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[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] shafiq01:
I do like Sony, and had them all the way back to Z1C, simply because they're so close to android stock experience. And as a phone vendor they're good also network wise. And don't the baby errors other fruity companies do.

but what makes me wonder is why Sony only go half hearted into the "open-source/encouraging devs" game.

I mean all the vendors nowadays use Sony cameras in their devices. So why keep on holding tight to that crippled drm bs. Common they don't give camera api2, they don't do competitive aperture levels as others and could keep on with these down sides. And then you decide to unlock an expensive device which gives green pictures.

Sony has never been good in low light photos, actually all vendors have issues with that. But as far as I read no other vendor is entitled to wipe drm due to special algorithm. I mean pixel, one plus, samsuck etc. Don't screw with those things after unlock of bootloader. Its gotten worse now.

Now I have a note8, oneplus 5, oneplus5T and no issue after bl unlock with camera, no hassle. More time can be used by devs to focus on achieving awesome stuff quickly.

Now I have XZ1C bl unlocked, and it was an awesome phone, but now it's lying around in my pc bag.

Testing another new 2018 Sony phone Hxxxx which I have to review on soon before my company can start consider selling it, and if it continues this way with making it more and more worse, then sony will loose many of their fans, and that's a pity. Now I'm using a oneplus5T as my daily driver and its awesome, but I still have one eye open on this thread and the one by modpunk in order to get my old daily driver XZ1C up and running with twrp, root, and drm.

OH and an eye also on rovo89 Hehehe... Who doesn't want xposed for oreo. But this hack and the previous one by TW and before him a Chinese guy I think, all this is sad that we have to that to have awesome phones. Sony better be careful, not loosing us power users, we are a minority but we're strong!!
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] ryanz999:
Can anybody see what he's talking about because i am at a complete loss they all look the f#@king same to me???
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] reksonn1:
1)"-the photos are not taken with the camera" NO, because I do not have 2 XZ Premium on hand, (you excuse me bro eh!) SO YES I HAVE A NOTE 3 (photo POST # 752, easier to draw the arrows with the stylus of the note to explain) which served me to: take a picture of those in the zip, just to show ONLY the operation of the sensors and that of MARIO with the explanation of what I take as a landmark for autofocus. . It's good to have the eye for it but regrettable not to have the same to make the difference between the 3 photos taken by the XZ Premium to the following posts which are: # 753 # 754 # 755 (yes I was in a hurry and I do not know the site very well, you will excuse me also about it ...) and yes I swear in court that these photos are taken by a xz premium dual band (G142) to each post (# 753 # 754 # 755) with a different firmware shown on each photo. that's for my first answer

2)There, I take my hat, I can not say anything, you know you in the field, you give me an explanation, I accept it and I tell you why not :rolleyes:....... (but why put "error "instead of" stop "so that the process goes to something else? :eek: (at the informative level I understood that)

3) the meaning of the sentence with the RED BAD LINE, I do not understand, since English is not my mother tongue, I rely on google translation but what is it? an expression ? a term ? I'm sorry I did not understand you on that. :D

I hope you understand the explanations photos about ir-tof, sensor and 3 others posts different (these must be analyzed ;))

here I post a photo with firmware .137 6 days ago, a photo that I consider normal for SONY. I challenge you to crush a photo of my bag with one of your photos and firmware. I tell you right now that I prefer my picture. (Especially zooming in with the 2.3 white hairs of the cat that we distinguish super good, super clean with a nice piqué and beautiful light and everything!)):good::laugh::D
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] Mangtas_666:
I have a question..can you summarize all the issues that your having with the camera? im confused you're posting a long paragraphs of things which i don't understand.forgive me im not that techie.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] pbarrette:
We don't have original photos to compare.

Your attached photos are all of different sizes:

#753 = 1840 x 1380 (2.54 MPixels)

#754 = 1676 x 1257 (2.11 MPixels)

#755 = 1530 x 1148 (1.76 MPixels)

- Because of the different sizes, we can't make direct comparisons for quality.

- They have all been resized. So we can't tell if quality differences are because of the camera, or because of the resize operation.

- None of the photos have EXIF data in them. So we cannot compare the camera settings used.

Your English is not a problem.

Try to remember to use simple, formal sentences so the translator will have an easier time.

Separate your thoughts into different paragraphs. It will make things easier for us.

I am simply saying that logcat information is meant for developers who can understand the content.

It's not as simple as RED == bad, GREEN == good.

Ultimately, this discussion has nothing to do with the DRM fix.

I have a locked bootloader on the XZ1c and see the exact same logcat errors, plus a few more errors that you don't have.

