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Hello there.
I bough my second hand Xperia Play few months ago and it was fine. I rooted it, but kept stock ROM, as I found out my device have forbidden access to bootloader (and it cannot be done, or at least that's how I understood it - nevermind it now).
It was fine, until let's say 3 weeks ago. My phone started to graphically glitch in a very weird way. It grew worse and worse and now I cannot use it anymore ... unless it "wants" to, because sometimes the phone works perfectly normally.
I captured the problem with my second phone ... it's not so high quality, but please try to imagine the weird colours and shapes you see on the screen, only that in reality, they are extra sharp. It looks like colourful grains of sand
youtube.com/watch?v=S1qkkiuEU8M&feature=youtu.be
I suppose something has happened with graphic chip in the device and while this has happened before (to my w550i), this case is a bit different. It works sometimes. I push OFF button and it shows grain. I push it again and grain is there again. But sometimes it normally shows me unlocking slider, I unlock it and it's OK. Sometimes it stucks during unlocking and while the phone works, display shows last working state, for example unlocking slider in the middle of sliding.
I've tried to search for such topic, if it happened before, but wasn't able to come with good search terms to start with : /
I also tried to restart the phone many times, to no avail (grain display is simply during startup too), or even install ROM again through SE updater ... nothing. That was my last choice, now I'm clueless.
Anyone who knows about this issue, from different mobile phone (it doesn't matter), or if it can be repaired by me, or in shop for money (that wouldn't cost more than new phone) or simply any hint you can give me ? I'll be glad, will appreciate it.
EDIT: I added photo too:
i48.tinypic.com/2z71ypy.jpg
Again - it looks like that, only much sharper.
Martyrius said:
Hello there.
I bough my second hand Xperia Play few months ago and it was fine. I rooted it, but kept stock ROM, as I found out my device have forbidden access to bootloader (and it cannot be done, or at least that's how I understood it - nevermind it now).
It was fine, until let's say 3 weeks ago. My phone started to graphically glitch in a very weird way. It grew worse and worse and now I cannot use it anymore ... unless it "wants" to, because sometimes the phone works perfectly normally.
I captured the problem with my second phone ... it's not so high quality, but please try to imagine the weird colours and shapes you see on the screen, only that in reality, they are extra sharp. It looks like colourful grains of sand
youtube.com/watch?v=S1qkkiuEU8M&feature=youtu.be
I suppose something has happened with graphic chip in the device and while this has happened before (to my w550i), this case is a bit different. It works sometimes. I push OFF button and it shows grain. I push it again and grain is there again. But sometimes it normally shows me unlocking slider, I unlock it and it's OK. Sometimes it stucks during unlocking and while the phone works, display shows last working state, for example unlocking slider in the middle of sliding.
I've tried to search for such topic, if it happened before, but wasn't able to come with good search terms to start with : /
I also tried to restart the phone many times, to no avail (grain display is simply during startup too), or even install ROM again through SE updater ... nothing. That was my last choice, now I'm clueless.
Anyone who knows about this issue, from different mobile phone (it doesn't matter), or if it can be repaired by me, or in shop for money (that wouldn't cost more than new phone) or simply any hint you can give me ? I'll be glad, will appreciate it.
EDIT: I added photo too:
i48.tinypic.com/2z71ypy.jpg
Again - it looks like that, only much sharper.
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Imo that should be the flex cable problem, the cable which connects the motherboard and the screen, is damaged. Unroot, send to Sony centre, or maybe you can purchase it from eBay and fix it yourself.
Sent from my awesome Xperia Play with DoomKernel
Thanks man a lot, because you gave me what I needed (second to) most - search terms through which I can find more.
I knew that there has to be cables connecting display with main body somewhere, such as there are similar cables in hinges between notebook display and main body ... but I supposed they would be well crafted, because the mobile is suppose to be sliding between these two states quite often.
I also saw this, to which your another post helped me to go:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1646537
I will now try to learn how to take the phone apart (some are easy, some are hard to do so) and hope for the best. The good thing is that display is probably OK. Display usually costs a lot, right ?
