How to make Bluetooth permanently discoverable for Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread.
I am using Stock Xperia Pro GB .69 with root access.
I'm not sure about GB but on ICS and JB there is a visibility timeout setting in a bluetooth settings screen. Go there and push a menu button.
Not possible due to security reasons.
Someguyfromhell said:
Not possible due to security reasons.
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Is there any tweek available?
chiragvagh said:
Is there any tweek available?
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None that developers know. It has never been requested or needed by anyone.
Someguyfromhell said:
None that developers know. It has never been requested or needed by anyone.
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Is there any update!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
Micromax A27 phone is having android 2.3.6 and its having bluetooth visibility timeout infinite or discoverable always.
How that is possible with adroid 2.3.X
Please help
chiragvagh said:
Is there any update!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
Micromax A27 phone is having android 2.3.6 and its having bluetooth visibility timeout infinite or discoverable always.
How that is possible with adroid 2.3.X
Please help
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Just because one phone manufacturer added it to its firmware, does not mean it is available on all phones.
Sony phones do not have such feature and most likely it will not be added due to security reasons.
Come on, you do not want someone to be hacking your phone via Bluetooth without your knowledge, do you?
Someguyfromhell said:
Just because one phone manufacturer added it to its firmware, does not mean it is available on all phones.
Sony phones do not have such feature and most likely it will not be added due to security reasons.
Come on, you do not want someone to be hacking your phone via Bluetooth without your knowledge, do you?
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What are security reasons, It is already available in ICS and JB. Is there no security? And there is option to switch off the Bluetooth, so when needed I can switch off that, no need to make mobile discovery off.
If you don't know the solution, then stop giving this type of answers.
chiragvagh said:
What are security reasons, It is already available in ICS and JB. Is there no security? And there is option to switch off the Bluetooth, so when needed I can switch off that, no need to make mobile discovery off.
If you don't know the solution, then stop giving this type of answers.
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Well a noob can hack to your or my phone via bluetooth,it's very easy,one click,and how many times did you forgot to turn it off???I was looking for something like this once,but when my friend got hacked i stopped...Thats the security and i don't think that Stock ICS has a turn visibility on for perment.Bit i'm sure its impossible to get it on GB...
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If you don't know the solution, then stop giving this type of answers.
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The thing is, that there is currently no solution for Sony or Sony Ericsson phones.
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Hi,
Yeah I'm aware its "danageraus" to put the BT discoverable and on all the time, but still,
Is there a way to make it on discoverable with no time limit (120 seconds)?
Thank you.
Yarden.
MMM you tried with bluetooth on/off widget by Curve Fish?
also the HTC stock bluetooth widget does it,,,
What do you mean by HTC stock bluetooth widget?
Can you explain that please? I don't understand where you see it.
BTW, the curve fish doesn't have that option.
Only, on and off, nothing about the "Discoverable" marking.
mcjordan92 said:
What do you mean by HTC stock bluetooth widget?
Can you explain that please? I don't understand where you see it.
BTW, the curve fish doesn't have that option.
Only, on and off, nothing about the "Discoverable" marking.
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yes
the htc stock widget its in the widgets section in(long press on desktop..etc..)
and then browse the settings widgets and select the bluetooth widget...
u seen it now?
if u enables this widget your device is visible all the time,,
Thank you for helping but unfortunately you are wrong.
I'm not visible to any one, I must go to settings to enable this 120 seconds Discoverable option.
Maybe you tested it with Known-Partner and he already got you on list, but with new people it can't be visible, I just tested trice.
mcjordan92 said:
Thank you for helping but unfortunately you are wrong.
I'm not visible to any one, I must go to settings to enable this 120 seconds Discoverable option.
Maybe you tested it with Known-Partner and he already got you on list, but with new people it can't be visible, I just tested trice.
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yes, so I have it with my co-workers...
i don´t tried it with another person... sorry
I understand,
So got any other sollution?
I could do that so easily with my old N95, just clicking visible or not, no time counter..
So annoying
mcjordan92 said:
I understand,
So got any other sollution?
I could do that so easily with my old N95, just clicking visible or not, no time counter..
So annoying
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I have the solution, if you are still interested.
It's in main.conf file.
If you want to know more, just tell me.
Oh yes please!
Hah I recently came across this BT thing and remembered I've asked for it once..
Funny world
I'd love to hear the solution, I don't care messing with some system dangerous files..
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On ICS and JB ROMs it's possible in bluetooth settings.