You should start a new thread about camera quality with different firmware versions.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] reksonn1:
-Thank you for advice on the English language.:good:

-Ah yes the Red, Green (there are also yellows!) I had not entered but yes yes I understand.:cyclops:

My photo tests do not have EXIF ​​data? :eek::confused::rolleyes:

I hope you're joking there, or you want to indulge me in disbelief in the eyes of all and that's not very correct dear friend. . :rolleyes:

Here are the EXIF ​​data, I use EXIF ​​VIEWER 2. (I do not know how you did to find 3 different sizes, you have a screenshot? It would be interesting to see that!):cool::good:
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] sToRm//:
3 different ISO = 3 different pictures ;)

But don't forget: It makes no sense to compare different firmware versions, because Sony changed their algos on each version. So it's normal that the pictures are different. Has nothing to do with the DRM patch. Some users reported to Sony that there are such problems in the current firmware.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] reksonn1:
ok, I'm going to make a reason, the future will tell.:angel:

I'm not going to pollute the thread anymore with my stupid questions, thanks to those who answered me and now place to future posts :good:

* for the 3 ISO, I do not know ..... he chose all alone.:rolleyes:

go I closed my photo problem, yeaaaah:eek::silly::cyclops:

New question, new base LOL, How do I check in logcat the smooth operation of a video under youtube in 4K? <---- JOKE!:D
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] pbarrette:
No screenshots needed.

Look at your posts.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] Beetle84:
Look at your post, your three photos have different mb sizes.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] reksonn1:
ah yes ok i just saw the problem.

I mail you one by one because the 3 are too big even zipped.

Here they are.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] reksonn1:
and I do not arrive for the 137, the size is too big even in super-compressed zip ...

EDIT:

problem solved, rename the APK in ZIP or RAR, sorry for the inconvenience
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] shafiq01:
There are two grains to right from Mario.

In first picture only the Grey grain is there

Next two pictures have both a Grey and a brown grain

All looks same perhaps the nougat one is more clear, I know focus point mentioned is the m. But if looking on the Grey background then nougat looks better.

But it's very small things in my eyes. And it probably subjective. Anyway it awesome that people such as storm and tw decide to change the rules in order for us to have unlocked phones with pictures as of locked phones.

So big applause for you
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] reksonn1:
yes, great to have passionate people who allow us to enjoy our phones, I agree

- (we will pass the answer of gray and brown grains):laugh:

-Yes that's also what I notice for the comparison of the three. NOUGAT goes in the lead as I say in my main description about it.

if I were DEV, I will try to find a way to put this deformed image option in the nougat's camera menu, that would be great :cool:
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] gengi:
Can anybody stop talking about those photos? This forum looks like " How to take a picture 101". If is not happy, then change. Stop spamming.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] reksonn1:
yes, as I said the debate is over, we move on to something else. THANK YOU. next!
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] shafiq01:
Well I see dedicated contribution by rekson to storm

Let op decide whether this is spam or not.

What's in it for you?
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] gengi:
What contribution? Says one thing, the photos are other. Let's stick. With real contributions. For me? Nothing. I don't even unlock my bootloader. I like to see the development and support it.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] FartyParty:
There's no contribution, just a bunch of spam about how he regret unlocking and are pissed about camera.

This has nothing to do with drmfix and storm already knew sony changed camera algorithm.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] shafiq01:
Take it easy farty, no reason to be rude at rekson.

He contributed, and okay sony make diff algos between versions. He's just putting in what he believed was a good point to shed light on. And okay perhaps it was over kill.

But still, people are also diff
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] FartyParty:
No? Did you see anything of what he wrote has anything to do with drmfix?

It was just "baaaw I unlocked BL screw sony baaw oreo camera sucks baaw."
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] juanpirulo:
[MENTION=8363210]sToRm//[/MENTION] any news for released this tool for xz with oreo? i can test if you need. cheers
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] schickel:
sToRm describes the problem 5 posts earlier...
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] ex3meex:
i will donate to you as soon as possible, when i will get some money to my parents :highfive:

CONGRATULATIONSSSSSSSS that's my boy :cool:
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] onkelfeix:
Tried it, was a bit confused since I wasn't able to get the kernel/fix etc zip files over from Windows through TWRP. Had to boot to a completely wiped stock rom, copy from there and then go back to TWRP.

Anyway it worked without any further issues, already forced Daydream compatibility which seems to work (currently no headset/bt controller to test at work ).
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] RS7Quattro:
For all who have updated to Oreo, I Downgraded my phone to 45.0.A.137 R7 Customized EU or DE (I can't remember)

First downloaded firmware with XperiFirm

Then flashed it with Newflasher and Rebooted.

