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Xperia Play: Photo LED flickering/pulsating... normal?

Hi,
I've downloaded the Widget "Xperia Arc Flashlight" so I can use the Xperia Play photolight on the backside as a very bright flashlight.
But: The LED does light constantly with some kind of visible short pulse... like a slight flicker or interruption. Is this normal?
Could you check if your phones behave like this, too? It's slightly visible but it IS visible and I want to know if there's s.th. wrong.
Thanks

system02 said:
Hi,
I've downloaded the Widget "Xperia Arc Flashlight" so I can use the Xperia Play photolight on the backside as a very bright flashlight.
But: The LED does light constantly with some kind of visible short pulse... like a slight flicker or interruption. Is this normal?
Could you check if your phones behave like this, too? It's slightly visible but it IS visible and I want to know if there's s.th. wrong.
Thanks
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Sometimes happens to to me when I'm overusing it,but after a few minutes it goes normal

Oha... thanks for your reply.
The Xperia Play is new and about 20min "old" ;-)
defective or not!?

Just as system02 said. It must be that kind of thing like the gap from the slider, although it shouldn't do like that.

Every single phone that has an LED flash does the same thing when used as a flashlight. It's completely normal.

It's not normal because:
- my 1st Play didn't have this issue
- my Arc didn't have this issue
- my Blackberry 9700 doesn't have this issue
I've updatet the software on my new Xperia Play and I thought it could have s.th. to do with the update...!?

zerojay said:
Every single phone that has an LED flash does the same thing when used as a flashlight. It's completely normal.
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None of my phones in the past flickered at all, my Play does it all the time, I think its a design issue somewhere.

mine used to do that but I used toggle auto brightness app from the market and it no longer does it.
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My old Legend used to blink it's LED from time to time, but no where near as noticeable as the Play's LED. Not exactly an issue for me though.

mine flickers when using video camera with lights on and when using Power Control Plus to turn on Flashlight. Nevertheless, it's very useful when the power goes out especially now it's kinda stormy here..
looking at the frequency of the issue, i think it's very normal..
PS, mine's bought in Hong Kong then flashed to UK, same issue eversince..

Not sure if they're linked but mine's been fine since i disabled the auto light sensor but before i disabled it, the led did flicker quite badly
tom
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Mine does the exact same thing, when using video recorder in the dark its like ive hit the strobe light button.. its ok for about 4-5secs then its like ive walked into cream in ibiza, it goes nuts.. ive had lots of xperia phones,, x10i x10 mini, x10 mini pro, etc none had the issue, i had it on the original firmware and now i have it on the 2.3.4 rom posted on this forum..
Its a strange one and kinda annoying

Sorry to bring this thread back, but the pulsating/flicker, I've seen on 3 Play's, from 2.3.2 - 2.3.3 - 2.3.4.
All 3 did it on all 3 software updates.
Uk phones, with the 2.3.2/2.3.3 uk updates, and then the Nordic update.
It's pulsating/flickering 50 times a minute, so 50hz(is that right?), increasing it's rate would effectively make it palatable to the human eye, and also remove the refresh lines you get from bright or close up subjects when using the flash as a light, seen on the recording screen, and on the actual recording...looking like old monitor refresh rates as seen through a camera with the travelling black lines.
Sony Ericsson support were useless when I mentioned it to them, stating if it was a fault, it would be fixed.
Is there any way to report this as a fault, or to fix it, or am I stuck with Customer Service Support Agents(call centre staff, basically.).
Is there any way or even a strobe app, that allows control of the light.
I know there's one on the windows phone that has a control for this issue.
LED Flashlight it's called, and the update fixes "Increased refresh rate to fix LED flickering on some phones."

Hi, I've the same problem. I also noticed that Led flick only when phone has mobile network turned on. When is on airplane mode it's normal.
Can someone else confirm? Maybe this problem can be solved with a baseband update.
EDIT: I found that this problem disappear when phone run in 3g, so it's about gsm.

