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[Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] mhaha:
This was a new feature implemented on a recent update to the home launcher app (11.0.A.0.8), and since I updated it, I have this function in .374.

It's not tied to the firmware version.

EDIT: I updated the app through Google Play, they have a list of changes posted for the new launcher. Wish they'd do the same for firmware updates...
[Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] nospherato:
Hm, strange.. Mine xperia home version 10.2.A.3.25 says it's up to date. Also the changelog only says "bugfixes". (inside "more" only generic stuff like "full integrated google-feed etc.)

Hm, okay.. inside the home settings it says 11.0.A.0.5
[Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] Didgesteve:
Installed on my phone last night. It seems very smooth, I can't find any problems.

Bluetooth problems I had with connecting to things seems to have resolved. Previously the phone wouldn't automaically connect to a device, even though it was the only thing in range.

The camera fix is the most obvious thing, this will be new for people who didn't get the 47.1.A.5.51

Monitoring battery life now to see how it compares.
[Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] quack3d:
Phone just rebooted, so the new firmware didn't fix that.
[Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] billbond4:
I still have Bluetooth issues, i.e it wont automatically start playing music but FF/REW seems a bit better, but i still get no track names on my cars inbuilt head unit.
[Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] Nouatik:
Seems a Little bit smoother imo. Still apps still freezes from time to time. Seems like battery is back to normal again. If u experience batterydrain anomaly, try updating play service to .51 Beta from apkmirror.
[Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] bikoman1:
So far .49 seems good, the battery seems to be much improved ?
[Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] pbarrette:
All,

I would note that it appears (per screenshot here) that you can't downgrade to a previous version once you've installed the 47.1.A.8.49 firmware.

I suspect they have enabled Qualcomm's bootloader versioning which prevents the system from booting when it detects the older version.

This probably means that there is a serious and potentially easy to exploit vulnerability in the previous versions of the bootloader. Note the many closed source Qualcomm vulnerabilities listed in the December ASB.

It's possible that someone will eventually discover what those vulnerabilities are and come up with a way to root without unlocking the bootloader.

Personally, I'm staying away from this update for a while.

EDIT: I was wrong. See below.
[Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] mhaha:
The update screen has always had that disclaimer though, for each and every update I've ever received - and I've owned nearly every Xperia compact.

If you only go the official route, downgrading was never an option.

If they implemented a way of preventing one from flashing an older firmware even when using third party tools like Flashtool or newflasher, then that indeed is news, and bad news at that. But the screenshot is largely irrelevant.
[Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] windox33:
unfortunately I don't receive any updates for mine it's still on "47.1.A.2.374"

When I'm conected to WLAN and search for new updates via "Settings --> System --> Softwareupdate" it tells me that I already have the newest updates installed :(
[Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] pbarrette:
You're correct and I was wrong.

A user was trying to downgrade and was getting boot-loops and another user pointed out the statement in the ROM.

I knew that there were a lot of closed source Qualcomm updates and assumed that Sony implemented version rollback prevention.

They did not.

I was wrong.

I pulled the attestation certificates from all of the firmware versions released thus far and compared them.

They are identical.

CN = Yoshino com-2 Attestation Cert
OU = 01 0000000000000001 SW_ID
OU = 02 0005E0E100010004 HW_ID
OU = 03 0000000000000000 DEBUG
OU = 04 0001 OEM_ID
OU = 05 00020000 SW_SIZE
OU = 06 0004 MODEL_ID
OU = 07 0001 SHA256
O = Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
L = Lund
S = N/A
C = SE

Note that the "SW_ID" is the bit used to implement rollback prevention and is actually supposed to be read in two parts:

0000000000000001

The red bit is the version number and the green bit is the image identifier.

Essentially, the version number hasn't changed, so we can still roll-back to a previous version.

The user with the problem likely has some other problem unrelated to bootloader versioning.

