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[Sony Xperia 1 V] effective:
Hi Guys,

Haven't posted for couple of years now, but i am back again 🤪. Since i have not found a thread like it: I am planning on bying the mark V and considering im jumping from an XZ Premium which held me for 5 years steady without absolutely no issues (except battery drainage which is typical for that amount of time, lol) is a big step and i want to continue the Sony legacy with the V. So my question for the people having the phone already - What are your impressions? (yes, i've already read and watched the gsm arena and other youtube video reviews) but wan't to see how are you guys doing with the thing after some time using it. Quality wise, Performance and battery wise, Firmware support wise, overheating and camera quality wise. and whatever else you think about.

Appreciate your time and answers.

Cheers 🍺
[Sony Xperia 1 V] osc123:
Best high end android phone since the Samsung Galaxy Alpha in my opinion.

Coming from S21 Ultra this phone is a highly refined design that is worth the price.

The balanced lightness is incedible - the S21U has both a lopsided weight distribution and is extremely heavy which Samsung hasn't bothered to correct for years now. Having this phone in your hand makes you realize how long ago Samsung stopped trying. A lot less fatiguing to use overall / doesn't pull your shorts down.

Textured back is great and really helpful if like me you do not use a case.

Cameras seem like the best and/or better to the newest Samsung Ultras. Pictures look very natural, as if you're right there, even though this isn't the look of Samsung photos. Zoom is great and didn't see much comparable on phones other than sammys. Photos can probably be a lot better if you use manual settings I just use basic.

Video is stellar. If you're into photography and manual tweaking probably even more stellar.

Battery life is great. 2+ days on a single charge.

Nits are that camera is not as easy to use as Samsung or Gcam due to Sony's less AI / more manual approach. Images seem to have trouble be used by other apps - Whatsapp for example does some downscaling that makes them blurry.

Cameras can easily get fingerprints on them due to placement and lack of obscene bump (good thing!). Lame DQ62 bootloader locking making the bands not fully compatible for north america.

Overall phone is the most exciting one I've seen in years. No significant compromises like says the Z1C that while delightful felt compromised (ex. super easy to scratch).

Aside from the Galaxy Alpha which shares a lot of what makes this phone great the Note 10+ 5G probably comes close in terms of fantastic high end phone at any point in time due to high end features and thoughtful stuff like S-pen, ToF sensor and not being abusively heavy.

Hope that helps!
[Sony Xperia 1 V] Haldi4803:
i can second those 2days+ Battery life. But i use my phone sparesly

I use the sony Charging Blocker to charge only to 80% so i can keep it charged over night. Hope that helps increase battery longevity.

The phone camera is perferably used in Manual Mode. The Auto doesn't bring very good pictures.

But if you're a pro Photographer or like to Take videos this phone is awesome.

Sadly 4k120fps videos do NOT Have image Stabilizer, and not all cameras Support 4k120fps so you have to reduce Framerate to 30fps if you want to Automatically switch between all 3 Cameras during Filming. (or was it 60fps?)

What's REALLY annoying is that when you open any other camera app, ie WhatsApp or Banking Apps for QR code scanning the Zoom camera gets calibratet and the phone vibrates stupidy.

it's really ****ing annoying. (or at least IMHO)

Except from that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is BLAZING fast and quite battery friendly.
[Sony Xperia 1 V] decomposed:
Since few days battery life is very bad.

Not sure what happened, I do not have bee apps installed, maybe some update to existing apps. Most consuming one in stars is Android system, then screen, 3rd is network.

All of it with Active stamina.

Switched from 5G to Lte only, but system and screen I cannot do kuch, already on 60Hz due to stamina. Some guy from youtube reported same...

Looks like some google bug in latest system / android / chrome etc. update :/
[Sony Xperia 1 V] Haldi4803:
You know how to take A Bugreport?

Upload it here and check WhatsApp draining battery.

Battery Historian
[Sony Xperia 1 V] decomposed:
Unfortunately no, how can I generate it?
[Sony Xperia 1 V] effective:
Comparing with prev. xperia communities this one is a tiny one :( sadly.. not big of an answer wave but big thanks to the people that responded to my query! 😇 I couldn't wait any longer and bought the phone. Huge difference and awesome camera powerhouse. 🤩
[Sony Xperia 1 V] .Mikael:
I love this Sony mark 5, I have waited I 2yers att least to buy i Phone that is a lot better than my S7 edge or Nokia mego.

Video camera excellent, manual mod camera best that exist on s mobile.