Strange.. when I first bought the phone.. turned the LED on, it flickers..
Then today, after a week+ I tested it again and it's ok...
However, my earpiece speaker has blown up and cracking.. I've done some research and it seemed that there are so many users which have similar issues (either with the LED, the earpiece, etc) - It's sad to say that some xplay builds are defective from the start - could be from the hardware batch.

neato4u said:
Strange.. when I first bought the phone.. turned the LED on, it flickers..
Then today, after a week+ I tested it again and it's ok...
However, my earpiece speaker has blown up and cracking.. I've done some research and it seemed that there are so many users which have similar issues (either with the LED, the earpiece, etc) - It's sad to say that some xplay builds are defective from the start - could be from the hardware batch.
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Can you repeat the test in 2g?
Btw I checked the call quality: in 3g I heard nothing in background, in 2g I heard a intermittent buzzing.
Maybe in 2g that isn't a problem in the sense that it's common in every phone that make a 2g call, or it may be a radio problem that can be related to led issue..
I think that tomorrow I'll try to call someone at sony ericsson.

I did the test and it is true, in flight mode the light dont flik. Now i want to know what is the base band of you that have the same issue.
Thanks.

Mine did that on AT&T's 2.3.3, Now on DarkForest ICS with Darkforest Kernel, doesnt do it.

Mine always flickers, using two different flashlight apps.
Sent from a Galaxy far, far away

Hey dudes, i want to tell you that i solved the problem, i flashed the phone with the android 2.3.2 and it works fine now as too the HSUPA and GPS that i was having problems.
Thank you,

[Q] Screen doesnt come up in sunlight..!!

Hello all,
I have this very annoying problem from so long now.. and I guess I am not the only one who has it.. Whenever I travel on bike and I take my cell out of my pocket under sunlight to change the song or to call someone, the screen doesnt come up.. it goes blank, even if I am listening to some song, still I dont see anything on the screen... Its really annoying.. Also whenever I receive any call under sunlight, I can't disconnect it.. Why the heck sony doesnt have a stable GB software even though ICS has been rolled out now.. Sometimes I feel Samsung is way better than Sony.. seriously.. I feel that I should have gone for the SGSII rather than Xperia Arc.. And u cant compromise everytime when u r investing more than 25K bucks...

In wat way you mean that the screen goes blank? I couldn't get you,
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I had the same problem. The first one was after a trip on motorcycle, phone in the pocket. Impossible to have something on the screen while i was able to see the backlight turned on. I left it like that all day long and it resuscitated. Then, recently, it made me the same thing while it was in my bag all day. And even by leaving it on a table, later it was not resuscitated, I have reinstalled the rom, twice to resuscitate it.
During the first crash I was able to see the log file, I remember that there were lines in red which indicated " starting of the module LM365x (or an equivalent number) failed " very numerous times.
Good luck to you to resuscitate your phone!

Do you have screen brightness on automatic maybe?
It could be the sensor think it's bright enough not to switch on the backlight?

Hi, what do u mean by having auto brightness on? How to do it?
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Mines on full brightness and its still hard for me
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mandarjoshiin said:
Hi, what do u mean by having auto brightness on? How to do it?
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Auto brightness is on by default and there's no settings for you to change it.. Try keeping your finger closing the sensor and wake it up!
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Is 14.3.A.0.757 as bug-free and stable as .114?

I’m usually the first to hit the Update button on anything I own, but after reading about all the bugs that Sony introduced with the firmware updates following .114, I chose not to update mine. I’ve been stuck with a permanent notification in my Notification Shade informing me of the update ever since but that is a small price to pay for a relatively bug-free phone.
Now that .757 is released, is it safe to take the plunge? I am in no particular hurry because I cannot think on anything in KitKat that I particularly want and I know that Sony hasn’t fixed my major issues with the phone anyway. I know the camera isn’t any better in low light, the proximity sensor lag remains and the fast dormancy “feature” that drains up to 40% of the phone’s battery every day is still there.
But if it is as stable as .114, I’d like to be on the latest and greatest again. Your opinion is welcome. Thank you.