So if I won't be able to take it apart by myself and will be forced to go to repair shop, I will have KNOWLEDGE ( ) and won't be fooled by greedy repairmen, who would want to tax me new display or something apart of cable-replacing/connecting.
Good luck to you mate. All the best.
Sent from my awesome Xperia Play with DoomKernel
OK, news update - so far, nothing real has happened. I contacted one friend whose father repairs stuff, maybe it will help. I also bought set of T4 screwdriver heads so I can remove those buggers on the phone (and if that father-repairman plan fails I'll just do it myself). I also contacted guy from whom I bought the phone (because it's only 3 months old), maybe he will feel a bit guilty (it's actually a shop, not just person) and help me to repair it for bargain price.
We'll see.
And just one question for you, or anyone else who ever did this. How often it is needed to replace flex cable ? Or in other words - how often just connecting it again is enough ? Because buying form ebay isn't option for me (no credit card, no paypal, or whatever is needed - and I live in Central Europe). Not sure if such specialized parts are freely available to buy in electronic shops. After all, Xperia Play isn't so widely spread android phone and to add to improbability - flex cable replacement isn't usual problem too. Or is it ?
Just food for thoughts.
As with most people i like to keep an eye on whats happeiing in the world of tech, the idea being that i will update to the latest best that i can, so for my next phone i have these specifications in mind:
1: Water resistant - my defy has been dropped in puddles, in the sea ( and fetched out from the bottom - only a metre or so deep) as well as a few other scrapes, whats the point in a mobile device if it cant stand up to lifes knocks and bumps, theres plenty of horro stories out there of people suffring water damage for using their phones outside in the rain/in moist environments and so on.
2: User replacable battery - I can spend some time away from power, having a spare battery ready to pop in and go is extremly useful, there are on the go chargers, and i do use them for extended periods away, however the phone+spare battery comes with me, and the on the go charger charges another battery up ( in an external charger) back at base
3: SD card, im currently running out of space on a 32GB card, phones with no removable sotrage often cost much much more per GB extra than the comparable cost with a SD card, also I like the flexibility that removable storage offers.
So whats out there???
Xperia Acro - not available in the UK, so thats that out
Xperia Go, no real improvement over the defy
Xperia Z - no removable battery, expensive, and i dont buy this stamina stuff
Galxy Xcover - old no signifficant improvement
Xcover 2 - not too sure on what to make of it, as far as design goes its not a patch on the defy, as it appears to be quite bulky/chunky ive not seen it in the flesh yet, so at the moment the jurys out ( although im not that convinced)
Xphone - rumour has it that its waterproof (IP57), although some reports are stating because of this ti will have few ports - n SD card, and no removable battery, and at the moment its still a good way off.
So that leaves the Defy, water resistant, removable battery, SD card, just aging a bit
i love my defy.. the repairability level of this phone is great. i've opened mine a couple of times to remove big blue blots on my LCD that were not resolve using the freezer method. every time i get some LCD issues after dropping it i just put it inside the freezer with a watertight container and dead pixels are gone.
i still can't find a replacement for my defy..
Why on earth Motorola doesn't continue to produce Defy series, to launch an improved Defy with dual core Krait, 1 Gig Ram, 8 Gig internal storage, micro SD support, 4.3 inch display SAMOLED or IPS with an over 250 dps resolution, 3300 mAh and no hardware buttons?
Defy was a quite succesfull phone. So I expect the next Defy update to be the same. About the price, I think a 400€ launch price is quite resonable. And there are a lot of Defy fans.
I wanted to buy an Acro S few months ago but I've seen an Xperia S lagging and the software support from Sony is still bad for old phones. So I changed my mind. Now I own an Razr HD with my Defy+ too (was a Defy owner too) and I must recognize I'm still waiting for something great from Moto.
I hope Phone X will make me put my money down.
aperture said:
i love my defy.. the repairability level of this phone is great. i've opened mine a couple of times to remove big blue blots on my LCD that were not resolve using the freezer method. every time i get some LCD issues after dropping it i just put it inside the freezer with a watertight container and dead pixels are gone.
i still can't find a replacement for my defy..
