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Well, to tell the truth, I like this phone. Dual-core CPU, perfect screen, HDMI output etc.
But as soon as I get this phone, I found it cannot be wake up from sleep.
I heard that LG has released a update software to fix this problem, but after I had connected my phone to the computer and opened the LGMobile Update, it told me there was no newer update available.
So I'm trying to figure out the reason of this problem.
This problem does not happened every time when I push the ON/OFF button to put the phone to the sleep mode. If I just reboot the phone, and then turn off the screen, there will never be any trouble, even I put it on the desk for the whole night.
But if some programs has been run, like the games, map, internet browser, or even a call or SMS, then lock the screen, it will never wake up. Or if I plug in the charger or connect the phone to the computer, it works great with no trouble.
What's more, after the phone has 'dead', the temperature of the phone became high, and even became higher and higher, very strange.
So I try these way to solve the problem with no success:
-replace the battery with another one.
-wipe the battery information by using ClockworkMod and then re-calibrate the battery.
-flash a different version ROM, including MCR ROM and LG Stock ROM.
-flash a different version baseband.
-force the CPU frequency to stay in 800Mhz by using 'pimp my CPU'.
-lower the voltage of the CPU.
-forced the frequency to stay about 400Mhz when the screen is locked.
-remove any applications installed by myself.
-disallow any background applications.
-put the phone in the rom with air conditioner turning on which the air temperature is about 25°c.
Then I guess this problem is caused by power management bug.
There will never be any problem when the phone is awake, or the charger is plugged in, so I don't think it's a hardware bug.
Must be a bad unit. :-(
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As I said before.
When you press power button to wake-up the screen, and the screen is black (bsod), press power button again (so it would power off the screen, even tho the screen is black), count till 20/30sec and press power button again....
There yoy go, phone working again!
Ive overwon my bsod since I know this trick!
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Nfsking: Did it work?
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Nfsking: Did it work?
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No, no work.
Now, after playing games or using Google Map, I must turn off the phone, and then turn it on again to avoid this issue.
OK, now I can almost confirm that this issue is caused by overheat.
I boot the phone, then put it on the desk without any operation, it will remain OK.
Then I put it into my jeans pocket for about 1~2 minutes, it will be dead.
Again, after playing games, I put the phone just near the air conditioner, it will be cooled down very soon, and the issue will not happen.
So, is there any way to make the ‘temperature protection’ or something like that higher? Or just remove it from the Android OS.
I don't think removing any sort of temp failsafe would be a good idea.
I just had a bsod and the phone was really hot. If anything, it needs a proper failsafe put in, so it at least reboots in stead of hanging on the black screen
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I had a phone with the usual reboots and charge-bugs like everybody else. I shan't claim I've found a 100% solution, but what I can say is that my phone never reboots/bsods anymore, on stock ROM, MCR or CM7. It does get hot to the touch when it's working hard or charging, but still operates reliably.
There are several version of the basebands floating around. Not only are there different versions (02.18, 02.23, 03.15, .04.05, 05.02), but more importantly, there are different versions of the same version-number as well.
I downloaded three original ROMs from the thread here on XDA, all of them including the 04.05 baseband... and all the baseband-files were different.
As you know, if you're already on 0405 or higher, you can't upgrade through the LG update tool, as it claims you're already updated. So to make sure I had the latest "official" baseband I installed a 10a version (baseband 02.18). This allowed me to upgrade through the LG-tool. I still got an 0405-baseband, but... not had a single reboot since, and I've tried every ROM out there. (Am now back on stock waiting for CM7 to become polished.)
So to the ones out there who still suffer reboots, try to smartflash back to and old version, then upgrade via the LG-tool, it worked for me.
(This could of course be entirely coincidental, my phone may just have spontaneously "healed", but it's unlikely.)
::Trym
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I had a phone with the usual reboots and charge-bugs like everybody else. I shan't claim I've found a 100% solution, but what I can say is that my phone never reboots/bsods anymore, on stock ROM, MCR or CM7. It does get hot to the touch when it's working hard or charging, but still operates reliably.
There are several version of the basebands floating around. Not only are there different versions (02.18, 02.23, 03.15, .04.05, 05.02), but more importantly, there are different versions of the same version-number as well.
