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I'm struggling to fix my camera flashlight problem to no avail.
Back in the good old days of build 17.1.2.a.0.314 my flashlight would work flawless.
now adays with recent builds the flashlight can be ON but can't be turned OFF until reboot.
Is there a way to have old cam drivers back in my Z2 or a different solution?
I trust the xda community will help.
waiting for a fix or a hint
Thanks
fbxd said:
I'm struggling to fix my camera flashlight problem to no avail.
Back in the good old days of build 17.1.2.a.0.314 my flashlight would work flawless.
now adays with recent builds the flashlight can be ON but can't be turned OFF until reboot.
Is there a way to have old cam drivers back in my Z2 or a different solution?
I trust the xda community will help.
waiting for a fix or a hint
Thanks
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I think this is a firmware issue which would be addressed by Sony themselves in next update. However, have you tried using any other camera app ?
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Good Luck
Hnk1 said:
I think this is a firmware issue which would be addressed by Sony themselves in next update. However, have you tried using any other camera app ?
Quote me in case you expect a reply!
Good Luck
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I feel like sony will never address this issue because it's not affecting all phones.
but i certainly hope they do
i have tried google camera and as soon as i tried taking a picture the flashlight was ON and stayed that way with no response at my attempts to turn it off.
tried in safe mode but no luck, i tried clean installs and what not but nothing works.
the only solution was a downgrade to firmware 17.1.2.A.0.314 which helped me conclude it's not a hardware issue.
thx for your help
fbxd said:
I feel like sony will never address this issue because it's not affecting all phones.
but i certainly hope they do
i have tried google camera and as soon as i tried taking a picture the flashlight was ON and stayed that way with no response at my attempts to turn it off.
tried in safe mode but no luck, i tried clean installs and what not but nothing works.
the only solution was a downgrade to firmware 17.1.2.A.0.314 which helped me conclude it's not a hardware issue.
thx for your help
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I am afraid Sony is not very good with ironing out bugs and releases their builds prematurely. Have you tried any custom ROM by the way ?
Hnk1 said:
I am afraid Sony is not very good with ironing out bugs and releases their builds prematurely. Have you tried any custom ROM by the way ?
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I have not tried any custom rom yet because i wanted to stick to stock only.
what would you recommend as a stable and bug free custom rom with quality camera app?
are there lollipop custom roms with perfect camera app and flashlight toggle?
thanks
fbxd said:
I have not tried any custom rom yet because i wanted to stick to stock only.
what would you recommend as a stable and bug free custom rom with quality camera app?
are there lollipop custom roms with perfect camera app and flashlight toggle?
thanks
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Generally the stock provides the best camera quality in Sony mobiles, however, when they are buggy like in your case, you can try other roms like CM12.1 or AOSP or Pac man.
You will need an unlocked boot loader and some know how about flashtool for that.
Also, custom roms and kernels depend on user. Some user want performance but some like me want more battery life,and thus tweak our phones accordingly. Once you get used to custom roms, you hate stock. I move away from stock within 6 hours of a device's purchase. So it depends what you like. My personal favourites are mentioned above .
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I'll try CM 12.1 and get back to you.
Thanks
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Hnk1 said:
Generally the stock provides the best camera quality in Sony mobiles, however, when they are buggy like in your case, you can try other roms like CM12.1 or AOSP or Pac man.
You will need an unlocked boot loader and some know how about flashtool for that.
Also, custom roms and kernels depend on user. Some user want performance but some like me want more battery life,and thus tweak our phones accordingly. Once you get used to custom roms, you hate stock. I move away from stock within 6 hours of a device's purchase. So it depends what you like. My personal favourites are mentioned above .
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hello dear friend
i've tried cm12.1 and am in love with it.
my flashlight works flawless and the google cam is really good!
thanks for your great help
Much appreciated
fbxd said:
hello dear friend
i've tried cm12.1 and am in love with it.
my flashlight works flawless and the google cam is really good!
thanks for your great help
Much appreciated
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I'm glad I could be of help.
Show your appreciation by hitting thanks often!
Quote me next time in case you have a question again.
This is definitely the best ROM I've tried in terms of performance, the best two features in my opinion are the battery and its smoothness.
I don't know if I can share this link without the permission of the Dev but it's so good that I feel more people should know about it.
Congratulations to the developer!
Here's the link from Android File Host:
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=817550096634794686
If this is not allowed I will delete this thread.
Thanks.
