Hi fellows, just got my Xperia z ultra yesterday. What a super device this is (with an exception of the camera).
When I configured my Google account, it started restoring my apps, which was surely against my will. To clean up my phone again, I did a factory restore, which also removed all those beautiful pics and videos that came with the phone pre-copied.
Can someone be kind enough to upload the default contents of the Xperia z ultra album? Since I cannot take great pics from the phone's camera, those pictures and videos were the only way for me to show off this brilliant screen.
Thanks!
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Me too need
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malikons said:
Hi fellows, just got my Xperia z ultra yesterday. What a super device this is (with an exception of the camera).
When I configured my Google account, it started restoring my apps, which was surely against my will. To clean up my phone again, I did a factory restore, which also removed all those beautiful pics and videos that came with the phone pre-copied.
Can someone be kind enough to upload the default contents of the Xperia z ultra album? Since I cannot take great pics from the phone's camera, those pictures and videos were the only way for me to show off this brilliant screen.
Thanks!
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You can find them here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2398547
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Is there an app that hides media from gallery?
I let a friend borrow my phone a few days ago, and suddenly private pictures of my girlfriend got leaked out, end result: no girlfriend, just me and my phone now
Is there one? Would prefer it to be free, but paid is fine too
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https://market.android.com/details?id=com.theronrogers.vaultyfree
U can use photo vault , its free in market . It is also easy to use.
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Anyway, stick all your pictures in 1 folder and make a new file called .nomedia and they will not show in gallery, will still show in file browsers.
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Thanks guys
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Hello to everyone from a new forum member
I recently bought the Z Ultra as a replacement for my Galaxy Note II, and was expecting to have to still keep my iPhone 4S in the other pocket as a decent camera.
I noticed that the Z Ultra does take quite nice photos, and indoors they are often better than the iPhone! But I was shocked on zooming in to find that they have no detail at all, and that was explained by the fact all the photos are around 1MB in size (on the highest resolution setting)!! iPhone photos average 4MB, and Note II photos average 7MB.
I asked Sony support how to reduce the ridiculous level of JPEG compression on the photos, but they said it cannot be done. Is this really true? It's shocking if so! What's the point in even having a high resolution sensor if you compress the images so much it might as well be 2megapixel!?
Is there any replacement camera app that can take photographs with sensible compression levels, or would it require hacking the OS? I'd prefer not to root if possible. Can anyone help please? I love this Sony and it would be great for it to be my only phone.
Garry
I noticed this myself yesterday. I took some test photos and thought they looked nice, but then I zoomed in, and holy artifacts batman, that was quite bad. Try using a third party camera app from the play store.
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I also encounter the same problem. If anyone has any solution, please let me know.
pipatl said:
I also encounter the same problem. If anyone has any solution, please let me know.
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The Z1 camera app is available for the Ultra in the Themes and apps section. Try that out, or install a third party photo app from the Play Store and see if that helps. I haven't installed anything yet since i'm not that interested in taking photos, so i can't tell if it helps or not.
Thx, I will try
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The Z1 camera app is available for the Ultra in the Themes and apps section. Try that out, or install a third party photo app from the Play Store and see if that helps. I haven't installed anything yet since i'm not that interested in taking photos, so i can't tell if it helps or not.
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Didn't try Z1 cam app yet, but I tried third party apps and the results are the same, even worse in low luminosity conditions (as third apps do not use the hdr backlight correction). I took a look on the media_profile.xml and changed value of ImageEncoding quality to 100/90/80/70/60/50 instead of 90/80/70/60/50/40 but didn't see any improvement. I guess it is ruled by one of the camera files, and I don't know how to find which and even less how to modify it.
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any method indeed?
jackyin11 said:
any method indeed?
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The camera is a little better in 4.3. Still not great, but better.
LordManhattan said:
The Z1 camera app is available for the Ultra in the Themes and apps section. Try that out, or install a third party photo app from the Play Store and see if that helps. I haven't installed anything yet since i'm not that interested in taking photos, so i can't tell if it helps or not.
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The z1 camera that i know is from krab...i like to port it to mine as well but i see their is a problem when trying to flash it......flash has some error that havent got fix.....since krab is not here anymore, can someone continue the work that krab left.....or simply just fix the error....
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martin132014 said:
The z1 camera that i know is from krab...i like to port it to mine as well but i see their is a problem when trying to flash it......flash has some error that havent got fix.....since krab is not here anymore, can someone continue the work that krab left.....or simply just fix the error....
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Or just update to 4.3. We have the Z1 camera app now.
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Or just update to 4.3. We have the Z1 camera app now.
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App, but how bout camera processing itself.....does it better compare to krab z1....of it does, i think just like you said.....update....
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martin132014 said:
App, but how bout camera processing itself.....does it better compare to krab z1....of it does, i think just like you said.....update....