Android 4.4 has a general bug with the sound (google problem) but apart from that I can't find anything wrong. Battery seems great. In fact I like it better than the 4.3 rom.
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I did not get any bug yet.. But if u r not rooted then dont upgrade.. Else it will reduce functionality of ur sd card
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coolkoushik07 said:
I did not get any bug yet.. But if u r not rooted then dont upgrade.. Else it will reduce functionality of ur sd card
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Oh yes, I was nothing but shocked when I installed KK - I'm mean is this an open source droid or a locked down fruit phone?
Not to forget to mention that email+exchange permissions is changed (for my company mail which uses ms exchange servers).
PIN requirement is not enough on KK, only password with atleast 4 letters, 2 numbers and 3 signs
Takes a week to unlock your phone unless you root and install an old hacked version of email+exchange.apk+the risk of getting sacked (if they would find out).
Only thing I miss from KK is the Stamina icon but the GEL Xperia Xposed dev is looking into porting it :good:

coolkoushik07 said:
Else it will reduce functionality of ur sd card
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What does this mean?
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rkelsen said:
What does this mean?
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Other apps cant perform operations in sd card in kitkat without root..
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Thanks for the responses, guys. Are there any new features in KitKat, from either Google or Sony, worth updating for?

Google camera.
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[SIC] said:
Takes a week to unlock your phone unless you root and install an old hacked version of email+exchange.apk+the risk of getting sacked (if they would find out).
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There is an Xposed mod: http://repo.xposed.info/module/org.flacid.exchangebypass

i've been in kk using RomAur 3.0 and performs great. No bugs, wifi is more stable (but wiht the same cuts and problems of stock 757 rom) than 114.
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I considered rooting it but the process seems to be far too convoluted for me to attempt. I'm happy with stock.
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juried said:
Google camera.
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Why do you think it is better than Sony’s Camera app? It does not remove the low light issue (where the camera bumps up the ISO much more than it strictly needs to and makes the photos a grainy, unusable mess) and it does not have a manual mode, so you can tackle it yourself. While I like the sparse interface, I have to stick with Sony’s app, because this phone’s camera is useless without manual mode in low light.
Also, on an unrelated note, can any one of you help me get the Personalised Recognition feature back in Google Now? I used to have it in the settings menu but don’t anymore. It disappeared while I was on .114 and I was hoping that updating to .757 would bring it back, but it hasn’t. Do you guys have it?

Sorry to keep bumping my own thread, but this message is just to help out other users who are thinking of installing this update. My recommendation is: go for it!
I had a long list of annoyances with this phone, but I updated to .757 yesterday and it has fixed almost all the issues I had on .114. The major issues that have been addressed:
The Fast Dormancy bug seems to be gone. That Android process that was eating up 40% of my battery life every day no longer shows up on the battery usage screen.
The proximity sensor delay is gone. You bring the phone away from your ear and the display turns on instantly. Magic!
So far, I have no experienced the keyboard skipping issue, so I hope that is taken care of as well.
The only major issue that remains is that the camera is still terrible in low light, thanks to the software that bumps up the ISO needlessly to insane levels. But I can live with that.
I no longer regret buying this thing.

aryayush said:
Sorry to keep bumping my own thread, but this message is just to help out other users who are thinking of installing this update. My recommendation is: go for it!
I had a long list of annoyances with this phone, but I updated to .757 yesterday and it has fixed almost all the issues I had on .114. The major issues that have been addressed:
The Fast Dormancy bug seems to be gone. That Android process that was eating up 40% of my battery life every day no longer shows up on the battery usage screen.
The proximity sensor delay is gone. You bring the phone away from your ear and the display turns on instantly. Magic!
So far, I have no experienced the keyboard skipping issue, so I hope that is taken care of as well.
The only major issue that remains is that the camera is still terrible in low light, thanks to the software that bumps up the ISO needlessly to insane levels. But I can live with that.
I no longer regret buying this thing.
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I know it's not really a solution, but keep your cam in manual mode and alter the ISO manually. Every phone I've ever used with a camera (iPhones are particularly bad offenders) ALWAYS overcompensate on the ISO in every single environment other than outside on a bright day.
You'll get spectacular improvements if you just get into the habit of entering manual mode, and altering the ISO to the lowest you can get away with (while keeping all the other options on auto) each time you're taking a photo. As far as Im concerned it's far better that way and produces better results than either superior auto or the iPhone's one-button-capture simplicity.