I downloaded three original ROMs from the thread here on XDA, all of them including the 04.05 baseband... and all the baseband-files were different.
As you know, if you're already on 0405 or higher, you can't upgrade through the LG update tool, as it claims you're already updated. So to make sure I had the latest "official" baseband I installed a 10a version (baseband 02.18). This allowed me to upgrade through the LG-tool. I still got an 0405-baseband, but... not had a single reboot since, and I've tried every ROM out there. (Am now back on stock waiting for CM7 to become polished.)
So to the ones out there who still suffer reboots, try to smartflash back to and old version, then upgrade via the LG-tool, it worked for me.
(This could of course be entirely coincidental, my phone may just have spontaneously "healed", but it's unlikely.)
::Trym
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Thanks for reply dude.
But I've tried almost every version of baseband and rom already.
I'm from China, newest version of baseband I got is V10S, which is a Korean version, and the newest Chinese version is V10K. I have tried to flash the phone back to V10A - a European version ROM, and then update the phone using LG Mobile Update software to V10D, and this did no help to the issue.
As I said, this problem always happen when the temperature of the phone is high. I'm not sure whether the CPU/GPU temperature or the battery temperature will cause this issue (I prefer to believe it's because of the battery temperature, cuz the Google Map won't use too much CPU and GPU resource)
Another interesting thing I found, is that if I leave the music playing in background, then lock the screen, the phone will never meet any issue.
So now, my solution is to avoid the high temperature, or playing the music in background, muted, and then lock the screen. This may drain the battery faster, but at least I will never miss any call.
Hello,
I've been using Cm7 latest KANGs since months, they're all good but there's ALWAYS been problems in every cm7 build that makes me hate this phone when it happens.
The problem is that they happen randomly with no apparent explanation!
problem #1
almost every week it happens that the phone drain battery very fast and gets a little hot. The reason is "suspend" process running wildly in the background.
What is it and why doesn't happen always? Solution : reboot, after it drained half your battery
edit : now "mediascanner" took the place of suspend
problem #2
every 3-4 days if you never reboot the phone it gets to a point where its slow and slightly unreactive. When you surf with Opera you notice a struggle to process data like something is using the CPU, the reality is that nothing is.
The worst part about this is when the phone is in that state and you do something that involves a cpu process you hear a noise form the speakers like an interference it's very difficult to explain. If you happen to listen to music in this state everything that you do makes the music lag like if it restarted every 1/3s of a second, like when you try to playback some video from a source that has a slower reading speed than the video bitrate itself. A jerky playback.
Solution = reboot.
problem #3 every month the phone (even on silent mode) "screams". :| that's right, from the speakers you suddenly hear random "leaks" of loud and high pitch sound things for NO REASON.
"problem #4" the front facing camera is just bad it doesn't adjust to the light with auto exposure compensation. It has very bad banding and digital noise things on the image. I thought it was a driver problem in cm7 but it happens in stock too. This problem didn't happen in the first nightlies of cm7.
Are those bugs reported?
I'm currently in problem 2 and I'll just let it do its thing just to see how funny the battery graphic will look. In 6h runtime I have "suspend" using the cpu for 30minutes and going.
I tried every kernel.
i have the same problem as you with suspend i dont know what it is, but anyways my battery is not that bad after 16 hours is still 58% medium usage.
we can try asking temasek if he has a clue.
I also have problem #3
very strange, happens sometimes even when the phone is on silent, and it's been sitting on my nightstand for 7hours without me using it (plugged in)
it also happens sometimes when it's not plugged in and I'm just browsing the web
(seems to happen more often when viewing video's)
What annoys me most its problem #1 . It's just unacceptable to have something for no reason draining your battery when you phone is sleep mode, even worse when you don't when it will happen!
#1 - I rarely have this issue but it doesn't drain my battery.
#2 - I don't hve this issue
#3 - I don't hve this issue
#4 - I use LG modded camera so no such issue.
temasek said:
#1 - I rarely have this issue but it doesn't drain my battery.
#4 - I use LG modded camera so no such issue.
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Now I have it and I can't get it to go away!! It drains battery at about 10% per hour (without touching the device). What kernel are you using?
Can you link me the camera mod?
Got another for the list!
BBC iplayer !
