons: 1 performance, note 4 has a weaker cpu and gpu, z5 camera is more sophisticated than note 4 camera except z5 camera has no OIS and lacks several manual functions, but me and many others can live with that, Z5 has real radio, Z5 has water proof support and z5 has dedicated camera button.
[Xperia Z5 General] TedNall:
Re

So many different opinions.

@ TheWarKeeper

Can you please tell me your experience with battery. I need it for my job and i am using a lot of calls, email-s, social networks.... Can it last at least one day.
[Xperia Z5 General] EQ2000:
It's not black and white. LCDs can and tend to be able to display proper white (sometimes you need to tweak it via white balance settings but YOU can have it unlike OLEDs) while OLEDs tend to have difficulty with it and never truly achieves proper whites and you have to calibrate with time due to OLEDs organic nature. But in contrary OLEDs displays deep blacks due to switching of the organic pixel (LCDs cant switch of becouse the R G B channels are just filters on top of the backlight). White is more important though as that is what is used most in apps, themes and so on. And due to the OLED being organic the blue, red and green pixel component each have a life length and blue has less than the other 2 which means having bright/white things displayed on your OLED would shorten the blue components life length faster resulting in uneven colors on the screen, "burn-ins" and it just gets worse with time.

LCDs dont have this problem becouse the only thing you lose with time is the brightness due to the backlight getting worn and so you can compensate by increasing brightness intensity. And Sony TFT and IPS LCD for their Z1+ lineup comes with Triluminos which adds an extra component to help the pixels and extends the color range to 85% of Adobe RGB 1998 ICC color profile which is far more than a regular LCD can do giving rich and accurate colors that without problems rivals OLEDs while still being proper and true to life without typical OLED oversaturation. Triluminos also helps with the black but cant rival OLEDs 'pixel switching off' blacks.

Now latest OLEDs from Samsung does better than older but they still tend to oversaturate since they also can display beyond standard sRGB color scheme that is the standard but cant really accomodate to it like an LCD with Triluminos can due to its organic nature and how it works.

You want precision that holds for years and proper white you go with Z5 but if you want deep blacks, "popping" colors and less precision you go with OLED. OLEDs also have better response time but that would mostly only be of importance if you play games at fast framerates.
[Xperia Z5 General] mark_q07:
In my opinion, you should also consider the UI of Samsung and Sony because TouchWiz (Samsung UI) is notorious for lagging as months passed by and when multitasking, while Sony UI is always smooth and rarely lags. :good:
[Xperia Z5 General] CLShortFuse:
I had a Note 4 before getting a Z5P. Stock Samsung is garbage. You have to look into AOSP/CM for the Note 4 and it may not be 100% stable. The Note 4's camera is definitely though. Z5 camera is only good on paper but in real world situation Note 4 wins easily. Z5 has way too many pixels can't produce a good image unless the source is extremely well lit.
[Xperia Z5 General] TheWarKeeper:
The problems with white balance for oled displays are long gone, those issues were only present in the first few oled screens ever produced because back then the organic material for red and green were degrading at a different level than the blue.

My Galaxy S6 has the purest white any LCD dreams of and also a much bigger color gamut, also it has a fraction of the pixel response time of any gaming tft lcd out there producing less ghosting and blurring when in motion, on top of the pure blacks as you acknowledged also.

As for the over saturation, the oversaturation comes by default to boast the contrast capabilities of the oled screens, normally found in test units, my galaxy s6 for example came out of the box with such a toned down saturation that nobody would even dare to call it an OLED, but anytime i want to enable eye popping colours i just change the color scheme from the display settings itself.

Theres no reason to vote for a LCD anymore, except if you are concered about buying a monitor/tv thats always ON and not bothered with image quality, then LCD is best as it doesnt suffer from burn in issues, or color degradation, but frankly thats just about it.

EDIT: i also forgot to mention that the best LCD screen ive ever come across in any phone was the Xperia Z1 Compact screen, perfect color reproduction at everything, which put Xperia Z2, Xperia Z3 (both normal and compact) and Xperia Z5(Again, both normal and compact) screens to shame.

So for me the Xperia Z5 screens are dissapointing and white balance by default is over the top, too much RED, to calibrate it properly youll loose other screen abilities.

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The phone should last a day as long as you dont push it and dont enable brightness to maximum all the time.

If it doesnt well, you can always get a pocket charger as the competition of z5 will last only a slightly more time which is negligible.

I would choose the Xperia Z5 over the note 4 anyday though, its a great phone and it wont dissapoint any average user.