Thanks. I already do that but the default camera app does not make it easy to change the ISO. It takes at least five taps from within the main camera interface to change the ISO and come back. Often, by the time you are done experimenting with the ISO settings, the subject has moved on. Or you end up with a reasonably well lit but blurry shot because the camera UI makes no attempt to inform you of the shutter speed when you take the shot. I have no found any camera apps on the Play Store that make up for these deficiencies either.

aryayush said:
Thanks. I already do that but the default camera app does not make it easy to change the ISO. It takes at least five taps from within the main camera interface to change the ISO and come back. Often, by the time you are done experimenting with the ISO settings, the subject has moved on. Or you end up with a reasonably well lit but blurry shot because the camera UI makes no attempt to inform you of the shutter speed when you take the shot. I have no found any camera apps on the Play Store that make up for these deficiencies either.
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Yeah fair enough. Good point.

i have a screen issue. same as a problem the video has been upload to youtube. 10 fingers touch the screen not stable.. also issue is when i draw/sketch on the screen. but only happen some times. on a day happen 10 times or more.
i did flash many kind of custom rom.. but the issue still exist.

shaldi said:
i have a screen issue. same as a problem the video has been upload to youtube. 10 fingers touch the screen not stable.. also issue is when i draw/sketch on the screen. but only happen some times. on a day happen 10 times or more.
i did flash many kind of custom rom.. but the issue still exist.
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What kind of screen issue do u have??
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Good thing for me that went from .114 directly to .757 (i am rooted also)
Camera app have now a 15Meg option
Transparency
Bad things
Conversations.apk (the SMS/MMS app from Sony) is full of bugs. And when I mean full, I really mean it.
Sometimes messages that i already read in the conversations, disappears. All I would see is the blue bubble showing that there's a message, but without the text of the messages. So far this seems to only affect SMS, not MMS.
The color of the bubble when you type, let say blue, and the color of the bubble of the other person talking to you, let say faded blue, often get switch, so reading a conversation might become difficult.
To get the difficulty level higher in following your conversation, sometimes even the side of the screen your bubble is supposed to be attached switch. I mean here, that when you type, your message is next to right side, and your friends reply is next to left side. But now, sometimes you switch side all of a sudden, or worst, sometimes you're on the same side then your interlocutor. Reading SMS with the conversation.apk is totally hardcore now.
Another thing that really piss be off, but I do not know if this is from 757 or if it was already in 114, since I did not use this app in 114, it is the Email software. The Email software stacks/bundles all the messages with the same subjet title when someone reply or transfer your email. (like Gmail does in a browser by default). I really hate this functionality, I prefer to just scroll down to see the previous message if I need to. Unfortunately for me, there's no option in the app to unstack/ungroup emails messages.
Another problem I have with the Email app, this is a bug, because it wasn't doing this in previous build, it is that the Small yellow icon on the icon that tells you that there's 1,2,3 what ever number unread messages, and also the Mail icon in the notification bar, does not go away upon opening the email message. You need to actually press the back button to exit the new messages for it to be marked as read, so that the icon and the notification bar adjust. So if you open an email messages, press the home button to do whatever else, then look back at your notification bar or email icon, you'll think you got new email message, but in fact, it's the same one that is still marked as unread, even if you did open it and read it...
Email and SMS/MMS apps are what I use the most on my phone, I've been using them since I got my first Xperia X10 Mini Pro that was running 1.6, but I've never had that much trouble, they have so many annoying bugs right now. The only problem I've had was the notification LED bug on my Xperia Mini Pro running ICS.
Another thing that I hate, but this is not from 757, but from JellyBean. I come from ICS, and what I hate the most, is the damn white background of all apps. It use more battery and it hurts my eyes in low light room even with minimum brightness. I just wish a stable CyanogenMod with black background pops like in ICS so that I can install it. I've seen some topic about it over here, but they only explain how to uncompile and recompile, too much complicated, I'd rather simply have a package I could simply install with CWM.
EDIT: Oh yeah, I forgot to mention another bug. Somehow the auto-rotate of the screen stopped working twice in the last 2 weeks. Each time I need to go in the accessibility options and uncheck/recheck the auto-rotate option to fix this. (grrr need to wait 5 minutes to be able to edit my msg #xdaforumantispam)