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Bluetooth discoverability setting No limit GB 2.3.4 and other lower android versions
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this method didn't work.
The time do get changed from 120 to 0 and successfully store but the permission after reboot return to read and write
If permissions won't stay, use root explorer and on properties press "sticky", and they stay there.
However, I'd simply go for JB or ICS, who have the visibility option in settings...
rather than giving the "sticky" to anything, since it's a special permission, for which, I admit, I don't know the full impact on system.
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I have transferred the file to another device and changed everything with root explorer. This time all sticked well but these changes does not produce any effect in the stock Rom.
Regarding ICS and JB roms I haven't found one for this device yet. The ones that claim to be are just roms dressed with apps and mods to look like one. Not real ports.
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I have transferred the file to another device and changed everything with root explorer. This time all sticked well but these changes does not produce any effect in the stock Rom.
Regarding ICS and JB roms I haven't found one for this device yet. The ones that claim to be are just roms dressed with apps and mods to look like one. Not real ports.
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What do you consider a real port? There are 4.2, 4.1 and 4.0 ports , roms, mods and Kernels all here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2002349
but these aren't for Samsung Galaxy Ace GT-s5839i.....
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but these aren't for Samsung Galaxy Ace GT-s5839i.....
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Can I ask why this was posted in the Desire HD forums?
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just realised now. Perhaps was misleaded by the Ace part.
Sorry for this and thanks anyway
One of the reason I bought the ZL was the IR remote function, but unfortunately Sony didn't do a good job on it.
Only presets that came with the app worked, learning function didn't.
At first I thought that it was only my device that didn't work, but after searching a bit, I found out that
almost every ZL user faced this problem.
I gave up on the IR remote and went with a custom ROM.
Until yesterday I found this app that someone made for the Tablet Z.
It's called TSRemote, it only has the learning function for now.
The author seems busy and hasn't updated it for a while.
Hopefully someone can work on this project, it's opened source on GITHUB.
Link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2385277
The layout will be overlapped since it's meant for Tablet Z, you need to change the app DPI to 260-280 and it will look good.
Tested working with OMNI ROM 4.4
link is not working..
The stock IR app is functioning normally (including learning feature) under 4.3 10.4.B.0.569. If you are comfortable with the stock Sony firmware then you should consider updating to this firmware.
Really? Didn't know that...
Haven't gone back to stock ROM after flashing a custom one.
I'll try that soon.
Anyways, I think this is still good news for AOSP users.
Since IR remote is one of the function that haven't been implemented to the ROMS.
People might want to stay with AOSP rom and have an IR remote.
Well it's all about preferences.
glasseffects said:
The stock IR app is functioning normally (including learning feature) under 4.3 10.4.B.0.569. If you are comfortable with the stock Sony firmware then you should consider updating to this firmware.
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Oh, really? That's cool, hope 4.3 will arrive in germany soon! Don't want to flash a different ftf...
Xperia ZL, 4.2.2 Stock (.67), rooted
I flashed back to stock rom and tested!
It does work as it should, and it was fixed already in the 4.2.2 - 10.3.1.A.2.67 version
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Oh, really? That's cool, hope 4.3 will arrive in germany soon! Don't want to flash a different ftf...
Xperia ZL, 4.2.2 Stock (.67), rooted
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You may flash the Generic stock firmware followed by this kernel and you have stock Sony experience with root and recovery.
Here In India , C6502 Xperia Zl 4.3 learning function didnt work ....
hijagdeep said:
Here In India , C6502 Xperia Zl 4.3 learning function didnt work ....
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what do u wish to learn?? I'm learn all brands of TV is working for me.. from 4.2.2 until now.. i went to vacation and having few hotels before.. all unbrand tv, im tried to learn remote control signal and its worked very well.. only aircond cannot work even succeed learnt.. i think there are some miss out for aircond like temperature in sony stock remote apps..
so do u try learn tv remote control?? or u just learn aircond??
ChuanHong said:
what do u wish to learn?? I'm learn all brands of TV is working for me.. from 4.2.2 until now.. i went to vacation and having few hotels before.. all unbrand tv, im tried to learn remote control signal and its worked very well.. only aircond cannot work even succeed learnt.. i think there are some miss out for aircond like temperature in sony stock remote apps..
so do u try learn tv remote control?? or u just learn aircond??
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I tried to learn remote of my local FASTWAY cable setup box (tried both hd STB and normal STB)
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ChuanHong said:
all unbrand tv, im tried to learn remote control signal and its worked very well.. only aircond cannot work even succeed learnt.. i think there are some miss out for aircond like temperature in sony stock remote apps..