Xperia Z5 only dissapoints enthusiasts like myself but not because of its quality, quality is great, but because of DRM and locked features which makes no sense beying locked.
[Xperia Z5 General] CLShortFuse:
What are you guys talking about? Note 4 has one of the best screens on the market. Near perfect white balance (6562K) and 99% Adobe RGB. Just use Photo Mode. Adaptive Display mode is over saturated but optional.

http://www.displaymate.com/Galaxy_Note4_ShootOut_1.htm

Also color burn is an old issue from Galaxy Nexus devices and earlier. Samsung displays have burn-in protection.

Moving from Note 4 to Z5P was definitely a downgrade in color accuracy and white balance, but upgrade in pixels. I honestly thought I would care more, but I actually don't. I rather have no screen door effect in VR and higher resolution. Now if Samsung released a 4K AMOLED screen...
[Xperia Z5 General] EQ2000:
They still suffer from uneven colors and shades over the display.

The whites are though life dependant and Triluminos widens the color gamut to 85% of Adobe RGB 1998 ICC profile.

Interesting. So kind of cheating for tests/demoing regarding readability as you cant have both maximum readability and accurate colors. :eek:

The highlighted part goes against your first comment. All 3 color channels degrade independantly of each other based on what is displayed and how colors are used. Blue is still used the most.

I have not tunned the Z5c LCD but it does actually for my unit use to much blue. Though my Z1 has near perfect white balance with minimal tweaks aswell as boosting impressive contrast, top notch color reproduction and good viewing angles. For being a TFT LCD with Triluminos it is quite close to IPS LCD regarding viewing angles except when brightness on displayed material goes above a certain threshold but immensly better than a regular TFT LCD. I have a JDI panel btw.

Strangely enough it either goes for to much red or blue. Maybe panels come with different "qualities" and/or different assembly fabrics and quality. As long as you dont have to 'mute' a color channel to much to get good whites it should be OK else you lose brightness and contrast.

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Aint as clear cut as you think regarding the camera.

http://www.manilashaker.com/sony-xp...v10-galaxy-note-5-nexus-6p-camera-comparison/
[Xperia Z5 General] CLShortFuse:
The camera is really bad in real world situations. Despite what you read in reviews that only test extremely bright or extremely dark environments, taking photos at home or indoors is pointless. People's faces will look like they were smeared with peanut butter. http://imgur.com/0OhbSaq

It performs worse http://imgur.com/Pfd76nR than my Note 4 http://i.imgur.com/wOvr0kl.png in indoor lighting, which means the camera was a straight-up downgrade for me. I don't bother trying to take pictures unless they're daylight or I can use flash which, to make matters worse, is still extremely weak. This all seems like extremely crappy postprocessing smudging pixels together and there's no way to turn it off since there's no RAW support.
[Xperia Z5 General] EQ2000:
I own the Z5c and cant relate to what you are sayinh although it sure needs some white balance and algorithm tweaking. In your photo comparision it looks like the Z5 photo was taken with zoom and possibly older firmware vs just a crop from the Note 4. Without ISO and shutter speed info it's also quite pointless "comparision". Exif would show it zoom was used and much more. I can say though that not even with ISO 6400 in low light does my Z5c produce such bad image quality. Only with zoom.

And the test I linked to is properly done with information and different scenes with different lighting conditions unlinke the "tests" by random people on the interwebs posting photos without exif data nor information and croppings where you have no orignal fullsize photo as reference either. Who has more credibility, that test or your "test"? Anyway it's pretty much settled in stone that the Z5 is better.
[Xperia Z5 General] CLShortFuse:
And you missed the point...

The point is, these are real world samples. The first shot was me at a wedding. Yeah, it's zoomed, but not the point. The point is the heavy smearing of pixels the post processor does, ruining the quality, just because to Sony all noise is bad.

The second was my Note 4 and Z5P both taking a picture at the exact same distance of something I have at home in dim lighting. The Z5 is straight up worst and if you can't see that, that's some serious " fanboyism" there. And yeah, my Z5P running 6.200, so no, it's not an "older firmware." You don't need EXIF data to see the point I'm making. In dim lighting, the Z5 severely underperforms. But you rather believe my sharing of these photos is part of some conspiracy to maliciously fake a comparison so the Note 4 is better go right ahead.
[Xperia Z5 General] TheWarKeeper:
Ok well it makes me think that you didnt own a proper OLED phone, maybe you did own a bad one in the past and the screen was crap (defective).