Many tweaks to do, and I like it.i can have to have setting that I like
[Sony Xperia 1 V] Haldi4803:
Well yeah.

1400$ phone...

And Sony successfully pissed off a lot of devs, in the past 10 years.

The community will grow.

Check out the Xperia 1 mark 3 for reference.

Mark 4 is an exception as the Snapdragon 8 Gen1 is crap.
[Sony Xperia 1 V] Robot76:
I Love It!

It's the first Sony phone that I've owned that actually meet's it's hype, and is not warm to the touch, not as cold as the XZP, but never entering mindfulness being nuetral. Near stock Android firmware, no spam.

A real camera this time, instead of running tandem with my RX100 mark II. The images taken are so good, I had my family whom are iPhone users, wowed the definition on screen as superior to their own. The shutter button has nice grain, and a pleasure to half press for focus.

The design is superior, and faster than it's competitors real world (versus tests and paper), although I would not drop it, and definitely needs case due to it's metal casing and protruded lenses.

Some of the developer switches do nothing eg. disabling absolute volume, disable ADB authorization timeout, and a few other settings, but I presume these will work in time with firmware updates?
[Sony Xperia 1 V] Robot76:
Have you enabled by chance "Use High refresh rate" under "Display" - perhaps this might be culprit?
[Sony Xperia 1 V] effective:
Hope so. i haven't been active for a long time and just seeing this makes me kinda sad. As you said its an expensive phone + new one as well. But as stated in a lot of videos it's a phone made for specific group of people and not for the ordinary user who want instant picture shot. lots of options and configs (which i love) has to be done.
[Sony Xperia 1 V] effective:
you had the XZP as well? Nice! So you can tell the difference as i do,haha. Man im so happy and satisfied with my purchase. yesterday i made a moon shot comparison with a friend's S23 ultra and hell.. this thing's digital zoom and AI stuff .. can't reach it by any chance with the V and got nervous about it xD but screw it, haha.
[Sony Xperia 1 V] Robot76:
Loved the XZP, but was stolen... And so I got the Xperia 1, man I hated that phone, curved edges, plastic, but it kept going and going... Haha, finally started to have signs of battery, and was about to get the IV, and saw the heat issues, nothing worse than having a warm phone, and the V features sold me, and so I am sooooo happy with this V and impressed this time round...
[Sony Xperia 1 V] Haldi4803:
Capture and read bug reports | Android Studio | Android Developers

A bug report contains device logs, stack traces, and other diagnostic information to help you find and fix bugs in your app.

developer.android.com
[Sony Xperia 1 V] Robot76:
Something else worthy of mention is the units speakers!!! Really bassy... so have intentionally chosen bassy sounds for both ringtone and notifications, you know, just to say mines better than yours, haha (only in this instance of course, as xperia's been tryin real hard).

Also the ability to set battery charge to 80% without root.

*Only in comparison with my previous xperias and family iphones
[Sony Xperia 1 V] decomposed:
How to change this bass?
[Sony Xperia 1 V] SALL666PL:
ok it works, will update the thread with your links :)

edit : I would like to ask you to delete the comment, I got the cards wrong
[Sony Xperia 1 V] Robot76:
Under settings, Dolby Sound, there is an equilizer.

Some apps might suppress modification, while most others will work with it.

*Some audio tinkerers or sound engineers may prefer a different sound system and audio profiles, such as Shizuku with something like RootlessJamesDSP.

I used to use Arise, but I haven't needed these things for ages, but just stock Sony which is already good. And when I did use these things, it was to reinstall Sony sound back onto my rooted device in ancient times.
[Sony Xperia 1 V] decomposed:
I found in-built Dolby Sound settings and it has some presets but also equalizer. Seems everything I need so no need to download additional bloatware.
[Sony Xperia 1 V] Robot76:
Thanks for that! When I saw, I recalled it 😂...

Silly me...

Android 13 here, and Sony battery settings have made lots of things redundant.

I'll go edit comment.
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Brian2022:
I have two 4k firesticks both with the most recent Amazon updates (fire os 6.2.9.7 ns6297/4665), one unit is still working perfectly fine with launch manager 1.1.6 and wolf launcher and returns to the custom launcher everytime I hit the home button

, no extra home button mapping etc just the the straight enabled custom launcher , I thought maybe I had deleted KFTV launcher as I had to reprogramm this unit a few months ago but when I checked with Total commander it is still installed, KFTV 6460037.1 (this first unit is at my parents house so i was just there and comparinf what version it was on)......... the second unit had LM 1.1.8 and WL and LM gets deleted ever few days if I try to reinstall, i did try the home button remapping and the adb script ..... anyone have any thoughts why the first unit seems to be working fine with the older version of LM ? They both have all the same system updates from Amazon
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simplepinoi177:
You might find better help or be better served also asking in the thread below that was found & suggested.