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So, you're saying that you can confirm that there are cases where Sony's Remote Control App's "Manual Setup" feature says it learns the IR command successfully, and then is also able to replicate that command to the device successfully?
And with the same device, it sometimes also states it learned the command successfully, while infact pressing the button doesn't seem to replace that command to the target device?
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So, you're saying that you can confirm that there are cases where Sony's Remote Control App's "Manual Setup" feature says it learns the IR command successfully, and then is also able to replicate that command to the device successfully?
And with the same device, it sometimes also states it learned the command successfully, while infact pressing the button doesn't seem to replace that command to the target device?
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Yea my case is I stay 3 hotel are unbranded tv and not in preset remote. I personally learn the signal from its remote control and succeed to use it. Only on TV. Others device never tried yet.
ChuanHong said:
Yea my case is I stay 3 hotel are unbranded tv and not in preset remote. I personally learn the signal from its remote control and succeed to use it. Only on TV. Others device never tried yet.
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I was wondering because I know many people experience problems with the remote IR learning feature. In an attempt to get to the bottom of this, I was wondering if your case could be special.
However, in the meantime I received word that Xperia ZL units manufactured before week 18 of 2013 have a hardware production fault that prevents proper IR learning. I have yet to receive a working ZL (I sent it in for repair twice already).
For anyone in the same boat, check out the link in my sig.
bouvrie said:
I was wondering because I know many people experience problems with the remote IR learning feature. In an attempt to get to the bottom of this, I was wondering if your case could be special.
However, in the meantime I received word that Xperia ZL units manufactured before week 18 of 2013 have a hardware production fault that prevents proper IR learning. I have yet to receive a working ZL (I sent it in for repair twice already).
For anyone in the same boat, check out the link in my sig.
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many?! mean how many? Probability more than 50%?? Probably i'm lucky. And i have to mentioned im only had try to learn the TV remote control which cant found the Present Brand or TV in preset settings.. I learned and succeed to control the hotel TV. I had tried air conditioner which is failed to me.
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And i have to mentioned im only had try to learn the TV remote control which cant found the Present Brand or TV in preset settings.. I learned and succeed to control the hotel TV..
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So IR learning works on your device. What's the manufacturing date of your ZL?
ZXR said:
So IR learning works on your device. What's the manufacturing date of your ZL?
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Sorry how to check it? I know I bought it at June.
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Sorry how to check it? I know I bought it at June.
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You can find the date when unfolding the label where the SIM and the SD are. Mine is from 13W06 and IR learning does not work.
ZXR said:
You can find the date when unfolding the label where the SIM and the SD are. Mine is from 13W06 and IR learning does not work.
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Last month just change motherboard and battery. Now is 13W43
Hi guys sorry if this is a silly question but I am wondering if the accelerometer on the Sony Smartwatch 2 is activated on the default firmware. I know the Pebble's wasn't until the recent update. According to reading there definitely seems to be one: https://developer.sony.com/develop/wearables/smartwatch-2-apis/guides/hardware-specifications/ but I haven't found an application that actually uses it.
Is it possible to to use it to track your steps via the accelerometer without having to have the phone in your pocket (but obviously having to be within Bluetooth range)?
Unless perhaps my accelerometer on my specific SW2 is broken.
Thanks in advance!
If you download the examples from Sony for developing for SW2, there is an axample app for the sensor.
Anyway the sensibility of the sensor only makes it suitable for detecting movement and turn on screen accordingly and no much more I guess
It's active. I know of 3 apps off the top of my head that use it. Yes, it can be used as a step counter. I know of one app that uses it for that, but it only works when the app is open.
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It's active. I know of 3 apps off the top of my head that use it. Yes, it can be used as a step counter. I know of one app that uses it for that, but it only works when the app is open.
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Thanks for the reply. Could you tell me which app it is that counts steps?
According to the attached picture extracted from the Sony site there is definitely an accelerometer capable of being a pedometer. The app I have (walkmate) only counts my step with my phone in my pocket - i.e. it is only using the watch as a display and not a counter.
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Thanks for the reply. Could you tell me which app it is that counts steps?.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kodeglam.sw.pet&hl=en
Kill_dano, no
Trespassing said:
Kill_dano, no
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oh ye of little faith, I made this for you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vdr2chCMTg&list=UUTGvaEtVzIoOwcss-Nrg4OA
It's private.. can't access
Link made public now. Oops.