On both the app and the Web page it works fine through the interface, the intro to your TV program works fine, then you get into the program and the picture is just pixelated rainbow mush! Lol!
Weirdly if you minimize the program and then resize the image it's fine!
What's that all about?
another one:
( I think its with every android version above 2.34)
if there are too many apps moved to sd card (about 50) phone works only till first reboot. once shut down and turned on again, phone keeps on rebooting. only thing that helps is putting sd in pc and delete some .asec-files from .android_secure-folder.
I had #3 before, I think it was around Temasek kang 1x.. After a dozens of flashes, I forgot it ever existed.
-sandro- said:
Now I have it and I can't get it to go away!! It drains battery at about 10% per hour (without touching the device). What kernel are you using?
Can you link me the camera mod?
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Im on stock cm kernel.
Here is the link for lg modded camera usable in cm7
http://www.mediafire.com/?6c2jtth54a2bxcc
There's another one too which is important to save battery life: sometimes the wifi connection doesn't start until you go into the wifi settings. Meaning that if you are within the coverage you won't be connected to the wifi network until you go into wifi settings. This will drain battery because the phone won't turn off the eventual 3G active connection
temasek said:
Im on stock cm kernel.
Here is the link for lg modded camera usable in cm7
http://www.mediafire.com/?6c2jtth54a2bxcc
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I tried that but I what I meant is during video calls with skype and gtalk! It shows the correct exposure at the first second that goes into wrong mode.
BTW this phone has the worst ff camera, just bad bad bad quality
haha...the speaker scream at night....
just flash CM7 (Alien Revolution) this morning,
only some minor things found:
1. have to remove the latin.apk manually to against force close
2. can't use the original screen capture (HOME + POWER),
use the option by long press the power button for replacement
3. while playing "Let's golf 3", it got force close
clear the data of the game and it's solved.
4. 2 hrs before, the phone signal suddenly drop and disconnected...
just reboot and see whether it happen again...
Hi Temasek.. will this camera mod work with MIUI roms?
temasek said:
Im on stock cm kernel.
Here is the link for lg modded camera usable in cm7
http://www.mediafire.com/?6c2jtth54a2bxcc
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Edit: nvm, I go and tried it myself on WajkIUI.. the camera worked but the video recording hangs and then fc-ed when I pressed it the second time
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I have another problem on using CM7, it's the HDMI connection. My phone doesn't displayed on 1080p mode, pic quality is awful (my LCD TV is full hd capable).
And when I played a movie and throw it to the LCD TV on landscape mode, it displayed only for couple of seconds and then blackout. My phone continued to play the movie though. This is not happening in portrait mode.
On Optimus 2x stock ROM, it is possible to select hdmi resolution. How to do that in CM7?
Thanks!
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no one of the problems here!
working fine and perfect with alienRevolution 1.9.1 ! Best ROM!
Problem #1 happend to me once, i was on ETaNa Kernel 0mb (i dont know wich version) and a Temasek Kang (think it was 61)
Never happend again. Now i am on ETaNa 32mb 18th Feb. and Temasek Kang 66, everything works fine for me.
I think the battery draining issue was just a bad RIL now battery seems as it should be.
I still have problem #2 though and I can't believe I am the only one experiencing it!
I made a mistake because I was powering off the phone at night in the last month but now that I'm keeping it on at night I can say it happens after 1 day of running time.
Basically when you start using it the second day the phone becomes unresponsive, go launcher EX keeps reloading icons very often, it takes sometimes 2-3 secs to open an app after you press on it , Opera keeps getting shutting down if you check another app for 1 second, when you go back you have to wait 6-7secs for it to restart. The situatios stabilizes itself a little when you keep using it (still not that snappy like at boot) but then goes back to the same sluggishness.
Juicedefender shows in the logs that "memory is low" and for how the phone acts it does look like it but I always have 80-100MB left and even if I kill every service running the sluggishness is still there. SO what the hell is causing it? Could this "suspend" be responsible for memory leaks? Again what does this suspend do?
Here's a screenshot for today only after the overnight recharge.
And of course the phone died while I was charging screen or phone wouldn't turn at all, apparently it charged to 56% and then BSOD
Just to make sure, am I the only one where suspend uses all the cpu?
i have also tryed cm7, its nice and stable but a little bug which forced me to change the rom, go launcher always restarts and i have to force close it and whenever i put some movies and images in sd card gallery doesnt updated it and shows old files only, thats y i changed my rom.