First of all, OLED screens do not result in color saturation shift when degrading because the software inside their panel drivers automatically correct the color shifting, (my galaxy s2 still has top notch colors).

As for the cheating, i have no idea what you mean by that, you can saturate the colors or desaturate them at your will, i dont know what cheating is involved because there isnt any cheating at all xD

I have tuned my Xperia Z5 screen and i had to keep red to minimum and blue and green almost to max to get a proper white balance, doing so, resulted in severly desaturated colors and bad luminosity (as the panel software disallows maximum brightness values when colors are calibrated).

I never liked the Xperia Z1 screen, a small tilt resulted in horrid washed out colors, Xperia Z1 Compact is a completely different beast with the best IPS panel ive ever seen in any phone 1800:1 contrast ratio (native)!

As for that complaint in the note 4 forums, its obvious that the user of that phone suffers from the typical defective screens that samsung fails to stop at production, uneven color or tints of any kind on the screen is not a characteristic of an oled screen, its a characteristic of a defective unit, i have to change 2 galaxy s6 untill i got 1 with perfect colours, i had to change 1 galaxy s2 to get the good screen and the galaxy s4 i got it with perfect color reproduction from start.

Finally, LCD screens were always the worst type of screens in term of image quality and color fidelity, even at professional image editing level which means wasting thousands of dollars on a proper IPS LCD screen, professionals were never really satisfied with its color reproduction and instead choose to use old school CRT monitors (myself included).

The only reasons why LCDs are successfull is because of good marketing, they suck at color accuracy, they suck at pixel response time and they suck at image definition. (My OLD Sony CRT ran 75hertz at 2048x1536)

It was a joy to use in any type of situation, movies, playing games and image editing software.
[Xperia Z5 General] EQ2000:
You still lose luminosty and or/color representation quality when correcting the other channels to lowest common denominator uniformly. S2, S3 and played with S4 and S5. The former ones wher just horrible. You could almost spot the pentile matrix design and colors overly saturated. "Eye bleeders"! :laugh:

Contrast ratio tests which is what is mostly looked at compared to proper color output.

You mean you had to set green and blue close to 255? That sounds like your screen is way off. I might look into mine later and see how much it needs to be tweaked via the white balance setting.

Well then that was the AUO panel. They made an ugly one by having different panels. I got the good one, JDI and I can tilt it and have very close results to that of an IPS LCD as long as the displayed graphics aint overly bright (lots of white) where it then performs worse but then I am talking about extreme viewing angles. Btw OLED also looses quality when tilting at sides and has 'color switching' and black suffers (if pixels aint switched off).

Still better than having uneven colors and blotches. Nothing worse than having a display that looks like a CRT that has been abused with a magnet (not as bad though but still!). :cool:

Well I did wait for the longest before switching to LCD from a CRT. Loved my Sony Trinitron monitor. Atleast it failed with pride. :cool:

Right.. 3 on a row, 5 on a row, most/all retail store display units.. Then going by what you say Samsung has horrible QA for their OLED displays and you are in for a ride in the lottery. Tons of people in the 95 page thread going through multiple units all with the pink/green blotches with varying severity. Pretty few getting a rplacement display that has none. All showing some color hues and some reporting it going worse by time. You even got a video showing differences in white point color to at same display color settings!

[YOUTUBE]hIpPit_zYgc[/YOUTUBE]

I even checked at local mobile phone store and S6, Note 5 units had color blotches on a white background. Some better some worse but still there.

Just Google it.

https://www.google.com/search?q=s6+...en&ie=UTF-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=91W2VuCDMseyO9WDq7gB

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s6-edge/help/pink-tint-near-screen-t3081656

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s6/general/getting-replacement-s6-due-to-screen-t3074865/page95

https://www.buyfromwhere.com/galaxy-s6-the-ugly-truth-about-its-screen/

Lots of users getting this with hard evidence to prove it. #Pink#Gate :eek:
[Xperia Z5 General] gm007:
You guys looks like one work at Samsung and one at Sony ??
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Paduretu Ionut:
I'm not asking for a release date or something like that, but is Android 6.0 development dead for our beloved Z?

I know [MENTION=4329876]Olivier[/MENTION] was doing some progress with cm13 but the thread is closed now.

Cheers !:)
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raShMan777:
AFAIK that's still the current status http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=64894392#post64894392
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pyramid Head:
Resurrection Remix 6.0.1 is up and its based on CM13
[Micromax Canvas A1] yagnesh97:
Hey guys,

I have Canvas A1 device which I had upgraded to Marshmallow but later on i flashed CM 12 LP. Then I tried to get back on Official Stock LP by using flash files from SP Tool it was successful but my phone is not booting up!