Hi, what is the app you installed?
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Hi, what is the app you installed?
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Hi guys,
I would like to know if there's a possibility to display the battery status of a connected Bluetooth device on the Oneplus 3? Natively or via a third party app? Ideally for me, it should work on the stock ROM but if necessary I would flash a custom one if it would only be possible that way.
Thanks in advance :good:
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Hi guys,
I would like to know if there's a possibility to display the battery status of a connected Bluetooth device on the Oneplus 3? Natively or via a third party app? Ideally for me, it should work on the stock ROM but if necessary I would flash a custom one if it would only be possible that way.
Thanks in advance :good:
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lineage os and others support this natively thou unlike the iphone way we just have a small icon next to the bluetooh icon displayying the amount of battery left
Joshinho. said:
Hi guys,
I would like to know if there's a possibility to display the battery status of a connected Bluetooth device on the Oneplus 3? Natively or via a third party app? Ideally for me, it should work on the stock ROM but if necessary I would flash a custom one if it would only be possible that way.
Thanks in advance :good:
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Hi
Check an app called BatON (by limitium)
Have not used it personally though.
pvramk said:
Hi
Check an app called BatON (by limitium)
Have not used it personally though.
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Thanks for the suggestion but it doesn't seem to work with my specific pair of headphones :/ If that means that they don't send battery information to the phone I probably can't get it to work with any solution.
Joshinho. said:
Thanks for the suggestion but it doesn't seem to work with my specific pair of headphones :/ If that means that they don't send battery information to the phone I probably can't get it to work with any solution.
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Sorry to hear that.
FWIW after suggesting the app to you, I did try it out. It seemed to work with my pair of blue tooth headphones during the limited time I used it..
Going by the comments about the app in the play store, it looks like the usage is limited based on the manufacturer of the blue tooth device....
Just to close this topic: This feature was released in Open Beta 19 and for me it works great!
how to enable that??? by default its not showing when connected......... im on latest beta
Joshinho. said:
Just to close this topic: This feature was released in Open Beta 19 and for me it works great!
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How do you activate it? I have a watch connected and it's not showing anything
I didn't have to activate it. For me it just worked. Your Bluetooth device still has to support sending its battery information to the phone. In this months Open Beta update there were some fixes for this feature. Maybe it works for you now?
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Sony Mobile is committed to supporting the open developer community, and one way to show this is by publishing parts of our code as well as selected tools developed by our internal developers.
For some of the Xperia™ devices, we provide Android™ Open Source Project (AOSP) device configurations on GitHub. This means that the software will be open for you as a developer to use and contribute to. This is a way for us to support the open Android community, and it is also a tool for us to facilitate and verify contributions to AOSP.
If you want to build AOSP for your unlocked Xperia device, you find all the resources you need in the sections below.
https://developer.sony.com/develop/open-devices/
Unified 4.4 kernel sources
https://github.com/sonyxperiadev/kernel
Project git
https://github.com/sonyxperiadev/
Bug tracker
https://github.com/sonyxperiadev/bug_tracker/issues
Now you can build the latest Android with the latest 4.4 kernel
Thanks for all the hard work and keeping the resources easily accessible and up-to-date. I will be using them for sure .
Thank you for providing these resources and keeping up development for the devices they support. I notice that the dynamic resolution switch in the extended settings doesn't work on android 8.0 or 8.1. Are there any plans to add support for this back in at any point?
Sepo190 said:
Thank you for providing these resources and keeping up development for the devices they support. I notice that the dynamic resolution switch in the extended settings doesn't work on android 8.0 or 8.1. Are there any plans to add support for this back in at any point?
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we are working on the issue
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J
It says here that we can change the display to native 4K at 60hz or 1080 at 120hz with your AOSP https://androplus.org/Entry/4577/
The previous comment says it's not working in 8.0 or 8.1, but I don't see an open issue about it in your bug tracker. Was it fixed?
If it wasn't available for 8.0 and 8.1, what version is it available on?
I hope los and rr now.
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It says here that we can change the display to native 4K at 60hz or 1080 at 120hz with your AOSP https://androplus.org/Entry/4577/
The previous comment says it's not working in 8.0 or 8.1, but I don't see an open issue about it in your bug tracker. Was it fixed?
If it wasn't available for 8.0 and 8.1, what version is it available on?
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Just to be sure, I opened an issue in the bug tracker for it.
