Hi there, i kinda need your help with this one here.
I'm looking for a not to expensive USB-DAC for the Xperia-Z that works out of the Box with the Walkman-App.
Usally i have my "Audioquest Dragonfly" at hand, but its kinda annoying to have to be using proprietary Software to get it to work (USB Audio Player Pro, a great app, but not as straight forward as the Walkman-App).
So I would highly appreciate suggestions on which DAC to get, as far as i know the XperiaZ should be able to use SOME USB-Dacs ootb and the Dragonfly is sadly just an exception as far as i know.
BTW. even better would be a USB-DAC with the possibility to SOMEHOW take calls with it, but its BY NO MEANS(!) a necessity and would be just a little nice to have extra.
(In Short: An ootb working USB-DAC with an inbuilt Mic a button to take calls? I personally don't think something like this exists)
So guys and girls with an ootb working DAC on the XperiaZ, please share your knowledge :highfive::good:
Cheers!
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I am still within the grace period with my diamond, meaning that I have a few more days with which to give it back to orange should I not be happy, no questions asked.
I have updated the ROM and Radio. This has made the device's UI a pleasure to use! I appreciate how much the Diamond is capable of despite its miniscule size also - particular its excellent Opera browser and screen resolution combo.
However, there are some faults which it seems are non-rectifiable and could cause me problems in the long-run:
weak battery
poor speaker volume and clarity
So my question is this - all things considered, what would YOU do? Would you stick with the Diamond or go for an alternative like the Samsung Omnia or Blackberry Bold. I ask you all because no-one knows more about the Diamond than the people here.
I can understand this is a subjective issue, but your thoughts and recommendations are most welcome.
Thanks,
S.
In hindsight of all of the problems I have been having and the lack of Windows Mobile support these days, to be honest, I would probably ditch it. It pains me to say this, and I expect I will get flamed for it, but I cannot deal with the bugs and lack of performance anymore.
See here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2584550&postcount=5 for my grumbles
consider yourself flamed by a happy diamond user for over 3 month !
i should like to show you my diamond, to drive a few km with iGO8 and to let you listen a few good trance tracks with my BT stereo headphones and coreplayer. i always get up in time with "klaxon". look here for my and others nice pics taken with the badmouthed camera:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2556974&postcount=21
tweak the sh*t out of it and ditch the TF3D lol
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consider yourself flamed!
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well all of my grumbles are perfectly legitimate - annoying things that spoil my enjoyment of this otherwise fabulous phone. It doesnt look like these issues are even being acknowledged by HTC too..
The thing that probably annoys me the most is that I never had these issues (A2DP not working, alarm not functioning etc) with my original HTC Touch, which is a vastly inferior phone.
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In hindsight of all of the problems I have been having and the lack of Windows Mobile support these days, to be honest, I would probably ditch it. It pains me to say this, and I expect I will get flamed for it, but I cannot deal with the bugs and lack of performance anymore.
See here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2584550&postcount=5 for my grumbles
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Only one post for your grumbles, what about all the threads
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Only one post for your grumbles, what about all the threads
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Instead of the wisecracks, why not suggest ways I can fix the problems I am experiencing with this device... you cant can you? And thats really my problem. You mock me as if I dont have a right to raise these issues, yet I paid good money for a device that now seems is not fit for purpose.
And ditching TF3D is not the answer... TF3D isnt the problem.
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consider yourself flamed by a happy diamond user for over 3 month !
i should like to show you my diamond, to drive a few km with iGO8 and to let you listen a few good trance tracks with my BT stereo headphones and coreplayer. i always get up in time with "klaxon". look here for my and others nice pics taken with the badmouthed camera:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2556974&postcount=21
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So you claim I am making up all my problems?
Yeah GPS works fine, but you can catagorically state there is no lag by a few metres?
You can catagorically state that the camera produces sharp clear images with no fuss?
You can catagorically state that A2DP doesnt have any bugs and works flawlessly? Like I said, sure you can listen to music using A2DP, but try recieving a call and going back to the music...
Many many people report these same problems - they are bugs, but people like you deny them and continue to claim that the HTC Diamond runs flawlessly. It doesnt.
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Instead of the wisecracks, why not suggest ways I can fix the problems I am experiencing with this device... you cant can you? And thats really my problem. You mock me as if I dont have a right to raise these issues, yet I paid good money for a device that now seems is not fit for purpose.
And ditching TF3D is not the answer... TF3D isnt the problem.