*Please don't just make a copied and pasted post though, as per Forum Rule 5

[APP][FIRETV][NOROOT] Launcher Manager (Change Launcher without Root)

LAUNCHER MANAGER (FOS 6+) BLOCKED BY AMAZON, USE LAUNCHER MANAGER (MINI) STEPS TO ENABLE CUSTOM LAUNCHER: Before installing version 1.1.8 uninstall any previous version. 1. Download Launcher Manager by clicking or by using short link and...

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[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] lintunen:
Due to encryption, does this make it currently impossible to recover data from a factory reset device? I have seen a handful of posts suggesting data recovery is possible however to my understanding the current state of encryption makes recovery impossible without a prior back-up. Is somebody able to confirm if this is true?
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] V0latyle:
The encryption makes it impossible. Android used a randomly generated 256 bit key based on user specifications (pattern, PIN, password, etc) to encrypt user files. Without this key, it is impossible to decrypt the data.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] lintunen:
Thanks, I thought as such. It's unbelievable that even though it's not possible people will still try to profit from impossible data recovery.
[Huawei Nova/Nova Plus Questions & Answers] bglk56000:
I got this phone not too long ago and one thing that I hate is that I dont have google play so I am looking for any way to switch to another android rom or how to get harmony OS on EMUI 12 (I have tried to downgrade to EMUI 10 but I could not even downgrade to 11 cuz Hisuite will not show me any option to downgrade my firmware ) And if there are any custom roms available for this phone at all lul, Thank you.
[Huawei Nova/Nova Plus Questions & Answers] DBCop:
Hello,

I have Huawei Nova 10 SE with BNE-LX1 EMUI 13.0.0.258 version. I am trying to install Harmony OS (BNE-AL00_2.0.1.150_C00E150R6P2_Product_Combination_Software_HarmonyOS_2.0.1_05018MGQ_Dload) that I downloaded from the internet. But when I try through OTG USB method, during the installation I get "system failed" message a few seconds after the message "verified package". I also tried downgrading to version EMUI 12 and install then, but I get the same message. Please advise if the issue is with the file that I downloaded or is something else the problem?

Thank you
[Huawei Nova/Nova Plus Questions & Answers] bglk56000:
Hello, Would love to help you but I Still cant figure out how to change the firmware myself, if you can provide me with a guide on how you tried to install your firmware, I can try it myself and tell you if it works for me.
[Huawei Nova/Nova Plus Questions & Answers] DBCop:
The installation steps are as described on this link:

[SOLVED] HarmonyOS Install on P50 Pro Global

Found a way to update. Please follow the below tutorial. Download the folder https://mega.nz/folder/hMI1CQ7B#2oIjaFuEIKaxdu2h6--nqA (GDrive Here thanks to @zefirz). Place this folder in a USB drive. Use an OTG cable to connect the USB drive to...

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You need to have OTG cable and USB for the file that I will upload to a server (link to follow shortly).
[Huawei Nova/Nova Plus Questions & Answers] DBCop:
Here is a link; https://mega.nz/folder/4hlQBQ4C#lHb1m_hN5TDQ_wJktExrnQ

Copy dload folder on USB flash drive. Let me now how it goes ...
[Huawei Nova/Nova Plus Questions & Answers] bglk56000:
forogot about this lol, Will try tonight !
[Huawei Nova/Nova Plus Questions & Answers] DBCop:
I didn't manage, but then paid 20$ to a guy who installed Harmony OS for me. You need to change the OEMinfo file, in order to be able to install.