After this five minutes of painfull waiting I do everything from the Guide and TA DA!!!! It works perfectly :good::D

Thank you for all!!!!
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] oneheart:
it working good on G8142, thank you very much！
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] Legdotus:
Hello, I've run into a problem. When I flash the kernel, I get some error saying

failed to mount '/cache' (Invalid argument)

failed to mount '/data' (Invalid argument)

I checked my version to be the 45.0.A.7.137 but it's not R7A, it's R13A. My phone boot loops now, though I can get into twrp. How can I fix this? Also, if I go to Mount in twrp and check Internal Storage, it is listed as 0MB.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] sToRm//:
Could be a problem with TWRP. Did you flash the twrp.img from the sToRm_restore_PACK?

Note: You can use the AndroPlus_v06_sToRm.zip (in my pack) instead of the other kernel that isn't your version.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] Legdotus:
Yeah, I did it as per your instructions. I tried both kernels, same error. I don't think it's normal that internal storage is listed as 0MB.

---------- Post added at 03:33 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:29 PM ----------

How would I go about restarting the whole process?
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] sToRm//:
Please try to use Newflasher and flash your firmware again. Maybe the partitions are f* up.

Then try the fix again with my instructions in the first post.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] Let1107:
last question before i start.... does i need to root for use DMRfix?
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] sToRm//:
Sure! If you have not unlocked/rooted you don't need a DRMfix.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] Legdotus:
Hmm, I wiped some **** on twrp, and my system reset apparently. So I got factory reset phone. Trying again.

---------- Post added at 03:52 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:49 PM ----------

[IMG="phone system version"]https://i.imgur.com/K7Jw2XQ.png[/IMG]
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] schickel:
Say "Thank You" and klick on the "THANKS" Button

Just a suggestion:

Many posts answered from sToRm are usefull, but no one klick on the "THANKS" button. He makes really a good job, many guys donated and a klick on the "THANKS" button doesn't cost anything.

So, let's push sToRm up! ;)

My limit for today is gone ;)
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] Legdotus:
I ****ING DID IT. **** YEEEEEEEEEEEAH!!! How much does a pizza cost? I'm donating :)
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] Let1107:
ok... when i try to flash the twrp.... it said cannot load... what can I do?
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] FartyParty:
Have you unlocked the bootloader or not?
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] Let1107:
never mind :D done :D tanks :D
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] Macs1209:
Nice work!

@ sToRm// : What do you think? The method will work on currently released 8.0? (I meaning your modification can apply to 8.0's kernel too?)
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] brockyneo:
Maybe a daft question but does this work if you boot loader unlock allowed is set to NO

Thanks
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] FartyParty:
If you haven't unlocked the bootloader this isn't needed.

If it says no then no, you cannot unlock your bootloader.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] Gairtial:
Really looking forward to it! The last major thing broken to get Treble builds running on the XZ1C seems to be the camera DRM.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] shafiq01:
Very interesting, I'm in for testing, have a spare XZ1C with unlocked BL
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] kevev:
My XZ1c is coming in Monday. I'm ready to test.:cool:
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] cameljockey1:
I am getting error no devices connected. Any suggestions been trying all day
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] Beetle84:
Is it possible to add these commits to the kernel so we can mod services.jar for superuser mod [MENTION=8363210]sToRm//[/MENTION] ?

https://xdaforums.com/crossdevice-dev/sony-themes-apps/guide-disable-signature-verification-t3666361
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] smorgar:
How is the sound effected by drm-fix? I remember om my z3c when unlock bl and applyed drm-fix the equalizer went bad. Bad in the way that when i changed the EQ in some way and listend to music it worked but when i fast forward the track the volume went way up for a second and then returned to normal and the playback keept on giong fine untill i jumped forward or back in a track again. This would ruin my hearing in the long run.

Anyone with ul bl and drm-fix who can try the audio settings?

Camera is not important to me, audio is.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] FartyParty:
No difference at all for me. Also I'm using Viper4Android which is absolutely amazing.

No reason to use crappy stock now with root, magisk, xposed :).
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] Pandemic:
dear [MENTION=8363210]sToRm//[/MENTION]

can you make this also for Xperia XZs to get root +drm on Oreo?

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[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] josephnero:
[MENTION=8363210]sToRm//[/MENTION]

Hi. would really appreciate a XZ Oreo patcher.thanks a lot
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] shoey63:
Unlikely. This patch doesn't modify the kernel at all, only the ramdisk and /system. Magisk smali patcher module might be the way to go for you.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] cameljockey1:
I have a USA version dual SIM xz premium and I updated to Oreo then put the European version to get fingerprint working. All was well. Then unlocked bootloader and could not get this program to work. It says error no device connect. What am I doing wrong? I return the one I got and got a new one. Told Best buy that it takes green picture. I only had it for one day so it looks like it was Sony fault. Lol
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] ishemes:
Not cool dude...
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] FartyParty:
And now that phone will be sold to some poor customer because you decided to be an asshole.