Hello. So I already made one thread but didn't get much of replies. If you own LG P920 or not you can still help. I have some questions and problems with phone If you could answer any of these please do it.
Questions: What is the best ROM for O3D. I never used any different roms than stock.
Does ROM make change in GPS accuraccy? (Accuraccy of my GPS is pretty bad sometimes.
Does Rom change the battery life? And If yes count battery life in question 1
In User manual it says you must use only official LG batteries otherwise the phone may explode. Is that true?
Is overclocking safe and does it have any downsides?
What is the difference between Mod and Rom?
Is There Any Way How To Change backlight brightness. It just wastes battery at night
Problems :
Bluetooth doesnt work. I tap it but nothing happens.
TTS doesnt work either .anytime Im trying to get in TTS settings I get a force close
My media volume keeps randomly going to one state. While Im listening to music or even when screen is off. Im using audioguru but in every profile is media volume set to 0.
Phone reboots after turning on Wi-Fi. It works First time after reboot but when I turn it off and then on it reboots.
CPUs second core seems to be offline all the time. I'll post photo taken right after playing a game while CPU is set on 1 ghz . Sometimes I hear something from back of a phone when playing games but Im not sure if Thats it. I dont often get lags when playing games like asphalt 6 so i dont really know.
Another Problem is what I already mentioned. eXtreme battery drain. 2-5 hours depends if im browsing and watching videos or my phone just sits in pocket.
And The last thing not that big deal is that norton antivirus is showing that location service or whatever it is has a malware in it (I 'll post photo)
If you could Answer any of these please do it. Thanks . Sorry for bad english
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According to the thread on the Official Sony Support Community by Lemon and updated by me, Here a thread trying to list all troubles on the 4.2.2 Official Update.
If you're using a custom ROM do not list your problem here because that can be specifically a problem on your ROM.
Gracenote Update
I had approxamitely 3200 songs in my library. I attempted to update the artwork and music info using the integrated 'Download music info' option (powered by Gracenote). This repeatedly fails and crashes, and somehow managed to wipe approximitely 40 artists from my library of 150 artists. I now only have 108 artists, and have lost a lot of music, which I had paid for or ripped from CDs. I now have to do rip these all over again, and I've also wasted a considerable amount of money on MP3s which have now been wiped by shoddy software!!! I just tried to update some more files, just this moment, and while it managed to update beyond 82/800 tracks, it then failed and gave me a 'Network Error' and advised that 2 tracks had been updated - despite that it had already attempted to update more than 82 tracks!!! It's massively buggy. Not going to use it anymore in fear that it wipes more of my library.
Walkman App
Sometimes shows '-1' artists in library. When tapping into the Artist list and coming back out again, this updates and shows the correct number of artists. Why would it EVER show that I have '-1' artists in my library?!?
Android Become Slow
I've had it after the update, if you feel that your android is very slow since the update, just go to the settings, select applications and "desactivate" some useless app that eats memory, be carefull what you're desactivating, you don't need to be rooted for doing that, that helped in my case.
Earpods/Headphones Compatibility
My previous handset was the 2011 'flagship' Xperia Arc. The stock headphones which came with this handset are of a much better build quality (and tangle a lot less easily) than the stock headphones which came with the Xperia Z. However, upon connecting the Xperia Arc headphones to the Xperia Z, I get a message saying 'Headset not supported. Use another headset or visit the Sony Mobile support site for more information'.
Many earpods/headphone seems to not be supported anymore under this update, Sony needs to fix that quickly that's really annoying.
XDA Threads : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2340877
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2355500
MBS-100
Everytime I connect over Bluetooth to my MBS-100 (first generation) my WiFi crashes after about 4 minutes. Every time. This does NOT happen with my MBS-200. Seems Sony haven't put enough effort in testing support for their older devices/products, this is clearly also the case above with the stock Xperia Arc headphones.
SD Card bug surfacing
The Sony Xperia Z is suffering from a persistent hardware failure, which is inserted SD cards unusable. Most of time we need to reformat/restore it and in worst cases the SDCard is dead and you need to buy a new one.