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What do you do after opening I got the same problem(but on Motorola bravo),and also tell me how long do I have to keep it inside freezer. please tell me in details.
My Defy has been to hell and back to earth several times now. So far everything working apart from the capacitive buttons(Home & Search) no longer lid. Intended to continue use until it explode(hopefully not) someday.
I suppose everything is now under scrutiny from Google and perhaps they aren't interested in tougher phones, I mean look at the Nexus 4 and it's glass front and back as an example....a great phone but seems very fragile, espeically compared to a Defy.
I also agree that there probably is a sufficient market for a Defy v3 with better cpu, memory, big battery, tougher glass and case etc and I bet many of us Defy owners would buy one now.
My hope would be that it would have a more rugged case, perhaps more rubbery edges, and a tougher screen and of course not suffer from random reboots which seems to plague many users!
Hello guys,
I hope somebody can help, I am totally shocked, disgusted and angry, and about to swear that I will never EVER buy ANYTHING even remotely related to Sony again.
I have never heard of anybody experiencing anything similar with ANY other phone.
I have put my phone in the pocket together with something else and I have got some hairlines now on the display (I had a tempered glass protection but it did not really work so well apparently).
Nothing too bas, I would not care, but, I cannot use the phone anymore because the display just does not work at all!
I have seen phones of my friends, with EXTREME "spiderweb app", display COMPLETELY destroyed, and they still being able to use it.
I cannot even enter the pin!!!
And this means, I cannot even backup!
All my numbers where on the phone memory, not on the sim (because on the sim I have less characters and I cannot put two numbers on a same contact, and for this last reason I have always procrastinated the export from telephone to sim because I had to take care individually of all those cases where I have more than one number in a contact).
What am i supposed to do???
If I cannot even do a backup to save the contacts or somehow transfer them on the sim, I cannot even send my phone to repair while using the sim on another phone.
And this just now that I have exams and I am searching for a new job and new house and I need to call and be called, ****!
Is there a way to unblock the sim? I mean, not illegally, with my pin, but, externally.
I can connect the phone to the PC, this works, and I could open PC Companion, but I cannot backup because the phone is blocked by the pin!
How can I enter the pin remotely???
What can I do???
Thanks :crying:
First sorry for your unpleasantness, you can try to connect your phone over usb otg with a mouse. :screwy:
Sent from my D5503 using xda premium
I have no usb mouse.
I have a bt mouse but unfortunately the bt on the phone is not active. Is there a way I can activate it remotely, with some kind of developement app or things like that?
Anyway, I have solved the big part of the problem: I was able to backup by simply removing the sim. I had actually though of putting the sim on another phone to change the option of a needed pin. But on the other phone I have there is no way to change that option.
But taking away the sim worked.
So, I could backup all what is more important.
Now, I read a lot (and see lot of offering of used z1 or z3 compact with cracked screen which does not work at all), and it seems that it is just typical of xperia that even a simple hairline on the display completely stop it from working.
I mean, the display itself is perfect, no black liquid, all is perfect. Only the glass is damaged.
So, I absolutely need a waterproof phone.
But I live in EU, so here things like the kyocera brigadier or sonim xp7 are not available.
Considering that I would also like to upgrade to something more dust proof because I am a gardener, I was trying to chose between a z3 compact (ip 68) and a s4 active (ip67) or s5 mini.
The question is, do always xperia stop working with just a damage on the glas, even if the display is ok?
And what with Samsung?
Total Drama! I need very urgent help!
Ok, Edit.
Luckily my neighbour had a RF Mouse and luckily I had an adapter from normal USB to micro USB and luckily this worked.
I would activate the BT, and use my BT mouse, and open apps etc (I had very important things in a Calander App which could not be retrieved with a PC Companion Backup).
So, the phone works, only the display cannot be used with touch.
I will NEVER EVER buy anything branded Sony.
It may be a karma of my family but ALL what we had Sony was always ****.