Edit: The developer has created his own thread: https://forum.xda-developers.com/mi-5/development/rom-jancokos-t3668252
Is this los based or aosp?
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Can we have more details about this rom? I can't find any reference online.. thanks
aittamattia said:
Can we have more details about this rom? I can't find any reference online.. thanks
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Here is a couple of screenshots:
juv3nal said:
Here is a couple of screenshots:
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Thank you for the screenshots, could you tell us a bit more? You write about goot battery and smoothness, but how about camera? Does it have bugs or is it ready for daily usage? Thank you
aittamattia said:
Thank you for the screenshots, could you tell us a bit more? You write about goot battery and smoothness, but how about camera? Does it have bugs or is it ready for daily usage? Thank you
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I haven't found any bugs with the camera or anything else!
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I haven't found any bugs with the camera or anything else!
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Thank you, I'll give it a try then, even if I'm very happy with my JDCTeam rom. Is any firmware flash needed before install?
One more:
I was on Nougat already so I didn't flash any firmware but you could flash the latest recommended one to be on the safe side.
Hope you like it!
juv3nal said:
I was on Nougat already so I didn't flash any firmware but you could flash the latest recommended one to be on the safe side.
Hope you like it!
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I kept the 7.6.18 firmware I had and it seems ok with this rom. I'm sorry to bother you, but I can't find any root for this device, there's no option to enable it, is this rooted? Also home button on lock screen isn't working, I mean, if I soft touch it nothing happens, hopefully there's some setting to enable it, but couldn't find it.
EDIT: also scrolling thru apps it's kinda laggy, ie Facebook, Instagram, Gmail...
aittamattia said:
I kept the 7.6.18 firmware I had and it seems ok with this rom. I'm sorry to bother you, but I can't find any root for this device, there's no option to enable it, is this rooted? Also home button on lock screen isn't working, I mean, if I soft touch it nothing happens, hopefully there's some setting to enable it, but couldn't find it.
EDIT: also scrolling thru apps it's kinda laggy, ie Facebook, Instagram, Gmail...
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I'm really surprised that yours is laggy, maybe flash the latest firmware 7.8.16.
Also I can wake the phone from the lock screen using the fingerprint sensor!
juv3nal said:
I'm really surprised that yours is laggy, maybe flash the latest firmware 7.8.16.
Also I can wake the phone from the lock screen using the fingerprint sensor!
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Yeah, sorry, I have that firmware, I wrote the numbers in the wrong order... I made a clean install, so I don't know why it's laggy. I don't use fingerprint, so I can't unlock the screen without press power button or double tap, which I don't like since I'm used to unlock with soft touch of home button and no fingerprint.. I'll try it for a bit, but without root and these things I don't think I'll keep this one on my phone. Thank you anyway for your replies.
aittamattia said:
Yeah, sorry, I have that firmware, I wrote the numbers in the wrong order... I made a clean install, so I don't know why it's laggy. I don't use fingerprint, so I can't unlock the screen without press power button or double tap, which I don't like since I'm used to unlock with soft touch of home button and no fingerprint.. I'll try it for a bit, but without root and these things I don't think I'll keep this one on my phone. Thank you anyway for your replies.
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OK, I understand.
For me this ROM gives me the best battery life, I play Clash Royale every day and I feel I get the best performance and battery with this rom. I've tried JDCTeam and I got worse battery.
Anyway, we are lucky to have such a variety of roms to choose from!
juv3nal said:
OK, I understand.
For me this ROM gives me the best battery life, I play Clash Royale every day and I feel I get the best performance and battery with this rom. I've tried JDCTeam and I got worse battery.
Anyway, we are lucky to have such a variety of roms to choose from!
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For sure, having a lot of roms let's you decide which one to pick up according to your own needs and we're lucky with mi5!
I'd like to have a slight better battery too on JDCTeam rom, but it's has just what I need in other terms, so I think I'll stick with it, even if this rom has also the nice split screen feature which I don't think it's available on JDCTeam..
Hey , where did you find the rom ? Is it official ? ty
ste13gr said:
Hey , where did you find the rom ? Is it official ? ty
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I don't have any information other than the link from AFH as provided!
They created a thread in the ROMs section now, probably going to try it.