I apologize for the misinformation.
[Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] Tron510:
Do you know how i might go about troubleshooting the problem? I'm grateful for newflasher and can follow directions pretty well, but obviously something went slightly wrong. Is it my own fault for not flashing over my user data? it worked fine when i flashed from .51 to .7.1.
[Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] Im_A_Decoy:
I had the issue with not getting the track names as well. Solved by changing AVRCP to version 1.4 in developer options and then re-pairing (forget the device and then pair again) with my Kenwood head unit. Media controls also work fine.
[Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] Dany XP:
I have a Pioneer and I don't have any problems, regardless avrcp version
[Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] Jeddix:
Thanks so much for this. This workaround fixed the title display in my Hyundai :).
[Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] nospherato:
Does anyone of you also get worse battery run times? Mine phone is (only 30min sot) in standby for 1d14h and already at 45%... Standby showing 17% consume, Android OS12%, mobile standy 8% and (RCS) phone 7% which all together seems pretty much... Before this update I got runtimes for 4days+, not I already have to charge after 3 days.

(I did not uninstall or install any new apps.)
[Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] lemassykoi:
With this version, I can't install Google Now Launcher from Play Store, it says not compatible
[Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] kevev:
Yup same thing here. You can fund the google now launcher at apk mirror site. The Now launcher caused weird issues on my device so I ended up removing it.
[Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] lemassykoi:
I finally installed "Oreo Launcher : Pure Android" from AOSP STUDIO Inc.
[Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] Didgesteve:
Trusted devices broken

Same Trusted Devices issues remain, how disappointing.

Settings\Lock Screen & Securtiy\Trusted devices page keeps turning white with no info on it.

You can fix this buy turning off Smart Lock (google) as a Trust Agent, restart phone, turn it back on and bingo, the page is back.

More annoying is that devices you put as trusted, only stay that way for a few days.

More Flakey coding from Google, shocker.
[Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] SlikToxic:
I don't know if this is only on 47.1.A.8.49 or also below that version, because I just noticed it on .49.

Proximity sensor light always on when you set display to Adaptive Brightness. Also it always on when you have internet traffic. It's visible in a dark room to see proximity light.

It never happened to my xperias or other phones, so I guess this is a bug?
[Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] mhaha:
If you're referring to the faint red light emitting from the bottom of the oval sensor area, that has always been there, not new to .49
[Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] Dany XP:
I was about to post about the same thing.

Apparently One Plus users have the same problem but I think they recently have this bug fixed.

What about us...?
[Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] jrbmed08:
That Smart Lock bug drives me insane. I hope they fix it soon. It happens every time I reboot, so if I don't remember to deactivate the trust agent before rebooting, I have to reboot again after deactivating it.
[Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] Dany XP:
In my case, it deactivates randomly, I don't need to reboot it. If I have it working in a boot, sometimes after some time it goes blank, without rebooting...
[Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] kaustubhg123:
I bought my unlocked device from US to India which appears to have been imported from Hong Kong (hence got cheaper and fingerprint sensor enabled when it came). I am not sure if that's the reason I am not receiving any updates over 47.1.A.2.374. The security patch level is still at October 2017.

Does anyone have a link to a tutorial where I could upgrade without data loss?
[Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] Didgesteve:
You should be able to flash almost any firmware version, I don't think there are different modem drivers for each region any more. I have tried several regions of firmware here in the UK and none have effected signal reception or strength. Obviously avoid US builds if you want to keep your fingerprint scanner working.

You will need ADB drivers for the phone and beware if you've used your laptop/workstation for another model of phone as sometime this can interfere.

Start with Xperiafirm and download the most recent firmware build.

Download newflasher and unpack it into the same folder as the firmware.

Delete userdataXXX.sin. Deleting this file from the folder preserves your data patition in the rebuild.

Turn off phone, completely, plug it in while holding the volume down, you should see a green light come on the phone, start newflasher, type 'n' to the first two questions.