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look m8, i really understand yr frustration and i really feel sorry but what else can we advice you except flashing a new cooked ROM and change yr radio (i am using 08 now)?? believe me i sometimes wonder why my diamond does everything yours doesn't? there are many ppl here very happy with this device. how can be this explained? i've read here about very basic flows i can not reproduce on my diamond....
read again my first post here, i edited since you answered. look at the pics! no secret there....pics i took with the diamond.
can you pay me a visit? i gladly take care of yr diamond in 1 hour. no cost (except a 6 pack for both of us).
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So you claim I am making up all my problems?
Yeah GPS works fine, but you can catagorically state there is no lag by a few metres?
You can catagorically state that the camera produces sharp clear images with no fuss?
You can catagorically state that A2DP doesnt have any bugs and works flawlessly? Like I said, sure you can listen to music using A2DP, but try recieving a call and going back to the music...
Many many people report these same problems - they are bugs, but people like you deny them and continue to claim that the HTC Diamond runs flawlessly. It doesnt.
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1. no, i do believe you.
2. no lag at all
3. look again at the pics i posted...not so bad for a PDA camera. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2556974&postcount=21
4. yes, a2dp works perfect (with coreplayer, i didn't even try it with the original player).
5. i can speak for myself only: no problem at all, "0", zilch, nada...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=415852
Hmm, not sure why this thread has focussed on the camera thus far - that's not a problem imho.
I would like to hear about interface, battery and speaker issues in particular.
Thanks for the responses though!
You've got to be honest with yourself really... what's the most important thing about a phone to you, and can your needs be met with less headache elsewhere?
This was never going to be a phone for everyone, but for me there is nothing else on the market that comes close... why, because I want all the toys in as small a package as possible, if this phone was even a fraction bigger I wouldn't give it a second glance. Indeed, I'd prefer it even smaller, and the diamond is the first phone of the all singing and dancing variety that's finally been made small enough for me to take the plunge. This makes the things about the phone that irritate me rather superfluous... if I can't tweak around it or find a different app, I just live with it or work around it.
Life, along with mobile phones, isn't perfect; compromises have to be made along the way... get your priorities sorted, and one way or another you'll get the answer you require.
I'm sure it'll happen sooner or later, but has anyone made a 4-track recording app for Android yet? Please, please, please?
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I'm sure it'll happen sooner or later, but has anyone made a 4-track recording app for Android yet? Please, please, please?
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Considering it has exactly one mono input until some netbooks/notebooks/desktop computers come out running it, why?
layering
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Considering it has exactly one mono input until some netbooks/notebooks/desktop computers come out running it, why?
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With a four-track (or more) recorder you can layer tracks recorded individually to create and mix songs. There's a (reportedly) decent iPhone app called GigBaby that does that and more (drum machine, etc.).
Great Idea
It would be a great idea even if you had to buy some external hardware that plugs into the mini usb port to make it work.
Something like this maybe:
http://centrance.com/products/mp/
Or maybe even a battery powered bluetooth input device. (None out there yet but would be nice)
I like it, this would be great for the traveling musician.
It sould be neat to record a little something as a concept until you could hit the studio. It shouldn't be too hard, take a voice recorder app and just overlay the recordings.
Hey, I've been thinking about buying a bluetooth mouse for my laptop now for a while, i've decided to probably get the Microsoft 5000 mouse since it has all the functions I need, the place i'm buying it from has the price 25% off for a week now and microsoft has this campaign where you get 100 swedish kronor back for a bought Microsoft product.. so that's yet another 25%, anyway, my question is;
Will that mouse work with Windows Mobile/ Xperia X1? I thought it would be cool trying a mouse out on Xperia, since i've heard it's easily done thru bluetooth.
Thanks in advance =)
It will work, but only with a 3rd party program, as far as I know.
I use Teksoft BlueInput. Make sure you read their forum, as some mouses are a bit hard to get working properly.
I have two low cost mouses, and no problem at all.
Alright, thank you =)
A bit pricey though...
Now only if there would be Wiimote support for WM...
Sorry for the late reply.
Regarding BlueInput, you can allways download the trial version. The only limitation is that you get 30 clcks on button mouse, and then it disconnects, you must re-connect to get 30 more clicks, and so on.