And this is really a SHAME, a high end phone which does not work anymore after one hairline on the glass!!!
No, thanks.
Samsung looks bad but, it can be rooted better, it can be used with cracked display...
Bye bye Sony, never more.
it is not quite so. Motorola moto x had these problems and your beloved Samsung has loads of such problems. BTW do you play games with your phone?
Motorola is nobody anymore.
But thanks for the info ��
About Samsung, I work in construction places. All my colleagues have Samsung and iPhone and HTC.
All of them with cracked to severely cracked display.
They all can use the phone.
One particularly has a totally black display with little visible spots. He manages to still use it.
There are just two people with an Xperia z1 compact. Me and a colleague.
We both had to throw a 300$ in the trash fire a little line on the glass.
So. I consider this a clear sign that Sony sucks with display.
Anyway,no,no games, why?
In the rumor mill, this phone looked like one hell of a device, but this is just another case where the reality did not live up to the expectations, so in the end I bought a Moto X 2014. I would still like to know how well the M9 is 1.5 years later, to see whether the device I avoided really was as bad as the media made it sound.
Nope, battery life is good, sound is good, camera is good, probably the only bad thing is the heat, but is not a "everytime you unlock the phone" thing
Agree that it is a well made phone, but like other HTC's (this is my 6th for me or other family members), not everything is equally good. I can only connect for *telephone audio* for Bluetooth to my car (I need to use a 3.5mm aux jack for music!), and the WiFi DLNA Connect feature fails on many home and work devices too. Lots of issues trying to bluetooth files to various co-workers phones and laptops. And these are the same devices (including car) that worked flawlessly for HTC One m7, HTC Desire 601 and HTC Desire C, and HTC Desire (1st prod run with OLED). Bluetooth and WiFi range is spectacular, but Bluetooth and WiFi and cellular are more prone than other phones to signal interference (flourescent light ballasts, microwaves, certain motors). Samsungs and HTC One m7 had better antennaes for LTE and CDMA also. So it must have a crappy wireless chipset (I had a MoBo replaced on my m9 phone and it didn't help, so maybe the wireless chip is on a daughterboard). It does get a little toasty at times, and sometimes downloads 'pause' more than with other phones. The non-stop security reconfigurations for permitting overlays on Marshmallow for any overlays will make you rend you hair with countless necessary steps *every time*. The loss of former great HTC apps (so many I've now lost count) have devalued the phone somewhat.
The re-mounting of external storage mapped to local storage is a ridiculous hassle that effectively throws away good content. You must have backed-up before, then repartition the SD as locally mounted, then you must restore, and any misstep throws away documents/apps.
However, other than than those issues, it's good. The RAW photos can be fantastic if you know how to use a camera, and more recent OTA firmware and Playstore updates have given more photo control. I don't think it manages to BIN the lower resolution photos though (just as noisy), but it's pretty good compared to mosaic'd sensors. The locations detection (WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth) and its auto unlocking make the UI convenient in every day use, and the typical Sense speed is much faster than the specs would indicate. The UI is mostly well thought out, and there always seems to be available CPU cycles to throw at new tasks, so it's impressive and mostly very dependable to use. Call quality is great like the m7 (but the m9 is quieter than all the other HTC's). GPU seems pretty good. The only persistent nuisance hassles are the various wireless limitations and local mounting the SD.
For comparison, the m7 was a better phone, except for the pink low light (rear) photos, and the fact that some Bluetooth functions didn't work on other devices, and some of the solenoid switches were low quality, and you had to actively ensure you periodically reconditioned the battery, and it didn't self-constrain run-away apps on its own.
Just got mine no major issues really although battery life not the best seems to drain rather fast I'm stock latest MM build will be rooting soon try some roms see if helps need a quick charger as well takes for ever to charge , can get a bit choppy on fb when scrolling as well as for that nice love the sound quality
Sent from my HTC One M9 using Tapatalk
I've had my m9 since launch and it's a good phone. A few cracks in the facia, a scratch in the glass but otherwise no complaints. Im even keeping it for a while instead of upgrading at the end of my contract as other phones don't seem to offer much more.