I have this as well that asks me many times to check and verify my SDCARD when i use the MSC connection, if i don't do it i can't copy files on it.
XDA thread : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2352245
Photo Album uploading with Facebook for Xperia
Tried uploading 31 pictures using the integrated share to Facebook for Xperia feature last night, on a FAST connection (Download Speed: 44.9MBPS / Upload Speed: 7.4MBPS) - 1 picture uploaded, service failed. Tried again, 2 pictures uploaded, service failed. Tried again, notification said 'Uploading pictures for about 18 minutes, before timing out and failing without uploading any pictures. Any pictures that did upload, did not upload in order either. After repeatedly attempting this about 30/40 times, I managed to upload about 17 of the 31 pictures, and had to connect by USB in order to do the rest. Seems like this feature was slapped on without any REAL testing by Sony.
Lockscreen Bypass
It is possible to bypass the lockscreen by typing '*#*#7378423#*#*' and doing an NFC test in the Service Tests menu (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLq1gxIt5YQ) - this renders the handset COMPLETELY UNSECURE.
XDA Thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2206033
Socialife
Never updates automatically. Sometimes updates manually. Sometimes doesn't. Just tested manually refreshing this moment, today being March 26th, and nothing is showing beyond the afternoon of March 25th.
Stamina Mode / Battery Life
When first experiencing issues with my handset, a Repair was advised by support staff on the forum here, and official Sony Customer Support Staff. Following this repair, by battery life at 100% showed 4 DAYS AND 12 HOURS. A week later, on 100%, my battery life dropped to 2 DAYS AND 8 HOURS. Another week later, on 100%, my battery life is now showing 1 DAY AND 1 HOUR. All of these figures are with Stamina mode turned on. I haven't added anything to the handset to affect performance, it's simply degrading of it's own accord. Which makes me wonder why the support staff repeatedly assure us on these forums that 'the battery life will improve after a few charging cycles' - this is not the case, and there is CLEARLY a Power Management issue, which needs to be resolved.
LED Notification
Fortunately, I am not experiencing the LED issue that others have been. But it should be listed as others have been experiencing it.
Sleep of Death
Fortunately, I am not experiencing this issue. But it should be listed as others have been experiencing it, special mention for people who hard-bricked their phone, do not include that problem.
WiFi Signal Issues
Fortunately again, I am not experiencing any major WiFi issues. However, when uploading photos using Facebook for Xperia last night, it knocked off my WiFi twice for no reason. And I've also documented my WiFi issues in combination with Bluetooth to MBS-100 above.
Accessories
The 2011 flagship Xperia Arc came with quality headphones, a charger, and a mini-HDMI to HDMI cable for outputting to HDTVs. The 2013 flagship Xperia Z came with cheaper headphones, a charger and NO cable for outputting to my HDTV. I expected this to be included in the package, given the lofty pricetag, but now I realise I must go and buy an 'MHL Cable' - something I didn't even know existed until after I purchased the device. Thank you for not including this cable Sony.
If anyone has any further legitimate bugs/issues to add to the list above, let me know and I'll keep the OP updated.
If you know a fix i'll add a green comment.
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Hi.
I'm on .423 and I don't seem to have the lockscreen bug.
In fact, I cannot dial any MMI codes using the emergency dialer.
On a side note, why is this tagged as [HELP THREAD]? There's already the help thread that I've started under stickies in the Q&A Section.
kgs1992 said:
Hi.
I'm on .423 and I don't seem to have the lockscreen bug.
In fact, I cannot dial any MMI codes using the emergency dialer.
On a side note, why is this tagged as [HELP THREAD]? There's already the help thread that I've started under stickies in the Q&A Section.
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You're lucky, anyway that's interesting, what kind of ROM do you use?
For the thread i've edited with [BUGS LIST] it was just for being easily found for people, if you have a better idea for my thread i'm open to any suggestions.
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You're lucky, anyway that's interesting, what kind of ROM do you use?
For the thread i've edited with [BUGS LIST] it was just for being easily found for people, if you have a better idea for my thread i'm open to any suggestions.
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Stock ROM for C6603 from here.
[BUGS LIST] seems appropriate enough?
EDIT: There's also this SD Card bug surfacing. I have this problem too.