Alright, but i've already ordered it and recieved it today, been trying it out at my laptop and at Xperia with blueinput (i.. got ahold of a full copy... >_>)
It works alright except that it's a tad too small... and at the xperia the mouse flickers a bit too much and gets some ghosting, but that's alright since im mostly gonna use it for my laptop, but it'd be nice with a updated version of blueinput though with some fixes =)
Well, as the guy who had the original idea for that program, I'm lucky enough to get some inside info...
All I can say is that development continues.
Huh.. cool =D
With the flickering/ghosting issue gone it's gonna feel like a real proper mouse pointer and even worth the money, though it uses quite alot of CPU power which is the final thing stopping it from being 100% awesome, anyway a huge thanks to the Teksoft developers for making this possible!
Altough it does flicker and get ghost images (not only on Xperia X1, but all devices), I wonder what you mean by "get ahold of a full copy"... As far as I know, no un-official version works as good (or not so bad) as the legal licensed one, flicker-wise.
Yeah, well i wanted to try out the product before buying it so yeah..
I didn't know how limited or not the trial version was so i wanted the whole experience before making a decision.
Hello, a couple months ago i bought this wonderful phone, i used it for some time and is the first cellphone that i really liked from day 0, i also have a Nokia N900, wich is an amazing machine, quite deprecated even with it's 32GB of internal storage and wonderful 5Mpix camera but this one took me some months to stop not wanting to throw it to the wall.
The Samsung galaxy Ace 2 i think is also a bit crappy compared with the LG 2x if we let battery life on a side. (3~4 days) And took me about 3 or 4 months plus several rom flashings to get it to work correctly and not annoy me with odd behavior..
Sadly a friend of mine lost his phone and as he liked the LG, really diskiiked the N900 and the Ace 2 was working really really bad i gave him this wonder of technology.
After about a month he bought another one for his wife, so now they both have an LG 2x and i am stuck with the Galaxy and a Nokia N900 photo/video camera.
I have not bought again an LG 2x because of this two issues that i think are really really important.
If i can't use HDMI, i really don't care to have the 1080p video recording capability, and if the bluetooth is not working i'm really not interested in go out listening music with a hanging cable around my neck and body.
So, i really like the idea to have EVERYTHING on one place and leave the Galaxy and the N900 inside a drawer at home.
I know if i stick to ICS i could get all working, but i'm now used to 4.2 and would'nt like to go back...
I know that these two things must be very complicated to fix, otherwise, someone would figure it out already.
But my question is... ¿Is there any chance that somewhere in time someone could fix this?
What's needed to fix them?
My dear friend
I fully appreciate your point....infact everyone does....everyone agrees that we should have everything for what we pay for
But just a small thing....you are not a newbie here...Have seen you have a reasonable number of posts....please ask the moderators to shift this to a relevant section.
I am sure we will get to the points which you are concerned about in the near future....until then we have to wait
Thanks
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Hi there,
I'm not quite sure, for HDMI , developers are unable to fix it without something that's from nvidia,
For Bluetooth, I heard it is ..forgot what it is called, toolchain? The newer ones cause Bluetooth not working correctly on our o2x, need a lot of work to fix it. Our o2x is too old for now.
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About HDMI... you can use ICS stock to have the HDMI rotation or you can use Ultimate app rotation to force the rotation screen on your device.
Bluetooth.. like others devices after the change by google from BleuZ stack to bluedroid a lots of problems have been found.
If you need bluetooth and HDMI use ICS rom
SREEPRAJAY said:
My dear friend
I fully appreciate your point....infact everyone does....everyone agrees that we should have everything for what we pay for
But just a small thing....you are not a newbie here...Have seen you have a reasonable number of posts....please ask the moderators to shift this to a relevant section.
I am sure we will get to the points which you are concerned about in the near future....until then we have to wait
Thanks
Sent from my LG-P990 using xda premium
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Sorry for the mistake...
Hey guys i wanted to use my Z1 more often in the car, but in my opinion the normal Android environment is not good for a simple use, on my old HTC i got an carmode which was pretty awesome.
All apps i found in the appstore are pretty ugly...
Is there a good app?
Cheers
Moritz
You can try Xperia Car Mode... here is the post.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2462727
I'm planning to do the same thing in my car.
This guy seems to have a much better 'car mode' with speed and everything but I don't know which app it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jwXr9gEYgU
EDIT: think i found the app! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=spinninghead.carhome
Currently have my Z1 attached to the vent using a Tetrax magnetic mount but might try something like this instead.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-DK32-C..._sim_ce_8?ie=UTF8&refRID=1RK3ZZ8XTXFJT79VXYFE