Hey all,
I am fairly new to Android after being long time lover of all things Apple related however felt that change was needed. My phone is the Sony Xperia Z which is sweet however the look of the phone does feel some what dated and could do with an tart up as we say.
Downloaded Nova Launcher Prime however I really don't have a scooby doo of what to do or how to achieve anything special.
Has anyone got an experience with producing decent quality but useful looking home screen etc please?
Any tips would be gratefully received.
Thanks
Scott
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Well I have just read the review of the XZ over on Endaget http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/20/sony-xperia-z-review/
and I'm happy that Sony have implemented the use of Spotify and other apps from the lockscreen! "Since last year's Xperia models, we can now welcome Google Now to the fold, while Spotify and other apps are now accessible from the lock screen."
This has made me so happy and I really hope this doesn't mean you can access it from the notification bar in the lockscreen, I missed this feature from my HTC One X; Samsung don't offer it with TouchWiz unless you have a password, where it defaults to vanilla JB lockscreen.
Can anyone that has a XZ confirm this please?? :fingers-crossed:
I really hope this is correct, it's a small feature I know, but god it makes life so easy for me!
This has been available on all 2012 Xperia's since ICS, by the way. The lockscreen controls use the standard Android API's, which means any app that plays music and implements them can show up on the lockscreen. One of the Sony niceties!
Ambroos said:
This has been available on all 2012 Xperia's since ICS, by the way. The lockscreen controls use the standard Android API's, which means any app that plays music and implements them can show up on the lockscreen. One of the Sony niceties!
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Oh has it, sorry I didn't know as this will be my first Xperia device, big thumbs up to Sony for this though!!! :thumbup:
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hi everyone. long time reader first time poster. i lost my xperia tl at work the other night and insurance is sending me an Ion instead because they dont have any tl's. do any of you out there have the new walkman, movies, album icons that you could post on here for me to use? i loved the jelly bean look so when the ion comes in im going to use a custom launcher like apex or something and would love to put those icons on there. and if anyone has the dockbar from jellybean that would also be great. i do not know how to root my phones and im on att but if i did i would instal the jelly bean rom ive seen on you tube for ions. but i dont know how so im screwed. haha. anyhow thanx for reading.
Do you stil want Them?
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Please dont post requests in here bro.. Wrong thread...
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I would have word with the insurance, what kind of deal is it getting a ion for a tl?
Wait until they get some TL's in stock, they saw you coming with that one.
whatthe21 said:
hi everyone. long time reader first time poster. i lost my xperia tl at work the other night and insurance is sending me an Ion instead because they dont have any tl's. do any of you out there have the new walkman, movies, album icons that you could post on here for me to use? i loved the jelly bean look so when the ion comes in im going to use a custom launcher like apex or something and would love to put those icons on there. and if anyone has the dockbar from jellybean that would also be great. i do not know how to root my phones and im on att but if i did i would instal the jelly bean rom ive seen on you tube for ions. but i dont know how so im screwed. haha. anyhow thanx for reading.
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Wait for a TL, The TL is much better
Hi Developers Thanks For Opening This Thread
So YesterDay i Bought a Xperia Z i Liked Almost Every Feauture Except For The Colour Reproduction And i Came To XDA Developers And Installed ROMS And Tweaked it A Bit But What i Cant Tweak is The Colour Reproduction so i Thought About Creating A Thread Atleast A Request To All THe Developers Who Make The Impossible Possible , You Guys can Create Anything Im A huge Fan Of Your Work Who Kill Their Time TO Make ROMS For Free So As A Request I Want All The Developers TO Create A Adobe RGB Like In The Galaxy S3?? i Mean For Better Colour Reproduction When I Bought the Phone i didnt like it So Much I Rooted IT with The help Of All Developers And Want To Say Thanks To Them i Installed Roms, Black Nav Bars, Sound Mods And Made The Phone ALOT Better THANKS TO ALL Although I Want All THe Developers To Create A ADOBE RGB OR Some Sort of Contrast Increaser As All THE Developers make impossible Possible SO The Phone Gives Better Colour Reproduction And Awesome Contrast
Thanks TO All For Reading This Thread
Gonna Wait For Reply's And IF anyone Can Do That PLEASE DO
sPEcSKoLL said:
Hi Developers Thanks For Opening This Thread
So YesterDay i Bought a Xperia Z i Liked Almost Every Feauture Except For The Colour Reproduction And i Came To XDA Developers And Installed ROMS And Tweaked it A Bit But What i Cant Tweak is The Colour Reproduction so i Thought About Creating A Thread Atleast A Request To All THe Developers Who Make The Impossible Possible , You Guys can Create Anything Im A huge Fan Of Your Work Who Kill Their Time TO Make ROMS For Free So As A Request I Want All The Developers TO Create A Adobe RGB Like In The Galaxy S3?? i Mean For Better Colour Reproduction When I Bought the Phone i didnt like it So Much I Rooted IT with The help Of All Developers And Want To Say Thanks To Them i Installed Roms, Black Nav Bars, Sound Mods And Made The Phone ALOT Better THANKS TO ALL Although I Want All THe Developers To Create A ADOBE RGB OR Some Sort of Contrast Increaser As All THE Developers make impossible Possible SO The Phone Gives Better Colour Reproduction And Awesome Contrast
Thanks TO All For Reading This Thread
Gonna Wait For Reply's And IF anyone Can Do That PLEASE DO
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The way you wrote this I don't think many people will even read what you actually wrote.... at least I didn't even bother.
If you have something to say why not stick to the grammatical rules like only capitols on the first word of a sentence unless it's a name or something...
lol, i gave up reading after about the third word.