I flashed it on Download Mode! Now what should i do help me?
[Micromax Canvas A1] madhurajkumar:
can u boot in bootloder?

if yes, flash a custom recovery and apply this nandroid to go to stock rom, replace your custom recovery with stock and lock your bootloder to return to officiall mode of your phone.

http://xdaforums.com/canvas-a1/help/dg-downgrade-to-stock-kitkat-4-4-4-t3070721
[Micromax Canvas A1] nilesh15:
not able go into recovery plz help. but gets detected only for flashing
[Micromax Canvas A1] OnlyEverAscending:
If you have a working fastboot in your pc then follow these steps:

1. copy compatible recovery.img into the fastboot folder.

2.go to bootloader and type this command: fastboot boot recovery.img . :)
[Micromax Canvas A1] rahulrajvr:
mee too facing this same situation... :\ please help me
[Micromax Canvas A1] 11019:
update sp flash tool and try again. it solved mine i hope it helps. :)
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leebo:
Several days ago I noticed the My T-Mobile app that lets me know how many minutes and texts I've used was not running. When I went to launch it, it gave me an error: "sorry, this version is not compatable with your device ", or something like that. It appears the app was" upgraded ".

Several reviewers in the play store are complaining of the same thing.

My phone is stock - no Root or anything.

Has anyone heard anything about this?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ma99ie82:
My Nexus 6p top speaker grill fall out suddenly. I never drop or knock my phone at all. Anyone has this issue?
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nobnut:
I've never dropped or knocked my phone either.
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ma99ie82:
You have this issue too? Sadly mine can't snap it back, still fall out once flip the phone
[Nexus 6P Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bilatche:
UP!

I'm also looking for this grill.

Any solution?
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shadow on the wall:
Hey guys,

I haven't used my z1 for a long time, but now I would like to give it to a friend.

Problem is that there still is some messed up CM ROM installed and I think a stable and fast ROM is better for a "normal" user.

Can you suggest me a good ROM? I'm asking here because I lost the overview of all the ROMs that are available for the Z1.

First priority is that it is stable so my friend won't have any problems later.

Many Thanks in advance!
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tomascus:
Stock :) just flash one of those .236 FTFs on it.
[P3300, MDA Compact III  upgrading etc.] Underwaterdub:
Hello everybody,

I've Sim-Unlocked my Compact-III through imei-check.co.uk. Now it crashs every 5 minutes and isn't able to reboot.. I've tried everything from a new WM6 Rom to the old WM5 Rom from T-Mobile. The issue is that my warrianty is lost if they realize that it was unlocked by imei-check.co.uk.

Is there any way to re-enable the simlock?

Has anybody experienced a similar situation?

Will T-mob find out that it's unlocked?

What else can I do?

Pleeeeease help.
[P3300, MDA Compact III  upgrading etc.] neilhhardy:
1.Take it into a shop and say, my phone dont work, just act stupid and let them send it off for repair.

2. contact Imei and ask for there help, they sold you a product and it screwed your phone, they can be liable.

3. throw it on the floor and call your insurance up and say your kids were playing with the phone. (maybe call insurance up first, then if they say ok then throw it)
[P3300, MDA Compact III  upgrading etc.] Underwaterdub:
any further hints?
[P3300, MDA Compact III  upgrading etc.] Gajet:
In reality T-Mobile won't care that it's SIM unlocked, and won't check.

If you can flash the original T-Mobile ROM back on so it looks untampered with they will just honour the warranty.
[P3300, MDA Compact III  upgrading etc.] Underwaterdub:
I just flashed it back to the original ROM and brought it to T-mob Austria (bought it there).

I hope they won't check..

Just in case I get a new device, will it have Netlock???
[P3300, MDA Compact III  upgrading etc.] Gajet:
Pretty likely , yes, sorry.
[P3300, MDA Compact III  upgrading etc.] MaskedMarauder:
Keep any documentary evidence of the exchange if they do issue an new unit as IMEI check may be willing to help if you ask them nicely! They are a reputable company and as such they live or die by their customer relations.
[P3300, MDA Compact III  upgrading etc.] Underwaterdub:
I'm still waiting for the call from tmobile. Seems like they haven't noticed the simlock. I think they would have noticed me if they found out about it... So I'm still hoping...