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I'm not sure, but I think it's a direct port of the Z1 257 camera app, and the Z1 also got updated to 4.3 with an improved camera, so my guess would be that the 4.3 for the Ultra is also "better" than the 257 port. I can't see how Krab could've modified it to be better.
I have no proof to back up my claims that the 4.3 camera is in fact better, but my first reaction when I took some low light pics the other day was that it didn't look as bad as expected. It may be a little better or I'm simply delusional
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OP, Im using Camera 360, it comes with a "Keep Original Photo" setting. Maybe you like to try that. But I have to warn you, I switched it off because it's a pain to keep managing 2 photos for EVERY shot....
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it looks the same...... are there other ways or apps to reduce the compression?
360 creates two files and for sure they dont look the same when i tested.
Also, try ProCapture and A Better Camera. Both had better low light result details than the stock one. ProCapture for example, has a reduced noise setting which works decently too.
This might be a stupid question but when I bought the phone yesterday I remembered seeing some pre loaded videos that looked pretty cool at showing off this wonderful screen but now I can't freakin find em.
Anyone know the location of the video I'm talking about?
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Mines located under storage/emulated/0
And under file manager app its right there under videos
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stephen293 said:
Mines located under storage/emulated/0
And under file manager app its right there under videos
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Okay thanks. I checked and it wasn't there, all well :'(
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should show up in the gallary
video
mky4b11 said:
should show up in the gallary
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Hi can you please send me those files ? I accidently deleted them
Thanks in advance !
DigitalHeekie said:
Hi can you please send me those files ? I accidently deleted them
Thanks in advance !
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Mine also got deleted. This phone comes packed so much extra crap you lose a lot of usable internal storage so I just wipe the whole thing. I was pleasantly surprised that I had 22 gigs of storage
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DigitalHeekie said:
Hi can you please send me those files ? I accidently deleted them
Thanks in advance !
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Agreed, and would love to have one of the original videos that came with the phone. It showed off a bunch of landscapes but looked fantastic to really show off the display. When I first factory reset my phone (before rooting or anything) it wiped the files. I went to show the girlfriend and it's no longer there.
Presumably playing one of the Discovery Planet Earth videos in 1080p on Google Play would be able to show it off just as well. But I used it to play around with the built in video player that you could re-size etc.
I tried to share it elsewhere and it wouldn't let me, saying that it was a protected file. Even tried looking for it with a File Explorer and came up empty.
I must admit, those videos make the screen look GORGEOUS! Full HD 5.2 inch screen on minimum bezel...
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I tried to share it elsewhere and it wouldn't let me, saying that it was a protected file.
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they are protected files yes, locked to the individual devices. so once gone, they are gone forever.
speaking of those videos, did anybody find any demo videos that look as stunning as those on our screens?
I've deleted them when I got my phone, because I wanted more free space, but the other day I soft bricked my G2, so I had to restore everything and I got them videos back. I can upload them if you guys want.
again, they are protected and locked to individual devices, you can't play them anywhere else but your own phone.
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Ohh, I see now. You can't even take screenshots during the video. Silly DRM. Then I uploaded 2 other ones, they are regular .mp4 videos, so you can play them on your phone or anything.
Video 1 - It's actually an extended version of the stock Europe video, there's no music though.
Video 2 - This one also looks really gorgeous.
In you tube search lg 4k demo, you found several demo videos from lg, download with tube mate in original video o 4k resolution and you get a lot of videos in excellent quality.
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Mine were in the gallery, and I was able to simple delete them.
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again, they are protected and locked to individual devices, you can't play them anywhere else but your own phone.
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I think you're right.
it doesnt hurt to try so for those who want to try, here are the videos coming from my G2.
download them and rename the extension with .dm instead of .mp4 and see if they play.
Norway...
http://www.putlocker.com/file/D995734B17DE4F22
Europe
http://www.putlocker.com/file/24B8A1785F5A2392
i found one of them in youtube with the title LG ULTRA HD 4K resolution Landscape demo. (Greece-Norway) :good:
I would like to read book with the Sony reader app on the Z Ultra, but font size is tiny even on largest settings.
Any one know a fix?
Kindle in on the other hand has ridiculous margins at top bottom and both sides...
Try "Readmill".
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Try "Readmill".
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Actually I would like to use the Sony Reader app as I have some coupons for that. Kinda sad that the preinstalled app fails...
Still love Sony and the phone though!
are the books DRMed? if not, just get them and open with MoonReader, probably the most customizable book reader available
So one thing I've noticed with the YouTube app is that it's really slow to open. It isn't just on the Z2 but also on my other devices,n7 2013, Z, T. Anyone got an idea why, could it be that the new interface is slowing it down?
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It's always been slow for me on multiple device ever since the last major UI update.
I was disappointed to see the issue remains with 2014 hardware.
Regards.
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Its something to do with the app its self
Lest i remember i think its a purposely done delay
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It's while YouTube syncs your Google account and loads up your user data as a preload. After this initial pause, your history, favorites, channels etc are instantly accessible.
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