Bluetooth issues, none. It'll connect fine to cars with media or vocal only. Vocal only will be the car not programmed for media.
Battery consumption is a bit harsh on the m9 but nothing unexpected from an octacore.
Beamed in by telepathy.
I picked up a XIAOMI Mi Mix 3 from Micro Center today at what I consider a steal considering the hardware (USD $379.98) and after doing some quick research.
Micro Center is a two-and-a-half-hour drive for me and I was already there, so I didn't have the luxury of time for leisurely research. I usually spend weeks, not half an hour, making these decisions. But I used to be a commercial customer before I sold my business, and I made a lot of friends there, so they don't hassle me about returns; and since I was already there, I figured I'd try it out.
My initial impressions are mixed, but more positive than negative.
Positives
The build quality feels very solid. Actually, it feels like a Sherman tank. This is a pretty hefty phone. It has a quality "feel" to it, though. I also like the flat screen, although I guess that's a matter of personal preference. The included case is okay for now, but I ordered a more rugged one, a screen protector, and a leather holster from Amazon. I'm old, but active; and I don't carry a purse.
Functionally, the XIAOMI Mi Mix 3 supports AT&T's network 100 percent, as far as I can tell. That seems pretty amazing for a phone that technically isn't sold in the USA. I've had phones that were targeted to the U.S. market that had mediocre band and protocol support.
The radio reception is also the best of any phone I've ever used where I live, and I've been on AT&T for a long time and used a lot of phones. The LTE works great. I'm getting download speeds of around 50 Mbps, and I live in the boondocks.
The GPS reception is especially incredible, with TTFF of an amazing four seconds, two meter accuracy in 16 seconds, an average C/N0 around 46 dBHz using 32 of the 35 satellites it caught, with some coming in at 59 dBHz. That's pretty amazing for a phone. It's actually better than some airplanes I've flown.
I didn't mess with the cameras much (I don't really use them that often on any phone), but they seem very good to me. I break out my Nikon when I have serious photography to do, so I may not be the best judge of mobile phone quality. The cameras on the Mi Mix 3 seem perfectly adequate to me; but as I said, I'm no connoisseur of cell phone cameras.
The slider for the selfie camera is a nice feature if you hate the notch. I never cared about the notch, but it does bother some people. I also like that the slider stays in place magnetically (more reliable and durable than mechanical latches), although I do wonder whether that affects the magnetometer (assuming the phone has one).
In short, hardware-wise, I'm happy. The Snapdragon 845 is no slouch, and the rest of the hardware in the Mi Mix 3 seems to use it well. I consider it a bargain for the hardware alone.
In terms of performance, it's fast and crisp. I haven't put it through any strenuous tests yet, but It has a nice, fast feel to it.
Setup was completely painless, it auto-provisioned on AT&T with zero configuration needed, and Google and MIUI restored almost everything from Drive with no issues. Even my DND settings were carried over. It was really pretty flawless. The one exception was K-9 Mail. For reasons I neither know nor intend to bother looking into, neither the app itself nor the settings were migrated. I had made backups of everything anyway, so it was no big deal.
Negatives
I wouldn't say that MIUI is quirky so much as that I wonder what the point was of changing things around for no apparent reason. In other words, I don't think there's anything "wrong" with MIUI based on the few hours I've had the phone, but I wonder what advantage there is to it as compared to a stock Android. I can live with it, though. It's not so much a negative as a "just different," really, based on first impressions.
I also don't like the fact that there's no automated desktop backup software. I suppose I can build something easily enough, but there should be desktop backup. Or am I the only one who actually uses a computer anymore? I guess LG's [usually] competent backup software spoiled me.
I'll see if there's a generic Android backup utility out there for Arch Linux or Windows that syncs by WiFi before re-inventing the wheel. It's not rocket surgery; but coding for the sheer joy of coding kind of grew old for me decades ago. I never bothered looking for generic non-root Android automated backup software before because I never had to. There probably are bazillions of perfectly competent solutions out there for Arch (or for Android itself, for that matter).