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Is there any regret after updating from oreo to pie for you? like call recording? battery usage? app problems?
thank you.
hmm, are you rooted.. adventourous.. backed up your TA partition, still on Oreo.. there a point to this.. call recording don't need it.. problems with apps not with the ones I use, all though I've deleted 98% of the apps I don't use ( reason for the rooted question) I have 2 Sony apps.. camera and the album apps.. the rest are Google apps, the ones that I like.. Battery life for me is fine as I don't game on my phone as I have a large computer for that, so I make it through the day just fine with all the YouTube I like... sot 6 to 7 hrs easy.. any issues, for me none an I was one of the lucky ones who didn't have to wait for pie to be released and it has been fine..
I think the worse part for the XZ1 is the lack of interest.. especially with pie.. no kernels persay or roms.. But you asked a subjective question and folks will give you different answers as per their experience, in the end you won't know till you try it an see, if you don't like it there are methods to go back to a version that you do..
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you asked a subjective question and folks will give you different answers as per their experience,
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thank you for your precious opinion!
the reason i asked this question, is that i probably will not unlock bootloader, get rooted( i am too old for these complicated processes). so, to me there will probably no coming back to oreo (downgrade).
tombbb said:
thank you for your precious opinion!
the reason i asked this question, is that i probably will not unlock bootloader, get rooted( i am too old for these complicated processes). so, to me there will probably no coming back to oreo (downgrade).
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old...please.. I think you will be fine with pie as it is stable...
Is it possible to revert to Oreo from Pie if using FlashTool to upgrade initially to Oreo and then reusing FlashTool to revert?
My Xz1 is not rooted.
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Is it possible to revert to Oreo from Pie if using FlashTool to upgrade initially to Oreo and then reusing FlashTool to revert?
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According to [XZ1c/XZ1/XZp] temp root exploit to backup drm keys implemented and [SOLVED] Android Attest Key lost, it is possible to downgrade from pie to oreo.
I think it won't be easy, read them carefully!:good:
The hard thing would be getting the Oreo firmware for your location... But newflasher works fine..
tombbb said:
Is there any regret after updating from oreo to pie for you? like call recording? battery usage? app problems?
thank you.
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Not rooted yet just updated to Pie a couple of days ago and now discovered that ACR call recording still works. Might be because a couple of months ago I re - signed the apk to stop it updating. Or, some other reason? Sony XZ1 G8341.
Hello all!
This is my very first post as I am new to XDA and a total newbie with no experience of flashing but looking forward to learn!
I bought a Samsung Galaxy S21 T-Mobile version, which is now Network Unlocked. I want to flash the official Samsung Unlocked firmware and get rid of carrier bloat, also because my phone is still stuck on Android 11 with the October security patch. As far as I know, Android 12 has been released and also the Dec security patch.
I did some research, it seems like that I need 2 tools, Frija and Odin. I only have a Mac and I'm not sure if these tools are available for Mac.
Can anyone please guide me and direct me to a guide for beginners? I'm really not sure where to start. I also have a couple of questions for the experts here:
1- Will this void warranty?
2- Will I still get over the air updates after flashing to official Samsung Unlocked Firmware? If yes, will the OTA be directly from Samsung or will it still be T-Mobile?
3- Are there any disadvantages of doing this? Such as any conflicts on the T-Mobile network?
My phone's exact model is SM-G991U
Thank you all!
If your OS is fast, stable and fulfilling its mission, let it be as you have little to gain.
Updates tend to break things...
At least wait until the update is proven good.
Unless you do something stupid security is rarely an issue on Androids.
blackhawk said:
If your OS is fast, stable and fulfilling its mission, let it be as you have little to gain.
Updates tend to break things...
At least wait until the update is proven good.
Unless you do something stupid security is rarely an issue on Androids.
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Its the eSim I'm looking for as I really need the dual sim functionality.
The-Game! said:
Its the eSim I'm looking for as I really need the dual sim functionality.
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May not be worth the time and trouble it will cost you. Depends how much you value the current functionality of the phone and how much you're willing to risk losing.
A toasted mobo will set you back a couple Franklins and put you right back where you started.
blackhawk said:
May not be worth the time and trouble it will cost you. Depends how much you value the current functionality of the phone and how much you're willing to risk losing.
A toasted mobo will set you back a couple Franklins and put you right back where you started.
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They already fixed a lot of issues.
The-Game! said:
They already fixed a lot of issues.
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So you got what you wanted the easy way?
blackhawk said:
So you got what you wanted the easy way?
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No. People who updated recently said a lot of issues were fixed. I just wanted a guide dude on flashing since I'm not getting the update. But thanks anyway.
My questions may seem dumb but I have never owned a Samsung phone.