I assume this is a troll post, as thats a crazy amount effort to goto to make something unreadable.
There is something called full stops and New lines dude.
Did you try the white balance apk that was ported to XZ from xzl?
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If you are comparing AMOLED to LCD, you will never get the same godawful, ugly, inaccurate colors as Samsung AMOLED. Also, the contrast won't be the same. Different screen technologies.
sPEcSKoLL said:
Hi Developers Thanks For Opening This Thread
So YesterDay i Bought a Xperia Z i Liked Almost Every Feauture Except For The Colour Reproduction And i Came To XDA Developers And Installed ROMS And Tweaked it A Bit But What i Cant Tweak is The Colour Reproduction so i Thought About Creating A Thread Atleast A Request To All THe Developers Who Make The Impossible Possible , You Guys can Create Anything Im A huge Fan Of Your Work Who Kill Their Time TO Make ROMS For Free So As A Request I Want All The Developers TO Create A Adobe RGB Like In The Galaxy S3?? i Mean For Better Colour Reproduction When I Bought the Phone i didnt like it So Much I Rooted IT with The help Of All Developers And Want To Say Thanks To Them i Installed Roms, Black Nav Bars, Sound Mods And Made The Phone ALOT Better THANKS TO ALL Although I Want All THe Developers To Create A ADOBE RGB OR Some Sort of Contrast Increaser As All THE Developers make impossible Possible SO The Phone Gives Better Colour Reproduction And Awesome Contrast
Thanks TO All For Reading This Thread
Gonna Wait For Reply's And IF anyone Can Do That PLEASE DO
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Ahh, my eyes hurt reading this.
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A troll in capitals!
Not even going to try reading that.
abd_alazeez2002 said:
There is something called full stops and New lines dude.
Did you try the white balance apk that was ported to XZ from xzl?
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Yea But Not That Much Useful
yeah, hahaha I read the first two lines
Still an issue
Hi all, just joined the forums and this is my first post.
Whilst the OP is written terribly, his point remains. This is an issue on the Z.
I almost want to take my V back from my girlfriend because of this!
Any update with regards to adjusting/adjustments made to the contrast and colour accuracy?
Thank you
[email protected] said:
Hi all, just joined the forums and this is my first post.
Whilst the OP is written terribly, his point remains. This is an issue on the Z.
I almost want to take my V back from my girlfriend because of this!
Any update with regards to adjusting/adjustments made to the contrast and colour accuracy?
Thank you
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Update to the new .253 firmware and try some of the white balance settings from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2283473
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Update to the new .253 firmware and try some of the white balance settings from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2283473
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Thank you for the quick reply! But now please excuse me inexperience.
Is it an official update, or do I need to download it?
Like I said, I'm new to the forums, which in my case is new to Android as well. I know of custom roms, firmware, kernels etc, but have no idea how to do it.
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Thank you for the quick reply! But now please excuse me inexperience.
Is it an official update, or do I need to download it?
Like I said, I'm new to the forums, which in my case is new to Android as well. I know of custom roms, firmware, kernels etc, but have no idea how to do it.
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It's an official update. Connect your phone to your pc and use pc companion to check for updates.
Anyone tried this LWP from Sony ?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...p.wallpaper.ambienttime&feature=search_result
its called the ambient time , but looks like its cpu and battery hungry , all though looks verycool
Nice one :thumbup: but dont use it cuz of the battery drain etc
One & Only Xperia Z
I saw this back when I had my arc S in 2011 (it was an old version), I didn't really like it that much.
But thanks for the share anyway, I completely forgot about this.
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I had the Ambient Time launcher on my X10 with this wallpaper. It worked fine but when the X10 got the 2.3 update I never used this again.
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I had the Ambient Time launcher on my X10 with this wallpaper. It worked fine but when the X10 got the 2.3 update I never used this again.
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LoL! yeah, the same here! :laugh:
Really laggy on stock launcher...but I have to admit that almost every Live Wallpaper have lags on the stock launcher, except PAPERLAND...
The problem isn't regarded to the raw power of the phone...but in the far from good stock launcher's optimization...
can you enter URLs and check last Update
its
UPDATED:
December 4, 2012
thanks anyway
Stock LWP Cosmic Flow is better and I don't feel like it drain battery too much.
Hey guys,
I'm new over here because I just upgraded from my Xperia S to an Xperia T (dont ask haha) so hi .
basically the first thing I thought when using the phone was what a waste the buttons were as they took up quite a good part of the screen, and so despite being 0.3" bigger than the Xperia S this was not noticeable. I also hated the aspect ratio of the screen love a good 16:9
anyway after searching on here and around for ages I finally came across a simple solution that works very well
its this app here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gmd.hidesoftkeys
I bought the pro version and its def worth it, because this is such an amazing set up!
sorry if this is already well known on here, but thought I'd share anyway, oh and if you find you can't activate the buttons in the camera mode its because you have to swipe from the side (it thinks its landscape, same with full screen games)
Very nice, I love this
I like it too
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thx......
another option
You could use this one aswell, as featured on the xda homepage:
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/ultimate-dynamic-navbar-given-substantial-overhaul/
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You could use this one aswell, as featured on the xda homepage:
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/ultimate-dynamic-navbar-given-substantial-overhaul/
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Thanks, just had a play with it. but prefer the one I posted in this thread because you can customise much more like make the icons xperia and not google nexus style, also it hides the current on screen buttons without needing to do anything yourself so more simple for people.
also guys what I realised is its best to select 'spoof soft keys' otherwise apps will open without the more options button so you'll have no way to get into further settings etc.