He installed the same version 2.0 that I uploaded for you. Through OTA updates I got to the latest 4.0.0.123 version.
[Huawei Nova/Nova Plus Questions & Answers] bglk56000:
Forgot to Respond again lul, Yeah I got the same error, Know this is a lot to ask but do you have the OEM file by chance ? would be grateful if you did or you could just send me the guys info thru private message , Thank you.
[Huawei Nova/Nova Plus Questions & Answers] luap2ky2j:
hi did

hi did this ever work??
[Huawei Nova/Nova Plus Questions & Answers] bglk56000:
Nope Never tried it, Just switched to oppo way too big of a hassle
[Huawei Nova/Nova Plus Questions & Answers] Nitro_Tech:
Hello is thire any other way to change firmware on huawei Nova 10 se BNE-LX1

Or downgrade
[Huawei Nova/Nova Plus Questions & Answers] Nitro_Tech:
Here is some info about:

The firmware on Huawei Nova 10 SE BNE-LX1​

Is thire any other way to change the firmware or to downgrade on Huawei Nova 10 SE BNE-LX1

Hello i am searching for ways to change the firmware or to downgrade from emui 13.0.0 on Huawei Nova 10 SE BNE-LX1 if you know anything about changing the firmware or to downgrade let me know

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[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] Gamal Nasser:
good evening you all.

I saw one S22 ultra 128GB for sale online at a very good price. But my fear is coming from the fact that the seller said the present item on sale is a demo Samsung S22 ultra that he replaced the motherboard from another S22 ultra.

My question is: what is the risk of buying such phone? is it a good idea to buy it?

please justify your answer as it will help me to make my final decision.

Thanks for all.
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] raul6:
Best avoided
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] Village_Idiot:
Yeah. Walk away... Just walk away from this.
[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] verszipo:
since it seems to be a Frankesteined phone (created from parts of at least 2 phones) i would stay clear.

you have no guarantee that the phone has been correctly assembled and everything is working, also you can be most certain it IS NOT waterproff anymore (might not even be splash proof)

take into account that since the seller doesn't provide any warranty you're on your own if anything brakes/stops working, and with such a big change (changing the motherboard is like changing the engine and chasis of a car) you are most certain something will fail

so, yeah, stay away from this kind of phones, unless you want a very expensive paper weight ;)
[General Questions and Answers] joshtheitguy:
I got into the IT technical side of things and never really got into coding at all. I know some basic batch/shell scripting and basically enough vbscript to write a login script.

Though as of late I have been wanting to get into coding, especially for Android due to a number of factors (i.e. to write free open source apps to replace things that people shouldn't have the right to charge for or things I feel would be cool to have but no one has gotten around to it) and to finally give more back to the open source community though I don't know where to start with programming.

What would be a good language to start with the end result being to develop for the Android platform? Anyone have any suggestions on books to pick up or online guides to look at?

I have a lot of free time as of late due to the US economic collapse might as well do something constructive with it.
[General Questions and Answers] feanor512:
While the G1 is an HTC device, this forum is aimed more towards Windows Mobile. You might get more feedback if you post at an Android forum. I found one here and another here.

According to here Android only supports Java. Sun's Java tutorial is here.
[General Questions and Answers] joel2009:
right now as far as i understand everything for android has to b written in java, if you know java you should be on the right foot to start with already :)
[OnePlus 10 Pro] mohamed 737:
Couldn't we just heavily debloat (delet to free storage) the official rom to the bone then use DSU SIDELOADER app( +sticky mode) to flash custom rom ?

So we need to debloat the system + good moded custom GSI rom built
[OnePlus 10 Pro] ZG_DEV:
It sounds good for me !
[Redmi Note 8 Questions & Answers] MarekSurek:
Hi guys.

Idk if this question has been asked... Today I bought a used Redmi Note 8T and I wanted to unlock bootloader, but it shows that I have wait 2 weeks.

I used to unlock xm 12 in past and only was week there...

Is there any way to make it end faster?

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[Redmi Note 8 Questions & Answers] Jatin Verma x821:
There's no way, and even if you find some way they are usually not safe, so it would be better if you just wait it out.
[Xiaomi Pad 6] aancel:
I was able to get a GSI working on the Xiaomi Pad 6 (EU) using the following instructions.

The following steps are mainly an adaptation of the linked guide for the Mi Pad 5: https://xdaforums.com/t/run-an-gsi-on-your-mi-pad-5.4352591/

Thanks a lot to the original author and the information in the associated thread !

I have updated the guide following the issues I encountered while flashing if it can help anyone willing to do so.

Step-by-step:

Unlock the bootloader with the Mi Unlock Tool (You will have to wait 168 hours)

Download vbmeta.img from google

Base link: https://developer.android.com/topic/generic-system-image

vbmeta image: https://dl.google.com/developers/android/qt/images/gsi/vbmeta.img

Download an arm64 AB gsi

GSI List: https://github.com/phhusson/treble_experimentations/wiki/Generic-System-Image-(GSI)-listi

I chose TrebleDroid: Releases: https://github.com/TrebleDroid/treble_experimentations/releases

The one I used (and that worked ok, but no gapps): https://github.com/TrebleDroid/treb...ci-20230718/system-td-arm64-ab-vanilla.img.xz

Extract the xz archive with 7zip or any other archive manager

Reboot to fastboot (Shutdown -> Power+Vol. Down.)