I know samsung likes their bloatware and proprietary methods. Can I avoid all the samsung bloat and a samsung account and still use the phone? Are there ROMs that give a stock android experience?
Also what are you guys seeing for SOT? Im coming from a Asus ROG 6 Pro.
Any bugs you guys are experiencing? My 6Pro is so full of bugs that has pushed me to move brands.
You don't need a custom rom, you don't even need to root it, just use universal android debloater gui from github or adb app control to remove all the bloat (both include good instructions and details about what to remove) and going through first time set up you don't need a samsung or google account.
Unless you are using an international version there is no custom ROM option. The 918U and U1 models don't have the option to OEM unlock and flash ROMs.
You can easily umbloat using the mentioned universal android debloater.
Ui downloaded the 5.0 or sth like that and updated, then it all went south.
Stayed with the 5.0 version and it works great.
As for the ROM I put Nova Launcher and it works fine
Not the same but as long as the X3 camera shoots ****ty pictures I'll leave it warranty capable
Rouvster said:
You can easily umbloat using the mentioned universal android debloater.
Ui downloaded the 5.0 or sth like that and updated, then it all went south.
Stayed with the 5.0 version and it works great.
As for the ROM I put Nova Launcher and it works fine
Not the same but as long as the X3 camera shoots ****ty pictures I'll leave it warranty capable
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What's wrong with your x3? Mine's impeccable. Didn't hear about any other complaints whatsoever.
treahuggs said:
My questions may seem dumb but I have never owned a Samsung phone.
I know samsung likes their bloatware and proprietary methods. Can I avoid all the samsung bloat and a samsung account and still use the phone? Are there ROMs that give a stock android experience?
Also what are you guys seeing for SOT? Im coming from a Asus ROG 6 Pro.
Any bugs you guys are experiencing? My 6Pro is so full of bugs that has pushed me to move brands.
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No bugs. Phone is super smooth and battery is amazing. About bloatware you can find everything you need in XDA thread called "Samsung Galaxy One UI - Optimization Guide".
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What's wrong with your x3? Mine's impeccable. Didn't hear about any other complaints whatsoever.
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Well, I used the "remove noise" or whatsoever option.
But for a X3 zoom I find the quality more than disappointing.
My Vivo X70Pro shots better photos.
Applied goodlock camera assistant, a bit better, and even gcam.
But quality just sucks for such a "high end" model...
Hoping on a FW fix though since with gcam its quite less worse
No issue here with 3x zoom with my S23U camera (B-version, EUX), just stock point&shoot....
Something like this ?
I'll retry with more natural light.
Maybe that's the issue.
Was pretty dark the time I took the picture
Awesome, thanks for the replies. Since there is no custom roms, do we still have unlock and root available? At bare minimum i would like to install AdAway got universal ad blocking.
treahuggs said:
Awesome, thanks for the replies. Since there is no custom roms, do we still have unlock and root available? At bare minimum i would like to install AdAway got universal ad blocking.
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We can unlock and root. Look for the guide in this sub forum. Root will tripped knox tho, so some samsung app won't work. I would suggest using adhell to block ad
Mrxyzl said:
We can unlock and root. Look for the guide in this sub forum. Root will tripped knox tho, so some samsung app won't work. I would suggest using adhell to block ad
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No magisk module or similar to get around this?
My biggest concern is just losing the samsung camera, I hear other cameras apks dont work well with the phone.
Rouvster said:
Well, I used the "remove noise" or whatsoever option.
But for a X3 zoom I find the quality more than disappointing.
My Vivo X70Pro shots better photos.
Applied goodlock camera assistant, a bit better, and even gcam.
But quality just sucks for such a "high end" model...
Hoping on a FW fix though since with gcam its quite less worse
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Please try to activate night mode before switching to x3. Also in low light you need to be VERY still for the sensor and ISP to work its magic.
Moreoever, keep your lenses clean as much as possible.
These 2 photos I just shot now in a very dimly light room.
treahuggs said:
No magisk module or similar to get around this?
My biggest concern is just losing the samsung camera, I hear other cameras apks dont work well with the phone.
You will lose samsung wallet, I think. you should just use adhell for ease
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Pungasul said:
Please try to activate night mode before switching to x3. Also in low light you need to be VERY still for the sensor and ISP to work its magic.
Moreoever, keep your lenses clean as much as possible.
These 2 photos I just shot now in a very dimly light room.
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Thx for the info, I will give it a try.
Just wondering why someone would apply night mode while using light in their living room
But if works like this, this is what it is .
Thanks for the info