This should get you the latest build phone with your data intact

Edit: If you have issues with the Sony ADB driver, apparently answering 'y' to the first question on newflasher, gets you a zip file with the drivers you need and you just unpack them.
[Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] kaustubhg123:
Wow! That's great. Thanks for quick reply. I am now downloading Customized UK 47.1.A.8.49 / R14B now. Another question I have which is not relevant to this thread but maybe related to different firmwares is:

Anyone has been able to adopt the SD card? I have a Samsung EVO 128GB which I am not able to use as adoptable storage (tried different ways including through adb shell)

Also, I see that I cannot move literally ANY app to SD card. Even if developer supports. Fighting the only annoying shortcoming of this device (low internal storage).
[Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] Didgesteve:
If you go into developer options (to enable go to settings\system\about phone and press build 8 times)

right at the bottom is an option 'Force allow apps on external', enable this.
[Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] kaustubhg123:
Not working. I tried even rebooting the device after enabling the option.

For example, uber (screenshot attached); it just won't give me an option to move. Can you tell me an app that you could move to SD? I will try to install it and try to move it.
[Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] Didgesteve:
No you're right, I can't find the option to move apps either. I have very few apps, so it's not something I've ever investigated.

Sorry I can't help.
[Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] mhaha:
IIRC they removed the option to do so in Oreo. From my short research a while ago, it's not possible without root (and I'm not sure if it's possible with root, root was not on my list of consideration)
[Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] kistigun:
no need to delete the .ta files?
[Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] Didgesteve:
I have followed this proccess three times now, works perfect. I don't know what the .ta files do. I've never needed to do anything other than delete userdataXXX.sin
[Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Thank for the feedback, Steve.

Good to see some old faces around here.
[Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact Guides, News, & Discussion] BetaLyte:
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[Huawei Mate 10  Questions & Answers] JCMate10:
Hi

I am trying to run NordVPN on my Mate 10 Pro.

The client is being disabled automatically even if I have changed the system settings to allow the app to run. I see the same behavior in LastPass which I also want to run in the background continuously. Actually for LastPass it also changes the system settings and disable automatic app fill. So I need to enable this once per day. Quite annoying.

Any idea? It seems very odd that a VPN application is forced to be shut down. I have never experienced this with my OnePlus 3t.

Best Regards

Jens
[Huawei Mate 10  Questions & Answers] Sieluck:
I do no use Nord recently but last pass i use as well. There is lastpass beta (in Google play) with oreo support and it runs well.

Just make sure it is manual in battery section in settings.

Wysłane z mojego BLA-L29 przy użyciu Tapatalka
[Huawei Mate 10  Questions & Answers] JCMate10:
Strage - That dont work at all for me. Regardless of settings this app seems not to be running when I "close" the program.
[Huawei Mate 10  Questions & Answers] Sieluck:
Ok. I have checked my Lastpass beta settings and I remember that I found it hard to keep ok when screen was off. There is a couple settings You need to change and do it from phone settings rather than lastpass settings (it did not work for me from lastpass settings).

1. Battery->Launch-> change last pass to manual and keep all three options on )auto-launch, secondary launch, run in background)

2. system->Accessibility-> change lastpass to ON

3. No go to Lastpass and Fill logins in other apps (Android Oreo) should be switched ON. I have checked other available options as well and it works well for me.

I'm running LastPass beta premium. But it should not matter.

I switched off NordVPN now and just start the app when leaving house so can't help You much with it.

All the best. Sieluck
[Huawei Mate 10  Questions & Answers] Jake2kOne:
My NordVPN is running and running... Have you made sure you put the lock to the app in the "recent apps"?
[About XDA developers] Giannisk36:
Hello ...i am a technician and for the vwry first time i cant solve this problem with sm a510f.

The device for some how it has bricked.

Now i cant get into recovery mode probably because of re-activation blocked.

I can get into download mode.

The device stuck on first logo as shown on picture and cant get on SAMSUNG logo or further.

I cant flash CF AUTO ROOT or TWRP or downgraded to LOLYPOP 5.1.1 which i have the 4 files repair firmware probably because FRP is on.

I can only flash both of MASMARLOW 6.0.1 and NOUGAT 7.0

Even everything i tried the device cant go any further than the first logo.

Is anyone can help me?

Thank you in advance.

Στάλθηκε από το MI MAX 2 μου χρησιμοποιώντας Tapatalk
[About XDA developers] Giannisk36:
Sorry bur i cant post the picture.