A bit short on patience right now, so haven't tried fixing it yet. You could add this to the list.
Thanks a lot, SDCard bug surfacing added to the list with critical severity.
musick oluarb
I'm Lemon, and these bugs have nothing to do with 4.2.2
I posted this in March, about 10 day's after the handset was launched, listing all the issues I found in the original 4.1 firmware, it's been updated a few times since.
With 4.2.2 I've only noticed a weird support issue where the software completely wiped me sd card of its own accord. I've lost ****loads of stuff as a result. It's only happened once though.
Still noticing the Walkman skipping during playback...
Some Home screen stuttering, nothing out of the ordinary for Sony.
Otherwise, 4.2.2 is much improved.
how are the lack of accessories, notably a mhl cable part of the bugs/issues with 4.2.2 ?
I don't know how to describe it wxactly but since the update (2 days ago), my phone has became super slow.
On 4.1 it was great never experienced any lag.. but now it feels like I'm holding my tired old phone again..
It goes from opening apps, through unsmoothly scrolling and floating around, to the lockscreen it self which can take about 3-8 seconds to show up image from black after pressinv power button to wake him up..
Also for unlocking, sliding up to move from lock screen to home screen can be laggy, stucky, and takes time...
Furthermore, WiFi signal (or atleast the icon showing) is poor and barely reaching my router when I'm 3 meters away..
As for not getting anything exciting from the update, or any changes, cool features from stock 4.2 (hmm som1 said notification toggles?) , I'm pretty disappointed, I would return back if that possible
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mcjordan92 said:
I don't know how to describe it wxactly but since the update (2 days ago), my phone has became super slow.
On 4.1 it was great never experienced any lag.. but now it feels like I'm holding my tired old phone again..
It goes from opening apps, through unsmoothly scrolling and floating around, to the lockscreen it self which can take about 3-8 seconds to show up image from black after pressinv power button to wake him up..
Also for unlocking, sliding up to move from lock screen to home screen can be laggy, stucky, and takes time...
Furthermore, WiFi signal (or atleast the icon showing) is poor and barely reaching my router when I'm 3 meters away..
As for not getting anything exciting from the update, or any changes, cool features from stock 4.2 (hmm som1 said notification toggles?) , I'm pretty disappointed, I would return back if that possible
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Yep i've seen many people complaigning about that too, btw you can disable some useless app on settings => applications, select one and choose "desactivate" that's helepd so much for me.
what in the world.. and .423 just came to my phone updates and it's now stuck in the notification bar but seeing all these makes me doesn't want to update it anymore ._.
From last night i am facing a problem where when I connect my headset (samsung) to my xperia z1 it displays the error *Headset not supported. Use another headset or visit the Sony Mobile support site for more information.*
I used to use this headset everyday but unfortunately it had stopped working.
Further, if i use any other headset, it displays the same message.
I have not updated my phone nor have i installed any mod or app.
Can anyone tell me the fix please?
Thank you!!
I bought a used Droid Bionic off eBay cheap as a temporary replacement for my broken Samsung S3 to last until contract renewal time. But, this thing is just a turd. It's a PITA to use.
I'm running SlimKat in Slot 1. That's the only custom ROM I have installed. But it's just as slow if I boot the stock rom (and was before I rooted or did any customizing).
When I get a call, it rings several times before the screen wakes up so I can answer it. A couple times, the call has gone to voicemail before the screen woke up so I could answer the call. The capacitive buttons light up, it vibrates, the ringtone plays, but the screen stays dark until the 3rd ring.
Sometimes it takes 10 or 15 seconds just to get the keyboard to come up when I touch a text entry box. Doesn't matter what app or what keyboard I use.
Sometimes it takes so long for it to respond to a touch that I don't know if it registered my touch so I touch the screen again then a few seconds later it registers both touches which totally screws up whatever I was trying to do and I have to start over.
Sometimes I just want to throw this thing against a brick wall. It would be very satisfying to watch it shatter into pieces. It's frustrating me so much, I'm seriously thinking of borrowing a friend's old iPhone... Just typing that made me feel dirty, but that's how bad it is.
I don't see anybody else complaining. What's wrong with my phone?
HeathicusF said:
I bought a used Droid Bionic off eBay....