In fairness, however, I'm a genuine backup nut. I literally have backups of my backups as far as computers are concerned. Within 20 seconds of my saving a document, it has been backed up to an ioSafe USB drive and a local NAS (the ioSafe, which is a backup destination, is in turned backed up to the NAS), and is on its way to BackBlaze. So my OCD about backups may be inflating my annoyance about not including a desktop backup application with the handset.
Back to the Mix 3, I also found the notifications a bit wonky. In addition to having to give permission in multiple places, the notifications use the media volume instead of having their own setting. That doesn't make much sense to me. I can think of plenty of reasons why one might want to control notifications separately from media. The puzzlement, however, is why they coded it out of stock Android. I mean, what advantage is there to justify the time spent removing a slider that was already there?
Then again, maybe the separate notification volume was an LG thing. My last few phones have been LG. Maybe LG coded it into Android.
There's also somewhat more bloatware than I'm accustomed to finding on an unlocked phone, but it seems lightweight and innocuous enough. Some of it might actually be useful. I really haven't done anything to it except push it to the last screen. At least it doesn't include a crap ton of silly games and such.
The only one that annoys me is that I can't uninstall FecesBook (at least not without root). At least, not in the usual way. I can't explain why because of NDA's I've signed, but I'd rather never use a computing device again than have a FecesBook account.
All Things Considered...
I officially have two weeks to decide whether to keep the phone. Micro Center probably would extend that for me because of my long history with them, but I don't want to abuse that relationship. Besides, to weeks will be enough to decide whether my appreciation of the Mix 3's superb (in my opinion) hardware compensates for my lukewarmness toward MIUI.
Based on first impressions, however, I'm pretty sure I will keep the phone. I love the hardware, and I think I can at least learn to live with MIUI (which is more than I can say about my ex, and she was a lot more expensive and quirky than MIUI is). Or I can root it, although that's not something I'd do just because I'm miffed about having to look somewhere else for a setting and having an inactive FecesBook icon hidden in a folder on the last screen.
Richard
You can disable unwanted apps using miui hidden settings app from post store.
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You can disable unwanted apps using miui hidden settings app from post store.
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Thank you. That worked!
Richard
Well, the phone and I didn't make it through the weekend. It seemed like every time I figured out one problem, another surfaced.
The deal-killer, however, was the sound quality the first time I made an actual phone call. In all seriousness, I got better sound out of tin-can telephones made of two soup cans and a piece of string when I was a kid. It was the absolute worst, almost inaudible sound quality I've ever experienced on any communication device.
So I looked up the problem on their forum, and one piece of advice was to factory-reset the phone after an update that I just got last night. So I did that, and it rejected my password when it rebooted. When I tried to do a password reset on the site (three times), I got no response to the email. And when I tried to check it using the phone number, I got an error message that the account didn't exist.
It's a shame, too, because other than the sound quality, I loved the hardware of the phone. But not being able to hear a phone call makes it useless to me.
Oh, well. Ten hours of driving and a tank and a half of gas isn't the worst thing I've ever been through.
On the bright side, when I swapped the SIM back into the phone the Mix 3 would have been replacing, I decided to put a new spare battery in it, too, and charge it on the way to Micro Center. Lo and behold, it didn't overheat. So maybe it was the battery, rather than the phone, that was having a problem. I'll check it out further this week.
Richard
Unlock your bootloader then install AOSP based rom, like Resurrection Remix, all problem solved.
Or if you want to stick with MIUI, try EU rom, no bloatware, no Chinese stuff.
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Unlock your bootloader then install AOSP based rom, like Resurrection Remix, all problem solved.
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You may be right, but how would that have solved the earpiece problem? That seems like a hardware issue to me. If I held the phone sideways like a wing sticking out of the side of my head, I could hear it. But it was still so scratchy and tinny that I can't imaging listening to it on every phone call. Also, it's not the most convenient way to use a phone. I'm old. I still make phone calls.
It's all academic at this point since I returned the phone. But I'm still interested in the answer just for its own sake. Would an alternate ROM have improved the sound volume and quality? If so, then I regret my hastiness because all in all, I loved the hardware -- except for the earpiece.