The first logo that i mean is when device boots it show SAMSUNG GALAXY A5 6 POWERD BY ANDROID.

Στάλθηκε από το MI MAX 2 μου χρησιμοποιώντας Tapatalk
[About XDA developers] Giannisk36:
I forgot to m say that even KIES AND SMART SWITCH cant regognise the device

Στάλθηκε από το MI MAX 2 μου χρησιμοποιώντας Tapatalk
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OREOTREE:
I can't figure out why the unread icon badge is missing from my yahoo email icon while it is working for Gmail and other apps. I am running nova launcher on a Samsung note 4. Anyone have or had the same issue? Thank you in advance!
[Lenovo K6 / K6 Power / K6 Note Questions & Answers] apomyl:
hi iam from grecee i have lenovo k6 any original rom europe for this devise? thanks!!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] klecocq:
Hi All,

Thanks to this forum, my Herals looks great with a lot of apps and skins from the Touch.

But there is one thing which is still annoying me: the poor look of the standard calendar (and I use it a lot...). Is there a way that some of you guys develop a skin for the standard WM6 calendar, so that is has more the looks of the other Touch apps, with grey as major color?

Please do not suggest other calendar apps, for different reasons, I want to use the standard calendar.

Thanks in advance!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] davehutch:
Have you looked at OtO (OneTouchOrganiser)?

It is a nice interface for the built in Calendar app

http://www.onetouchinnovation.com/

Development has slowed to a halt but the latest release still works
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] klecocq:
I already have Oto installed but for the day-by-day view, it still opens the standard calendar.

The looks are great, but for me, it cannot replace the standard calendar.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] klecocq:
Nobody have any idea?
[prjkt.io] preethamkmr3:
Dosen't work

It doesn't work on xposed installer .

substratum isn't showing xposed installer in it's overlays.

Thanks for the post.
[General Questions and Answers] zeratul75:
hi all

I have this chinese MTK smartphone running android 7.

I would like to add a fast way to make screenshot, better without app.

I know it is possible in android doing that pressing vol down+power button, but it is not confortable because all buttons are in one side of the phone.........and that phone is used by a pretty old person:)

For example, in the Huawei P9 you can find "take screenshot" in the quick bar options.......

That would be perfect......

Or in some phones when you press power button in that menu, among power off, reboot, ecc.....choice you have take screenshoot.

Or for example, would be nice to do it by long pressing home button......instead of launching gogle......

I know you understand what I mean.......

The phone is rooted by the way......

thanks a lot
[General Questions and Answers] RealWelder:
It is possible to do, but not easy. I added it in the power menu of my Samsung Tab 3. You would have to decompile the framework-res.apk and baksmali framework.jar and framework2.jar... then you'd have to try to understand and manipulate the smali. There is an older thread on this for the S3 that might help some, but the smali would be a little different.
[General Questions and Answers] Wealthy1:
How can I screenshot on my leago kiicaa power Android phone
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] teknosrp:
Hello

I have a chinese phone (Utime G7) powered by a mediatek MT6589. It has worked for about 4 years very good, but now it doesn't boot.

When I try to power it up, it first shows the first bootsphash, passes it, and then shows the second bootsplash. It's here when the phone gets stuck, and I tried to let it for about two hours to see if it achieves boting, but it continues on the bootsplash. I tried to take out the battery, taking out the sim card and SD card... and still the same. If I press any button (volume or power on) when the phone is in this state I can feel two short vibrations.

Also I tried to power it on while I hold one of the volume keys pressed and the recovery menu shows, but it is in chinese and I don't understand nothing.

Does anibody know what may be happening to my phone? I would have tried doing a hard reset, but first I would like to recover all of it's internal data if it's possible.

I have not tried to modify anything before the problem started. It happened suddently, and about 4 days before I felt about 3 strange reboots while I was using the phone, but after them it continued working good.