....I don't see anybody else complaining. What's wrong with my phone?
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Have you tried running LagFix (from the Play Store; I am unable to post a link)? My phone slowed significantly over time while running CM11 nightlies; I occasionally boot into stock and run LagFix and it does clear up a fair number of slowdowns. This seems the most likely cause which would impact both stock and slot performance.
It's not ROM but the battery that makes phone slow over the time... Old battery creates static charge and unable to generate enough discharge to run the phone.
Replace the battery with the new one.. And you are good to go...
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I tried LagFix, but got an error saying it was incompatible.
My battery does die awfully fast, so I've ordered a replacement. I have doubts about that fixing the slowness, but I needed a new battery anyway so it won't be a total loss if it doesn't work.
HeathicusF said:
I bought a used Droid Bionic off eBay cheap as a temporary replacement for my broken Samsung S3 to last until contract renewal time. But, this thing is just a turd. It's a PITA to use.
I'm running SlimKat in Slot 1. That's the only custom ROM I have installed. But it's just as slow if I boot the stock rom (and was before I rooted or did any customizing).
When I get a call, it rings several times before the screen wakes up so I can answer it. A couple times, the call has gone to voicemail before the screen woke up so I could answer the call. The capacitive buttons light up, it vibrates, the ringtone plays, but the screen stays dark until the 3rd ring.
Sometimes it takes 10 or 15 seconds just to get the keyboard to come up when I touch a text entry box. Doesn't matter what app or what keyboard I use.
Sometimes it takes so long for it to respond to a touch that I don't know if it registered my touch so I touch the screen again then a few seconds later it registers both touches which totally screws up whatever I was trying to do and I have to start over.
Sometimes I just want to throw this thing against a brick wall. It would be very satisfying to watch it shatter into pieces. It's frustrating me so much, I'm seriously thinking of borrowing a friend's old iPhone... Just typing that made me feel dirty, but that's how bad it is.
I don't see anybody else complaining. What's wrong with my phone?
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Not sure what you are doing to your Bionic to make it so slow. Mine is by far no speed demon but definitely not slow. Do you have a lot of unnecessary crap such as widgets, themes, etc.. running?
matriX1218 said:
It's not ROM but the battery that makes phone slow over the time... Old battery creates static charge and unable to generate enough discharge to run the phone.
Replace the battery with the new one.. And you are good to go...
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That is debatable.
mikemikemikexxx said:
Not sure what you are doing to your Bionic to make it so slow. Mine is by far no speed demon but definitely not slow. Do you have a lot of unnecessary crap such as widgets, themes, etc.. running?
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Not at all. The only widget I use is the calendar widget. I use Nova launcher, trimmed down to one home screen. No themes. No games. Only a handful of apps and most of those are utilities (ES File Explorer, Swifkey, Dropbox, XBMC remote, an alarm clock, etc.). Facebook is the only social media app.
HeathicusF said:
Not at all. The only widget I use is the calendar widget. I use Nova launcher, trimmed down to one home screen. No themes. No games. Only a handful of apps and most of those are utilities (ES File Explorer, Swifkey, Dropbox, XBMC remote, an alarm clock, etc.). Facebook is the only social media app.
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That is bizarre, must be Slim Kat. I am on CM M8 and while it does have some minor slow downs sometimes but nothing what you describe.
(A good time to update SafeStrap if you are not on the newest version)
HeathicusF said:
I tried LagFix, but got an error saying it was incompatible.
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LagFix has to be run from the stock install, rather than from a custom rom slot; it will then work only on the /data partition, which is normal.
Concerning the delay in pulling up the screen for an incoming call, I also have that same issue inconsistently on CM11 nightlies - it's often the third pulse of the motor before the screen wakes up. I haven't found a good solution to this, as it seems to be related to the phone being in deep sleep with the second core hot-unplugged. You may be able to increase the responsiveness at the cost of battery life by increasing the minimum processor speed or using a different governor, but I haven't experimented with this systematically enough to make a recommendation.
I found a solution!!
A new Samsung Galaxy S5 will be here tomorrow.
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Battery effecting speed seems quite farfetched. If you say it's "static charge" that really means nothing. Maybe you mean it won't source enough current. Therefore effecting processor speed? If so then plugging in would fix you up.