Thanks,
Richard
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You may be right, but how would that have solved the earpiece problem? That seems like a hardware issue to me. If I held the phone sideways like a wing sticking out of the side of my head, I could hear it. But it was still so scratchy and tinny that I can't imaging listening to it on every phone call. Also, it's not the most convenient way to use a phone. I'm old. I still make phone calls.
It's all academic at this point since I returned the phone. But I'm still interested in the answer just for its own sake. Would an alternate ROM have improved the sound volume and quality? If so, then I regret my hastiness because all in all, I loved the hardware -- except for the earpiece.
Thanks,
Richard
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Maybe your earpiece speaker had been covered by dust or plastic? The real earpiece is under the screen, you can see it when slide screen down, you can try that and make phonecall to test the sound.
I have no problem with earpiece sound and as far as i known, no one ever complain about it.
And yes custom rom and modder can change the sound quality, there even a mod to turn earpiece speaker into loudspeaker so we had dual rocker.
GVN.Gallus said:
Maybe your earpiece speaker had been covered by dust or plastic? The real earpiece is under the screen, you can see it when slide screen down, you can try that and make phonecall to test the sound.
I have no problem with earpiece sound and as far as i known, no one ever complain about it.
And yes custom rom and modder can change the sound quality, there even a mod to turn earpiece speaker into loudspeaker so we had dual rocker.
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Thank you. And yes, I did check for plastic when I tried the selfie cam, and I did try making a phone call with the display slid down. It made almost no difference. It was very slightly louder, but no less scratchy and tinny.
Can you please point me to a custom ROM for this phone? I really liked the hardware. If there's a custom ROM that supports everything reasonably well, I might just buy another one and check it out. It just seemed like a hardware issue to me. And maybe it was. It could be that this one particular device had a defect.
Thanks,
Richard
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Thank you. And yes, I did check for plastic when I tried the selfie cam, and I did try making a phone call with the display slid down. It made almost no difference. It was very slightly louder, but no less scratchy and tinny.
Can you please point me to a custom ROM for this phone? I really liked the hardware. If there's a custom ROM that supports everything reasonably well, I might just buy another one and check it out. It just seemed like a hardware issue to me. And maybe it was. It could be that this one particular device had a defect.
Thanks,
Richard
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You can find and try some custom rom in THIS SECTION that suitable your need, personally i recommend Resurrection Remix.
GVN.Gallus said:
You can find and try some custom rom in THIS SECTION that suitable your need, personally i recommend Resurrection Remix.
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Thank you. I'll check it out. Maybe I acted too hastily.
My reason for buying the Mix 3 in the first place was for a daily driver to replace an aging V20 that has at least one known problem (tired GPS radios) and that I thought was overheating (but which now appears to have had a faulty battery). I didn't buy the Mix 3 as a project phone. I needed a phone to actually use starting today (Monday). I planned to buy something else while I was at Micro Center to return it.
However, because the v20 didn't overheat with a fresh spare battery that I charged during the trip, and because I have another V20 that I use for GPS-dependent apps, I'm not up against a time deadline any more. I like the Mix 3's hardware enough that I may buy another as a project phone.
Thanks again,
Richard
Toggle the loudspeaker setting on and off when you're on the first call after a reboot. Interesting to know this is a Xiaomi bug, not a Xiaomi.eu bug. Once you've done the toggle trick it'll be fine until you reboot again.
As for roms, if you're rooting, having tried several of the AOSP-based roms I'd recommend Xiaomi.eu, everything will work (including the slider & associated settings), it'll be marginally faster (and it's already fast on AOSP), it'll have marginally better battery life, and it won't randomly reboot or go into a reboot loop when charging wirelessly.
I just ordered a OnePlus 7t as a DD, so I have to wait at least a few weeks before buying another Mix 3 lest the old lady kill me. She just doesn't get it...
I do wish I'd known about the bug and the fix you mentioned because it was actually painful to return the Mix 3, so much did I like the hardware.