Many thanks and sorry if there are mistakes on the text. I'm spanish and I don't speak English very well :)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] teknosrp:
Hello

Finally I could fix my phone:o. I found a backup of the original ROM in a russian forum and I flashed it changing the cache and data partitions with the originals of my phone (With SP flashtool I achieved doing a complete dump of it before the flashing).

Now the phone worls fine but I have two problems:

1.- I have lost both IMEI numbers. I tried recovering them with "Engineering mode" but no luck.

2.- The phone runs out of battery very fast. When I charge it full, the battery percentage decreases at a normal rythm until it reaches 90%. Then it drops down very fast and in a couple of minutes it shows 0% and the phone shuts down itself. I did several complete charging/discharging cycles but still the same.

What can I try to solve these problems?:)
[Huawei Mate 9 Questions & Answers] Szilard666:
I have a mate 9. MHA-L29C185.

Using firmware finder I downloaded and installed L29C636 OREO. When it installed it is stuck now in eErecovery mode. I did a wipe partition and cache. Full reset ,factory. Nothing still stuck at erecovery and i can enter fastboot eerything is locked. It is unrooted. It is under warranty. I took it to gsm service im not sure they will succeed. I called huawei service they said they will change the firmware for 20 dollars. What did I do? Is it fixable ? help me!. I offer an award if online fix is possible.
[Huawei Mate 9 Questions & Answers] vijer:
Your post is old, so I assume by now you fixed it one way or another.

We have no idea what you did, but it sounds fixable. If you're in erecovery hold the power button until the device turns off. In erecovery you should be able to issue ADB commands.
[Huawei Mate 9 Questions & Answers] Szilard666:
It hard bricked ,it still in service centre. i hope they can fix it.
[Sony Xperia XZ1  Guides, News, & Discussion] zippy01:
I had a notification anyone find a change log?

Thank you
[Sony Xperia XZ1  Guides, News, & Discussion] Darklauber:
Have got the update here in Germany, too...

So far, I only see that we got the december security patches.

But i still found no changelog... :confused:
[Sony Xperia XZ1  Guides, News, & Discussion] -Happy Feet-:
Also nö Changelog here in Germany. 223.5 MB.
[Sony Xperia XZ1  Guides, News, & Discussion] zippy01:
Updated and was very quick and small so probably just is an updated security patches
[Sony Xperia XZ1  Guides, News, & Discussion] Darklauber:
Source: XperiaBlog
[Sony Xperia XZ1  Guides, News, & Discussion] nospherato:
It's strange, if I open my appearance settings it only shows "Themes" and "Wallpaper", but not the other options (okay it's an xz1 compact, but still same firmware and nearly same device).

I can only change grid etc. by pressing long on my "homescreen" and the options appear there.

(Also german firmware.)
[Sony Xperia XZ1  Guides, News, & Discussion] kistigun:
you'll probably need a newer version of sony home, the latest beta version is 11.2.A.0.3
[Sony Xperia XZ1  Guides, News, & Discussion] nospherato:
You were right, the new beta did the trick :) Thanks!

Edit: Hm, okay you can only enable the "swipe up" (for app drawer to open) if you disable the "apps" symbol :/

Is there any way to reenable the symbol but keep the feature?

Edit2: Okay I ended up deleting the beta. (App icon + swipe feature are back)
[Sony Xperia XZ1  Guides, News, & Discussion] pbarrette:
I'm reposting my statement from the XZ1c forum:

----------------------------------

All,

I would note that it appears (per the screenshot) that you can't downgrade to a previous version once you've installed the 47.1.A.8.49 firmware.

I suspect they have enabled Qualcomm's bootloader versioning which prevents the system from booting when it detects the older version.

This probably means that there is a serious and potentially easy to exploit vulnerability in the previous versions of the bootloader. Note the many closed source Qualcomm vulnerabilities listed in the December ASB.

It's possible that someone will eventually discover what those vulnerabilities are and come up with a way to root without unlocking the bootloader.

Personally, I'm staying away from this update for a while.

EDIT: I was wrong. See post below.
[Sony Xperia XZ1  Guides, News, & Discussion] zippy01:
Wish I knew that before I updated