It wasn't even the phones fault but a user error.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] cameljockey1:
I am sorry you guys feel this way. No one else will get that phone as it is established as a defective device. It will be return to Sony. I panicked when I couldn't get the program to work so I did what anyone else would. I didn't pay a restocking fee so it's deemed defective. I followed all steps to the t. Still could not getting working even on 2 different computers. Sorry again if I upset anyone here.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] FartyParty:
Speak for yourself. Unlocking booloader, rooting isn't a right you as the consumer have, you lose the warranty the moment you unlock.

You returned a fully working phone under lies that it was defective, nice morals you have.

Good luck.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] ishemes:
Ehmmm... Nope... I would never do that...
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] shafiq01:
Guys, take it easy.

So what if he solved the issue by swapping the phone

Sony repair will restore it. It makes me puke all over when I see such judging comments.

Also I don't see any clear message on Sony bootunlocker page stating that after bl unlock pictures will turn out green.

I mean their page seems like it's not maintained since Z3 line.

"Certain pre-loaded content on your device may also be inaccessible due to the removal of DRM security keys. For high-end devices running recent software versions, for instance Xperia Z3, the removal of DRM security keys may affect advanced camera functionality. For example, noise reduction algorithms might be removed, and performance when taking photos in low-light conditions might be affected. The secure user data partition may also become inaccessible, and you will not be able to get any more official software upgrades if you unlock the boot loader."

Lets not make this thread into a debate about wrong and right. And finding opportunities to find other peoples" wrongs" and get "thanks" for nothing contributive.

Earn the thanks for proper things not bs.

I'm sorry now I have to puke again :laugh:
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] Mackay53:
Sony gives you enough warning if you bother to read.....
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] shafiq01:
Of course I bother, my point is that it's outdated.

And personally I dont have an issue, hence I don't buy my sony's :D
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] ishemes:
I responded because he seemed proud and was bragging about how he exchanged the phone by claiming the phone was defective even though he broke it. Now that he has a new phone he is asking for help so he is about to unlock this new phone again and he will try to fix this one. So why bring back the other phone and screw the store and / or Sony if he intends to break the new phone as well? Just try to fix the first phone!

And then he writes everybody would do that. Like it is a normal thing to not take responsibility for his own faults and fraud companies out of money. This honestly really irritates me. It is because these kind of fraudulent warranty claims that we pay more for our hardware and insurance payments.

Anyway... Sorry for making you puke. And sorry for these off topic comments. Everybody have a good one. Cheers!
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] shafiq01:
Honestly, maybe he put in "lol" in the end and that made it look like he was bragging and was proud. But I do not read it like that. And fraud is maybe to harsh to say. I think he had good intentions, he actually asked for help earlier in the thread. Now I'm trying hack my XZ1C. I whish I could patch the kernel image like in "old" days. :D
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] sToRm//:
I'm back in. Next step is XZ, XZs and XZ1/c... There is only a problem with Verity (I think) which has to be fixed. There are the same problems with current Magisk on the new devices with Oreo. I think it's the same problem at all. I will try to patch relevant files, to get a working kernel and DRM fix. The fix is ready, but actually we are getting bootloops, caused by the kernel. XZ should be no problem. I will get this done next days.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] sToRm//:
Disable your firewall and check for the right drivers for your device.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] Pandemic:
[MENTION=8363210]sToRm//[/MENTION]

you get my pm bro?

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[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] shafiq01:
I tried modpunk's twrp for XZ1c with november security patch and it actually works :D and I can confirm something with magisk doesn't. It just bootloops

And when flashing supersu or superuser it gives "error 127 and digest fail with unzip error, bad recovery etc."

I managed to root it temporarily with the OP5/T method, the Angela method, meaning simply pushing magidk manually, but something screwed it up. If dm-verity is disabled it give another warning about phone corrupt haha but it boots up. It's gonna be headache with Android P

Anyway, I'm looking forward to test it on the XZ1C sooner or later, thx for all your efforts man!
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] juanpirulo:
thanks, if you need a tester for xz just make me know. also there is a new method for xz oreo by chinese people you can a have a look here. https://xdaforums.com/xperia-xz/how-to/guide-stock-kernel-twrp-safetynet-patch-t3710781
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] Gairtial:
I tried Magisk on XZ1C and as you said, it bootlooped. Only on the release version though. On the beta it booted but there were SELinux issues: https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=74318714&postcount=4357
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] FartyParty:
Then he shouldn't make comments about scamming a store.

He's a scammer and a fraud. I will judge him accordingly.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium Guides, News, & Discussion] sengakae:
does anyone know why magisk hide turns itself off every now and then? it's messing with my td app and I have to reinstall it to use the tap. (not sure if this is a magisk problem or from this fix)