Open a cmd terminal on Windows or a terminal on Linux:

fastboot flash vbmeta vbmeta.img

fastboot reboot fastboot

fastboot flash system system-td-arm64-ab-vanilla.img

Didn't initially work for me

Had to do (might not be safe): https://xdaforums.com/t/run-an-gsi-on-your-mi-pad-5.4352591/page-18#post-87064683

fastboot delete-logical-partition product

fastboot delete-logical-partition product_a

fastboot delete-logical-partition product_b

Then flash was ok

fastboot reboot recovery

Make a factory reset (Wipe data)

Reboot

You won't have the play store, so you might to need to install the gapps afterwards (I use F-droid)

Some other quality of life improvements:

- Enable developer options -> Developer options -> smallest width: 750 dp => make it look like a tablet !

- Phh Treble settings -> Misc Features -> Force FPS -> 1800x2880@60

I haven't noticed any particular big issue after a few hours, Wifi and sound are working !

Hope it can help some of you !
[Xiaomi Pad 6] Tilde88:
not sure why you used the experimental version. i used the latest stable one. it has google play store and everything. its quite clean, but i super pdebloated it to make it baremetal. nothing special was needed to be done, other than clearing the active partition.

bluetooth doesnt work (but that may be because of the debloat, although i have read you have to do something quick to get bluetooth to work). auto brightness doesnt work.

but, i recommend the stable edition, not the experimental

edit : link https://github.com/ponces/treble_build_pe/releases/

i have the global pad 6, but it doesnt matter which edition you have, the GSI will work on practically any modern device. use the arm64 ab vndklite edition
[Xiaomi Pad 6] mrcsbnhrd:
Thank you for the guide, I´ve managed to get it working. Used stable release with Google Services preinstalled. Can confirm that Xiaomi Keyboard Case is working with all FN keys, except the custom Xiaomi CMD button between Fn and Alt is mapped to Google Assistant instead of MIUI shortcuts AND auto-lock when closing the lid is not working.

Bluetooth is working for me personally, tried NearbyShare and connecting controller, without any issues.

Also had a small issue with adaptive brightness and brightness slider, it was a bit janky so I turned the adaptive brightness off.

What else is not working for me:

- Adaptive screen refresh rate

- UI scaling when DP is set to 750 is not applied to other local users

- multi finger gestures (like 4 finger swipe between apps)
[Xiaomi Pad 6] Resync:
Tried to switch from topaz rom to this can't get it to boot it's always stuck on mi logo. (not bootlooping just stuck)
[Xiaomi Pad 6] dorkshoei:
I just bought a Pad 6 (not 6 pro). It is replacing a Mi Pad 4 Plus (always Lineage) that died.

I know what GSI/Treble is but I've never run it. UI wise I prefer AOSP over MIUI but I'm curious how the performance of GSI compares to global MIUI on the Pad 6? I run Nova Launcher in legacy 3 button mode on all my other Android devices.

I thought I had read that frequency/duration of updates have been issues with MIUI, obviously you're not getting OTA with GSI but at least you can periodically manually update.

I'm trying to figure out if I'll use/cope with MIUI until a custom ROM (ideally Lineage) comes out or go with GSI.
[Xiaomi Pad 6] emc02:
Can confirm that this ROM works too:

LineageOS 20
[Xiaomi Pad 6] ahmd gom3aa:
latest project elixir is working too

wifi Bluetooth, i flashed it after (nothing phone port), and YASNC pass، and play store is certified 😊

no pen, I don't have one,

autorotation works but is buggy

overall very good for me
[Xiaomi Pad 6] hakimrahman.ar:
Hai, im new. May I know, what is GSI? Is it same with porting windows?
[Xiaomi Pad 6] pl1992aw:
Generic System Images (GSIs) | Platform | Android Developers

developer.android.com
[Redmi Note 11S 4G / POCO M4 Pro 4G (fleur)] BloxetPL:
Hello!

This is another episode of "How to" by me :D

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Let me know in the comments if this worked for y'all <3​
[Redmi Note 11S 4G / POCO M4 Pro 4G (fleur)] ZG_DEV:
Ok

Waiting 🙂