@jerpelea, if you would like the issue to be closed, I'll happily close it.
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Just to be sure, I opened an issue in the bug tracker for it.
@jerpelea, if you would like the issue to be closed, I'll happily close it.
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we are working on it
please leave it open
Vendor v11 is out
https://developer.sony.com/develop/open-devices/latest-updates
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Vendor v11 is out
https://developer.sony.com/develop/open-devices/latest-updates
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Is there a changelog or something like that? I had issues with these binaries and AOSP builds from last week. A few days later I noticed a commit that mentioned these new binaries, but after that the "Fingerprint" setting is gone, so I'm now using a build of 08-03-2018 with the V10 binaries.
To be honest, I haven't tried a factory reset nor flashing userdata.img, so when I get home I'll update the repo, build a new version and do a full reset.
@jerpelea why Sony remove the FM radio feature on all modern Xperia phones? Why??? The hardware capability is there. Why you cripple the phone on purpose?
Can you please give a logical explanation about this issue?
When will Sony give me back this feature?
And why Sony block the Displayport alt mode? Again you cripple the phone on purpose.
And why I cannot root my phone without losing DRM keys? How to backup my DRM keys??? Please tell me.
I am waiting for answers but my patience is slowly running out.
Thanks Sony for being so user friendly.
If Sony don't fix these issues soon I will never buy Sony products ever again and I sell my Xperia's, my Playstations, my Walkmans, my Sony TV's and all my other Sony products. And I tell all the people that I know to do the same.
It's your choice Sony.
lebigmac said:
@jerpelea why Sony remove the FM radio feature on all modern Xperia phones? Why??? The hardware capability is there. Why you cripple the phone on purpose?
Can you please give a logical explanation about this issue?
When will Sony give me back this feature?
And why Sony block the Displayport alt mode? Again you cripple the phone on purpose.
I am waiting but my patience is slowly fading away.
And why I cannot root my phone without losing DRM keys? How to backup my DRM keys??? Please tell me.
Thanks Sony for being so user friendly.
If Sony don't fix these issues soon I will never buy Sony products ever again and I sell my Xperia's, my Playstations, my Walkmans, my Sony TV's and all my other Sony products. And I tell all the people that I know to do the same.
It's your choice Sony.
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Nice try but Sony will ignore it like every other vendor.
Moarten said:
Is there a changelog or something like that? I had issues with these binaries and AOSP builds from last week. A few days later I noticed a commit that mentioned these new binaries, but after that the "Fingerprint" setting is gone, so I'm now using a build of 08-03-2018 with the V10 binaries.
To be honest, I haven't tried a factory reset nor flashing userdata.img, so when I get home I'll update the repo, build a new version and do a full reset.
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the fingerprint has been fixed and now it is working as it should (stability issues are fixed)
please update your device with the latest Sony Sw before flashing AOSP
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Nice try but Sony will ignore it like every other vendor.
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No. Some manufacturers actually care about their users. Not all smartphone manufacturers cripple the phone on purpose the way Sony does it.
lebigmac said:
@jerpelea why Sony remove the FM radio feature on all modern Xperia phones? Why??? The hardware capability is there. Why you cripple the phone on purpose?
Can you please give a logical explanation about this issue?
When will Sony give me back this feature?
And why Sony block the Displayport alt mode? Again you cripple the phone on purpose.
And why I cannot root my phone without losing DRM keys? How to backup my DRM keys??? Please tell me.
I am waiting for answers but my patience is slowly running out.
Thanks Sony for being so user friendly.
If Sony don't fix these issues soon I will never buy Sony products ever again and I sell my Xperia's, my Playstations, my Walkmans, my Sony TV's and all my other Sony products. And I tell all the people that I know to do the same.
It's your choice Sony.
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Unfortunately I can't answer those questions since I am just a developer
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jerpelea said:
the fingerprint has been fixed and now it is working as it should (stability issues are fixed)
please update your device with the latest Sony Sw before flashing AOSP
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J
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Great, thanks. I've returned to the stock roms now, but will try AOSP again soon.
jerpelea... Remeber well from the early FXP Times back on My SONY Devices. Can't wait to try out XODP after Years without SONY Devices. Thanks a lot for still contributing that much to the Xperias! True Hero!
i think you should support dual sim cards,i flash aosp for g8142 but it cant use 2 sim cards
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i think you should support dual sim cards,i flash aosp for g8142 but it cant use 2 sim cards
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I am using a XA2 Dual sim with Android 8.1 and it works fine
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