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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LordManhattan said:
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
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Don't know why, but the chrome browser is a buggy piece of crap. Whereas, on my Sony Xperia S, it works like a dream. Why is that?
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dante2086 said:
Don't know why, but the chrome browser is a buggy piece of crap. Whereas, on my Sony Xperia S, it works like a dream. Why is that?
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I don't think Chrome has the greatest tablet experiance - the tab's are just to small for my liking.
What bugs have you found?
Yes mine too. It doesnt like tabbed browsing. Sometimes when I open 1-2 more tabs the pages dont load. Even with just one tab the page sometimes does not load at all. The browser has crashed to desktop on mine a few times as well. The tablets just needs a few things fixing then it will be perfect:
chrome fix
Delay in waking device fix.
Random reboots
Ps store and dual shock 3 native support.
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I have problems with tabs too! it goes blank when switching and end up closing chrome and start all over! really annoying
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it crashes on me almost everytime. I've decided to give it a fair chance by installing it a few times but still the same everytime. Had to go back to dolphin. Dont even bother with chrome at the moment unless it gets a major update.
According to google mobile official blog, Chrome browser is still in a beta phase
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you have to disable the stock browser, and chrome will be better. But firefox is better on my tablet s
Just like they said. Tabbed browsing is bad. Really bad. Another thing I noticed is that when I open a couple of tabs, it crashes. Some pages don't scroll at times. And it sometimes crashes for no reason.
Its so smooth and sweet on my SXS, it confuses me. Both are Sony ICS devices.
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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
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.
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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?
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any method indeed?
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The camera is a little better in 4.3. Still not great, but better.
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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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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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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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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.
Does anyone have play galaxy on fire hd 2 on z ultra.....ust download it and play but the font is to small and hard to see and push any of the option.....i dont see any if it design for phone or tablet......is this design like this....and can it be make larger.....just wanna know.... Tq
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Does anyone have play galaxy on fire hd 2 on z ultra.....ust download it and play but the font is to small and hard to see and push any of the option.....i dont see any if it design for phone or tablet......is this design like this....and can it be make larger.....just wanna know.... Tq
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Just install something that hides softkeys and restart game. The menus become big. I use xpose installer with gravity to hide softkeys
Download GMD Immersive app. No root required and free. It allows the game to go into full screen which makes the menus larger. Run that, and then the game, and you're all good.
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Does anyone have play galaxy on fire hd 2 on z ultra.....ust download it and play but the font is to small and hard to see and push any of the option.....i dont see any if it design for phone or tablet......is this design like this....and can it be make larger.....just wanna know.... Tq
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darn...I was actually expecting some pictures of a Samsung galaxy phone to be on fire on or next to a z ultra :silly:
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As the title infers, whenever I download a picture that fits the resolution of the xz3tc (1200X1920), and try to set it as my lockscreen wallpaper in its full glory, my tablet compact always wants to crop it using photos, albums, or any other picture viewing app. Any way to stop this and use the whole photo?
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I think that it's standard across most android phones and tablets. I never use it but my missus uses Image to wallpaper app from play store allows you not to crop wallpapers.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shirobakama.wallpaper
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marcgear said:
I think that it's standard across most android phones and tablets. I never use it but my missus uses Image to wallpaper app from play store allows you not to crop wallpapers.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shirobakama.wallpaper
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Awesome. Thanks for the link. Though the thing with that app, is that it only effects the wallpaper, not the lockscreen. Anyone have any other suggestions?