This phone has an LED-backlit LCD display. It does not affect the phone's battery life whether the screen is white or black. Not enough to make a practical difference, in any case.
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Screen looking washed out

Have any other Z5 premium users noticed that sometimes when you wake up the screen it looks super washed out almost LG G3 esque for a second or 2 then it goes back to looking normal?
Just wondering if there's an explanation, it's a common thing or i have a faulty handset.
Thanks

Darkwun said:
Have any other Z5 premium users noticed that sometimes when you wake up the screen it looks super washed out almost LG G3 esque for a second or 2 then it goes back to looking normal?
Just wondering if there's an explanation, it's a common thing or i have a faulty handset.
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Don't think it's faulty. Very noticable to me on very dark screens. If you turn off Adaptive Brightness in settings this doesn't happen. It's just trying to adjust the screen to a proper brightness.

I have had the same issue.
Normally if I wake the phone up directly into an app that had a dark background i can easily see this. I find that pressing the recent apps key, selecting another app and then going back into the washed out app helps to remedy the problem if it does not sort itself out.

This happens for me as well. Note this also happened on my z3. Im not all that worried about it. The washed out display is usually sorted within a few seconds. If it bothers you that much, turning off adaptive brightness get rid of the issue as mentioned earlier.

I've taken to using Lux Auto, it resolved the issue.

They talked about it on the Sony forums, there's a bug in the adaptive brightness and Sony said that they are fixing it for the 6.0 update
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Always notice it when I leave my keyboard open and lock screen. When I unlock it later the keyboard looks all washed out then fades back to normal. Never bothered me though on this or previous Sony phones
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Cheers for the answers guess i'll wait for this 6.0 update to drop to see if it fixes it

Darkwun said:
Cheers for the answers guess i'll wait for this 6.0 update to drop to see if it fixes it
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Good Luck
We're on 7.0 and it is still not working. My screen becomes the dimmest in sunlight or bright days, that's exactly when I need it the brightest and it becomes dim - Sonny ? or Funny !
I am tired of this phone.
May 5th.
So when I am tired I am trying the most crazy things....
Installed LUX Auto Brightness - 48 hours and not a single problem.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vito.lux
I organized the application a bit, Min brightness 40% , Max - 100% , link your 0 lux ambient to 60% brightness and use other good stuff.
This application controls the Z5 Brightness so that it gives me what need.
Of course my Z5 adaptive brightness is OFF.
I can not explain how this does it, even me being an EE, but still Job is done.
This was very frustrating so you can understand my excitement.

Overheating problem while using google cardboard

Hello
I have a problem with the h815 (black leather)
I bought a vr box, so i can enjoy the google cardboard options
But while using it after 30 minutes the device begins to say : the phone is overheating if this continues the phone will shut down
5 minutes later it shuts off...
And after that i cant boot the device for 5 minutes.
But another thing i notice, in the begin when i start using it every things runs fine and lag free.
After some time lets say 15 a 25 minutes everything begins 2 lag, video's are lagging and watching 380grade picture also.
Some one has idea for preventing it too overheat?
And also who hase the same problem . or has a google cardboard box en not having the problem
I did not yet experience any overheating while playing a game. but I don't game that often
I currently running on my device
Custom rom marshmallow genisys 3.5 exposed edition with the stock rooted kernel 20b

My old G4 (h811) used to have the same issue. I had one of the ones with a bad motherboard so i kinda knew why. Have you tried closing all app besides google cardboard? If so have you tried turning on the core control and temp. Throttle in kernel auduitor (assuming you have root) if none of those help then i dont know. Thats all i got.

Eddiekool12 said:
My old G4 (h811) used to have the same issue. I had one of the ones with a bad motherboard so i kinda knew why. Have you tried closing all app besides google cardboard? If so have you tried turning on the core control and temp. Throttle in kernel auduitor (assuming you have root) if none of those help then i dont know. Thats all i got.
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I use stock rooted kernel soo cant clock it down
and yes I close all apps
thank you for thinking !

Nothing wrong with the overheating, that's what happens when u push the phone. As simple as that.
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mazroui said:
Nothing wrong with the overheating, that's what happens when u push the phone. As simple as that.
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decoding 1080p video in the google cardboard modus. and overheating while doing that..
Little bit strange don't you think?